Ben took the smal baby in his arms over to a seperate bed, next to it a small moses basket sitting on the table. Ben placed his son inside who fell fast asleep. Then walked over to Max in a new clean bed where Zack had put her and placed the basket next to her on the large square table.He pulled up a chair and fell asleep next to Max and their baby.

Ben woke up the next morning hearing Max cry softly. He opened his eyes to see Max watching their asleep son. He stood up and sat on the edge of her bed and pulled Max into a hug.

"I'm sorry" she cried into his shoulder

"You have nothing to be sorry for Maxie" Ben told her

"Yes, i do, i seen the look on your face..i hurt you so much" Max said pulling away to look into Bens eyes.

"It's okay. Do you love him?" He asked

"I don't know" she answered looking over at the small baby

"Maxie he's you son, our son. He needs us" Ben told her softly

"I can't believe what i've done" she wiped away her tears

"Yeah, we've broughta beautiful baby boy into the world" Ben smioled thing she was happy with their son.

"Exactly we've brought an innocent, defencless child into this broken world. Where humans or familiars or even Manticore could take him away from us to get back at us transgenics and i don't want him to get hurt" Max confessed

Ben smiled as Max had basically said she wated to protect their son but she still didn't say she loved him, cared for him or wated to hold him.Suddenly cries filled the room.

"Is he okay?" Max asked as soon as she hear him cry

"Yeah, he's just hungry" Ben smiled to see Max worried about their son.

"How do you know?" She asked

"He has different cries for different things" Ben answered as he picked up the baby

"Oh" Max was speechless. Ben heated up a bottle of milk

"Don't worry Max you'll pick up on them. Do you want to feed him?" he asked

"Erm..no" she hesitated. 'Come on Maxie nearly there' Ben thought

"Oh watch his head" Max said as Ben shuffled the baby in his arms

"I think i know why you were scared before i took you to Med bay...it was because your instincts kicked in and you felt the baby wasn't it?" Ben said

"Yes and i was afaraid Manticore would find him" Max confessed

"I won't let that happen" Ben reassured her

"Neither will i" Max replied with a small smile.

Ben fed the baby a bottle, Max eyes constantly on them both. Ben looked up a few times to see Max smiling at him, he returned the smile. Ben leaned down and placed the empty bottle on the floor and looked up and his blue eyes met with brown ones.

"Do you want to hold him?" Ben asked

"No" Max answered after thinking about it

"Yes, you do i can see you thinkg about it Maxie" Ben smiled and stood up

"Here" he held the baby out to his mum.

"No i..i don't want to hurt him" Max held back her hands

"Youwon't" Max hesitated then held out her arms and Ben placed the baby in her arms

"See he likes you" he smiles and sat next to Max with an arm around her waist.

"Hey baby i'm your mummy" Max smiled down at her son who looked up at her.

"I do Ben..I love him, both of you" Max looked up at him

"I knew you did from the start" Ben smiled and gently brushed his lips against Maxs.

"Have you named him yet?" she asked

" No how about.." Ben stopped to thinkg

"Jack" they said in unison and smiled at each other.

"Baby Jack is that your name?" Max said to Jack who smiled and squeezed Bens finger.

"I think he likes it" Ben said

"He looks just like you Ben. Blue eyes and dark blonde hair" Max replied

"Yeah but he has you facial features. Your big beautiful eyes and shape of your face" Ben asnwered

"I can't believe how much i love him" Max smiled down at her baby in her arms.

"Same here. We're a nice happy family, always" Ben agreed

"Always" Max repeated

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