Complicated

Chapter Sixty Nine: Godfathers

Before the gold and the glimmer have been replaced,
Another sun soaked season fades away

You have stolen my heart
You have stolen my heart

Dashboard Confessional - Stolen

The baby nursery was housed on the other side of a large glass window on the same floor as the maternity ward. On the opposite side of the transparent pane there were row upon row of small, neatly organised, plastic cots each containing a baby. Some were dozing, their dinky little mouths open as they lay tangled in minuscule blankets. Others were simply jingling their limbs testing out their new found freedom as they took in the world around them.

The boy babies were clad in tiniest blue hats that Adam had ever seen and of course the girls were clad in pink. If he was honest most of the babies looked the same to him, the only different being ethnicity. He wondered where their God Daughter was in the sea of babies. If his suspicions were right he assumed it was the mouthy looking one, flailing as best as she could in the top left hand corner. Already trying to escape, he thought.

Danny was beside him already holding up a piece of paper written with the Sharpie Fineliner that Adam always carried around with him. He clapped his palm against the glass trapping the piece of paper in between it and the glass so that the nurse could read the words.

Jennifer Flack.

The nurse held up a finger, indicating for them to wait a moment. Danny crossed his arms over his chest, a wide proud grin already spreading across his weary, dirty blond features as he followed he nurse with his cornflower blue eyes.

The two of them were the first from Grace and Flack's crime scene family to arrive. As soon as Flack had called them to say Grace had given birth to a healthy baby girl they had finished up as quickly as they could to visit their friends. Mac had allowed them to leave before their shift's end provided they had handed in their paperwork.

Mac had informed them that him and Jo would be in attendance at the hospital later, they were doing the final sign offs on the evidence reports from the case of the girl Jo had found dead in the Crime Lab yesterday morning.

Despite the fact Adam missed Stella he had to admit he liked Mac's new second in command Jo Danville. She was humorous and entertaining, a breath of fresh air in the Crime Lab. The boss and her were polar opposites but Adam thought that's why the working relationship they seemed to be forming was working so well.

Adam raked a hand through his unruly curls as his own face split into a wide smile as the nurse selected the infant that Adam had deemed to be the hell raiser of the bunch. The baby girl didn't take kindly to the disruption, she wriggled and wrestled with the nurse's firm hands as she raised her out of the plastic cot. Her face was creased with irritation as she opened her perfectly formed lips and let out an ear splitting howl that the two of them could hear through the solid glass formation in front of them.

There was silence between the two men for a second as the nurse approached the window wincing. Danny hid a chuckle behind his hand causing Adam to purse his lips together trying to hide the amused smirk spreading across his rugged features.

Jenny was starring back at them with wide blue eyes looking indignant at the people responsible for removing her from comfort zone yet again.

"She's got Grace's temper I'll give her that." Danny proclaimed at the baby's feisty and restricted movements.

"Don's eyes though, look at those baby blues." Adam said shaking his head at the sight of their beautiful little God Daughter.

There was a sense of responsibility residing in each of the men as they stood before the window. Adam knew the chances of either of them becoming the primary caregiver for this child were remote. Yet there was still that growing feeling of love building up in his chest, making it hard for him to swallow as he became encumbered by Jennifer's charms. He had never seen something so tiny and vulnerable before. There was such a definite urge to protect when he looked at the child in front of him and he knew without any doubt in his mind he would guide and watch over that little girl for years to come. Adam cast a glance at Danny and he understood from the expression of awe on the other man's features that he wasn't the only one finding this moment so clarifying.

Danny pressed his palm to the window once more, placing it in the space where little Jenny's tiny hand would come to rest if she was able to make the same motion before he whispered.

"Love you Jenny baby."