"I can give that to you, I can give her back to you" John said as he walked a little closer to Natalie and Rex, he put their daughter in Natalie's arms for the first time, Nat's eye's filled again with tears, tears of thankfulness, tears thanking God for bringing her back safe.
Natalie stood and held her daughter as she ran a hand over her soft cheek. Liz got out of the bed and walked closer to them. Natalie saw her and she smiled at her then she looked over at John.
"Wanna meet your son?" she asked him as she stared into his blue eyes.
"I'd love too," he said and he reached into the bassinet and took him out. John stared into his little face and he saw him yawn, the baby opened his mouth wide and john could see into his whole mouth.
"Unbelievable" John said as he continued to stare at him.
"Yeah, it's pretty amazing isn't it? Amazing how something like these too, and like Liz was when she was a baby could grow inside of you" Natalie said as she and Liz both watched the baby girl in Natalie's arms.
"Well actually I meant it's unbelievable how big of a mouth he has, just like his mother" John said joking; Natalie looked at him and gave him a smirk.
"I'm so happy right now even your lame attempt at a joke couldn't bother me" Natalie said as she smiled at him.
Rex was standing there this whole time just looking around at the five of them, he thought about how Natty had always wanted this, this kind of family and he was happy for her. He heard Nat say something about the baby needing to be changed and he decided that was his cue to leave.
"I'm outta here, Rex don't wanna see no diapers being changed. Hey kid you wanna go to the cafeteria for some Ice cream?" Rex said joking and then he asked Liz if she wanted to go with him to the cafeteria knowing John and Nat needed a little alone time with all that had happened. Liz shook her head yes and she and Rex left the room.
Natalie turned to John and gave him a huge smile. John got a little closer with the babies still in their arms and leaned in an gave her a gentle soft kiss. They continued to kiss for a few seconds when their baby boy started crying.
"He's already jealous of me kissing his mommy" John joked, turned and walked towards the window with him trying to calm him.
"See son, this is AC, both mommy and I grew up here but we didn't meet and fall in love till we left this place. It's a great place but the place where mommy and I met is so much better. It's called Llanview, and it's home." John said to his son as he held him close to his chest while staring out the window. John was caught up starting to think about his own father and how proud he would be to see his grandson, his grandchildren.
Natalie heard him speaking to their son over by the window and she moved a little closer, she held their daughter closer to her chest with one arm and she put her hand on his back for a moment. John turned to look at her as she replaced her hand back holding their daughter with both again.
"Thinking about your dad aren't you?" Nat asked as he stared into her eyes.
"Yeah, he would have loved to see this, he loved babies, and he would have loved you too." John said with a soft smile.
"You know, we can't just continue to call them babies, or baby girl and baby boy Mcbain" Natalie told him still continuing to stare into his glassy blue eye's.
"Wanna name him after your dad?" Natalie asked John as she saw John think about it.
"How about his middle name, there's a name my dad always liked, he always said if he and my mom had a third child, boy or girl they'd name it Aiden." John said and Natalie laughed.
"It's true he said boy or girl he'd name it that," John said with a small smirk himself
"No, it's not that, it's just.. well I've been racking my brains with all the names out there, I got a book the other day and I found that name and thought it would be perfect." Natalie told him as their daughter started to fuss, Natalie picked her up on her shoulder and started to sway back and forth to keep her quiet.
"Aiden Thomas Mcbain, I like it, I really like it" John said as he watched Natalie try and quiet their little girl but it wasn't happening. He put Aiden down on the bed for a second and then motioned for Natalie to give him their daughter to try and calm her. Natalie picked up Aiden as John instantly calmed their baby girl.
"I can't believe it, she's already a daddy's girl" Natalie said with a playful sarcastic tone.
"Well, what about this little one, any idea's on her name?" john asked Natalie as he watched her now with Aiden.
"Well...there's this name that's becoming popular and I really like it, it's a little different." Natalie told him
"Addison" Natalie told him as she saw him think about the name
"I was thinking Addison Elizabeth Mcbain" Natalie looked him in the eyes and told him
"Yeah, that's a good name, she looks like an Addison Elizabeth Mcbain" John said as he looked into his daughter s eye's. He felt as if he was going to melt, with all that had happened recently and with them almost losing her tonight he was in awe, in awe of what all this love that Natalie had for him had produced all the love that they had for each other had produced, he figured there was nothing better in life than what he was feeling right now, nothing.
John and Natalie never discussed what happened with Dr. Winters that night; they didn't want to dampen their enjoyment of their new babies and the happiness that they felt having Elizabeth with them.
A few days had passed and Asa had made arrangements to have all of them flown back to Llanview on the BE plane, of course with Natty promising to come straight over to the house so he could meet his grandchildren. John had taken Elizabeth back to her house before they left to get some stuff that was important to her. While in the house John told her what was going to happen next.
"He's going to Jail for a very long time, he may even die in jail, if and when you want to see him let us know and we'll take you but it's up to you. Also, when the case is over and your Natalie's legally, I'd...I'd like for you to be mine also, not different from Aiden and Addison, I'd like to legally adopt you and if you want, only if you want you can change your last name to Mcbain too." John told Elizabeth as they stood in the middle of the living room where everything had happened. Liz looked around and she couldn't see anything but pain in that Living room, she tired to remember her dad, Dr Winters the way he was and she realized it wasn't love he had been giving her all those years by what he did, it was control, it was loss, before her adoptive mom died he never showed any interest in her and then after it was like he only took care of her because he had promised her mom he would. He never showed any type of affection not the way Natalie had, not the way John had.
"I think I'd like to maybe see him once, not now but later" Liz told John. John thought maybe she had decided she was unsure about the other thing he mentioned about her being his daughter so he decided not to press into it. They walked towards the car and got in to head back to get Nat and the babies.
"Did you mean it? I mean.. If I want I can be a Mcbain too, can I be your daughter too, just like Addison" Liz said as John started driving
"What ever you want, I already feel like your mine, even if you don't change your last name I'll still consider you my child." John said as he focused on the road.
"Thank you, thank you... I want to be a Mcbain like mommy and the twins" Liz said all teary eye's and she moved closer to John in the car and hugged his waist as he drove. John briefly looked down at her and smiled.
"Don't thank me, thank Natalie, thank your mom, she's the one who showed me how much love I have in my heart" John said as he looked back at the road and continued to drive.
