Very sorry for the wait. I'll Try to get something up but the end of the week but if I don't I'm sorry.
"Am I gonna die?" asks Isabelle as Elliot holds Evan and I take a look at her mouth.
"No sweetie it might bleed a little but once it's out you can put the tooth under your pillow at night and the tooth fairy will visit you." I tell her sitting her on my lap. I give Elliot a look telling him to help me with our daughter. He leaves Evan on his rug on the floor and kneels in front of me. He places a light kiss on my lips just before kissing Isabelle's cheek.
"You have to get these teeth to fall out baby or else you wont get your big girl teeth so don't be scared, but if you are a little scared just know that you can come to us anytime right?" she nods her head just before leaning into me. "Why don't we all watch some TV before bed?" I notice Isabelle smile slightly just before Elliot grabs her spinning her in circles. Once I had the movie set and the snacks made we set one of our air mattresses on the floor so we could just spend the night together in the living room. Isabelle fell asleep about ten minuets into the movie so we changed it to something that Elliot wanted meanwhile I put Evan in his side cot. I didn't want to crush him even though he's getting so big. I thought he was teething before but it's nothing like it is now. After the holiday season was over his need for attention grew much like it was when we first brought him home.
"Lina what's this stuff on his head?" Elliot asks me when I'm putting Evan's laundry away after doing it for three hours.
"What stuff?" I'm slightly irritated because for the past few days he comes home and asks me detailed questions on what the kids and I did. Plus I'm PMSing so I just want to go to bed.
"He has scales or some shit like that. What the fuck is that? Should we take him to the doctor?" He asks worried. I can't help but smile at how worried he is, even though I'm annoyed I love seeing elliot care so much about our children.
"He's fine Elliot he just has baby dandruff. It is normal. I'll make sure I clean it tomorrow," I say going back to what I was doing.
"Why not now?" He asks impatiently.
"Because now is his bedtime. That and the fact that there is nothing wrong with that, it happens to every baby. And to be honest Elliot I'm tired. Are you joining me in our bedroom or would you like to stay and watch him some more?" I say teasing him
"If you're tired I can do it." He looks back at the baby. I really don't want to wake him up.
"But he's sleeping," I point out.
"That's fine I can stay with him until he's asleep after I take care of this."
"You really don't have to I'll make sure I do it tomorrow." He wouldn't budge though. He insisted that I didn't have to stay up with him as he put our baby to sleep after we bathed him for a second time that day. I loved watching Elliot with our baby, especially because elliot looked so big compared to our son. The baby dandruff didn't come off completely which worried elliot but I assured him that we could do this again tomorrow and it would be better by then. In the end Elliot slept in the rocking chair and I fell asleep on the floor, which wasn't so bad because the carpet was thick. He must have carried me to bed though because I woke up in our room in his arms. I almost lost him, and that still scared the crap out of me but I just make sure I enjoy him as much as I can.
"Thanks for doing this Mia. I promise when you two have kids I'll return the favor." I tell her as I'm walking out of her apartment leaving behind my boy in her care for a few hours.
"Its good practice for me. Luke keeps talking about kids so I know he's hinting that he wants one soon but that doesn't mean I don't want to be prepared. I at least want to be able to say that I have spent more than a few minutes with an infant." Before I have a chance to respond Luke comes and kisses her in an incredibly indecent fashion for my eyes. I simply walk away leaving them to care for Evan who will no doubt interrupt them when things get good just as he does with Elliot and I.
"Isabelle, are you ready baby?" I ask her walking into her room. We told her to dress for snow so she has been in her room for far too long looking at her clothes. I give her a five minute warning then head down to Elliot's office to see what he's up to. "El, we are leaving in ten minutes so you better finish whatever it is you're doing," I warn him. I stand next to his desk crossing my arms over my chest.
"I know I was just checking something. Since my wife won't let me go anywhere unsupervised I have to rely on others to see how work is going. See you might not know this but I do have a family that needs to eat but I can't feed them if I can't work," he says sarcastically. I just wanted him to take a full day for Isabelle. I smile tightly at him before leaning forward to kiss his lips. It was supposed to be short but the next thing I know he is pulling me on his lap.
"We promised Isabelle today would be completely about her," I remind him.
"But for two minutes my life will be about you. Specifically, it will be about kissing you." It was way longer than two minutes. It was enough that Isabelle actually had to come break us up.
"What if I fall?" she asks me as Elliot does the laces on her skates.
"Then you get back up and try again," I tell her when I see that she's more than a little scared to get on the ice.
"Have you tried this before?" She asks looking at Elliot.
"Yes, we tried this out a few weeks ago. It was fun and don't worry about a thing we are going to hold your hand so you won't fall okay?" She nods her head but as soon as she gets her skates on the ice she begins to cling to us for dear life.
"I'm a little bit scared," she notifies us. She really didn't need to I can see by the look on her face that this is really not her favorite thing to do but I feel that as her parents Elliot and I have to be willing to show her that trying things that are new to us can be fun.
"Well, was it bad?" I ask her as we sit on the same bench Elliot and I were at last year. We thought this would be a fun thing for us to do to have some quality time with Isabelle. It was either this or shopping and I for one am not very patient with her lately in the shopping department.
"No, I liked it. When Evan is bigger can we bring him too? Or maybe just aunt Mia and Ana because they are super fun and don't cry a lot like Evan does and sometimes ti's not fun to be with him all day," she says honestly. I hear Elliot chuckle at her. He's never around when she complains about Evan's crying even though I know that she is very bothered by it. After driving back to Seattle we took her out to eat at a fancy restaurant that Mia took her once. Elliot and I aren't really to particular on what kind of food we eat but Isabelle is, plus she loves the experience of being able to go to a nice place to dress up.
"Do you like your food?" I ask her during dinner. She is sitting next to Elliot and I'm across from them. Elliot usually only likes to sit next to me but she insisted she sit next to him and I can't deny her this small thing.
"Yup. When are we gonna go back to New York?" she asks between bites?
"Never." Elliot says hugging her.
"But it was fun," she says teasing him.
"Am I not fun?" he asks looking at her seriously. I love her giggle, I especially love it when it's caused by my husband.
"Super fun," she responds happily.
"I'm glad you're having funny baby. I missed being with you, you never spend time with me all you do is spend time with your aunts or grandma. You don't love me anymore?" I tease her. I watch as she stands up and walks to where I am wrapping her little arms around me as much as she can. Before I know it she is seated in my lap with her arms clinging to my shirt. "tired?" I ask her when she keeps her eyes closed. She nods her head.
"Are my girls ready to go home?" Elliot asks us while getting the check. I kiss her forehead not focusing on anything other than her for a minute before Elliot takes her so he can carry her to the car even though she is more than capable of walking herself there. I place my hand on the crook of his arm as we walk back to the car enjoying the calm that we seem to have lost for a while and grateful that its back.
EPOV
"That was a good day baby." I tell Lina as I watch her nurse our son.
"What?" She asks tearing her eyes of him.
"That I'm glad we spent today with her." She's so preoccupied looking at Evan that she isn't even paying attention to me. She either pays too much attention or not enough.
"Yeah she had fun. I think we should do it more often. Next thing you know she won't even want to be with us. Have to make her like us while we can." She's just a kid I'm not even thinking about that possibility
"You're overthinking it. Just worry about today." I say wrapping my arms around her as she places Evan in his crib.
"Well, yeah I guess that's true. But now that we did a day for her I was thinking that we could do a day for just us." She says turning around. This is new. She never suggests for us to leave the kids willingly.
"Really?" I ask suspiciously.
"Yea. I was thinking we could leave them in Brooks for a few days and I could show you what I had in mind for our wedding." She says shyly.
"Wedding? You're planning it finally?" Even though I told her we could have a whole wedding again I honestly didn't think she would. She would just have excuse after excuse on why she hasn't planned it yet.
"I have a few ideas and if you can get like a four day weekend I can set it up. We could go on Valentine's Day spend time in Florida or somewhere in the East coast." I pull her closer to me kissing her passionately. I only let her go when I hear her start to moan as I massage her ass through her jeans. Why does she do this to me? Why the fuck does this woman have to wear such tight clothing that give me a hard on just thinking about what's underneath.
"Sure baby. So you want to leave the kids at your parents?" What's going on with her?
"What you think they can't take care of them?" She asks offended.
"No, I know they can but I just haven't ever heard you talk about the possibility of them ever doing it. But if that's what you want then I'm all for it." Anything to get her alone for a few hours. I need to get laid. It's been over two months and even though I got the all clear from the doctor to have sex she's too afraid that something will hurt me. The only fucking thing thats hurting is the serious case of blue balls that she is unwilling to cure.
"Yeah and we can have a few days to ourselves." I move her hair behind her ear then moving my hand so that its at the nape of her neck sot I can tug lightly on her hair. "I love you." She says closing her eyes. She's so close to me all I have to do is reach forward and I can kiss her, I can do a lot of things to her that I want to do. Her lips part and I feel her warm breath over the skin of my neck.
"Daddy?" Isabelle says walking into our room.
"Yea?" I ask as calmly as I can possible sound because inside I'm frustrated and a bit ticked off.
"Can you sit with me a little while?" I look down at my wife who is biting her lip trying to contain her laughter.
"Sure let's go." I say just before giving Lina a lingering kiss. I had planned I could just lay with Isabelle until she fell asleep then coming back to our room hoping to seduce my wife. Lina must have thought the same because when I finally did go back I saw that she was wearing a very see-through outfit that just barely covered her ass. But she was a mom first and a wife second so instead I found her asleep on our bed. She still looked fucking hot but I couldn't find it in me to wake her. Maybe in the morning I'll try again.
After coming home from work a few days later I expected to find Lina and the kids in the kitchen but they must have gone out because they weren't there when I got home. I don't think this has ever happened. I did find dinner on the table but it wasn't the same when I was alone.
I didn't think I would be that guy who is outside waiting for his family to get home from wherever they went for twenty minutes. But turns out I am that guy.
"Let me get her, I don't want to have to wake her up." I tell Lina as she starts waking Isabelle up to get her to walk inside. "Hey baby," I tell Lina kissing her when she leans up to kiss me.
"Thanks for helping me," she says smiling as always. Why the fuck does she always thank me? Isn't it my job to help her do shit like this?
"You're… welcome," I say slightly distracted when she starts stripping in front of me.
"Sorry I didn't tell you before we left I was in a hurry," she says removing her bra. My attention has now shifted. Those breasts are perfectly round that's what happens when she hasn't nursed in too long. I want to just push her on the bed and sick her nipples but I know she won't let me. She removes her pants and walks toward my dresser in just her panties. I must be staring too hard at her because she kisses my lips chastely before turning her attention back on finding clothes. She better find clothes if she isn't going to have sex with me.
"Its fine I just want to know that you are safe baby," I tell her.
"Yeah I am I just had a doctors appointment." Now my attention turned.
"What's wrong?"
"Nothing I just got off birth control but now I'm back on it so we should be fine after a few weeks but until then it's condoms," she makes a face at me. She knows how much I hate those things. She hated them too so that makes me feel at least a bit better that we are both suffering from the lack of contact, however thin it may be. She assures me that it is safe for Evan as she gets dressed.
"Whats the point of it though?" I say without thinking.
"What? El? You know i'm not ready for another baby right?" she gets fully dressed before turning back to look at me. That's news to me. I didn't know she had decided for us what would happen to our family.
"What I don't get a say in it?" I sound a little more harsh than I intended to making her wince at my words. I don't want to hurt her feeling like I did last time but I should get a say in things.
"You do but it's my body," she says putting her hands on her hips.
"Its mine too."
"But I… Elliot? Are you serious right now?" I won't get mad at her, I say to myself.
"Forget it Lina, let's just go to bed," she's had a long day I don't feel like seeing her upset right now.
"I don't want to go to bed if you're angry with me," she says softly. I should have known this shit will happen. I get mad she forces me to talk about it, we go through this routine every fucking time. I'm not mad about the routine because when she doesn't force things out of me then a fight can go on forever but that doesn't mean I want to talk about this now. "if that's what you want, we can have another baby but i'm just not ready for one now elliot. I want to wait at least another year. Maybe then we can try for another on, if you want." I see that she's fidgeting with her hands just like she does every time she has something important to say to me.
"Wait so you want another baby?" I thought she meant no more at all.
"No, not yet anyway. I just think that waiting for evan to get a little bigger would be best."
"No, I agree. I thought you meant we wouldn't have kids ever again. Because that I wouldn't be okay with. We could adopt if you don't think you can carry another baby. I just don't want to be left out of such a big decision," I tell her.
"You're not. I'm sorry if I made it seem like I did." I kiss her forehead before getting in bed next to her.
"Hello I'm calling from Seattle Academy, Can I speak to Elliot Grey?" says someone calling me at my office phone.
"This is Elliot Grey."
"Hello I'm Marie Sanders I was calling to see if you can come pick up your daughter from school." She says in a matter of fact voice.
"Is she okay?" I ask her. Why the fuck is she calling me though? I don't mind going but Lina is listed as her first contact and I'm second.
"She's fine Mr. Grey she had a small indent and we thought it would be best if someone from her family could be with her since she seems frightened." Fuck. Fuck, fuck, fuck. She must have panicked like she did all those other times. Without another word I let her know that I'm on my way and head to her school. I try calling Lina a few times but I get sent straight to voice mail. She's either ignoring me or Mia has her phone. I don;t think I've done anything to piss her off so hopefully she isn't mad am me for something. I'm hoping it's Mia. They were supposed to get some wedding shit planned today so they're supposed to be together all day. Or at least until I get home. Lina always try to be home when I am. something about how she has all day to go out and I deserve her time. I don't mind her staying out with friends but she likes our family dinners.
They guide me to the nurses office where Isabelle is crying holding something against her mouth. She throws her arms around me as I kneel in front of her.
"What's wrong baby?" I ask her but she isn't talking clearly enough for me to understand what she's saying to me. "I'm just going to take her home." These idiots can't even tell me what is wrong with her. "You want to tell me what's wrong?" I ask her as I buckle her in to my truck. She shakes her head but hangs on to my hand not letting me go. We must have been sitting in the back for at least half an hour until she finally calmed down enough to say something. I wanted to call Lina and ask what to do but I should be able to at least calm down one little girl.
"You said I wouldn't die," she says whispering into my now wet shirt.
"You won't. What are you talking about Isabelle?" She finally looks up at me and now I see why she was so worried.I really want to laugh but I shouldn't make fun of the situation. "What happened?" I ask looking at the space between her teeth that is now empty.
"I was playing and it fell and it doesn't stop bleeding. Can we go see grandma?" She was crying over a tooth. And the teachers couldn't calm her down because of one small tooth?
"Isabelle? That's why you're upset?" I ask looking at her tear stained face. She nods her head pouting at me. "Isabelle it's going to be okay. Why didn't you tell me sooner baby? I could have told you that it is nothing to be scared of. That stuff happens to everyone you know?"
"But why is it bleeding?" she asks confused.
"I don't know but that happens. Why don't we go out and get some ice cream? Will that make you feel better?"
"Maybe."
"We could take some ice cream to your grandpa I'm sure he would love to see you baby."
"And mommy?"
"I don't really know where she is but we can get some o take her for the house if you want. But lets just go us two." I sit her back in her chair and put on some radio station that she and Lina listen to so much. It's fucking annoying but it keeps her well entertained. A tooth. She had to be taken out o school because of a tooth. Fuck, she's getting so big. We talked to her about this a few weeks ago but I didn't think it would happen so soon. This kid need to stop growing.
We each got two different flavors and she picked a weird flavor out to take to dad. Luckily he would be in the office all day so he made time to see us.
"Well, this is a surprise." He says looking at Isabelle. She leaves the cup on his desk and gets on his lap to finish her ice cream.
"Yeah, Isabelle had a bad day so she wanted to see her grandpa," he smiles happily at her even though she's paying him no attention. He won't admit it but he feels a special bond to her. No one really knows why but Isabelle just gravitated toward him before anyone else.
"It fell and I was going to die." She says taking out her tooth that was in her pocket. I didn't know it was in her pocket. I take the tooth wrapping it in a napkin because I'm sure Lina, my overly emotional hoarding wife, will want to keep it.
"What that's why you've been upset. That's no reason you should be glad. That means you're growing up. If you grow up then maybe you can come to my house more often. You can get away from you father more often. And I'm more fun right?" I hear her giggle and look at me. "Where's Lina?"
"With Mia I think. She hasn't answered her phone."
"How is she?" he asks looking cautiously at Isabelle.
"Still shaken from all the shit that went down. She checks on the kids during the night. And checks the locks every time she can." I noticed she's been very paranoid lately but it's just from what happened. She'll snap out of it when she's ready.
"Have you talked to her about it?"
"Yes. It just makes her more upset. I'm hoping that her going out with Mia will get her to feel more relaxed."
"You almost died in front of her son. She was worried. We all were."
"I was worried about Isabelle more than anything. Everyone is fucking crazy if they think I was going to just sit and wait for things to magically go away. He's gone now. She is safe." Isabelle smiles at me even though she isn't paying attention to what we are saying. She has successfully eaten the ice-cream off both of our cups.
"She is but your wife isn't. Talk to her."
After staying a few more minutes we left to walk around the mall for a bit since Lina wasn't home. We did get home late but Lina wasn't upset. Instead I found her and evan in bed asleep.
"Hey baby." I say as I slip in next to her wrapping my arm around her stomach from behind. She pushes me away before moving back to me. She curls her body around me. "You okay baby?" she nods her head but stays silent. "Lina what is it?" I pull her chin up to look at me. I see her eyes are watering from tears but she pulls back closing her eyes.
"I just want to sleep. I want to sleep and tomorrow it will be better I hope." Something is definitely wrong with her. i can tell because she's crying. She shouldn't be crying.
