Okay so just a little further look into the life of Max and Logan.
She tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear as Logan leaned close to tell her something. They were with another couple, both dark haired, nothing much else to say about them. Logan and Max were still the striking couple, her hair straight, lightly flipped at the ends which rested on her bare shoulders. She was wearing a simple black strapless, empire waist dress, which sadly only gave Alec a nice shot her calves. Logan seated next to her wore a black suit and silver tie both outshone their companions by miles.
They didn't see him as he walked into the restaurant with his date, herself a strikingly beautiful female as all the women in Alec's life had been in the past year. She was a blonde, they were all blondes now. He didn't dare risk another brunette.
He wondered as he sat down if he should ask the maitre d' to move them to a closer table so he could see their lips as they talked, but then he realized they would see him. Even though he hadn't planned on seeing them this evening, he wasn't going to pass up the opportunity to watch them. He had been curious what had happened to them since their walk through the street fair almost seven months ago. He'd gone to her job almost a month ago and waited all afternoon to see her, but she had never arrived.
She shook her head, turning down the wine.
"What do you have against us having a baby?" She asked after tossing a log into the fire. She loved the fireplace at the cabin, it was the only thing she was sad the apartment didn't have.
He looked startled for a moment, "I don't have anything against us having a baby."
"You're lying." She said sitting down on the couch next to him. She turned her body so her back rested against the arm so she could study him. "It looked like I was gonna have to scrape you off the street when you thought I was pregnant."
He laughed, "I'm not lying…I was just startled earlier. Where's all this coming from?"
"Do you think I'd be a bad mother?" she asked, fears still lingered deep within her she'd knew she'd never be able to shake.
"Are you kidding, I think you'd be a great mom." he leaned over and kissed her.
That wasn't getting him off the hook, "Logan"
"Max" he said returning her look. He crumpled first, "You caught me off guard…. I just.…"
"You just what?"
He wasn't lying when he said the whole thing had taken him by surprise, she was twenty-one, he'd always assumed she'd want to wait. He hadn't wanted to force her to grow up so quickly, they'd already married when she was at an age where he didn't do much more than drink and go to class. The worlds they'd grown up in were different though, she'd never even gotten to be a kid. "Have you met my family?" he finally admitted honestly.
"What does your family have to do with this?" she asked confused
"I could really screw up a kid."
She laughed and he looked stunned, he admitted one of his deepest fears and she laughed, "Logan, did you not notice how well I turned out with your love?"
He smiled, "It's a little different."
She shook her head, "You're the most loving and caring person I know. Honestly you're my whole reason behind ever even thinking about kids, I mean even if I suck at it, I know you won't."
"Max?"
"I love you, Logan" she whispered leaning across the couch.
She leaned in to Logan as he whispered in her ear. A small smile passed across her lips and her hand went to her stomach. He realized at that moment what he couldn't see because of the drape of the dress, his Maxie was going to be a mom.
"You're glowin'" Original Cindy said as Max walked up to the lockers.
Max looked at her confused.
"You're pregnant." Cindy clarified
Max gave another puzzled expression and looked down at her stomach, yup just as she'd thought, still flat, she looked back up, "How'd you…"
Original Cindy smiled knowingly, "So how did Logan take the news?"
"We're pretty good if only one of the parents gets morning sickness."
"The boy threw up?"
Max shook her head, "He looked like ralph. Then he made me sit down." She made a face, "Then he started to pace and move everything around."
"Oooh maybe he got the nesting stage along with the morning sickness."
"He's worried, for every single reason there is to be worried and Logan of all people thinks he'll be a bad father."
"Logan?"
Max's eyes widened in agreement, "I know, that's what I said." She sighed, "He's worried that something's going to happen to me, he's ready to put me on bed rest. I'm three weeks along."
Original Cindy laughed, "Oh boo, that's not his fault. He loves you so much, he couldn't survive losing you again"
Max sighed, she knew OC was right on that one, protective would be an understatement for his treatment of her for the past year. She shook her head once more, "We've known I'm pregnant for a weekend, he's banished all booze from the house and I've eaten enough veggies to turn me green. Don't even get me started on the milk."
Cindy laughed, "Logan doesn't consider Ring Dings a vital part of the food pyramid?"
"Don't kid, me and junior are going to starve." she placed a hand over her stomach.
"Oooh a baby" Original Cindy once more returned to the focus of the subject and dropped her face down to Max's stomach, she started rambling on to Max's stomach as Max looked around nervously.
"Get up" she cursed, "37 weeks of this." she muttered to herself, how the hell was she going to survive?
He watched as Logan lifted her hand up twice to kiss it and realize that they had been holding hands this whole time when the man they were with raised up his glass and it was visible that Logan had to disengage his hand from hers. They all raised up glasses and toasted.
"Logan" Max called out walking in the door. She'd gone over to Original Cindy's apartment after work, "Yoohoo, Logan" she called again and frowned as she realized he was not only not answering her, she didn't hear any noises besides her own in the apartment. She found a note taped on his computer, "Had to go out, back by 7." She frowned and flopped down in his chair, he was meeting an informant. She pushed back the chair and she stood, she didn't know what to do with herself. She walked towards the guest room, now would be as good a time as any to start thinking about what to do with the room.
She smiled walking over to the cradle they had bought months ago that had started this whole thing. As she reached it and looked down she saw a small tan bear resting in it. She smiled picking it up and sat down on the bed.
She heard the door open and he called out, "Max"
"In here" she called out.
"Hey" he smiled from the doorway.
She raised up the bear and smiled.
He softly smiled back, "Did a little shopping on my lunch hour."
"He's cute"
Logan looked a little embarrassed as he raised his hands up, "He looked like one I had as a child."
She smiled picturing him as a child clutching a small teddy, "Did he have a name?"
Logan laughed walking over to her, "Just Teddy"
"Real creative Logan"
"I was a baby Max" he defended sitting down next to her. "So what do you think about yellow?" he said looking around the room.
She made a face, "I think it clashes with the rest of the apartment." Then she smiled and pictured the room in a soft yellow with bright white furniture. "I think I like it."
He smiled again as they leaned in for another kiss and tried to figure out how that hard ass girl he'd known for those brief few weeks became this PDA prone mom-to-be.