Summary: What happens after Jeff and Annie's unplanned Las Vegas wedding.
Rating: R for this chapter
Word Count: 5,514
Disclaimer: Not mine.
A/N: This shall henceforth be known as "the chapter that didn't want to be written." Ugh.
Not long after they found out they were having a girl, Annie decided it was time to bite the bullet and tell her dad about Jeff and the baby. Jeff sat beside her on the couch for support while she put her phone on speakerphone mode and dialed the number she hoped was still correct. As Annie waited for him to answer she held the phone in one shaky hand while the other was pressed into Jeff’s thigh anxiously.
Finally there was a click and a male voice. “Hello?”
“Hi, is this Sam Edison?” Annie asked, trying to control the nervousness in her voice.
“Yes, who is this?”
“Dad it’s me, Annie.”
“Oh…Annie. How’re you doing? Is something wrong?”
“No, Dad I’m fine. Nothings wrong. I’m doing really well actually, I graduated last May and I have a good job as an office manager at a medical practice in Denver.” She was glad she could give him some good news before she dropped the bomb, she hoped it would help to soften the blow.
“I’m happy to hear that, good for you.”
“So, umm, listen. I’m calling because I have something to tell you.” Annie felt Jeff’s arm wrap around her back and managed to take some comfort in him. “I got married last January.”
“You what?!” The tiny speaker on her phone buzzed from the volume of his voice. “You got married over a year ago?!
“Yes,” Annie said as calmly as possible.
“Are you still married?”
“Yes, I am. His name is Jeff. I’ll admit it was impulsive but we had known each other for over three years at that point, it wasn’t like we had just met. Dad, he’s a good man, the entire time we’ve been together he’s never shown me anything but love and respect. He treats me so well and we really do love each other.”
Jeff rubbed her back and ducked his head down to press a kiss to her shoulder. She was proud of herself for keeping her voice steady and not sounding like a petulant teenager defending her boyfriend to her parents.
Sam sighed loudly and she could picture him on the other end with his eyes tightly closed and rubbing his forehead like he did when he was aggravated or stressed. “Alright, well, that’s certainly important. So who is this guy?”
“Like I said, his name is Jeff, he’s from Denver, he’s a lawyer…”
Sam cut her off, “Wait, is he in law school or an actual lawyer?”
Annie and Jeff exchanged worried glances, they both knew what question was coming next. “He’s an actual lawyer,” She answered.
“How old is he?”
Annie winced in anticipation, “He’s 36.”
“What?!” The speaker buzzed again. “You married a man 13 years older than you?!”
She instantly got defensive and her back snapped up straighter, “Yes, I did! And I would do it again! I don’t think you’re really in any position to be judging my decision, either. It’s not like you’ve been an active part of my life and know what’s going on.”
“Okay, you’re right,” He relented. “I know things haven’t been right between us for a long time but that doesn’t stop me from worrying about you, you’re still my daughter, Annie. This is just a lot for me to take in.”
Annie’s posture relaxed a tiny bit. “I know. And there’s something else I wanted to tell you. I…I’m pregnant.”
There was another deep sigh. “Of course you are. Okay, so, what now?”
“What do you mean what now? We’re having a baby, it’s a girl and she’s due the end of July. Jeff makes a good living, we have a nice apartment, and we’re excited for it. I just wanted you to know that you’re going to have a granddaughter, I’m not asking for anything from you.”
Sam was quiet for a moment and in the silence Annie bit her lip and glanced over at Jeff. He leaned towards her and kissed her temple.
“A granddaughter, huh?” Sam said finally, sounding calmer than he did before.
“Yeah. We just found out not too long ago.”
“Wow. Does your mother know?”
“You mean the woman who seeks out joy and destroys it? No. She doesn’t know about any of it.”
Sam chuckled softly at her description of his ex-wife, “Good one. So, is that all, no other announcements to make?”
“That’s it.”
“Listen, Annie, I should have told you this a long time ago but I want you to know that I really do regret what happened. I should have seen how bad things were getting, stood up to your mother more, there’s so much I should have done differently. I know saying this doesn’t make up for what happened but you’re my daughter and I love you. That will never change.”
Annie gasped silently and felt tears threatening to fall for the first time. She couldn’t remember the last time she had heard either of her parents say that they loved her and it completely caught her off guard.
“I’m sorry for everything, I really am.”
Annie wasn’t even sure what to say. She wasn’t ready to forgive him yet and hadn’t been prepared for him to apologize. “Thank you for saying that,” She finally said. “I appreciate it.”
“Would you, umm, would you maybe email me some pictures of yourself? I don’t have any recent ones.”
“Uh, yeah sure. I’ll send you a picture of the sonogram too if you want.”
“I would love that. And maybe talk to each other more than once every few years?”
Annie smiled softly and sniffled as quietly as she could, she didn’t want him to know she was on the verge of crying. “I’d like that.”
“Good, me, too. I want a picture of this Jeff, too. I want to see who my son-in-law is.”
She giggled quietly, “He’s freakishly tall and very Scandinavian looking.”
“6’4 is not freakishly tall!” Jeff immediately protested. Then he snapped his mouth shut because he realized he had just given away that he had been listening that whole time.
“Was that him?” Sam asked.
Annie poked Jeff in the side, “Yes that was him. He’s sitting here next to me.”
Jeff winced, “Uh, hi Mr. Edison.”
“Hello, Jeff,” His voice suddenly sounded more serious again. “Am I on speakerphone?”
“Yeah,” Annie answered. “He’s heard everything, I wanted him to.”
“I see. Jeff?”
“Yes?”
“Don’t make the same mistakes with your daughter that I made with mine.”
Jeff’s eyebrows shot up in surprise and he looked at Annie. “I won’t. I really do love Annie and I’m fully committed to her and the baby. My dad left me when I was six, I know what it’s like to grow up without a father.”
“I’m sorry to hear that, but it’s good to hear that you don’t want history to repeat itself.”
“Definitely not.”
Beside him, Annie was still stunned by her father’s declaration of his love for her and his apology. She wasn’t sure how to process it but knew she had her fill of this for now. She knew she needed to take this slow, especially after seeing Jeff deal with his father.
“Dad, text me your email to this number and I’ll send you some pictures,” She said, trying to wrap up the call.
“Oh, okay, right. I’m looking forward to seeing them. It was good to talk to you, Annie,” He said sincerely.
“It was good to talk to you too, Dad. Bye.”
“Bye.”
Annie hung up the phone and stared at it for a few seconds before taking a shaky breath and turning to Jeff with tears still pooled in her eyes. “He said he loves me. I can’t even remember the last time either of my parents said they love me,” She whimpered.
Jeff heart nearly broke right then and he gathered her up into his arms and held her close. He completely understood how awful it was to doubt a parent’s love and he hated that she got a double dose of that. He cradled her head against his chest and dropped gentle kissed into her hair. “I know baby, I know. Your dad loves you, I love you, the group loves you, my mom loves you, and I’m sure somehow in her own messed up way even your mom loves you. And when the baby is born she’ll love you, too.”
Annie buried her face into the warm crook of his neck and clung to his arm with both hands, she just let him hold her for a while.
X-X-X-X-X
Annie wanted sex. Annie wanted sex a lot. For the first couple of months of her pregnancy between the nausea, sore breasts, and being so tired she wasn’t very interested in it. Once that began to fade things went back to normal until just after she hit the five month mark. Then one day it was like a switch flipped and her sex drive kicked into high gear.
And it wasn’t just the usual things about Jeff that were turning her on. Sure, there were his amazing biceps, muscular chest and torso, broad shoulders and back, clear blue eyes, and handsome face, but she found herself starting to focus random things that would get her going. The furrow of his brow when he was focusing on something, the way his cheeks puffed out just a bit when he pursed his lips, how she could trace the veins in his arms, the hair that had a tendency to come up over the top of his ears since he was keeping it just a little longer, his short clean fingernails on long fingers and huge hands. At one point his breathing turned her on.
Jeff wasn’t about to complain. He was getting more sex than ever and he hadn’t been the one to initiate it in weeks. One night he woke up to her straddling him and working her warm hand inside his pajama pants, she rode him hard and finished them both off while he was still half asleep. There were a few times he was even concerned he wouldn’t be able to keep up with her.
One night after work Jeff found himself stretched out on the couch zoned out in front of the TV, one hand draped over his stomach and a beer in the other. When he heard the bedroom door open his eyes traveled from the screen to the right, where their room was. Annie came wandering out towards the kitchen, she had just gotten out of the shower and had only bothered to throw on one of his grey t-shirts and tie her wet hair up in a messy bun.
Jeff watched her intently as she went to the fridge and got out a bottle of water. His eyes moved down her exposed, glistening neck to her breasts, then to the swell of her stomach that was now clearly visible under the shirt, where his gaze lingered for just a second. He had never been one of those guys who found pregnant women to be particularly sexy and never really understood it. Until Annie got pregnant. He had been surprised when he first realized that his Annie, carrying his baby, really did it for him. His attention continued down to her bare, smooth legs where the hem of his shirt hit her at mid-thigh, he always did like seeing how tiny she looked in his clothes. He felt his cock twitch.
Annie glanced over at him and froze mid-sip as their gazes locked. She instantly felt that oh so familiar ache growing between her legs when she saw how he was watching her. She took one more gulp of water before dropping it on the counter and crossing the room towards him with a hungry look in her eyes.
Jeff sat up and put his beer bottle on the coffee table then opened his arms for her. As soon as she reached him Annie settled herself onto his lap so she was straddling him and locked her hands into his hair to pull him in for a kiss. Jeff’s hands brushed over her stomach as he slid them around to her lower back as their lips met in a messy, frenzied kiss.
“You taste like beer,” She murmured against his mouth.
“Sorry.”
“No, I like it since I can’t have it myself.”
Jeff hummed and sucked her lower lip then gave it a little nip. She blindly reached down to grab the bottom of his shirt and tugged at it. “Off.”
He pulled back just enough for her to get it off and smirked. “So bossy.”
Annie tossed it to the side and ducked her head down to mouth over the solid muscle near his collar bone, “Mmm hmm.” She scratched her nails down his bare torso then curled her fingers into the waist of his jeans and he shuddered underneath her.
She licked the length of the tendon in his neck then sucked his earlobe into her hot mouth and grazed it with her teeth. Jeff grabbed her hips and ground up into her core, except it was just a bit off because her baby bump was keeping her from getting in the right spot on his lap. Annie groaned in frustration. “Not working,” She whined.
He opened his eyes to glace down at her protruding abdomen and huffed out a laugh. “It is starting to get in the way, isn’t it?”
“Jeeeffff.”
Jeff worked his hand down between them and rubbed against her soaked panties. She wrapped her arms around his neck then threw her head back and rocked against his hand to get more friction. “Good,” she moaned, “so good.”
He kept his hand firmly against her while he leaned forward to nip and suck at her neck.
Annie felt him suck particularly hard in one spot and squirmed away. “Don’t give me a hickey, I have to go to work tomorrow.”
Jeff managed to flash her a shit-eating grin even though he was breathing hard and disheveled and slid one hand around to her stomach. “I hate to break it to you, but I’m pretty sure everyone at work knows I’ve done way more to you than give you a hickey.”
She narrowed her eyes, “Then I should get to give you a hickey, too.”
He shook his head, “I have to be in court tomorrow. You give me a hickey, the judge sees it, I lose the case, my win-ratio goes down and I lose my job, we can’t afford the apartment, have to move in with my mom, and the baby has to wear newspapers for diapers.”
Annie rolled her eyes and snorted out a laugh, “Whatever. Just get on with it,” She whined, becoming increasingly impatient.
He kissed her hard again and ran his tongue along the roof of her mouth before pulling back. “Bed?”
She nodded, still a little dazed from his latest kiss, “Last time we did it on the couch it started to hurt my back.”
Jeff adjusted her in his arms so he was holding her bridal style then got up and carried her to the bedroom with her kissing at his neck and shoulder the entire way. He dropped her gently on the bed so she was on her knees and he was standing in front of her.
Annie pressed her palm against the bulge of his jeans, he grunted and his hips involuntarily bucked into her hand. She pulled it away and quickly undid his jeans and pushed them down his legs along with his boxer-briefs. Jeff mindlessly stepped out of the fabric and kicked it away.
She ran her hands roughly up his strong thighs and around to grab at his firm ass, then up his broad back and shoulders and back down his chest as it rose and fell with his ragged breathing. Finally she wrapped her hand around his erection and gave it a small squeeze. Jeff’s hips bucked again, “Jesus, babe.”
“Jeff, fuck me, please,” Annie begged.
He leaned down and kissed her again, this time much more softly, then pulled his t-shirt off of her and walked her backwards on the bed. Annie lay down on the pillows and lifted her hips so he could drag her panties down her legs and toss them next to his jeans. Jeff’s eyes raked up her body and he swallowed hard, “So beautiful.”
She reached for him and he crawled up over her, leaving kisses and swirling his tongue over her flushed skin as he went. He reached down between her legs to slide his fingers between her folds as he kissed her temple, her neck, and the corner of her mouth. She gasped and her hips jerked up when he circled around her clit then put direct pressure on it with the pad of his index finger.
Jeff pulled back enough to look her in the eye then pulled his hand from between her thighs and sucked his wet fingers into his mouth one by one, moaning with appreciation when her taste hit his tongue.
Annie watched him with dark eyes and curled her fingers into a fist against his chest, “Jeff…”
He adjusted himself so he was propped up on one arm and ran his other hand from her neck down to her knees then back up and gently nudged her so she was partially on her side, the position she was most comfortable in lately. Annie bent one leg up and he wrapped his arm under her knee then leaned down and kissed her as he pushed into her. Her neck arched back and she moaned at the sensation of finally having him inside of her.
She slid her hands under his arms then around to his back and pressed her palms flat to feel his defined muscles shifting under his skin as he moved. “God…you feel so fucking good, so hard,” She murmured in his ear.
Jeff sighed into her neck and shifted again so he was brushing her clit with every thrust. Annie cried out, clutching him closer to feel as much of his hard body against her as she could. He slid his hand between her and the pillow to cradle the back of her head and she tilted her head to rest her cheek against his. He turned his head just enough to pepper kisses over the side of her face.
Annie felt herself flying closer to the edge as he worked deep inside of her with a steady rhythm. “Jeff…faster, please,” She begged.
He sped up and pounded into her harder, putting more pressure on her clit. Annie let out a squeaky gasp and her eyes fluttered closed as she raised her hips to meet his thrusts. Jeff groaned when her tight, warm walls started to flutter and grip him tighter and lifted his head to kiss her lips then look her in the eye. She clenched tighter around him. “Annie...baby…fuck…”
Annie dug her nails into his back and came without warning, arching up and biting at his shoulder to partially muffle a scream. The little twinge of pain mixed with her coming around him was his undoing. A gritty moan ripped from Jeff’s throat as his hips jerked and he spilled hard inside of her.
When he was spent he collapsed on top of her but still managed to keep most of his weight off her stomach and stayed there for a minute, panting into her neck before rolling himself off to his back.
She turned towards him and a lazy, satisfied smile spread across her face. “Hi.”
He smiled back at her. “Hi.”
Annie put her hand on her belly, “She’s kicking hard.”
His face twisted up in disgust, “Ugh, see that’s the only thing that creeps me out about sex now. When she starts kicking and moving while we’re doing it it’s like she knows.”
“She doesn’t know we’re having sex, her brain isn’t even developed enough yet to understand the basic concept.”
“No, but she must know she’s being bounced around and Mommy is making weird noises a lot more lately.”
She giggled, “If I were you I wouldn’t be complaining about how much we’re doing it because once she’s born it won’t be happening for a while.”
“Oh I’m not complaining, I’m just saying it creeps me out when she makes her presence known.”
Annie gave him a quick peck on the lips then pushed herself out of bed, “Maybe she already takes after her Daddy knows how to command attention.”
Jeff huffed out a laugh as he tensed to stretch out his arms and legs. “I’m so proud.” He watched her pull his shirt back on and shimmy back into her panties. “Where’re you going?”
She grabbed a pair of pajama pants from the dresser. “Jeff, it’s only 9:30, I’m not going to sleep yet.”
His eyes widened and he jumped off the bed, “Shit! I’m missing Top Chef!”
Annie rolled her eyes and yelled after him, “I love you, too!”
Part b