A/N: Alright this chapter wasn't quite what I was hoping for, but here it is anyway.
Lilly sat humming to her son, gently swaying back and forth in the rocking chair in the nursery. She enjoyed this time, just her and RJ. All of the family had opted to stay downstairs while she got him ready for bed. He had just finished eating and was quickly on his way to sleep.
She just stared down at him with wonder in her eyes. It still amazed her that he belonged to her, that she was a mom now. How could she create something so amazing? Even with the help of Jackson? She just couldn't believe it.
His hair was dark now, but a nurse explained that he'd likely lose what little hair he had and then his natural color would soon appear. He definitely had her eyes but everything else about him screamed Jackson. It wasn't fair. She was the one that carried him for eight months. Shouldn't she have more influence on his features? Obviously nature had a different idea.
Once she was sure he was out, she walked gently to her and Jackson's room and placed him in the bassinet where he'd be sleeping until he was old enough to sleep in his crib, or until Lilly was ready to let go, which ever happened first.
Turning the baby monitor on she headed back downstairs to join the group. Seeing there was no where to sit, she placed herself on Jackson's lap. Wrapping his arms around her, she snuggled into him feeling herself relax.
Now that RJ was home, it seemed everyone's attention had turned to the wedding that needed to be planned. Lilly hadn't been willing to make plans before, stating she wanted to know that their son was home and would be able to attend the wedding. Now that he was, she was finally willing to talk about setting a date and work from there.
Now that their family was together, Jackson didn't want to wait to long to make it official. Lilly agreed and they decided they wouldn't need more than three months to get everything taken care of which would place the wedding sometime around Christmas. Decided on December 20 they finally had a place to begin planning.
After talking in theory about color schemes and guest lists and coming up with a general idea, Lilly pleaded exhaustion and headed to bed.
She wasn't asleep more than thirty minutes before she heard RJ start to cry. Grabbing him quickly before he could wake Jackson she headed down to the kitchen to make him a bottle. He ate quietly and fell back to sleep quickly. Placing him back in the bassinet she laid back down beside Jackson and slipped back into dream land.
Forty-five minutes later she woke to hear RJ screaming. She picked him up again and took him next door to his room. She just fed him so she didn't think he could be hungry already. Putting him on the changing table, she changed his diaper quickly but he continued cry.
Picking him up and holding him tight she walked to the rocking chair and tried to get him to go back to sleep. But ten minutes later he was still screaming. Standing back up she made her way downstairs. He calmed a bit as she walked.
Fixing another bottle she tried to desperately to get him to drink it, but he obviously wasn't hungry. Putting it in the fridge she began walking back and forth across the room trying to think of what else to try. The movement seemed to calm him a bit and soon all he gave out where small whimpers.
She walked the floor for a good twenty minutes until she was sure he was asleep. Heading for the couch she began to sit down. As soon as the moving stopped he woke up and protested. Standing up, she tried again. Every time she tried to stop moving he woke up again. She managed to feed him another bottle but he wanted to stay moving the whole time.
Just as she was sure she couldn't stay on her feet any longer, she heard someone coming down the stairs. Seeing it was Jackson she let out a cry of relief. She handed him the baby and crashed onto the couch without explanation. RJ woke with the transfer, but Jackson copied Lilly's movements from before and he quickly fell back asleep.
Seeing the tears pouring down Lilly's face he whispered, "What's the matter?"
"I'm the worst mom ever apparently. I can't get my own son to sleep. I've been walking this floor for two hours because every time I try to stop he wakes up and starts screaming." Her point was made when Jackson tried to sit down and the infant did the same thing. "See he won't sleep unless he's moving. I wasn't sure how much longer I could keep standing."
"Why didn't you come and get me. We could have taken turns. He's my son too."
"Because you have to go to work tomorrow." Looking at the clock, "or rather today since it's after one in the morning."
"True, but he's my responsibility as much as he is yours. When I'm home I expect us to take care of him equally."
If Lilly wasn't so tired she'd hug and kiss him and wonder how she every got so lucky to get someone like him. Instead she fell asleep. Only to wake up an hour later when she heard Mamaw come downstairs for a glass a water.
"What're you two doing down here?" She asked as she walked over to the sink to fill her glass.
"RJ won't sleep unless one of us is walking with him." Jackson answered his grandmother with a yawn. "So we're taking turns walking him."
"You tried the swing and it didn't work?" Mamaw asked staring at the two tired teens.
"The swing?" Lilly asked in a tired voice not sure what the older woman was talking about.
"Yeah that lil thing over there in the corner that I bought ya'll for your shower. Ya know moves the baby back and forth." She stated moving her hand to imitate the motion of the swing.
By this point Lilly and Jackson both thought themselves idiots for not having thought of it before. Mamaw headed back upstairs as they figured out how to sit him in it and turn it on.
Soon after he settled down and went into a deep slumber. The parents crashed on the couch together and soon they were both asleep holding each other as they slept.
That's how Robbie Ray and Miley found them at six that morning when they both came down for breakfast. "Wonder what that's about?" Robbie Ray asked his daughter.
"I dunno."
RJ chose that moment to stir waking his mother up almost by instinct. She had the bottle ready before she even picked him up. It wasn't until she had him settled in her arms that she noticed the other two in the room.
"Ah… good morning," she said while trying to nudge Jackson awake with her foot.
"Good morning to you." Robbie said with a smile on his face. "What are you two doing down here."
"RJ wouldn't sleep last night unless he was moving so after walking with him for more than two hours and Jackson walking with him for another, Mamaw came down here and reminded us of the swing." Lilly felt sheepish as she admitted to how clueless she had been. Her first night with her son and she was already running into problems.
"Well Jackson it's true what they say. What goes around comes around."
"What does that mean?" Jackson questioned still half asleep.
"You were the same way. You slept in the swing 'til you were three months old. Nothing could get that boy to sleep unless he was moving."
"You could have told us that story sooner, would have saved us some time when we could have been sleeping."
Seeing the evil looks his son was giving Robbie Ray just laughed. "Like father, like son." Miley started laughing with him. Neither Jackson nor Lilly found it funny.
