It was the end of June and Amber was relaxing at home on her maternity leave that started a few days ago. She has been looking forward to this from her last working shift. The second floor was difficult to work on but she had good co-workers to help her get through it. Lucy had a meeting with the hospital board she wasn't fired, but they gave her a verbal warning. She explain to them that what took place would never be repeated again. That from now on she would show leadership skills and follow orders and suggestions from her peers. When she worked with Amber on her next shift, the trust that fallen apart was a starting point to be rebuild. There were occasions that Amber was requested to go up to the fifth floor. Jason would have some terrible days and it seams when he saw her, he felt better. On his eight birthday he was allow to leave the hospital for a short time to celebrated it. Amber was asked to go along with Sting to reassured his parents that he was safe to be a little boy for while. The brain surgeon had come over to see Jason and give his option on wither or not it was optional to go through with surgery. He did his own testing and looked over Jason file. He told Amy and Erick that they had to be absolutely sure that they wanted this for him. The operation would be risking if they what a higher outcome for him to live free from cancer. Amber has yet to meet this Dr. Cheney that Sting has already met, the parents rave about him.

Walking around the hospital room after getting off his cast off felt great. The last month had him in dealing with stairs, sponge baths, and his mother. "You are all set to go Gray." "Thanks Natsu, I do not know if I could have handle one more day with that on. I wanted to rip it off a few times when it was so itchy." "That's the cast for ya. Not the most pleasant feeling to have it hard and ruff against your skin and the added weight." Gray sat down in the chair to put his sneaker back on his foot. "How is work going?" "Can't complain on working the second floor, we have our challenges, in thee in is a job I choice to do. What about you? Where you able to keep up with the company?" "More or less. My brother Lyon help here and there when he could and I had my dad come out of retirement to fill in the rest." "Your dad isn't that old." "Of course not, but it was his company before he hand it over to me." "Right, well you are all set to go." Gray looks at him for a moment. "What?" "Is Amber on today?"

Natsu was waiting for that question to pop up. He wasn't to sure how to answer it. Amber didn't want the whole world to know about Emmy yet. "She is not on today." "I guess I can go over to the house." "You have thought about what you are doing?" "I had the whole month to think about it then some." Natsu wanted to be sure that Gray was doing the right thing. He didn't want to see both of them hurt again." "Gray I know you wouldn't care about what I think, but why go down this road with her?" "When the accident happen, it could have been a lot worse then it should be. I realize that I have been missing out on something that was wonderful. I didn't want to waist anymore time, being who I was before." "Gray you both hurt each other deeply." "I know, and somehow I want to get what we had back." "Well buddy, do your best." Gray stood up from the chair and grabbed his jacket. He didn't really need one today, but he took it anyways. "One more thing before I go, my brother didn't say to much on this. Is she seeing anyone?" He thought for a moment before answering him. There was only a few guys that he knew that wanted to ask her out, but she put up walls around herself. The ending of their marriage crushed her. Natsu remembered back to a time when he literally had to pick her up from the floor and what he did afterwards he regretted doing. She needed comfort he was there to offer it. They talked about what they did and he wanted to be forgiven. When she told him, that it was fine and it was after the final papers where signed. That he didn't need to be concern about sleeping with her. The death of Luke and the marriage Amber wasn't the same person she once was. "No she isn't" "You had a long pause there." "She keeps to herself now days." "There hasn't been no one?" "Not really." Gray pats his back as he goes over to the door. "I'll head to the house now." "She could have moved." "No she didn't." "You know that how?" "I pay for her property tax each year and she gets alimony. I didn't want her to be burden by living in the house alone. It's all in the divorce papers." "Then she should have moved to something smaller." He shakes his head. "She didn't want to." "To many memories?" "A lot. See ya." Natsu gives him a peace sign as he heads out. "Maybe I should warn her?" He couldn't get to the phone to tell her, he was being paged. "Dam it." He runs off towards the front desk.

The windows were turn down in his car and he had air blowing inside too. "I can drive normally now." His phone started ringing as he was pulling out onto the highway and he puts it on speaker. "Hello?" "Gray, how did it go?" "Mother the cast is off now." "Glad to hear it, are you on your way back." "Not quiet yet going to stop by someplace for a bit." "Where are you off too?" "Can't tell you." "Why not?" "If I tell you, you will only get excited." "I will not." "When it comes to this person you do." "I'll contain it." He drums his fingers on the steering wheel. "I am going to see Amber." "You are? That is wonderful son." "Mother!" "I know, I miss her." "Yes, you have and dad too." "Gray, we have had told you not to give up." "I am not going to talk to you about this for the million time." "Then why see her now." "I am driving right now and I have my cast off, do not want a repeat and end right back in the hospital." "Fine, I'll end the call." "Bye mother." "Bye Gray." He shuts off his phone. If he told her what was really going inside of his head. She would be banging on her front door. He turns off at the next exit and drives to her, the past and maybe a future.

Her air conditioning was turn on high at the start of the afternoon. Emmy was down for her nap and Amber wanted to have a quick shower before she woke up again. It seams with Emmy just like Luke did, when you are about to do something the baby will wake up. The only time she could get away with doing anything was when her brothers or friends came by to say hello. They were more then happy to sit down with little girl and play while Amber could get some stuff done. Right now, she needed to have a shower and everything was ready in the bathroom and her clothes was laid out on her bed. The baby monitor was in her hands and she was making her way to the washroom to take off her clothes when there was a knock on her door. "Who could that be?" It was not even 2:30 yet she was going to dismiss the caller, but they were knocking again. "This better be important to ruin my chance." The monitor was place on a near by table and heads over to her front door before they knock again. She unlocks the door and opens it up. Amber thought that the hospital was last time she was going to see him. Here he was standing on her front steps, with out no crutches or cast. "Hello." "What are you doing here?" "No greeting." "None." She was shutting the door on his face when he puts a hand on the handle and pushes it back and comes into the house. "Gray, what I said at the hospital." "Amber you think I was going to listen. I said I wanted to see you, and I waited until my cast came off today before I came over." "You saw me now go." He walks more into the house and looks around to where he use to live. "I am busy at the moment." "Are you in a hurry for something." "Its a hot day, I want to have a shower." "Go have it, I'll be here in the living room." She stands in his way before he sees the bassinet when he first enters in. "It's not a good time." She pushes on his chest to lead him back to the door. "Amber! I am not leaving" "Lower your voice." "Why?"

The sound she didn't want to hear at that moment started to cry. "Great! You her woke up." She goes around him to head up the stairs. "Is that a baby crying?" "Shhhh stay there." He follows her anyways up the same stairs. They go past Luke's room and Amber opens up the door to the spare room that once was Gray's office, it was turn into a nursery for Emmy. "It's ok sweetie mommy is here." "Mommy!?" Gray looks into the room and sees Amber picking up a baby into her arms. "You had other child? Who is the father? Natsu said you had no one in your life." He was surprise to see her carrying a other baby and it wasn't his. Amber walks past him and heads downstairs. "Wait, you have to answer." He followers her back down. Emmy was place into the bassinet in the living room. Then she turns to look at Gray and his shocked expression. "I didn't have her." "You had a surrogate?" "No, look Emmy is my daughter. I am in the process of legally adopting her." "Oh you went through adoption?" He seamed really relieved to hear that instead of her having a other man in her life that got her pregnant. "Not through adoption either." He looked confused. "Gray, she is Angel daughter." He looks into the bassinet and sees the resemblance, but this little girl could be Amber's anyways because Angel was her twin sister. "Angel never got to meet her. When she passed, she was still pregnant. It was very dangerous for Emmy." "How so?" "Angel was put on life support for her shake. She wasn't ready to be born yet and after some time she was delivered by cesarean. It was to be sure for her development and to be at full term" "Sorry, That must of been hard on you and your brothers." She looked away from him. It was the second hardest thing she had to face after Luke. "We supported each other." Gray wanted to know one thing. "Where is the father, isn't he going to be involved?" "Thank goodness he isn't. He is the biggest lowest jerk I have ever met. When he found out about her, he sign the papers to give up his right. If he shown his face around here, he has no claim to her at all." The way she talked about this man, she had venom in her voice. "I guess he is not a very nice guy." "There is no nice about him."

Emmy started to get fussy in the bassinet and hearing the way she was talking was making it worse. "Awww Emmy sorry, I'll go refill your bottle." Amber walks to the kitchen to make a fresh bottle. She hope may making a new one she will go back to sleep. "Shhhh little one. She will be back." On instinct Gray picked her up into his arms and starts rocking her. She looks up at the person who is not her mom holding her. "Hey there, you stop crying. I see you have your mother's eyes." She puts her thumb into mouth and starts sucking. Gray forgot how small and light babies could be. He was thinking back to his days with Luke. He was a little bigger then Emmy is now, but Luke was probably more fussy then her. "There there, you go back to sleep." Amber walks back into the living room seeing the interaction between the two. He had totally calm her down. It made her heart ache by watching this go on. Gray was there for Luke every way possible. When Luke would cry in the night, before she got out of bed he would tell her to go back to sleep and say. "I got this." There would be mornings when Gray would let her sleep in to make breakfast for her and have Luke up already. "I have the bottle, hand her over to me. I'll see you to the door." "You wanted to have a shower right?" "Yes." "Go ahead." He takes the bottle from her hand and walks over to the couch and sits down. "I'll feed her." "Gray no, I can have a shower later." "Amber when do you get chances like this, take it." Knowing how true his words were and with how hot a day it was she wanted to feel a little cooler. "Thanks." She starts walking back over to the stairs. "Gray." "Yeah?" He turns to look at her. "Don't get attached."

He turns to look down at the sweet thing in his arms. "Now you tell me." Emmy starts drinking her bottle and he smiles down at her. "You have a good mom looking after you. You will do lots of things together. Like baking, playing with your toys, going swimming for the first time. She did all those things with Luke. I guess you can say he is your big brother?" Gray looks around the living room. There were still pictures of his boy all over the place. "I miss him everyday Emmy, he lighted up both of our lives. When he left us, our worlds fall apart." He lays her down on his shoulder and rubs her back for a burp. "Didn't think she would want a other baby." Emmy spits up on him. "Should have put the blanket there."

The water hits her skin as she stands underneath the shower head. "Why show up? I told him clearly that we would never see each other again. Now he has seen Emmy." She sighs. The water cool down her body, but it didn't help settle her mind. Amber uses her favourite shampoo and the smell of Irish spring body wash filled the room as the soap suds lather on her body. When she finally step out of the shower, she dried herself off. The towel was wrap around her body and a other towel was used to dry her hair. As long as it was, Amber didn't use the blow drier during summer. With how hot it is today, her hair would be dry in no time. She redresses into shorts and a tank top. Then puts her hair up into a pony tail. Her last item she was going put on was the necklace she wore. For now, she would put it back into her jewellery box in her room, there was no need for Gray to see her wearing the rings. When she comes out of her bathroom and walk over to her room. There was aroma in the air that smell like food being cooked in her kitchen. Amber quickly puts her necklace into the box and heads downstairs."What is he up too?"

Gray was over at the stove, there was bacon sizzling in the frying pan and eggs being scrabbled in a bowl. He had also started pancakes in a other pan as well. She comes into the kitchen crosses her arms and was taping her foot on the floor. "What are you doing?" "Cooking." "I can see that, but why?" "When you have showers, you liked something to eat after." "Gray, it's hot day. I was planing on having ice cream." "You can have it later." "Why don't you go?" "I told you, I am here to see you." He puts pancakes on a plate and hands it to her. "Eggs coming up." Her stomach starts to growl. "See you are hungry." The smell and look of the food in front of her did look appetizing. He shoves it closer to her a little more. "Fine, I'll eat." She snatches the plate from his hands and goes and sits down at the kitchen table. "How was Emmy?" "She is great, I put her down in her crib." "I should grab the baby monitor." "Here it is, I found it when I came back down." He puts it on the table and she could hear baby sleeping. Gray puts more food onto her plate and gets his own and sits down at the table too. "Do you have any more of my shirts around, she spit up on me." She looks up from the food with a mouthful and starts chewing before answering. "Check the basement." "There is none in the bedroom?" "You really think I would keep anything up there." "Thought maybe you would. I'll head down there after this." She stabs a egg with her fork and the yoke breaks open. "Why are you here, Gray? Don't say to see me." "It's true, I am and it's been while, we could catch up." Her hands grab the jug of milk and pours into a cup. "Catch up, you want to catch up. It's been years since that final day." "Yes, I know that. We can still have a chat."

There was a few minutes of silence and she gets up from the table and puts her plate into the sink. "When you are finished eating, get your shirt and go." "Amber, can't we talk?" "About what? There is nothing left for us to say." She heads into the living room and he goes after her. "I think there is." He grabs her arm and turns her around. There eyes locked on with one other. "I want a fresh start." "Fresh start? You can't be serious." He sees that she was going to step away from him. The raven pulls her in closer to him. "I am dead serious, I have been doing a lot of thinking this past month and I realized a few things." "I do not want to hear it. Let go of me." She puts her hands on him to push him back. His hold gets tighter. "The other reason I waited to get my case off and to come over. I'll be able to catch you if you flee." She stops for a moment to look back at him. "Then let me flee." He puts a hand on her cheek. "No. can't do that." He lowers his head closer to hers. "Gray...no." "You didn't stop me in the hospital, you aren't going to now." She puts her hand on his mouth. Then she stomps on his foot and his hold is broken. "Look, I just did." She steps away from him, but that didn't stop him. He walks towards her, and she steps backwards.

Amber looks around thinking of where she could run to or a room with a lock door. "Forget about your shirt, leave." Gray takes it off and throws it on the near by chair. Then he turns back to her. "It solves the problem." She holds her breath in, looking at his half naked body was sitting her heart beating rapidly. She heads for the stairs, her room had a lock on it. If she can get there, then maybe he will give up and go. At the same time, not to make any noise for the baby not to wake up. Gray was quicker, he puts his arm out ahead of her with his hand on the wall blocking her from proceeding forward. He puts a hand on her waist and turns her to face him. "As, I was saying. I want a fresh start with you. I have missed out on what we were together. I want to claim it back." She laughs. "You think this funny?" "I think your head got hit harder when it did in that accident of yours." "It did a reverse, it made me look back on my past. Amber what we had, I know we can have again." "No, we can't. Who was the one that gave me the divorce papers. Who was the one that walk out. Who was the one that turn his back." Tears were falling from her face. He wipes them away with his thumb. "I can't go through that again, I can't. It killed us, Gray." "We were both to blame. We didn't reach out to each other when it matter the most. We shut down, the pain was to much."

Fresh tears continue to fall from her eyes. "The pain will always be there." "Amber, we can heal together now from it." He wraps his arm around her waist, brings her back closer to him. "Try." "No." "Yes." He lowers his head and kisses her lips. "Be mine again." He kisses her again. "Gray kissing me is not going to work." Even though she felt her knees go weak, by his kiss. "It's a start." "We had our time together. Move on." "I want to move on with you." He rubs her lips with his thumb. She shakes her head. "There is no convincing me of this." "Then I have to work my magic, like I did when we first got together." He steps away from her and Amber hears Emmy crying again. "Prefect timing. I have to get her, there is the door." "I'll go for today." He takes his shirt back from the chair. The door was already open for him to leave. He stands in front of her and takes her hand. "Everything we had I want back. You, love, commitment, Emmy." "I told you don't get attach." "Kind of hard when she is so small." He moves closer to her and she hits the wall with her back. "I didn't know you wanted a other child." She looks away from him. "Of course I did. Even when..." "Even when what? Go on." She didn't want to tell him, but he would keep asking. "Even when Luke was so sick and when we made love, I was trying to conceive." "You were." "Yes." "I would have been thrilled." Her head turns to look him. "Don't believe me." "Not really." He brings her hand up to his lips and kisses her knuckles. "We can you know." "Can what?" "When I have you in my arms again." He looks to her stomach. "Gray no." "You want a other." "I have Emmy." "She needs siblings." "You are putting a lot on me right now." "Enjoy the pressure. Because, I am coming for you."

The baby cries louder and she is still standing there. "You better get to her." "Then go already." He smiles. "Bye for now." He sweeps down and kisses her again before she could protest. "One more thing. You were kissing me at the hospital." Her eyes goes wide. "Gray!" He holds up his hands and heads outside. She slams the door behind him. "That went better then I thought." Amber leans up against the door. "Don't be coming for me." She goes and gets Emmy out of her crib. "Siblings." She looks down at her. "Not going to happen." Amber then heads into her room after she changes Emmy's diaper. She opens up a top drawer inside were Gray's shirts. "I couldn't put them all into the box." The ones that she was looking at were ones she would wear for bed. "Good thing he didn't go snooping." The necklace she had put into the jewellery box she brings it back out and puts it around her neck. "Ok, little one, play time."