A/N Just a little disclaimer that may be obvious but still. I do not own Glee, Flash, I do not know personally anyone mentioned. This is purely a fiction exercise. Also because English is not my native language you may have to excuse some mistakes I may write. That being said I hope you enjoy it.

A/N We're back to the present! They're back! In good new 2021. But without Covid here, no one deserves more of that in their lives… This is fiction after all. :)

Your friends Dianna and Kevin left and after your son's snack time, you're now with him, sitting on the couch, reading him some stories and trying to get him familiar with written letters, vowels and their pronunciation. He is a fast learner and you enjoy teaching him.

The boy keeps trying patiently and you kiss his forehead when he manages to identify all vowels and even read some words without your help. "Great job, my dear!" You grin proudly.

He smiles, "let's do more?"

You giggle, amused with his enthusiasm. "More? All right… But we also need to practise the writing…"

"Yes, we do. Dad will be proud!"

You have to laugh. "So, just trying to impress dad, uh?"

"And impress you too." He makes a sweet smile.

You shake your head amused, "Oh dear, you're just like your father…" You kiss him tenderly and you two just start goofing around, tickling him, making him all giggly and joyful.

Suddenly you hear some noises and you stop the playing. "Shhh, honey."

You try to listen to understand the noise, where it's coming from and before you get actually scared, you just make a little scream, "oh my god!"

"SURPRISE!"

"DAD!" Your kid immediately runs to his father who takes him in his arms and swings him around. "How's my boy? My dear, sweet boy. Oh god, how I missed you." He hugs him tight, smothering him in kisses and you stand up, wiping a tear from your face and smiling happily.

"So, nice t-shirt, uh?" Grant teases him.

"It's you, being a superhero," he smiles, "but I like you just as dad too."

Grant laughs "Great, cause that's what I am now with you, big boy, your dad." Your son hugs him again happily.

Grant winks at you and comes to you, holding your kid in his arms. "Come on, let dad give mom a kiss too, ok?"

The boy smiles very happy holding onto Grant's neck. "Sure."

Grant reaches you and you two share a sweet kiss on the lips that makes your son giggle embarrassed as he puts his hands over his eyes to cover them. "Ohhhh!"

You smile at Grant. "How…?"

Grant grins, "I was free a little sooner than I expected so… Instead of waiting for the tomorrow's flight I just booked a private jet so I could arrive today and as soon as possible."

"Yeay!" The kid cheers.

You smile tenderly at Grant and he puts your son down after kissing him some more. "Hey, big fellow, wanna see something I got you?"

The boy opens his eyes, "YES!"

Grant disappears out of the living room and returns with a package. "Go on, open it."

The kid opens it and exclaims, "AHH, awesome!"

"Ok, go and see if you can build that perfectly as it's meant to be." He smiles to him.

"Oh, I will!" The boy runs to his playground with his new toy.

You look at him, all excited opening the box sitting on his playground floor in the corner of the room.

"You spoil him, you know that, right?" You shake your head amused.

Grant is smiling at you, with that dazzling smile and, at the same time, sweet and tender expression of his that still makes you melt inside like a silly teenager. "There's no spoiling him. Or you. Oh god, come here. I miss you like hell." He pulls you into his arms and you two kiss passionately, engaged in a tight embrace.

You sigh deeply. "So happy you're here. Now I understand your secretive ways over the phone yesterday. Private jet, uh?" You raise an eyebrow amused.

He grins. "Anything to please you, my love. Hope you liked my surprise."

You smile, "You know perfectly well that I loved it, fool."

Grant giggles, "Ahhh, how I missed the fool thing." He puts his arms around you and he throws both of you on the couch, which makes you laugh like crazy.

"Jeez! Grant."

He kisses you again and you put your arms around him. "You missed Dianna and Kevin, they left like about an hour ago. I'm sure they would have stayed if they knew you were coming today."

"Oh really? We'll arrange something some other day, no problem."

You nod, "Sure."

He looks you deeply in your eyes and asks more seriously, "So, how are you?" His hand rests on your belly.

"I'm ok." You smile, knowing perfectly well what he's referring to.

"Carrying on with the over sized shirts, uh?" He giggles.

You shrug, nodding with a shy smile.

"Have you told Dianna?" He asks.

"No, of course not."

"I see…" He sighs. "Honey, I… We're in the 20th week, right?"

You nod. "That's right."

"That's halfway already. Just about five months. Don't you think it's time to tell…? To everyone? I know perfectly well where you are coming from and I understand but… You can't keep hiding it for much longer…No matter how large the shirts or dresses you wear." He smiles as he puts his hand now under your shirt and caresses softly your bump.

You take a deep sigh. "Please, Grant, just wait for tomorrow, that's all I'm asking."

He nods. "Ok, it's in the afternoon, right?"

You nod, "Yeah, late afternoon, so you could come too, after you'd have landed. But you're already here, so…" You grin and kiss his lips sweetly.

"Yeah, also another reason to be here sooner. Just to make sure I won't miss it." He smiles tenderly.

"God, I love you." You just say honestly.

"And I love you too, my sweet, dear wife… Oh… What's this? Oh god, is it…? Grant opens his eyes in awe as he feels the baby move and kick inside you.

You smile unable to avoid a tear. "Yes, the kicking and moving like crazy started about a week ago. It's right on schedule." You put your hand over his own hands guiding him through the baby's movements.

His eyes fill with tears and you smile, "Guess the little one sensed your presence now… Don't think I ever felt these many movements until now..."

Grant wipes a tear off his face and smiles touched, "Wow, it's not like this is the first time we feel this, but… You know…"

You nod sighing deeply, "Yeah, I do know."

Grant closes his eyes for a second trying to regain his control. He then smiles, "I can't wait for tomorrow. Think maybe we can move the appointment up? Morning instead of afternoon?"

You grin, "You can't wait, uh?"

Grant shakes his head taking a deep breath, "No, I really can't. Jeez."

You giggle, "Alright, let's see. Hand over my phone, please."

Grant gets your phone from the table and hands it to you. You search for a number there and wait till someone picks up.

"Hi, I have an appointment there, tomorrow at 6… Yeah, correct, that's it. I was hoping we could make it in the morning, if possible. Oh, ok. Wonderful then. Thanks." You hang up and turn to Grant smiling, "You're lucky, they had someone who wanted an afternoon spot so we got theirs at 10am."

Grant exclaims excitedly, "Great! Oh, can't wait!" He then lifts your shirt and kisses your belly.

"Dad?" You son is now in front of you two looking strangely at Grant kissing your belly. Grants smiles a little embarrassed, "hey, come here, big boy." He pulls him to his lap. "Have you finished building that?"

"Some parts. I think I need help now. Why were you kissing mom's belly?"

"Well…", Grant looks at you begging for you to say something.

You smile, "Mom just has a bit of a bellyache and dad was just trying to make it go away. Like we do to you when you have it."

"Oh, and do you feel better?" He asks worried reaching his hand to your stomach.

You nod, "Yes, I do."

He smiles, "great. I'll go finish my construction then." He kisses both your cheek and Grant's and leaves returning to his toys.

Grant chuckles tenderly, "He doesn't even realize your belly is a little bit on the large size… How are we gonna tell him?"

You shrug, "I don't know… Simply saying he'll have a sibling?"

Grant nods, "Yeah, maybe. Probably it's also time for the dreading 'where do babies come from' conversation…"

You laugh. "Oh god, that. Well, we'll manage I suppose."

Grant then pulls you to his arms and takes a deep breath inhaling your scent, followed by some kisses on your neck. "So good to be back home."

"Absolutely." You kiss his lips softly.

He looks into your eyes and bites his lower lip. "How are you feeling? Tired? Backaches? Heartburn? Any discomfort, cramps?"

"A bit tired, yeah, it's normal, but all in all, it's actually going smoother than the first one." Then you just smile mischievously, "so if you're asking if you're getting lucky tonight…" Grant makes a naughty smile at you waiting for you to continue. "The answer is obviously yes. I mean, with the certain limitations that come with this, you know what the doctors said, but make no mistake, I want you. And I want you so badly. Jeez, I wish I could just undress you right now." You lean to him and nibble softly his lip.

He licks his own lip and grins naughtily. "Those hormones are high, uh, you gorgeous girl."

You look at him with a cocky smile, "As if I ever needed extra hormones to lust hard after you…"

Grant sighs deeply, "Oh god. You drive me crazy. Can we just drop him at Tyler's? I don't think I can wait till night comes to make sweet love to you. Damn." He leans to you and kisses you neck in a very erotic way as his hand runs over your thigh.

You moan a bit. "Mmmm, easy tiger…" You take a deep breath and make him stop. "He's just over there. Tell you what, let's have dinner first and then put him to bed."

Grant rolls his eyes with a smile, "Always driving me even crazier. Ok, what's a couple of hours compared to what we have already waited these last weeks…"

You kiss his lips and add smiling, "Correct. Oh, by the way, Tyler and Liz are coming for dinner tomorrow night, you know, to welcome you back and so we can set the details for the all together family summer reunion…" You sigh.

Grant grins, "I'm sure everybody will be thrilled…" He caresses your belly.

You sigh, "Well, last time over Christmas they were all a bit apprehensive, I never understood why… And there's grandma… Well, we'll see…. Now, let's have dinner, shall we? I don't have anything too fancy as I wasn't expecting you…" You pout, "but we'll arrange something."

Grant smiles, "Anything will do, we can even order something if you don't feel like bothering."

You kiss his lips, "No problem, I'm creative. Go and make yourself comfortable."

He nods, "I'll take a shower quickly after dinner. Now let me just give some attention to the big guy over there."

You smile, "sure."

"Love you." He stands up after kissing you tenderly and goes join your son in the playground.

After you all have dinner together, you go to the living room just to relax a bit before putting your son to bed.

Grant has him in his lap and they are reading the stories you had read with your kid earlier.

Grant has his eyes open, surprise all over his face. "Wow, big one, that's some improvement…" He looks at you and you smile, handing Grant the copybook.

Grant opens it. "Wow… Is this…?"

Little Andy giggles. "Look, I can write all the vowels already! And these other ones too."

Grant kisses his cheek. "Of course you can. Cause you're so smart, uh?" He pokes his belly and the kid giggles like crazy.

You smile at them, seeing them together like that melted your heart.

Andy then says, "Mom taught me. All of that."

Grant smiles, "Yeah, she did. Mom is the best, isn't she?"

You smile tenderly and your son turns to you and hugs you. "You're the best, mom."

You can't avoid a little tear. "Thank you, my dear." He just stays there hugging you and you notice he's getting sleepy, his head on your shoulder. "Hey baby, let's go to bed, ok? It's been a long day."

Andy just nods and you stand up, with him on your arms. "Come on, dad will put you to bed too."

"Yeah, big one. Come here." Grant takes Andy in his arms. "Mom is a bit tired, I'll carry you."

You smile and you both go upstairs putting your son in bed. He quickly closes his eyes and falls asleep.

You and Grant go to your bedroom and Grant immediately puts his arm around you. "Jeez, he made so much progress. I mean, he's five. You have done a great job… Thank you." He kisses tenderly your cheek.

You sigh. "He's smart and… He wants to make you proud. He keeps saying that."

Grant sighs too. "I know…" He runs his fingers through his hair. "I know you've been a more constant presence in his life and… God…" He just takes a deep breath and quickly wipes a tear off his eyes.

"Hey, hey, Grant, shhh…" You hug him. "It's ok, you have been great. You are great with him."

He hugs you back. "But I could be better. I promise you, I'll try harder with this little one from the beginning," he puts his hand over your belly, "I will."

"You're saying nonsense. You are a great father, you've always been since he was born. It's not like we have to stop working completely to raise our child. Imagine if all parents in the world did that…" You smile.

"I know but… It's not just that… You… You're top of your field, one of the greatest if not the greatest currently. You should be shooting now that huge great production you were invited to. Come on, they even offered to double your paycheck. Double." He sighs.

"Money isn't everything, Grant. And it's not like we need more than we already have, obviously. Besides, I wouldn't get myself into a huge endeavor like that one now…" You smile putting your hand over his hand on your belly.

He smiles tenderly at you, "I keep saying this and I'll continue to say this because it's true. You are the best. And I love you."

You smile a bit shyly, "Remember when you said that you'd stay with me till 2100?"

He nods grinning. "Of course. I meant it then and I mean it now."

"Good." You kiss his lips softly.

He grins, "And remember when we first started dating and even before that… and I was all over you, almost scaring you? God, now that I think of it… I was a creep." He laughs embarrassed. "So pushy… Always texting you, always calling you..."

You giggle. "Ohhh, come on, you're not such thing. You were, well, you still are, adorable. You haven't changed since that and I love it. Every time it still feels like we are back to those times of sloppiness, cheesy stuff..." You smile running your fingers through his hair.

"Mmmm, so good." He moans. "Driving me crazy then, still driving me completely crazy now. Caring for me then, caring for me now. Me thinking I wasn't good enough for you then, didn't deserve you then, me still thinking that now…" He pouts.

"Saying nonsense then, saying nonsense now… Being a fool then, being a fool now..." You tease him.

"Teasing me then, teasing me now…" He giggles. "I know I have to go soft on you but I can still tickle you, you know that, right, my sweet wife?" He pokes gently your waist.

You just say, "God, I love you." You kiss him passionately and you push him towards the bed.

"Ohhh," Grant giggles with your enthusiasm.

"You said earlier you couldn't wait to make sweet love to me…" You crawl on top of him and you kiss his neck, while holding his arms above his head.

"Yes, and that's completely right. Mmmm…" He moans as you unbutton his shirt and proceed with the kissing there. "I really can't…"

You lift your head to look at him, "Good, cause I want to make sweet love to you too and more, I want to have wild sex with you. All of that."

Grant just sighs as he pulls you into a passionate, fierce kiss.