Chapter 34: Leaving?

Freddie's POV

I paced back and forth in our bedroom floor as Sam snored lightly. I'd held a meeting with Maddie the night before. Sam had convinced him to give Maddie another chance and I added another person to my staff who would take her place if she messed up again. The guy I hired, Simon, came with a seriously amazing resume and to hear Maddie tell it he was catching on rather quickly. There was one major issue that we had that was up for discussion that night the movie was going great and I'd been able to add quite a bit from the office that Sam had allotted me in her home however the author would like to be on set for the rest of the movie. Sam was close to being eight months pregnant and there was no way I felt comfortable leaving her so close to time for the babies to born. Also my mother never left as soon as she found out Sam was pregnant after the party she told us she wasn't going to leave. She needed to share her maternal knowledge with Sam. Sam has prolonged her maternal leave and still goes into the office to avoid my mom. She said she could only withstand about an hour of her per night.

"Whaddup nub?" Sam said, I watched her in the reflection of the mirror she was struggling to sit upright in the bed. I turned and looked back at her are eyes met and she studied me for a moment. "Freddie, what's wrong?"

"I never told you about the meeting I held last night," started hesitantly. Sam looked at me expectantly. "Yeah so, I need to go back and help with the last scenes of the movie. The author is demanding my presence. He wants to make sure the scenes that we'd talked about get inserted. He hasn't liked the way Maddie tried to do them. He said they were too conservative." I sat down on the side of the bed next to Sam and held my head.

"Damn that dude is a real perve," she chuckled and then sighed and cradled her belly. "Okay so when are you leaving?" I expected her to get upset; actually I kind of wanted her to be pissed about it.

"I don't want to leave at all," I explained and she nodded.

"I don't want you to either, but Freddie that's your job. I will be fine there's more than enough people circling this house and all of them have your number in case of emergency." I frowned at her.

"That's not the point!" I fussed. I stood up abruptly.

"I know it's not the point. I get you want to be here because you want to be around the girls and I know that you'll come back as soon as you can but you do have to go." She scooted off the bed and waddled toward me and smoothed her hands over my forearms. "Just go out that way for a few weeks and then come back close to the end of my nine months or better yet I could do a selective caesarean and then you would have an official date the babies are being born. They say that's safer for multiples anyway." She waited for my answer and when I gave none she rolled her eyes and walked away from me. "I'll put it on my list to call my doctor today so she can set it up." She was in our walk in closet now I assumed she was picking out her clothes for work.

"You're going to miss me," I stated I'm not sure as a question of a fact. She looked at me and gave me a duh sort of look. She scoffed abandoned what she was doing as if she had some sort of small epiphany.

"Freddie, I really, really don't want you to go. We've been apart for so long and it's gonna hurt like hell for you to be away from me especially while your mother is here. I wish you could stay and I'm going to miss you … especially at night." She wrapped her arms neck and placed a little kiss on my lips.

"Why at night so much?" I smirked as I kissed her neck.

"You know exactly why! I think you're just leaving to get away from making out with the short blimp," she teased wrapped my arms around her waist.

"No the short blimp is the highlight of my day … my life really." The look in Sam's eye was quick to change the shift in our playful tone into something more serious.

"It kills me when you say stuff like that. I love to hear it but I can't believe you mean it." She wiped away her tears and moved away from.

"I could say it in a plainer context. Sam I love you and I've loved your for most of my life I always will." I strode over to her once more and wrapped my arms around her from behind and rubbed her belly. "This is all the matters to me. This is my universe and I know that work is important but I hate it right now for pulling me away from you." I kissed the back her head and I heard her sniffling.

"Shit, now you've gone and made me cry," she fussed. I actually felt a little better having her shed some tears. "I'm gonna work from home today." She proclaimed. "That way we can have a little time together before you head off to parts unknown and I can make sure that you actually buy a ticket to leave!" She mumbled. God, she was beginning to know me so well. I was really considering not going.

"I'll make my official decision once we talk to the doctor today because I'm not missing the birth of my kids. Period." Sam gave me a lopsided grin and the planted a kiss on my cheek.

"Have your way Benson; I'll give the doc a call as soon as they open so we can start making plans. I do have thirty minutes until I'm able to make that call I wonder how we could fill that time?" Sam playfully as she wiggled her little derriere in my direction before sashaying over to the bed. I dragged my shirt over my head and joined her.

"I think you're going to miss at all times of the day Miss Puckett not just at night," I said as I settled into the position that worked best.

"I'm not gonna argue with you about that Benson. Now shuddup and make love to me!"

Author's Note:

Hey I hope you all liked the chapter! I brought Maddie back hopefully she won't start anymore drama. Do you think that Freddie's going to leave Sam even if it's for only a few weeks? Let me know what you think. As always read, review, and no flames!