Hello :P Sorry for not uploading yesterday, I spent the day with my dad and I didn't say goodbye to him until late so I decided to postpone it to today seeing as I had the day off work anyway. So it is Thursday and I am back with a new chapter. This one is pretty sad. I've written and mentioned a few times how Georgina (the sister of James' father from the anime and other child to Nanny and Pop Pop) was a surrogate for James' parents and carried James for them. Well, this is the tale of the day she had to give him away. And the reason James grows up not knowing her/of her is because a little bit after this event, she runs away, finding the pain of giving him up way too difficult to handle at just 19. Anyway, here is the story. And of course it contains come Jonah and Georgina. I hope you enjoy!

Ages:

Georgina: 19

Jonah: 27

Baby James: Two Days Old

Charlie: 27

Johanna: 28

Disclaimer: I own the character of Jonah and Georgina only.

As I decided to shut my eyes along with the deep red haired woman who was babysitting her nephew's child, I cuddled closer to her and let out a peaceful breath. Following that, I inhaled and began to quickly drift off with the aid of her soothing scent. I don't know if it was that or the closeness of us or little Jorgie, but I began to dream. And when I reached my dreamy destination, I knew it wasn't just that. As my nose twitched in my sleep, I knew I was having a vision of the past.I saw the younger version of Georgina almost immediately, and like she was in the future, in the past she too was holding a little bundle. But she was holding this one closer to her chest and in a far more protective way. Yet her hold was also trembling.

I focused on her, barely seeing any of the details of the hospital room. It was all white and bright and blurry to me. But the face of someone who was familiar was as clear as day. And her younger, fuller features were pleasant on the eye.

She continued rocking the little bundle in the delicately knitted blue blanket, her face turned towards the little baby and her green orbs not looking away from him. Her finger was lightly pressed against the base of his pacifier as she encouraged him to continue sucking it. I didn't know if he had his eyes open or if he was too new. And at first, I couldn't tell whose baby she was holding.

But as she opened her mouth to softly speak to him, it all became clear. The hospital room surrounding her and the baby still wasn't clear to my eyes but she was. And then he was. It was little baby James, perhaps just a few hours old. I didn't know. In my sleep, I held my breath. I wanted to know. So I continued watching.

Georgina let out a quiet breath and she briefly moved her hand away from Baby James' pacifier to push her fiery orange locks out of her eyes. She stopped touching the thing in his mouth for barely even a second, but I could tell his little face scrunched up in displeasure. This caused her to quietly laugh and quickly go back to tapping it lightly. She smiled wistfully down at him.

"I got it, I got it, you don't want me to stop." She mumbled to him, keeping her finger on the pacifier and her other arm wrapped securely yet tenderly around his swaddled body. She continued holding him to her chest for as long as possible. She let out another sigh. "I don't really want to stop either, little James."

I continued watching and as she continued rocking the little lavender haired newborn baby, her green eyes filled with more sadness as each second past. Her look told me it all; I didn't have to listen out for words. I knew. I knew that it was possibly a few days after James' birth. And his time with his Auntie Georgina was coming to an end.

It didn't take long for this to be confirmed to me in my sleep. Georgina continued.

"Not long now until you're handed over to my brother and his wife, James." She told the little newborn and the way her eyes pricked with tears when she said this made me know that he was looking right back at her. She spoke bravely, liking saying the little boy's name. "James. My nephew James. I'm glad you officially have a name. Charlie is very pleased he has a son but goodness knows what you would have been called if you were a girl. Probably Jemima."

Georgina laughed quietly along with the baby boy when he let out a little kitten noise and she leaned forward to press a kiss to his forehead. Once she pulled away, she went back to rocking him against her chest. She breathed out.

"I don't know what I'd have ended up calling you if you were mine." She told him, the last few words of her sentence spoken in a whisper as if she didn't want anybody knowing she was thinking these things. James understood. He seemed to listen as she stroked his nose gently. "I like James. I think it suits you. All James' are handsome and you're truly beautiful."

After she told the little boy this, he seemed to turn his head away from her shyly but his fist tightened around her finger with gratitude after he reached for it. I couldn't help but smile in my sleep. He was still the same, even just a few days told. Even though he was about to be moved away from the woman who had grown and carried him for nine months.

Georgina's eyes filled softly with tears again after she complimented her nephew and she cleared her throat, staying thoughtfully quiet for a few moments before speaking to him again. She ran her fingers through his feathery locks.

"You're the most beautiful thing I'll ever possibly make." She whispered sincerely and humbly to him, a lump forming in her throat when his fresh new eyes searched for hers. "You have the same colour hair that your father used to have when he was a bit younger. You don't have his eyes though." She paused, almost choosing her words carefully as she thought to herself. "No... You do. You do and you don't. You have green eyes like he and I. But somehow they're different. They're not the same. They're softer. Almost like…"

She trailed off before she said a word or a name but I couldn't help but make assumptions in my sleep. Jonah. Jonah was the name I was sure that she was going to say if she continued her sentence. But like she didn't want people knowing that she was imagining keeping James as her own, she didn't want people suspecting her affections for her brother's best friend.

She almost sighed at herself before quickly speaking to the little baby to distract them both again. But I knew that James had noticed. I knew he was probably raising his little baby eyebrow at her.

"You're beautiful, and that's all that matters. And even though you're not mine, you are. Even though I'm just your Auntie, I'll always be far more to you than that. Even though…"

Georgina tried to continue but she couldn't. After little baby James let out a coo as he sucked his dummy and held onto her finger, floods of tears began coming to the orange haired female. And she couldn't stop them. She couldn't stop the shaking in her voice either. Despite the emotions hitting her that she had to give the little boy up soon, she knew she had to be brave and speak to him.

"It doesn't matter, okay? We're always going to have a special bond, you and I. We're going to be great. And I just need you to know that I'm doing this out of love. You do for family. Even for your annoying brothers." She couldn't help but add that last sentence with a weary laugh, wiping a tear before it slid down her cheek and onto the little boy. She sniffed. "I'm doing this out of love. Of course you're going to know Charlie and Johanna as your parents and rightly so, they are very much your parents. But I need you to know that I did all this out of love. I carried you because I love you. More than you'll ever know."

As I listened to Georgina in my sleep, I nuzzled closer to her on the sofa and felt my closed eyelids pricking with tears. I felt my chest growing awfully tight too. I was sleeping next to her in the present but in the past, I was with her too. Her voice carried me away. I almost felt every inch of her pain. Though that was impossible, I knew I was still feeling a great deal of it. My lungs were clenching for her.

Georgina's trembling fingers wiped away her tears that were spurting out of her eyes and upon hearing her cry, little James began to whimper himself. He tried to nuzzle closer to her but she didn't try to stop. She continued talking to him. She knew she'd regret it if she didn't.

"I know you more than anyone I'll ever know. I know the feel of you. I know the feel of you out here in my arms and I remember how you felt in my belly. I remember every kick. I remember every flutter. I remember every hiccup. I know you more than anyone I'll ever know. And I can't believe that I don't get to keep you."

As little James continued whimpering at his Auntie's emotions and as she almost wailed her final sentence painfully, the door suddenly swung open. Someone was rushing in to check on her upon hearing her crying but Georgina's heart lurched. She held onto James tighter, fearing that it was time to let him go already. The little baby squeaked at the protective hold while the kind visitor rushed to her side.

"Oh, Georgina…" Jonah mumbled, his green eyes filled with worry as he quickly but carefully sat down on the edge of the hospital bed with her. One hand of his reached out to touch her shoulder and the other went to little James in an almost fatherly way. He swallowed. "What is it? What can I get you? Are you in pain?"

The orange haired young woman's cheeks blushed stubbornly almost as red as her hair as she had been caught crying but she soon relaxed when she realised it was her brother's best friend. She squeezed her eyes shut and they continued spurting as she shook her head. She answered his last question.

"Yes." She whispered brokenly, tugging at his heart strings before his eyes automatically glanced briefly towards the end of the bed where the baby had come out. Georgina opened one eye long enough to see this and her post-pregnancy hormones almost kicked in. "My heart hurts, Jonah! I can't believe I have to let him go."

After wincing momentarily at Georgina snapping at him, he soon forgot this and his eyes softened even more with concern when he heard her words. He kept his hand on her shoulder and rubbed it gently as he listened. He nodded his head.

"I know Georg, I know…" he mumbled to her, focusing on softly caressing between her neck and shoulder before carefully choosing his words. He didn't want to cause her heart any more pain or for her to bite his head off again. He furrowed his brow. "I was wondering if you did know how painful it was going to be. But I'm here."

Georgina wiped her eyes miserably but fiercely before her hands went to hold little James closer to him again. He was still whimpering quietly as he sensed his Auntie's emotions.

"I'm not stupid, I knew how awful it'd be but I was trying to focus on how it'd be pretty damn great too!" she found herself snapping at her brother's best friend before her green eyes pooled with tears over giving the little baby up and being short with him. "I'm sorry! I'm just so mixed up."

Jonah chuckled quietly upon hearing this but not unkindly before he moved closer to Georgina and pressed a reassuring kiss to her forehead. He didn't say anything with words to comfort her but he stroked her arm. He rubbed her softly up and down and he just stayed with her. That was enough. That was more than enough.

After quite some time, though she was still feeling the pain in her heart, her tears began to dry up. She leaned her head tiredly against the hospital bed head. She pushed her hair from her eyes and let out a quiet sigh.

"I knew it would be hard. I did know it would be hard. But there's no way to really know. As soon as he came out and was put on my chest, I knew that I didn't want to let him go. He feels just as much mine as he is Charlie and Johanna's. But that's stupid. I know that that can never be."

Jonah's green eyes softened even more as he listened to Georgina opening up to him and only him and lines formed gently on his forehead with admiration for her. He shook his head, moving closer to her. He pushed his long locks out of his eyes.

"That's really not stupid, Georgina, I promise you. You are close to him. Genetically you're very close to him and because you were the one who carried him, you're even closer still." He told her to try and comfort her but his eyes filled with worry when the corners of her eyes filled with tears again. He continued. "It's going to be hard. But I'm here. And you've been so brave. You don't see many nineteen year olds signing up to do this."

Georgina just shrugged upon hearing this but, in my sleep, I held my breath. Nineteen. She was just nineteen. It was in that moment along with so many others that dream time that my heart was filled with even more admiration and respect for her. Nineteen years old and doing something that takes a great deal of pure love.

There are times in life where it's easy to question whether humans are capable of unconditional love. But looking at Georgina in the past, I knew I had an answer. The answer was yes. She demonstrated it to me then and she would again many times in the future.

The orange haired female stayed quiet for a few moments, stroking the baby boy's fingers as they held onto her thumb tightly. Jonah couldn't help but melt inside despite everything and he touched the boy's lavender feathery locks. Georgina shrugged a second time.

"With all this pain I've had to go through, maybe I wish I hadn't." she muttered quietly, wincing as she stretched her legs out under the covers and this left Jonah wondering if she was talking about physical pain this time. It was apparent that she was not when her eyes pricked with guilty tears at her own words. "No, I don't mean that. I would go through it a hundred times over if it meant I got to spend these last two days with him. It's all worth it and I'm sure it will be even more so as time passes."

Jonah nodded comfortingly upon hearing her words and touched her arm again but he couldn't help but breathe out in awe. He loved her. He really did love her. No other woman was of interest to him as long as she was around. At just nineteen years old, she was far more a woman than anybody else he had met.

She was strong. She was loyal. She was brave. She was selfless. And she was worthy. He knew he loved her. And I knew deep inside that he was wishing she was his and that little James was theirs.

The strawberry haired male seemed to drift off in thought, his green orbs looking at the little baby at the same time I was thinking these things in my dream. And because he was staring so hard and so thoughtfully at baby James, he didn't see Georgina staring at him. She was studying him.

He was strong too. And he was loyal. And brave. And he was selfless and worthy too. She remembered something he had hinted to her a few months ago. Normally she wouldn't have dreamed of repeating it. But in times like giving up her little nephew, she realised that you really had to speak your mind and your wants. She opened her mouth.

"Jonah…?" she asked him in a slow tone and this was all it took to get his attention. Of course it was, it was her voice he was hearing. His pupils dilated as he listened. He nodded, offering her an encouraging and small smile. She breathed out back. "Did you really mean it when you said you could take care of me? And really… Take care of me?"

I would have assumed that the green orbed male would have known exactly what she was talking about. He was surely so head over heels for her that he'd remember every conversation between them. But apparently he didn't.

Georgina blushed slightly as she was forced to continue speaking and she almost held onto little James' fingers for support. I knew he was listening as hard as I was in the present.

"When we were in bed some time… After… I don't know. You seemed to say something. Maybe I was wrong." The orange haired female almost babbled for once and felt her skin temperature increasing. She looked at him. "I don't know. It seemed like you were offering a future with you."

Jonah nodded slowly upon hearing this but unlike her, he didn't breathe out. He had grown so much in the past few months. An argument with Charlie is what started it. From then, he decided to be a man about his feelings. He knew he cared for her. He knew he had deep feelings for her. And in that moment, he wasn't going to lie. Especially not when she was about to go through perhaps one of the hardest moments in her life.

"I was." He told her with shy truthfulness, managing to meet her eyes before almost ducking his head. He ran a hand through his hair before his fingers stroked his stubbly beard that was beginning to form. He looked up again. "I was. I will always be here for you, Georgina. I really think that I could take care of you. And maybe you could take care of me too."

Despite everything that she was going through and what she was about to go through, Georgina smiled. She really smiled. Her young cheeks went rosy pink and her eyes sparkled even though they dropped down. She pushed her hair from her eyes and nodded herself.

"I think maybe it might be too much too soon right at this minute…" she told him, looking away from his face to hide how deeply she felt for him before her eyes flickered to his again. She smiled shyly. "But it's good to know that it's never off the table."

Jonah nodded his head again upon hearing this and he couldn't help but lean forward and squeeze her shoulder like he had done before. He exhaled out his nose in an agreeing way.

"It's never off the table." He told her before moving slightly away and looking at her face. She was looking down again and she was looking at baby James. She was holding his fingers but she was smiling. She was smiling with love. She was smiling with love for him. But she was smiling with love for Jonah too.

She looked so beautiful when she was in love and when she was loving. Her eyes shone. Her cheeks glowed. Her hair seemed to shimmer. Jonah didn't know it, but in that moment, he was falling more in love with her falling more in love with him.

In that moment also, he forgot what she said about perhaps it being too much too fast right in that minute. All he remembered was that she had bought up being together with him. All he remembered was that she had hinted that it was never off the table.

His breath hitched in his throat. Before he could stop himself, his mouth said words.

"Georgina?" he asked her, his heart hammering in his chest and she was quick to look up and respond with a smile like he had before. His heart was racing even more and his palms were sweating. But he couldn't help himself. He couldn't help but ask. "I know I don't have a ring but do you think you'd-"

Before Jonah could finish his proposal, the hospital room door swung open again and it caused Georgina's heart to lurch more than ever. Jonah's heart dropped with disappointment but hers dropped with dread. She knew it was time. She knew it was time before she even saw her brother's face. She almost shut her eyes. She tried not to see him. But she heard his voice as he came bounding in.

"Ah, there's my delightful sister." Charlie greeted her in an over the top way and her eyes were still shut as he leaned closer to her to reach his finger into the bundle. He tickled little James' cheek. "And there's my strapping baby boy. We signed all the papers hours ago and we've just discharged him so we'd really like to be taking him home now."

I thought Georgina's eyes would have squeezed tighter shut upon hearing this but somehow, she bravely opened them. Jonah stood up off the bed to allow Charlie and Johanna to get closer to their newborn son but his eyes stayed fixed on Georgina. He had quickly got over his disappoint. He had had to. He was now just feeling dread and foreboding along with her.

Before she could say anything, Charlie almost enthusiastically elbowed her before nudging his wife and poking his son clumsily on the nose. He grinned between everyone in the room.

"Come on, let's have another cuddle with the dear old chap. Johanna, have a sniff of his wee baby head. That's what will connect you two more, my dear."

As I'm sure Georgina was feeling that way too, I couldn't help but feel sick in my stomach upon hearing Charlie talking. And I felt even more nauseous when I saw Johanna just roll her eyes and look at the clock like she really had better things to be doing than cuddling her new son.

That made me shake my head. I didn't understand it. It was easy for me to judge Charlie in the present after knowing what he had ended up putting James through but if I forced myself to ignore that, I saw that he truly was eager about being a father. And there was some slight gratitude in his eyes when I looked at Georgina. But it was confirmed to me that he was the more paternal one between he and his wife, even though it didn't come naturally to him either.

It did come naturally to Georgina though. And it made me sick to my stomach that she had to give him up. Jonah looked at her with sadness. He was just looking at her, thinking how much he really would have liked to take care of her, when she looked up too. She saw the sadness in his eyes and she couldn't bare it.

She let out a sob. She almost squeezed her eyes tightly shut again. She shakily got out of bed, despite the pain of giving birth just two days prior. She managed to shove baby James into Jonah's arms – not Charlie's before she tried darting to her bathroom to weep. She opened her drenched orbs a crack and she met Jonah's confused ones. She brokenly shook her head and told him before rushing off.

"I really can't do this, Jonah, I can't. I need you to do it for me. Please, give baby James to my brother. Make sure he knows that I love him. I can't do this. Please. Do that for me."

Charlie's eyes swivelled with surprise and concern between Johanna and his sister when the orange haired female took off and shut the bathroom door behind her. Johanna let out a sigh when the shutting of the door didn't block out the weeping coming from inside.

I didn't know what she was going to do. I didn't know what Jonah was going to do. He held little James for the first time in his arms and he looked down at him. The little baby had started to cry as soon as he was separated from his Auntie but for some reason, when he was in Jonah's arms, he seemed to stop.

He seemed to be looking up at him so wisely. He seemed to be looking up at him, him too wondering what he older male was going to do.

Jonah glanced towards the bathroom door where Georgina was sobbing. His heart clenched. His eyes moved to Charlie. And then they moved to Johanna. But then they went back down to little baby James.

Jonah's brave green orbs met James' innocent equally green ones. The little baby seemed to hiccup while the strawberry blonde male held his breath. It was in that moment, he felt it in his heart. He felt what Georgina had explained earlier to him. Like how she had felt when James came into the world and he was placed on her chest, Jonah was feeling a deep connection with the little boy.

He knew he was more to him than just his Uncle. And he knew it was more than just because Georgina had carried him and he was in love with her. It was far more than just that. And he felt that when he looked down at the little innocent baby.

But he breathed out quietly. He knew what he had to do. He had to give little James to Charlie. He had to give little James away to Charlie and Johanna with a little kiss on his new forehead and a mutter that he was so loved. He had to do this because they were his parents. But more importantly, Georgina had asked this of him. So he did it. Of course, he did it. He didn't want to. But Georgina had asked him to. So he did.

The End.

There you go! Thanks so much for reading and I hope you enjoyed :3 So yeah, this was a pretty sad one and it was inspired by a video on Facebook with a young girl talking about when she gave up her little boy for adoption and I wanted to do it but for Georgina giving up her brothers baby to him. I went on a spree of writing a lot of Jonah/Georgina/James at the beginning of the year so you'll be getting those chapters shortly. There's one coming next week for definite. I really like writing about the Morgan's a lot, as you can probably tell! Thanks again and I will be back next Wednesday with another chapter so see you then!

AmyBieberKetchum signing out :3