Two years later….
Well, Autumn might have been right about happily ever after. Sure, it hasn't been perfect, but it's been pretty darn close to it.
Today is one of those perfect days.
My son and daughter we're born at 6:32 this morning.
Theodore Raymond Grey and Phoebe Summer Grey came three weeks ahead of schedule. However, at 37 weeks was perfect gestational age for twins.
Little Teddy was born 6 pounds 1 ounce and named after my best friend and Ana's father.
Little Phoebe was born 5 pounds 3 ounces and named after Ana's grandmother and my other best friend.
Their names are to honor the ones we lost and loved the most. This way their legacy can live on.
Ray was proud as hell when he learned Teddy would share his name. I never thought I would see him ever shed a tear.
Ana and I got married a month after we got engaged.
What can I say I work fast.
It took me all of a week to convince her that we didn't need a long engagement.
She cracked, and said she would be more than happy to marry me as soon as possible.
However, two days before we were married we had a little run in with Jose. The bastard didn't listen and heed my words to stay away.
The three of us were walking down the street, after meeting with the wedding planner one last time on final arrangements. Jose approached us, looking a mess. Unfortunately, today was a day that we didn't have security with us. I just had sent Taylor ahead to make sure everything was ready for the rehearsal dinner.
I mean we were only a block away from where we needed to go.
"Ana! I've been trying to talk to you…"
"I thought I told you to stay away." I growl at him.
"Ana, I can't let you go through with this. He's not right for you." He pleads with her. Autumn is tugs at my arm and stands behind me. I can tell she's scared.
"Who are you to tell me who is right or wrong for me?"
"I've known you forever, I know you pretty well. He's changed you, you would've never given up on our friendship. Come on, baby we can start a new life together…"
He grabs her arm and starts to pull her out of my hold. Ana yells for him to get off of her.
"Get off my mommy!" Autumn storms out from behind me and kicks him in his shin. The fucker yelps, letting go of Ana. His eyes blaze, as he starts to come after Autumn. I move Autumn out of his path and before I can lay into him, Ana punches him square in the jaw, then a swift kick to his ribs.
He stumbles to the ground, holding his face.
"You stay away from me and my family." Ana shouts at him.
"Ana please…" He begs.
"Why don't you understand I want nothing to do with you! I HATE you Jose. And what you're doing on front of my child is wrong not to mention trying to attack her makes me hate you even more. You're nothing but gum under my shoe, meant to be picked off and thrown away. Get some fucking help." she yells at him
We've drawn a crowd and everyone is looking at José, who is still on the ground.
That's when an officer approaches the scene.
"What seems to be the problem here?" He asks Ana.
"This man has been stalking me. When I told him to leave us alone to went to grab me, then tried to hurt my daughter."
"She's lying." Jose shouts. "She's nothing but a fucking liar." he spits out.
It's taking everything in me not to charge towards him, but I can't because Autumn has her arms wrapped around my legs.
"I saw it. The guy tried to attack both of them." One bystander says.
"I saw it too." Another one says.
The officer picks him off the ground. "Put your hands behind your back."
He ended up being searched and they found a crack pipe and an ounce of crack on him. He was taken away for attempted assault and the drugs.
He ended up on bail days later and I made sure I had him followed after that. It was a week before his trial and he ended up trying to sneak across the Mexican border with a kilo of cocaine on him.
Let's just say the dumbass won't be seeing the sun for a long time.
One less person trying to come between us. God knows, others have tried, but have all failed.
Then two days later, we were married in my parents back yard, the same place I asked her to spend her life with me.
She looked so beautiful, in her white princess dress. Her hair done up in a bun with this time a real silver tiara with pink and white diamonds.
Autumn was our flower girl, she wore the biggest grin the whole day. her flower girl dress was a smaller version of Ana's dress, but in pale pink.
Elliot was my groomsmen and Kate was Ana's Maid of Honor. Soon after our wedding, those two would become a couple and a year later married.
Autumn assisted that we needed full fairytale wedding. Ana agreed to it because when she was growing up she always envisioned something magical. Not to mention Cinderella was her favorite movie, and I was her Prince Charming.
Ana, Autumn and Kate arrived to the house in a coach shaped like the one in Cinderella that was also pulled with two white horses.
The aisle had a path of pink rose petals, fake trees, lined my parents garden as white lights hung over the aisle and the chairs.
Even our cake was in the shape of Cinderella's castle.
I think our wedding even made Disney jealous.
My suit is almost like the one prince charming wears, but it was blue.
I don't do white. Blue is so much flattering.
My heart stopped when Ana walked down the aisle with her dad on her arm.
I don't think I've ever seen someone as beautiful and mesmerizing then in that moment.
When our eyes met, it was like we were the only two people in the world. Just me and her.
"Pick your jaw off the floor son and wipe off the drool." Rays gruff voice pulls me out of my haze.
Ana giggles as I shut my mouth.
"Take care of her. She's yours now." Ana gives Ray a hug and a kiss on his cheek.
Ray then gives me a handshake and pats me on the back, before turning his only daughter over to me.
'You look beautiful baby," I whisper to her.
"Not so bad yourself."
The pastor speaks of loving and cherishing each other, but I can't really hear what he says. I can't stop looking into the eyes of the one woman I love the most in this world.
And now she's going to be mine forever.
"Christian, if you would state your vows." The pastor says.
"Ana, As I stand here before you, my eyes looking so deeply into yours, I see all of the things I fell in love with.
My heart is beating so loudly in my ears, I find myself so lost for the right words to say.
As I stand here before you, this ring in my hand, it makes me remember how complete you make my life.
With every smile, every embrace, every tear you've ever wiped from my face. It makes me remember how blessed I really am, how I can't ever thank the Lord above enough, for allowing you into my life. It makes me remember every laugh we've ever shared, every hard time we made it through together, and every beautiful moment there is to come.
You are my Princess and my happily ever after.
Anastasia, I give you this ring, my heart, my soul. I give you the everything I am today as I stand before you. I promise to love you, protect you, be with you forever, and cherish every moment as if it were the last moment on earth"
"Ana, your vows…"
"I used to be afraid of falling in love, of giving my heart away.
How could I trust a man to love me, to give to me all that I wanted to give to him?
Christian, when I met you, I realized how much we could share together.
You have renewed my life, my faith:
Today I join that life with yours. I look forward to growing old and senile with you.
You are my happily ever after, my prince.
Christian, I give you this ring, my heart, my soul. I give you the everything I am today as I stand before you. I promise to love you, protect you, be with you forever, and cherish every moment as if it were the last moment on earth."
"With the power vested in me and the state of Washington, I now pronounce you man and wife. You may now kiss your bride."
I pull Ana into my arms, I put my lips close to hers and whisper, "You're mine, Mrs. Grey."
"And you're mine, Mr. Grey. Now kiss me." My lips crash to hers, her mouth parts to allow my tongue access. Her hands on in my hair, as mine are own her ass and behind her neck, keeping her from moving.
We break apart when Elliot start whooping behind us, and Autumn yells, "yuck," with a giggle.
"I'm going to worship you later, my bride."
"Mmm I can't wait…"
Soon after we said our 'I dos' we officially signed the adoption papers. Autumn will now be our little girl.
We made it special and did a little many ceremony for it at our reception. Autumn officiated it all on her own.
"Now Ana, do you promise to love me, take care of me when I'm sick and healthy, give me hugs and kisses everyday, watch Disney movies with me and read to me everynight?"
"I promise, Angel."
"Now Christian, do you promise to love me, take care of me when I'm sick and healthy, give me hugs and kisses everyday, watch Disney movies with me and read to me everynight? Oh, and only let mommy or Gail cook the pancakes."
She makes a disgusted face, remembering my fiasco in the kitchen of me trying to make pancakes the morning after her birthday party.
Let's just say they were crunchy and hard and not soft and fluffy.
Or how Autumn put it, 'just gross'.
I chuckle, "I promise, peanut."
"I now pronounce you my mommy and daddy. You may kiss your daughter."
Ana and I both give her a kiss on the cheek.
We were officially one hundred percent a family. The Grey's.
Ana and I honeymooned in Fiji for two weeks. Autumn stayed with my parents and Ray for those weeks. We felt awful for leaving, right after we completed the adoption process. However, Autumn was more than happy to hang out with her grandparents for a couple of weeks.
She knew she would be spoiled rotten for the whole two weeks.
And as much as we missed that little girl, it was good for Ana and I to spend some alone time with each other. I felt like we got to know each other so much better. Not to mention we could be as loud as we wanted.
When we got back, I purchased a house that overlooked the sound. There's a long pier that goes out into the water, and is good for fishing off of.
Ana instantly fell in love with meadow. We gutted most of the inside and designed the way we wanted. Elliot and his company did the rebuild and Six months later we were moving in. I kept the penthouse, just because really.
Ana and I decided to wait before adding to our family. We wanted to just be the three of us for awhile. Autumn deserved our undivided attention for a little while longer. However, six months after we were married she started to ask for a brother or sister.
I remember the moment I found out Ana was pregnant nine months ago. We only had started trying two months before. Ana had Autumn with her while she volunteered at the Children's ward, where my mother works. She organizes games and activities for the kids. And will go read to the ones that can't leave their bed. She also helped set up a program where the kids who are long term patients can get their wishes granted.
Such as meeting their favorite celebrity, acting out their dreams jobs, or if they were well enough for travel, they could travel where they wanted to visit.
Every kid deserves something special.
I went to go visit them when I got off work, and Autumn was sitting with my mom in one of the waiting rooms.
"Where's Ana?"
"She wasn't feeling well, so she went to the bathroom." My mom tells me.
"Mommy has a baby in her tummy." Autumn says not even looking away from the cartoons on the TV.
"What?" I ask shocked, where did she get that idea?
"She has a baby in her tummy, that's what Alex said when she got sick reading to him. I just hope it's a girl."
Alex is sweet six-year-old girl that's going under treatments for leukemia. Alex and Autumn have bonded and that's one of the many reasons she comes with Ana to the hospital.
"She more than likely has a bug." My mom interjects, but with a smile on her face.
"Or, I'm pregnant." My head whips around to look at Ana, who's holding what I guess is a pregnancy test in her hand.
"Told you." Autumn comments, still watching TV.
"Pregnant?" I say still in disbelief.
"That's what the test says." She waves the teat around in front of me, smiling brightly.
"We're having a baby?"
"That we are Mr. Grey." I run to pick her up and spin her around in my arms.
"Put me down, Grey. You're making me sick." She giggles excitedly.
I place her back down on the ground and kiss her soundly.
Four weeks later, we found out we were having twins. I almost passed out from the shock. Going from one child to three.
Now here we are, welcoming our new additions to the world.
Autumn is curled into Ana's side on the hospital bed, while Ana reads a Magic Treehouse book to her. I can't believe she's seven. Where did time go?
I remember when Summer just had her, she was just a little bigger then the twins are. I didn't understand Ted's extreme joy at the time. The huge smile on his face when he held her the first time. The Joy it brought into his life.
But now I understand what the joy he was feeling, ten-fold.
Autumn is extremely bright. There was even talks of her skipping a grade, but she wanted nothing to do with. She didn't want to be in separate classes away from her friends. Not that I blame her. She's quite the popular one too. Our house is always crawling with her friends.
Autumn still loves her Disney Princess, but I don't think to the extent of it when she was four. Ray and Elliot have help stir her attention to other things like Marvel Superheroes.
So as of right now she has a huge crush on Thor and Captain America.
I keep telling her she's too young for boys and their crawling with cooties. Her only reply was these were men, so they outgrew the cooties.
I can hear Ted groaning from heaven, and Summer telling him to chill out.
I mean that's what Ana does to me.
However, I just found out that Chris Evans will be in attendance to this year's Coping Together Ball. I'm keeping it a secret from her. I have a feeling there's going to be on very star struck child on our hands.
Maybe even some screaming.
I make note to bring ear plugs.
I'm still amazed how easily Autumn accepted me and not to mention Ana to being her mom and dad. There's some days that I think, that I have replaced Ted and Summer's memory. However, I know they would be more than glad to know their daughter is happy and their memory is far from forgotten. Their spirit lives on, always.
I've learned to accept that she's mine, just like the twins are.
And thanks to Autumn's help I was able to confess my love to a certain blue-eyed Nanny, and not be such a lonely grump. I just sometimes wish Ted were around to see all of what happened in the flesh.
I think back to the moment Autumn was born and Ted asked me to be her godfather.
"Christian, you have been my best friend for way too many years if you ask me."
"Gee thanks…"
Ted smirks. "It should be concerned a great honor. Anyways, Summer and I would like you to be the godfather to our little Autumn." Ted smiles down at the blanket bundle in his arms. Summer is resting comfortably in her hospital bed, sleeping
"You want me to be her godfather?"
"Of course, we do. I know god forbid if anything ever happens to us, you'll take great care of her. I give it a couple of weeks before you're wrapped around her tiny finger… I know I am." Ted grins wildly. "what do you say?"
"Yes, it will be an honor. But, I know nothing about kids, especially babies."
He thrusts his new little girl into my arms and I hold her to me. She is stinkin cute. I feel my heart melt a little as she looks up at me, with her big bright eyes.
She's a little peanut.
"I think it's time you find someone, and settle down. Then you could be as happy as I am. Then you can have a bunch of these." He says as he brushes the top of Autumn's head.
"There's nothing wrong with wanting to be single. Plus, I have GEH right now. That keeps me plenty busy."
I notice Ted roll his eyes, "You're a lonely grump who works to hard. You need the love a good woman."
I roll my eyes at his comment. "I'm fine, Ted."
"Maybe I can hire a hot nanny and I could hook you up." He laughs.
"No thank you, I think you should leave your matchmaking skills to someone else. I bet Autumn would be better than you at that department."
I remember that blind date he set me up with months ago, all I can say is woof.
Never again
"I just want you to be happy man."
"I am happy." I snap.
"Happier!"
I groan as I head back the baby to her daddy's arms.
"You groan now, but I'll see to it that it happens. No matter what."
I sit on the bed with Autumn and Ana. Ana is holding Phoebe and I'm holding Teddy. I look at my family and smile.
Well Ted, I've never been happier.
Thank you.
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A/N: I still hate the tittle of this story… but it is what it is
Thank you all for joining me on the journey. I know most of you wanted this longer….. As you know it's not me. Hope you enjoyed it anyways. I did… this was just a fun fluffy piece for me.
Till next time…