A/N: It's kind of a cliffhanger and their may be a few grammer mistakes if so Im sorry, but Im writing this late, and it's just a little difficult. But if you would please review!! I'd like to get atleast 1 review each chapter so I feel like me writing it is worth something. Thank you :)
Sean drove away from the McDonalds watching Joeys, Dodge Dakota pull out and go the opposite direction. Adjusting his rearview mirror he looked into the backseat, seeing Derek fastened into his carseat watching the cars go by out of the window. This was great, how was he going to explain this one to Emma. He should have told her. He should have told everybody. He was sleeping on Jay's couch, and he didn't know. He was dating Emma, and she didn't know. He knew this wouldn't go over well.
Stopping at the redlight he had ran just an hour or so ago, he turned in his seat a bit to face Derek, whose carseat was behind the passenger seat. "You hungry?" he asked. Seeing the little boy nod his head he sighed, what did he eat? There was so much Joey could have told him, that she just so convieniantly left out. "What do you want?" He asked softly, trying to keep his usual somewhat cold sounding tone out of his voice. "I-- Cweem" Derek said happily, dropping his sippy cup onto the floor board as he waved his hands around.
Sean laughed a bit before looking back at the light, it hadn't turned yet. "What else?" He asked trying to get his son to say some type of actual food. "I-- Cweem!" Derek said again, this time with a little bit angrier tone in his voice. Sean shook his head as he turned back in his seat just as the light turned, He'd have to find something to bribe the boy with. But what did he eat?! "What about Macaroni and Cheese?" He asked waiting to hear Derek's reply. He glanced down at the clock. It would Be six o'clock by the time he got home. He had to take a shower before he went anywhere. Plus feed Derek. He couldn't miss his date with Emma, he had worked hard to get her back, he went to jail to get her back for christ sake. He couldn't mess it up.
Derek, who had been trying to reach into the floor for his sippy cup let out an bit of a whine before crossing his arms in his carseat, "Fine." he says before going back to watching cars out of the window. "Daddy, when mommy coming back?" he asked turning his head to look towards Sean. Sean turned his eye's up and looked into the rearview mirror. "Not for a while, You're going to come stay with me." He said before trying to think of something to add on to it, to make the boy happy. "We'll have lots of fun. We'll go to the park, do you like the park?" Derek nodded his head quickly before adding. "Slide!"
Sean just laughed before trying to remember where the park was for futrue referance. He turned onto his street before going past the many appartment buildings, coming to a stop infront of his own. He parked upfront cutting off the car and letting out a sigh, well this would be a great way to break the news to Jay. Just show up with the kid. He got out of the car, walking around to the passenger side and opening the backseat.
He unbuckled Derek before picking him and his cup up, and shutting the door. Derek quicking slapping him on the shoulder reapeatedly and then pointing to the car. "Bag!" he yelled. Sean looked at him confused before remembering he had left the diaper bag in the backseat. He sat Derek down beside the car and opened the passenger door again, reaching in and grabbing the bag. Shutting the door, and looking down to see Derek gone.
He stood up completely looking around trying to see him, he walked to the front of the car, and saw him sitting on the sidewalk, starring intensely at something. Sean walked over to him and looked to see a trail of ants crawling down into the crack of the sidewalk. "Why'd you walk off buddy?" he asked with a raised eyebrow. "You took too long!!" Derek said exageratedly. Sean just laughed before reaching down and grabbing his hand. "Well lets go inside."
Derek reached up and grabbed onto his fathers hand, walking beside him as they walked into the big doors, of his new home. He saw his dad reach for the doorknob of a door that was painted red, and had a number nailed to it. He just began looking to the floor again, trying to find more bugs.
Sean opened the door slowly hearing the one voice coming from inside the apartment, he least wanted to hear right now. He let out a sigh as he opened the door, to see Emma standing in the front room, with Jay standing infront of her. He looked down at Derek who was now watching the two in the livingroom and then looked back to the two of them, who where moving there eyes from Sean to Derek, and then back to Sean waiting for an explination.
Sean looks to Emma, to see a confused and somewhat happy look on her face. "Sean...whose this?" She asks as she looks at the little boy and smiles. She walked over to Derek and squatted down infront of him. "Hey little guy, whats your name?" Sean looked down to Derek to wait and see if he would answer her himself or not. He wasn't sure if he was really shy or if he was always so open. "Derwik!" he said with a big half toothless smile. All of his teeth still hadn't came in.
Emma stood up and looked at sean waiting for an answer. "Emma, This is Derek, my son." he said it so smoothly that he almost thought Emma wasn't going to get upset at all. "Your son?" she repeated with a bit of a shocked look on her face, but more of a hurt one. She could do math, and she knew the boy was around two. "When where you going to tell me Sean?" He let out a sigh and shut the door behind him. This was one argument the neighbors didn't need to be hearing. "I was going to, when I thought it was important. Emma I was fifteen, it was a long time ago, and I never thought she'd just want to leave him." he plead in his deffense.
"Sean it was two years ago, and she did." Emma explaine to her before looking down at Derek who was looking at both of them confused. Tears where rolling down his cheek. "I have to go. I'll talk to you at school tomorrow." She said simply as she walked past the two of them and out the door. Sean looked down at Derek who was still crying and picked him back up. "Shhh, it's ok buddy." He walked over to the couch and sat him down, taking off his shoes and his jacket. "You want Macoroni?" he asked seeing Derek nod he smiled. Ok you sit right here." he walked away from the couch and flipped on the tv to Nickolodian, before walking into the kitchen. He grabbed a pot from under the sink, filling it with water and setting it on the stove. Before walking back into the livingroom and sitting on the couch beside Derek.
"So I guess he's staying here?" Jay said in more of a sarcastic tone then an actual question. Sean just looked at him out of the corner of his eye and didn't give him an actual answer. He should know the answer to that one. So why bother waisting the time. "Where's he going to sleep?" he asked. "I Can make him a pallet on the floor tonight. I have to go get the rest of his stuff from Joey's tomorrow." he explained as he continued watching the fairly oddparents with Derek.
Jay just shook his head a little. "You don't know what you're doing Cameron." he said before grabbing his jacket. "I'm going out, I'll be back later." he said as he walked out the door shutting it behind him. Sean looked down to Derek who was looking up at him. "I guess it's just you and me then huh buddy?" Derek Smiled and nodded agreeingly before pointing to the TV. "Cosmo!" he said pointing to a fairy with green hair on the t.v. "You like this show?" Sean asked him. He smiled and nodded. Sean let out a relieved sigh. He had found something the kid liked.
He got up from the couch and walked off into the kitchen to finish making his son dinner. God it felt so weird saying that, his son. He had his son finally. But now...he was losing Emma.