A week had passed since Peter had gone out to dinner with Addison and he couldn't seem to stop thinking about her. Things between him and Violet weren't going as well as he had hoped but he wasn't sure he cared anymore. Peter felt like he was a single parent again, even though they were married and supposed to be raising Lucas together he was doing all the work. Peter placed Lucas in his pack and play in their room as he tried to wake Violet.

"Violet, come on you have to get up."

"Can't you just bring him to daycare today, I'm exhausted."

"Violet, come on you promised to bring him with you to work today. I have to go to the hospital and the daycare is closed today."

"Pete can't you drop him off at the daycare in the hospital."

"Seriously Violet, you are his mother and you haven't done a damn thing to show it! I'm leaving for the hospital; don't forget to bring Lucas with you."

Violet watched as he walked out of the room and then heard the front door slam shut. She couldn't stand it anymore; he treated her like a child and was always leaving her to take care of Lucas. She got up, walked into the bathroom as she heard Lucas cry. Violet turned on the shower and jumped in trying to drown out the sounds of his cries. By the time she was out and dressed he had cried himself to sleep.

She walked into the nursery and filled a diaper bag with diapers, wipes, a few extra changes of clothes, bibs, pacifiers, and a few bottles. Violet walked down the steps into the kitchen, she grabbed Lucas lunch bag that they usually used for daycare and filled it with a can of formula, bottle of juice, some snacks and lunch. She laid the bags by the door then grabbed Lucas's jacket and car seat and headed up the stairs. Violet picked up the sleeping little boy and put his jacket on him and snapped him into his car seat. She walked back down the steps; set the car seat down threw on her own jacket, and then grabbed her purse, Lucas's bags and the car seat where Lucas slept peacefully.

Violet drove to the office and had Lucas settled in his car seat in the stroller before he started crying at the top of his lungs. She walked into the office trying to ignore the sound.

Addison walked out into the lobby of the office trying to find out where the screaming was coming from, and that's when she saw Violet who looked like she was going crazy.

"Hey, Violet what's wrong with Lucas?"

"He won't stop crying, I can't get him back to sleep and I have to see a client. When does your first client come in?"

"I don't have any today; I left it open for emergencies and paper work but there is none of either."

"Would you be able to watch him for a bit? I know I'm asking a lot but I can't take him into a session like this. His pack and play is in Pete's office. I'll have Cooper bring it down for you."

"Sure, why not."

"Thank you so much Addison."

Addison took Lucas's diaper and lunch bag from Violet and then pushed Lucas into her office. She unbuckled him from the car seat and took his jacket off. She checked his diaper just in case but she was pretty sure that Lucas was crying because he was hungry; he had many different cries and Addison always knew the difference between them. She grabbed a bottle and formula out of the diaper bag and prepared a bottle. She sat Lucas down in the pack and play that Cooper had just brought down to her, gave him a bottle and then went into the kitchen to make him some oatmeal with bananas. Addison finished feeding Lucas, changed him and then sat down with him on the couch. She smiled at him as she held him in her arms watching him try to fight off sleep.

Before she knew, she was waking up and it was one o'clock. She looked down at Lucas who was smiling up at her.

"Hey little guy, how come you didn't wake me."

Lucas got shy as she talking to him and he buried his head into her chest trying to hide.

"Okay, little guy why don't we go see what your mom is up to?"

Addison walked with Lucas down to Violet's office that she saw was unoccupied, so she went to the office next door to see if Cooper knew where she was.

"Hey Cooper."

"Hey, why do you have Lucas?"

"Violet asked me to watch him since she had a load of patients today and I had none."

"She cancelled all her patient and left hours ago."

"Do you know where she is?"

"No, she didn't tell you?"

"Does it look like she told me?"

"Sorry."

"It's okay, I guess I'll try calling her."

Ten minutes later and she still couldn't get through to Violet. The first two times the phone rang once and then went to voicemail, she must have hit the ignore button. The last two times it went straight to voicemail. She left a message but didn't get her hopes up that she would get a call back. Addison tried Pete next but it went straight to voicemail, she forgot that he was at the hospital.

After several failed attempted to contact Violet and Pete, she got all of Lucas's stuff together, put his jacket on and left the office for the day. She stopped at her own house first before going over to Pete's. She went upstairs to her room and put Lucas's on the bed with some toys while she changed into jeans and a t-shirt. She grabbed a small over night bag from her closet and filled it with pajamas, an extra outfit, hair brush, and toothbrush; she wanted to make sure she had some stuff just incase. Addison loaded Lucas back into the car with her stuff then drove to Pete's and let herself and Lucas in, thank god she still had a key.

An hour or so later, she tried Pete and Violet again with still no answer. As she sat with Lucas in the living room giving him his snack memories came flooding back of the way things used to be. She could feel the tears forming in her eyes, but she blinked them back not wanting to cry.

Four o'clock came around and Pete finally had a break from all the work at the hospital. He turned his cell phone back on, and then realized it was dead. He went to find a pay phone and called Violet but there was no answer; he figured she was probably still seeing patients. It wasn't more than ten minutes into his break when Charlotte King came barging into the break room, telling him that he was needed once again.

It was around dinner time and she still hadn't heard from Pete or Violet. So she made dinner for Lucas and herself. Once they were done eating she set Lucas up in front of the television with the Wiggles. She cleaned up dinner, and then joined Lucas on the couch. He immediately crawled into her lap and cuddled up with her. She noticed after twenty minutes or so that he kept chewing on his fingers so she turned him around to face her. She looked inside his mouth and instantly saw the spot where a tooth was trying to break through. Addison picked up Lucas and went to go get a teething ring from the freezer. There was one but it wasn't totally frozen so she decided to give him a bath in hopes that the teething ring would be frozen by the time she was done.

Half an hour later, she placed a clean dry Lucas in his crib and went to go get herself changed into more comfortable clothes. After putting on a large t-shirt and shorts, she returned to his room to fins a tear stained faced Lucas crying for his "momma". She reached for him and picked him up, he stopped crying and buried his face into her chest and said momma. He looked up at her with the biggest grin on his face as he held on tightly to her.

Addison walked back downstairs with Lucas, grabbed his teething ring from the freezer and laid down with him on the couch. She laid stretched out on the couch with Lucas chewing on his teething ring snuggled on top of her.

It was almost ten when Pete pulled down his street. He had almost decided to stay at the hospital overnight so he didn't have to deal with Violet, but he really missed Lucas so he decided against it. But it wasn't Violet's car he saw when he pulled into his driveway it was Addison's. Worry flooded over him, was something wrong with Violet or Lucas?

He threw the car into park and ran to the front door. When he entered the house, he was greeted with the beautiful picture of his son with the woman he loved; too bad she wasn't the woman he was married to. He took out his camera and snapped a quick picture forgetting that the flash was on. He watched as Addison wiped her eyes then moved the teething ring to the coffee table beside the couch.

"Hey sleepy head."

"Hey Pete, you're home late. I tried calling you to let you know I had Lucas but it went to voicemail each time."

"Sorry, my phone died. Where's Violet?"

Addison preceded to tell him what had happened earlier that morning at the practice and how she hadn't been able to get in touch with Violet since.

"I'm sorry she put you in this position you must have better things to do then lay on the couch with a teething toddler and watch the Wiggles," he said gesturing at the television.

"It's fine Pete, plus I had fun; I've really missed Lucas."

"Here why don't you hand him to me and I'll go put him to bed."

Addison kissed his head then handed Lucas over to Pete. The little boy stirred, then realized he had been passed to someone else and started crying for his "momma". Lucas was reaching out for Addison, so she sat up and Pete handed him back to her. Lucas snuggled into Addison and was instantly calmed.

"I'll go put him to bed. Why don't you put his teething ring in the freezer?"

"Okay, thank you Addie."

Ten minutes later Addison walked into the kitchen to find Pete with a confused look on his face.

"What's wrong Pete?"

"Why are there frozen washcloths in my freezer?"

"They are frozen with juice for Lucas, another option to teething rings. Sorry if I ruined your washcloths. I'm going to get going."

Pete followed her and grabbed her arm before she made it to the door. He pulled her in close, kissed her soft and slowly and then said,

"Stay."

She looked up at him, wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him close. Addison could feel his hands moving down her butt to her thighs, she jumped up and wrapped her legs around his waist. Pete walked them over to the couch and sat down with her in his lap. His hands moved all over her body as they kissed and then went under her shirt. He started to caress her stomach like he had so many times before but it was different this time, it felt different he thought. Pete knew he was right when Addison broke the kiss.

"Addie, I don't want to say anything because the worse time to bring up a woman's weight is before you're about to make love but its not like you to put on weight. Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"I know you better then that, there's something you're not telling me. Please tell me, everything will be okay."

"I'm pregnant."

"Is it mine?"

Addison looked down as he asked the question and he immediately knew that it was indeed his baby. Pete pulled her in close and started rubbing circles on her back.

"Baby, I love you."

Addison looked up at him with tear filled eyes and said,

"I love you too."

Pete stood up and carried her into the guest bedroom. He laid her down then slid into bed beside her. They fell asleep like that together, Addison wrapped in Pete's arms; one around her and one resting on her stomach as if to protect her and their baby.

I really hope you've enjoyed this chapter. I don't know when I will have time to post more, hopefully very soon but tomorrow is Christmas Eve and that's a pretty big day for me since I'm Italian. Christmas Eve is as big of a deal as Christmas is, so I have lots to do tomorrow hopefully I will be able to post in a few days.

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