Story of my Life

2020

"Could you pick the girls up?" Connie asked as her husband walked into her office. Every day that week she'd promised that she'd pick the girls up from school, and every day as it got to half two, she found herself snowed under with paperwork.

"Con, you promised." He reminded her, causing her to look up at him. Slowly, she got up being careful of the small carry cot that held her  newborn son, Christian. In the five years they'd been together, the love that had always been present in their relationship, had never faded. The twins had never been planned, instead they came as the result of a drunken New Year's Eve. The August of 2016 brought with it the birth of Beatrix and Quinn Masters, the daughters of Connie and Jacob.

"I know, but you try running a department and looking after a newborn baby at the same time, especially at my age."

"No one made you come back to work two weeks after giving birth." Jacob reminded her.

"Do you know how boring it is being at home with someone who can't talk to you? Anyway, this department won't run by itself. Now can you pick Bea and Quinn up please?" She asked again, her patience clearly wearing thin as the exhaustion of caring for a baby caught up with her.

"You know I will, I'm hardly going to leave them at school. Don't be much longer though because he needs to go down soon." Jacob told her as he reached for his coat, which was laying on the sofa in her office and then bent down to kiss his son's nose before he left.

"I know." She told Jacob, but found that he'd already left the office, leaving her and Christian, who had just begun crying.

"I forgot something." Jacob called breathlessly as he entered his wife's office again, and smiled as he saw his son in Connie's arms.

"Hurry up, he needs a feed." Connie told him bluntly, but Jacob still came closer to her and gently took Christian into his own arms before leaning down to kiss Connie.

"I forgot to remind you that I love you." Jacob told her, and handed Christian back to Connie. "Be good little man."

"I love you too Jacob, I'll be back about 4."

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In the time which she was supposed to be working, she instead found herself concentrating on anything but. The photos on her wall told the story of life since she'd been with Jacob, as they began with one of them together while she'd been pregnant the first time, and then moved on to the four of them, then their wedding and then the Christian hours after birth.

She sighed happily as silence descended on the room, maybe being back at work so soon wasn't ideal. Zoe and Max had adopted their third child, Scarlett, meaning that they were two consultants down and so Connie being off too really wasn't an option. Looking back at the work on her desk, she found herself unable to concentrate still and so instead found herself reliving the past 5 years of her life.

Hi,
Usually I publish on fanfiction.net but there seems to be a lot of love for this pairing over on this site. I'm sorry that this chapter is short, but it's going to go back in time in the next few chapters and I kind of wanted this to set the scene. Any feedback is welcome. Thank you.

Beth