Nothings bigger than love – chapter eight
Peyton sat on the floor of the spare bedroom that had been converted into the nursery of their soon to be born son, they hadn't originally wanted to find out the sex because they didn't mind what they got they would be happy with either but at a last minute scan an intern at the local hospital announced the gender to them accidently, so now the nursery was filled to the brim with the colour Blue. She was going through and folding up what was left of Sawyer's baby clothes to see if any of it was gender specific and could be used on the new baby. She held out a very pink baby blanket before lowering it to fold and finding her husband standing in the doorway looking on at her with a loving smirk on his face.
"Alexis is all settled in" Lucas said referring to their surrogate who for the last lap of this pregnancy was staying with them so that neither of them missed any of the action, She was sleeping in their bed though because the news of their new delivery had meant that their once spare bedroom was going to be occupied and not even with a decent sized bed.
"Can you believe that in less than a week we are going to have a little baby boy occupying this bedroom?" she said a smile beaming from her face
"Pretty exciting huh?" he said in his usual tone as he walked over, bent down and took up a place on the floor right next to her.
"Pretty exciting? Hmm I would say" she said as she dropped what she was folding and sat to face her husband on his lap, she wrapped her legs around him "it is incredibly exciting"
"When did Haley say she was going to get here?" he asked her, Haley had spare of the moment decided that she was going to come up and be there with them when the little Scott baby was welcomed into the world, they were all pretty pumped for it especially Karen who hadn't seen her in a very long time and was of course docked at a nearby pier for the birth of her second grandbaby.
"I'm not sure" she said as she leant behind him and passed him the telephone, she watched intently as he dialled
"Hales its Lucas" he said with a smile
"Thanks to a wonderful thing called caller id I knew that, dorkus" she said with a chuckle
"We" he added so that he could ask her what he had called her to ask
"Hey Foxy" Peyton yelled from where she sat
"Hey Peyt."
"We were wondering when you were showing up for the arrival of our baby boy?" he said looking on at his wife who was clearly pumped for everything that was going to be happening this week.
"It's a boy? I'm going to be an uncle" she said with such joy and triumph as Lucas laughed
"Yeah, So when are you arriving?"
"Oh crap Luke I have to tell you something" she said and he knew that she was biting down on her thumb
"What?" he asked as Peyton scrambled off him to go and get their daughter from whatever mischief she had gotten herself into
"Lyds is terrible two-ing it and the twins aren't sleeping through the night and while I really and I mean really want to be first to meet my little gorgeous nephew and see Karen, I can't leave Nathan with them all. I am absolutely kicking myself; I was so looking forward to it"
"Hales, its fine. I totally understand" he said knowing full well that his disappointment wasn't half as horrible as the disappointment that his best friend was feeling at this very moment.
"But don't think I am leaving you empty handed I have sent someone in my place, someone I trust immensely or else they wouldn't have even been an option, sent to take as many pictures as humanly possible, I think he might even be better than me" she said with a smirk
"Who?" he asked as the doorbell went off in the distance, he smiled as Haley told him who she had sent in her place, Lucas got up and went to the front door and there he was standing in all his glory in the doorway with Peyton and Sawyer. Lucas smiled "Mouth my man, how are you doing?"
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"Lucas" she whispered in the dark over to her husband, they were sleeping on the foldout couch in the living room, words could not describe how thankful they were that Karen, Andy and Lily hadn't wanted to stay at their house "Lucas are you awake?" she whispered again this time throwing a hand over to just nudge him
"Peyton" he whispered back harshly "Go to sleep"
"Geez you are so grumpy in the mornings "
"Yes Peyton I am" he said sitting up to face her "Especially when it is two in the morning" he said before lying back down
"Luke" she whispered again
"What?" he said again not in a happy tone
"I'm too excited to sleep" she said looking over to him, his shoulders relaxed and she heard the severe change in his tone
"Please just try Peyton" with that he fell silent again, she knew he wasn't asleep again but she also knew that she faced death if she attempted to wake him up again. She turned back onto the side the faced the hallway when she saw a silhouette appear out of practically nowhere, she ruled out Sawyer because it was too tall then Alexis by the way it walked
"Mouth, what are you doing?" she said putting an elbow beneath her so that she could talk to him
"My bed broke" he said standing in the doorway, they had set up the mattress that they had attempted to fixed after Lucas and Peyton popped it on the eve of Sawyer's first birthday, in the new babies nursery for Mouth, what could they say they didn't have visitors often. Peyton broke out in hysterical laughter and Lucas who must have just dosed off before the fiasco woke up
"What happened?" he asked not sure of what was going on around him
"The air mattress popped underneath Mouth" she said between uncontrollable loud laughs, while Lucas tried he failed to keep the façade that was the tough guy attitude that he thought he needed to make Peyton go to sleep, he let out a mammoth laugh, they both rolled around in laughter for a minute before Peyton squished over closer to Lucas and insisted that Mouth take up some of the sofa bed.
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First thing the next morning the three sofa bed buddies were woken up by an incredibly confused Sawyer. Karen, Andy and Lily came over just after breakfast, Lucas soon took them and Sawyer out sight-seeing for the day, to give Alexis some quite time, Peyton who hadn't actually gone to sleep when Mouth hopped into their bed at two in the morning for a whole other hour and Mouth stayed behind to keep Alexis company. They didn't want to overcrowd her but at the same time they didn't want to abandon her.
"Oh Wow" Alexis said as she lay down on the couch with her big stomach, she was surrounded by Peyton who sat on the floor in front of her and Mouth who sat on the arm chair next to her, they were watching soap operas together to fill in some time, well that is what Peyton had said but they both were pretty sure she had only said that to hide the fact that she loved to watch them.
"Yeah she is a bitch" Peyton said not taking her attention away from the television screen, she referred to the actress on screen
"No, This baby of yours has strong legs" Alexis said with a laugh as both Mouth and Peyton jumped across the room to put hands on her rather large pregnant stomach, sometimes Peyton found herself wishing that she was the pregnant one, that this little baby, their little baby was growing inside of her, but she knew that this was the best option for all of them and she also knew that no matter what she was going to love this baby with the whole of her heart and it didn't matter if it came out of her or if it came out of the lovely woman who sat beside her. Mouth's eyes lit up as he felt the baby kick, Peyton smiled as Alexis began to squirm, they took their hands off of her as she went to stand up with the help of Mouth. "Now excuse me while I empty my bladder for the hundredth time today" she said as she waddled off and Peyton and Mouth took up their original positions.
"I never thought of you as a soap opera girl" Mouth said as Peyton turned around and smiled at him
"Neither did I, just one day on the boat after we left Tree Hill it was on the television and I sat down and watched it, haven't stopped since, I think it is because they remind me of when I was living with Brooke, she used to force me to watch them all the time and when she didn't I would come home or go into Clothes over Bro's and find her watching them" she said with a slight smile on her face "I'm really glad that you are here Mouth"
"I'm really glad I am here Peyton that I get to be involved" he said with sort of an embarrassed smile when he realised what he was saying to her. They were interrupted by Alexis walking back into the room with these red tinges across her cheeks and this nervous smile on her lips.
"Uhmm I think me waters broke" she said as Peyton and Mouth both stood up and looked at her with matching shocked looks. They stood there for about a minute before the rushing began, Mouth was in charge of calling the hospital and letting them know that they were coming, Alexis was just to concentrate on remaining cool calm and collected and Peyton she was going to call Lucas.
Mouth had finished his job and turned to look at Alexis, who considering the circumstances was actually quite calm and collected, they both turned and looked up the hallway as they heard a bang, Mouth instructed for Alexis to stay where she was while he went to check on Peyton, he walked up the hallway and found Peyton sitting on the edge of their bed, looking at the floor as tears streamed down her cheeks. He crossed the room and sat down next to her.
"Peyton are you okay?" he asked in a calm tone, she turned to him
"Lucas isn't picking up his phone" she said wiping tears off her face
"That's okay, he will get the messages and come down to the hospital, and it is all going to be fine Peyton"
"No it's not" she said as he looked on at her "When Sawyer was born and I woke up from my coma I fell instantly in love with her and we just had this bond, what if I don't have that with this baby, what if I fell nothing? What if I am a horrible mother to him? What if I treat Sawyer differently than what I treat him?"
"Peyton" he said with a hand on the small of her back "When that baby comes into the world you are going to fall in love with him, you're going to be so happy and you never not ever could be a horrible mother, I have seen you with Sawyer, you are an amazing mum and you will remain an amazing mum when this baby is born, do you want to know how I know?" he said as she looked up into his eyes, just the look in her eyes let him know that she wanted him to tell her "Because you are Peyton Sawyer-Scott and I have known you since high school, I have seen with my own eyes how amazing you are, I have seen how caring and genuine you were with an old man that you didn't know anything about" she instantly knew who he was talking about and smiled
"What am I doing? Crying when I am about to become a mum again" she said as he smiled back at her, she drew him in for a hug "Thanks Mouth"
He had left the room with a happy look on his face, telling Peyton that they would be waiting for her when she had got herself collected and then shut the door as he headed up the hallway, and for the second time he approached a woman who was looking down at the ground with tears streaming, he quickly ran over and knelt down next to her "Alexis what's wrong?" he said not sure if it was something to do with the baby
"I can't do this" she said not even looking up at him, he put a hand on hers and she looked up at him, her blue eyes glistening from tears
"Yeah you can" he said with his gorgeously cheeky smile
"How am I supposed to give birth to this baby and then hand it over, I know that it is not mine but I have been growing it for nine months now, am I supposed to just forget that"
Mouth looked at her and delivered his second piece of wisdom for the day "Nah you're not supposed to just forget that, you are supposed to remember that you delivered a fantastic couple a miracle, a miracle that wouldn't exist without you, and when you hand over that baby and you see the look in their eyes, that look of pure bliss and love you will find the courage and the strength to let him go because you will know that he is not yours that this little soul is the missing piece in this little family" he hoped that the speech he had given her wasn't viewed as harsh, and he knew that it wasn't when she smiled at him.
"I'm doing a good thing aren't I?" she said as though it was only just hitting her now, before he could answer her a look of wholesome pain came across her face and while Mouth had never been present for a birth before, Television had told him that this was in fact a contraction
"You are doing an absolutely astonishingly wonderful thing" he said as her hand wrapped around his and squeezed tightly, Mouth was so focused on the pain on Alexis' face that he didn't notice Peyton coming around the corner and putting an arm on the small of her back in support, that when he looked up again and saw her standing above him he jumped and Peyton sort of laughed between concern for her in labour surrogate.
"Mouth's pretty good at the comforting thing isn't he Alexis" she said helping Alexis off the couch after her contraction to get her into the car and drive her to the hospital.
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"This is Lucas, Leave a message at…."Sawyer, Sawyer baby smile for mamma" Peyt I'm trying to do this phone message thing "Sorry" Lucas chuckles "Where was I?, oh leave a message at the beep"
"Luke it's me, I'm just outside now. Mouth is in there with her! Hurry up okay. This thing is about to start and I have to turn my phone off now" she said hanging up the phone and leaned against the hospital wall before redialling "We're having a baby! Love you baby daddy" now Peyton hung up the phone with a smile on her face walking into the room, Alexis lay in the bed obviously as Mouth stood next to her holding her hand, Peyton presumed that another contraction had hit while she was out of the room trying to get into contact with Lucas who was going to miss it all if he didn't hurry up, Their doctor stood in front of the bed with the chart in her hand, scribbling something down in her notes. Peyton stood stuck to the wall just taking it all in; Mouth noticed her first and grinned
"Did you get onto Luke?" he said as everyone else's attention was drawn to where Peyton was standing.
"Nope" she said as though she was going to burst into tears at any minute now, she wanted Lucas to be there to hold her hand and rub their noses together before kissing her forehead, like he always did when she was scared, and right now she was scared to death, this moment signified the changing of their lives as they knew them. She just wanted him right there so they could embrace it together.
"He'll be here Peyton" he said dragging her out of her little world and trying to comfort her at the same time.
"Well he better get here soon" the doctor said as she put down the chart "This baby is nearly ready to be brought into this world" now she was smiling, as Peyton walked further into the room and the doctor turned to Alexis and then to Peyton "She is doing incredibly well, I will be back in a minute to check on you all" she said as she walked out of the suite.
Peyton walked over to the other side of the bed and took hold of Alexis other hand, and by the look on Alexis' face and the tightening of grip Peyton and Mouth knew that it was on again, the doctor wasn't wrong, this baby was coming and he was coming fast. Mouth went to run out and grab the doctor but stopped as he opened the door, a massive grin coming across his face as he looked back at Peyton before Lucas Scott ran into the room.
"I hear we are about to have this baby" he said all puffed out but with an excited and glad look on his face as the doctor walked into the room.
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Three hours after her labour began she gave birth to a baby Scott, a bouncing, chubby cheeked, black haired little Scott, He lay in his mother's arms wrapped in a blue blanket with a blue beanie placed upon his delicate little head as his four year old sister Sawyer, with her curly hair tied up in a bun sat on the chair next to them on her knees, leaning on her mother and closely inspecting her baby brother. Lucas and Mouth who both looked exhausted sat next to the woman who deserved to look exhausted as they all looked on at the gorgeous boy. Mouth offered to take Sawyer home as Karen, Andy and Lily had left to give the family some time together, He stood up as Lucas went over to his little family and Alexis called Mouth over to her. She pulled his collar so his face was down near hers and kissed him on the cheek "Thank you Mouth, and by the way what you said before was totally true" she said as he smiled and walked over to collect the little girl, who had a cheeky smile on her face and Mouth knew he was in for a long night of mischief, Peyton passed the baby boy over to Lucas and stood up draping her arms around Mouth and briefly swaying from one foot to the other "Mouth McFadden you are my life saver" she whispered into his ear and he smiled
"Was I right?" he asked her with this smirk on his face knowing full well what the answer was going to be
"You were totally right" she said before kissing him on the cheek and then leaning down to her little girl and kissing her "You be nice to mummy's mouth please" she said as her little girl put her hands behind her back and smiled widely swaying backwards and forwards
"I will mama" she said and Peyton could tell from the look on her face that Mouth was in for some hyperactivity on her daughter's part. She took Mouth's hand and practically dragged him out of the room. Peyton then sat down and looked at the little boy in her husband's arms practically taking up the same position that Sawyer had.
"Everyone is having a bit of the McFadden Love" Lucas said without looking up from his little black haired baby, all the adults in the room smirked and then sat in silence for a moment.
"So what are you going to name the little darling?" Alexis asked and Peyton turned away from her boys to face her.
"I think we should name him after Mouth" Peyton said as Lucas looked up at her, with this look on his face
"You want to name our baby Mouth Scott?" he asked sort of shocked
"That's not his real name" Peyton pointed out to her husband who snickered next to in the chair, he concentrated on not moving too much as he laughed in the hopes of not waking up the sweet looking boy
"Marvin then? Like the Martian?" he said and now Peyton was laughing, the name suited Mouth but they never actually used his first name and the way Lucas said it made her laugh.
"What is his middle name then?" she asked realising that neither of the names he had suggested really suited their baby boy
"Leonardo" he said looking at his wife and then back down at the baby in his arms.
Peyton thought for a moment, looking off into the distance and then looked back at the baby with a smile on her face as Lucas and Alexis looked quizzically at her "Leonardo Keith Scott"
Lucas smiled back in approval but she didn't see it she was looking so intently at the boy whose name just suited him perfectly "I love it Peyt"
"Leo for short" she said as she placed a hand on the stomach of Baby Leo Keith Scott.
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"You there?" Lucas said as he concentrated on his laptop screen.
"We're all here" Haley yelled as their extended tree hill family surrounded
"You don't have to yell" Nathan said turning to his wife
"Whoops sorry" she said with a smile
"Is that Karen?" Brooke asked indicating to the black haired woman folding clothes in the background. She waved and then yelled "My grandson is absolutely gorgeous"
"Okay let's do this" Lucas said picking up his laptop walking past Andy and Lily who waved as they sat on the couch. It had been four days since little Leo was born; they had decided that they would introduce their baby to them via an internet connection. Lucas held the laptop outwards to him as he walked into his sons nursery. Peyton sat in the rocking chair with her curly blonde haired four year old sitting next to her on the chair while Peyton nursed her baby boy.
"Oh Peyton he is gorgeous" Haley cooed
"Good going big brother"
"Goldilocks look at those chubby cheeks" Brooke said moving closer to the screen like maybe the closer she got the closer she was to the brand new baby.
"We would like to introduce you to Leonardo Keith Scott" Lucas beamed from behind the laptop
This chapter is finished but alas the story is not!