A/N: There's lots of time jumping here... so something else can happen.
ANA
December: (10 weeks later)
It's Friday afternoon and I'm heading up to Christian's office to give him a bunch of paperwork that needs signed and fax before we leave for New York again tomorrow morning. This will be the third time we've been there since we bought the new Grey House NY building. We're finishing hiring staff this week, and going over the final construction phase. We should be ready to open on January 3rd.
We bought the penthouse in Times Square. I'm absolutely in love with it there. Which is good because we are there all the time now. I'm so glad Teddy doesn't mind all the traveling. He loves flying in the jet. He also loves the NY penthouse as much as I do because of the view of Times Square. He loves all the lights at night.
Christian took Teddy up in the helicopter last month. Now even more he wants to be like Daddy when he grows up.
"Knock, Knock" I tap on Christian's door before I push it open and walk in. He's behind his desk chewing on the edge of a pencil. I walk up to his desk and drop the papers on it. "I need your signature, sir."
"Thank you, ma'am." He sasses back at me.
"Don't forget that we have my doctor's appointment at 4. So get those signed and have Andrea fax them over." I tell him. I'm 20 weeks pregnant now, and we should be able to find out the sex of the baby today.
"You're a bossy one today. Why don't you just sign them?" He raises an eyebrow at me.
"Because your signature is much prettier. And I did, they need both of ours." I shake my head at him trying to be a smart ass.
"Come here." He pats his lap. I squint my eyes at him. "Please." He begs. I smile and walk and sit on his lap.
"I'm gonna train you to say that word to everyone, one of these days." I tell him kissing his cheek.
"It will ruin my image." He smirks at me and rubs his hand over my belly. "I'm too excited to find out what we're having that I can't concentrate on anything else."
"Just 3 more hours." I push back his hair.
"What if I call Dr. Greene now and see if she can get us in sooner?" He looks at me pleading. I can't help but laugh at him.
"No. We both have things to finish before we leave tomorrow. Now get these signed." I tell him pointedly.
"I will. But maybe you should give me some incentive." He whispers against my lips, his hand pushing up my skirt. I'm about to give into him when Andrea buzzes through.
"Mr. Grey, Mr. Throne is here to see you."
"Thank you Andrea. Can you have him meet me in the conference room?" He tells her.
"Yes, sir." He sighs and rest his head on my chest.
"At least give me a kiss to last me the next 3 hours." I lean over and kiss him, running my hands through his hair. I hear him moan against me, and his erection growing. I pull away and stand up.
"Down boy." I point at his dick. Christian smiles at me, standing up to adjust himself.
"He can't help it when he's around you." He smirks and grabs the papers I brought him. He scans through each one before signing each document. "Your signed papers, my love."
"Thank you." With one final kiss I'm out the door. I give the papers to Andrea and have her fax them off.
Three hours later I'm in the back of the SUV with Christian on the way to Dr. Green's. After we find out today what we're having we plan to tell Teddy he's going to be a big brother. I wonder how he's going to take it?
My phone rings and I see that it's Kate. Her and Elliot are in Aspen skiing this week.
"Hey Kate. How's the slopes?"
"Ana!" she screeches. I pull the phone back.
I laugh, "What's up Kate? You sound happy."
"Elliot proposed!" She shouts.
"He proposed?" I look up at Christian, but I can by the look on his face he already knew. Why does nobody share this with me? "Congrats. I'm so happy for you." I smack Christian in the chest and mouth 'Why didn't you tell me?'
He grins at me and shrugs his shoulders.
"Thank you. It was such a surprise. We we're on top of the mountain and he just dropped down to one knee." I can tell she's crying. "I had to call you first and let you know. AHH" She screams again. She's going to make me deaf. "Will you be my matron of honor?"
"Of course. I'm so happy for you guys. Text me a picture of the ring." I look at Christian who rolls his eyes.
"Oh I will, it's beautiful." She tells me. "I just had to call and tell you. Now he's taking me to dinner to celebrate."
"You're going to dinner to celebrate?" I ask questionably.
"Well, we already did that. But now we're hungry." She giggles at me.
"Have fun. We should be back from New York, by the time you get back. We should get together."
"Will do. I'll talk to you later. Elliot is calling me. Toddles."
"Laters." We hang up. I turn to Christian. "Why don't you ever tell me stuff like this?" I accuses him.
"I was sworn to secrecy." He puts up his hands and smiles.
"I'm your wife. You're not supposed to keep secrets from me." I nudge him in the side.
"I'm sorry." He laughs. "When Danny is ready to purpose I'll tell you."
"Is he?" My eyes get big.
"Pfft. No. If it happens I promise to tell you." He kisses my cheek. "Plus isn't better for you to be surprised too?"
I cross my arms. "No." I fake pout.
"We're here." Taylor announces.
"You ready Mrs. Grey to find out what we're having?"
"I think I want it to be a surprise." I stick my tongue out at him and get out of the car. He races around to meet me at the door.
"You are just begging for a spanking aren't you?" He tells me seductively.
"Yes, please." I pant.
"Oh you can bet on it for tonight. Now let's get inside now or I might do it now."
"Yes, Mr. Grey." I bat my eyes and head into the waiting room.
I'm called back into the room fairly quickly. I pee in the cup and then sit on the table waiting for Dr. Greene to arrive.
"It seems like forever ago when we were here finding out Teddy was a boy." He tells me with his hand placed on my stomach.
"That's because it was. These last 3 years went flying."
"I don't think we should wait so long between kids this time." He tells me and my eyes shoot up to my eyebrows.
"Ok killer, let's get through this one first and then we can talk." I shake my head. This coming from the man not that long ago wanted to wait 5 years.
"I know what you're thinking. I've changed my mind." He leans over and kisses me. "I forgot how beautiful you looked swollen with my child." He whispers to me, as Dr. Greene comes walking in.
"Are you two ready to find out what you're having?" She sits down in front of the ultrasound machine and sets it up.
"Ready as ever." I tell her. She smiles at me and squeezes the warm gel on my tummy.
She moves the probe around. First she does all her other measurements and lets' us listen to the baby's heartbeat. "165 bmp. Good. Everything looks good as well." She moves the probe just a little more. "This one seems too not want to let us see what he or she is." She wiggles my tummy a little, trying to get the baby to move. "Ahh there we go. You see those three lines?" We both nod.
"It's a girl." I say.
"That she is." Dr. Greene smiles.
"A girl?" Christian smiles.
Dr. Greene prints out a few pictures and hands them to me. "Congratulations to you both. Everything looks good, so I will see you back in 4 weeks." She leaves the room and I go to stand up when Christian picks me up by my waist to spin me around.
"I'm guess you're happy?" I ask him giggling.
"Very."
We head back to the SUV and Taylor starts to drive us home.
"It's a girl, Taylor." Christian tells him excitedly.
"Congratulations. Girls are a lot of fun" He tells us.
"Speaking of which, Sophie is coming here for Christmas right?" I ask him.
"Yes ma'am." She smiles through the rearview mirror.
"I'm glad. I know Teddy is looking forward to her visit."
Taylor and his ex-wife have been going through a long custody battle. It finally got settled and now they have alternative holidays and Taylor gets her for the summer.
"You know when our daughter is 16 I'm locking her up. And she's not dating till she's 30." He tells me. I just have to laugh at him.
"Aren't we the picture of contradiction? You know she'll figure out how old we were when we started dating."
"And look where that lead us?"
"Happily ever after? She'll just rebel if you hold onto the reins too tight." I tell him.
"Don't you think your dad would of done the same with you?"
"Oh, he would of polished his shotgun for you. But we were always good at sneaking around." I wink at him.
"I'm sure Taylor would help me keep the boys away. Won't you?"
"Yes, sir." He grins shaking his head.
"Plus if she looks anything like you. I know I'm in trouble." He whispers in my ear. Is it wrong that I already feel sorry for my future 16 year old daughter? Fathers of daughters. I do wonder what my daddy would of thought of Christian?
We arrive back and the house and are greeted by Teddy. He charges up to us and hangs on to Christian's leg. "DADDY!"
Christian bends down and picks him up. "Hey buddy. How was your day?"
"Good. I'm ready for New York. We go now?" Christian laughs.
"No we're leaving tomorrow morning." Teddy pulls out his lower lip and pouts. "Don't start that." Christian pushes Teddy's lip back in. "We have something we want to tell you."
Christian brings Teddy over and sits on the couch with him on his lap.
"Teddy," I start. "You're going to be a big brother. Do you know what that means?"
"Baby?" He asks unsure. I've been trying to read him books on becoming a big brother. Start throwing in the hints around now.
"Yep, Mommy is going to have a baby. You're going to have a little sister, which means you're going to be a big brother."
"Where's the baby?" He asks looking around the room.
"The baby is mommy stomach. She has to grow a little before we can bring her here." He looks down at my stomach funny. His face is all scrunched up. I don't think he quite understands.
"Daddy can you play flying with me? I wanna be the airplane you be the helicopter." I figured that's about how he would take this news.
"Yeah sure, buddy." He hopes off his lap and goes and gets his toy plane and helicopter. Conversation forgotten.
"That went well?" Christian asks me scratching his head.
I shrug, "He'll understand better when she gets here. We'll just keep telling him here and there."
Teddy runs over and hands Christian is toy helicopter that looks just like Charlie Tango. "Daddy play." He demands.
"While you two play. I think I'm going to go take a bath." Christian turns to me and pouts.
"Daddy come on." Teddy huffs. Christian gives me a final look and gets on the floor to play with Teddy.
We decided to wait till we got back from New York to tell the rest of the family. That way Kate and Elliot will be back by then.
~xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx~
New York was a full success. We are now fully staffed and when we open in January we will be raring to go. All the construction will be done before Christmas.
We hired a CFO to help run the everyday in the NY office. His name is Michael Fields. He will have to report to Christian, Ros or myself on a weekly basis. Michael has been working at GEH since the very beginning. He is the head of the financial department and has been nothing but perfect at his job. We offered him the job, and he more than willing jumped at the chance. We will be paying for all his moving expenses and help with finding a place to live, along with the first two months' rent,
I know once the company first opens we will be there for a while so we plan to spend New Year's in New York and will be staying till the end of the month. Ros will be running things in Seattle till we get back, although she will be here for the opening.
Taylor and Gail were married Christmas Eve. We held it at our house along the water. We set up tents with heaters to keep everyone warm. It was a pretty small gathering, since Taylor and Gail both have small families. But what was most important they were gathered by all the people that love them. And if the wedding couldn't of been more picture perfect it started to snow as soon as they said 'I do.' Like that only happens in the movies. I kept asking Christian if he bought a snow maker to have that happen. The marriage of Gail and Jason, also brought us a white Christmas.
New Year's Eve:
I'm standing in the closet of our master bedroom, in the New York penthouse. I have on a grey dress that has a lace top that cuts down in a v, and my breast are practically falling out of it. It has a ribbon that goes around the top of my belly and it cuts off at my knees. I'm also wearing a pair of gray Louboutin's. I look at myself and I feel like a whale in this dress. I'm 25 weeks pregnant now, I'm so much bigger now than I was with Teddy.
We're having a semi-formal event tonight. Everyone is here, including some of our new employees. We plan to have a huge event this Saturday night before the opening. We pushed the opening to the 9th, we hit a small snag with the city during the construction. And since it was so close to the holidays they need to finish it this week. But it was a small glitch and should take no time to fix.
"You look breathtaking." I hear behind me, I spin around and see Christian standing in his navy blue Armani suit, with a pinstripe gray tie.
"I look like a beached whale." I sigh. He walks up to me and puts his arms around me.
"What have I told you about talking about yourself like that?" He tells me sternly.
"Not too. I just feel so big." I pout.
"You're far from it." He grabs my chin and pulls my lips to his. "Lay down." He tells me pointing to the chaise.
"Christian, we have a house full of people. We can't." I mean I just got finished getting dressed.
"Lay down. I'm going to make you feel good. Then we can go back out to the party. After midnight I plan to take you away and have my way with you. I want my first moments with you of the New Year, being deep inside of you." Why does this man still send chills to my bones? "Now lay down."
I lay myself down on the chaise lounge that we have in the closet. He gets on his knees and pulls up my dress. He slides off my underwear so now they're around my ankles. He dips his head in between my legs and sucks hard on my clit. He then takes his tongue and moves them around my folds. I grab onto the back of his hair as I moan out in pleasure.
Taking three of his fingers he places them inside of me in and out, while he goes back to sucking and licking my clit.
"Hey what is taking you guys so long?" We hear Danny bellow from outside the closet.
"Go Away Danny!" Christian doesn't relent and his fingers move faster inside of me. "Oh god!" I moan out. Thank goodness this closet has a lock on it.
"Really you guys?" He laughs.
Christian removes his lips from my pussy. I moan out my protest. "If you don't get out of our room Danny, I'm going to kick your ass. Now give us a minute." He growls out and goes back to the task at hand.
I think I hear footsteps walk away, but I don't care. He moves his thumb to now run circles along my clit. His head comes up to mine and his lips crash down on me hard. There's something exotic about tasting myself on his mouth. I feel myself start to tighten.
"That's right baby. Let it go." He murmurs against my lips. I try to hold it longer so the feeling can last. But I can't and I explode around his fingers. My body relaxes against the chaise and it turns to mush. "Do you feel better now?" He asks kissing along my jawline.
"Oh, very much so." I purr. He sits up and removes his fingers from me. He sucks each one individually. "You taste mighty fine, Mrs. Grey."
I blush as I pull my panties back up, then stand up to straighten out my dress. "Thank you Mr. Grey." I reach up and kiss his cheek. "We should get out here. I'm sure Danny has announced to everyone what we're doing.
"He better not have. I really will kick his ass."
"Does my hair look ok?" I ask looking in the mirror, trying to fluff it back out.
"It's fine." He smiles taking my hand and we walk out of the bedroom.
"Is Teddy still downstairs with your dad and Elliot?" I ask looking around the room for him.
"Should be, they were going to see how close they could get without getting trapped in a corral. Elliot said something about getting the free hats." He rolls his eyes.
Danny walks up to us with a drink in his hand. "Don't say a word." I tell him.
He raises his hands and laughs. "I wasn't." He smirks. "But you wouldn't mind if Maddie and I christen the guest room for you, would you?"
"Oh, it's already been christened." Christian grins back at him.
"Is there anywhere?" Christian shakes his head.
"Will you two cut it out? I'm going to go get a drink of the cranberry cider." I walk away and leave them to bicker. I swear those two will never grow up.
Hours later, everyone is pretty tipsy, expect for me. Teddy is loving all the attention he is getting. He's also loving all the lights and the large crowd that is outside in time square. There's all kinds of music and screaming. We have a patio that we are able to walk out on and watch all the festivities without being in the crowds.
Teddy is on a mission to stay awake till midnight. I think at this rate he's going to make it. I'm standing on the patio, holding Teddy in my arms. He's getting so heavy.
"How much longer?" He asks me. "I wanna countdown… 10…9…"
I look at my watch it's 11:39 now. "21 more minutes."
"But that's forever." He whines.
"Oh, it's not that much longer. Why don't you tell everyone it's almost time, so they can watch the ball drop with us." He hops down from my arms and runs to the doors.
"Everyone outsides now. It's almost time!" He shouts.
He grabs the attention of almost everyone and they start piling out to the patio. He comes back over to me and raises his hands to be picked up again. "I told them." He smiles.
"Yes you did. Good job buddy."
Christian comes up next to me and takes Teddy from my arms. Teddy hesitates for a second, but cuddles into his dad's arms. Christian puts his free arm around my waist.
"I figured you needed a break from holding this sack of potatoes." He smiles down at me.
"Thank you." I wrap my arm around him and rest my head on his chest.
"So, I was thinking through the list of names we came up with. But what do you think of Phoebe?"
"Phoebe?"
"Yeah." He shrugs his shoulders.
"I like it. Little Phoebe Grace?" I smile up at him.
"I like Fefe too." Teddy interjects.
"Then it's settled. Your little sister's name will be Phoebe Grace Grey." I tell them.
"Mommy, Daddy, shhh. The countdown is starting."
Everyone starts to count down. "10…9…8…7…6…5….4…3…2…1…. HAPPY NEW YEAR!"
Christian and I give Teddy a kiss on the cheek. He scrunches up his tiny face and hops out of Christian's arms. He runs to Elliot who has a noise maker and asks for one too.
"Happy New Year Mrs. Grey." Christian tells me engulfing me in his arms.
"Happy New Year Mr. Grey." He pulls me into a very indecent kiss. We finally break free when Teddy starts blowing his noise maker at us. I laugh and rest my head in his chest.
"We will finish this later, when he goes to bed." He winks at me and goes to pick up Teddy turning him upside down. This causes Teddy to fall into a fit of giggles. "Why are you making so much noise?"
10 weeks later…. March 10th
The opening of Grey House NY was a great success. Amazing things have been coming out of there, we couldn't be more proud of how smooth everything is running.
I'm now 35 weeks pregnant. This pregnancy has been pretty smooth sailing till now. I was told two weeks ago to start taking it easy. My blood pressure has been kind of high, so I might be at risk of preeclampsia. I'm not on bed rest, but I need to take it slower then I was.
Today I'm working for Andrea for a couple of days. I was going to start working just from home, but she had a family emergency. I know I could have had someone else to it, but Christian was on his hands and knees begging me to it. How could I say no? Plus it's an easy job, well at least for me.
I have my feet propped up on an extra office chair, and my laptop on my stomach, while eating a protein bar. I look so professional, not, all I need to finish pulling off my look is a pair of yoga pants.
Teddy is with me today, but he's in Ros' office, hanging out with her. She said she needed his 'help'. I think it has something to do with coloring old spreadsheets. I'm sure I'll have a couple of masterpieces on my hands.
"Mrs. Grey. You look comfy." I look up at Christian staring down at me, leaning over the reception desk.
"Why, yes I am. You have a meeting in 15 minutes with a Mr. Riley. Any idea what that one is about? I wasn't given any information on it."
"No idea. I figure I'll give him 5 minutes. His background check has he owns a cattle farm in Texas. So who knows?"
"Interesting." He walks over to me and leans down and gives me a kiss.
"Don't work too hard. If you start feeling bad let me know and we'll go home."
"I will. Don't worry. But I should be fine." I reassure him.
"Ok. Just send him in when he gets here." He gives me a final kiss before he goes back to his office.
A little while later, I'm typing on my laptop when I hear a familiar voice.
"We meet again." He says with his Texas drawl.
I look up and I'm met with Christian's doppelganger. "Hi." I stutter out. "You're Mr. Riley?"
"Yes ma'am that's me." He smiles. It's the same smile Christian gives me, and the same one Teddy gives me. This is just too creepy.
"There's was nothing written down to what this meeting pertained too?"
He clears his throat. "I have some important information for him that he might want to hear. Actually I think it would be better if I met with both of you."
A/N: next chapter we get to find out who the doppelganger is. I know this story is going to move fast from the next chapter on with only 4 chapters left. I really hope I did the ending justice. I really did try. Thank you so much for all the kind reviews with this story. Every single one of them means a lot to me. And helped me keep going. So thank you all who have reviewed, followed, and favorited.
Also I started another story called Christmas Surprise- and other short stories. It's going to be a bunch of one shots of Christian's POV of his family growing up. It is connected to another one shot called "My little girl isn't so little anymore." These stories are full of fluff and humor.
