The brunette agent felt her eyes glazing over as the children ran around in front of her, their little feet scurrying around the living room as her rigid body sat against the cushions of the couch. She sat in the black dress that she had been dressed in before, waiting for Hampton to call her and the children for dinner.
Emily gave a slow blink, her mind barely there as Nathaniel's figners trailed through her curly hair. Her fingertips softly tapped against the dress' material that lay on her thighs, her mind blocking out the small kisses that Nathaniel was pressing to her now tanning skin.
"You know, I was thinking earlier."
Emily lifted one of her brows, her tired eyes still glued to the hardwooden floor. "Yeah? What about?"
Nathaniel smiled against the brunette's cheek, one arm around her shoulders and his free hand slowly sliding down her thigh and towards her knee. "About you and I, darling." He turned her head to face him, oblivious to how her eyes never picked themselves up to meet his. "I was thinking about what happened earlier, and I realized that I forgot to pull out."
The younger woman bit her lip, nodding slowly as the older man's words barely registered in her mind. "Yes, I noticed that too."
"Is that why you asked for the date?"
She gave a shaky nod of the head. "Yes sir."
Nathaniel ran his nimble fingers down the brunette woman's cheek, finally getting her eyes to look up into his from the spot they had been glued to. "I was thinking," he smiled, "maybe it wasn't such a bad thing."
Emily heard the words come out of the older man's mouth, but it took her a second to process them. She looked to him with a confused stare, her eyebrows furrowing as she tilted her head with her captor's fingers still cupped at her chin. "I'm sorry?"
Instead of answering, the older man tightened his arm around the brunette's shoulders and turned to his children with a smile on his face. He grabbed one of the younger woman's hands in his own, gripping it just a little too tightly. "Children, come on over."
Once the children were all standing before the pair, tallest to smallest, Emily's eyes immediately widened. "Nathaniel...?"
The older man ignored the brunette at his side, his lips curled into the widest of smiles. "Children, Mable and I have something to tell you."
Emily shook her head, her eyes shooting towards the man that was practically squeezing the life out of her. "Nathaniel!"
"You're going to have a new baby brother or sister!"
Bailey's eyes immediately lit up, looking from her father to the frightened woman at his side. "Really?"
Nathaniel smiled down to his children, squeezing the shivering woman at his side. "Really." He turned his head to look to the younger woman in his arms, patting her cheek just a bit too hard as he grinned at the fear in her eyes. "Mable will be with us forever."