AN:
As always I do not own anything that has to do with the show! I also have no idea how long it takes to fly from Paris to LA, with layovers and all of that, I'm also not a therapist or a psychologist so if anything is wrong in that part of the chapter, that's all me!
So, we're about to find out if Steam´s baby is a girl or a boy, what Hope has been doing while Liam was with Steffy at the hospital and some other things.
I got a review for the AN-posting I did with the first two paragraphs of this chapter which said that they felt I was on the defensive and that I couldn't focus on anything else other then my vision and I didn't see that other people might not like it. I know that not everyone is going to like this story, that's a given, but it IS my story and my vision and I'm not writing this for anyone other then myself, me posting this is because I felt it was good enough for other people to read it! If you don't like it, I'm not forcing you to read it. I chose to not let it get posted because I felt like it was directed towards me personally the most, not towards the story and there was no need for the people reading the story to read it.
If you start reading a paragraph that contains people you don't like, like say Liam and Hope while they're talking about something, skip to the next one, you might miss some important stuff, but pretty much everything I write about get´s brought up between other characters later. I divide up my chapters into paragraphs because it makes it easier for people to read and know when the focus of the writing changes.
I'd like to thank the people who come back every chapter and reads what's going on, there are quite a lot of you actually, some even reads the same chapter more then once. Hugs to you all!
Just one more thing. This is a story about the characters of the Bold and the Beautiful with a slight indepth focus on Steffy and her baby, but I can't just write how ever many chapters just on Steffy and the baby, because that would be boring in the end, so there is a SL for Wyatt coming, Kill are getting a SL that begins at the end of this chapter, beginning of the next. Donna is getting a SL. Steric already has their SL, Taylor´s SL is in the works. I am filling this story with TONs of other characters, not just Steffy, Liam, Thomas, Michala and Hope.
I don't know yet if Lope will end their marriage or if they will become stronger then before. It all depends on something that begins to happen in this chapter, what I do know is that although the connection is still there as well as the bond between the two, Steam will not be a couple in this story.
I don't know what's going to happen with Brooke yet. LA, Paris or New York is in the cards, but if she stays in LA, I don't know what to do with her.
Things happen
Chapter five
September 5th 2013
Paris
When her son called her to tell her that the baby had been born, her heart had soared because she knew that for the last week or so, Steffy had been so uncomfortable and she had grown tired of being pregnant and wanted the baby to be born. During the last two days, she had heard Steffy moan from time to time while talking to her and she had had a feeling that it was probably time real soon, but she really didn't think it would happen so soon, she thought Ridge and her would have time to cross the Atlantic before their first grandchild would see the world for the first time. But no such luck it seems.
Fifteen minutes after she hung up with her son, a phone rang once again and the man it belonged to answered it.
~Things happen~
Los Angeles
8:05 am
When Hope went to bed the day before, she could tell that Liam was nervous about something and it worried her.
They had finally reached a place where both of them were content in and commited to their marriage, there was still stuff to work on but they were working on them, she of course had the most to work on and it was a work in progress.
When she woke up, Liam wasn't home and she hadn't heard him leave either so now she was worried, the worry increased even more when he wouldn't answer his phone. So, she called her mother and an hour after her mother arrived, Liam walks through the front door with a stupid grin on his face causing realization to dawn on both Brooke and Hope´s faces.
"The baby´s here!" Hope lets out breathlessly.
~Things happen~
Somewhere over the Atlantic.
They had managed to change their plane tickets and were now about a third of the way to LA and the joy displayed on their faces made the both of them glow. Finding out that her first grandchild had been born had actually made her even more beautiful then before and he felt even prouder then before that he had chosen her over any other woman. That he had once again placed a ring on her finger was a choice he was even more proud of.
He had presented it to her just after he hung up the phone after talking to his son and finding out that his first grandchild had been born. The resounding 'Yes' that had spilled out of her perfect lips was the best sound he had heard since his youngest son had drawn his first breath 12 years ago. Which had been an adventure in itself. Not knowing that he was in fact his son and not his nephew, the joy he felt when he found out that he and Brooke had actually had their first child together after all the times they'd been together before and lost the child she had carried had been enormous, but it had been tainted with everything that had happened after, this time his joy had been amplified through finding out that Steffy had her baby and now they were on a plane on the way back to LA to celebrate the birth of their first grandchild.
"Well, don't you two look happy!" The lady in the seat next to them across the aisle says with a smile on her face.
Taylor shows off her engagement ring and follows it up saying that their first grandchild was born today.
"Well, congratulations! Will you be getting married soon?" She motions to shake their hands.
"Well, I'm thinking we should let our daughter get into a routine with the baby before we get married, we're thinking about moving back to LA as well." Ridge says.
"We are?" Taylor looks surprised and then she understands the meaning behind Ridge´s words. "Yes, we are."
Her face breaks into a big smile and then she leans over to kiss him.
~Things happen~
Silent tears flowed down Hope´s face, she didn't think it would hurt this much to loose the chance to give Liam his first born child, but it ripped at her heart even more then seeing Steffy and Liam kissing in the car the day before Liam and her wedding, it even hurt more then watching Liam and Steffy get married on that mountain top in Aspen. Knowing that Steffy had something that was so precious to Liam was breaking her heart.
She'd been the happiest she's ever been when she found out that Steffy had signed the papers, then she remembered the additions that Liam had written on it and she had lost some of the joy she had felt before remembering.
That stupid grin that grazed Liam´s face when he entered the house this morning had broken her heart even more and she decided to go for a walk on the beach to clear her head and sort through some emotions that were clouding her thoughts after her mother had left half an hour after Liam walked through the door.
He hadn't even told her yet if it was a boy or a girl, in fact, he had just walked into the bedroom and gone to bed not even acknowledging her in any way and right now she couldn't even look at him, so she took off to the beach after telling her mother that she'd be fine, she just needed to be alone right now and it took some pushing for Brooke to leave the house, but almost the minute she left, Hope was out the door and on her way to the beach.
She had always loved walking on the beach by Liam´s house when they were dating and now weren't an exception. Before Steffy had come back from Paris and Thomas revealing that she was pregnant to the world she had used strolls on the beach as a way to disconnect herself from her work and it always helped her get her focus back on what was important, so, she sits down, digs her toes into the sand, plugs in her headphones and watches the waves crash in on the beach line, as her favorite song plays silently in the background, feeling the calm gently wash over her.
~Things happen~
Friday September 6th
Los Angeles, 3:22 pm
Steffy and the baby stayed in the hospital for a full thirty nine hours, just to make sure that the baby was doing okej since it was born a little earlier then the expected due date, but it turned out that the baby didn't need any interventions from the hospital staff, Steffy´s milk came in almost instantly and the baby latched on like a baby should.
As they were leaving, the elevator doors opened up and out came her parents.
"Mom! Dad! You came!" She reaches up after Thomas takes the carseat with the baby in it. Taylor and Ridge walks over and gives her a big hug.
"Of course we did, a little earlier then expected, but we're here now." Taylor explains. "And who is this little sweetie then?"
Taylor looks over to the carseat in her sons hand.
"This is baby Forrester-Spencer, first name still unknown!" Thomas introduces the little baby to it's grandparents.
"So?" Taylor raises her eyebrows as she watches her daughter with curiosity in her eyes.
"It's a girl!" Steffy says as her eyes light up as the smile on her mouth works it's way up her face. Then she notices the ring on her mothers finger and the smile turns into shock and then she turns to her father to see the smile on his face. "So, you two got anything to tell me? Tell us?"
"I have no idea what you're talking about." Taylor looks totally oblivious.
"Fine, I'll just keep the name of my baby from you then." Steffy raises her eyebrows.
"Why would you do that? I'll just get it from Thomas when he finds out." Taylor places her hands on her hips.
"Well, if my mother won't tell me she's getting married, why should I tell her the name of her grandchild?"
"How on earth do you know about that?" Taylor is stunned.
"Well, the ring on your finger and my fathers nod to my silent question a few minutes ago spoiled your big surprise. But hey! Atleast you get to spend time with your grandchild, Liam´s mom won't be able to." This comment does the trick because Steffy knows that the one thing that her mother wanted more then anything was to watch her children grow up and since she wouldn't be able to do so, watching her grandchildren grow up was the next best thing.
"Yeah, I'm getting married." Taylor admits.
"To who?" Thomas asks.
"Me!" Ridge exclaims to the surprise of his son. He already knew his daughter had caught on.
"Oh! Grandma is going to be so happy!" Thomas says with a big smile on his face.
Then the four of them start laughing, but after a little while, seriousness enters Steffy´s mind.
"Have you heard about granddad?" She says with tears in her voice.
"Yeah, it's one of the reasons we're coming back. That he'll need us for our support and for the company." Taylor tells her children as they walk back towards the elevator to take the baby home.
"Has Bill and Katie been by to see you and the baby yet?" Ridge throws the question out there.
"Katie has kept her distance, Bill came within the hour of Thomas calling him after the baby was born. I really wasn't expecting Katie to come see us either way so that's fine. It's actually been very Logan free most of the time. The only Logan who's been by is Will and I was cool with that as he's the baby´s uncle. I thought it was really cute looking at him be amazed by this little girl in his brothers arms."
"So Liam has been here a lot?" Ridge questions.
"He's been here to see us yesterday evening for an hour or so and he was here when she was born. I wasn't expecting to stay as long as I did. She wasn't even born that early. But hey, it's better to be safe then sorry right?" Steffy looks up from the wheelchair as they ride down in the elevator.
"It sure is honey, especially with something so precious!" Taylor smiles at her as she looks down as she's talking to her daughter, Steffy gives her a smile back.
~Things happen~
September 15th 2013 1:32 am
LA
The next week was spent getting into a routine for Steffy and the little baby girl. As expected, she lost a little weight the first few days after she had been brought home, but she also gained it all back within the week.
Michala had decided to stay just a little while longer to help Steffy with getting into a routine, also known as babysitting while Steffy took a shower or a thirty minute nap.
Steffy and Liam still hadn't figured out what their daughter´s name was going to be, because they couldn't name her William after her grandfather, father and uncle and so it was a difficult task to figure out what to name their sweet little girl. At first they thought about naming the baby after both their maternal grandmothers, but Sharon Kathrine just didn't sit well with either of them, neither did Kathrine Sharon. So they thought about using her maternal grandmothers name and his paternal grandmothers name and those clashed even worse, Sharon Elsie or Elsie Sharon both sounded like a first and last name. They had played with using the baby's grandmothers names as the baby´s name, Kelly Taylor or Taylor Kelly, but once again, it sounded like a full name for the baby and adding Forrester-Spencer sounded way to pretentious.
So, here they are, the baby one week old and still no first name and Baby girl Forrester-Spencer just didn't sit right anymore.
At the moment it's 1:32 am and Steffy is feeding the baby while looking at the mural that her brother had painted for the baby, humming a song she couldn't remember the words to and it dawns on her. She sends a text to Liam to see if he approves, but she knows he won't answer right away so she takes the moment to enjoy having this little girl in her arms and be thankfull that her daughter was such an easy baby to care for. She had learned all the cries her baby made almost instantly and she had figured out how to avoid them through writing everything that happens during the day in a notebook.
She noticed that the baby had fallen asleep and gently transitioned her back into the crib, which was a blessing that her daughter was such an easy sleeper. She had thought that the baby would be sleeping in her room the first few months, but she had tried having the baby sleep in the crib that first night they were home and it had continued that way since.
~Things happen~
The news of Ridge and Taylor´s engagement had spread like wildfire and a certain Logan was not happy about it, she also didn't hesitate to display that unhappiness whenever Ridge or Taylor were close and she was even worse when Katie or Donna was close because she was so sure that when Ridge returned to LA, he was coming back to her, he was coming back for her. She just couldn't see him returning for any other reason and especially not because his daughter had her baby. There just was no other way, so seeing Ridge being affectionate with Taylor in front of her really grated her nerves.
Stephanie on the other hand was thrilled that Ridge had decided to spend the rest of his life with Taylor and she found it hilarious that Brooke was acting the way she was. It was a light in her very dark tunnel that she'd cling to until the day that tunnel collapsed around her.
~Things happen~
September 15th
She had heard the beep of her husbands phone early that morning and she knew there was only one person out there that would send her husband texts that early in the morning and because she knew that, jealousy came creeping into her mind and she just had to know what the text said, so she took the phone and pressed the homebutton.
"Kelleigh (Kelly) Taylor Forrester-Spencer, sounds good right?" from Steffy.
"That's a beautiful name." Hope whispers before she gives a big sigh of defeat. "And so Steffy trying to lure her way into Liam´s heart again, why can't she just admitt defeat and realize that Liam wants me and only me."
Liam can hear Hope muttering about Steffy as he wakes up and decides to listen to what she's says.
"Why can't she just let go? There is no way that baby is Liam´s and I can't believe Liam believes it is." He can hear the anger creep into her voice so he decides to make it known he's awake.
"Well, I believe that baby is my daughter because she looks like a perfect blend of me and Steffy and you would know that had you even made the slightest effort to see the baby!" There's a harshness in Liam´s voice that Hope isn't used to.
"Why on earth should I go and see that baby? It's not any of my business. She's not my concern!" Hope bites.
"Because she's your stepdaughter and if you can't even see her, how do you think I feel about letting you get pregnant with my baby?"Hope gasps and goes to respond, but Liam cuts her off. "She's my daughter, how can I trust that you will even love the children we're going have if you can't even love a child that's half mine? Are you only going to love them because they're yours or are you going to love them because they are ours? Is your hatred towards Steffy really that strong that it trumps your love towards me? If so I truly do not think we should even be in this marriage."
He can see the tears forming in Hope´s eyes.
"You know what? Those tears aren't even affecting me right now, my priorities are towards my daughter at the moment and if you can't even see that there's where they need to be right now, I really don't see how this big awakening you had a week ago has made your feelings towards Steffy any less hateful."
"She's given you the one thing I wanted to give you more then anything! Your first born!"
"Yeah, well, that baby could have been yours and mine had you decided that I was telling the truth when Othello told that lie of his. You just remember that."
During the time they had been arguing, Liam has dressed himself and now he walked out of the bedroom and slammed the door behind him and Hope is thoroughly confused as to what just happened.
Five minutes later, Liam comes back into the bedroom, glares at her. "Give me my phone and don't you dare look at it without my permission ever again."
She hands it over.
"I'm going to work. Maybe you should go see a shrink or something, because sooner or later you will prove my suspicions right if you don't."
"And what exactly are those?"
"That you only married me to win one over Steffy!" He slowly walks backwards and then turns when he reaches the door, then some seconds later, she hears the door slamming.
~Things happen~
The hard clinks on the keyboard in the office on the other side of the hallway alerts Bill that his son isn't very happy, but as it had worked wonders the first time he tried it a few weeks ago, Bill chooses to let his son cool down and come to him when he feels he needs his advice.
Then there's a ding on his phone alerting him to a new post on Twitter and he takes a look.
What he sees is an announcement on Steffy´s feed.
"Kelleigh 'Kelly' Taylor Forrester-Spencer, She finally has a name everyone!"
Then another ding allerts him to a post on Instagram and there's a photo of a sleeping baby. Twitter then alerts him that someone has posted a reply.
"Daddy´s pride and joy!"
This places a smile on Bill´s face, he's always known that Steffy was the one who always knew how to make Liam smile and he knew that now that Kelleigh was in the world, she would take her mothers place as head smile-bringer for her father. Because the hard keyboard clinks had stopped, Bill knew that Liam was admiring the picture of his baby girl.
So he posts a reply as well.
"Granddad´s best girl ever!"
Which in turn gets a reply from Ridge.
"Well, that's cause you don't have a daughter! ;-)"
"Haha! That's true!"
"Sure is!"
"Hey! Congratulations man!"
"Thank you! Best decision ever!"
";-)"
They weren't really sure how it had happened, but over this last week, there had been a shift in Ridge and Bill´s relationship, maybe it was the fact that their children had had a baby together or the fact that Ridge was marrying Taylor, but the competition that had been there before weren't there anymore.
Maybe this little girl was a peace bringer to the family.
What Bill did know though was that Steffy would never say yes to marrying Liam ever again, that part of her life was over period and Bill had accepted that whole heartedly, he had also accepted that Wyatt wasn't his chance to get Steffy back into daughter in law status, the only Spencer Steffy truly loved with her whole heart anymore was her daughter.
~Things happen~
Hope just couldn't help herself and she looked at the picture that Steffy had posted on Instagram, as a result, her heart broke a little bit more and she realized that she needed to do exactly what Liam had told her that morning. She also realized that there was no way that baby wasn't Liam´s daughter, but she didn't really want to believe it.
So she did her research and found a therapist that could help her the best in her opinion. The one her mother had taken her to that prescribed her those pills hadn't been that good and visiting her had only damaged her more.
So she makes a call and due to a cancellation, she gets an appointment just a few hours later.
~Things happen~
She's sitting in the waitingroom bouncing her left leg up and down nervously waiting for the therapist to come out the door of her office. It takes about five more minutes then she's sitting in a chair in the office decorated with an abundance of colors. It's not what she was expecting from a therapists office, but it made her feel more relaxed.
"So, how may I help you?"
"Well, I have a problem accepting that my husband has had a baby with another woman about a week ago and my feelings about it is that he shouldn't have any contact with the baby at all because the other woman would just use that contact to get him back."
"Okej, so let's work on why you feel like he shouldn't have any contact with the baby. Tell me, if that woman had been anyone else, would you feel the same?" The woman behind the desk looks at Hope with genuine intrest in her eyes.
"Of course, the woman, who ever she is, has taken the one thing I wanted to give my husband."
"And what is that?"
"His first born child."
"So you don't want to give your husband your love or devotion? You don't want to give him a happy home? You just wanted to give him his first born child. Well, you didn't have to marry him to do that. So why did you marry him?"
"I married him because I love him and because of that love, I wanted to give him his first born child. We thought we lost that early on in our relationship when another woman claimed she was pregnant by him, but that turned out to be a lie and she was actually pregnant with my cousins baby. But we didn't find that out until the baby was born. Then some stuff happened and now my former stepsister has the one thing I wanted to give to my husband."
"Okej, so, were you and your husband married when the baby was concieved?"
"No, but we were supposed to be. We were lied to by my brother and a friend of his just as we were about to get married and I called off the wedding because of it."
"What did your fiance say when you called off the wedding?"
"He said they were lying, he hadn't done what they said he had and that I should believe him."
"Why didn't you?"
"Because I knew in my heart that he had done it, because that's who she is."
"What did you do when you found out it was a lie?"
"I went to his house and told him that I should have believed him and that this was our second chance, then we made out on his bed."
"Okej, now, is that the whole truth? Because I can see by your body language that you're not telling me everything."
"No, it's not. I may have taken all of his current girlfriends stuff out of the dresser and closet and put them on the bed we made out on."
"When did you find out that the lie was a lie?"
"A little over three months after the wedding was cancelled."
"And he was living with someone else by then?"
"Yes, the same woman who now is the mother of my husbands first child." Hope sighs. "Who also happens to be my husbands first wife."
"Okej, where they married when the baby was concieved?"
"No, they had been divorced for a while when the baby was concieved."
"Okej. Where they married when you and him first met?"
"No, he and I met, fell in love and wanted to get married. Then she takes an interest in him and tries to lure him away from me. My last straw was watching him kiss her in the car the night before our wedding, so I left him. Forty eight hours later, they are married in Aspen and I thought I had lost him forever."
"But you didn't loose him. You gave him away. There's a difference. You dumped him and he was then free to do what ever he wanted and he chose to marry another woman."
"But he was supposed to marry me. There was no way that he loved her as much as he loves me."
"But you chose to leave him and he then chose to marry someone else based on your decision to dump him. Has he ever explained what that kiss was about?"
"He claims it was her saying good bye to him and good luck on your marriage. But he kissed her back and if you're engaged, you shouldn't be kissing another woman and I know she did that because she knew I was watching."
"Oh, so you were living together?"
"No, I had moved in that evening. It was a surprise."
"Did she know you would be there? If she didn't know you were there, did she see you?"
"No, she didn't know I was there and as far as I know, she didn't see me."
"So, neither of them knew you were there? And you didn't stay behind and confront him about it?"
"No!"
"Why would you think that she knew you were watching then?"
"Because I just do, it's what she does!"
"Okej, now the first session I have with a new client is always half an hour long and our time is up, but if you want to come back, you can schedule an appointment at the front desk. I really wish you'd come back, because it seems like we have a lot to talk about. I do have something for you to think about though."
"Okej." Hope is a little bit scared.
"I want you to think about where you think these thoughts comes from and every time you feel like this woman is taking to much of your husbands time, I'm not talking about the baby, you should write down what you're feeling at the time. Can you do that for me?"
Hope nods her head and sees the therapist smile at Hope and reach her hand out to shake her hand.
As Hope leaves, she makes an appointment as soon as possible and holds the papers she's been given as close to her chest as possible.
She doesn't tell Liam about her session today and it takes a toll on her, but somehow she feels like it's something that she needs to keep to herself, atleast for now.
~Things happen~
During these last few weeks, something had been growing between Thomas and Michala and they spent more and more time together both at work and at home. Michala had been spending some time working at Forrester Creations to ease Steffy´s way back into work when she returned in a few months. When she had started, she had found a mess and when she told Steffy about it, Steffy reached out to Eric to find out who had been in charge of PR while Steffy was away. Apparently Eric had no idea, so she asked her grandmother and she told her that Donna had been in charge and that told Steffy all she needed to know.
The moment Michala took charge, things flowed better and everyone in the department actually did what they're supposed to do and the things they said about their previous PR-head, was nothing short of embarrasing. Donna had been so bad at her job that everyone had viewed it as a play house because they knew they wouldn't get in trouble for it, but after a while they grew tired of it and just stopped working completely because no one told them what to do. So Michala coming to whip them into shape and throwing Donna out on her behind was a Godsend.
They realised that working on promoting the company was actually quite fun and the numbers sky rocketed and one month later the PR-department was back to where it was supposed to be.
~Things happen~
By the later part of October, Steffy had actually been by work to check things out and show off her gorgeous little girl. There had been so much ooh-ing and awe-ing that Steffy actually had to use force to get her daugher back. But it had been so funny. She then had been by to see her father and grandparents on the executive floor and had been forced to try on the bridesmaids dress for her mothers wedding. She also got to see the dress and it was gorgeous.
The only demands that Taylor had for the wedding was that it not be an all white dress, they all knew she was no virgin and it sure as daylight breaking in the morning wasn't her first wedding.
So Eric had found a fabric in their hide away closet that worked wonders, it was a light pastelly purple fabric with small flowers all over it. Ridge had seen the fabric, but not the dress.
With two months left to the wedding things were moving along great for everyone, well, almost everyone.
Liam had been spending time with his daughter almost every day, either by visiting the baby at Steffy´s apartment or Steffy dropping her off at Spencer Publications.
Hope had been to the therapist almost weekly and she was making great progress, she wasn't ready to meet the baby just yet, but she was working towards not resenting her and her mother so much.
Brooke Logan had started thinking about if she wanted to stay in LA if she had to watch Ridge be so happy with Taylor when she knew that he'd be much happier with her, so she was thinking about moving to New York to be with Bridget and Logan more for a while or move to Paris to be close to her father for a little while. But then she remembers that she has to stay in LA because there's no way Ridge and Taylor´s marriage would last longer then a few months, there's just no way. She'd just wait and see, then she'd pick up the pieces.
Donna Logan saw her sister stand strong in her faith that Ridge and Taylor wouldn't last, but she also knew that Ridge's marriages to Taylor had been the longest Ridge had ever been married and the only reason they didn't last is because Taylor was believed to be dead. She didn't see a reason for Taylor and Ridge´s marriage not to work because of this, but she couldn't say this to her sister because Brooke would just rip her head off. But, on a more positive note, she had reconnected with Justin again and they were slowly working towards a relationship. Things were going great and it had all started when her PR-position was taken from her, she'd known from the beginning that it hadn't been where she wanted to be and had worked hard on getting herself fired and when Michala came on as Steffy´s future assitant, she saw the light at the end of the tunnel.
Katie Logan Spencer on the other hand found herself drawn to wanting to see the little baby girl her stepson had gained when Steffy came back to LA, she continued to see that Steffy wasn't there for Liam as every time Liam came to Steffy´s apartment to spend time with his daughter, Steffy wasn't there or couped up in her office looking over papers that Michala had brought with her the day before, but she never opened the door for Liam and when Steffy brought the baby to Spencer Publications, she walked into Liam´s office, said hello and then she left for an hour or two and went shopping for things she needed for herself or the baby or just got her hair or nails done. When Liam was spending time with Kelleigh, he was almost always by himself or his father was there with him spending some time with his granddaughter. She also noticed that when Wyatt, Bill and Will or any other man went home to Steffy to visit with Kelleigh, Steffy was always there spending time with them. Sure, it could be interpreted that Steffy was deliberetly spending time away from Liam because she still loved him, but truth be told, she needed the small breaks that Liam´s presence provided and she was grateful for them and Katie understood the need for breaks away from the constant care of the newborn. Sure, it was frightening to leave such a little baby, but she also knew that spending to much time with the baby made her irritable and that was detrimental for the baby.
So, it took a little less then seven weeks, but all of a sudden, Katie Logan Spencer was standing outside of Steffy Forresters apartment knocking on the door and almost regretting that she even came here. But when Steffy opens the door with the little girl in her arms with her hair going in every directions, mysterious stains on her shirt and big bags under her eyes, she knew she was needed.
"Hi! Took you long enough!" Steffy says with a laugh.
"What do you mean?" Katie says surprised.
"Well, no mom of a toddler could ever deny the pull of a newborn for to long, add to that the fact that your husband has been by to see us so often and bringing your son with him from time to time." Steffy sends a smile Katie's way. "Now, I know we aren't the best of friends and we really don't like each other that much, but could you please help me out a little?"
"Of course I can. What do you need?"
"A five minute shower and a five minute nap. I just need to have water pouring over me and a tiny little power nap."
And so, Katie finds herself sitting on the couch with a six week old baby girl laying on top of a blanket to keep her clothes from getting spit up on them in case the baby threw up. The smell coming from Kelleigh´s head is intoxicating and just feeling this tiny little body pressing lightly on Katie´s chest made her miss the time when Will was this little and filled her heart with desire for a little baby girl.
Ten minutes later, Steffy peaks through the door from her bedroom into the livingroom and sees Katie gently stroke Kelleigh´s back and gently humming a song for the baby, so she decides to do some work while she has Katie there.
~Things happen~
AN:
Oh, Katie is changing her mind about Steffy is she? Or is she about to kidnap baby Kelleigh?
What do you think about baby girl´s name?
Do you think that Hope will EVER be ready to visit Steffy and the baby?
When Steffy is ready for love, should I bring back any guy from her past, or should I create a totally new man for her?
Should Brooke move to New York for a bit to stay with Bridget and Logan? Maybe visit Jack and Nick a little? Maybe she should get a medical scare? I don't know.
I only have one more question, how far into the future do you think I should take this story?
There was more to this chapter before the AN got way longer then it was prior to me feeling like I needed to