AN:
As ALWAYS I do not OWN a single thing in regards to the show, if I did, Brill NEVER would have happened and Brooke would've learned something from the last time she couldn't wait until she'd lured one of her relatives men away from them(Nicket). I am not counting Broliver because I believe that it was an accident on both their parts, although both of them should've known better!
I've been having a little bit of a writersblock for Things happen since finishing chapter Nine, but hopefully that's over for now at least.
I got a review from Soapfanatic24 in regards to who Steffy will end up with. I had a thought about a character that comes into the story in this chapter. But Steffy decided that he's not it for her so he's not it. Unfortunately I'm not entirely sure who she'll end up with, but it is NOT someone with the last name Cooper/Spencer/Fuller. Wyatt´s love interest makes an appearance in this chapter along with who was supposed to be Steffy´s potential love interest, but as always, Steffy decided differently. I have this vision in my head, but he's currently name- and faceless so I can't tell you who it is. At this point however, it seems likely that he's a completely new character.
Things happen
Chapter ten
December 2nd 2013
Bill and Katie Spencers home
Katie had been released from the hospital early that morning and right now she was tucked in under a blanket on the daybed in Will´s playroom watching her husband and son play on the floor.
"How are you doing?" Bill looks up to see his wife having woken up after a small nap.
"Just tired and a little sore, but I feel better then I did yesterday."
"That's good. Are you going to be okey to meet the women today?"
"Yes, thankfully Steffy and Wyatt have agreed to sit with us as well so that we have more ears listening in."
The doorbell rings signaling the arrival of their former daughter in law.
"I'll just go open the door." Bill raises from the floor to go and open the door.
A little bit later, Steffy walks through the door with her daughter in the carseat.
"Hey! How are you doing?" Steffy places the carseat on the floor and then walks over to give Katie a hug before walking back to her daughter to take her out of the carseat and placing her on the blanket that had covered Kelleigh when they entered the room.
"Tired, a little sore, but okey otherwise."
"I'm guessing that's expected after having major abdominal surgery a few days ago. So, are you ready to meet the woman who's going to be carrying your baby?" Steffy divides her attention between her daughter, Will and Katie.
"Yes, I'm so ready!"
"Have you heard anything from Brooke?"
"I haven't actually, which is weird. I take it you haven't either?" Katie starts to show signs that she's tired and since it's about half an hour to forty five minutes left until the agency comes over, she's got time for a little nap.
"No, I haven't. You look a little tired, maybe you should take a nap?" Steffy searches Katie´s face for a little bit. "Yes, you need a nap!"
Steffy calls out to Bill and when he gets there, she tells him that Katie should be put in the guest bedroom next to the kitchen for a nap, so he picks her up and carries her there.
Katie falls asleep as soon as the covers have been tucked around her.
Twenty five minutes into her nap, the doorbell rang again and Bill opened the door to find his son standing on the other side.
"Hi! Katie is sleeping currently so we need to be quiet. Steffy is in the playroom with Will and Kelleigh so you can go there and wait for the agency people to get here!" Bill gives him a hug and then walks to check on his wife.
Wyatt stays behind to watch his father go to the guestroom downstairs and then he turns to go see Steffy, Kelleigh and his youngest brother.
"Well, well. Funny seeing you here!" He says with a chuckle.
"Yeah, I can say the same about you!" Steffy gets up off the floor to give him a hug.
Wyatts eyes automatically wanders over to his niece.
"Hey, you didn't tell me you were coming too when I spoke to you on the phone earlier, little one!"
Kelleigh searches for the voice and a big smile breaks out on her face when she sees her uncle and she coos.
"Okey, I forgive you!"
Kelleigh blinks and then yawns.
"Oh, is it naptime for little one?" He walks over to her and picks her up taking the blanket with him as he does.
In the meantime, Steffy has arranged the blanket Katie had been laying under when she got there to form a barrier on each side of the baby and then catching the blanket when Wyatt let go of it as he walked past. He places Kelleigh in the middle of the blanket and then Steffy hands him Kelleigh´s blanket once more and he lays it on top of his niece.
Steffy goes and picks Will up after he shows signs of being tired as well. She sits down in a chair and feels his breath even out at the same time her daughter falls asleep.
"Could you go and get the pack n' play from the livingroom so I can lay him down?"
Wyatt just nods his head and walks to get the pack n' play.
As he's walking back the doorbell rings again and so he goes and opens the door. On the other side there are three women.
"Hello! Are you from the agency?"
The woman dressed in a pair of black pants, a white shirt and a grey cardigan nods her head.
"Yes, we are. I do believe that you're not the Mr Spencer we're here to see though?"
"Well, technically you are, but I do believe that my father is the Mr Spencer that has enlisted your help. Now, I need to free my former sister in law from my brother and put her daughter to bed in a less dangerous place then the daybed in the playroom. You can just sit down on the couch and wait if you want? I believe my father is waking up his wife from her nap currently."
"Or we could come with you?"
"Sure, come with me!"
He walks back to the playroom and hears the three women follow him.
"Steffy! We have visitors!" He says as he enters the playroom with the pack n' play.
Steffy looks up from the little head she's been caressing waiting for Wyatt to come back.
"Oh, you're back! Good!" She then gets up from the chair as Wyatt sets the pack n' play up and then lays Will down in it.
Wyatt has gone to get her daughter while she lays Will down and he lays her down next to her uncle.
This is the point where Steffy turns towards the visitors.
"Hello!" She reaches her hand out to all three women, who each shakes it when it's their turn. "How are you all doing?"
All three women say they're doing okey.
"Good, should we go see if Mr and Mrs Spencer are ready?"
All three women nods their head at Steffy´s question.
"I'm Steffy Forrester by the way. This is Wyatt Fuller Spencer and you have just seen Will Spencer and Kelleigh Forrester-Spencer." Steffy starts walking back to the front door.
The woman from the agency introduces herself as Audrey and the two women that came with her as Katherine and Deliah.
They meet Bill just as they walk around the corner into the livingroom.
"How´s Katie doing?"
"She's so tired so she's going to sleep a little longer. Anyone want a cup of coffee and some cookies?" All five other people nod their heads. "Will and Kelleigh sleeping?"
Both Wyatt and Steffy nod their head.
"Are you two staying for dinner after?" Bill asks.
"Depends how long this will take." Steffy answers.
Wyatt however accepts the invitation as he doesn't have a nearly three month old to care for.
A cup of coffee later, Katie calls out for her husband to help her, as Bill goes to help her, Steffy decides to explain the situation for the women.
"I want to give you a heads up about the situation." All three women nods their heads. "On Friday, Katie and Bill went and did the egg retrival and for some reason, the needle ended up somewhere it shouldn't be and caused a slash in one of her internal organs. Katie followed the doctors orders and stayed in bed the rest of the day. However about eleven hours after the retrival, Katie felt good enough to start walking around and so she walked for a while in the hallway while Bill went and got their son. Somehow Katie lost her balance and fell into a dresser causing the slash to start bleeding again and she passed out. Katie was taken to the hospital and taken into surgery to fix what ever was wrong with her and then they kept her for observation over the weekend. She was released this morning and she's been sleeping on and off since then. So if she starts getting tired, she's just getting tired. It's the reason why Wyatt and I are here, we'll give our opinion on who we think is the best fit because Bill and Katie might be to wrapped up in Katie´s energy levels."
Just as she finish talking, Katie and Bill returns.
"So, which one of you will be carrying my baby?" Katie attempts to joke.
However, only one of the women raise her hand.
"Well then, that was simple enough." Katie sighs. "Can you please bring me back to bed?"
"Guestroom or our bed?"
"Guestroom please, but do come and get me when you go to bed." Bill nods his head and helps her go back to the guestroom.
"Well then, I'm guessing this meeting is done." Steffy declares.
The woman from the agency agrees.
"So, do you want to stay for dinner?" Steffy asks the woman who raised her hand.
"Sure. Sounds good to me!" She nods her head. "This way I can get to know you all a little more."
"Well then, Kathrine. This is where I leave you for now, we'll have a meeting a little later when Katie is feeling better to sign the papers." The woman from the agency announces. "I'll call tomorrow to see when we can get together with the Spencers to sign the papers."
"I'll be expecting your call! Thank you so much!"
Bill returns and says he'll be expecting it as well. Bill and Katherine shakes Audrey´s hand and then Bill shakes Deliah´s as well.
"Good, I'll speak to you tomorrow!"
Wyatt then walks with Audrey and Deliah to the door.
"Have a nice evening!" Wyatt says with a smile and both women tells him the same, then they leave.
He then walks back.
"So, what's going on with that house of yours?" Bill asks when his son is back.
"The architects we've seen have all loved the design that Thomas did for the outside of the house, but neither of them felt right to do the house so we're at a bit of a standstill." Wyatt explains.
"Michala, Kelleigh and I are moving in with grandma and granddad next weekend and there are showings over at Michalas and my place all week this week." Steffy smiles at her daughters grandfather. "But I do believe we're here to get to know Katherine?"
Steffy looks across the table with an apologetic smile.
"Oh, it's okey, I'm here to get to know you and the easiest way for me to get to know people is for them to talk about everyday-stuff and I might jump in here and there." Katherine explains. "I do however have a question. What's this house you're talking about?"
"My brother, his girlfriend, Wyatt here, my daughter and I are building a house." Steffy starts the explanation off.
"And you've met a few architects that you haven't really clicked with?"
Both Steffy and Wyatt nods their heads.
"What if I told you that my brother is an architect, would you consider meeting with him?"
"Sure! When do you think he'd have time to meet us?" Steffy smiles at the thought.
"Does he have a builder that he often works with?"
"I'd have to ask him, but I'm pretty sure he'd be able to meet you whenever." Katherine sends off a smile to the young woman on the other side of the table. "He does have a builder he works with.." she laughs a little. "..he kind of have to since she's his little sister."
"Do you think we could meet with both of them today?"
Katherine nods her head to Bill's question.
"Would you like me to call them now and see if they're avaliable?"
"Could you?" Steffy sees Katherine nod and then turns to Bill. "Do you think Kelleigh and I could stay here tonight? I think this might take some time and we need to discuss this deeply."
"Absolutely, but don't you think Thomas and Michala should be here too?"
"Yeah, but I don't see a reason to call them until we know if they're avaliable."
Katherine takes this as her sign to pick her phone up and call her siblings. Five minutes later, she walks back through the door.
"They can be here within the hour. Derek will be bringing the stuff he needs to make the plans and Jessica will be bringing her assortements of materials she uses while building."
"Sounds good! I'll go call my brother, he's probably with Michala right now so I'll catch two birds with one cage."
Steffy walks away to call her brother.
"Hey, you might wanna consider either making more food or order take out, we'll have some hungry mouths here soon." Wyatt indicates to his father.
"Yeah, might be a good idea." Bill heads off to the kitchen to find the number to the pizza place leaving Katherine and Wyatt behind.
"So, how come you want to be a surrogate?" Wyatt looks at her with interest in his eyes.
"I decided long ago that I wanted to help women realize their dreams of having a family and although I do not want a child of my own, I've always wanted to experience a pregnancy. Helping your father and his wife will help me achieve my dreams. Help someone and experience a pregnancy. I'll gladly do it again for them if this works out the best way it can."
Wyatt nods his head as he considers the answer he was given.
"I know that it's custom for surrogates to have children of their own to prove that they can carry a pregnancy to terms, but I have been through tests to check that I'm healthy and there are no problems that could cause issues. I'm really looking forward to this and hope that it works out."
"It's nice to know that you're in it for the long haul, well, atleast the next year or so."
"Thank you for your support!" Katherine sends a small smile towards the young man.
Steffy comes back.
"Where did Bill go?" Before she gets an answer there's sound coming through the baby monitor. "Never mind, I got to go see my daughter and her uncle."
She walks off again, she comes back about ten minutes later with Kelleigh in her arms and Will walking by her side.
"Wy wy!" Will takes off to be with his older brother and Steffy sits down in the chair she occupied just before going to call her brother.
"He's been changed and should be good for now, a little hungry though."
Wyatt picks his youngest brother up. "Oh, should we go see if there's any fruit in the kitchen? Make a little oatmeal maybe?"
Will nods his head against his brothers shoulder.
"Can you bring me a banana or something? Kelleigh needs to eat and I should've eaten an hour or so ago."
Wyatt nods his head. "I will, dad has ordere a."
"Oh, maybe just an orange then?"
"Yes my lady!" This causes both of them to laugh and both brothers laugh all the way to the kitchen.
When they've left, Steffy drapes a scarf over her shoulder to shield her daughter while feeding.
"So, what do you think of what you've seen so far?" Steffy looks underneath the scarf to check on why her daughter wasn't doing what she should be doing.
"Well, it looks like this is the perfect couple to help make their wish come true."
"They are, Katie isn't able to carry another baby due to the complications during Will´s birth."
"I read through their file, but it didn't specify the reason why they wanted to work with a surrogate."
"I think this is a story that Katie and Bill needs to tell you, I don't think I'm the one to tell you."
Bill walks back to the livingroom.
"Tell Katherine what?"
"About Will´s birth and the reason it went bad." Steffy looks at Bill with sadness in her eyes. "I know it's difficult for you both to tell it so if you want to, I'll do it for you."
"I don't think I can tell it right now, not with everything that happened this weekend, so I'm going to go check on my wife and you can tell the story." He then walks over and gives Steffy a kiss on the top of her head.
"Give Katie my love if she's awake!" Steffy waits for Bill to reach the guest bedroom before starting to tell Katie´s story.
"Katie Logan Spencer was born as the youngest sibling of four, one older brother and two older sisters. She was closest to her brother and it proved that they almost had the exact same DNA. Her older sisters were popular in school, had good grades and due to them being less then a year apart, her oldest sister was born in January and her youngest sister was born in December, they did everything together, them being so close is the reason Katie and Storm got so close."
Steffy feels that Kelleigh has stopped nursing and so changes side.
"I'm not really sure how old Katie was, but I think she was between three and five when her father left them leaving Mrs Logan with four children to take care of leaving almost no time to actually spend time with her children because of the amount of time she had to work to make things flow. Anyway, flashforwad about thirty years and Katie is standing across from her brother while he's whielding a gun trying to explain that he's not dangerous. I don't know how it got that far, but there was a struggle, the gun went off and the bullet went straight through her heart. She ended up needing a heart transplant and she needed it within a few hours." Small tears are trickling down Steffy´s cheek.
"I think I read something about this a few years ago. Her brother shot himself because he felt guilty for taking the gun to show that woman?"
"He did. A few months later, Katie starts rejecting the heart and is slowly dying, I won't go into the events that led to it, but Katie fell pregnant and asked her niece and her husband to take care of the baby when she died. Her niece however found a cure and as you saw, Katie is alive and well. She lost that baby however and she didn't think she'd ever get the chance to have a baby of her own. She met Bill and they fell in love, some things happen, some of it I'm involved in but it worked itself out, but she falls pregnant, but her heart isn't able to sustain the pregnancy and Will is born earlier then planned and Katie almost looses her life, they manage to bring her back and she ends up having Post Partum Depression causing her to act strange, she's okay now though and I don't think that Bill and her has ever been as strong as they are now." Steffy sends a small smile over at Katherine.
"There's quite a few things you left out?" Katherine guesses.
"Yeah, but those things should come from the people who were involved. Anyway, they seemed quite content with their life until I came back this August, some things went down and then Kelleigh was born. It took a little less then seven weeks, but then she came to see the baby and I guess what they were missing was a little baby girl. So if you could give them that, I'd be really gratefull!" Her voice breaks at the end of her little speech.
"I'll do my best!" Katherine gives a reassuring smile.
Kelleigh has finished eating so Steffy makes her burp and then turns her to sit in her lap for a little bit and Katherine gets a first glance at the baby.
"Her eyes are gorgeous! I noticed that your eyes are brown, are they her fathers eyes?"
"No, her father has the tell tale Spencer eyes, a greyish brown color with specks of gold in them. Her eyes comes from my mothers side of the family. Just look at Will´s eyes and you'll see what I mean."
"Either way they are gorgeous. I've never seen such clear icy blue eyes on anyone."
"Yeah, she was born with a darker blue color in her eyes, so we thought she'd end up with my eye color, but turns out, she was lucky in the genetic roulette and got her grandma´s eyes. She has my nose though, but the rest is all Liam."
"Wait!" Katherine shakes her head. "I thought you and Wyatt were a couple and he was Kelleigh´s father?"
Steffy laughs a little.
"No, Kelleigh´s father is the middle Spencer brother."
"But you're building a house together? I'm confused."
"Well, I can't blame you for that. Wyatt's lease runs out about the time we'd ideally want the house finished. When I brought up the need to move because of Kelleigh and the need for housemates, he jumped on the chance to leave the apartment complex he's currently living in. I think I said something about the more we are, the less money we have to take from our own accounts. There's another reason why we needed to move, but that's not my story to tell."
"Oh, I think I get it now."
There's a knock on the door.
"You think you can get it? It's either your siblings, the pizza or my brother and his girlfriend. Kelleigh is almost falling asleep so I don't want to move much."
"Of course!"
Katherine walks over to the front door and let´s the people on the other side in and then walks back to the livingroom. Steffy looks up into the greenest eyes she's ever seen.
"This is my brother Derek and our sister Jessica."
"Ah, the architect and the builder!" She reaches out her hand to shake the new commers hands.
"That would be us I guess?" Derek raises his eyebrows while turning his head towards his sister in confusion. Katherine just waves him off. Jessica just laughs.
Wyatt chooses this moment to bring Steffy´s orange back from the kitchen.
"Oh, I almost forgot about that!" Steffy reaches her hand out to grab the orange from Wyatt and she sees when he notices their company, specifically the youngest woman.
Both the sisters of the family had the same height, their lips, nose and face shape were almost the same, but their hair differed, one blonde and one brunette, one curly and one straight. The brother was about a head taller then his sisters.
The doorknob of the front door turned and Michala and Thomas walked in with some extra supplies as they would probably spend the night as well. They had also brought the designsheet with Thomas drawing on it.
"I take it you're the other two?" Derek directs his question to the two newcommers.
"We are." Michala confirms.
"Did you bring Kelleigh´s pack n' play?" Steffy asks her brother.
"We did, we also brought some other things and we were thinking about stealing Wyatt to help bring it in?"
"Go right ahead!" Steffy looks totally serious. "It's not like he has anything better to do. Could you ask Bill in which guestroom he wants to put us?"
The four of them look at each other. Then they nod their head and Thomas walks off with Wyatt, who makes a detour to the guest bedroom to speak to his father.
A few minutes later, Bill walks out of it carrying Katie and he gives a wave to the people in the livingroom before walking up the stairs. He comes back down ten minutes later.
In the meantime, Thomas and Wyatt has brought the stuff in and Derek and Jessica have brought their stuff in as well.
The next four hours turn out really well for all involved and contracts will be signed.
Derek also offered to take Thomas under his wings to see if architecture is his calling. The reason for this is that Derek needed someone to help during meetings to draw up a rough sketch so that Derek could focus on the actuall meeting without dividing his attention between sketching and listening. It would be a win win situation. He had actually tested Thomas by giving him instructions and see if the sketch then matched what Derek had in his head.
"I don't think anyone has managed to match exactly what you wanted ever. I think you'll do well at my brothers firm!" Jessica exclaimed after seeing the sketch.
"I agree!" Derek agreed with his sister.
~Things happen~
Three weeks later, just before Christmas, all the contracts were signed and the Dawson-siblings were now a permanent fixture in the Spencer´s life.
At this particular time, Katherine is on her way over to Bill and Katie´s house with the result of the pregnancy test she had done at the fertility center.
She rings the doorbell and waits for one of them to open the door.
Katie is the one to open the door looking so much better then the first time Katherine had seen her.
"Hey! How are you?"
"I'm doing good, just went to my last doctors check up and I'm healing quite nicely."
"That's good! Is Bill home?"
"No, he got caught up in a meeting and won't be home until later. But we could call him right now." Katie offers.
"Good!"
Bill answers within a few rings.
"Hi honey! Katherine is here with news!"
"Oh, tell me! Am I having a girl or what?"
"Well, it would be a little early to know that don't you think?"
"That's true!"
"We are pregnant though! So there might be a girl! The doctor told me that my hormon levels are on point for twins though, I mean, we inserted two eggs, so maybe you'll be having twins!"
Bill´s reaction makes both women laugh as he screams out his joy.
"I take it you're happy?" Katherine smiles at Katie.
"Most definitely so!"
"How are things going for your brother and sister with the Spencer-Forrester-James house?"
"As far as I know, things are moving really good. The foundation is done and now they're building the frame work."
"That's good, well, I'll let you get back to your baby cooking, I got to go to this meeting now."
"I hope that ends well and I'll cook this/these baby/babies real good!"
"Thank you!"
Then they hang up and Katherine and Katie decided to spend some time with each other.
~Things happen~
Over at the Forrester Mansion, Michala, Steffy and Kelleigh have settled in well and the nurses were doing a terrific job caring for Eric, he seemed to have perked up during the time they had been there and everyone felt like this Christmas was really important.
Because this was an important Christmas, it was all hands on deck and they were going to go back in time to when the Forrester-family weren't as wealthy, either in money or members.
Taylor had rumaged through the attic and found the china that Eric and Stephanie had used for the first ten years of their marriage and they had set up a long table where the couch used to be in the livingroom so that they could house all the people in the family as well as extended family.
Kristen was bringing Antonio and Zende, Felicia was bringing Dino and Dante, Nick, Jackie, Owen, Jack and Logan were coming, Thorne and Aly were coming, Katie, Wyatt, Will and Bill were coming, Brooke was not invited for obvious reasons, Ridge and Taylor were hosting the event. Liam and Hope were coming, but didn't know if they were staying for the dinner. Marcus and Dayzee were coming with Rosie.
Stephanie and Eric didn't have to do much planning at all, they just had to sit back and watch their son and daughter in law do their magic.
Right now, Christmas was in two days and Taylor, Kristen, Felicia and Bridget were working their magic in the kitchen.
Christmas cookies and candies were being made as well as a lot of other stuff. Tomorrow they would start with the food.
~Things happen~
AN:
Yeah, so a lot of Kill´s surrogate story there, next chapter should be Christmas 2013 and New Years 2013-14.
Today I have done a selectiontest for an education I'd like to go and as a celebration of me completing said test, I decided to post this chapter! I hope you enjoy!