Chapter 15: Zac

"When you look me in the eyes

I catch a glimpse of heaven

I find my paradise

When you look me in the eyes"

"He's going to have your hair," Mac says, smiling.

"Do you want to hold him?" she looks up from the sleeping baby.

"You just got him; I can wait. Plus it'll probably wake him."

"He has plenty of time to sleep, Mac. Go on; take him."

Timidly he reaches out to take his son. The baby opens his big blue eyes and stares at him. "Stel, I woke him. He's going to start crying."

"No, just relax. You're going to be a good father."

Gently he rocks him baby until he is back asleep. "We have to name him, Stel."

"How about Zac?"

"I was hoping for Mac Jr.," he pretends to be upset. "But that won't happen."

"Zachary… Zachary Alexander Taylor," she suggests.

"I like it."

Lindsay begins stirring, "How is the baby?"

"He's perfect," Stella moves next to her. "Thank you for this, Lindsay."

"Did you name him?"

"Zac. Do you want to hold him?" Mac offers.

"Are you sure?"

"Of course. You made him possible."

She takes him in her arms. "He's a handsome little guy."

Stella walks around the bed to Mac, and he wraps his arms around her. "I told you it'd all work out," he whispers.

"I know."

A nurse knocks, then enters, "Time for his first bottle."

"Stella, you're his mother. You should do this," Lindsay holds Zac out to her.

She takes the baby and the bottle. "Here you go, little guy," she sits and offers him the bottle. Hungrily he starts drinking.

"Smile," Mac holds up the camera, taking a few pictures.

"Mac, get in there with her," she holds out her hand for the camera. He gives it to her and joins his wife with little Zac.

Lindsay snaps photos until there is another knock on the door. Danny, Flack, and Hawkes enter with presents. They each get a chance to hold the baby boy, and more pictures are taken.

Finally he gets back to Stella, now wide awake with excitement. Zac reaches up with his little hand and grabs a lock of her curls, tugging gently. As he lets go, he laughs while the hair snaps back like a spring.

"He's going to be a mischievous little guy like someone else I know," Mac smiles at her.

"No, he definitely gets it from you."

And in that hospital room, Stella discovers true joy after a disastrous past. Never again would she feel sad now that she had found her family.

A/N: All done. I'd like to thank you all for reading this story and reviewing. And for reading any of my stories. Hopefully I'll write fifty more. So... coming up I have two one chapter things. One's pretty sad. The other... starts kind of sad, then gets happy, then gets sad again. But it ends happily... I think. And then I'm almost done with a three chapter story. Another kind of sad one... that should end happy too. After that... I've got another idea for a one chapter thing. Then there's a couple other ideas I have that should be multiple chapters. In case you don't have me on favorites and you're interested, the names of the next two stories are Underdog and Now Comes the Night. I haven't come up with a name for the other yet. What else... NY was kind of sad on Wednesday. Hopefully Danny and Lindsay work out their problems. I can't believe it's not on next week so people can watch women in their underwear. Why would anyone want to watch that? But the week after looks kind of... odd. Oh, I read that the police officers are supposed to go on strike in a few episodes and Mac might be short a CSI... wonder who... And I wonder if he had to fire them because they did something wrong or because of the budget... or if they just quit for some reason. Or maybe they die... hopefully not that one... Well, I guess that's it. Please tell me what you think. Thanks.