Teddy and Family

Chapter 19

A/N: Little bit of a time jump…believe it or not it's the calm before the storm…Had to revise a little bit on when they got married the second time. Valentines Day seemed so cliché and wouldn't work with their class load. So I changed it to March 21st during their Spring Break recess.

Disclaimer: EL James and sometimes SMeyer (I love to play with her characters but with my AU spin on them from my other story. Sorry folks I don't do Cannon ever. Like, Love it, Hate it…you have been warned ^^) own it all I'm just having fun with the characters, but the OC ones and story ideas are all mine

Cpov

It's been six weeks since Ana stopped talking to me unless we're with the kids, but when we're alone nothing. Not just me either, practically every male who crows about the now named Overindulgence is enemy number one.

Ana's quirky that way, she doesn't ignore you or treat you like you have a contagious disease. Nor am I banished from our bed, not that anything beyond spooning is allowed, but then we can't sleep apart. It's been that way since forever. I was making progress and was allowed to kiss her on the forehead, cheek, or hold her hand...I was so close to even getting into being able to cuddle my girl…

That was until she was going through her personal email account and clicked on a disturbing piece of correspondence, containing hours of footage of myself in my covert role, which one of the Black Lotus's lawyers sent. Stating that she had a right to know that her husband had strayed while she was at home pregnant and tending to our son.

Had I not confided everything to her then this would have been marriage ending material. They didn't know that critical detail and the fact that they had even sent it was a career ending, financially crippling, and felony offence. Not to mention a guaranteed ticket to Federal prison.

Six weeks is my limit and like it or not the Overindulgence isn't going anywhere and is here to stay. I'm also fully healed and the guys are getting tired of either me or Ana beating the tar out of them during either of our daily workout venting sessions. The tenth trip to Seattle Grace was their limit. We're all going out on the new eyesore for a weekend of fishing for us men and relaxation for our ladies. The kids will have more than enough things to occupy them and she has no choice.

Ana throws her notepad at me and hits me in my face. "You are going. It's a done deal, Anastasia." I grit my teeth and count to ten after reading the colorful response to our family weekend trip.

To say that she's pissed is an understatement and the colorful language in several different dialects stating for me to FUCK OFF! Makes it abundantly clear. I should count myself lucky that it wasn't her Tablet.

"If you're gonna act like a Toddler like you've been doing for six fucking weeks then I'll treat you like one! You can keep up the silent treatment on the boat!" I toss it back at her.

She catches it and writes furiously across the pages, her brow furrowed into that V that she gets when she's pissed. If she looked at me her eyes would match the four carat sapphire engagement ring on her finger.

"You aren't staying here by yourself. No security. Not even the pets as they off to be pampered at a posh pet spa for the weekend. I don't even care if you can kick everyone in our security forces ass or out shoot them! It's a family weekend and you are going!" I use my alpha don't push me voice and I catch the flying notepad before it can hit me between the eyes.

Not this time, baby!

I read passed the profanity and what she will do to a treasured part of my anatomy if I try to carry her there by force and see that she's already made plans with Bella for the weekend. Where she's going is none of my fucking business. If I can go off and play James Bond all the while watching Live Kinky Dark Adult entertainment then she can fucking go where she wants, when she wants, with whomever she wants. I have no say, because we're not a team anymore and that eyesore out there proves it. It's not the Christian show it's supposed to be Ana and Christian take on the world together.

Her words stab me like a thousand knives. She's not even close to forgiving me if ever and it's not just about the boat. She's feeling like I cheated on her by going undercover for the Feds. She doesn't trust me anymore that's clear.

"I agreed to help the Feds in order to insure that our kids would have a safer world to live in. I saw those broken kids and wanted to put an end to it anyway that I could. I had the means. The power. The influence that they didn't. I was playing a role. That wasn't me and yes Ana I would do it again if it meant taking them down to protect the innocents that they were preying on. You were lucky that our big brothers and sister were there to get you out of the trap that they were trying to ensnare you and the girls with that summer day when you were teens. I haven't lied about any of that it just brings it all home seeing it with your own eyes. Every second of that disgusted me, but I promised to help bring them all down and that's what I did. You were under strict doctor's orders to avoid any and all stressful situations, so there was no way that I could have confided any of it to you. It had nothing to do with not trusting you either, it was a classified operation and I couldn't have legally talked to you or anyone not on the taskforce."

"If you didn't feel like you were betraying me then tell me why we have that outside in our cove? It screams guilt to me." Ana mutters under her breath, but after six weeks of nothing. I'll take her mutters any day. This is progress.

"You want full disclosure well here goes." I want her to trust me again, so I give her the honest to goodness truth about how the Overindulgence came to be. "I walked in Ray's office with every intention of coming up with a new design for a catamaran or even a sailing yacht. Teddy saw the model on Ray's desk and was hooked the second he saw that you can put a crazy waterslide on a boat and it spiraled from there into what's moored outside."

"Teddy?" Ana folds her arms and narrows her eyes at me. "Really, Christian?"

I get down on my knees and beg her to believe me, giving her my wounded look. "I swear! I am not throwing our son under the bus, Ana! He saw it and nothing else would compare. Ray showed him the design on the computer and it even had a ball pit in the play area and that was that!"

"Teddy does have an obsession with jumping into ball pits…so of course you caved in like you did when you had Elliot design one for his playroom." Ana kneels down in front of me and cups my face with her hands. "I'm trying to warm up to it…now that I know that it's Teddy's dream outside it might make it easier…this weekend was the Publishers Conference in New York…"

My eyes narrow. Ana. New York. Alone. No Security. Not happening. "Hannah is covering that while you're on maternity leave…right?"

"It's just that I've never missed one since GP's conception…" She stares into my eyes with her soulful baby blues. Nope. Not happening.

"Ros is handling GEH. Hannah is handling GP while we focus on Teddy and the babies. Family time. Remember." I will not crumble to that look.

"More like healing time, but yes I remember…" She rolls her eyes and lets out an exasperated huff. "You're still wearing those braces, Chris. How are you going to enjoy fishing if you can't join in with the guys?"

"I've taught myself to be ambidextrous…" I shrug. She doesn't have a clue that at this point the braces are just for show or support and I'm not about to correct her on that yet.

"Well, then have a lovely time fishing…"

"We'll take The Grace. Just you and me while the others watch the kids." Hey, I don't have to go fishing and she's talking to me again. Gotta work with what you have to maybe move on to actually being able to cuddle or kiss my own wife again.

"Bella and I are gonna take advantage of the quiet this weekend. She's working on the final draft of her next book and I'm gonna proof it for her. I just want Zen for a while and getting to read her next best seller is just that for me. We'll be fine here, go enjoy your new toy with the rest of the family." I stare intently into her eyes for a minute or two and wait for any sign that she's lying about her plans with Bella this weekend and there are no signs of her usual tells.

"Fine, baby, you win, but it's you and me Valentines Weekend on The Grace." My compromise earns me my first hug by my baby in six weeks and it feels like heaven to gather her into my arms and hold her close again when she's not dead to the world sleeping in our bed.

"Are you sure? They always throw a party to take the heat off all you guys on Valentines Day and so that those who are single don't feel left out. Our fifth anniversary is also coming up on March 21. Knowing our Moms it'll be a surprise renewal ceremony. They still want the big show." She snuggles her face contently into my shoulder and I kiss the top of her head.

"I'll test the waters this weekend about my plan to sweep you off for a romantic Valentines weekend on The Grace, even if we have to wait till after the party. It's gonna be you and me. Alone. No kids. No family. Just Chris and Ana. Finding each other again." I nearly purr when she wraps her arms around me so that we are flush against each other and dives her fingers into my hair. This is nirvana. I can feel her letting me in again and it's like this suffocating weight has been lifted off my shoulders and I can breathe again.

"They have Alice now, so anything and everything is possible, and she loves any excuse to throw sensational parties. Technically we'll be married six years next Halloween as we got married in 2009 not 2010, but our parents were never the wiser. Our big brothers and sister not so much as they were our shadows, but our parents to this day think that we said our I do's on our beach in Bora Bora. It wasn't what everyone had planned, but all who mattered were there and it's not like they didn't enjoy fun in the sun on the island escape that you bought us." Ana giggles, eyes shining happily into mine for the first time in weeks. God have I missed her giggle.

"We'd hit the billion dollar mark. GEH and GP were thriving, Ros was manning the helm while we busted our asses towards our goal to graduate in three years, GEH/GP, and squeezing in us time. We had just acquired our jet…" I kissed her nose.

"We were trying to kill ourselves by trying to do it all at once. Our class load was murder, so when Elliot begged Ros to let him have the plane so that he could take it to Vegas with the guys, we all jumped at the chance for a weekend of downtime. Our mother's would cringe if they ever saw our real wedding photo, seeing as we were all dressed like zombies."

"Yeah, but at least we fit the part while the others were zombie iconic characters and they have seen them. They just don't know that they're looking at a real event. It was fun and spontaneous…" I'm this close to kissing her when someone pounds on our master suite doors.

"We're growing old here, Chris!" Elliot whines.

"The Sound is calling, man!" Luke echoes.

"Edward's here with Bella and the twins. The rest of their brood is off visiting family in the UK. Dromi wanted to see Hope. Masen wanted to see Teddy. Their coming with, but Bella's staying here with Ana?" Logan isn't happy.

"What's with that when we're taking everyone with us?" Elliot growls.

Ana wriggles out of my arms and I feel like strangling my big brothers. She stalks over to our doors and throws them open. Three men come sprawling face first onto our floor at her feet. "I'm not going in Teddy's real-life tub toy! Bella and I are gonna stay here and you're going fishing! I'm a big girl with extreme Lara Croft envy! I'll be fine! I've been kicking your asses for weeks and you have the medical bills to prove it! I wish to read her latest masterpiece and help proof it for her! I'll be working on my book and will finally be able to finish the rough draft this weekend! I know that this was an intervention because John and Rhian were invited along…" She's spitting mad at Logan.

Better him than me!

"Baby sis, the whole point of a family weekend is to enjoy it as a family. Teddy…" Luke narrows his eyes at her.

"Knows that I'm not going and I've more than stocked the freezer with my milk for the girls and there's plenty of formula for Alex. Gail's stocked their nursery on the boat with every baby need. Teddy's loaded down with his must haves. So unless there is a code red threat that I'm not aware of I'm staying home with Bella relaxing and working on our books." Ana stares him down.

"Enough!" I vault up to my feet and stalk over to stand beside Ana. "Ana's staying home with the drawbridge up! We talked! I'm fine with it! I'd rather she be happy and content here working on her book then miserable on the Overindulgence with all of us! She's still reeling over your extreme Fuckup, but we're not going there because believe you me Logan if you Barney and Adam weren't my brothers your asses would have been blacklisted from here to eternity and back again for not catching that email before it got to my wife's private account! That they could even gain access to her private Fucking account is a clusterfuck in itself! I'm tempted to let TJ and Chloe take the reins! You're all getting rusty!" I vent out all of my frustration over the past week on Logan.

"Barney, Carrie, hell, nearly all of their team and mine were out battling off the stomach flu that's been running wild all over Seattle. Yeah, it was a clusterfuck, but we got more bad guys because of it! Baby sis, needs to get over it! You are too much of a pussy to put your foot down with her! She was in the know! Full and complete disclosure about your team up with the agency! Dad was with you the whole time! Ella was watching your ass from across the pond! She needs to get over her insecurities about something that saved countless lives! Hell, saved my ass and Ella's too when it comes down to it! He wasn't doing it to get his rocks off! He was doing it to help take down the bad guys! And as for you sulking for weeks over a fucking ship that your son, husband, and dad built so that your kids could safely go out and enjoy the water with you and Chris, well, that's just plain bitchy! Get over it you're channeling Mia!" Logan roars back.

"It's a fucking floating Chuck E Cheese/Gameworks with a spa and hotel thrown in just for kicks and giggles! Yes, I will eventually give in and accept it, but that won't be until it gets nice and warm again! And Logan! You're only bitching because Sam's in New York with Hanah at the Symposium and you're a newly- wed and miss her! Elliot just wants a distraction to keep his mind off what he can't have! Luke's pouting because Hanah's not here! Roar at me until you're blue in the face! I am not going! Love you, Christian! See you on Monday!" Ana shoves them out of her way and stalks out of our room.

I glower at them "Keep one eye open, boys, because it's coming when you least fucking expect it!"

"Bella! I'll be in my library!" Her voice echoes throughout the house.

"Payback will be mine! Let's get this fucking weekend over with!" I stalk out of our suite and head down the hallway to the stairs.

"Chris! You aren't gimping! What gives?!" Elliot notices the obvious. He's still in a cast. Kate re-broke his hand when she was in labor with EJ.

I ignore him and stalk down the stairs. I am so gonna throw them all off the ship the second we hit open water and they can fucking swim back to shore!