sorry its been a while, I've had work and stuff to do. Anyway, this is a bit of an in between chapter. Hope you still like it

Enjoy x

Jade was sitting with her legs up on a stool in Escala with Faith on her lap, sleepily reading a book as Jade brushed her daughter's hair.

Ana was sitting opposite her with baby CJ on her, gently sleeping against her. She looked up 'I think he's fallen asleep'. Jade laughed slightly and smiled 'he'll be up and crying soon enough'.

Ana smiled and simply watched the small boy with what looked like amazement and Jade smiled, remembering how she had been with Faith when she was that small.

'He obvious likes you, the body heat helps. Especially seeing as there's you and his... Uncle? In there?'. Ana laughed and they both thought about it 'god, yeah...my baby will be CJ's uncle...that's a bizarre thought'.

Jade nodded, putting a plait into Faith's hair.

'yes well, that's what happens when you have a child at 16 and they have one at 20, that's why this little one' she kissed Faith's hair 'is being locked away from boys until she's 30'. Ana laughed 'I think Christian will be doing that all by himself to be honest'.

'Oh I know, he's made it clear he wants her to go to a succession of all girls schools, Luke seems keen on this idea as well'. Ana laughed and Jade raised an eyebrow 'Just wait, if you two have a girl, you're going to see my dad reach a whole new level of overprotective manic- enjoy that'.

At that moment CJ started to stir, beginning to cry 'Ah, there we go. I'll take him, Ana you should go and have a lie down, when that little one comes along you're not going to get much sleep'.

Faith turned around to look at Jade 'Mummy, where do babies come from?'. Both Ana and Jade stilled, not really sure what to say until Ana nodded 'Faith, honey, why don't you ask Granddad? He's in his office'.

The little girl nodded and ran off, presumably to find Christian. Ana and Jade simply looked at each other and laughed.

Half an hour later Jade had sorted CJ out and he was asleep in his crib in the suite that had been Jade's rooms for as long as she could remember.

She looked around, thinking deeply as Christian came to the doorway 'thanks for that Jade, just spent half an hour doing the whole 'when a mummy and daddy love each other very much' thing. Very funny'. She smirked and he came in the room, leaning against the wall and looking around.

'I remember the first day I had you here. It was just after I'd dropped out of College... Dad was so pissed with me, said I'd thrown everything away, and that I'd never make anything of myself. Mum was trying to be nice about it but she wasn't exactly impressed either. Elliot called me an idiot and Mia was doing the whole 'follow your dreams' thing. In the first few weeks I made a deal that was pretty lucrative, everyone told me to invest it all back, but I spent most of it on this place instead. I decked it out in all the stuff I assumed a kid would need and hired a nanny... Brought you back'.

Christian's eyes had glazed over a little as he recounted the story

'you were three... The first day the nanny looked after you mostly... Second night she was sick and no one could come and help me. It was just me and my three year old daughter, and you wouldn't stop crying. You just wanted to see my parents, didn't want anything to do with me, I was practically a stranger... So I made you hot milk, put you in bed -which was a pink one over where the wardrobe is now- and read to you. Of course you wouldn't sleep, so I ended up reading seven books to you, whilst I was say on the floor opposite you. I was terrified that you'd touch me and I'd end up shouting at you or something. So... You eventually fell to sleep and I just watched you sleep for hours, amazed that I'd done something right... Then in the morning you didn't cry and you were fine with me. I remember I put a plait in your hair and drove you to pre-school, this was the days before Taylor and Gail... You insisted that I hugged you before I left, made a huge fuss about it. And so I did...not sure how I managed it but I did. Dad asked me if I was sure I wanted to stay looking after you... I could Say no... Not after that'.

Jade was looking at her dad in a mixture of amazement and something else he couldn't work out

'despite everything you've always thought about yourself dad, the very fact alone that you brought me back, that shows you were a good parent. You didn't even know if I was yours and you still brought me back... That shows more about being a good parent than anything else you could have done. You're a good gradparent as well, don't doubt yourself'.

Christian nodded, looking appeased 'Thanks…I'm going to check on Ana'.

As he left, Luke arrived after bringing Gail back from the grocery store and passed him in the corridor with a smile and nod before going in to see Jade and his son.

'Hey baby, Faith is downstairs with Jason, who'd have thought big bad Taylor would be so good with kids eh?'. He leant over and kissed her gently, sitting next to her on the sofa, letting her lean on him as he put an arm around her, gently stroking her arm.

'I love you, you know that don't you?'. He nodded with a smile 'I love you too… what's wrong?'. He could tell easily that something was wrong by the tone of her voice and she sighed.

'I don't think I can do this again…have another pregnancy. We've been exceptionally lucky with both Faith and CJ, things could have been really bad. I could have… CJ could have… We were just lucky'.

Luke nodded, leaning his head against his wife's 'I know. I wouldn't even want to think about losing either of you… We don't have to try again… that's a long way off anyway honey. We can see what happens in the future, cross that bridge when we get to it?'.

Jade nodded, deep in thought 'Not for a long time… But…I do want more children Luke'.

He knew what she was saying and nodded, kissing her hair gently 'We can look into it again when the time is right'.

CJ started to stir and Luke stood up, letting Jade have a break as he looked after their son, simply glad that he was alive and home.

Before they'd had CJ Jade and Luke had been convinced that they wouldn't be able to have any more children, and had looked into the possibility of adoption, which they were both keen on. Finding out that Jade was pregnant again had obviously paused those plans.

Luke held CJ in his arms and smiled at his wife 'I'll change him, get some sleep'. Jade smiled back gratefully, thankful that everything was going right for once in their lives.

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