Teddy and Family

By Cindra

Chapter 3

A/N: You asked for Teddy and Teddy you shall have. ;)

Cin Xxx

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

Teddy POV

Uncle Logan, Elliot, and Ethan are all crazy fun and these chairs are like my power wheels only lots better! They can go over big rocks, sand, all sorts of stuff outside and are crazy fast too! We've gone down the stairs with them too! They're racing each other all over the yard and the beach! Gabe, Ava, and I are along for the ride. Sophie and TJ went up to the house with Sam.

Daddy got it for Logan so that he could come home today, but I don't know why Elliot and Ethan are on one. They weren't hurt by super mean baddies like Logan was. I wonder if Daddy got them for Mommy, because she's gotta rest and stuff? I hope he did, because with it she'll be able to zoom all over the house and not even put her feet on the floor! The seat lifts you up so you can reach stuff and more!

"First one to make it through the obstacle course has to give up dessert tonight!" Elliot is never gonna wanna give up the chair and has Ava on his lap.

"Oh, it's on." Ethan has Gabe.

"Not happening, El." Logan makes sure that I'm buckled in tight on his lap. "Hold on, squirt. This is gonna get a little wild."

"Can we go really fast again?" Wild means fun and I am all for fun. When Uncle Elliot says that and we're in his truck we go off-roading and it's awesome! He only does it when he's watching me and Mommy and Daddy have to go somewhere. Elliot is the best Uncle in the World or I thought he was, but Logan he's awesome too!

"We go fast?" Gabe and Ava are just as excited as I am.

"Oh, it's happening, Logan." Elliot grins wickedly. He loves dessert and tends to snitch yours if you don't keep an eye on your plate. "Hang on, princess. Daddy's gonna make your Uncles eat dirt."

"What in the hell is going on here, boys!" Uh-oh Uncle Jason looks really mad. Were we not supposed to have fun with the chairs?

"The kids had better be strapped in Logan, Ethan, and Elliot..." Daddy's giving them his boss face! That's not good! We weren't supposed to be playing with the chairs.

"He's fine. I belted him in nice and snug." Logan is rolling his eyes at Daddy. Bad move. Daddy hates that and I try not to do it around him.

"Little Brother, you and I both know that if these weren't safe then you wouldn't have bought them. We're just having fun…" Elliot's rolling his eyes at him too and Daddy's got his scowl face on, not good.

"We're testing them out." Ethan shrugs.

"Gentlemen, that's not a toy." Daddy's growling too, all bad signs. I wonder if things went bad with Nana Ella. "They are for Ana to use while she is recovering from having the babies and Logan's is his until he's back to a hundred percent again. After that all three of them are going to be donated to those that need them. Unless Kate and Mia end up having a C-section and then they can use them until they are fully recovered as well. Teddy does not need to get into his little head that these are for joyriding around in. They are devices used by those who don't have the means to get around on their legs and not like his power wheels."

"Unbuckle the kids now." Jason gives them his don't-mess-with-me I-will-make-your-life-miserable look. You don't wanna defy that look ever.

It means weekend boot camp. I've got to watch before and by the end of the weekend my Uncles and Daddy were all crawling and nearly crying it was so bad. Daddy stayed home for days. Mommy thought it was funny and told him that he asked for it. Again an Adult saying that makes zero sense. Why would anyone ask to go to Uncle Jason's weekend boot camp?

"Boys, dinners on. House now!" Grandpa Cary, Nana Ella, Nana Grace, Aunt Gail, Aunt Mia, and Aunt Kate are standing up by the house on the big deck shouting at us. Nope we weren't supposed to be playing around with the chairs.

"Ava Grace!" Aunt Kate is mad.

"Gabriel Carrick!" Aunt Mia is mad too.

Uncle Logan wisely unbuckles the belt and I get down to go over to Daddy. "Christ, he wasn't in any danger…" He's muttering under his breath.

Elliot and Ethan do the same with Gabe and Ava. They race up the lawn to their Moms.

"I don't wanna hear it. Move now." Jason points towards the house.

"Elliot Johnathan Trevelyan Grey now!" Nana Grace is really mad at Elliot. "That is not a toy! You have no business being on it and you are being a bad influence on the kids!"

"Yeah, yeah, can't have any fun ever around here…" Elliot is muttering and heading his chair up the lawn towards the main house.

"Like you don't take Teddy for rides in any of your supercars…" Logan isn't far behind.

Ethan wisely says nothing

"I'm sorry, Daddy." I look up at my daddy and give him my best sorry face.

"Teddy, your Uncles know better and are supposed to be a good influence on you. That is not a toy." He picks me up so that we're eye to eye.

"Yes, Daddy." I nod.

"Good. Let's go eat dinner." We head up to the house.

"Logan Jason Taylor! If you ever ignore my wishes with my charge again! I will deep six your wheels in the Sound and you will be in a normal chair for the duration of your recovery! I told you no! I meant no!" Aunt Sam was yelling at us a lot, but then gave up and headed for the house. Uncle TJ was right they were asking for trouble and Sophie must have known what was gonna happen too.

"Sam…"

"Don't you Sam me! He is my responsibility! If something would have happened on those stairs or those rocks it would have been on me! If you over grown children wish to risk your necks by yourselves then by all means have at it, but not with the kids! Jason and Gail can watch your sorry hide! Three years under cover! Nearly getting yourself killed and yet nothing has changed! You're still as big of a child as Elliot! Now sit there shut up and eat your dinner! As for that chair! If you don't use it as the tool it is supposed to be then I will drive it off the dock and deep-six it in the sound! I'm going for a run before I give into the urge to shoot all three of your sorry hides!" Aunt Sam stalks off.

Boy are they all in trouble.

"Logan! Were you joy riding in that chair with my son?!" Mommy's shouting now and standing in the doorway of the sunny room next to Grandpa Ray.

"Anastasia Rose get your fanny back on that couch! I am handling this!" Daddy's growling at Mommy too! This is going from bad to worse!

"I'm fine! I'm supposed to walk and Daddy is right next to me! This isn't my first go at this! I know what my limits are from when I was recovering after I had Teddy! If Logan and the boys think that it's perfectly fine to joyride on those things with the babies then they're in for a world of hurt! Where the heck did they get two more to begin with? You said that you only got the one?!" Mommy's locking eyes with Daddy and is doing her arms folded talk glare.

"Teddy needs to eat," Daddy and I head to the outdoor table that's loaded with lots and lots of yummies. Hamburgers! Hotdogs! Aunt Gail's French fries! Mac and Cheese! Yeah, there's good stuff like veggies, but anything is better than turkey and chicken.

He sets me in my booster seat then loads up a plate for me. "Dig in, Buddy." He ruffles the top of my head and then heads for Mommy. "Daddy's gotta see to Mommy."

"Keep it up, Flyboy, and the couch in your den will be your bed for the next six weeks." Mommy growls from right behind Daddy.

"Baby, the two chairs are for you, so that you can easily get around upstairs and downstairs without causing yourself more harm because your stubborn little butt won't listen to doctors' orders. It was the same way with Teddy and it caused you to have to heal longer than you would have had you listened to those of us who care about your wellbeing." Daddy turns to Mommy scoops her up and then sets Mommy in one of those awesome fast chairs. "Like I said, love. I was handling it." He kisses Mommy on the nose. Kisses are his way of saying sorry and it usually works.

Elliot was forced to get out of it because Grandma Grace grabbed him by his ear. Aunt Mia did one worse and kicked Uncle Ethan in the wennie. I think that Aunt Kate would have done the same to Uncle Elliot, but Nana Grace was doing more than enough punishing for the two of them. I think she's sending them to the naughty corner! Wow! Note to self, electric fast chairs are not toys and will get you into big, big, trouble if you use them like a power wheel. Fun or not, it's not worth the wrath of the Mommies.

"Mom!" Elliot yelps as Nana Grace drags him off to the naughty corner.

"They were all safe! We had them strapped in with us! None of them were gonna get hurt!" Ethan is the next to yelp when Kate does the same thing to him.

"You know nothing about how those chairs work! Logan is the only one who should have been testing out his new chair! They are not toys to joyride in!" Kate's ready to strangle them.

"Neither one of you looks paralyzed or broken to me, but do that again with my baby and that may just change!" Mia is scary mad too.

Grandpa Cary is smacking each of them upside their heads. "Congrats, boys. That's months of weekend boot camp for the two of you.

"No one got hurt! What about Logan?! He was right there with us!" Mia and Kate whispered something in their ears and Ethan and Elliot look almost in tears.

"Boys, Logan is the only one with a reason to be in that chair and wouldn't have pulled what you did if the two of you hadn't confiscated them. Your worst mistake was including the kids while you tore all over the grounds. That is your main crime. If you wish to try and get yourself killed acting like over grown teenagers then leave the kids out of it." Jason is checking over Logan.

"I'm fine!" Logan's staring off in the direction that Sam left and looks like he's in pain. That's not fine. Did he hurt himself again?

"Logan Jason Taylor! You will sit there and let Jason check you over and then eat dinner! After that we will show you to your rooms in the family wing. Chris had them set it up exactly how the rehabilitation center specified." Gail glares at Logan and he wisely gets quiet.

"Sam had chosen to stay in the rooms next to yours, but that very well may change, now and she'll choose to keep to the cottage instead." Mommy's glaring at him too. "Joyride on that all that you wish, but with Teddy that's a big fat no-no, big brother."

"I wasn't joyriding with Teddy. I was testing out the chair's capabilities when Elliot and Ethan joined us. Then it was like old times and I missed that, so part of that is on me. I'm sorry that I worried you. Teddy is and always will be safe with me. Sam's stressed out of her mind because I nearly bought the farm this time and didn't keep her in the know for three years that for her must have been endless. I'm sorry that I bailed and went dark, but that's the job description and after the third attempt to get Teddy… I had no choice, but to jump headlong down the rabbit hole. Trust me what I found was anything, but Wonderland. So, sue me if I jumped at the opportunity to have a little harmless fun with the guys and the kids." Logan's got dark eyes again.

I'm little, but I know that he's been through a real life nightmare and needs something to protect him. I scramble out of my booster seat and race into the house to go get him something to chase them away.

"Christ, I forget that he's three going on thirty and knows what I'm saying…" I see Logan burying his face in his hands, as I dig through my toy box to find my lion. "I'm sorry…I have to check myself around him…he shouldn't have heard that…"

I can part with him, but my Teddy not so much. Lance the Lion can keep his bad dreams away, because lions are fierce and strong. They also protect their pride like he did fighting the baddies. I think he gave this to me when I was really little and it kept me safe, so it can keep him safe now too.

I stop to peek at the babies and they're all sleeping, so that's good. No diapers and getting spit on is always a good thing. Then I take Lance and race back outside to where Jason has him parked at the front of the table. I hold out my lion. "Here, Lance, is good at keeping me safe, and now he can do it for you too."

Logan is blinking at me and his eyes are all shiny! No! It's not supposed to make him sad!

"Take him. He's good at keeping the bad dreams away." I again hold out one of my prized possessions, but the most would be my Teddy. Teddy's are the ultimate protectors and I have one practically everywhere I go. I call them my backup teddies because my best one can't ever be lost and stays here. I have a whole collection of plushies, many of them are bears, as it's my nickname, so everyone likes to give me a new one all the time. My closet has these nets filled with them, but my blue grey, soft, cuddly, teddy is my favorite as he's been with me since I was my siblings age. I got Lance I think the last time I saw Uncle Logan, before he left to go on his Arrow mission.

Logan clears his throat, you know like when grownups do when they don't want you to know that they're about to cry. Because they think that crying makes them weak, but it doesn't. It makes you feel better most of the time. Most like to cry when they think no one is around. "Are you sure, Teddybear? I'm honored that you feel that I'm worthy of his protection, but don't you need him?"

"I've got my Teddy, so I'll be fine. You need him. He'll make you feel better and give you good dreams. He's kept me safe since you gave him to me and now he'll keep you safe." I offer up Lance again and this time he takes him. I'm all smiles, because I can do something to help him too.

"Sam and I both had him made for you and I'm happy that he has done his job and kept you safe and the bad dreams away…" He sets me in his lap and kisses the top of my head. "Thanks, buddy. I'll take extra special care of him and that's a promise. If you ever need him, you know where to find him."

"You need him lots more than I do. I'll be fine with my Teddy." I grin.

"Thanks for loaning me one of your most prized possessions…" He hugs me again, before setting me back down on my feet.

"I've got lots and lots of different plushies, so if you need one to make Aunt Sam smile again…just ask." Hey, plushies last a whole lot longer than chocolate and flowers and you can hug them.

"I'll keep that in mind…" He chuckles as do most of the family sitting at the table.

"Teddy, please come sit and finish your dinner…" Mommy's all smiles now and I think she's got happy tears in her eyes.

I race back over to my chair and Daddy sits me back down in my booster seat. Ava and Gabe are already finished and eating ice cream sundaes for dessert. There is no way that I am gonna miss out on ice cream anything, so I focus on finishing my dinner. It seems that everyone else is done with growling about fast chairs and are now all doing the usual talking about stuff and eating dinner. Which is more than fine by me.