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Chapter Fourteen

"So it's my question now" Zoe Hart stated looking around the empty field outside of the suv trying to give Wade Kinsella a moment to pull himself together and wipe away the tears falling from his eyes.

Hearing Zoe had forgiven him and was proud he Fathered her child made Wade the happiest he been since his Momma had been alive. He knew he didn't deserve either thing but was none the less happy he had both now.

"Asks away Doc, I'm a open book to ya" Wade responded with as he wiped the last of his tears away from his eyes.

"I know George told you about me being in a coma, that he found out about it from my Mother's lawyer but how did he tell you?" was the question she asked him.

It took a few minutes for Wade to pull up those memories it seemed like they happened a lifetime ago anything before Jack entered his life seemed like a lifetime ago his boy came in and everything changed. Jack made everything harder yes but also everything better. His boy made life enjoyable as much as possible without having Zoe in it could be.

"George had stopped by acting all weird earlier in the day at the Rammer Jammer getting a carry out order. He wanted me to start dating" Wade stopped then a dry humorless laugh came out "We kind of had a few words about that, so him showing up at my place that night was not a welcome sight"

Zoe knew George was a good friend to Wade so it wasn't off the wall for him to be concerned about Wade's lack of a dating life, but to mention it was something she hadn't pegged George for a busybody but everyone in BlueBell at one time or another was a busybody.

"I told him to leave if he was there to continue our earlier conversation" Wade picked back up with "instead he took my beer from my hand drunk the whole thing then laid the news on me you where in a car accident in New York City" Taking a break from the story Wade rolled down his door window needing to get some fresh air before saying anything more.

"So while I was busy getting packed so I could catch a plane to New York, George was just standing there looking all goofy. Wanting to know what I was doing, so I told him I was going to New York. That's when he broke the news to me you were not just in a coma but pregnant as well."

"You thought he would have soften the blow a little" Zoe voiced her disappointment in George's announcement of her pregnancy "I mean telling someone their going to be a Father should be done a little more delicately" Zoe knew she had been planing to tell Wade over the phone which wasn't delicate either but hey she was the one he had gotten pregnant so she was allowed to tell him anyway she wanted.

"Yeah about that" Wade laughed "He didn't realize I was the Father, he was trying to stop me from going to New York"

"What?" Zoe asked what type of girl did George Tucker take her for? Maybe the type that told one man she loved him ruined his relationship with the woman he loved, then he finds her with another man. Yeah she could see where George might have been a tiny bit mad at her at the time and think the worst of her.

"Don't worry I set him straight" Wade answered "I mean the guy walked in on us the morning after talk about timing huh? I hope he doesn't keep doing that in the future"

"You're assuming their is going to be a future time for him to walk in on" Zoe flirtingly stated.

"Oh you can bet your pretty little head on there being a next time Doc" Wade smirked back at her.

"So getting back to the story at hand" Wade still smirking said "George wasn't completely convinced the baby was mine. So I played him your voice message"

"That's the second time you've mentioned a message, I can't remember leaving one. I do remember calling you though" Zoe said in a spaced out way trying to bring up the memories from that day but she kept coming up blank on leaving a message on Wade's phone.

"I can play it for you if you want, I still have the same phone" Wade asked.

Nodding her head yes, Zoe wanted to hear what this message she left over two years ago said. So Wade took out his phone in less then a minute he had the message playing on speaker for Zoe to be able to hear it.

"Wade it's me, you know Zoe listen we need to talk I have something important to tell you, so when you get this message call me back. I'm working all day so I might miss your call but keep trying okay, I miss you bye"

Zoe's mouth dropped open that was her voice all right but she could not remember leaving that message. It was so weird hearing it knowing she left it right before her accident.

"So after hearing that message George agree I could be the Father so he came with me to New York along with Lavon. George was a lot of help finding out from your Mother's lawyer which hospital you where in. He told the other lawyer Brick wanted to send flowers" Zoe laughed at that sending flowers to someone in a coma would be a silly thing to do. But it was a believable thing to do as well.

"So when we got to your hospital room your Mother was there she would not allow us inside to see you. I thought maybe she didn't know I was the Father but she knew alright she told me it didn't matter if I was the Father or not I had no say in the matter. She was going to raise her grandchild. That I had hurt you too much with cheating on you"

"Huh" was the noise that came out of a stunned Zoe's mouth.

"George had a lawyer friend who worked in family law so he told him what needed to be done so I could get custody of Jack. The court order was put in place as soon as Jack was born to do a DNA test. If it wasn't for all the help from George and Lavon I never would have been able to get Jack" Wade pronounced.

"Lavon funded my whole stay in New York, and George never left my side he came home on the train with Jack and me" Wade said feeling tears starting in his eyes again. It touched him deeply to know just how much his friends cared about him and Jack.

"You came home by train ride?" Zoe asks laughing it was hard to picture Wade, George and a newborn on a train together.

"Yes we did it was a long train ride too, but were getting ahead of ourselves here" Wade replied laughing a little himself thinking of that train ride.

"The wait for you to go into labor was hard" Wade spoke out with "when you finally did go into labor I wasn't allowed in, your Mother was with you though so you were not alone. I waited in the waiting room with George the whole time. When Jack was born they let me know so we could do the DNA test"

Zoe did not know how to respond to that both Jack's parents had missed out on his birth. And neither was at fault for that, it was just so sad that Wade was deny the chance to see their son enter the world. To know her Mother had caused that made Zoe hate her even more. Who was Candice Hart to decide that because Wade had cheated on Zoe he didn't get to be a Father to his child? The child who was created after they had broken up, after Wade had cheated on her. Her Mother who had herself cheated that's how Zoe got here on planet earth in the first place tried to keep Wade from his child. How dare she, who did she think she was? But hadn't Candice Hart done this Zoe's whole life, she didn't think Harley Wilkes was good enough to be Zoe Father so she picked Ethan Hart instead. Her Mother had control problems she wanted everything to be her way or the highway.

"Zoe are you okay?" Wade asked she was awfully quiet after what he just shared with her.

"I'm fine I just can't believe how my Mother treated you" it was just so surreal Zoe thought.

"I didn't care how she treated me but how she treated Jack that I care about" Wade said he already knew Zoe wasn't happy with her Mother. "She only to my knowledge seen him when he was born then a few days later in the nursery after the DNA test came back I was the Father."

"Jack has always looked like me" Wade said proud to be able to say his son looked like him "While I was forced to wait outside the nursery only being able to see him through the glass window anyone could see he was my son."

"It was after I was named Father your Mother came to see him again, she wanted to know about names. I informed her his name was Jack Tucker Hayes Kinsella"

"It's a nice name" Zoe said with tears shining in her eyes knowing that Jack's name had deep roots in family and friendships.

"Sorry you didn't get to help pick it" Wade replied tears in his own eyes as well. Knowing naming their son was something they should have gotten to do together.

"I could not have come up with a better name for Jack it fits him perfect" Zoe said wanting Wade to know she approval of their son's name.

"We have George to thank for that he's the one who suggested I name Jack after my Momma" Wade said wanting to lighten the mood "He's been a really great friend to me"

"I guess your gonna have to stop being jealous of him then huh?" Zoe asked teasingly.

"I am not jealous of George Tucker" Wade pleaded knowing he was still just a bit jealous of him. But was working on making his statement true. George had been too good a friend to then go and try and steal Zoe from him.

"Your Dad though has been great" Wade said to Zoe wanting to change the subject off George of course he did have to mention him one more time with saying "George got in contact with him but he couldn't help us either with your Mother, but he has been a good grandfather to Jack he was just down visiting last month stayed the whole weekend playing with Jack"

Zoe was stumped and felt betrayal again against her Mother, Candice Hart couldn't let Zoe see her Father Ethan Hart because he would have spilled the beans about Jack. So she had let Zoe think her Father did not care about her. Why would she do such a thing, her Mother had to be mad. How had she never noticed this before, maybe seeing her only child in a coma had drove Candice Hart mad that had to be it. Because what other reason could there be for her behavior?

"I need to call Ethan let him know you're out of the coma" Wade said thinking he should have remember to have called him already. Because he would have been so mad at Ethan if it would have been reversed and Ethan waited over two days to call and tell him Zoe was out of the coma and with him.

Taking his phone out again searching for Ethan's number once Wade found it he hit call then handed it over to Zoe knowing Ethan would rather hear her voice and be talking to his daughter then him. After a few rings Ethan picked up and Zoe sheepishly looked at Wade by greeted her Father with "Hi Dad"