Chapter Twenty Three
One week later
Morning of March 7,2008
Sara's 5th Birthday
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The morning of the 7th of March on the year 2008 was a warm, sunny, Friday morning. The birds who came back early from spending the winter in the south just came back and now singing a sweet song on one of the branches on the tree outside the apartment building. The early morning sunlight was peeking through the curtains, covering the bedroom's windows and telling the person who was sleeping in the room to wake up, get off the bed, and tell the person to that this is time to start the day, an important day in this case. Yes, the sun is telling Martin Fitzgerald to wake up, get off the bed, and it is time to start his daughter, Sara's birthday.
It was around fifteen minutes before seven when the alarm table on the bedside table next to his bed went off, Martin reached his arm over to turn it off and looked at the glowing green numbers on his clock to see what it is. Seeing that the time was only fifteen minutes before seven in the morning, he mumbled something to himself, turned himself around, and looked and smiled at one of the prettiest things that he ever saw next to him.
Martin continued looking at it, smiling while he reached over and tucked some strays of light brown hair into the person's left ear, keeping away from the person's beautiful face when he had heard something. Martin listened to it for a few seconds to figuring out where it came from. Realizing that the noise had came from the other side of his bedroom's door, Martin quickly figured out who had made that noise. Moments later, to not let Sara see the person who was sleeping over that night until both Martin and the person he was sleeping with will find the right time to tell her that they are seeing each other, Martin leaned over to her, kissed her on the lips, put some of his comforter all over the woman's body to hide her away from his daughter, and after he did that, Martin turned himself around to his alarm clock, and pretended to sleep so he can tell Sara that he is sleeping right now.
Seconds later, while fake-sleeping, Martin had heard the doorknob being turned, the door being wide opened, and little feet running to the bed, getting louder when the feet got closer to the bed, and stopping inches away. After the person had reached the bed, Martin felt little hands on the comforter and had heard his daughter's voice telling him, "Daddy, Daddy. Wake up, Daddy. Wake up!" After hearing that, Martin quickly opened his eyelids and founded his daughter, standing next to the bed with her brown eyes staring at him with excitement, a huge smile on her face, holding one of her teddy bears in her arms, and was in one of her little pajamas.
Knowing that today is Sara's birthday, to tell her hello, with a smile on his face, Martin stared at his little girl, and greeted her, "Hey, Birthday Girl!" In return, with the same big smile on her sweet face, Sara said to him back, "Good Morning, Daddy." Also knowing that at the time Sara had came into his room, it was little unusual because as always, Sara didn't wake up at fifteen minutes before seven. She usually wakes up at seven or at some days, Martin comes into her room and wakes Sara up. Wanting to know why his daughter is here in his bedroom earlier than usual, Martin asked Sara that.
With another smile on her face and holding her one of the many teddy bears Sara had in her room closely to her little body, Sara told that she had woken up a little early because she was so excited about her birthday, came into his bedroom to wake him up and as promised, he said that in honor of her birthday, he is going to make her Birthday pancakes of her choice before heading off to the daycare. After hearing that, Martin remembered those things Sara just told him, especially the last part about the pancakes and to tell her that he is going to do that for her but he had to get himself ready, Martin smiled at his daughter again, and said to her, "Sara, sweetie. I will do that for you today right after I get myself ready. Okay?"
To tell her father that she is fine with that, Sara smiled at Martin, telling him that she is fine with that, and asked him if she can helped him getting started with the pancakes while he is getting himself ready. Moments later, Martin got himself out of the bed he had for years, stood in front of Sara, went down to her height, and said to her, "I'm okay with that, Sara but now, you better go now before I will broke your promise to not make pancakes for you." Not wanting that to happened, Sara put her teddy bear down on the hardwood floor, gave her father a hug, a kiss on the cheek and said back to him, "Okay, Daddy. I better go now." After Sara did that, Martin smiled back at her and told her that he is coming back to help her in a few minutes. In return, Sara grabbed her teddy bear off the floor, turned to her father, and said back with the same, sweet smile on her face, "Okay, Daddy. I will see you in the kitchen but you better hurry up before we both be late for Daycare."
After she had said that, Sara ran off to the living room to put her teddy bear on the couch before heading off to the kitchen to helped out Daddy. The moment Sara had ran off, Martin sighed to himself, went back to the bed, got on there, went over to the other side, leaned over, and whispered to the comforter who was covering the person he was sleeping with earlier, "The coast is clear!" After whispering that, Martin stepped away from the person to give her some room for herself, and folding the top of the comforter over, the person's eyelids had opened and those pale blue eyes of her had appeared. After seeing those beautiful eyes of blue, Martin leaned over to her and said to her, "Good Morning, Kate."
Kate saw Martin staring at him, and greeted him back, "Morning, Martin. That was close!", referring to Sara coming into the bedroom unexpectedly. Martin leaned over to her, kissed her on the lips again, and responded back, "Yeah, I knows. From the look of it, if I kept hiding away from her, I am afraid that Sara is going to jump on the bed to wake me up and once she do that, Sara is going to realize that she had jumped on someone, is going to see you, and is going to ask a lot of questions about why Daddy is dating her Auntie Katie and if they are going to get marry or not?" Katie laughed at that and told Martin that as long as she remembered, Sara always wanted to have Jim marry me since birth but it didn't happened because of Iraq but that could be very huge for her.
Martin smiled at that again and said to her, "Kate. I would like to marry you someday and that could be Sara's birthday present for years! That could get rid of a lot of stress for me." Katie listened to that and kissed Martin for the second time in two minutes. After they kissed each other, Martin leaned over to her and started a little make out session with the woman he loves. Until Sara will start to realize that Martin didn't come and had to get him out of the bedroom and will see the secret that Martin and Katie had with each other and again, will asks a million questions, including the part about marriage.
Since they had left St. Vincent, both Martin and Katie had seen each other more often and met each other whenever Sara is not going to be with them. For example, the night before Sara's birthday, Martin was at his NA meeting and when the meeting was over, Martin walked out of the community center where they had held the weekly NA meetings and founded a smiling Katie here, holding two cups of coffee in each hand. This was the first time they met each other after a meeting and with Eddie's permission, Katie did the coffee part and met Martin there after he was done with the meeting. Once he saw Katie, Martin went over to her, put his arms over her shoulders, and gave her a passionate kiss in front of the community center and in front of everybody.
After kissing her, Martin grabbed one of the cups of coffee, and together, they walked back to the apartment where they both lives while talking to each other, holding hands, and more kisses along the way. Once they got to Martin's place, he told Katie to wait in the living room while he goes to Sara's bedroom to kiss her goodnight. After he had left a sleeping Sara who was sleeping with her favorite teddy bear for a few minutes, Martin went back to the living room, founded Katie there, and out of the blue, Katie went toward him, put her arms around Martin's neck, and gave him another passionate kiss that night which turned into a make out which leads to the bedroom and in that room, Katie Carter and Martin Fitzgerald had a 'sleepover'.
A few minutes later, Martin and Katie are still making out with each other when they had heard Sara's voice, telling Martin to hurry up and get a move on. Katie giggled when Sara told her father that. Knowing that was pretty funny, Martin kissed Katie again and said to her, "Crap! I better go then. Katie, are you pretty sure that you can stay in my bathroom until I bring Sara over to daycare?" With that sweet smile on her face, Katie told Martin that she was pretty sure that she can do that and be late for work because from she had done a week earlier, Jack told her that as her punishment, FBI Agent Katherine Marie Carter can't go into the field for an entire month! Martin grinned at her when she told him that and gave her another kiss on the lips and while doing that, Sara's voice had been heard and telling Martin to hurry his butt off! Katie laughed at Martin again and in return, the guy she is seeing at the moment, grinned at her and said to her, "I will see you soon." and gave Katie one last kiss.
Moments later, Martin left to be with Sara to make some pancakes while Katie put on some clothes she had dropped on Martin's floor and then, hurried herself to the bathroom to hide there until Martin and Sara had left for daycare and don't know how long they keep doing this, Martin and Katie will be seeing more of each other secretly, hopefully don't do the same thing that Martin had with his last romantic relationship with a woman, and when the time is right, both of them will come out and might be together as long as they lives and maybe, Sara will get her wish come true for being a part of a one happy family.
Give me one last review before the epilogue which is Sara's POV and please, guardianranger, please don't put 'wow' in the review!!
Also, this story might be completed before New Year's Eve so I hope that you have enjoyed this fic during the past year and more stories like this will come out very soon!!
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