Two days later.
Catherine smiled as she walked outside with the baby monitor in her hand, she had spoken with her mother before they boarded the plane and checked on Sawyer before she went to talk to Steve. She knew exactly where she would find him, but couldn't help but smile when she seen him come out of the water.
"Good morning."
"Morning Sailor."
"Peanut still asleep?"
"Yes, I checked on her before I came out."
Steve gave Catherine quick kiss.
"What is the plan for today?" he asked.
"Well I was thinking that we should at list start making a list of schools or at least looking at how to find a nanny."
"Okay."
"But there is something more important we need to do."
"Well I did hear something about breakfast being the most important meal of the day." He replied with a smirk.
"Smartass. While we do need to get breakfast, I was talking about getting her last name changed."
"Why don't we go to Rainbow for breakfast? Then I was thinking we could take her to some of our favorite spots on the island. I'll get hold of Josh Holden later today to see what the process of getting her name changed is, though it shouldn't be that hard."
Catherine nodded at him.
"I also need to get ahold of Denning to find out about you working as a consultant."
"You are still okay with that?"
"Yes, if it's still what you want. If you don't want to work at all I will support that."
"I want to consultant."
"Then that what we will do. We also need to start planning our wedding."
"We are getting married." She couldn't keep the smile off our face.
Steve had caught her staring at the ring on finger over the last couple of days, it made him smile every time.
"We are." As he gave her a real kiss.
Neither of them heard Sawyer come in the room.
"Daddy is kissing mommy." They heard her giggling.
Steve and Catherine broke away laughing.
"We didn't hear you get up."
"Cause I was trying to surprise you."
"Well it worked."
"Why don't I get a shower, while the two of you get dressed?"
"Sounds good." Catherine told him.
"Where are we going?"
"To get breakfast."
/
At Rainbow
Steve found a place to park where he could put the truck gate down, he sat with Sawyer in the bed of the truck bed, while Catherine went to order their food, and they had decided it would be easier if they didn't try to take Sawyer in. She came back with three breakfast specials and drinks.
"Are we eating in truck?"
"Yes." Catherine replied as she helped Sawyer with her food.
"I used to do this with your Grandpa John. Once a week we would come here and I would tell him all about my week."
"What about Aunt Mary?"
Catherine smiled, they had told Sawyer about Mary, Joan, and Aunt Deb on Sunday after Steve had called Mary and Deb to tell them about Sawyer, while Mary and Deb understood by the end of the calls, they both had told Steve what they thought about keeping Sawyer a secret. They were planning on visiting in a couple of weeks.
"He would do something else with her later in the day, your Aunt Mary like to sleep in."
"Can we come here more?" Sawyer looking at Steve.
He glanced over at Catherine.
"I think that it would be great if you and Daddy came here more."
"We can arrange that." Steve smiling at his daughter.
"That sounds fun."
Steve couldn't wait to spend more time with Sawyer, it was the one thing he was jealous of Danny when he spent time with Gracie.
"We need to finish eating, so we can get to the rest of our plans."
"What else are we going to do?"
"I thought it would be fun to take you to one of mommy's favorite places on the island."
"We are going to take a small hike, the see the waterfall at Manoa Falls."
Sawyer nodded before taking a bite of her food.
/
Three hours later.
They had managed to get to the falls and swim, they were now home. Catherine was making lunch when she noticed how quiet the house was. Steve and Sawyer had been in the living room but now when she walked in it was empty, she looked outside before going upstairs. She smiled when she reached her and Steve's room, Steve was laying on the bed with Sawyer on his chest both of them asleep. She thought back to the first time she found them like this.
Steve had insisted that she take a couple of hours to herself, Sawyer was three months and Catherine had not been away from her since the day she was born. Today she went to get her haircut, giving Steve time alone with their daughter. She had come back to the small apartment, thinking they were gone due to how quiet it was, she was almost ready to panic when she walked into their bedroom. Steve was laying shirtless with their tiny daughter laying on his chest, he was rubbing circles on her back. He looked up smiling at Catherine.
"What are you doing there, Sailor?" as she climbed in the bed next to them.
"Your daughter does not like mommy being away for longer than ½ hour. I fed her, changed her, bounced her and nothing helped her to stop crying. I read somewhere that skin to skin works to calm a baby down, so I laid down with her."
"I'm sorry that she wasn't good for her daddy."
"She was just missing you. I love the hair by the way."
"Thank you." She leaned over to kiss him before standing up and taking a picture of Steve and Sawyer.
"What are you doing?"
"You are not going to be on leave much longer, I want all the pics I can get of the two of you." As she climbed back in bed.
"Hey, we have another month before I go anywhere."
"I know." She smiled sadly at him.
"We are going to make of the next month and you still have almost a year before you go back to work."
"I don't want you to go anywhere. I know that I am being selfish but I just want us to stay right here like this."
Sawyer made a sound, making Steve and Catherine smile at her.
"Peanut, agrees with me. She is going to miss you too."
"Cath."
"I know Steve. We both have jobs to do and I knew leaving her would be hard. I knew you leaving would be hard but I don't think it would be so hard to even think about."
"I will always come back to you and her."
/
Catherine took another picture of them together, she couldn't wait to get the pictures her mom was sending them. Steve smiled when she looked up at him.
"What are you doing, Rollins?"
"Enjoying the moment and the memory. I came to find the two of you, lunch is ready, but then I found you like this."
"You should join us. She asked to come up and get a back but then she fell asleep."
"And Daddy was a little tired too." As she climbed in bed.
"A little but I am just enjoying spending time with my family. Is the food going to be okay?"
"Yes, I just made sandwiches and soup. The sandwiches are in the frig and the soup is in the warmer."
They laid in silence for about five minutes before saying anything.
"What are you thinking about?" Catherine asked Steve.
"How much I missed the three of us being together and the fact that we get to do this all the time now."
"It's a nice feeling. I was thinking that you should take her to Rainbow before going back to work, it would be nice for you to continue that tradition with her."
"You think she'll enjoy."
"She is going to love anytime she spends with you. I also want you to share the stories about your family and island, she needs to know about all of it."
"We could take her to the Arizona memorial at the end of the week."
"Sounds like a plan."
"Cath is something wrong?"
She gave him a smile before saying anything.
"No, nothing is wrong. I'm extremely happy Sawyer is with us and we are getting married. I was wondering if you wanted a long engagement."
"No, I want you to have the wedding you want."
"Good because I would prefer small."
"Okay, me too."
"I was thinking maybe in the next couple of months and then maybe we could try for another baby."
/
Please tell me what you think. What do you think Steve will say?
I will get to more of Sawyer with each of her parents.
