Miss You More (A Joey McIntyre/Jordan Knight Fanfiction)

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Joe's so lost without Amber and especially Joey here with him. But he keeps his mind on why she felt she needed to do what she's doing.

He's gone by to see Sam almost everyday since Amber left. He's not sure why, but he hasn't told Sam about Amber leaving. He just wants to keep things normal between him and Sam.

What he's really not wanting to hear from Sam is any "I told you so". She'd warned Joe that Amber was going to leave him again one day. But Joe knows it's not forever. So he just keeps it to himself. It's not like Sam wastes any of her time with Joe asking about Amber.

One night after Joe has dinner with Sam she gets a phone call. When she answers it she gives Joe a strange look. "Anthony?" Then she breaks into very fluent Italian. She even leaves the room. He's kind of taken aback, he had no idea she could speak Italian. He wonders who Anthony is and why she decided to take the call in another room.

"Sorry about that. What were we talking about?"

Joe smiles. "Sam, I didn't know you could speak Italian."

She sits down next to Joe on the couch. "Oh yeah, I learned it a few years back, before we met. That was an old friend I met in Italy a long time ago. So Joe tell me, are you ready to be a Daddy again? It's getting close."

He definitely notices she changed the subject. He let's it go. It's better they talk about baby stuff anyway. "I think I'm definitely ready. I've done it all before so I think I'll be good. What about? Are you ready? It's only a little over 2 months now. Time's going to fly by and she'll be here before you know it."

"Before we know it. And yes I'm ready. I think we'll be just fine. I have all the confidence in us."

Joe's not sure how he feels about her using "we" and "us" so much. He and Amber are really the only "we" or "us" he really cares about. But he doesn't say anything out of kindness.

Joe gets a text from Amber about a month after she's been gone. She just wants to check in and let him know she and the baby are doing just fine. She asks him if he'd like to see Joey. He of course wants to see his son. Amber offers to have him dropped off at her parents and he tells her that would be great. He asks when and she won't tell him because she doesn't want him showing up there. She just says she'll let him know. Them she says I love you and sends him a kiss emoji. He smiles and says he loves her too.

Joe runs by to check on Sam, she'd seemed really run down his last visit and he isn't sure he'll have a lot of time once Joey gets home. To his surprise she doesn't answer the door when he knocks the second time. Her neighbor hears him knocking and comes out into the hallway.

"She's not back yet. Should be back in the next day or so. I here things went good though."

Joe's confused. "Back from where?"

The little old lady smiles. "She had the baby yesterday."

"What do you mean? She wasn't due for another month and a half. Isn't that too soon?"

The lady thinks for a second. "Are you sure, she sure looked full term to me. From what I heard everything went well and the baby is doing good."

Joe gets to the hospital as quickly as he can. When he gets to her room Joe's a little more than surprised to see Sam sitting with another man holding his little girl.

"Sam? What's going on? Why didn't you call me? Is everything okay?"

Sam is shocked to see Joe. "Joe." That's all she says, she can't seem to find the words for him. She turns to the other man and whispers something to him in Italian. Joe figures he must have asked him to go because he hands Sam the baby and leaves the room. Not without giving Joe a long look first.

Once he's gone Joe moves over to her bedside and looks down at the beautiful baby in Sam's arms. What he sees raises a few questions for Joe, most of all he wants to know where this little girl got a head full of jet black hair and beautiful olive skin. Joe and Sam are both blonde haired, blue eyed and of Irish and Swedish decent. "Sam what's going on here? Who's the guy?"

Sam begins to cry. "Oh God Joe I'm so sorry. I didn't think he'd come back. He said he wasn't. I didn't know what else to do."

"What the hell are you talking about Sam?"

Sam looks down at the now sleeping baby in her arms. "Joe, that's Tony, my ex husband. Not long after Amber got back he called me. He was in New York and wanted to see me, so I went. We talked and kind of reconciled. But when the week was over he had to go back to Italy. About a month later I found out I was pregnant. Tony was in Italy and when I told him he wasn't that thrilled and he had no plans to come back to America. We fought and I said I'd take care of it myself. That was the last time we talked until the other night."

Joe can't believe what he's hearing right now. His rage begins to build inside him. "So you thought I was your way of taking care of it. You decided to convince me the baby was mine and almost completely ruined my life. And my marriage? Sam I've never in my life felt so betrayed."

"Joe please, I'm so sorry. I knew you'd help me. I knew you'd be a good father to my baby. I couldn't do this all alone. You were my best friend and I needed you. I had nowhere else to turn Joe. Please understand."