Teddy and Family

By Cindra

Chapter 2

A/N: Just to ease those who are getting the chills about even the possibility that Hyde was Mia and Christian's sperm donor…rest assured that he is not …just no…he was filming the attack though…all of Ella's attackers were wearing masks so for Christian it wasn't clear if he was or wasn't one of her attackers from the video that he was sent…I'll answer more in this chapter, but thought that might ease some worry or concern over that….Again this story will have multiple POV as in this chapter.

On a happier note. I am thrilled that you enjoyed the first chapter. Thank you for all that have fav'd/followed/reviewed/or Pm'd this story. I love that you are loving this…

Disclaimer: EL James and sometimes SMeyer own it all I'm just having fun with the characters, but the OC ones and story idea are mine.

Jason POV

"Duty calls!" I toss the spatula to Carrick and give chase of our little Teddy bear. Chris is already on edge no sense pushing him over by not heading Teddy off before he reaches the front doors.

"Jason!" Chris growls as I sprint by him.

"On it! Focus on the babies." I call back, my focus is on the bundle of energy bolting for the front doors.

"She's here!" Mia's excited squeal echoes through the house. She's jazzed to meet her birth mom.

I scoop up Teddy just as he's reaching for the door handle. "Up you go, Tedster." I set him up onto my shoulders.

"Daddy invited her here, so I can open the door…" Teddy growls not happy with me in the least.

"You know the drill. Grownups only." I reach up and hang him upside-down until he is squealing with giggles.

"Okay! Okay! Sorry!" He's squirming like a worm on a fishing hook. "Let me up!"

"Geeze, lay off the kid and open the bloody door already!" Logan's impatient growl is muffled thru the heavy hand carved wooden double doors.

I swing him back up onto my shoulders and open the doors. "Who the heck sprung you early?" I grin at my oldest scowling up at me from his Magic Mobility Frontier V4 Off-Road Wheelchair with Sam and Ella behind him. Leo and Max pounce on him and proceed to attack him with slobbery puppy kisses.

"Call off the attack dogs before they kiss me to death." Logan was outnumbered and they weren't in the mood to calm down for scratches and belly rubs.

I whistle for them to come, but nope new person in a strange new kind of moving chair. "They're barely six months old and that is one heck of a toy that you're sitting in there, son. How'd ya manage those wheels?"

Ella reaches down and scoops up a silver gray fluffy ball of fur. "Don't listen to the grouch kisses are healing."

Sam reaches down for the coco colored ball of fluff and got all kinds of kisses. "That's Max in your arms and this one is Leo. They love anything that moves. We've mastered not chasing after the golf carts and cars. They'll still go after Teddy in his power wheels, but then they're both his shadows."

"Uncle Logan!" Teddy launched himself from my shoulders at Logan. "Hi Sam! Hi Nana Ella!"

Logan easily caught him and settled him in his lap. "What this? It arrived this afternoon. Let's go check out what this baby can do, Teddy Bear." With that said he zoomed off with my Godson.

"Bye!" Teddy shouted. The pups wriggled free of Sam and Ella to give chase.

"You're spoiling my, kid." I arch a brow at Ella.

"I didn't get him that hell raiser on wheels. That is all, Christian." Ella rolls her eyes, as I step back and let them inside. "And from the looks of the garage I see that his love for everything fast is still in full force."

"Chris and Ana both love fast flashy, as long as its safe cars, boats, planes, helicopters, motorcycles…the toy box is endless. Teddy shares his parent's passion for everything fast and has since before he was born. The only thing that would settle him down was going for car rides in his Daddy's R8 Spider. That little guy loves to sail and fly with his Dad and is every bit Chris's mini-me…." My conversation is cut short by hurricane Mia, even at seven months in she's a fast little thing.

Before Ella knows what's hit her she's nearly tackle hugged by her daughter. "He wasn't lying! You're really here!"

Ella gratefully absorbs the impact and wraps her arms around her. "My Amelia…" she kisses the top of Mia's head and sighs happily. "Gorgeous, happy, full of life…"

"Chris and I have searched for you, but even the best couldn't seem to find you…" Mia pulls away, tears pooling in her eyes.

"I couldn't let myself be found and I couldn't let them find you and your brother either. It wasn't safe until the threat was vanquished for good. Know this though, you both have always been with me in my heart." She shows her what's in her locket.

"Chris says that you're Logan's boss? Were you a spy too?" Mia asks skeptically.

"Special Agent for the FBI and several undisclosed organizations, but retired as of two days ago. Spy is such a vague nearly archaic term these days. And not nearly as glamorous as they make it out to be in the movies…." Ella has her arm around Mia's waist and they are headed for the sun room.

"I'm just happy that you didn't get killed and that we can get to know you now." Mia's taken to Ella like a fish to water. Chris is a far bigger nut to crack.

"There were some close calls, but I had incentive to pull me out of the fire…" Ella's voice trails off as she and Chris lock eyes again. "Hello, thank you, for inviting me to dinner..."

Ana smiles warmly at her from the couch. "Welcome to our home, Ella. I hope that you don't mind a cookout."

Chris sets his sleeping son back down into his Moses basket and then takes Ella Gail from Ana to burp. "Family is always welcome in this house and as for the cookout. We've had our fill of fancy dinners to last until Teddy hits his teens. My angel craved holiday dinners throughout her pregnancy. If Teddy sees, smells, or even hears the word turkey, chicken, anything poultry related for the next little while he's gonna go on a hunger strike. The plus side being that the triplets although being premature by a few weeks were all very healthy babies, so can't complain there. Ana is holding Aurora Gail and this little one on my shoulder is Ella Grace. Alexander Christian is snoozing at my feet in his basket."

He's actually trying to break the ice, but the forced smile shows all too well that he's still mulling over what was said in the car.

The rest of the family have made themselves scarce outside.

"Ana, Christian, you have a beautiful family…" Ella has to be blown away by hearing that they named their daughter after her, but her face gives away nothing. Well, we know where Christian got that from his Momma. "I know that you have a million questions and I am more than willing to answer them all…" Her tone is soothing and her eyes are gentle not threatening at all, her arm still around Mia's waist.

"Thank you, I am blessed to have the other half of me and four wonderful miracles…" Chris can't help but stare at her. She's the female image of himself and the near mirror image of Mia the only difference being that Ella has red gold hair and Mia's leans more towards strawberry blonde. All three of them have grey eyes and striking features that one usually sees sculpted in a museum.

"Please, make yourself at home. The rest of the family gave us time to bond. Yes, we have millions of questions, but then that's understandable as we haven't seen you in twenty-three years. Mia and I had Welch and Barney try and locate you so that you'd be there at our weddings, but even though they're the best investigator and hacker bar none they came up with zilch. Impossible really, when you think of all the resources at his fingertips and that money was no object, yet again no results, not even a Social Security Number…So, Ella, does my top guy. The head of my Security at GEH work for you? Did you recruit them while he was at MIT along with Barney?" Chris arches a brow at Ella when she still hasn't moved an inch and gestures with his hand at the other couch. "I promise that Ana, the babies, and I don't bite. Please get comfortable."

"Christian, everything I have done good or bad was to protect you, your sister, and everyone around you…" She lets Mia lead her to the other couch and the two settle down into it.

Shit. I settle myself into one of the easy chairs and wait for the salvos to fire. Chris has that look and she'd better be ready for it.

CPOV

"Do you want the keys to GEH? I bought the land at an insanely cheap price for prime Seattle real-estate from JW Enterprises and Trust as they weren't in need of it and thought that I being the new blood that Seattle needed deserved a shot. The Scooby Gang, that's what Elliot and his crew nicknamed us when we were kids, but then you already know all about that don't you? Anyway, we all went in together to form GEH…Ana and I used some of our trust funds, as all of us had freerides to our Universities from, as if you didn't already know, JW Enterprises and Trust. We needed corporate sponsors for our various community service clubs in school that we turned into flourishing foundations and again that name comes to mind. James-Walker Enterprises and Trust, fascinating that James happens to be your maiden name and there is a hyphen in there that you've had changed where Walker used to be. Your mother was Alexandra James-Walker and her mother that would be your grandmother was Aurora Alexandra James. Have I missed anything?" I'm amazingly cool as I calmly burp my baby girl. I keep my tone soft and completely non-confrontational, just like she's doing with me. Hell, now I know where I got my skills from Ella. I'm thanking all the stars in the sky that she's on my side and I never have to go toe to toe with her in any boardroom.

I've actually interned for the CEO Mackenzie Donavan, as they were always watching over us in some way or other, but never overstepped and let us find our way with proper guidance of course. Shit! She was Ella's eyes and ears this entire time! We invited her to our private island wedding and she had a plus one who had to leave before we could meet her. Well, now I know how she attended our top-secret wedding in the middle of the fucking Pacific.

"I was the sole heir to their legacy. My father whom you are named after Christian died do to tragic circumstances when I was ten. He was mother's soulmate and also her CLO. Mother was lost and lonely, so when she met Hyde Senior she fell for all of his lies and married him. Gran however wasn't fooled in the least and changed her will so that I became sole heir to the family legacy. Mother still ran the company, but anything money wise always was put through Gran first. Hyde wasn't aware of that until he tried to embezzle millions and was stopped cold by the CFO then locked out of the company. He had a son who was off at University most of the time, so I rarely saw him. He gave me the creeps and would stare at me. I hated Hyde Senior. He was a nasty, vile, evil, creature. Not unlike his spawn. Losing my father made my Momma weak in the heart and her will what little was left he destroyed. Gran kept me away from most of it by enrolling me in a private all-girls school. I'd be home weekends most of them spent with Gran, rarely on Bainbridge Island where my mother was trapped with Hyde. Gran went as far as making Mac the new CEO, because Momma couldn't handle the responsibilities anymore. Hyde had been lacing her tea with opiates so she was pretty much a shell by the time I turned fifteen. I won't go into the gory details, but on the eve of my fifteenth birthday my Gran took a nasty fall and was rushed to Seattle Grace for hip surgery. Leaving me nowhere to go but the Island house. Momma was having one of her clearer days, as Senior was off doing sinister things for the cartel, so she'd made me a cake a little early, but at least it was chocolate, edible, and had the right number of candles on it. In the basement Junior had his crew over and they were having a party of their own. I came downstairs to get some more cake…I remember that clearly…"

"You don't have to…" I know all of horrific details and don't want Mia or Ana to hear them.

"I felt someone behind me, then a prick on my neck…I woke up five weeks later in the ICU. That night is a blur…I used to have night terrors about flashes from it, but no real recollection. Momma found me in the basement barely alive, after searching the house, and they had to air lift me to the hospital. Junior and his crew were nowhere to be found. Carrick started divorce proceeding on my mother's behalf while I was still recovering at Seattle Grace. Dr. Trevelyan that would be Gran's best friend and Grace's mother, and Grace were my trauma surgeons and they put me back together again. I was angry at first, scared out of my mind when they told me that I was pregnant after running more tests, then I heard your little heart beats, and saw two little bean like shapes on the screen. It was love. I didn't care why or how. You were mine. I was still fifteen when they set you in my arms. Momma and I were living with Gran. The Hyde's weren't an issue. Gran had powerful friends. Senior didn't have a leg to stand on, his associates didn't like him being put in the spotlight, and Junior and his crew were in the wind. He pulled up stakes and that was that without a clue that I was even carrying a child. Momma was put into rehab, got clean, and was herself again. I transferred to Seattle Prep while Momma and Gran lovingly watched over you. All was quiet for two years. I was out shopping with Momma for a dress for my seventeenth birthday dinner when one of the crew or Junior must have spotted me with the double stroller. I rarely took you both out in public, but that day I just wanted to take you to the park, after getting my dress. The next day I was outside in the yard with you and Mia. Mia was in the sandbox and you were swinging in your swing. I was handing Mia her pail and shovel when Junior appeared out of nowhere and tried to take you out of your swing. You bit him hard, making him let you go and then I beat the living tar out of him for getting near my babies. He had enough energy to run from Gran's security guys and escaped to the nearest ER. That night after my party and all of us turned in the monster came back…" Ella closes her eyes and that's it I have to stop this. Mia's in tears and so is Ana.

"The fire. Yes, Ella, I know what happens next. You got Mia and me out of a burning inferno and then because you were scared that being with you would endanger us more than we even were, you left us at the firehouse. They took us to Seattle Grace where Mom was manning the ER. Mia and I were treated and then put under Dad and Mom's care. Gran found you in another hospital in their burn ward. She and Grandpa took you in and that's when you decided on the open adoption and revenge. Before you took Junior out he sent me a series of videos over a period of two months. I had Jason destroy them. When I say that I know everything I mean everything. Hold your granddaughter." I walk over to the couch and carefully set my sleeping daughter into her arms.

"Jason, you, Welch, and Barney dropped the ball." Ella's locking eyes with him and he's actually cowering.

What the hell?! Badass Jason Taylor is scared of Ella?! Shit where's my camera! Hell, I'll settle with my phone! I whip it out and capture this rare moment in time.

"Junior went to MIT his hacking skills are black hat. Chris and I were in Taiwan and Hong Kong when he got through the firewall. We were both dead on our feet with jetlag. It was sent to his personal email account. Welch, Barney, and TJ hunted them down, it took months, but those black hats are now neutralized. GEH is secure. I've been watching over them all of their lives. They are mine and I protect my own. You dropped the ball protecting my kid, so I'd say that we both fumbled the play. Logan nearly bought it under your watch…" Jason's finally found his balls and shoots that zinger at Ella.

"That was the Director's call not mine. Logan chose to break his cover to save innocent lives because he jumped the gun and I was there within hours with the team. Half of the team sacrificed their lives to get Logan and rid the world of the monsters once and for all. He's still here, Jason. They aren't." Ella's exactly like Jason. This is unreal.

"Play nice. You can't reverse what was done and it helps no one rehashing it. Logan's alive. Taylor has destroyed those videos. Enough said." Ana isn't sad anymore, nope. My angel isn't one to tolerate the blame game.

"Just clearing the air, Annie." Jason flinches from her death glare.

"I'm sorry, Anastasia. This chat should have waited for after dinner. In my defense after being a ball basher for the last twenty odd years it's difficult to not revert back to my alter ego. I'm trying, but it's only been a few days…" Ella's tone is once again soft, soothing, and well motherly. She kisses my baby girl on the top of her downy cap of dark chestnut auburn curls.

"I understand and the fact that you're the female version of Jason would have the two of you clashing and I expect that, but the battle is over. You won. You need to focus on putting down roots and getting to know your family. I know that you chose to keep your distance to protect us all, but again you won. Focus all of what you had centered on avenging your family into getting to know those who are still here. Mia and Chris. All of us." My baby knows how to take control of any situation. She's our peacemaker.

"Ella, Granny T and Grandpa T are on a world cruise, but believe you me they'll be here before you know it." Mia's finally found her voice too.

"Ella, it's clear as day that you and our parents have kept in touch. Ana has this quirk, she never forgets a face. You've been to everything. Yes, you've been in the shadows, but you were there. You made sure that we've always been able to meet any goal and achieve our dreams. This house. Mia's house. Grey House. The Mile High. All little ways that you could be there for us when we needed you. Ana and I would like you to stay here with us, while El and his team work on building your home. We've more than enough room and you have your pick of the family or guest wing if that's more comfortable for you. Logan's gonna be parked in the family wing for a while. The choice is yours…" I go with my gut and extend the ultimate olive branch, staying here. Ana is set on it, but it's up to her.

"Chris and I both want you to stay with us. Having you on our team would be ideal, but if you have your heart set on creating an animal refuge and rescue then we'll help in any way that we can. El and Gwen are the best designer and builder in the state…" Ana's eyes and smile light up the room.

"I had this and Mia's home built by trusted friends of my family, as I couldn't risk having anyone linked to you at the time. I will be more than happy to have Elliot and Gwen rebuild what was once my family home. Jason can extend Grey Meadows to include Walker Crossing at last and Chris can stop badgering Mac about it now." Ella shakes her head at me when I grin sheepishly. Guilty as charged, but it's all in the name of security. Fine. It's prime real estate right in my backyard and I've been drawn to it.

"Can we share her?" Mia's big blue-grey eyes and pout will melt any resolve. "I mean most of us all live here on Grey Estates, so it's only fair."

"Mia, it's not like you live next to Mom and Dad. You live literally on the other side of the rose hedges. You, El, Ethan, Kate all spend more time here than at your own homes and we're like within walking distance. Logan's here too and she's like his other mom…"

"That's flattering, but Logan's more like my little brother. Don't age me before my time. He's only a few years younger than me and Jason trained us both. He's just likes to snark that I'm like a mother hen, because I'm a stickler for safety…" Ella rolls her eyes, well, Mia got that from her, and laughs softly as not to awaken the infant in her arms.

The triplets seem to be just like Teddy. They can sleep through anything. Thank you god! I feel for those poor suckers who have babies that cry if you as much as sneeze in the other room. Gabe was like Teddy, but Ava. She's high strung like her Mother. You couldn't even drop a pin if she was sleeping in the room in her basket. Poor El and Kate were walking zombies while we were well rested.

My musing mind just catches Jason's. "Cow pockey…Arabella…" remark at Ella's safety first remark. I arch a brow and he rolls his eyes. So Ella is a nickname for Arabella? She must have changed it after the incident. I like it. I'll run it by Ana see what she thinks.

"Fine, safe equipment, gear, those kinds of things…Happy now…Yes, I tended to take risks, but the mission called for it. Balls to the walls, Taylor. Risk it all or lose everything. I rarely use my given name, but having two Ella's might confuse this little angel. Arabella was known by Senior and Junior so I had it legally changed to Ella." She shrugs, running her fingers through her hair, unreal, I am so much like her it's scary. Then again she's my birth mom, so I guess there's that.

Ana and Mia are both trying not to burst into giggles and are giving each other and then me knowing looks.

Hey, I am not that bad. Well, yeah, maybe I am, but it's my family. There's that and my phobia of all things fire. My Pyrophobia isn't as acute as it used to be thanks to Flynn and my Autophobia was never a problem, but just there in the background. I was burned in the fire, my lungs took a long time to heal, and I had to go through a lot of reconstruction surgery on my back and arms. Mia had more lung issues, as I protected her, even at two my instinct to protect was in full force. I remembered it mostly in nightmares, but Ella wrapped us up in soaking wet sheets and then walked through fire to get us out. I can't even imagine the amount of surgery and treatments that she had to go through.

"Chris is insanely safety first and all of Grey Estates has fire retardant of some sort, the cars have to be the safest in their classes. Jason runs his army. You name it if it has to do with safety then Chris has to have it." Mia snarks, and I get another eye roll.

Yeah, fine it's extreme but we're ready in case of any natural disaster or fire. Hell, we'd have the fire out before the trucks even got here. Yeah, I know. I have a problem, but I'm working on it with Flynn. You go through what I did at two and then see how you turn out. I'm in the top five wealthiest men in the world and I achieved that phobias and all.

"Chris cares for all of us and that's what matters the most, now as for this tug of war between the two of you. Mia and Ethan can stay in the family wing, as we have more than enough room. Gabe can bunk in the hide-a-bed with Teddy, so problem solved." Ana once again steps in to keep the peace and halt Mia's snarking

"The whole family can bunk here if they want to, we've more than enough rooms for it. I'm sure that we're all starving by now and Dad's been signaling for the past few minutes that dinner is ready, so are we set, or does Princess Mia still want to keep this going?" I'm starving and I still have to go hunt down Logan and my kid, doing lord knows what on that hell on wheels chair that I had shipped for him from Australia. I had three shipped over one for Logan and two for Ana, one for downstairs and one for upstairs as I know she will want one too. She hated being down for so long after having Teddy and this will make things easier for her and she won't overdo it.

"Babe, be nice." Ana smothers a yawn. My baby has had a long day, but she's not going down without a fight and needs to eat. "Be a love and settle Rory in her basket."

I take our daughter, kiss her forehead, and carefully get her snug in her basket. "I'll bring you in a plate." I straighten and focus on Ana.

"I can join the others." Ana's pouting and as adorable as it is, she's stuck on the couch until I carry her to our room.

I carefully pick up Alex's basket and set him on the couch, so that I can kneel next to it and see to my angel. "Ana, you are recovering from major surgery. Doctor's orders. Rest and stay off your feet. Please, baby, don't fight me on this." I croon as I cup her face in my hands and kiss her softly.

"Annie, I've got a little of everything for you ladies." Ray comes in with a tray loaded with food. "Chris, Jason, dinners on and Teddy is joyriding with Logan on his new toy. Sam's ready to deep six it in the sound."

"On it, Ray." Jason takes off out the doors.

I rub noses with Ana and then spring to my feet. "I was afraid that he'd go crazy like this."

"New wheels?" Ana arches a brow a me.

"I had it shipped from Australia so that his therapists could see that he had the means to maneuver around the meadows without any issues and he'd be able to come home." I choose not to mention that there are three.

"Babe, I want one…" Ana pouts up at me. "If it's what you were looking at on your laptop then I can be mobile and not stuck on the couch or in bed. Two would be ideal that way I can have one down here and upstairs…"

"Baby, I'll see what I can do." I blow her a kiss and leave to help Jason round up Logan and Teddy before Sam gives into her urge to shoot him.

Now you know what happened to Ella, well, without any gory details. The healing can begin. Hope all of you liked it.

Happy Summer Solstice for those of you in the Northern Hemisphere and Winter Solstice for those in the Southern Hemisphere.

Cin x