This chapter skips a bit of time, between the last chapter and this one it seemed right and I couldn't find anything that would change the story that needed to be added in. I really do hope things flow in this chapter, if not I'm sorry in advance for that.
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With therapy things with the family had pretty much gone back to normal with time. They had actually gotten back to what had brought them together to begin with. They spent more time trying to find things for them to do as a family and enjoyed each day because they knew that something, that anything could happen to change the dynamic they had.
Wade and Zoe had talked about having another baby or the idea of it and she still wasn't sure where she stood on the front of wanting to have another baby. She wanted to she did, but she couldn't go through everything she had if she happened to lose that baby as well and she knew it did her no good to think like that, that she needed to be positive and with time she'd be able to decide.
It was actually something that had been on her mind every month. She'd talk to her dad and she'd talk to Jackie about it and they both tried to understand where it was she was coming from but Harley couldn't fully understand, not in the way Jackie had tried to understand. It was just different with Jackie. Zoe was actually able to have Jackie and even Harley indulge in what they thought their life would be like if Boyd would've made it. It always put a smile on Zoe's face when they all pictured it a happy time, but like she had promised herself, she wouldn't do it every day or even every month. It was on a very rare occasion that she would let her mind go down that path. The day she had learned she was pregnant with him and the day they had lost him. Twice a year was more than enough because she knew that she really had to focus on Ariel and Braxton.
It had taken her a few months before she was ready to fully commit to being ready to try again. She had given herself enough time to come to terms with everything and for her to feel like she wasn't trying to replace the little boy they had lost.
Instead of actually sitting down to talk to Wade about being ready for him to only turn around and ask her if this was something she was sure of, she was going to show him that she was more than sure that she wanted to try again, that it no longer hurt and she couldn't keep holding herself back if they wanted another baby because they were getting older and soon enough they wouldn't be able to have any kids and she knew that was something she didn't want to happen. So she had sent to the kids off with Jesse for the night and lit a few candle around their bedroom and laid in the middle of their bed with one of his shirts on, waiting for him to return home from work.
"Baby you home?" Wade called out walking into his dark house. He frowned hearing nothing. "Doc, baby, you here?" He called walking further through the house. He had saw Jesse and his kids at the Rammer Jammer when they informed him they were spending the night with Jesse. Wade was just happy that it was a Friday night and he didn't have to worry about them making it to school. "What are you doing?" He asked with a smirk, standing in the doorway, his eyes raking over his wife, his mouth watering at the sight that lay in front of him.
"I've given it a lot of thought and even more time and I'm ready and I'm more than sure about this, Wade," she told him softly. "I want to have a baby with you."
That was all he needed to know. He could see that it was something that she meant. He didn't need to ask her a bunch of questions. He had been very upfront since day one that he would wait for her to be ready and that he wouldn't push her. He wanted to have another baby with Zoe but he wasn't going to push her into something that she wasn't ready for. But now that she was, he had other ideas. He quickly stripped his shirt off, pinning his wife on the bed. "Then we'll try and Zo, we're going to let this happen and not go crazy about becoming pregnant, okay?" He asked, letting his lips leave a trail of fire across her neck.
"Okay," she moaned out.
As frustrating as it was she hadn't fallen pregnant again as fast as she thought it would happen. Not wanting to get too focused on it she spent more time at the practice and more time doing things with Ariel and Braxton. She had time with Wade when they would do nothing more than just cuddle. She loved family time she did; she just really wished that she could add another child into the mix. She kept telling herself that it would happen; she just had to give it time.
"You're going to drive yourself crazy," AB said, taking a seat in Zoe's office.
"Why's that?" Zoe asked, dropping the pen in her hand. She really couldn't wait to hear Annabeth out on what she had in mind.
"You're so wrapped up in wanting to become pregnant. I know how it can be because I did that once, you really have to stop thinking about it," her friend told her.
"I try, I do, but I want this so badly that it's in the mind at all times," Zoe sighed. "I don't want it to be. I love spending time with my family and I focus on them but it's like a have this reminder in the back of mind telling me I'd be happier with another baby and it like mocks me. I know it sounds crazy," she laughed.
"It does," AB laughed. "But I know what you're going through, I wish I could tell you that it gets easier and it might," she quickly added. "And I do hope that you end up with a little baby Kinsella in your tummy," she smiled.
"Thanks AB, how do you know anyway? I didn't think you and Lavon were trying to have kids," she commented.
"We're not, but I want kids and he knows that and we're on the same page when it comes to kids and I want one so badly that I know where you're coming from so if you need someone to talk to about that, I'm here," AB told her. Zoe gave her a smile and watched as she walked out of her office. Leaning back in her chair she felt a little better about things and happy to know that Annabeth didn't write her off as crazy for telling her about her inner struggles. Pushing the conversation with AB out of mind she got back to work.
"You sure we did the right thing by sending them off to summer camp?" Wade asked the second Zoe walked through the door. "I know they wanted to go but I feel guilty about sending them off," he chuckled.
"We did the right thing, if we kept them home this summer, they would've moped around mad at us for not letting them go," she informed her husband, walking up to him quickly wrapping her arms around him needing his comfort. "What happens if we can't get pregnant again? It's already been a year, Wade." Her question muffled by his shirt, but he understood.
"Then we live a happy life with the two kids we have," he told her. She smiled, pressing a soft kiss to his shoulder.
"How did I get so lucky to have you?" She questioned with a smirk.
"You were you," he replied, picking her up over his shoulder.
"What are you doing?" She laughed. She didn't dare want to tell him to drop her because he would and she really was enjoying the way his butt looked.
"You'll see," he smirked, tossing her in the middle of the bed. "You want a baby and I'd be a pretty bad husband if I didn't make that happen," he husked out.
A few days later Wade walked into the practice to surprise his wife with a little picnic, though he was the one in for a surprise when he couldn't find his wife in her office. Thinking that maybe she was a patient he went to Harley's office seeing the older man behind his desk.
"Wade," he smiled, looking up at the small knock on his office door. "By the looks of things you came for my daughter and not for me," he laughed. "You missed her by a few minutes, she headed on home."
Wade thanked him and headed home himself, wondering what was going on with his wife. It wasn't like her to just leave work like that. The journey home wasn't a long one which he was thankful for because the suspense on what was going on with his wife was getting the best of him.
"Your dad told me that you had left work early. You feeling okay?" He questioned walking into their bedroom. He stopped dead in his tracks seeing his wife sitting on the edge of their bed, a test in her hands. "Is that what I think it is?" He questioned, walking to join her on the bed very slowly. He couldn't tell if it was a good thing or not with the way he could see the tear marks on her face. Zoe nodded, showing him the test, reading the words pregnant. "This is amazing!" he exclaimed, pulling Zoe to him crashing his lips against hers, ready to celebrate in their own little way.
