A Shelle and Phimi Fic...PLEASE READ AND REVIEW!

Summary: After the birth of their son, will Shawn and Belle rekindle their old flame? And Mimi and Philip's surrogate runs off with their child, leaving both to wonder where she is. Was she working with Steffano DiMera? Is he behind this whole mess?

Rating: T (for safety...)

Chapter One

Belle lay in the hospital bed, her eyes closed, her body in just a little pain, but not too much. She was a real trooper when it came to the birthing process. Shawn held his son, pride in his eyes. He showed Claire her new little brother, hope within his heart that one day they would all be a family.

Mimi had told him about Claire and he had been so angry. And Philip, well Philip was falling apart! What was he supposed to do now? His child wasn't his...DNA tests had proven that! And the one that was on the way, in the surrogate, she had run away with the baby!

Mimi of course was just as lost as Philip was in this mess. As Philip and her sat in the waiting area of the hospital, they got to talking. "So," Philip began. "It took a lot of courage for you to tell everyone the truth about Claire, that must have been eating at you."

"Yeah." Mimi replied.

"I know how it feels to lose someone you love like this." Philip told her. He looked through the window at the family inside that room, Claire, Shawn, Belle and their new son who had yet to be named. His heart ached. So did Mimi's.

"We have a child on its way too, we just have to find him or her." Mimi told him as she let her hand rest on his chest.

He nodded in agreement. "What are we going to do about our marriages?" She asked him.

"I dont know." He replied. "Do you ever think that you and I should have been together?" He asked her. "I mean, sometimes I think that we..."

Mimi placed her finger over his lips. "I think that way a lot too."

Philip took her hand and led her away from the window. "Honestly, I think we both have lost our marriages. I should never have married her."

"Dont say that." Mimi told him. "We learn from our mistakes."

"I know." Philip told her. "But I was just so smitten..."

"I understand. I hit that point with Shawn too, and the same result came of it!" Mimi told him.

Philip heard her voice, he knew exactly what she meant and how she felt. He had been hurt ever since Germany. He had beleived lie after lie, his heart had been broken over and over again since then!

And her marriage was a lie! He felt like his was too. He was so down about all of this, but the comfort he needed was right in front of him, it was with Mimi! She knew how he felt, she knew what he had been through, and had been there through it all. He gently walked up to her and brought her face to his and kissed her. The first kiss was just gentle and sweet, but Mimi pulled him closer and they deepened it, Philip not wanting to let her go. Finally, he let their foreheads touch and just stared at her. "It should have been us all along." He whispered to her.

She nodded slowly, her eyes still closed. "I want you now." She told him.

"I want you too." His arms were around her tightly now, and he looked past her and to the door frame of the hospital room, where Shawn stood. But Shawn didn't look angry, he didn't even look hurt. He looked like he had seen two people who needed each other finally turn to each other. He nodded his head in approval and walked back into the hospital room to be with his new family.

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Shawn joined Belle on the bed and lifted Claire so she could see the new baby too. "What are we going to name him?" Belle asked.

"Well, I have a few different ideas." Shawn replied. "We could call him JR and name him after your father." He said. "Or we could go with something unique."

"Well, there is one name I have always liked." Belle replied.

"What's that?" Shawn asked.

"Braden." She replied. "I have just always liked it."

"Very Irish." Shawn replied. "Braden John Brady." He smiled at their son and then kissed Belle on the cheek.

They all looked so good together, and Shawn felt so happy to finally have the family he had always dreamed of. He loved Belle more than any other woman in the world, and his love for his children was huge as well. They were his life, at least, he hoped that they would be.

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NEXT UP, PHILIP AND MIMI HIRE A DETECTIVE TO HELP THEM FIND WHERE THEIR SURROGATE IS!