Phoebe anxiously looked around the hospital as she sat in the waiting area of the surgical wing, Normally Phoebe was quite a patient person but in the last two weeks she had been getting quite worked up, not to the point where her baby was at risk but she had been having trouble focusing. She was becoming paranoid to the point where Phoebe had recruited Neal into helping her solve the problem that her been bothering her. Which is how Phoebe had ended up at Bellevue hospital and was now awaiting her brother's arrival. Neal was under the assumption that he was meeting Phoebe here an ultrasound appointment which they were going to eventually do but Phoebe needed Neal to do something for her before that. As if by magic, Neal waltzed out of the elevator and Phoebe quickly got up or attempted to get up as quick as she could given that she was six months pregnant.
"Woah! What's the rush Pheebs?" Neal asked as he helped Phoebe to his feet.
"What took you so long? Never mind that, we don't have much time…" Phoebe said taking Neal's arm and dragging him along. Both Phoebe and Neal didn't have much time as they both had to get back to work after the scan, Phoebe had no idea what Neal was currently working on but she had two meetings to get back after this as well as grabbing lunch.
"Phoebe what is up with you?" Neal asked and Phoebe didn't reply as the two of them turned a corner but then Phoebe pointed to something far off in the distance. It was the thing that had gotten her so worked up as of later. "Okay it's Simon…"
"I'm not pointing to Simon, I'm pointing to the beautiful woman that he's with…" Phoebe stated as she glanced over to Simon who was laughing with the tall blonde who looked like a model who was dressed in the same blue surgical scrubs as Simon. Phoebe believed that the two of them were colleagues. "I think that the two of them are dating…"
"Why?"
"The last couple of weeks I've noticed that Simon has been acting a bit different, he's spending more time at work and then comes home in a really happy and cheerful mood even after coming off a double shift. Then he's been showering me with gifts lately especially flowers." Phoebe explained with a frown.
"So Simon being happy and showering you with attention makes you think he's seeing someone? That makes no sense at all Phoebe!" Neal stated.
"That's not just it Neal, he's on his phone more than you usual and I've heard him talking to someone named Alison a lot and I know Simon's sisters are called Clara and Faye. Before you suggest his mom, Simon's mother is called Lorraine. Anyway back to the topic at hand he spends less time in bed, look I know it sounds crazy–"
"–Go back one step Pheebs, what do you mean he's spending less time in bed?"
"It's not what you're going to think but the last couple of weeks Simon and I have been sleeping together and by that I mean sharing the same bed. It's a long story but the short version is that the baby was being really active and preventing me from sleeping and one night I crashed with Simon and it's kind of been like that ever since… I'm telling you it's because of this woman. A couple of times I've come down to see him and I've seen the two of them together, laughing and flirting." Phoebe wearily said and she watched as Neal looked at her with a bemused look and at first she ignored it until he had this huge goofy grin plastered over his face.
"Phoebe… You're still in love with Simon! I knew it! I knew that you still had feelings for him!" Neal stated looking awfully pleased with himself.
"What do you want Neal? A medal?!" Phoebe hissed as she was in no mood to talk about how she was still in love with Simon with Neal of all people given that just over a month ago she had firmly denied such a thing. "Now that we've established that I'm still in love with the father of my child, can we focus on the fact he's dating someone!"
"You don't know that he's dating her Pheebs." Neal reasoned.
"Don't be ridiculous Neal, look at her she's beautiful not mention she's a surgeon which means she is very intelligent. If I was a man I'd date her…" Phoebe retorted, she should have known that Neal would have been no help to her but Phoebe had no other choice. She needed answers and Neal was very good at reading people given his past as a conman.
"So you brought me down here to spy on Simon? I thought we were going to see the baby Pheebs–"
"–And we are Neal! The appointment isn't for another few minutes but I just wanted to get your opinion on this Simon situation before so will you tell me what you think please?" Phoebe demanded, feeling herself getting worked up about this entire thing and to calm herself down she had to place her hands over her stomach. This whole situation with Simon was making her stressed out and the fact that she hadn't eaten was making her mood so much more worse.
"You know what I think Pheebs? I think that this is all in your head because Simon thinks the world of you, I've told you several times that it's clear that it's obvious he's still in love with you. Maybe it's because of the pregnancy hormones because the issues you have with men stemming from me and dad that you can't see it. Phoebe the man is in love with you, the two of you are sharing the same bed not to mention your carrying his child. Trust me he is not seeing some other woman, you told me that Simon is the good guy and a good guy wouldn't do something like this." Neal assured Phoebe who just shook her head.
"Neal, I'm not imaging this…"
"Pheebs your hormones are all over the place and you've clearly spent a lot of time thinking about this, but here's a suggestions Pheebs why don't you tell Simon how you feel?"
Phoebe shook his head. "I can't tell him Neal! I was the one who ended things, I can't go to Simon and be like I'm still in love with you even after I broke your heart because of my trust issues involving men."
"Phoebe I love you but your making things out to be a lot harder than they actual are…"
"Neal can you just try and find out what you can? Ask Simon if he wants to go grab a drink sometime or something like that, claim you want to get to know him better before the baby is born. Have a couple of drinks and turn on the Neal Caffrey and find out Neal!" Phoebe stated, no longer in the mood to talk about this any further and decided to move things along by grabbing Neal's arm and leading him over to where Simon was still laughing and joking with his mysterious friend.
"Hey Pheebs and Neal…" Simon began before turning to Phoebe. "I don't know Neal was coming with us."
"Really? I thought I told you, must be the baby brain… But I thought it would be nice for Neal to tag along so he could see the baby in the scan instead of old scans and feeling the baby kick all the time." Phoebe said stretching the truth quite a bit, not that Simon needed to know that.
"Phoebe thought it was important that Baby Jennings gets some quality bonding time with his soon to be uncle." Neal added, which just caused Simon to laugh.
"No problem, before we go let me introduce you to a friend of mine… Phoebe and Neal this is Dr. Alison Morgan, an orthopaedic oncology surgical fellow and a friend of mine." Simon began making introductions and Phoebe gave Neal a pointed look at the mention of the name Alison. "And Alison this is Phoebe Caffrey and her brother Neal…"
"It's a pleasure." Phoebe said forcing a smile on her face.
"I feel like I practically I know you Phoebe, Simon talks about you and the baby all the time. How are you feeling?" Alison gushed and Neal gave Phoebe an 'I told you so' look which she promptly ignored.
"Pretty good except for the small bowling ball in my stomach which is putting a lot of stress on my body and making me waddle like penguin." Phoebe said in an effort to be polite.
"Alison, we've got to get going but I'll catch up with you later…" Simon began and after the farewells were over with, Phoebe along with Simon and Neal had made their way to the elevators to leave the surgical floor and head to obstetrics for the ultrasound. Given that Simon worked in a hospital, it had been decided early on during Phoebe's pregnancy that all the appointments and the eventual birth of the baby would take place here at Bellevue for convenience on Simon's part. Five minutes later Phoebe was laying down on the exam table whilst her OB Dr. Warren was squirting gel on her stomach.
"Sorry this is going to be cold." Dr. Warren said as he squeezed the gel onto Phoebe's stomach and pelvic area, Phoebe opened her mouth to reply but was interrupted by the baby kicking hard.
"Dear lord, this kid is going to be the death of me…"
"The baby kicking?" Dr. Warren asked.
"Pretty active as of late and seems to like kicking his mom a lot whose not to happy about the intensity of it as you can tell." Simon replied. "Told Phoebe it just means the baby is very active and strong…"
"Simon's right Phoebe."
"Yeah, well he's not the one getting kicked even though I'm carrying this baby around for a few more months and feeding it. But I've already got revenge planned, this kid is going to regret kicking me when it's older. I can already see the teenage tantrums when I ground them on a Friday night, should be fun…" Phoebe replied.
"Well let's get this show on the road and take a good look at your baby." Dr. Warren said placing the ultrasound wand over Phoebe's stomach and after a couple of moments an image appeared on the screen; their baby. "There the baby is…"
"Wow…" Neal began in awe and Phoebe glanced over at Neal to see him completely fixated at the screen and watching the baby. It was sweet and in that moment Phoebe realized that she made the right choice in letting Neal back into her life. Neal needed something positive to keep him on the straight and narrow, to stop him from getting into trouble and looking for Kate and becoming an uncle could do that.
"That's our baby Pheebs." Simon quietly said as he pressed a kiss on Phoebe's forehead."
"That's our little boy." Phoebe corrected, her voice strangely hoarse no doubt due to be caught up in everything that had happened in the last half an hour. But it was seeing her son actual facial features in detail that really got to her, Phoebe wasn't an overly emotional person but she felt like she was going to cry.
"Son? So you told her? I thought Phoebe wasn't going to find out until the delivery?" Dr. Warren asked.
"Not exactly, it kind of came out over dinner a few weeks ago but Phoebe knows." Simon sheepishly said and Phoebe just grinned at him, she couldn't imagine not knowing that they were having a little boy.
"The baby's a looker, should be proud Phoebe." Neal noted.
Phoebe frowned as she looked at the ultrasound screen, Neal was right about how the baby was a beautiful because it was her baby. Call her a little bias but all mothers thought their kids were beautiful. Plus Phoebe had Simon who was pretty damn good looking. Although it wasn't in the way she had expected. "The baby doesn't even look like me! He looks like a mix of you and Neal!"
"Means he's going to break some hearts, hopefully he'll have the Caffrey charms too." Neal quipped and Phoebe just rolled her eyes.
"Let's hope not otherwise he'll be just like the two of you."
"Pheebs of course the baby looks like you! The resemblance would probably been more obvious if he was a girl but I can already tell he's got your nose and I'm pretty sure he'll have your gorgeous eyes. Our baby is going to look his beautiful mom, I guarantee it." Simon assured Phoebe and she believed him.
"I still can't believe that's him! Look at his little features and hands, I don't want to wait another three months." Phoebe said.
"Well you've got to Phoebe, we want baby boy to stay inside until you at least reach your 38 weeks and right now your only at 24 weeks so you've got a least another 14 weeks to go but it'll be worth it all in the end I promise. That gives you times to prepare for the baby, such as names. Do you have any possible names for the baby?" Dr. Warren asked.
"–We've been discussing it, mainly at night when the baby is keeping Pheebs up but so–" Simon began.
"Christopher. That's his name, our baby's name is Christopher…"Phoebe stated interrupting Simon with the sudden declaration of their son's name. She didn't mean to announce there and them, Phoebe had intended to talk to Simon about the possibility of name their son Christopher but for some reason it felt right no doubt due to seeing their baby properly for the first time.
"Christopher? You want to name him Christopher, really?" Simon asked, his voice crackling with emotion and Phoebe along with Neal and Dr. Warren pretended not to notice this. Although Phoebe was well aware of why the name Christopher was having such an effect on Simon, it was because his paternal grandfather was named Christopher. Previously Phoebe has said that she wanted her son to have his own name and not be burdened with a name of someone they felt that they had to live up to, this stemmed from a conversation with Neal about their father. But Simon spoke very highly of his grandfather who he had very much loved, apparently helped raise him into the man who he was today. So Phoebe had thought about it for a while and she wanted to honour the man who had helped raise and shape Simon Jennings into the man he was today; the man who was the father of her son and the man she loved.
"I do." Phoebe replied, as much as she wanted to name her son after the grandfather than Simon had so greatly loved and admired Christopher was also the name of a writer that Phoebe greatly admired.
"Thank you."