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Chapter Four

When they got inside the room, Joey sat down and Joshua sat beside him and he asked "Daddy why you so sad?"

Joey looked at his son and he said "I'm sad because I thought that maybe papa and I could work things out but maybe I was wrong."

Then out of the mouth of babes Joshua said "Maybe papa just needs to talk to me and then he'll see that we all belong together."

Then there was a knock on the door and when Joey answered it he found a tearful Mokuba standing there and he said "Please can I talk to you about Seto?"

Joey smiled as he opened his arms and Mokie went to him and as he stood there holding his brother-in-law and as they both cried tears of sorrow and mixed with a little bit of hope they heard "Does papa want to see me?"

They turned around to find Joshua standing there with the most beautiful and angel like look on his little face and that's when Mokuba said "You know Joshua that just might be what your papa really needs, that's if your daddy will bring you back to the hospital."

Joshua ran to Joey and he asked "Daddy can I please go talk to my papa and see if he wants us to come back and live with him and Uncle Mokie?"

What could he say or do? Joey closed his eyes and then he said "Alright go get changed and I'll call Pierre to come and take us back to the hospital."

When Joshua ran to the bedroom to change, Joey turned to Mokuba and he said "If your brother says one thing to hurt my son I swear on everything that is holy that I will take him away and neither of you will ever see him or me again, is this clear?"

Mokuba wiped the tears from his face and he nodded his head and whispered "I understand."

Joey took the piece of paper that Pierre gave him and he called the number and he heard a little girls voice say "Hello can I help you?" Then Pierre's voice came on the line and Joey said "Could you come back here and take Joshua and me back to the hospital?"

Pierre almost cheered when he heard this and then he said "I'll be there in five minutes." And then the line went dead. Mokie then said "Joey did Seto ever tell you about Gozaburo and what he did to him when he was alive?"

When Mokie was through telling Joey, Joey was crying and then he said "I can understand but what I can't understand is how he could say all those hateful things to me when Joshua was just a baby? If he felt that way in the beginning then why did he allow Shelly to become the surrogate in the first place?"

Before Mokie could answer, Joshua came running out of the bedroom with such a beautiful smile on his face and Joey looked at Mokuba as if to say "You remember what I said" and then the three of them left the hotel room and as they stepped out of the front door there was Pierre waiting for them. When he pulled in front of the hospital and as he opened the door for them to get out he said "I hope that things work out for everyone."

Joey thanked him as they walked into the hospital and went to the room where Seto was so that Joshua could talk to his papa.

When Joey opened the door to the room where Joshua's papa was the little boy walked over to the bed and as Seto opened his eyes the first thing he saw was his son looking at him and then Joshua asked him "Why do you hate me and daddy, what did we do to you?"

The silence in that room was so loud that you could cut it with a knife as Joshua waited for Seto to answer him and then Seto said "I don't and have never hated either you or your daddy, but I hated myself because of the way I have been acting, you see I'm afraid to let either of you love me because I'm afraid that one day you both will leave me alone."

Joshua had tears running down his little face and Joey picked him up and Mokuba lowered the railing and Joey sat Joshua on the side of the bed and he held him so that Joshua could give his papa a hug and kiss and that's when Joshua said "Why would I leave you, you're my papa and I love you."

Well that did it, everyone in that room was an emotional wreck and tears were flowing like a river as Seto reached out and touched his son's cheek and he then looked at Joey over their sons head and then he asked "Could we start again?"

Joey didn't know if he really trusted Seto just yet and so then he said "How about if Joshua and I live in my dad's old house and you stay in the Manor and we visit and both you and Joshua can get to know each other better before we make any permanent plans?"

Mokie held his breath because he didn't know what Seto would say and then when he heard his brother say "That would be alright with me if it's alright with Joshua."

Joshua looked at Joey and then at Seto and he said "I like it, I really like it." That caused everyone to laugh and then Joey said "Alright then how about if we get something to drink to celebrate this day?"

Mokuba ran out of the room and when he came back a nurse was with him and she smiled as she saw them and then she said "I hear that someone in here wants something to drink, well will four glasses of apple juice be alright?"

Joshua looked at her and he squealed and clapped his little hands as he said "I love apple juice it's good for you." The nurse laughed as she left the room and when she came back she had four small cans of apple juice and as she handed them out she smiled and then she left them alone.

Mokuba then held up his open can and he said "Here's to all of us becoming the family that we all want us to be."

Joshua held up his can and he said "Me glad like Uncle Mokie is glad."

Joey looked into Seto's eyes and for the first time in years he saw the hope and love and he leaned down and kissed Seto on the lips and that's when they heard both Mokie and Joshua say "Gross, get a room."

Joey lifted his head and as he and Seto looked at each other grins appeared and they both started laughing and that's when Seto reached up and touched the side of Joey's face and he said "I do love you and our son you have to believe me."

Joey whispered "I do and I love you and Joshua so very much and I hope that this is for real, because if anything happens to make our son cry well I'm out of here and you'll never find us and you know that I mean what I say."

Seto looked at Joey and he said "I know and all I can say is please give me a chance and if I need help please show me what to do because if I lose either of you again I'll just die."

Joey knew that he meant what he said so maybe this was the beginning of their new life together as a family, or so he prayed.

They stayed and visited for a while longer and then Seto began to yawn and Joey said "We're going to go and let you get some rest and we'll be back tomorrow and visit some more."

Joshua gave his papa another hug and kiss and then Joey picked him up and stood him beside the bed as he gave Seto a small kiss and then they left.

Seto had tears running down his face as he whispered "Please don't let me screw this up, I really need them in my life."

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Chapter Five Coming Up...What's in their future??