Sorry for not updating this properly earlier in the week: I accidently put a different chapter to a separate story in here. That being said, it forced me to write this quicker ( I know it wasn't very quick, but I'm getting ready to move so my life is chaos). Hope you enjoy them bringing home baby.
The day Callie was being released from the hospital, her mothers, Michelle and Luca were all fussing over if they had packed everything that was theirs's in the suitcase and bag they brought with them. For her part, Callie sat on the bed, holding Diana and she sighed as she watched four grown adults argue over the contents of a suitcase. She looked down at her daughter and smiled as the baby slept.
"Daddy and all your grandmas are losing their minds, yes they are. Maybe they will stop fighting long enough for us to get home." Callie spoke loud enough for her husband to hear and he nodded, finally zipping the suitcase and claiming that whatever was in the suitcase was less important than the person that was coming home with them in a car seat. Luca left to go load the car, but his mother offered to do it so he could walk out with Callie and their daughter. A nurse who had worked with them during the delivery came in and made sure Callie was unhooked from all the machines and got her and Diana into a wheelchair. Once at the car Luca secured the car seat and made sure his daughter was settled and Stef helped Callie into the car before getting into the front seat with Luca. Lena would be driving their car home and Michelle had brought her own that morning. When everything and everyone was packed up Luca pulled out of the parking lot and headed home. Stef looked in the back seat and watched Callie as she kept her eyes glued to the newborn.
"She's not gonna disappear on you sweets."
"You're the one who always said that we all grew up too fast. I just want to enjoy her as my baby before I blink and she is a teenager giving me heart attacks." Stef smiled and nodded, "for now maybe just enjoy the silence, because if there is one thing I remember from Brandon it was the very loud crying that filled our lives for months." Luca drove slower than Callie ever remembered him driving, but eventually they made it home. Lena and Stef brought their bags upstairs, leaving Callie to be helped by Luca, who had Diana's carrier in his free hand. Their building had an elevator, but Callie was still sore and having a shoulder to lean on was preferred, though she could more or less walk just fine by herself. Once in the apartment, Luca set the car carrier down and Stef snapped a picture of them coming into their home for the first time as a family.
"You guys don't have to stay you know, eventually we are going to have to be alone with her." Callie joked, forever grateful her mothers were helping, but fully aware that soon it would just be the two of them…or rather the three of them.
"It's ok love. We'll head out soon, but we can unpack your bags while you get wonder woman over there settled into her room."
"You know if we call her that as an infant its gonna stick as a nickname." Stef shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
"Not sure what you expected, naming her after a superhero…of course that is what we're gonna call her." Stef left the room so she and Lena could unpack the suitcase and bag from the hospital. Diana had started to move a little in her carrier and Luca set the carrier on the kitchen table and after unbuckling her, lifted Diana out of the seat and nestled her in his arms.
"Alright kiddo, let's get you into your room and see about taking a nap." Luca looked to his wife and gestured toward the nursery. "You coming babe?"
"I think I want to go shower in my own bathroom and change into my PJ's. I think I'll be able to find you when I am finished though." Callie kissed her daughter's head and then offered her husband a quick kiss before heading into the bathroom. Luca walked into the nursery and narrated everything he saw as if he was giving his newborn a tour of her room.
"This is your changing table, your dresser, rocking chair and that's your crib, which hopefully you will actually sleep in." Luca sat in the rocking chair with Diana laying against his chest. He didn't really think anyone was listening since everyone was doing something else so he started to hum and eventually sing to his daughter, hoping to get her to nap again.
There's a love he cannot hide
Though he waits in the line to fight
So he looks up to welcome you, his child
Little stranger girl, you are home tonight
He reaches out a thousand miles
And sends his voice to where you lie
And in your dreams he carries you, his child
Little stranger girl, you are home tonight
When you have grown, you may ask why
And you will read these words he writes
And they will say, I thank you, my child,
Little stranger girl, you are home tonight
The baby was long asleep on her father's chest and Stef poked her head in the nursery and caught Luca's attention.
"I always said you were holding out on us with your voice."
"What can I say, I'll do anything for her, including sing." Luca gently stood up and placed Diana in her crib, making sure that nothing was near her as a potential breathing hazard. He took a step back, turned the baby monitor and nursery camera on before joining Stef at the door of the nursery.
"I know I should leave her alone to sleep, but I just want to be around her all the time, holding her, making sure she's ok." Stef rubbed the young man's back and smiled.
"That my boy is what being a parent means. I'll tell you what though: when Brandon was born I slept in the rocking chair in his nursery for 3 days before Mike made me sleep in the bed. Your whole world is different now. Even though you planned or things the last 9 months, when the baby is put in your arms you feel like you didn't do enough."
"So will there ever be a time I don't feel like this?"
"Is there a time you see yourself wanting to not feel like this?" Luca smiled and shook his head no. "I want to protect her always even when she's all grown up. I don't ever want to lose that instinct to protect her."
"And you won't. Listen Luca, all of my kids are adults and I still feel like I want to walk in front of them their whole lives so they don't hurt. Eventually, you learn to let them walk their own path and you just remind them all the time that you are just a few steps behind them if the stumble. Then you send them out into the world and hope to hell they meet good friends and maybe a partner who will help you worry and care for them." Stef bumped Luca's shoulder with her own and he smiled.
"Not that she needs my protection, but you know I do anything for Callie and Diana, I'd walk through a brick wall if I had to for her."
"Do you really think I would've supported you proposing to Callie those years ago if I didn't think you were the best kind of partner she could have by her side? That's your baby in there, mine is in the other room and I'd walk through a brick wall for her too. You guys are going to be wonderful parents because you are wonderful people and a strong couple. So take a breath and relax. You guys will find your way and you most certainly aren't alone so just holler if you need help…or you bring that granddaughter to my house and Lena and I will gladly watch her for a while, maybe let you guys sleep."
"Deal." With that Luca closed the door and went to find his wife.
So it's short, but I want to do Christmas stuff in the next chapters so I needed to bring the little one home.