Hi, Just wanted to wish everyone a happy season and a happy new year. Also
wanted to post my fanfiction. Please write comments back, I love to hear what
people think of my fanfiction. Christmas Baby>>By fkval2002>>> >Forever Knight
and its characters were created by James Parriott, et al., and are owned by
Sony/Tri-Star. This song is Artists > U2 > Christmas (baby Please Come Home

>>> >(It's Christmas ... baby, please come home) >>Natalie awoke to the sound of
Christmas music coming from downstairs in the loft. Jumping out of bed she
rushed to put her silky red robe on. Since she was now eight months pregnant
(from when nick had amnesia) she could only have run down the hall to see who
had started the noise. For one brief moment she allowed herself to believe that
Nick, the father of her baby, had returned after he had abandoned her to die on
that fateful night (the last episode). She poked her head over the banister to
see standing there, her savior, Derek. `Not Nick, It never will be Nick.' She
always had to remind herself that Nick would never return for her. She was just
one of a hundred girls that had fluttered through his eight hundred years of
existence. >>She had Derek now, her husband. `You love Derek.' Why did she have
to keep telling herself this? Why could she not just let herself be happy? Maybe
it was because it was hard to force yourself to love someone when your belly was
swelling with the child of the one you truly loved. There were times when she
believed that she truly was capable of loving Derek; after all he was a hot six
foot six muscular neurosurgeon. She enjoyed the fact that he loved to surprise
her and make her smile. Which was what he was doing just now coming home a day
early from his lecture in France, just so he could spend Christmas with her. It
was times like these that she knew that some part of her did love him. >>She
also loved him because they both shared the same taste in books, movies, food,
and especially in the bedroom. One thing that she especially loved about Derek
was that he had the same ability that Nick had at making her excited with just a
look from his deep green eyes. He had a masculine quality that drove her wild.
It was hard to believe that a man like him would fall in love with a girl that
was pregnant with another mans child, and still harbored unresolved feelings for
the baby's father. She knew in her heart that she didn't deserve him. >>
The snow's comin' down (Christmas)
I'm watchin' it fall (Christmas)
Lots of people around (Christmas)
Baby, please come home >>> >"Merry Christmas Natalie" said Derek with a warm
smile, the one he usually sported whenever he got in close proximity of his
lovely wife. He could not thank God more for bring such a wonderful woman into
his life. He recognized that she did care a lot for her ex, but it was he that
she loved and was married too. He still could not figure out why such a loving
kind woman could still harbor deep feelings for a guy that left her with his
child on the way. `Nick was a fool' he said to himself as he leaned down to kiss
his wife. >>As usual the kiss was passionate and sweet, just like his wife. It
was just his luck that he would meet the girl he wanted to spend the rest of his
life with solving a very sick murder. The man apparently enjoyed cutting brains
out of small innocent children. A real pervert. Natalie had been so shaken up by
the killing spree that she had broken down on his shoulder during an autopsy;
from the moment she cried on his shoulder he knew he wanted her more than a
friend.>>> >The church bells in town (Christmas)
They're ringin' a song (Christmas)
What a happy sound (Christmas)
Baby, please come home >>> >Natalie and Derek were just able to grab the last
pew in the local church. Natalie looked over at her handsome husband and watched
as his eyes caressed her swollen belly. Most men would find the state of her
belly disgusting, but Derek seemed to think it was sexy. They had decided that
immediately following the birth of this child that they would start working on a
family of their own. Derek being Irish wanted a large family of about four kids
and valued having a family. This was another thing that Natalie loved and shared
in common with Derek, she too wanted a large family. But, unlike Derek she could
not resist the nagging feeling that she was going to hold Nick's child above any
that she has with Derek.>>Natalie looked at the people that filled the church;
they all looked so peaceful and happy. She wished that she was truly as happy as
she was pretending to be. Knowing that the only thing that would make her happy
was Nick coming home and claiming her as his , was just making her more
agitated. `It is a fantasy. It will never happen. Embrace Derek he is a good
man.' After thoroughly lecturing herself she placed her hand on top of Derek's
and gave it a small squeeze. Watching Derek smile cheered her up, but not enough
as her mind once again drifted away to thoughts of Nick.
CHORUS:

They're singin' 'Deck the Halls'
But it's not like Christmas at all
I remember when you were here
And all the fun we had last year>>>
>************************************************************>>FLASHBACK:>>"Nat,
I know you love Christmas and I wanted to embrace the holiday, so I…." The
elevator door opened and Nick watched excitedly as Natalie's eyes opened wide.>>
Natalie was too shocked to find the right words or move out of the elevator,
where the last remains of normalcy had been. Nick's apartment was now home to a
seven foot Christmas tree that was decorated with everything from fake snow to
candy canes. There was a miniature Christmas town houses. The apartment had
totally embraced the Christmas spirit. >>Nick moved in close to Natalie and
kissed her softly on the forehead. "Merry Christmas, Nat." She was surprised
when she felt a soft kiss on her lips with the words "I love you" whispered. But
that could have been her desperation to hear the words, which should never be
spoken.>>Back to present: >> "Natalie wake up you been sleeping through
out the sermon." She heard Derek quietly speak. She was totally embarrassed she
had been daydreaming about Nick next to Derek and in church no less on a
Christmas sermon. Then to make matters worse her water must have broken during
the daydream. >>
Pretty lights on the tree (Christmas)
I'm watchin' 'em shine (Christmas)
You should be here with me (Christmas)
Baby, please come home
Baby, please come home
Baby, please come home >>> >"Derek, my water just broke" Natalie said as she
leaned over and whispered into her husband's ear. >>Derek jumped up like a bolt
of lightening, which cuased everyone to stare at them in utter shock at their
behavior. "My wife's going into labor," Derek announced as he hurriedly got
Natalie all bundled up. People around them began to whisper and a few kind soles
called for the ambulance. As soon as the ambulance was there Derek swooped up
his wife and carried her out of the church. Many people wished them well on
their way out and they began to sing "We Wish You a Merry Christmas. " >>Out of
the back of the Ambulance Natalie watched as all they passed all the lovely snow
covered houses. Natalie turned her gaze to her husband who was holding her hand
and softly whispering words of love and comfort. She still could not help but
wish that the man beside her, holding her hand was Nick. She smiled at Derek and
kissed his lips. "I love you Derek. Thanks for being there for me." >>As soon as
she reached the hospital she was carried immediately into the birthing room.

If there was a way (Christmas)
I'd hold back these tears (Christmas)
But it's Christmas day (Christmas)
Baby, please come home
Baby, please come home
Baby, please come home>>> >Natalie awoke in a hospital bed ten hours later to
the sound of a male voice coming from outside of her hospital bedroom. Through
the distorted glass it looked like Nick, but she knew that it could not possible
be him. Derek must have been waiting anxiously for me to awaken. "Derek I am
awake," Natalie mumbled groggily. >>However, she fell back to sleep, but when
she awoke she was greeted to a familiar voice asking, "You ready to meet our
son?" Natalie began to sob for the first time since she found out that she was
pregnant. >>


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