Hi sorry for the long break I'm back at school and being a senior in high school is crazy! I'm hoping to update once a week probably at the weekend! This chapter is set in season 11 just before episode 20 just to parallel it with the show.

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... So that's what that family did - they made the most of every second of every day count and focused on the good times and not the bad.

Soon after Michelle had returned the two families had got into a routine; with Freddie going to day care on Monday and Thursday and Saturday to make sure Michelle got two rest days which she needed but was to too selfless to admit it. Ever since she started chemotherapy it meant going to hospital 2 to 3 days a week and was desperately tiring out as a result and both Teddy and Owen grew increasingly worried about her. All the other days Michelle would stay at home looking after Freddie while Teddy and Owen managed their schedule so that at least one of them were home on those days but that meant they often didn't spend too much time with each other much outside the hospital despite living in the same house. And soon 2 months had past and it was coming up to Freddie being six months...

'Owen?' Michelle sleepily called from the other side of the room while being wrapped up on the couch with warm blankets and propped up on pillows. She had dark big bags under her eyes despite having just woken up from her third nap of day. She was wearing a beanie to cover the fact that some of her lovely long blonde had started to fall out.

'Are you all right?' Owen asked with a concerned look on his face while turning around from cooking bacon in the kitchen. After seeing Michelle's puzzled face he took the bacon off the hob and went and sat down on the end of Michelle's couch.

'I was thinking about the future?'

'Michelle don't think about that, we still have lots of good times ahead of us and Dr Howard still said there's a chance that this chemo...'

'Owen stop!' she interrupted, 'You know my odds aren't still on my side and I want to to have a plan in place when this doesn't go my way.'

'You can wait until Teddy comes back to discuss it with her if you...?'

'No you know as well as I do that she will refuse to talk about this and then will probably start crying.' Michelle interrupted again. 'I want to know what's going to happen to Freddie when I go.'

The room filled with silence. The two both had tears in their eyes. Owen had grown rather fond on Michelle, despite her being ill she had always loved to tease Owen and she knew her to cheer him up after a long day of paper work. It reminded him of his relationship with Megan and he liked having a sister again and the fact that he knew he was going to loose Michelle made this even harder.

'You know Freddie will live with me and Teddy and we will raise him up with so much love and constantly remind him of his amazing strong mom that will be always with him.' Owen said slowly and softly while holding Michelle's frail hands. 'You know me and Teddy love Freddie so much and we will do anything for him.'

'Thank you.' Michelle whispered with a tear rolling down her cheek. 'I always hoped Freddie would have a sibling ever since he was born as it was just him and me but now I know he will have two loving parents I feel like he couldn't do any better.

And that was when Owen told Michelle about an conversation he had with Teddy two months ago when Michelle was in the hospital...

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'Hey!' Teddy called while walking into her and Owen's house.

'Hey! How was your day? he called back while he was busy making dinner. 'Freddie's just gone down so don't make too much noise.'

'Don't worry I have perfected my tip toeing these last few weeks!' She laughed quietly. Today was alright and I'm so glad the Richardson boy pulled through but I had to completely re-construct his aorta so that was a long surgery!' She smiled back at him.

'Well lucky for you I've made dinner and I make a mean lasagne!' He laughed back at her while bringing the food to the table.

The two sat down sat down and the table and hoovered down their food and made pleasant small talk.

'What do you want for you birthday?' She asked after checking her phone today and realising Owen's birthday was in 2 weeks.

'I don't know, I always thought that by 37 I'd been married with children!' He said quite spontaneously.

'You can still have children you know, unlike me there's no really an age limit for having kids.' She laughed. 'If you were desperate we could have kids together! I mean Freddie is just as much yours as he is mine! You have this magic touch with him!'

Owen started to laugh too but then actually started to think about it. Both him and Teddy wanted kids, they lived together, they knew everything about each other, they loved each other in a friends way, they already raised Freddie together, and they were both the wrong side of 35 so if they wanted biological children they did both kind of need to hurry up.

'Are you actually serious?' Owen asked quite seriously.

'That's crazy, if we did how would we explain to our hypothetical children that 'Mommy' and 'Daddy' were never together but they love each other and live together and that they only came about because they were bored and thought they would never find love! And meet your aunt and cousin her love with us as well!' She laughed while giving Owen a long look over the table.

'So now we have hypothetical children together.' He chuckled.

'We could adopt or foster I mean...' She said quid seriously. 'If we did have biological children it would mean lots of tests and IVF that could cost fortunes because you know as well as me that each embryo has only a 20% chance of taking. But I feel like ever since we started looking after Freddie I feel like it's not impossible to have a child and Michelle would love a little niece or nephew!'

'Why don't we have a look at our options then and we'll talk about it tomorrow?' Owen asked while clearing up the table

'Yeh, that's a good idea!'

But the two never discussed their options again when the next day Michelle took a turn for a worst and although she got through it they felt it was selfish to bring it up again.

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'Owen I want you to promise me something for when I go.' Michelle whispered while looking into Owen's great big blue eyes.

'Yes anything you want.'

'I want you to give it ago with Teddy.'

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Will Teddy and Owen finally become a couple?