Author: Sparkling-Diva
Rating: PG-13 (possibly more later)
Genre: Drama/Romance
Feedback: Yes! Please! But be nice!
Summary: Vincent Gray, now 33, is at a depressing stage of his life. When he meets a young girl, his life will change forever.
Disclaimer: I do not own anything related to the show Judging Amy whatsoever and in no way am I affiliated with it.
Author's Note: New chapter! Yeahy!
Chapter 59Laura actually had to admit to herself that she actually was having some fun watching the child. The little girl just smiled a lot and was very easy to calm like a little angel despite everything that had happened.
Laura smiled to herself as she fed it some more off the mashed bananas that would be the babies lunch.
She then heard a door open and looked to see who it was.
"Vincent," she said.
"Hi. I decided to do some volunteering today," he said putting some files on a desk nearby.
"Really?" she said making a little funny face at the baby who started to giggle.
"Yeah."
"Any other reasons?"
"If you must know, I also wanted to check up on you. Plus, Sean said that I could take care of the phone here and help you a bit."
"How come I had that feeling?" she said looking back at the baby.
Vincent just stared in wonder as she saw how happy the two of them looked.
"What's her name?" Vincent asked walking towards them and picking up a toy.
"You see that's one of the grandest mysteries. There is no identification or nothing. Only some people caught a glimpse of what the child's possible mother looked like and they're trying to track her down."
"She's adorable."
"Yeah and so tiny."
Vincent smiled and caused Laura to look up.
"What?" she asked.
"I like to see you smile. That's all."
"So, anyways Mr. Gray. How was your class today?"
"Back at poetic rhyming? I see…"
"A little. My writing probably isn't very great right now but I'm going back to it slowly you know."
"I know. I understand. But yeah, my class was great today, gave them a paper to be due in two weeks. That should keep them busy," he said popping into a chair.
Laura lifted the baby and took a seat next to him, "You look exhausted."
"And you?"
"Doing my job."
Later that night…
Laura was still up and taking care of the kid while Vincent was busy checking phone calls and doing other errands.
He then walked into the same room as before and saw her holding the baby and singing it a lullaby.
"You've got a very calm voice," he told her.
"Hey," she said as she pointed her head to the baby who was now asleep on her shoulder.
"She's fast asleep," he said reaching the little kid's hand.
"Yeah," Laura said placing it back down gently into the crib and placing a blanket over it.
"You would make a great mother," Vincent said, "I can tell."
Laura just gazed up at him and then back down to the baby.
"The way you've always been such a great friend to Lauren, Ariadne, Ned, and Walter. The kids you help watch over as part of your job," Vincent said, "You're so great at that."
Laura just smiled.
"But, I can't be a mother."
"You can…"
"I always had this dream. This idea that I'd have a good future. I would meet my prince charming and out of the blue fall in love. Then as we stay so close we one day have a fantasy winter garden wedding with the snow falling and the stars and moon twinkling. Then as the years went by we would live happily ever after. Raise a family. Maintain careers. Go on trips. See the world…" Laura then wandered off, "I'm only 24 and to some that's pretty young and maybe they're right to think that I still have a whole life ahead of me but from what I think is that I've seen so much to already last me a lifetime. It hurts. When my mother died, I was on my own. I used to be the spoiled and lonely kid. Then I had to become the lonely kid who had to step up to the plate and enter the real world with no one's help."
Vincent silently and carefully listened.
"I worked to get to where I was today. I suffered great pains but I've learned a lot. Some people tell me that I'm too mature for my age and they're right but if they only knew then maybe they'd understand."
Laura looked away.
"I understand. I used to have a dream world too but every time I thought I was going the right direction I couldn't. Something held me back or something went wrong and I gave up," Vincent confessed.
"How did you survive?"
"No clue. I just held onto the rollercoaster of life I guess."
"The one that never stops going until it hits the endmark, right?"
"That's the one."
Laura just smiled to herself and took a small yawn.
"You have to actually stay and watch the baby all night?" Vincent asked.
"Yeah," Laura said rubbing her eyes, "I'll be okay. You should get home and get some sleep."
"You know it's a Friday and I don't have class tomorrow. Maybe I should try something different and stay overnight for a change in case anything happens."
"You don't have to," Laura said.
"I want to." Vincent then took his jacket and said, "here" and placed it over Laura. "We can take turns. Go lie on the couch there and take a nap. I'll take care of everything until you wake."
"Thanks," she said taking it.
"No problem," he responded.