The next morning, when Theresa finally opened her eyes, the clock read 11:07am. "Sleeping so late!", she thought to herself. She hadn't done that since before Little Ethan was born. Of course, there was a good reason. After she and Ethan made love, they both fell asleep. After only a few hours of sleep, Theresa was awake, and wanted to feel Ethan's love again, but she hesitated to wake him. He looked so peaceful sleeping. So instead she went in to the bathroom. When she came out, she had every intention of going back to sleep, until she realized Ethan was awake. And from the look in his eye, Theresa could tell that he wanted the same thing she did. So they made love again, this time, it seemed to last for hours. Finally, they collapsed together, again. And now, here it was, eleven o'clock in the morning.

As Theresa rolled over, she realized Ethan wasn't there. "Where could he be?"

Theresa threw on her robe and decided to head downstairs and check to make sure Ethan was okay.

When she entered the kitchen, he was there. She stood out of his sight so that she could watch, whatever it was he was doing. But he looked up and saw her hiding.

"Hey, your supposed to be in bed!"

"I'm sorry. I woke up and you were gone, I just wanted to make sure everything was okay."

Ethan came over to Theresa and took her in his arms.

"Good morning, baby."

"Hi..."

He leaned down and covered his lips with hers. The kissing soon became more feverish, until Ethan realized the smoke billowing throughout the kitchen.

"Whoa!", he said pulling away from Theresa. He turned off all of the frying pans. The eggs, bacon, and pancakes. What sense was there? They were all black anyway.

At first she started to giggle, and the giggle turned in to a laugh, and pretty soon, she was almost on the floor she was laughing so hard.

Ethan turned to her, and after about 10 seconds of a pouty face, he began to laugh, also.

He again walked over to her, embraced her tightly. "I'm sorry, I'm not the best cook. I wanted this to be a special breakfast."

"Ethan, it's fine. Why don't' you help me clean this up, and then I can make us something else for breakfast." She started towards the kitchen when Ethan grabbed her arm and pulled her back to him.

"Wait, before that, there's something I had wanted to do. I wasn't exactly sure when to tell you this, but now seems like the perfect time."

"Ethan, are you okay?"

"I'm so okay, it's not even funny. Theresa, these past months have been the most amazing months of my life. Getting to spend everyday, not only with our son, but with you, too, has been a dream come true. Ever since we found out you were pregnant, I wanted that child to be mine. And then to have that wish granted...It's been amazing. And there's one thing that would make the situation even better..."

Ethan dropped to on one knee, and pulled a little black box out of his pajama pocket.

Theresa gasped

"Theresa, please, be my wife...finally?!"

"Ethan, oh of course I will be your wife...Finally!!"

Ethan slipped the ring on to Theresa's finger.

"I know it's not as big as the last one, but..."

"Ethan, this is better than the last one. We have been through so much together, it makes us getting married now all the more special. I can't wait to be Mrs. Ethan Winthrop!"

"Well...how about Mrs. Ethan Bennett?"

"Ethan, do you mean it?"

"I've been thinking about it for awhile. Sam is like a father to me now, and Little Ethan loves him so much. Besides, if you took that name, you would be the second woman to use it. I want you to know that you are first in my heart, forever. You always have been."

"Well then, Mrs. Ethan Bennett, it is!"

Theresa stood on her tipy toes to give Ethan a kiss followed by a hug. "Have you told Chief Bennett that you are taking his name yet?"

"No, I wanted to tell you first. I always share everything with you first, Resa, you now that."

"But Ethan, we can't have a church wedding, not until your marriage to Gwen is annulled. So why don't we talk to a judge when we get home and..."

"Theresa, I've already started the paperwork on an annulment. I spoke to Fr. Lonigan the day I found out Gwen cheated on me with Hank. When I told him the circumstances, he told me to come over right away and start the paperwork."

"Ethan, did you plan on proposing right away?"

"No, Theresa. I knew that wouldn't be right. I knew it would take us a while to get back to where we left off. But I also knew that after all of the horrible things Gwen did, I couldn't be married to her any longer, especially in the eyes of God and the church."

"But, doesn't Gwen have to agree to it, also?"

"Yes, she does, and she did. After the hard time the courier gave her with the divorce papers, and all of the bad press I told her Hotchkiss Enterprises would get, she signed the annulment papers all to easy."

"But it hasn't gone through already, has it? I heard that most annulments take at least 6 mos. to a year."

"Well, normally they would take at the least 6 months, but because we both signed the papers right away, and Fr. Lonigan knows a few priests at the Vatican, it shouldn't take more than a month or two!"

"Ethan, so we can have a big church wedding after all!"

"Only if we start planning right now!"

"Well, not right now, Ethan," she said with a devilish look in her eyes. "First we have to feed our cravings..."

"Your right," he replied. "Let me start breakfast again..."

Theresa grabbed him and kissed him passionately. "Not for food, Ethan. I'm craving you.."

"Well, that I can give you, without burning..."

"Oh Ethan, it will burn all right."

Ethan swept Theresa off of her feet and brought her upstairs to the bedroom.