Here is your guys new chapter in honor of my birthday! Wow, I hope you guys enjoy, there may or may not be some drama occurring very soon. 

Chris sat in front of Scarlett, just as he did a few days ago when Scarlett was staring off into space in need of advice. After last night when Scarlett confronted him and helped him finally share all the emotions that he is going through, he had felt a lot more comfortable around her. Maybe not ready to see Nicole just yet, but he knew that with Scarlett help he could start coming to terms with this all. 

The only problem, however, was that Scarlett was feeling completely devastated, not knowing if she had lost her chance of being in her daughter's life or not. From what it seemed like, she had missed out. 

Last night

Scarlett removed her arms from around Chris, who used his sleeves to clear the tears that we on his face. He felt horrible even saying these things out loud, not because of his dignity but because he knew any other parent would have told him they felt the same way before they had a kid, however, they learned to get over it.

"I wanna thank you for listening to me. If it was anyone else they would have told me I was a coward, an Idiot." He stopped a moment, not looking up at her, he closed his eyes for a moment, "sometimes I wonder if you are the only person who can possibly make me feel this way." He ended with staring into her green eyes, he could tell she was a bit distracted as of right now, however she tried keeping her focus. 

"Why do you say that?" She asked, looking him in the eyes, she had to admit that despite the internal panic she was going through, she told herself that she was speaking with Chris, she wouldn't make EVERYTHING about herself. 

"Because when I am around you, I feel like I can... I don't know, maybe the fact that just being around you makes me somewhat a better person... it's stupid." He looked down and used his hands to rub his face, he was red with embarrassment. 

"I don't think that it's stupid Chris." She said with a smile, that makes Chris smile and his stomach fill with butterflies. He felt like a teenager all over again. When she smiles at him, he remembers exactly why he still has all these underlying feelings toward her. 

"You don't?" He asked, looking at her to see if she was lying. He wasn't calling her a liar, however, he just felt like things were only maybe onesided with them. 

"No. Of course not. You are my best friend Chris." And there it was. Friend.  "You know that I love spending time with you." 

"Yeah... yeah of course." He gave her a smile that wouldn't have convinced him on any other day, however today she was too distracted to see his true feelings. He looked up and finally noticed her concerned look. "Hey what's wrong?" he asked. 

"Oh um, it doesn't matter." She said trying to reach out for her drink once more. Chris saw this and used his hand to keep the drink on the counter. She looked up at him annoyed. "What are you doing?" She asked. 

"Saving you from a killer headache tomorrow. Trust me." He said. He moved the cup away from her reach and then took her hands into his own. "Now you just listen to me rant, now it's your turn Scar, what's wrong?" He asked looking into her eyes deeply.  

"It's just we spent all night talking about..." She stopped to look into his eyes to see if it was okay to say her name when he was in a delicate state. He nodded his head indicating that she could continue. "Nicole... and well it's just she leaves tomorrow. First thing in the morning and I have worked so I won't be able to be there and well tonight we were supposed to have dinner." 

"What?" Chris was shocked, "This late?" He asked because she had been on set all day and then went to the bar at 6 and it was already 9 he couldn't believe they would wait that long to eat. 

"No... the dinner was at 6. However, I kinda forgot about it. and now well I kinda looked at my phone to see that she tried calling me, but I was drunk and now she won't answer my texts." Scarlett sighed and went to rub her head. "I messed up."  

"Scarlett..." he stopped when he saw a tear roll down her face. This wasn't just missing dinner, and he knew that. he knew that Nicole's parents probably didn't like them, so this was probably her chance to prove that she could be in Nicole's life. And she missed that opportunity. That's the real reason she was upset. "Come on let's get you home." 

Present times. 

Chris ended up volunteering to take Scarlett home that night. She was in such an emotional state to even drive home. Even though he wasn't so sure on this whole parenting thing, he was sure this was everything to her. 

But the next morning she sat in her trailer while her Chris sat across from her. He was, dare he say in love with this woman, and he had to watch as life constantly tried to push her down. 
"Scarlett, you need to take a step back to evaluate this whole situation." 

Scarlett looked up at Chris very confused. She could not come up with any other way of viewing this. It all seemed kinda one sided. Her daughter left as of that morning, wouldn't answer her calls and to make matter worse she felt extremely guilty. 

"Chris there is nothing to evaluate, she is gone. And I guess that is my fault. But I feel like this world is trying to tell me something..." 

"Scarlett doesn't do that..." He said. 

"No, I am not going to give up. I won't make that mistake again. I just think I need to take a moment to determine what it is I want, and what she needs. I can't just barge into her life and ruin things. I need to think clearly here. " Chris watched as this woman, who was lost in thoughts not five minutes ago, now stood and was taking charge. Something he loved about her. "I want to be in her life, and I want to do it right." 

"You know Scarlett you have an amazing way of looking at life." Chris smiled at her. She wasn't giving up, she was going to take a step back and figure out how to do this correctly. She wasn't like any other woman out there. Maybe that's why he is so in love. 

"Scarlett we need you on set!" A production assistant called out right outside Scarlett's trailer. She sighed and gave Chris a thankful smile before walking over to the door. 

"Thank you again, Chris. You are my best friend." She said and then left him in the trailer. Alone with his thoughts. 

Friend? 

Nicole was sitting back in her own room. Quite frankly sitting around doing nothing all day was just no longer as thrilling as she remembered it being. She was waiting for Ava to come over. (which after a lot of convincing from her parents, they were allowed to see one another. )

Nicole decided that she wanted to do a bit of research herself. She wanted answers, and maybe fleeing the city to find her long lost parents wasn't the way to do it anymore. She walked over to her desk grabbing her laptop. 

Throughout her time with Scarlett and Chris, her mind would always go through different scenarios, however, one incident, in particular, was running through her mind, which she could never understand. 

Actually, there was a few, one of them is how they managed to keep this a secret for such a long time, however, her main question was how they could both just move on with their lives. Nicole didn't understand how people could just abandon their kid and be fine in the future. It didn't make sense to her. 

She was gonna start by researching her father, something about him just didn't make sense about him, and she wanted to know what it was. She went as far back as she could search the web, from around the time she was born. 

But as much as she searched she would never find the true story. 

13 years ago

To say Chris was distraught had to be the most underrated statement of the year, he didn't even know what he was doing. He was landing, and he guaranteed by the time he returned home, nothing would ever be the same again. 

Last week he had gotten a message from Scarlett saying their baby girl was born, and she had done the hard task of taking her to the adoption center. Now she was in the states resting and getting back into shape. 

She didn't know that he was here or what he was doing. He had heard that this little bundle of joy would be leaving for the states with the adoption agency tomorrow and he had to see her before that. Before he loses her for good. 

So he set out, leaving to go see his daughter for one last time, before taking that part of his mind away, leaving it there with her. So earlier he had called the adoption network and said he was interested in their latest baby. They informed him she would be leaving Europe soon, as he already knew, but if he had a real interest in her they could stall the leave. But deep down he knew he couldn't do that. 

He arrived at the adoption center later that day and went up to the lady at the desk. His heart was pounding just knowing that his daughter was in the same building as he was. It kind of freaked him out. 

"Hello, sir can I help you?" The lady said not making eye contact with him. She was more focused on whatever was on her phone. Her voice was so uninterested, but Chris didn't pay much attention to that. 

"I um... I uh..." He couldn't even speak because he was so nervous, this was what made the woman look up from her phone, and she stood in shock immediately regretting ever ignoring him. She shut her flip phone, placing it down on her desk and smiled. 

"You're Chris Evans right?" She asked. Chris was a bit surprised because his movies were not the...best things. 

"Oh uh yeah that's correct."  He nodded his head shyly. He knew he was still considered a 'celebrity' and people knew him of course, however, he wasn't a big old star. But then again the game he was in where he was a surfer was a big hit in some places, for some odd reasons. Or maybe the Marvel movie he did two years ago, fantastic four which he was actually about to the premiere of the movie in a month. So the paparazzi were looking for him, which is why he had to make this discrete. 

"Uh um what can I uh do for you?" She asked giving him a nice smile. 

"I called earlier hoping to meet one of the baby girls that was just admitted here not too long ago, her name is Nicole." He explained She nodded her head looking on her desktop computer to find his appointment. 

"Oh yes, Nicole is being sent out tomorrow, but we have you scheduled to meet her if you wanna follow me back this way I can take you to her." She said walking her way around the desk, making sure to strut, obviously a horrible approach to flirt with him. 

She leads him to the back of the nursery where a baby girl wrapped in a white blanket laid, she told him to take all the time, and someone would come to get him when it was time for Nicole to be fed. 

Chris reluctantly walked up to the baby girl, admiring her as they become closer to one another. Chris was stunned looking at her for the first time. She looked so much like Scarlett the way her eyes shimmered, but she had the dirty blonde hair on her head that resembled him so much. 

The little girl looked over at Chris, and as if she recognized him she smiled raising her little hand asking for him to touch her. Chris couldn't move, he didn't want to touch her for the fear of becoming attached. 

"Hi, little baby." He spoke softly pulling up a chair so he could sit beside her. Nicole didn't take her eyes off of her father. He had caught her attention, and she had no intention of letting him out of his sight. 

"You probably don't know me." He said, releasing that this was the first time she would hear his voice because he never spoke to her when she was in Scarlett's stomach. "But I guess it's for the best." 

"You know I never wanted to be an absent father, but I am so young, I don't understand what it means to be a father. And one day you are probably going to grow, you're going to ask yourself if it was something you did that made us leave, I just want you to know that it wasn't you. There is nothing wrong with you. It was us, we just weren't ready, we wouldn't have been able to give you the life you needed." 

He looked at the sweet girl. She didn't care. She didn't care if he messed up, she wouldn't care if he was scared. When this little girl grew up all she would care about is him being there. But his fears and anxiety got the best of him. 

"I love you, and I want you to know that even when it doesn't seem like it, I care about you, I am just so scared of you telling me you hate me that I am keeping my distance, but just know I do care. I may suck at showing it, but I do care." He leaned down so he could kiss her head, a tear rolling down his cheek. He had to leave because if he didn't, he knew he wouldn't leave alone, and no one needed him making impulsive decisions. 

"Goodbye baby girl." 

And Chris never spoke of that encounter. He left the same day he arrived, not looking back. He kept it a secret from everyone he knew, even Scarlett. In fact, the two wouldn't see each other until the filming of Avengers, leaving the secrete hidden away deeply. After that rumors spread about Chris dating Emmy Rossum, Christina Ricci he was a busy man trying to keep his mind off the beautiful blonde who stole his heart all those years ago, the beautiful blonde who started dating Ryan Renolds, then getting married. 

She was out of Chris's reach, and he believed he had lost her. He had lost everything, but he had hoped one day he could get one of the things he lost back. So when he heard of Scarlett and Ryans divorce early in the year before filming Avengers he was ecstatic, but before anything could happen their daughter came. Chris was once again trapped alone in his mind trying to figure out how he can stand there in front of both of them knowing he is lying to them. 

He knew something. He wasn't there to say goodbye to Nicole. 

He knew that the day he flew to Europe to say goodbye to Nicole, he was actually going to adopt her.