"She's being so fussy." Punk groaned whilst sitting on he and AJ's bed later on the next night, having just got home early in the day from the hospital. Liesel wasn't taking it all easy on her parents, and was refusing her bottle, as well as crying for hours upon hours.
"The midwife said she could be like this for a few days. She also made a really hasty comment and said she would be fussy especially when she isn't being breast fed." AJ rolled her eyes whilst unpacking the overnight bag she'd had brought to the hospital by Punk, getting ready to go for a bath, trusting Punk to be just fine with Liesel.
"I don't think it makes a difference." Punk looked up at her whilst trying his best to get Liesel to latch onto the ready made bottle.
The nursery was half finished since Liesel had came early. When he and AJ came back to the house after their five months away, he planned on getting it finished within that time, but the little girl just couldn't wait to make an appearance. She had to sleep in the crib in their room for the first few months anyway, so it wasn't a massive problem.
"Will you be ok while I go for a bath?" AJ asked him as he nodded, getting comfy on the bed, sitting up against the headboard with his legs out in front of him, holding Liesel whilst still trying to get her to take her bottle.
"I'll be fine. You go enjoy." Punk nodded as she smiled, grabbing some clean clothes and walking away into the bathroom whilst Punk tried and tried to get Liesel to take her bottle.
"Come on, sweetheart. Just take it. Take it for daddy. I'm knew with this stuff. I know I'm probably not good like mommy is, but I gotta get used to it, don't I? C'mon, please..." He whispered, watching as she continued to fuss away from the bottle.
He always thought he was a man without patience, but for his daughter, anything was possible. He'd give her all the patience in the world. She was just perfect in every way. He never knew he could love something so small and delicate so much. She was his whole world. Nothing else really mattered anymore besides her and AJ of course. She'd brought a new meaning to the word life for him. He knew watching her grow would be the greatest experience of his life.
"C'mon baby girl, once you take your bottle, you can go for a nap, and let mommy and daddy have one too. C'mon..." He coaxed soothingly, finally watching as she began to suckle at the bottle, her little hands curling as he smiled with pride.
He knew this whole journey was going to be about him not getting things right first time, but what mattered was he got there in the end. She was enjoying her bottle, and he was relaxing whilst watching her.
"Good girl." He smiled, pressing a kiss on her head and stroking her cheek softly as he sighed with relaxation.
About a forty five minutes later, AJ came out from a relaxing bath that she was in well need of, to find Punk sitting on the bed drawing, whilst Liesel was fast asleep in her crib, and empty bottle sitting on Punks bedside cabinet.
"Not bad." She nodded, impressed at his skills. She knew from the minute he held her that he was going to do everything he could to protect her.
"Yeah?" Punk looked up from his blank paper, "She's good for me. Just had to have a little patience with her." He smiled, extremely proud of himself that he'd managed to feed her and put her to sleep all by himself. He'd also executed his first diaper earlier in the day. He couldn't say he didn't feel acomplished.
"What are you doing?" AJ asked him curiously, walking around their bed and climbing onto her side, sitting with her legs in a basket as she leered her eyes over to his blank paper that had a few sketched lines drawn bluntly on it.
"I have this project for tomorrow that I totally forgot about." Punk said, "I really have to finish it." He said, although tired, he really wanted to make sure he got his work in on time for the class he was taking. He'd checked with the local college here, and it was perfectly fine for him to carry on his course there now, instead of the college he was studying at before they moved back.
"What is it your drawing?" AJ asked.
"It's supposed to be a bird. But God knows how it'll end up turning out." He admitted.
"Well… if you're gonna stay up all night, then so am I." She insisted as he turned to her.
"Don't be stupid. You need to rest. You've just had a baby." He said.
"Yeah, two days ago. I'm up and rearing to go again. I can't wait to get back into the studio." She sighed. She missed dancing so much. And a part her was extremely glad they'd had a beautiful baby girl, so she could teach her everything she knew about ballet. That was… if she wanted to know.
"No. You should be resting. You look tired. You heard what they said at those classes we went to. When she sleeps. You should sleep." He said, referring back to the parenting classes they had went to back when they had left for a few months.
"I know, but I want to keep you company. And you know how much I love to watch you draw." She said, which was very true. She could watch him draw all day if she could, "Anyway, it's only 8pm." She looked at the clock.
"Well don't be crying to me tomorrow when you're really tired." He said.
"So you can go without sleep but I can't?" She smiled playfully.
"You know I don't sleep anyway." He raised his eyebrows.
"Yeah. You're a vampire." She nudged him playfully with a smile, "I'm sort of hungry. Why don't I order some chinese food? I'll help you sort out your folders whilst you finish off the drawing?" She asked. She knew he had lots of college folders with his different work in it that he needed sorting. He supposed he couldn't refuse her sincere offer.
"Ok." Punk nodded, "But if you're tired, just tell me and put your head down, alright? You should really be resting." He said as she just rolled her eyes and reached for her phone.
"I just… I don't want to take my eyes from her. I feel like if we turn away, something bad will happen. I just always want to hold her. Even in the bath there, it was hard to know she was out here and I couldn't see her." AJ admitted.
"She's safe with me." Punk assured her.
"I know she is." AJ nodded, "That wasn't what I meant. I just- I don't know. I always feel like I should be watching over her." She shrugged.
"Ok, well… you shouldn't. You need to get some rest when she's resting." Punk said, "You're a new mom. You're obviously gonna want to hold her all the time and make sure nothing happens to her, but you can't be obsessive and weird like those documentaries we sometimes watch. You know… where they won't let anyone touch or even look at the baby." He said as she chuckled lightly.
"I wouldn't say I'm going that crazy." She laughed a little.
"Nothing is going to happen to her. She's safe. Look..." He nodded his head over to the baby's crib where she lay fast asleep, peaceful and content.
"I know she is." AJ smiled whilst looking over at Liesel, "I'm just scared incase one day she isn't, and we aren't around to protect her."
"Stop being stupid." Punk just shook his head, having had enough of the conversation now, knowing AJ was just being paranoid and completely stupid. If anything was to happen to Liesel, it'd be over his dead body.
AJ knew on some level she was being stupid, but she did want to be taken seriously, because it was her own feelings. She did feel a need to always be with Liesel and hold her. She knew it would just pass by as she grew older each day, but for now, as a mom, she just wanted to have that peace of mind.
"I guess you're right." She nodded, looking over at him as he kept focus on his paper, joining up his sketches and forming more shapes rather than lines. It always fascinated her to see him start off with a few squiggles on his page, and turn it into something of a masterpiece, "What do you want to eat?" She asked him whilst reaching for her phone.
"What do you need, sir?"
"I need you to do a job for me." Jack smiled, looking across at one of his oldest works, Joe.
"What sort of job?" Joe asked, standing in Jack's office in Invictus whilst Jack sat behind his desk.
"I need you to get rid of someone for me." Jack implied, placing his feet up on his desk, clasping his hands together with an already fully developed plan spinning in his mind.
"When and who?" Joe asked.
"As soon as possible." Jack said, slamming down a picture on the desk as Joe glanced at it, raising his eyebrows in confusion as he seen a familiar face on the picture.
An hour passed by and Punk and AJ's ordered food had arrived and was shortly demolished by their hungry selves. Punk managed to multi task by enjoying his food and continuing to work on his art, all the while AJ sorted out his folders for him with all his former work that had to be presented at the end of his college course.
"Do you think it'd be harder to tattoo on a person that sketch out a drawing on paper?" She asked curiously whilst sitting beside him, having just finished clearing their food boxes as well as finished sorting out Punks work for him, at her own pace of course. All the while, baby Liesel stayed fast asleep in her crib.
"Well yeah." Punk nodded, "But I suppose you just have to concentrate." Punk shrugged.
"What's your favourite thing to draw?" She asked curiously. She was glad he had found his passion in his life. When she'd met him, he'd not been allowed to do such a thing from living under his fathers strict and blunt rules. She was glad she could help him find what he enjoyed doing.
"I don't know actually." Punk shrugged, "I like drawing things in front of me. Like… looking at something and then sketching it out." Punk told her, "And I do like drawing animals." He nodded.
"Maybe you could draw me one time." She suggested with a smirk as he looked up at her.
"Then that.. would be my favourite thing to draw." He smiled as she laughed, "I could do it you know… it may take me a while, but I could do it." He nodded as she smiled.
"Maybe when I look back to my normal self. I highly doubt drawing me in a pair of sweats and one of your t-shirts is gonna be a masterpiece." She laughed.
"You'd still be beautiful." He smiled, "But if I had it my way. I wouldn't have you wearing anything." He admitted, going back to his drawing as she smirked to herself, watching him as he ran his hand through his hair and picked up his drawing where he left off.
"You should be careful what you wish for." She said as he smirked, both of them suddenly looking up as Liesel began crying.
"Told you, you should have slept while you could." Punk said as AJ stood up immediately, walking around the bed and to the crib where Liesel was in.
"Oh, baby… what's this all about? Huh? Come tell mommy." She soothed whilst picking the crying newborn up, cuddling her into her chest as she walked back around to her side of the bed, "Daddy is working, he can't be having all this noise, can he?" She asked her, sitting down as she cradled her in her arms, "You're just so perfect." She kissed her soft velvet head as Punk smiled over. There was nothing more that he loved than his two girls. They were everything.
What is Jack up to? How are things going with Elise and Dean? Is AJ going to continue her paranoia with Lisesel? All coming soon. Stay tuned and REVIEW!