A/N: So this chapter has been written for a while, as I did know that I wanted into be present, and it's one that once again see that Mikki and Sebastian are probably both at this point regretting their decisions that have made.
Nothing else to say, except all characters belonging to Glee I don't own; but any character not recognized from the show, belongs to me and cannot be used without my permission.
Love,
KJ xoxoxoxoxoxo
Chapter 35 -
Getting a call from his older brother and asking him if he would mind taking Savannah for a little while, since he and Brooke had to go to the hospital at the recommendation of her doctor; and had been taken to the Lexington Medical Centre; since her blood pressure got high also because of the gestational diabetes that she'd also developed, they were scheduling that of a cesarean to reduce the risks to both Brooke and what they all knew to be a baby boy.
Having gone and got Savannah from the hospital, so that his brother Dylan could focus on being there for his wife; he was now starting to regret telling his oldest brother, that he would look after the little girl for as long as needed, since their parents were over two hours away, and it would be that of more ease with the little girl close by with him.
However upon getting Savannah back to his apartment, half an hour away from the hospital; the little girl who he loved like crazy, was slowly driving him insane, as she ran around looking for Aunt Mikki, or as she would say "Aun Mikki" since she was still unable to get the 't' sound at the moment.
"Vanna" said Sebastian, following her into his bedroom and seeing the little girl looking under the bed. "Sweetie, come on, come up here" he said with sigh and picked his niece up from the ground and sat the two of them on the bed.
"Aun Mikki" said Savannah, looking at him with a pout.
"Yeah I know sweetie" replied Sebastian, pulling her into that of a hug. "But Aunt Mikki isn't here anymore"
"Why?" asked Savannah, as Sebastian still hugged her and stroked her hair.
"Because, she had to go away" said Sebastian. "Do you remember how she said bye to you a last month?" he asked looking to her, and the little girl looked to him shaking her head and he sighed; knowing that it was obviously just that little hard for her to comprehend that Mikki had left South Carolina and that he wasn't with her anymore. "I miss her too, all the time" said Sebastian, with a nod as Savannah looked at him sadly, and Sebastian hating seeing his niece so sad, leaned over to what use to be Mikki's side of the bed, where there was still a picture of the two of them together and grabbed it. "What about a picture, huh Vanna?" he asked, showing it to her. "You can tell that Aunt Mikki, how much you love her, huh" and Savannah looked at him and then the picture, and shook her head. "No Aun Mikki"
"Okay, yeah you want the real Aunt Mikki" said Sebastian, rubbing his head and looking at his niece, as she threw herself down on the bed and started throwing a tantrum, and thumping the bed, saying that of "Wan Aun Mikki" over and over again.
"You're not the only one wanting that sweetheart" said Sebastian, as he grabbed his phone from his jeans pocket and dialled Mikki's number, whilst trying to calm that of his niece down by rubbing his other hand up and down her back, but to little avail in actually doing so. "Come on, pick up please" he sighed, in just general out loudness. "If there is ever a time to answer me, it's now please" and finally hearing the call connect, he heard that of Mikki's voice say "Hi babe"
"Oh thank god, hi" he replied with a sigh. "I was thinking you were going to see it was me calling and maybe not answer it"
"Seb, I promised to always answer if I could didn't I" replied Mikki, with that of a laugh.
"Yeah, yeah you did" said Sebastian with a small laugh also.
"Okay, so is everything okay?" asked Mikki. "Because you sound really stressed out there, sweetie"
"Yeah and that's because I am totally stressing out" replied Sebastian. "Bee is in the hospital, having hers and Dyl's little boy and they've bought her to Lexington because of the complications she is having and they're doing the cesarean section; and Dyl asked me to look after Vanna, which I said sure yeah that's fine and she is in the process of having a huge melt down because she can't find her Aunt Mikki"
"Bee is okay isn't she?" asked Mikki.
"Yeah, she's fine, they're going to be doing a cesarean to minimize risk and all that" replied Sebastian. "But I literally do not know what to do here with Vanna, you were always able to get her calm down, and I don't know how to do it without you here"
"I don't know how I can help from here though" said Mikki. "You know I would if I could, but it's little hard from here"
"Maybe if I could call you on messenger via video" said Sebastian. "That might calm down Vanna, if she could see you"
"I'm not at home at the moment, I'm over at Puck's" replied Mikki. "Doing some research for the show"
"Well how long will that be for?" asked Sebastian. "I hate to ask this Mik, but I really think it's probably going to calm down Vanna if she is just able to at least see you"
"How about twenty minutes?" asked Mikki. "I will get home and message you when you can the video call me"
"Really?" asked Sebastian.
"Yes really" replied Mikki, with a laugh. "You know I love that little girl"
"Yeah" said Sebastian. "Thanks"
"Okay, I'll talk to you soon" said Mikki.
"Yeah talk soon" replied Sebastian. "Love you babe"
"Me you as well babe, bye" said Mikki.
"Talk soon and thank you" said Sebastian, quickly ending the call and looked to his niece who had seemed to calm down a bit with her temper tantrum. "Hey Vanna, honey; we good now?
Savannah didn't reply to him and he lay down on his bed next to her, and moved that of her tiny head to look at him, and he could see that she had been crying too.
"Sweetie, come here" he said moving her so that she was sitting up and then giving her a hug. "How would you like some ice cream, huh" and Savannah looked at him and nodded.
"Okay ice cream it is" said Sebastian, placing that of a kiss to her tear stained face. "Come on, let's go make the most awesomely largest ice cream sundae we can"
"'kay" replied Savannah, hugging him; and the two of them headed to the kitchen to make that of a sundae; and Sebastian waited for that of Mikki to message him so they could talk over Skype and maybe just maybe make Savannah a little more calm about missing her Aunt Mikki.
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Sitting in the living room of the Puckerman house, with Puck on a Saturday afternoon; Mikki and Puck were doing some research for that of upcoming segments as well as anything else in general that was of interest to them.
"So what about Christmas" said Puck, looking to her as she typed on her computer.
"What about it?" asked Mikki, quickly looking to him before going back to what she was doing.
"Well I was just thinking starting from the start of the month, we could do something in lead up to Christmas Day" said Puck.
"Umm sure" replied Mikki, with a nod. "But I should mention now that I do plan on going back home probably about the twenty second of the month to see my family and that"
"You'll have to talk to Figgins about that one, cause I have no idea how that would work for you" replied Puck, looking at her.
"Well there is no way in hell I am not going home" said Mikki. "Haven't seen my parents and other people in over two months, and it literally feels like it's been ten years in a way"
"Like I said talk with Figgins" replied Puck, with a laugh.
"Oh I will be" said Mikki, with a nod. "But I do like that idea, you know the whole lead up or countdown to Christmas; actually did a similar thing in South Carolina in the lead up to the Super Bowl"
"Okay cool, well we'll pitch something then" said Puck.
"Uh huh" replied Mikki. "I think I actually have video of some stuff saved here on my laptop, that you can look at"
"That be awesome to see" said Puck.
"Yeah" replied Mikki with a nod. "Just give me a chance to finish this email and I will find"
"Email" said Puck with a laugh. "I thought you were researching stuff"
"No, I hadn't replied to my friend Linda yet, and she emailed me like a week ago; and because I hadn't got back to her she was worried something was wrong because of that" replied Mikki; as she typed a reply back to her college friend who now lived in Raleigh, North Carolina; where she worked as a journalist for the 'The News & Observer' paper there, and had emailed her about a position that had come up in the classifieds department.
"Guess it must be hard being away from so many people you're close to, after knowing they were always there when you needed them for so many years" said Puck.
"Hmm, you have no idea" replied Mikki as she finished typing, telling Linda that as much as she would love to be back home, she wasn't able to see herself as that of just a typist for the paper and not being an actual journalist of any kind; and to let her know if something else maybe ever comes up and sent the message off to her friend; and then went into her media player on the computer. "Do you ever miss where you grew up?"
"Not really no" replied Puck, shaking his head. "I still have a few friends there, but most of mine now are ones from college that I met here in San Fran"
"Yeah mine are all high school and college friends back home, and not seeing them all the time; that's hard" said Mikki, with a small smile as she found what she was looking for; and passed her laptop over to Puck. "Okay so Rise and Shine videos, are here"
"Thanks" said Puck with a smile to her as he started up the first video; and saw the clip from the old morning show Mikki used to host in South Carolina, 'Rise and Shine, South Carolina', start up. "It looks like it was a good show"
"It was" replied Mikki, with a nod. "But budget cuts and them wanting more of the nationally aired morning shows. Saw this one not really needed and therefore we got the axe"
"And that was when you decided to apply for this one here" said Puck.
"Hmm" replied Mikki, with a nod. "Not at first I went back to writing news reports and that, but I kind of missed being on television and actually doing that kind of stuff"
"Well I guess we lucked out here then didn't we" said Puck, with a laugh. "Your show getting the axe, meant that we got to have the fabulous Mikayla Kapowski out here"
"Yep" said Mikki, with a small laugh as her cell phone which was on in her handbag next to her on the sofa started ringing and she got it out and saw it was Sebastian calling. "I should take this"
"No it's fine" replied Puck, with a smile to her. "I got these to watch whilst you talk"
"Okay" said Mikki, with a laugh as she answered the call from Sebastian. "Hi babe"
"Oh thank god, hi" replied Sebastian, with a sigh. "I was thinking you were going to see it was me calling and maybe not answer it"
"Seb, I promised to always answer if I could didn't I" said Mikki, with that of a laugh.
"Yeah, yeah you did" replied Sebastian with a small laugh also.
"Okay, so is everything okay?" asked Mikki. "Because you sound really stressed out there, sweetie"
"Yeah and that's because I am totally stressing out" replied Sebastian. "Bee is in the hospital, having hers and Dyl's little boy and they've bought her to Lexington of the complications she is having and they're doing the cesarean section; and I stupidly said to them I will look after Vanna, and she is in the process of having a huge melt down because she can't find Aunt Mikki"
"Bee is okay isn't she?" asked Mikki.
"Yeah, she's fine, they're going to be doing a cesarean to minimize risk and all that "But I literally do not know what to do here with Vanna, you were always able to get her calm down, and I don't know how to do it without you here"
"I don't know how I can help from here though" said Mikki. "You know I would if I could, but it's little hard from here"
"Maybe if I could call you on video messenger" said Sebastian. "That might calm down Vanna, if she could see you"
"I'm not at home at the moment, I'm over at Puck's" replied Mikki. "Doing some research for the show"
"Well how long will that be for?" asked Sebastian. "I hate to ask this Mik, but I really think it's probably going to calm down Vanna if she is just able to at least see you"
"How about twenty minutes?" asked Mikki. "I will get home and message you when you can video call me"
"Really?" asked Sebastian.
"Yes really" replied Mikki, with a laugh. "You know I love that little girl"
"Yeah" said Sebastian. "Thanks"
"Okay, I'll talk to you soon" said Mikki.
"Yeah talk soon" replied Sebastian. "Love you babe"
"Me you as well babe, bye" said Mikki,
"Talk soon and thank you" said Sebastian, and she heard him end the call and she then gave out a sigh.
"Everything okay?" asked Puck, looking at her. "Call sounded interesting, who are you going to Skype with in about twenty minutes?"
"Umm Seb" replied Mikki with a nod. "Savannah, is having a meltdown because she can't find me at our apartment"
"Seb is you ex?" asked Puck, as Mikki started to pack up her stuff. "The one you lived with?"
"Yes he is" replied, Mikki, giving him a small smile.
"And Savannah is?" asked Puck.
"My niece" replied Mikki. "If you have a usb drive, I can put those videos on there for you; but I really should be going"
"Yeah sure" said Puck, getting one out of his own laptop bag and handing that and Mikki's laptop back to her. "So you have a niece. I thought none of your sisters or brother had kids"
"They don't" replied Mikki, shaking her head as she loaded the videos over to the thumb drive for Puck. "It's Dylan and Brooke's daughter"
"And they are?" asked Puck, looking at her.
"Umm Dylan is Seb's older brother, Brooke is his wife" replied Mikki. "So technically Savannah isn't actually my niece, since Seb and I were never married, but he and I were together for over six years, and I was at Dyl and Bee's wedding and have known Vanna since she was born"
"So she does see you as being her aunt then" said Puck.
"Yeah" replied Mikki, with a nod as the videos finished loading on to the usb drive and she ejected it from her computer. "And Seb has Vanna at our place, well his place actually now; because Bee is having complications with her second pregnancy and is in hospital close by to where I use to live; so Seb is looking after her whilst they are there as it's just too difficult for Dyl to look after Vanna and worry about Bee also at the same time"
"And your ex is having a hard time coping with said little girl Savannah" said Puck, taking the thumb drive from Mikki. "Because she is looking for you and can't find you"
"Exactly" said Mikki, with a nod. "He looked after her a few weeks ago, but that was at his brother's house. So it wasn't as bad, but since this is what use to be my place and Savannah obviously knows that. She's having a little bit of a tantrum since I am not there" she continued, looking to Puck who nodded. "I'm sorry to cut this short and I know we maybe didn't get much done"
"No I think we have some ideas here" said Puck. "The countdown to Christmas thing might be good"
"Yeah it should be" replied Mikki as she closed the lid of her laptop, not bothering to shut it down and then placed it into her laptop bag and stood from the sofa; grabbing that of her handbag as well.
"I'll see you Monday morning, unless you wanted to get back to doing this tomorrow"
"We're fine" replied Puck, with a nod. "And I think I can probably get some good ideas from the old clips of your show you gave me here"
"Yeah" said Mikki, with a laugh. "I'll see you Monday then"
"Monday morning, bright and early" said Puck with a laugh also.
"Yeah, later Puck" said Mikki, heading over to the front door of the residence.
"Later Mikki" he replied, and Mikki then headed back to her own apartment to call Sebastian and maybe just maybe help him calm down Savannah.
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Sitting at the small table that had their as a dining table in the apartment; Sebastian and Savannah were eating the ice cream sundae that they had made, with Sebastian being thankful that there was still in the rainbow sprinkles for that of cake decorating in the apartment, along with chocolate sauce and also as well vanilla ice cream; which therefore had stopped his niece's tears as she sat with him eating the creation that they had made.
Hearing his phone beep with a message, and picking it up from the table where he'd placed it; he looked to it and saw that Mikki had messaged him. Hi, I'm home now so when you can video call me. I'm here. xx
Smiling to himself and looking to Savannah for a moment who was happily eating the sundae; he stood up and went and got his laptop from where he'd had it that morning, and then took it back over to the dining table and placed it down.
"Vanna, hey" he said, looking to his niece with a smile. "Want to come here and sit with me?" he asked looking to her and the little girl also looking to him also, with a face covered around the mouth with chocolate sauce and sprinkles. "Got something to show you" he continued, as he went into Skype and connected a call to Mikki.
"'kay" said Savannah, and Sebastian looked to her with a nod and helped her down from the chair she was sitting on and then sat down himself in the one he was seated on and pulled the little girl into his lap.
"Watch okay" he said, with a small smile and placing a kiss to the top of his niece's head, and she looked to the screen, just as Mikki connected the call on her end in California, and the little girl screamed, "Aun Mikki"
"Hi" said Mikki, with a laugh and giving a wave from where she was. "How are you my sweet girl?" she asked, as Savannah seemed to be a little confused as to how she was seeing Mikki, but not in that of person and looking to around the screen, and then also going to reach out to touch the screen as well.
"Okay, miss grubby hands" said Sebastian, with a laugh as he pulled her back from going to touch the screen. "We can't hug Aunt Mikki, she's away at the moment"
"Yeah, you doing okay there?" asked Mikki, and Sebastian looked to her with a small nod.
"I guess" he replied, with a small sigh. "The tears have at least stopped" he continued, with a nod. "But I guess that's because we made a big massive ice cream sundae and have been having that"
"Oh, you did not just bribe your niece with ice cream" said Mikki, with a laugh and Sebastian looked to her with a laugh as well. "Seb, I cannot believe you did that"
"It's not something I'd probably normally do" he replied, with a small laugh still. "I was desperate though, and it worked"
"Yeah, have fun with the sugar crash later" replied Mikki with a small smile to him. "Either that or the tummy ache she may get from that much sugar"
"Fingers crossed it won't come to that then, huh" said Sebastian, with a small smile also as Mikki gave a laugh and nod.
"So any baby news yet?" asked Mikki, and Sebastian shook his head.
"Not yet no" he replied, looking to Savannah who was still seemingly confused as to how Mikki was there but not there and looking around the computer still to see if she was somehow in it. "But they had to wait for the obstetrician to be able to do the cesarean section" he continued, as Mikki looked to him with a small nod. "So the best place to wait it out is obviously the hospital"
"Yeah, well let me know as soon as she has had the little boy" said Mikki, with a small smile to him and he nodded in return. "And I bet Savannah is really excited about getting to meet her baby brother soon too"
"I think so" replied Sebastian with a laugh. "I think I'm pretty excited to finally meet the little guy too"
"Yeah" said Mikki, with a small sigh, and Sebastian noting her deflated mood in that moment looked to her with a small smile.
"You can come and see him soon" he said, with a nod and Mikki looked to him with a small smile and nod also. "Have baby cuddles"
"Hope so" replied Mikki, with a nod still. "Just wasn't that though" she continued. "But more so we spoke so often of having kids together"
"We did, yeah" said Sebastian, with a small sigh also. "I guess that's now not going to happen though"
"Probably not, no" replied Mikki shaking his head. "And I think there, the sugar crash is starting to happen" continued Mikki with a laugh, and noticing that Savannah had stopped trying to figure out where she was and was now leaning against Sebastian.
"I think so" he replied, with a laugh also and looking to his niece against him. "I should probably get her cleaned up and then maybe something a little more healthy for dinner before putting her down for a sleep"
"Your mom's mac and cheese" said Mikki, with a small smile to him. "I'm sure there is still the pasta I used for it in the pantry there" she continued, as Sebastian looked to her with a nod. "And hopefully you have the other stuff for making it"
"Like the recipe" replied Sebastian, with a smile as Mikki gave a laugh.
"I have the recipe written here" said Mikki, with a smile and nod to him. "So I will send a photo of it through to you"
"Great, thanks" said Sebastian, with a nod also. "And as soon as I know about the baby. I will let you know"
"Okay, we'll talk soon" said Mikki, with a small sigh. "Love you both"
"Yeah we'll talk soon" replied Sebastian, with a small smile to her. "And we both love you too"
"Bye babe" said Mikki, with a small wave as Sebastian looked down to Savannah who was still now happily just lying against his chest and sucking on her thumb.
"Want to wave bye to Aunt Mikki" he said, and she looked to him and then to the screen.
"Bye" she said, taking her thumb from her mouth and giving a small wave also.
"Bye sweetie, love you" said Mikki, with a smile to her.
Love you" replied Savannah, as Mikki nodded and Sebastian placed a kiss to the young girls head with a smile.
"Thanks Mik" said Sebastian, with a smile to her on the screen. "We still make a good team, even if you are in California"
"Yeah" replied Mikki, with a laugh. "I think we always will" she continued, with a nod as Sebastian nodded with a smile also. "I'll talk to you tomorrow"
"Okay, and as said as soon as hear any baby news I will send you through a text" said Sebastian, with a smile as Mikki gave a nod.
"Sure, love you Seb. Miss you" she replied, with a small sigh.
"Miss and love you too, Mik" he said, with the smallest of sighs as well. "Bye"
"Bye" replied Mikki with a smile to him; and then disappeared from the screen; and Sebastian looked down to Savannah with a small smile.
"So how about we go wash up" he said, looking to her as she looked up to him. "And then we can make dinner together?" he asked. "How does that sound?"
"Yeah, 'kay" she replied, with a small nod, and as he exited out of the Skype program and then stood up taking Savannah to what was his bathroom to clean up his nieces face and hands, he waited for Mikki to text through the recipe for him to make dinner with her; whilst he waited for news on the arrival of the newest member of the Smythe family to come through.
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Having made herself also the mac and cheese recipe which was that of Abby's, and one in particular that she liked doing because not only was it quick and easy but tasted good also. After eating and doing the washing up, since she didn't see any point in using the dishwasher most nights when it was just her and would mean she'd have to have a substantial load in it before it was cost effective; Mikki was now reading one of the newer novels she had, after getting some sort of semblance to the one bookshelf she had in the apartment and getting partly organized.
Being engrossed in the book that she was in the midst of reading, and with her phone next to her; she was taken out of the magical world before her, when her phone beeped and she quickly marked in place her bookmark and then placed the book down and grabbed her phone, and unlocked it to see a message from Sebastian, and she tapped on it to open; seeing also a photo of a little baby.
I'm an uncle! Logan James Smythe, born 10.54pm. Bee and him are okay, I will go and see him tomorrow morning. Isn't he just so adorable Mik? Can't wait for baby cuddles tomorrow. Love you, sleep now beckons me since I am not stressing if everything okay. Talk with you tomorrow. xx
"Yeah he is adorable" said Mikki, with a small sigh and nod trying to hold back the tears that she felt coming along as she looked to the picture of the little boy Sebastian had sent along with the message and quickly typed a message back to him. He's so gorgeous. Give Bee, Dyl and Vanna all hugs for me tomorrow, and also as well this little guy also. Hopefully I will get baby cuddles soon too. Love you, talk tomorrow. Sleep well and love you always. xx
Sighing as she sent the message to Sebastian and looking at the picture of the little baby boy who'd just been born, now with tears in her eyes; and not avoiding to be able to think what if only. She quickly went into her Pinterest, where she had placed a lot of ideas previously for that of making babies, when Brooke and Karen had had both their first children, with the mindset that even though she was now further away from those she still very much considered to be family, there was nothing that was going to stop her from making and sending something over for that of the newest Smythe family member; and once decided in her mind planned to go shopping tomorrow and get some fabric and set about making those things up and sending to South Carolina soon, a little gift parcel for the unmistakably adorable little boy.
End Note: Mikki is obviously feeling a lot of pain in the midst of knowing Brooke is having her baby, and also as well that she won't be there to be able to even see him either.
Sebastian, also as well unknowing to the pain Mikki is going through; clearly still holds a lot of his own pain.
Promise the next chapter will be a lot less heavy and a little more light!
Love always,
KJ xoxoxoxoxo