Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters except for the ones that I created like Emma.
Author's Notes:
Sorry for the long wait but my hours got all switched around at work and some other things came up so it's taken me a bit longer to get this up. Don't worry I won't forget about this or any of my other stories so hopefully the next update will be quicker than this one.
Hockey-girl90-Thanks, I'll try to update quickly
Ghostwriter-Thank, yeah Fulton made sure that they wouldn't screw anything up, btw is your user name taken from that old public television show called Ghostwriter…just wondering.
Lisa Ann-Don't worry, I will
LOVEthemducks5-I'll try to
AS TIME, GOES BYE…SO SLOWLY…
16 YEARS LATER…
"Emma Renee Germaine, get your but out of bed or you're going to be late," Connie shouted through her daughter's bedroom door after walking down the hallway to find it locked. Some years after their wedding Connie had somehow put herself through night school and the required training courses to become a nurse at one of the local clinics. The pay was better than most jobs and the hours were perfect for a new couple starting out with a growing family. By the time that Connie passed her final test the Germaine family had blossomed up to having a total of five members. Guy had done his best and actually made it to the NHL, after spending a couple of years toiling away in a small community college, before a freak injury had ended his career after only four seasons. But thanks in a large amount to Gordon they had been wise with their money and so by the time that the twins were born Guy had found his calling. Flying through the academy he had become one of the youngest men in California history to become a sheriff. Sure they lived in a reasonably small town and his celebrity status had helped him get the job but after a few months in office he had proven his worth. Most of the other officers that worked with him kept up a constant stream of jokes about his age.
"Go away, I'm not getting up," Emma shouted back from in between her two pillows as she struggled to get back to sleep. Her brothers were making it difficult by blaring their stereo from the other room.
"You're seventeen today Emma, you don't want to be late for school on your birthday do you," Connie shouted back through the door before she switched the laundry basket from her right hand to her left.
"Maybe," Emma shouted back through the sandwich of her two pillows before Connie had hear enough and opened the door, dropping the laundry basket at the foot of Emma's bed before she began to forcibly pull the blankets off of her daughter.
"You're getting up…now," Connie declared with a very commanding and non-negotiable tone to her voice when Emma's head finally slid out from between the pillows.
"But," Emma started to argue with her best puppy dog pout look on her face before Connie reached down, grabbed her wrist, and then pulled her up and out of bed.
"Now you only have a few minutes before your brothers need the bathroom so I suggest you hurry," Connie simply replied with a content smirk on her face as she turned around, picked the laundry basket back up, and then started to walk out of the room.
"We need another bathroom," Emma grumbled softly with a frustrated scowl on her face as she walked over to her dresser to get her bathrobe and everything else that she'd need to take a shower in a hurry.
"We already have two bathrooms Emma, your father and I have ours and the three of you can share the other one, end of discussion," Connie said back without missing a beat as she began to hum a soft tune to herself as she made her way down the hallway, leaving her daughter grumbling under her breath on her way to the bathroom.
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"How's my little angel today," Guy asked with an excited grin on his face as he set his coffee cup down and then walked over to Emma before pulling her into a tight hug, one that she reluctantly returned given her surroundings.
"Dad, I told you not to call me that anymore, I'm seventeen," Emma whispered back softly before Guy broke the hug and continued to grin.
"So, you'll always be my little angel Emma," Guy said back with a relaxed shrug of his shoulders before he leaned down and gave Emma a quick kiss on the top of her head.
"I know, but can you please try to remember not to call me that at school, I'm glad that you stopped by and all but really…this could have waited until tonight," Emma said back with a calm expression on her face as she looked up at her father while trying not to notice her best friend, Eve Banks, staring hungrily at her father.
"Maybe, but I'm taking your mother out for a surprise dinner tonight and aunt Julie is coming over to watch the boys so that," Guy started to say back with a sneaky smile on his face before Emma got the gist of it and a huge smile spread itself across her face, reminding him instantly of her mother.
"Thanks dad," Emma squealed with delight before she threw her arms around Guy in a big hug and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek before grabbing Eve's arm and forcing her to follow.
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"Your dad is so hot," Eve stated with a dreamy look on her face as the other situated around the back table at the local pizza joint groaned. This wasn't the first time that they had heard Eve say this and by their junior year it had become a kind of running joke amongst them.
"Eve, how many times do I have to say ew before you stop staying that," Emma grumbled back with an unhappy pout on her face as so far her night away from her family to celebrate her birthday wasn't going exactly according to plan.
"What…he's hot, I can't help it," Eve replied with a hurt look on her face as her shoulders slumped a bit before she turned to look out of the window.
"Can we please talk about something other than how hot Emma's father is, I have to go back to Minnesota tomorrow and I'd rather not have my last night here be a repeat of my first," Gordon Conway grumbled with an unhappy frown on his face as he picked up one the menus and started to numbly flip through it.
"Only if we order quickly, I'm starving," Fulton Reed Jr. added with an impatient scowl on his face as he sank down in his seat a bit and tried to avoid the stares of some of the older customers. Like his father he had a penchant for the hard rock bands and dress. Back in Minnesota when he was with his father and his uncle Dean no one bothered them.
"Fulton, when aren't you starving," Callie Conway added with an impatient smile on her face as she glanced over at Fulton before glancing across the table at her twin brother flipping through the menu.
"When he's to busy kissing Lisa," Eve sniggered back with a randy grin on her face before she ducked behind Gordon as Fulton send her a death glare from across the table.
"Is that Lisa Jesse Hall's daughter, or uncle Dwayne's daughter," Emma added with a warm and playful smile on her face as she poked Eve lightly in the ribs and then looked away when Fulton turned his glare her way.
"Jesse doesn't have any daughters, just the two sons," Gordon replied with a bored look on his face before he got up unannounced and walked over to the old jukebox and then slid a couple of quarters in and selected a song.
"What are you doing," Emma asked with a slightly skeptical and nervous look on her face as she turned towards Gordon just as he walked up to her seat.
"It's your birthday right, I just thought that you'd want a little music," Gordon answered with a slightly sheepish and embarrassed grin on his face as everyone turned to look at him with confused looks on their faces. Emma started to open her mouth to say something when it all clicked in her head and she blushed right down to her blonde roots.
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It was a beautiful night, the patio cleared off except for one small table completely surrounded by lit candles. The canopy had been pulled back so the stars were out in full force and the moonlight cascaded down on the couple slowly moving side to side, wrapped in each others arms, as the melody played softly in the background. They slowly made their way around the dance floor, lost in each other's arms, before the song ended and Guy took Connie's hand and led her back to the table.
"Having fun," Guy asked softly with a twinkle in his eye as he flashed her his best grin and pulled her chair out for her.
"What do you think," Connie whispered back with a content smirk on her face before she grabbed a hold of Guy's tie and used it to pull him down into a kiss.
"Good, I know that you've been stressed out recently so I thought of this as something that might help you to relax a little," Guy replied softly in a whisper, as their lips were no more than an inch apart, before he leaned back down and kissed her again.
"Thank you," Connie whispered softly to Guy after they broke the kiss and she allowed him to return to his seat, just as the patio doors opened and the waiters brought out the food. Connie stayed silent but kept her gaze locked onto Guy as he thanked the waiters for bringing the food out as they set it down on the small table in front of them. When the waiters left Guy glanced up at her and smiled, earning an equal smile from her as a reward.
"Care to share what's got you so stressed out lately, sure Emma's been a little moody but she's seventeen…that's to be expected, after all remember how we were at the age," Guy asked softly with a genuinely concerned look on his face as he stopped twirling some of the spaghetti onto his fork for a moment.
"All to well, we had Emma when we were her age," Connie mumbled back softly with a slightly scared look on her face before she filled the awkward silence by stuffing a large amount of spaghetti into her mouth, unintentionally leaving one long string of pasta dangling from her mouth down to her plate. As he furrowed his brows Guy let the spaghetti that was on his fork drop off, stood up and then walked around to lean down at Connie's side. When she looked away he used his fork to pick up the other end of the string of spaghetti that Connie was now furiously trying to suck in and popped it into his own mouth. The two made short work of the string of pasta as their lips met in a kiss that at first surprised Connie. She blushed deeply and started to look away before Guy stopped her by placing a couple fingers underneath her chin and turning her head back to face him.
"What's wrong baby," Guy asked softly with a great amount of worry and fear on his face and in his eyes as he tilted his head forward until his met hers and they were staring directly into each other's eyes.
"I," Connie stammered out with a surprised feeling of shame in her stomach as she and everyone else knew her to be a woman that spoke what was on her mind and didn't hold back, but at the moment she found herself unable to say two words that usually bring joy to most that hear them.
"Please," Guy begged with a now almost terrified look on his face as he cupped Connie's chin with one hand while his other hand found her left hand and gave it a comforting and supportive squeeze.
"I…I'm pregnant," Connie finally managed to get out with a very scared look on her face before she snatched her gaze away and started to drop her chin. Guy recovered quickly from the initial shock, though more concerned by his wife's mood and actions than by her statement.
"That's…that's," Guy tried to say with a very surprised look on his face before Connie looked back at him with now tears in her eyes.
"This isn't supposed to happen now, Emma and the boys are perfect, we were perfect, just the four of us, now…," Connie gasped out through her tears as she tried to hold herself together and remain strong.
"Now we'll be perfect with the five of us, sure this wasn't in our plans Connie, but neither was Emma remember, she turned out to be the greatest thing that has ever happened to us…I know in my heart that this baby will do the same, he'll be loved and," Guy replied quickly with a very serious and comfortingly honest look on his face as he pulled Connie up out of her seat until his arms were around her and her head was resting on his shoulder, with her fingers absentmindedly smoothing out his tie.
"He'll be loved…you're sure that it'll be a boy," Connie asked more in a whisper as Guy noticed a bit of sarcasm in her voice and his heart beat a little easier because of it as it meant that she wasn't as scared as before.
"Boy…girl, I don't really care, as long as we have a healthy baby I'll be happy either way, as long as I have you and the kids I'm good," Guy joked back with the same grin on his face that had caused Connie to fall in love with him years earlier before he leaned down and kissed her softly on the forehead.
"Me to," Connie mumbled back softly as the two locked gazes for a moment before Connie lowered her head to lay it down on Guy's chest as the two began to sway slowly from side to side as just inside the restaurant Gordon wiped away a tear and pushed play on the cd player. Neither one of the two expectant parents seemed to notice as Unchained Melody's started playing over the speakers, they were to lost in thoughts of the future.
END OF THIS CHAPTER
AUTHOR'S NOTE: Again sorry for the whole taking so long to update. I used to work part time from 5-8 in the evenings, leaving me plenty of time to write earlier in the day and after work and load the chapters before going to work. I write these stories on a computer in my room that isn't hooked up to the internet and the other computer that we have is but doesn't have a disk drive that takes the small square hard disks that often come in so many colors. So I have to go to the library to upload the chapters, leaving me at the mercy of the library's hours. On Tuesday of last week they changed my hours to 1-5 in the afternoons until the end of this week, leaving me far less time to write and load chapters as the library in question closes shortly after I get off work and it's a forty minute drive home from work so… But luckily the 1-5 hours only lasts until the end of this week and then I go back to 5-8 so if all goes well the fifth and final chapter of this little series should be up by the end of the week. Thank you for staying with this story and I apologize again for taking so long.
P.S.-It wasn't that Connie didn't want another baby it's just that from what little I know when a woman gets into her mid to late thirties having a baby isn't as sure of a thing as it was in her twenties and there's room for some trepidation on her part. She's happy about being pregnant just having normal fears of what could happen and how it'll change things given that Emma will graduate from high school shortly after the baby is born and the twins are almost teens themselves…basically just a big shock to the system. The Gordon that played the music for them at the end is Gordon Bombay, their old coach, and not Charlie's son. Eve Banks is Adam and Julie's daughter and is smitten with Guy, a little odd perhaps but nothing to new. Most of the ducks spread out after high school so they live all over the country at the moment of this story. They're all in their mid thirties and their children are oddly enough all about the same age, with Emma obviously being the oldest. I threw that Lady and the Tramp bit in with the spaghetti for the heck of it, I hope that it wasn't too corny.