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Sammy just grinned as her sister bitched at her. "I cant believe you just went and got married without telling us." Mia grumbled.

They were sitting at Mia's kitchen table drinking coffee. Bailey laughed. "Leave her alone, I think its the most romantic thing I ever heard."

Sammy smiled. "Me too, I love him so much, Mark is just so wonderful."

Mia grinned her sister had it bad. "So any kids in the future?" Bailey asked rubbing her ever expanding tummy.

Sammy looked sad and Bailey could have kicked herself, she knew Sammy was thinking about Toby.

Sammy was thinking they should already have two kids, but Toby was gone. "Truthfully, we haven't discussed it, we have Joey, maybe sometime, I don't know."

Mia looked at her sister, worry in her eyes, she was really hurting over losing Toby and there was nothing any of them could do about it.

Mark glared at his friends, they sat on Kevin's deck drinking a beer. "Mark you're just like the rest of us when it comes to our women, a real wimp." Scott said laughing.

Kevin grinned as he ribbed his friend. "Hell he's even worse, he couldn't even wait for a proper wedding, just swept her off in the middle of the night and married her, better be careful Mark, you'll be spouting poetry next."

Mark just growled at his two buddies. "Fuck ya two idiots."

They both laughed and Kevin slapped his friend on the back. "Seriously, its great, you two are perfect for each other."

Scott nodded."That girl is crazy about you, its written all over her face."

"So you two gonna start working on rugrats?" Scott asked expecting Mark to protest.

Mark shrugged and finished his beer. "Whatever Sammy wants, if she wants kids, she can have em, whatever makes her happy." Mark said thinking of Toby, he just he could giver the child she really wanted.

Kevin and Mark looked at each other, Mark really was tied up by Sammy, if he was just willing to have her drop as many kids as she wanted.

The next few weeks, the couple fell in a routine, Mark worked down at his gym till two, then he came home and took over with Joey, so she could work till six, then they both made dinner and spent the rest of the evening together as a family, just playing with Joey, or they would go visit with Scott and Bailey or Kevin and Mia, or they would pick up Seth and Emma and take the kids to the park or to play on the beach.

The two seemed to have been together forever thats the way it felt to both of them, Mark had instantly knew when he fell in love with Sammy and it wasn't in his heart to deny it for even a minute, because it felt right, being with her made his world right, and he wasn't a stupid man, he knew a good thing when he seen it.

"Shorty, I'm going to be late today." Mark said pulling her in his arms.

Sammy smiled up at him. "Okay. I think me and Joey are going to the park today, and I might make cookies with him."

Mark grinned and pressed a kiss to her forhead imagining the mess he would come back to. "Okay love."

He let her go and went and bent down in front of Joey who was coloring. "Bye little man."

Joey hugged him and kissed Mark's cheek." "Lub you."

Mark brushed his hand over the boys curly hair. "Love you too."

Mark waited for the maid to show him into Tyson's room, when he walked in he was not surprised the man looked even worse than before.

"Well if it isn't my new son in law." The man said sounding weak.

Mark sat down. "I don't need to ask how you are, you look half dead."

Tyson laughed. "Yes well, thats probably true, I heard you married my daughter."

Mark shrugged. "Yeah, your invitation must have got lost in the mail."

Tyson just ignored the comment. "So you finally got some sense and married her. She pregnant?"

"Not thats its any of your business, but no." Mark said.

"Shame, you need to work on that." The old man said.

Mark sat back. "Just don't worry about me and Sammy, she's fine."

The man laughed. "Not so fine, she lost her foster daughter, she's a sensitive girl, always was, she's devastated."

Mark leaned forward and glared at the old man. "Are you having us spied on?"

Tyson laughed. "No one's following you, if thats what you mean, no I just make it my business to know whats going on."

Mark stood up to go, the old man was still alive, what else did he need to tell Mia and Sammy.

"Sit down, sit down, you're my only visitor, besides Samuel , my lawyer." Tyson said coughing.

Mark sighed and sat down. "Now you need to get her pregnant and she'll get over this other child." Tyson said.

Mark just glared at the old man. "You really have no feelings do you, you cant replace one child for another."

Tyson waved his words off. "I'm a bastard I know, you love my daughter, I can see that, believe it or not I was once young and in love." Tyson lay back looking even paler suddenly.

Mark snorted in disbelief. "With who yourself?"

Tyson actually laughed. "Well I do think highly of myself, but no, she was pretty young thing innocent and she loved me, didn't care that I was a bastard, she saw only good in me, go figure huh?"

"What happened?" Mark asked.

"My parents, Melissa was poor, not good enough for me, my wife was picked for me, from a sufficiently proper family, and I had to leave her behind, but truthfully it was better, I would have destroyed her disappointed her, killed her love, at least I have such sweet memory's of our time." Tyson said.

Mark couldn't believe there was any tenderness in this man, after the way he treated his daughters. "That why you treated your girls like shit, you resent them?" Mark snapped.

Tyson shrugged. "I don't know, I've never been a nice guy, maybe theres no excuse, maybe it is because I wanted my kids to be with Melissa, its to late to worry at this point, I'm good as dead."

Mark watched as he closed his eyes and fell asleep, Tyson wasn't long for this world, and while Mark had no sympathy for him, he worried how it would affect Sammy.

Mark walked in around four, he looked in the house but didn't see the two of them anywhere, he walked out on the deck and about fell over. "Shorty what the hell?"

Sammy looked up covered in paint and Joey looked much the same. "Umm we decided the deck needs repainting, its starting to peel."

Joey ran over jumping on Mark and getting paint all over him. Mark just laughed and walked over to Sammy and bent down to kiss her. "Shorty, you guys have made a god awful mess."

Sammy looked up with flushed cheeks."I'm sorry."

Mark pulled her up. "Hey its okay, I'll finish up, Joey here will help me."

Sammy sighed, she really tried to do things right, it just didn't end up right most of the time. Mark pulled her closer. "Stop." He growled.

Sammy looked up at him. "Stop feeling bad, I don't give a damn about the deck, or your cooking, although theirs been a vast improvement, its you I love Sammy, just the way you are."

Sammy smiled and stood on her tiptoes to kiss him. "Go get cleaned up and we'll be along when we finish, I'll take you two out to dinner."

Sammy nodded and kissed Joey before she went to get cleaned up.

Mark watched with amusement as Joey tried to eat his spaghetti, and made a royal mess of it. "Here Joey, let me help." Mark said cutting it smaller so the boy could manage it better.

Sammy smiled. "I called Toby's social worker today.

Mark instantly became alert. "What did he say?

Sammy sighed and set her tea down. "Not much,their really not supposed to tell us anything, he said they were due for a home visit in two more weeks, but that he had every indication things were fine, she's not going to school, kindergarten is not mandatory here, so her mother chose not to her send her till she starts first grade, sounds kinda weird to me, but he said everything was fine."

Mark saw the worry on her face. "We just have to hope for the best, hope that her mother stays clean this time."

Sammy nodded and took a bite of her salad.

Mark decided to change the subject. "I went to see your dad, he's not doing real well."

Sammy laid her fork down. "How long do you think he has?"

Mark frowned. "Not to long Shorty, he looks really bad."

Sammy thought about her dad, he was a real bastard no doubt, but he was her dad. "Is Mom helping him?"

Mark shook his head. "She took off when he got really sick, your dad says she went to stay at their house in Newport."

"He's alone, just his hired help I guess." Sammy said.

Mark nodded, he knew his Sammy well, she was going to go see him, he wished she wouldn't but he was her father, he couldn't keep her from her dad when he was dying.

She didn't say anything else and they both looked at Joey and laughed, he had spaghetti sauce all over his face.

Sammy called Mia and let her know about their dad, Mia didn't say much and Sammy knew that her sister would not go see him, that she was done with him.

She hung up the phone and walked down to Toby's room, or what was her room, it still had her special books, she liked Sammy and Mark to read to her and the toys they had got for her, over the time she had lived here, it had become a little girls room, the blue little mermaid comforter still on the bed, Sammy curled up on the bed, tears leaking from her eyes.

She missed Toby so bad, she was happy with Mark, she loved being married to him, it was just the sadness over losing Toby seemed to press down on her several times a day, she wished she could just see her, be able to see that the girl was alright.

Mark came in carrying a very tired little boy, he had taken him and Seth and Emma to the boardwalk for a couple of hours, he took the boy to his bedroom and changed him into pajamas and tucked him in the bed and walked out of the room.

Mark looked in the kitchen and on his side of the house and frowned when he couldn't find Sammy, he went back down the hall and sighed when he seen her laying on Toby's bed, Mark shook his head, they were in the process of taking down the wall and making this place on big house, Kevin had given them the house outright as a wedding present, he was going to have to redo this room, she was just going to make herself sick coming in here, crying over Toby every night.

Mark walked in and lifted her sleeping form carrying her down the hall, he carried her over to their bedroom and laid her in the bed, he pulled her shorts off and pulled the covers over her, it broke his heart to see her hurting, maybe her stupid father was right, maybe a baby would help her get over Toby, he loved Toby too, but he couldn't let Sammy grieve herself sick over this. Maybe a baby would focus her on something besides missing Toby.

Mark got undressed and climbed in the bed beside her and pulled her in his arms holding her close, he had to do something to make things right for her.

Sammy rolled over and smiled, Mark must have put her to bed it was early yet, she smiled at him, she always wondered how she got so lucky for a man like Mark to fall in love with her, she rolled closer to him and lifted her head to press a kiss to his cheek. She smiled as his long lashes fluttered open, he looked at the clock and frowned. "Shorty, its two in the morning, why aren't you sleeping?"

Sammy shrugged. "I don't know, just woke up."

Mark turned to his side and looked at her grumpily."Well go back to sleep."

Sammy smiled and turned on her back. "I don't think I can, I might get up and get some work done."

Mark growled and put one big arms around her. "No, go back to sleep."

Sammy sighed. "Mark I'm not sleepy." She said pushing at his big arm.

Mark grumbled. "Maybe a spanking, would put you in a sleeping mood."

Sammy just rolled her eyes. "Maybe it would." She said and rolled over to face him. "You sure are bossy."

Mark just closed his eyes. "Sleep woman."

"No, I'll just keep talking to you since I cant sleep."

Mark opened one eye and rolled her on her stomach and swatted her butt several times, she yelped but was giggling at the same time. "Now go to sleep or you're really going to get it." He growled closing his eyes again.

Sammy laughed and poked him in the side. "What!" He boomed at her, she just grinned. "Now I got another problem."

"Woman you're about to have a real problem." Mark said and sat up ready to pull her across his knee, he didn't like his sleep interrupted and it was enough to put him in a evil mood.

Sammy just grinned and smiled up at him. "Mark, you cant spank me, it just makes me hot, thats my problem, now I wanna you know..."

Mark looked at her like she was crazy. "Little girl if I ever really spank you I can promise you it won't make you hot." He snapped.

The smile left her face and she was beginning to think he was really mad, Sammy was used to his blustering, she wasn't used to him getting really mad at her, but then again, she didn't make a habit of getting him up in the middle of the night. "I'm sorry I woke you." She said in a low voice and turned over facing away from him.

Mark was instantly sorry he had snapped at her, God he hoped she wasn't going to cry. "Fuck." He muttered running his hand through his long hair. Mark reached over and plucked right off the bed and on his lap. "I'm sorry Shorty, you know I can be kind of cranky sometimes, I didn't mean to upset you."

One big hand pressed her head to her chest and he rubbed her back. "Forgive me?"

"It's not your fault, I shouldn't have woke you."

Mark shook his head and lifted her chin. "You can wake me anytime you want, I'm not mad baby." He kissed her lips gently, sometimes he forgot what a gentle spirit she was.

Sammy smiled at him. "I love you Mark, more than anything."

He wrapped her in his arms and kissed her forehead. "I love you too Shorty."

Sammy giggled. "Was that our first fight?"

Mark snorted. "Girl you don't know what a fight is, I couldn't fight with you if I wanted to, it kills me to upset you, I only want to see happiness on that pretty face of yours."

"I don't want to fight with you either Mark."

Mark held her till she drifted back to sleep, it scared him how much he loved her, no woman had ever tamed him, but this one had and with nothing more than that sweet smile of hers.