Baby Of Mine (Lyrics by Disney Soundtrack)

Miss Parker held on to Jarod's hand tightly as she moaned out loud.

"Okay, honey, okay. Let go now. You're squeezing too tight, hon. You're digging into my hand. Easy, easy, okay, honey, okay. Relax."

"Damed you! Damned you!" Parker screamed. "You think this is fun! You think it's easy! You give birth the next time around! If I get through this, I'm going to kill...ahhhhhhhhhhh! You!"

"Shhh, honey, you're doing fine. Breathe, breathe, that's right, okay, one, two, three, breathe. Good."

Parker huffed, puffed and grunted in a hoarsed voice. "Don't you ever touch me again! Get out! Leave me alone!" With what strength she had left, she pulled Jarod around the neck by his hospital gown. "Make it stop! The pain! Please, make it stop!"

"Honey, you heard the doctor? One more push, okay?"

"It's Miss Parker to you! I'm not your honey! It hurts, sweetheart, it hurts!"

Jarod leaned over to kiss her gently on her forehead. "You ready? One more push, it will be over soon. One more push for me, okay, hon?"

She nodded, inhaled slowly, closed her eyes and gripped his hand firmly.

"Okay, honey, ready? One, two, three...push, honey. Push."

She screamed, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" and pushed one last time. She collapsed back, panting loudly. "Okay, it's over. You did it, honey, you did it."

Tears filled Parker's eyes as she could hear the most beautiful sound to her ears, her baby's cries.

Baby mine, don't you cry

Baby mine, dry your eyes

Rest your head close to my heart

Never to part, baby of mine

Their bundle of joy rested comfortably on her mother, trying in vain to open her eyes. "Hey, I'm you're mommy." Parker whispered tearfully and grabbed hold of her tiny hand. Jarod stood watching the little miracle they created, feeling the soft pitter patter he felt for his newborn child. He gently runs his hand softly on her wrinkled skin, so fragile, as if he was afraid to touch her.

"Go on, sweetheart. She won't break. Take her, she's yours."

Jarod cradled their daughter into his arms delicately, a single tear ran down his face. Pink cheeks, dark fine hair. Her eyelids were shut, but as he rocked her slowly, she opened her beautiful brown eyes.

Jarod creeps quietly into their bedroom as so not to awaken them. Parker and little Catherine fulfilled his life, one that he would have never imagined. If someone had told him that he'd be married to Miss Parker, he would definitely have dismissed it. With all her hissing, seething and snarling at him it was hard to have foreseen anything beyond that. But, there she was, lying in bed with her arms snuggled around their daughter and he wondered what he had done to deserve them in his life. "I must have done something right." He bent down to gently kiss them.

Stepping out of the bathroom, he quietly joins them in bed. With Catherine in the middle, Jarod reaches over to Parker. "I love you both." His voice was so soft, surely they could not have heard him. But, it didn't matter. All that mattered was that the three of them were together. Thinking back of the many adventures, "you run, I chase" games, the lonely days and nights, the emptiness he felt in his heart all those many years, he would do it all over again. For without those memories, this outcome of his life would never have happened.

"We love you too, Daddy," Parker whispers.

The End