Back again! I told you guys that i was feling inspired. I want to clarify something first. JJ is the young security office that was stabed in the break in, he is also dating Sawter. In the last chapter I think I put Jack by mistake. Anyway here is chapter 15. Enjoy.-AJ
CG POV
6 months later:
I am suddenly jerked awake when I feel something cold press against my naked back. I feel Ana wiggle her cold toes on me. I flip over and see her bright blue eyes staring right at me, they have a twinkle of humor in them.
"What was that about?" I ask grumpy about being awake. I glance at the clock on the bedside table and see it is 3 am. I groan and pull Ana to me inhaling her perfect sent.
"I think I will die right now if I don't get pickles. Dear husband will you go get them for me?" she asks trying to hold in her laughter. I sigh this is the third night in a row she has woken up with some weird food craving. Last night it was macaroni and pears.
Rolling out of bed I trot down to the kitchen to get some pickles for my severely pregnant wife. She gets more beautiful with each passing day. I do wish she would take it easy though and not work so hard, no such luck there.
These last six months have been amazing and Teddy loves the idea of getting a brother or sister. We don't want to know the gender just yet. But he seems excited either way, we were worried at first how he would react. Ana and I were scared that he may not want to share us with anyone but that hasn't been the case at all. In fact Teddy loves to help us pick stuff out for the baby, he is so adorable when tries to make a decision about something. He will stare intently at something then say to us, "You think blip like this?" The first time he did this Ana started to cry because it was so cute, but also because of hormones.
I am heading back up the stairs when I hear a muffled scream coming from Ted's room. Sometimes he gets nightmares but they are nowhere near as bad as mine when I was his age. I head in there with the jar of pickles and sit with him stroking his hair. He doesn't wake up and calms down enough so I go back to my room down the hall.
"Hey, was that Teddy? Is he okay?" Ana asks as come in the door. She is sitting up in bed wearing only a pair of shorts. She complains because her breasts are too sensitive to wear a shirt at night and it's too constricting on her stomach. I am not complaining one bit.
"Yeah, he's okay, I checked on him and he didn't even wake up which a good thing. I guess." I say handing her the jar of pickles. She takes them from me and starts to eat them; I crawl back into bed so that I am at eye level with her belly.
"Hi baby," I say rubbing her tummy, "It's Daddy, it's really late and Mama is eating pickles. I just want to say I love you."
I feel a little movement inside and my eyes shoot up to Ana. She has a soft smile forming on her lips. I feel the movement again, then I see what I think is a little foot poking out and gasp. I her Ana giggle at me so I look back at her.
"How long has this been happening," I ask, she shrugs.
"Don't know a couple of week's maybe," she says
"A couple weeks?" I ask shocked, "Why didn't you tell me, I missed it"
"You didn't miss anything, besides you felt it right now," she stets the pickle jar down on the night stand and runs her fingers through my head. I can feel myself falling asleep and before I know it I am out, laying my head right next to our unborn child.
A POV
By the time I wake up Christian is all ready up with Teddy. It's Sunday so they are most likely watching cartoons in the living room. That is exactly where I find them, cuddled up in their PJ's watching some Disney show.
"Mama!" Teddy cries as I walk in. He pats the side of the couch for me to join them and I give him a big smile and sit down with my huge belly. Teddy crawls out of Christians arms and over to me then places his hands on my stomach trying to feel for the baby.
"How blip?" he asks.
"Blip is doing well. How is my other baby this morning?" I push the hair out of his eyes. He looks up at me with a toothy grin, except for a few are missing. It came as a shock to him when he lost his first tooth; he came crying into our room yelling that he was dying.
Christian and I spend the rest of the day being lazy around the house with Teddy. But around 1:00 Teddy becomes grumpy so Christian and I put him down for a nap. We both are really excited because Teddy is starting preschool tomorrow but we think he may be a little nervous. I'm concerned about how is he going to react with the other kids because as far as we know he hasn't had that much interaction with kids his own age.
While Teddy is napping Christian makes lunch for us, nothing specials just sandwiches. Christian is a horrible cook which I found out the hard way. I decide to take a walk in the meadow in the backyard of our house.
I find a shady spot under a tree and sit down; I place my hand on my belly. We haven't decided on a name yet. I really think, if it is a girl, we should name her Ella after Christian's birth mother, but he hates the idea and completely shut it down. I don't know what I like for a boy, maybe Lucas.
I hear Christian's footsteps fallowed by a thump as he sits next to me. "How about Phoebe Grace," he says handing me a paper plate with a peanut butter and banana sandwich on it. I swear he can read minds sometimes.
"Yeah I really like that," I say to him. It is a really nice name for a girl. We sit in peaceful silence munching on our sandwiches under the tree. When we finish Christian takes our plates and says he is going to wake up the little one. I watch him head back to the house and close my eyes.
A couple minutes later I hear, "Mama!" I laugh and lay down in the tall grass that surrounds the tree. I can here Christian and Teddy trying to "find" me. I hear Teddy laughing as Christian picks him up so they can spot me. When he does he squeals to be put down and Christian obliges setting him down. Teddy takes off like a shot in my direction. I hold my hands out for him and he jumps into them. Christian joins us a moment later.
"Careful buddy, we don't want to hurt blip," he says ruffling Teddy's hair.
"Mr. Grey, Mrs. Grey?" we look over to see Sophie, Taylor's daughter standing next to us. She is about 9 and is staying with Taylor and Gail for a while.
"Hi Sophie, what can we do for you?" I ask smiling at her.
"Gail gave me some popsicles, and she wanted to know if Teddy could have one?" she says holding out a Popsicle.
"Sure, Ted you want a popsicle?" he nods and reaches for the treat.
"What do you say to Miss. Taylor?" Christian says.
"Thank you," he says and starts to lick it. Sophie leaves and heads back to the house. Teddy takes the popsicle and shifts it into Christians face.
"Here Daddy. You try." He says.
Christian takes it from him and takes a bite, which I have no idea how that doesn't hurt his teeth, "Yum, thank you buddy." He says. Teddy tries to offer me the same but I shake my head and thank him anyway.
Later that evening Teddy, Christian, and I are watching Peter Pan when I look over and find that Teddy is past out lying on my legs. I nudge Christian and point to our son making a camera motion with my hands. He pulls his phone out of his back pocket and snaps a couple of photos of Teddy. His lips slightly parted and face flushed with sleep. I am about to pick him up so that I can put him to bed but Christian stops me and does it himself. A few seconds later Christian comes back down the stairs having put Ted down.
"He is out of it," He says flopping onto the couch, "I think he is really excited for school tomorrow, if not a little bit nervous." I crawl over so I can rest in his arms as we continue Peter Pan.
"Our lives are falling into place and I couldn't ask for a better one," I say.
I am startled out of bed with a coppered haired little boy racing into our room at 5:30. I groan and push Christian out of bed to deal with the little munchkin.
"Come on, Mama! School today," he yells and I realize that I'm not going to get anymore sleep. Christian fallows Teddy to get him ready for school while I take a shower and get ready for work. Christian joins me a couple of minutes later and says Teddy is with Gail eating breakfast.
"Banana's and Cheerios?" I ask.
"What else?" he replies.
We rush through our morning routine, after six months we have finally we have it down. Get Teddy dressed and ready to go, get him to eat breakfast then get ready ourselves and eat, then we can get out of the door. Some days goes better than others, lucky for us it is one of the good days today. We make it down stairs and I see Teddy all dressed up in a little suit that is his school uniform. I complained to Christian a little while ago about if it was really necessary for preschoolers to wear uniforms. Apparently it is in private schools.
Christian makes me eat breakfast watching me the whole time to make sure that I eat everything. I have gotten used to it now but at first it was really weird. Things go so much easier if we don't fight about little things. So I just let him have his way with the breakfast thing, plus I am pregnant and it is important to eat for the both of us.
When we are all done we all pile into the Audi SUV that Taylor is driving. JJ, Teddy's new CPO, and Sawyer fallow us in the other SUV. Christian and I are both going to go drop Teddy off, then we are going to leave separately to work. Once I go on maternity leave I will still work on manuscripts at home to Christians delight.
Taylor pulls up to the preschool and I am glad to see that there is very little press. Christian tells me this is where a lot of high profile people send their kids to preschool so it is normal for a little media to be here. We help Teddy out of the car and walk with him to his class room; he clutches my hand when we make it to the door.
"I changed my mind Mommy, I don't want to go," he says looking up to me then trying to hide behind my legs. I foresaw this happening so I bend down to his eye level and stroke his little cheek.
"It's going to be okay Teddy Bear, me and Daddy will always be there for you okay. We are going to be back at the end of the day to get you. I bet they even have legos, probably even more then you have at home," his eyes light up at that, " But if you don't believe me here," I reach up around my neck and get the necklace that hangs there.
I unclasped it and put in around his neck tucking it under his shirt. It is the heart shaped locket that Christian gave me the day we found him. It has our initials carved on the outside C+A, on the inside I added a picture of little blip and one of Teddy. He's seen it enough to know exactly what it is; I never leave the house without it.
"There, now Mommy, Daddy, and Blip will always be close to your heart. We will see you later okay baby," I kiss his head and stand up. He holds the locket through his shirt and smiles up at Christian and me.
"Bye Mommy, Bye Daddy. See you later," he disappears through the door. Christian has a quick word with JJ about security then we have to leave to go to work.
"He will be fine, right?" I ask Christian before I get into the car with Sawyer.
"Of course, I'll see you later at home," he kisses me then gets into the car with Taylor.
I get into the car with Sawyer and we take off towards GIP, I can't help think about Teddy though. I hope he interacts well with the other kids, what if they pick on him? What if he's not ready, I am about to ask Sawyer to turn around but then I realize I am over reacting. I take a deep breath and slump back into my seat.
CG POV
I know today was tough for Ana, letting our little guy go somewhere by himself for a long time without any family around. But JJ is a good guy and I know there is nothing he wouldn't do to stop someone from hurting Teddy.
I spend the whole day working on this project with the Taiwanese, I am getting really frustrated with them and it looks like I might have to fly out there to get this done. I would have Ros my COO do it but the pricks say they won't work with her. I am also still having Barney look into what happened to our apartment 6 months ago we still have not figured out who would even want to do that. The only person Ana and I could think of was Hyde but he's in jail and wasn't even in town when it happened, had an alibi and everything.
Ros walks in with some Chinese food and we work through lunch on this project with the shipment yards. She agrees that the only way to get it done is to go to Taiwan. I can't ask my pregnant wife and my 4 year old son to go with me. I'll talk to her about it when I get home.
I am really excited to hear about Teddy's first day of preschool, I bet it will be mostly be about what lego creations he made. I hope he gets along with the kids well and they don't pick on him. I guess that is what all parents fear.
The rest of the day progresses much like the morning, me being frustrated and yelling about stuff. I am ready to go get Teddy and then go home to say hi to both of my babies. I am preparing to leave when Taylor bursts into the door. Andrea fallows him in confused at his behavior but I wave her out. I am just putting my notebook and laptop into my bag and I notice that he looks disheveled.
He has lost his coat jacket and his dress shirt isn't tucked in like it was this morning. He has this wild look in his eyes and he is sweating, like a lot. He didn't look nearly this bad when Ana was taken to the hospital; I immediately feel the color drain from my face. Something terrible has happened.
"What is it Taylor," I bite out.
"He's gone, sir." He grunts.
"Who's gone Taylor?" I asked confused. I get closer and place my hand on his shoulder.
"Teddy, sir. We don't know where he's gone," I stumble back.
"What…what do you mean? He's at school right? He's waiting for us to pick him up," I say baffled at what is coming out of Taylor's mouth.
"The school called me and said that one of our security guys picked up Teddy. A man named Pete, but I told her we don't have anyone by that name on our security team. It was only a curtsy call, because they have so many high profile kids they have security guys picking up kids all the time. By the time I go down there they were already gone." He tells me
"What the fuck happened to JJ? He was supposed to be on Teddy, that's why he is a CPO!" I yell.
"We found him in a supply closet. There was a bullet between his eyes," his words start to blend together and I feel myself stumble back into the desk. I grip it tightly and try to get the air into my lungs.
"Jesus Christ! Does Ana know yet?" I ask he shakes his head. Our little boy is missing and he is with someone who murdered the CPO he was with, oh god. I feel my body snap.
I turn around and grab the edge of the desk; I pick it up and flip it over. I fly all around the room breaking anything and everything that I can find. Taylor is watching the door to make sure someone doesn't come in. I hear this strange screaming sound that sounds like someone is dying then I realize that it must be me making this noise.
I stop after a while to catch my breath, the office is destroyed. My clothes and hair are a mess, the only I can do is collapse onto the floor. Taylor just watches on from the door as I fall apart and this time he can't help me. My son is gone and I don't know where he could be at.
"Find him Taylor, I swear to god if he is harmed I personally will murder anyone that hurts him," I hiss.
I have to now go tell my pregnant wife that our son if gone and we don't know where he is. I feel tears slide down my face.
Teddy's POV
There is a man that says he is part of Daddy's security but I have never seen him before. But there are so many guys that all look the same in the house. He tells me that JJ had to go home to Mama and Daddy and that I am going with him for a while.
I am upset that Mommy wasn't here to pick me up, so that I could tell her all about what I did today. I made a best friend already, his name is Jackson. He shared his crayons with me which is really nice. I showed him how to build stuff with legos. They had so many toys to play with and all the other kids where really nice to.
Peter the guy who is taking me home seems okay but he has a mean face like he ate something yucky. I miss JJ though he was cool and liked legos to! The teacher leads me to the Peter and I go outside with him, he doesn't hold my hand like Mommy or Daddy does. I wonder why Tay-Tay didn't come to get me.
Peter picks me up and shoves me into the car, now all I want is Mommy to hold me and Daddy trying to make us laugh. I don't like Peter he is a meany head.
Finished! Aw poor Sawyer! And Teddy is gone they have no idea where to look. How is Ana going to react to the news. Until next time-AJ