A/N: Fluffy chapter, the next one will be better, review it!
Paul's P.O.V.
Dinner was a little rough. Lily and Will were crabby, Holly was content. So he let Lucy off for a while, he ordered room service setting up the kids at the dining table.
"Daddy, where's mummy?" Lily asked picking at her chips on her plate. Paul was ripping up pieces of bread for Holly.
"Mummy wasn't feeling good, but you'll get to see her tomorrow morning." He answered, Will was half asleep staring at his plate; apparently playing all day had worn him out.
"I wanna go home." Will said still staring at his plate, Paul put Holly in the high chair the staff had brought up and started eating, himself.
"I know buddy, I've got a surprise for you two though." Immediately both Lily and Will locked their attention on him.
"Remember your Uncle Mike?" They both nodded smiling,
"How would you like to spend the week with 'im?" They both started shrieking with excitement and high fiving each other, after they had calmed down Lily got serious again,
"What about you 'nd mummy?" He couldn't get a thing past the five year old.
"Mummy and I are going on a little trip." Lil nodded, he couldn't read the expression on her face,
"Together?" He nodded raising an eyebrow, she smiled and whispered something to William who readily agreed,
"Why?" He queried. The little girl looked sullen for a moment in her own thoughts,
"'Cuz Willy and I thinked that maybe you guys could be a mummy 'nd daddy together again… maybe." Paul was slightly taken aback by the child's thoughts that seemed far beyond her years,
"Oh." He said returning to his plate, "Yeah… well…" He wasn't quite sure how he should respond. The two older children looked slightly embarrassed the way children do when they say something important. Paul put down his fork resting his chin in his palm,
"Listen." He said finally finding the words, both Lily and William looked up at him, "Yer Mum and I are working on it, okay?" The pair nodded. He was determined to make it work for their sake. And his.
Paul packed a small overnight bag for he and Rachael, Lucy returned to take care of the kids. Paul put them to sleep before he left,
When he returned to the hospital Rachael and Mike were sitting up looking at a magazine laughing. Paul walked in all smiles- he hadn't heard her laugh in ages. He scooted on the bed next to them and took a look down at the publication on her lap,
"Whatcha reading, miss?" She was laughing too hard to answer, Paul peeked down and scanned over the page with a sudden smile forming on his lips, MACCA'S MONSTERS.
She pointed to a certain picture and started laughing even harder, this one was taken when they were all in Greece. Lily and William were throwing sand at each other, he and Rachael were in the background with horrified faces on running towards the kids to break them up. Another one caught his eye, a naked Lily and William in the rain throwing mud at a reporter. He was hysterically laughing- that was the day they had started talking again. A half-asleep Mike stood up chuckling giving Rachael a peck on the cheek and Paul a pat on the back,
"See you lot tomorrow," He said, "Oh, and Rach- Listen to my boy 'ere. He's in charge." Mike chided, Rachael laughed and then Mike left with a wave. Paul watched her finish the reading with a smile on his own face,
"'Ear that, love? I'm in charge." She scoffed,
"You wish, McCartney." He chuckled taking off his shoes getting comfortable next to her- he didn't give a shit if it was against hospital protocol. He shut off the lights and they both turned their attention to the T.V. She was picking at the IV they put in her arm. Paul absentmindedly took her hand away from the needle, giving it a kiss,
'Beatle John Lennon and Artist Yoko Ono have released their new Album entitled Two Virgins.' Paul's mood immediately dropped. He glanced over at Rachael who was staring at the screen, a moment later the album cover was shown and her mouth dropped open,
"What?" She said quietly. Paul nodded and scoffed, "They're not seriously using that, are they?" She said looking over at him, He nodded.
She began to giggle. "You've got to be kidding me. You can't have an album cover with nude people on the front of it. And Two Virgins? You're joking, right?"
But his face was still very serious. "I'm not kidding you. John wants the world to see him and Yoko as they truly are." She was still laughing, she looked back at the screen,
"You wouldn't pose nude with me on an album cover would you?" He said dropping his previous mood, and chuckling.
"No way! Would you?" She said laughing hysterically.
"Hell, no! I'm not having my junk hangin' out fer the rest of the world to see. Too many people are prying into our private lives as it is, We don't need to have someone analyzing my prick under a magnifying glass." She snorted and brought a hand up to her mouth trying to fight back the laughter, he smiled,
"Besides, yer tits are way better looking than Yoko's." He saw the tears rolling down her cheeks from laughing so hard.
Hours later they had finally calmed down enough to resume watching T.V. like mature adults, he couldn't help but feel overjoyed; this was the first time in a really long time that they were together without anything horrid looming over them. It was around 2 in the morning when he glanced down his nose at her, her face was highlighted by the glow of the T.V. screen, she looked to be half asleep. He couldn't help it any longer, he brought his arms even tighter around her and kissed along her jaw line.
"Are you tired?" He murmured, she woke up and nodded, turning towards him. He locked eyes with her; did she want this?
He cautiously leaned his forehead against hers, he almost shook from anxiousness, he felt his heart pounding. He studied her face intensely her pink, soft lips, her insanely dark eyes and her flawless skin, it was the way she looked at him- he could never tell exactly what she was thinking- it drove him insane.
He leaned forward pressing his lips against hers, every single nerve ending in his body sparking off, it took her a second but she started kissing back. A moment or so later he pulled back, breathing shallowly as a small smile tried on his lips.
"Ya still tired?" He asked chuckling. She laughed lightly still staring at him, he pulled back in nibbleingher bottom lip, not a moment later they heard a cough and the door swung open; both he and Rachael jumped away from each other she let out a small yelp and he busted out laughing, a doctor walked in with a clipboard not even noticing he was in the bed with her.
"Ah good, Miss. Belter, you're still up." She laughed a little nudging Paul guiltily, he found her embarrassment beyond entertaining. "It looks as though we are going to discharge you this morning." She nodded sitting up a little straighter, "But there are some final instructions." Paul sat up as well listening to the doctor,
"You did break your rib again, that is obviously certain. It'll heal soon, we're going to give you some medication that will help you ease up on the sickness; the downside is that you're going to get pretty tired from it. So you'll have to plan on sleeping a lot." Paul looked back at her, the one thing he figured out about her was that doctors made her nervous; he reached out for her knee giving it a squeeze, "You're anemic. That means you'll have to eat a lot of red meat- things of those kinds, and you'll need to start gaining weight." She nodded, Paul got out of the bed waiting until the doctor was done checking her monitors, he followed him out into the hallway,
"'Ey doc," He said to the man grabbing his attention, "Is there anything else?" He asked,
"Well, all I can tell you is that you need to keep a close eye on her. I've noticed she doesn't really complain too much about pain… so just basically you're in charge of her. Make sure that she's feeling well, all of that." Paul nodded and returned to the room, her eyes were closed and she looked to be asleep,
"Rach?" He whispered, she opened one eye, "Shove over." She slid over to the other side of the bed making room for him, he crawled in nestling up against her back, they still had a few hours to sleep off.
Rachael's P.O.V.
Medication was my best friend. Whatever they put in that IV had the pain numbed and I was in a cheerful mood. When I woke up, Paul was snoring in my ear. I poked him in the side, he opened one eye and eyed me,
"You snore like an old man." I mumbled still half-asleep, he groaned and buried his face in my neck.
"Go back to sleep." He mumbled I turned towards him grabbing his wrist and taking a look at his watch,
"Wake up. We get to leave in half an hour." He groaned again, rolling off the bed and onto the chair beside the bed. He rubbed his eyes resting his head in his palms giving me a small smile. The doctor came in not 5 minutes later and Paul left to call a car. I changed quickly grabbing the overnight bag and meeting Paul halfway down the hallway.
When we got back to the hotel we were met by quite a few reporters,
"Took 'em fucking long enough t' find us." Paul chuckled as we briskly rushed past them. Lucy had the three children packed, they were still sleeping. Teddy was waiting for us when we got to the room,
"Hey, honey." He said squeezing me tightly. Paul followed us into the bedroom whilst I packed up the remainder of my items,
"I got everything figured out for you, the rest of the family went home." I nodded happily, I was still a bit worn out.
"There's one last thing though." He said pulling out papers from his briefcase. I took them and scanned them over; they completely inked, honestly I didn't have the energy to read them,
"What's this?" I said raising an eyebrow, he coughed,
"Ah well, it's about the children's last names. I figured that they should probably all be the same… you know make things easier to remember." I thought about it for a moment,
"Alright, so just change them all to Belter… I don't see what the problem is." Paul came over taking the documents from my hands and glancing up at Teddy sharing a knowing look.
"What?" I questioned, they both obviously knew something I didn't,
"Rachael…" Paul said quietly, Teddy left the room. "Well, I was wondering if Lily could… well if she could take on my last name." I thought about it for a moment,
"I don't know." I said quietly. Paul didn't say anything he continued looking over the papers, he glanced up at me letting out a sigh, "We'll talk about it later, yes?" I nodded, "Right then finish packing, I'll put these away." He gave me a peck on the cheek and walked out to the common room. I was a little perturbed, that seemed to have had come out of nowhere. I put it out of my mind though and finished packing.
When I came back out to the front room Lily and Will were cuddling on the couch, and a very sleepy Holly was snuggling up to Paul.
'Ready?' Paul mouthed, I nodded. He stood up handing me Holly and went to pick up Lily and Will. We waited until the bellhop picked up our bags; and then we were off.
The press were a little obnoxious outside the door, when the car pulled up most of them continued to berate the door, the driver had to pull them off, and we were finally on our way.
Paul's P.O.V.
About 10 minutes into the trip Lily, Will, and Rachael were out. He sprawled out on his seat with Holly on his chest, the baby was sleepily smiling at him struggling to keep her eyes open. He pulled his coat up around her and buttoned it so it fashioned into sort of a cocoon. He chuckled a little bit,
"I should've brought you on tour with me, Hol's." He whispered, "You're like a heater." He chuckled remembering how cold it got in the early days of Hamburg.
"Guess what else?" He whispered to the baby, she had her chin on his chest looking up at him, "I got yer mum to kiss me!" He gave Holly a loud smooch on the cheek, the baby smiled again, now dozing off, "Things are going great Hol's." And he hoped that they would stay this way.