A/N This was written for Leverage bingo and Leverageland big bang. The prompt is:Tom Baker
I wish I were Tom Baker.
"If you could just wait here, Mr. Baker" a nurse showed him to the waiting room. "We'll get you as soon as we can"
"Okay, thanks" Nate started pacing up and down the room, but then he sat nervously on one of the chairs. He looks around the sterile room. The nurse had called him Tom Baker, one of his many aliases. Sometime he wished he really were Tom Baker. Tom Baker was married to Sarah Jane, a beautiful and extraordinary woman.. Tom and Sarah Jane had gone to the Caymans for their second honeymoon to celebrate their 10th anniversary ( he wasn't going to forget that detail!). The had stayed in a luxurious hotel and spent most of the time in their hotel room making love. (This was his fantasy, so he might as well make it good).
Tom Baker had gone to rehab because his wife had asked him too once his drinking got bad.
He wasn't a thief, but he worked as an accountant. His wife instead was a teacher and worked in the district primary school. She was her student's favourite and she adored kids.
They both helped their community by hosting fund raisings and volunteering at their local church.
Yes, Tom Baker was a good man and at the moment he was waiting news about his wife. He had received a phone call from the hospital an hour before telling him that Sarah Jane had been brought in with an ambulance.
The nurse, who he talked to before, came back. "You can go in now Mister Baker. Follow me"
Nate quickly got up and followed her through the hospital corridors until they stopped in front of a private room. She opened the door. "Look who's here Mrs. Baker!" she smiled.
Nate got in. There was Sophie laying comfortably in the hospital bed.
"Hey there!" she looked up and smiled at him. "Took you long enough!"
The nurse stepped outside to give them some privacy.
"I wanted to be there, but they wouldn't let me in. Have there been any complications?" he asked concerned palming her face in his hands.
She leaned into his touch. "Just a little blood lost, but I'm fine"
"Wasn't there another two weeks left?"
"It's not my fault somebody was in a rush" She smiled down at the little baby girl in her arms.
She was perfect. She had her mother's hair and facial features, but her wide open eyes were blue like her father's. She now looking directly at him.
"Do you want to hold her" Sophie asked the man.
Nate slowly nodded with a big grin. And took the infant in his arms.
"Hey there, little one." He let the baby squeeze one of his fingers with her little hand.
Tom Baker might have a good life, but Nathan Ford was the father of this little miracle. Or at least he will be officially once Hardison changed the name on her birth certificate.