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I watched "Sailing Away" on Saturday and remembered how much I loved that episode. So in this chapter there will be references to SA. I swore that chapter 16 will be posted by Monday morning, so by golly it will. (If you are reading this and it is past Tuesday, email me and make me feel guilty) I'm also trying to read Carl Hiaasen's book "Stormy Weather" so that will explain the tardiness of this post. Sorry ( Anyways, I hope everyone had a good weekend. I leave on Friday for Washington D.C. so I won't have anything posted next weekend. There should be at least one more update this week though. Ooh, I saw "Changing Lanes" on Saturday night and I definitely recommend seeing it! Ben Affleck is sooo hot!! Toni Collette (from the Sixth Sense and Emma) was in it also, but she did something weird with her hair and I didn't like it. Samuel L. Jackson is so cool…you're just sitting watching the movie going "I can't believe they just did that." And to think I was going to go see "Life Or Something Like It"………..
Oh, one more note. The song used in my story is "Hanging By A Moment." I know it's been used a lot (including in the actual show) but it's such a great song and you'll see why I used it as you read.
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"Come on Andrew, please stop crying." Abby begged the five day old that lay in her arms. "Come on honey."
Ever since they had come home from the hospital, he had been crying consistently. Abby knew this was a normal part of having a baby, but she never expected it to be so bad. She carried him from the living room back into his nursery. She sat down in the rocking chair and tried to rock him to sleep.
"Shh. Shh." Abby said softly. Several minutes later, he finally fell asleep. Abby sighed in relief and leaned her head back against the back of the rocking chair. She had almost dozed off herself when she heard a soft knocking on her front door. Positioning Andrew in her left arm, she glanced at her watch and saw that it was only 8:15. Trying not to wake up the sleeping child in her arms, she slowly stood up and walked towards her door. After peering through the peephole, she undid the deadbolt and chain and opened the door.
"Whew. It's starting to get chilly out there." Susan walked in and unwrapped her scarf from around her neck.
"I wouldn't know. I've been stuck here for five days. Every time I think he's asleep and I go to cook or do laundry or take a shower, he wakes up again."
"Well that's why I'm here." Susan smiled. "I'll watch him and you can do whatever you want."
"My savior!" Abby groaned and shifted the baby in her arms again.
"Here, hand him to me and go take a shower!" Susan laughed and held out her arms. Abby kissed Andrew's nose and then set him in Susan's waiting arms. As she started walking back to her room, he woke up and started crying again.
"I'm sorry." Abby said and started walking back.
"Go on. I can take care of it." Susan encouraged.
"Thank you." Abby mouthed and walked into her bedroom. She could still hear Andrew crying as she slipped off her clothes and got into the shower. The warm water closed in around her and Abby shut her eyes to get the maximum effect. As she exited the shower twenty-five minutes later, Abby noticed that the crying which had been heard all around the house was now gone.
"Wow, how'd she do that?" Abby thought to herself as she walked into her closet to pull on a clean pair of clothes. She wrapped a towel around her head and walked back into the other room. She had the surprise of her life when she walked around the corner and there was John Carter standing with Andrew in his arms. John looked up and gave Abby a small smile as he rocked the boy back and forth. Abby looked around and saw Susan was filling a kettle with water to make tea.
"What are you doing here?" Abby demanded, turning to face Carter.
"I came to see my son." John responded, latching his finger around the baby's hand.
"He must really like you. The second I opened the door he stopped crying." Susan commented from across the room. Abby shot her a look which made the older woman give a defensive look and shrug her shoulders before going back to concentrating on her tea.
"Anyways, I came here to ask you if I could take you out to dinner." Carter said, looking up at Abby.
"I can't leave Andrew." Abby said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Oh, I'll watch him." Susan suggested.
"No, I can't leave him. He's only five days old."
"I'll be fine. I'm a doctor. I can handle him for a couple of hours." Susan argued. "Go on. Have fun. You said yourself you haven't been out of the house since you've been back here."
"Fine." Abby said after a few minutes of contemplating this. "Wait and I'll go change my clothes."
She stomped back into her room asker herself what she was doing. She had no right leaving her newborn son, even if it was with a doctor. She fought her guilty conscience and quickly changed into a pair of black pants and pale green sweater. Pulling on her boots and grabbing a jacket as she went to leave the room, Abby gave one last thought about a million reasons to decline Carter's invitation. Coming back into the room, Abby noticed that Susan was now holding Andrew.
"Okay. You have my cell phone number and I have my cell phone. Call me if he does or needs anything. I fed him about an hour ago so he should be fine for a while. If he's not, call me and I'll come home and feed him. Okay?" Abby drilled nervously.
"Got it." Susan gave a small salute as Abby gave her baby one last kiss good-bye.
"I love you." She whispered quietly and watched him for a moment before getting her purse and meeting John at the front door.
"Ready?" He asked.
"Yeah. Where are we going?"
"It's a surprise." Carter smirked.
"I hate surprises." Abby grumbled, as Carter opened the passenger door of his Jeep for her before going around to his side and sliding into the car.
"You'll like this one." John promised.
"Why are you being so nice to me anyway? You weren't so happy when you left the other day. If I remember correctly, the door slammed." Abby pointed out.
"Let's just say I got over-emotional and caught up in the moment and all that and this is my way of apologizing."
Abby sat back in her seat and looked out the window as houses went by. She leaned her head on her hand which was propped up against the window as Carter turned the radio on.
Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
Closer to where I started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held on to
Standing here until you make me move
Hanging by a moment here with you
As the song continued, Abby silently mouthed the words as John tapped his fingers to the beat on the steering wheel.
Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
I don't know what I'm diving into
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
There is nothing else to lose
There's nothing else to find
There's nothing in the world
That could change my mind
There is nothing else
"I love that song." Abby smiled and said as the song ended.
"Yeah, me too." Carter returned the smile and looked at the woman sitting next to him. The next song on the radio broke the silence as the loud lyrics burst through the speakers. John rushed to turn down the sound.
"God, what is that? Metallica?" Abby said with pure disgust.
"Hey! Some of Metallica's stuff is good." John argued.
"You can't hear any of the words, it's all electric guitar and screaming." Abby rolled her eyes. "Give me Dave Matthews any day."
"You like Dave Matthews?"
"Oh yeah. They're great."
"Hmm. Interesting." John raised his eyebrows.
"What? What's wrong with me liking Dave Matthews?"
"Nothing. I just didn't take you for the hippie modern rock sort. You seem like more of a Elton John or Billy Joel kind of girl."
"Why would you say that?"
"Okay, we're here." Carter pulled into the restaurant parking area. He drove the car into the valet lane and got out of the car after putting it in park. As he came around the other side of the car, Abby had already opened the door and was starting to get out. He closed the door behind her and got his ticket from the attendant. Walking into the restaurant, John gave the girl standing by the front door and gave his name and party number, to which she responded that it would be a few minutes and they were welcome to sit down at the bar until their table was ready.
John asked Abby if she wanted anything to drink, but she answered negatively so instead they sat in the chairs that were assembled by the front door.
"This is strange. They usually have excellent service." Carter commented.
"You bring all the mothers of your children here?"
"Haha. No, I'm afraid you're the only one." John smiled. He went to say something else, but their name was called and they followed a waitress back to their table, where she took their drink orders and then left to leave them to browse the menu.
"So why did you bring me here?" Abby asked after a minute.
"They have excellent prime rib."
"I mean it."
"I wanted to know what you were going to tell me the other day." Carter turned serious. "Right before you went into labor. You said you needed to figure something out and that you had."
"Oh right." Abby sighed. She assumed she'd have to tell him sooner or later. She had hoped it would be later because she wasn't sure how this would affect things for either of them or for Andrew. He had told her that he loved her, but she wasn't sure if he was being serious or just over- emotional as he had said. She sighed again before looking him in the eyes and beginning to talk.
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I watched "Sailing Away" on Saturday and remembered how much I loved that episode. So in this chapter there will be references to SA. I swore that chapter 16 will be posted by Monday morning, so by golly it will. (If you are reading this and it is past Tuesday, email me and make me feel guilty) I'm also trying to read Carl Hiaasen's book "Stormy Weather" so that will explain the tardiness of this post. Sorry ( Anyways, I hope everyone had a good weekend. I leave on Friday for Washington D.C. so I won't have anything posted next weekend. There should be at least one more update this week though. Ooh, I saw "Changing Lanes" on Saturday night and I definitely recommend seeing it! Ben Affleck is sooo hot!! Toni Collette (from the Sixth Sense and Emma) was in it also, but she did something weird with her hair and I didn't like it. Samuel L. Jackson is so cool…you're just sitting watching the movie going "I can't believe they just did that." And to think I was going to go see "Life Or Something Like It"………..
Oh, one more note. The song used in my story is "Hanging By A Moment." I know it's been used a lot (including in the actual show) but it's such a great song and you'll see why I used it as you read.
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"Come on Andrew, please stop crying." Abby begged the five day old that lay in her arms. "Come on honey."
Ever since they had come home from the hospital, he had been crying consistently. Abby knew this was a normal part of having a baby, but she never expected it to be so bad. She carried him from the living room back into his nursery. She sat down in the rocking chair and tried to rock him to sleep.
"Shh. Shh." Abby said softly. Several minutes later, he finally fell asleep. Abby sighed in relief and leaned her head back against the back of the rocking chair. She had almost dozed off herself when she heard a soft knocking on her front door. Positioning Andrew in her left arm, she glanced at her watch and saw that it was only 8:15. Trying not to wake up the sleeping child in her arms, she slowly stood up and walked towards her door. After peering through the peephole, she undid the deadbolt and chain and opened the door.
"Whew. It's starting to get chilly out there." Susan walked in and unwrapped her scarf from around her neck.
"I wouldn't know. I've been stuck here for five days. Every time I think he's asleep and I go to cook or do laundry or take a shower, he wakes up again."
"Well that's why I'm here." Susan smiled. "I'll watch him and you can do whatever you want."
"My savior!" Abby groaned and shifted the baby in her arms again.
"Here, hand him to me and go take a shower!" Susan laughed and held out her arms. Abby kissed Andrew's nose and then set him in Susan's waiting arms. As she started walking back to her room, he woke up and started crying again.
"I'm sorry." Abby said and started walking back.
"Go on. I can take care of it." Susan encouraged.
"Thank you." Abby mouthed and walked into her bedroom. She could still hear Andrew crying as she slipped off her clothes and got into the shower. The warm water closed in around her and Abby shut her eyes to get the maximum effect. As she exited the shower twenty-five minutes later, Abby noticed that the crying which had been heard all around the house was now gone.
"Wow, how'd she do that?" Abby thought to herself as she walked into her closet to pull on a clean pair of clothes. She wrapped a towel around her head and walked back into the other room. She had the surprise of her life when she walked around the corner and there was John Carter standing with Andrew in his arms. John looked up and gave Abby a small smile as he rocked the boy back and forth. Abby looked around and saw Susan was filling a kettle with water to make tea.
"What are you doing here?" Abby demanded, turning to face Carter.
"I came to see my son." John responded, latching his finger around the baby's hand.
"He must really like you. The second I opened the door he stopped crying." Susan commented from across the room. Abby shot her a look which made the older woman give a defensive look and shrug her shoulders before going back to concentrating on her tea.
"Anyways, I came here to ask you if I could take you out to dinner." Carter said, looking up at Abby.
"I can't leave Andrew." Abby said, crossing her arms over her chest.
"Oh, I'll watch him." Susan suggested.
"No, I can't leave him. He's only five days old."
"I'll be fine. I'm a doctor. I can handle him for a couple of hours." Susan argued. "Go on. Have fun. You said yourself you haven't been out of the house since you've been back here."
"Fine." Abby said after a few minutes of contemplating this. "Wait and I'll go change my clothes."
She stomped back into her room asker herself what she was doing. She had no right leaving her newborn son, even if it was with a doctor. She fought her guilty conscience and quickly changed into a pair of black pants and pale green sweater. Pulling on her boots and grabbing a jacket as she went to leave the room, Abby gave one last thought about a million reasons to decline Carter's invitation. Coming back into the room, Abby noticed that Susan was now holding Andrew.
"Okay. You have my cell phone number and I have my cell phone. Call me if he does or needs anything. I fed him about an hour ago so he should be fine for a while. If he's not, call me and I'll come home and feed him. Okay?" Abby drilled nervously.
"Got it." Susan gave a small salute as Abby gave her baby one last kiss good-bye.
"I love you." She whispered quietly and watched him for a moment before getting her purse and meeting John at the front door.
"Ready?" He asked.
"Yeah. Where are we going?"
"It's a surprise." Carter smirked.
"I hate surprises." Abby grumbled, as Carter opened the passenger door of his Jeep for her before going around to his side and sliding into the car.
"You'll like this one." John promised.
"Why are you being so nice to me anyway? You weren't so happy when you left the other day. If I remember correctly, the door slammed." Abby pointed out.
"Let's just say I got over-emotional and caught up in the moment and all that and this is my way of apologizing."
Abby sat back in her seat and looked out the window as houses went by. She leaned her head on her hand which was propped up against the window as Carter turned the radio on.
Desperate for changing
Starving for truth
Closer to where I started
Chasing after you
I'm falling even more in love with you
Letting go of all I've held on to
Standing here until you make me move
Hanging by a moment here with you
As the song continued, Abby silently mouthed the words as John tapped his fingers to the beat on the steering wheel.
Forgetting all I'm lacking
Completely incomplete
I'll take your invitation
You take all of me
I'm living for the only thing I know
I'm running and not quite sure where to go
I don't know what I'm diving into
I'm hanging by a moment here with you
There is nothing else to lose
There's nothing else to find
There's nothing in the world
That could change my mind
There is nothing else
"I love that song." Abby smiled and said as the song ended.
"Yeah, me too." Carter returned the smile and looked at the woman sitting next to him. The next song on the radio broke the silence as the loud lyrics burst through the speakers. John rushed to turn down the sound.
"God, what is that? Metallica?" Abby said with pure disgust.
"Hey! Some of Metallica's stuff is good." John argued.
"You can't hear any of the words, it's all electric guitar and screaming." Abby rolled her eyes. "Give me Dave Matthews any day."
"You like Dave Matthews?"
"Oh yeah. They're great."
"Hmm. Interesting." John raised his eyebrows.
"What? What's wrong with me liking Dave Matthews?"
"Nothing. I just didn't take you for the hippie modern rock sort. You seem like more of a Elton John or Billy Joel kind of girl."
"Why would you say that?"
"Okay, we're here." Carter pulled into the restaurant parking area. He drove the car into the valet lane and got out of the car after putting it in park. As he came around the other side of the car, Abby had already opened the door and was starting to get out. He closed the door behind her and got his ticket from the attendant. Walking into the restaurant, John gave the girl standing by the front door and gave his name and party number, to which she responded that it would be a few minutes and they were welcome to sit down at the bar until their table was ready.
John asked Abby if she wanted anything to drink, but she answered negatively so instead they sat in the chairs that were assembled by the front door.
"This is strange. They usually have excellent service." Carter commented.
"You bring all the mothers of your children here?"
"Haha. No, I'm afraid you're the only one." John smiled. He went to say something else, but their name was called and they followed a waitress back to their table, where she took their drink orders and then left to leave them to browse the menu.
"So why did you bring me here?" Abby asked after a minute.
"They have excellent prime rib."
"I mean it."
"I wanted to know what you were going to tell me the other day." Carter turned serious. "Right before you went into labor. You said you needed to figure something out and that you had."
"Oh right." Abby sighed. She assumed she'd have to tell him sooner or later. She had hoped it would be later because she wasn't sure how this would affect things for either of them or for Andrew. He had told her that he loved her, but she wasn't sure if he was being serious or just over- emotional as he had said. She sighed again before looking him in the eyes and beginning to talk.
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