Chapter 14

My wife decided that it would work better if we had some time alone to make a little brother or sister for Zoey so we decided to leave her with my mother-in-law when we went to LA for the weekend.

Going to LA is giving us a chance to get to know the people that we have become. We drove to LA in complete silence, I think we were both enjoying the lack of noise. It was still pretty early in the afternoon when we arrived at the beach house; we first got settled into the house for the long weekend that we planned to spend there. Then we decided to call home and make sure that everything was all right with Zoey. When my wife finally got through to her mother's, she found out that they went to the park this morning and they just got back for a nap. My wife was relieved that everything was all right, since this was our first time away from our daughter our nerves were on edge.

While my wife was on the phone with my mother-in-law, I thought that a picnic on the beach would be a lovely way to start off our vacation, we could even just sit and watch the sunset. By the time my love was off the phone the picnic basket was packed and all we had to do was go and change into some clothes that would be appropriate for the beach. We spent the afternoon and most of the evening goofing off on the beach, we did not have a care to the world, our minds did wander to what our daughter would be doing but we were here for us time.

I have missed this closeness of our relationship, we have not really had any alone time and now that we do, I have realized that we need to set aside some alone time together more often. This weekend has gone by too fast; it feels like we have just got here. We did work on making another child and I am praying that we did. I like trying and all but this would be the perfect time to get pregnant because our children would be close enough in age to help each other out in life.

Sunday came way too fast and now we must go back to Sunnydale, we have missed our daughter terribly but we have enjoyed the peacefulness that LA has. When we arrived in Sunnydale, we went directly to my mother-in-laws house to pick up our daughter. At her house we found our daughter wearing some unique clothes that her grandma bought for her and she was sitting there quietly, like she was being punished. When Zoey saw us she had the biggest smile on her face and she looked so excited to see us. My wife went over and picked up our daughter and noticed a small bruise that she had on her arm, that's when grandma came back in from getting the stuff we left for Zoey. I asked her where the bruise came from and she said that Zoey had gotten the bruise on her own.

My wife asked me to go and change Zoey in the other room so she could have a talk with her mother about something's. When I left the room with our daughter I heard my love ask why our daughter was sitting in the living room not doing a damn thing, when she is usually as active as can be. My mother-in-law first tried to play dumb and say that she did not know why Zoey was acting like she was, but when my wife would not take that as a reason, my mother-in-law finally admitted that she was punishing our daughter for breaking something. That's when my wife really lost it, she started screaming at the top of her lungs how can you punish a 6 month old baby that does not know the difference between right and wrong.

I did not want anything to happen that my love would regret so as soon as I finished changing Zoey, I went back to the living room where the confrontation was taking place. When I saw that my wife was losing her temper, I quickly decided that the best way to stop anything from happening would be to give her our daughter to hold. When I handed her Zoey, she completely understood what I was doing, but that did not stop her from going off on her mother.

My mother-in-law did not know what to do, I know she figured she was no match for her daughter's strength especially if she lost her temper. She also knew she had no reason to punish our daughter but she did it any ways because she thought she could gain some control over our family. She did not and would not apologize for what she did, she said she might have over reacted a little bit but she felt it was for the best.

We were extremely pissed that she did what she did and that our daughter had to go through it, but what made it worse is that she thought she was right and she validated what she did. It is not her choice to punish our child. We let her back into our lives after she could not accept us and she goes and does this.

We did not want to make any rash decisions, so we thought it would be better if we just left and came to a decision on what to do later.

Chapter 15

When we got home my love ran into the house, I went and got Zoey out of the car, she was all ready asleep. After putting her down in her crib, I went to find my wife. I found her in our bedroom laying face down on the bed, she could not believe that her mother would do that to our daughter. I tried to calm her down and make her realize that some people are just stupid and ignorant.

It took over two hours to calm her down and I was lucky enough that Zoey slept straight through this ordeal. Through out those two hours my love sobbed uncontrollably and she completely had worn herself out and was exhausted. She fell asleep somewhere between me rubbing her back and saying soft, comforting words to her. When I knew that she was asleep, I went to check on our daughter and found her sitting in her crib just being as quiet as could be. When she noticed me standing in the door she started to babble nonsense, but it was happy talk.

It was about three hours later when I heard some weird noises coming from the bedroom, my first instinct was to run straight to where my love was and see if she was all right but then I remember that our daughter was playing on the floor. I went over and picked her up as fast as I could and then I ran upstairs and into our bedroom and found my love having a terrible nightmare. I went to the bed and gently started to wake her up and when she finally did wake up she held onto me like there was no tomorrow. She was crying again and was rambling on about something that happened when she was a child and how she had suppressed the memories until now. My love let go of me and reached for our daughter, I figured she just needed the connection of everyone being safe and sounded. With my wife holding our daughter I put my arms around both of them and made ourselves comfortable and waited for my love to tell me about her nightmare.

When she finally relaxed enough she started telling me about when she was a baby and how she was punished a lot for not being everything that her mother wanted her to be. She went on to say that her mother only wanted control over everything and everyone in her life and if she could not get it than she would go psychotic. She figured that what happened to our daughter triggered these memories to come forward. I felt so much rage and anger toward my mother-in-law that I wanted to take her life but I knew that she would get hers in the end and I just had to wait for the time to come.

We came to the decision that night that my mother-in-law would not have a part in our life anymore, no matter how much she begged and pleaded she was out of our life all together. We don't want our children to suffer like my love had to.

I know there will be repercussions from our decision and now we will just have to wait and see what will happen and what will come next in our life.

Chapter 16

Our life has gone as normal, except for the fact that my mother-in-law is stalking us. No matter where we go she shows up, we could be at the park with our daughter or we could just be at the store and she will be there. We are afraid to leave our daughter alone because we don't know what my mother-in-law is capable of doing. We knew that she would not take our decision very lightly but we never expected this. Even though she knows what could happen if she really annoyed us to the point of no return, she still does her stupid little stalking bit. We know she is just trying to get back into our life and she is doing everything in her will to do it.

I always knew that if it came down to it our family and friends that could not accept us in the beginning would never be there for us, but I wanted to put my feelings aside for my love, she really wanted them in our life. The only people who accepted our decision was my love's watcher and the godmother of our daughter. My love was upset that some people could not deal with our decision to exclude her mother from our lives but she was not completely heartbroken and her life would go on with out them. My love knew that her mother had something to do with their decision.

They will not know the joy that our life has to come or our children's life. It is their loss and it is their decision not to be a part of our life. We can't afford to fight like we did the last time for them to accept us; we have to think about our family and not them. I don't think that they every really accepted our life together maybe that's why them not wanting to take part of our life is not such a big deal.

We have not figured out what to do about my mother-in-law the stalker but we know that she is not having a second or is that a third chance to ruin our life. We will go on with our life and we will wait and see what our future has in store for us.

Chapter 17

What is this world coming to when a grandmother kidnaps their 7-month-old grandchild? We never wanted to leave our daughter alone but my love had a doctor's appointment to go to and she wanted me to go with her. We thought that our daughter would be safe with her godmother but we were wrong. When we were at the doctor's my mother-in-law went to where our daughter was at and just took her. We were notified right away that our daughter was missing and we knew who took her but that did not stop the stress factor at all.

The police were notified as well and they said that they would keep a lookout for anything that was registered to the perpetrator, but what they said did not matter we knew where she had took our daughter and why she did it. The only thing my mother-in-law forgot to factor in is how pissed we would be when we finally caught up to her and how much Zoey actually disliked her grandmother.

We knew that our daughter would give her grandmother a hard time, she would bawl her eyes out until she got what she wanted. With us knowing that Zoey would throw a fit, it gave us enough time to make a plan and to get my mother-in-law out of our lives for good.

In the beginning when she started stalking us we did not plan on taking any action against her but then she goes and does this, which just makes our hatred for this women even greater. It did not take long for my mother-in-law to realize that she could not win this time and she gave up without much of a struggle. She did have that excuse about how we were not good parents and that we were bringing our daughter up in an immoral way.

We decided to press charges and all but knew that she would only get a fine, so we convinced the judge to let her have a brief stay at the neighborhood insane asylum. My mother-in-law would get to have the pleasure of enjoying the lovely hospitality of the friendly staff for at least 2 months and if they see fit she will get to extend her stay indefinitely.

Now that she will be out of our life for awhile, we can get back to our normal everyday lives.

Chapter 18

We never forgot about what the doctor told us before we left her. When the doctor told us that my wife was pregnant with another child, I was shocked but not surprised. We were totally shocked when we found out about our daughter, Zoey since we never thought it was possible to have a child.

I can't believe that I am getting another chance at being a father. Here I thought it was impossible to even father a child and now to all ready have a daughter and a child on the way is just a miracle. I have always thought that my daughter was one of many miracles in my life, just like her mother and now I am receiving one more miracle.

If it was not for their mother I would not even have this life that I was blessed with, it is because of her that I am here and that I am alive and kicking in this world. Without her I would still be repaying for my sins of the past, I would have never known complete and utter love and devotion and I would not what it is like to have someone that depends on you for love, comfort and safety.

We created another life; we get another chance at raising a child with the love and support that we never had. Our children will have everything we did not have and beyond that. They will know what it is like to be accepted for who they are because what we want does not matter since they do have their own minds. It's not like what it would matter any ways, we just hope that we can raise them with enough morals and values that they will make the right decisions in life.

I hope our children realize that they are special in more ways then they know and that we would do anything to protect them from any harm that comes their way. They also need to realize that life has many obstacles that they must over come and it will not always be easy.

Chapter 19

Just like in my wife's first pregnancy the doctor recommend that she stop fighting the evils of the earth for most of her pregnancy, it would lessen the chance of her losing the baby. She was not going to stop for another couple of months saying she was fine to continue, but I convinced her to at least not to patrol every night. She stopped shortly after because she said it was pointless to patrol only a couple of times of week since there was not a lot of activity.

The paranormal activity has not been the same since the Hellmouth closed. "The powers that be" seem to have the situation between good and evil under control. Well they did until that night when someone died at the hands of a vampire. This person was very close to my love's heart at one point in time but since Willow could not accept our life together and the choices we made she distanced herself from us. She sided with my crazy mother-in-law on every situation that came up.

When Willow died everyone felt the loss in their hearts, even the people that said they hated her for what she was and did. My love would not rest until the vampire that did this was turned to ashes and could not kill anyone else. The night before Willow's funeral was when her killer was killed and her sprit could finally rest in peace.

When my mother-in-law found out about Willow's death she went totally bonkers and the doctor's at the insane asylum decided that her stay there with them would be indefinite. The doctor's even told us that it is not even a possibility that my mother-in-law will recover from this mental breakdown.

But we can't worry about that right now, we must focus all our attention on the new bundle of joy that is coming into our family.

Chapter 20

Over the past few months so much has happened. We have dealt with tragedy, we have had happiness beyond belief and we have come to many decisions regarding our life.

We have lost both my love's mother and her ex-best friend, even though they were under totally different circumstances they had a major impact on our life. My mother-in-law made us realize that even the people you love and trust can turn out to be complete lunatics. We have seen what pain death can bring and it made us realize that we have to live life to the fullest otherwise we will only be existing in this world we will not be living. Death is not some thing new to us but it has never really hit this close to home before and it just makes us realize that we have some changes we need to make.

Even through all this chaos we have been blessed with so much happiness. We have lost things that are dear to our hearts but we have also gained something that is more precious then anything in this world, we are blessed with creating another child. We are going to be the parents of a beautiful little girl and a handsome little boy that mean more to us then anything in this world.

We always knew that we would have to make this decision but we always thought that they would come later down the road, but now that we have a family we need to think of their safety. We know that we can't protect our children from everything in the world but we can make sure that certain things can't hurt them. That's why we have decided that we would be better off not living in Sunnydale. We don't want to live to far away from Sunnydale in case there are any problems, so we figured that the house we have in LA would be a perfect place to raise our family.

Living in LA will take some getting use to but it will all work out in the end, we just have to believe in that. We are still keeping our house in Sunnydale so when we go and visit them we will have a place to stay.

Now we just are awaiting the arrival of our son and pray that our life will go smoothly from now on.

Chapter 21

It seems like just yesterday when we found out that we were going to have our daughter Zoey, but in actuality today is the day our son wants into this world. He is finally ready to make his appearance into this world, after what seems like nine months of on going torture he is ready to meet his family.

When our daughter Zoey came into this world we had to change so much, we had to accommodate for her needs and wants, now that our son is making his arrival we know what to expect but that does not make this any easier. The first time my love was pregnant everything went much smoother, this time she had to deal with all this stress and we had to deal with how Zoey would react to not being the baby any more.

Our daughter has been a perfect angel when it comes to understanding that mommy can't do this and that but when it came to grasping that she would not be the only child any more was a little more difficult then we thought it would be. She knows that the only reason she is with her godmother today is because her little brother is making his arrival into the world.

We are now preparing for the needs and wants that our son will produce with his birth. We just hope that he will be as happy as Zoey was when she a born. Our son, Drake made his presence known to the world with the use of his lungs and we knew right then and there that he would be out spoken through out his life.

When we brought our son home our daughter was waiting anxiously for us to arrive so she could meet her little brother. I watched Zoey, our daughter study the new bundle of joy that my wife held in her arms. Drake decided that this would be the prefect time to make his presence known to his family that was gathered around. I was amazingly surprised when my daughter tried to calm her baby brother down. She accepted her baby brother better then we thought she would.

What was totally amazing was she became very protective over him and would not let anyone near him that she did not like, which meant that most people were not allowed near him. Our daughter, Zoey is very skeptical of the world at such a young age, which is extremely strange. But what can I say when she got genes like ours.

I don't believe that my life can get any more perfect. I have a wife that I love more then anything in this world and I have the two most precious children in this world, a guy could not ask for any thing more.

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