AN: Just a sweet chapter of sweet memories of them with their babies.

John and Christine were going through their photo book and boxes of family photographs as they found Polaroids and pictures of her pregnancies as she was feeling bittersweet as she smiled.

"Which one did you find?" Christine asked him.

"This one." John said as he held it out to let her see it.

"Christine, eight months pregnant on 'The Dance' Tour with our little Olivia." John said as he read the picture in her handwriting.

*Flashback* The Dance Tour 1997

Christine was sitting on the edge of the bed, hands on the bed as she waited for John to come back into the room with their dinner, she was craving Mexican food and talking to their baby.

"Daddy will be back soon darling." Christine said as her baby wiggled around, impatiently waiting for food.

They were heading home today as they were thankfully not too far from home as she heard the door and John entered the room with their food.

"How are my girls doing?" John asked as he sat down in front of her and kissed her stomach.

"We're doing great and we're very hungry." Christine said as John opened the bag.

"For my beautiful lady, enchiladas with extra rice with chips and queso." John said as Christine kissed him.

"Thank you sweetheart." Christine said as she dug in and the smell and flavors were all still exciting to her.

"You're welcome baby. I want to make sure my babies are happy and fed." John said as he ate his burrito in between massaging her feet.

"Mhmm..." Christine moaned as baby Olivia kicked her in her right rib cage as she tried not to choke on her rice as she rubbed her side.

"What's wrong?" John asked as he knew how close her due date was.

"Our baby songbird just kicked me hard in my rib cage." Christine said.

"Hey baby girl, be nice to mummy, I know you are excited and we have one more month till you make your arrival into this world." John said as he felt his baby girl move around.

"Whoo! I know we have another month but I look like I'm ready to give birth already and she's kicking again." Christine said as John pulled her dress up to see her stomach to see their daughter moving around.

"It's okay baby, mummy is eating dinner now because she's been craving Mexican food since last night and at three o'clock in the morning at that." John said as he looked up at Christine as she blushed.

"Not my fault, I had a craving and oh, there she goes again, my rib is now a foot rest. I wish it was already next month, I'm ready for her to be here." Christine said as she started crying.

"Olivia, sweetheart be nice to your mummy. We know you're impatient and can't wait to get here but sweetheart, it's okay and she'll be here soon." John said as Christine couldn't help the tears.

"I'm tired, I'm uncomfortable, I'm in a whole lot of pain and I just want to stretch but I can't and my back, feet, legs and everything hurts." Christine said as she stood up slowly with one hand on her back and the other on her rounded belly.

"Come here baby and I'll massage your back for you." John said.

"I can't lay on my stomach, nothing works anyway." Christine said.

"Come and sit in the chair in the bathroom with your back facing me." John said as they went into the bathroom and she sat down, straddling the chair with her back facing him as he went to work to cure her pain.

"Oh God honey, keep going." Christine moaned as she was throughly enjoying her back massage as he massaged her neck, shoulders and back as well.

John was making sure his lady was well taken care of, he knew the spots to massage as he began massaging her hips and that's when she started really moaning.

"Mhmm... Oh god yes honey, fuck your hands and fingers are magical." Christine said as John smiled.

"You should already know how magical my hands and fingers are, especially when we're in bed." John said as Christine looked at him through the mirror.

"Oh I already know daddy penguin and I know those hands can make me feel better but your fingers can make me feel like I'm on cloud nine." Christine said as John looked to see her blue eyes sparkle as she turned around to kiss him and stood up to unbutton his shirt and his pants.

"Make love to me daddy penguin, please." Christine said as John kissed her and sat her up on the bathroom counter.

"I'm going to make you feel better in no time." John said as he pushed her dress up to her hips as he lifted her legs onto his shoulders as he kissed her thigh.

"Don't tease me please baby." Christine said as she ran her fingers through his hair, gripping it as he licked her sensitive bud.

"Oh fuck yes, more." Christine said in a raspy voice as her hands gripped the back of his head tightly as she pushed his face back against her center.

"Just relax baby." John said.

"I'm very relaxed but I'm also super horny right now and I need your tongue and your finger to work your magic, I need all of you right now." Christine said as she ran her hand over the large swell of her breasts.

"Now, you're teasing me." John said as he took her dress off along with her knickers as he wanted to see every bit of her perfect body.

"You're in quite a dilemma, aren't you baby?" Christine asked seductively.

"That I am love, but I want to kiss, lick, nibble and suck on every inch of your perfect body and I want to make my lady feel special." John said as Christine moaned at the thought of him making her feel special.

"I want you all over my body now." Christine said as he cupped her breasts with his calloused hands, gently rubbing them which made her moan.

"Fuckkk... your hands feel sooo good." Christine said.

"God, they look sooo tempting and I know how much you love foreplay and you love your breasts being played with." John said.

"You're still dressed, I want to see you naked and in all your sexy glory." Christine said.

John started undressing as Christine purred as his shirt came off and he unbuckled his belt as he looked at his wife as her eyes were shining bright and the glow of their hotel bathroom radiated off her body.

"I'm so hard baby." John said.

"Mhmm... come here daddy penguin." Christine said as John was only left in his briefs as Christine felt his manhood pressed up against her womanhood.

"You're so big baby, you know I love feeling when you get hard knowing it's all for me." Christine said as John kissed her passionately.

"Every bit of my body is all for you baby to do whatever you please." John said as Christine slid her hand into his briefs and started massaging every bit of his manhood.

"Oh yeah baby, just like that." John said as Christine started kissing his neck.

"Mhmm... You smell so good." Christine moaned as she kissed his neck, inhaling the scent of her husband's cologne as John kissed her lips feverishly.

"You taste good, like strawberries and peaches." John said.

"Well, I wore that chapstick you love so much because my lips were dry." Christine said.

"Well, I know something even sweeter I can eat." John said as Christine grabbed his hands.

"Come on then, let's not waste anytime." Christine said as she pushed him onto the bed.

*End of Flashback*

"That was tough trying to power through that tour while I was pregnant, I was so over it by that last night of the tour but when we had sex, god that was the best times on the tour." Christine said.

"I know and it just got crazy after you left but I remember when you went into labor that next month and after dealing with their craziness for that past month, it did not matter in that moment because all I cared about was you and our babies and I definitely agree songbird, sex was the best part too." John said as Christine held up another picture, smiling at the photo.

"I was just so happy to be home and be with our babies." Christine said as she held the photo of Henry holding her belly.

*Flashback* December 1997

Christine was ready to have her baby as she sat beside John on the couch after a Christmas meal at a party they had all attended to earlier that evening, watching 'Frosty the Snowman' with Henry as he got excited as he sat on John's lap.

John has been on edge since Christine's due date had passed three days ago and baby Olivia was in no way ready to make her entrance into this world as they were both frustrated and exhausted from trying to induce labor from eating the spiciest food she could eat, to eating pineapples, walking to try to induce labor and sex wasn't even working.

"Alright buddy, it's time for bed." John said as Henry was looking at him.

"But daddy." Henry whined.

"No buts buddy, we have a lot to do tomorrow and you know if you don't go to bed now, then Santa might not bring your presents when it's time." John said.

"But what about mummy and sissy?" Henry questioned as Christine knew Henry was excited about his baby sister coming any day now.

"It doesn't look like she'll be here any time soon, so let's go and I'll tuck you in and read you a Christmas story." John said as he scooped his reluctant child up as blew raspberries on his stomach, making him laugh.

"I want to give mummy and sissy a goodnight kiss." Henry said as John let him down as their young son gave his mummy a kiss as he talked to his baby sister.

"I hope you come soon sissy, I can't wait to have someone to play with." Henry said as he kissed Christine's stomach, both feeling her kick as Henry got excited as John took a few photos.

"Mummy, she just kicked me." Henry said as Christine felt the pressure in her abdomen and on her bladder.

"It won't be much longer buddy, now let's go read you that bedtime story so mummy and sissy can get some much needed rest." John said as he picked his son up.

"I'll be back soon sweetheart." John said as he kissed her lips as she curled up with the soft cashmere blanket Stevie had gifted her for Christmas as she drifted off to sleep.

John read their son a Christmas story, tucked him in and made sure his stuffed penguin plushie he slept with every night was clutched tightly to him and seen that he was already asleep, kissing his forehead.

"Goodnight my little penguin, I love you." John said as Henry mumbled.

"Night daddy, I love you too." Henry mumbled before rolling over and snuggling into his blanket and holding onto his penguin plushie and John turned on their son's nightlight before he left the room.

John walked downstairs to see his wife, all snuggled up into the warm cashmere blanket as he put her feet in his lap, he didn't want to disturb her sleep.

"I love you my beautiful songbird and my baby songbird." John said as Christine woke up to see John laying his head on her stomach as she closed her eyes again.

*End of Flashback*

"Little did we know that two days later, we'd be welcoming our little angel the day before Christmas morning." John said.

"Well, I was so ready to give birth and she almost got stuck." Christine said as she laughed.

"All of our kids had big heads, I don't know where they got that from." John said as he laughed.

"You of course, they didn't get it from me." Christine said as she picked up the picture of her and John holding Olivia right after she was born.

"Mick and his timing. I can't believe he took this right after I gave birth, our babies sure were adorable after they cleaned them up but Mick, he had to take a photo of me after I just pushed a human being right out of me." Christine said.

"I agree our children are beautiful but you were beautiful too, sexy even." John said as Christine playfully smacked his arm.

"I was not, I was soaked in sweat with leftover mascara all over my face and sore as all get out." Christine said.

"Well, you were very sexy and still are very sexy my sweet wifey." John said as he kissed her neck, which made her moan.

"Don't start what you can't finish because I want to look at these pictures and you keep tempting me." Christine said as John started kissing her neck and started rubbing in between her legs.

"My beautiful, tempting, sexy wifey." John whispered into her ear as Christine tried to stay focused on going through these photos.

"We need to stay focused honey, I want to frame a lot of these photos and we can't have sex, three of our children are home because Henry and Sophie are at a doctor's appointment." Christine said.

"I can go tell them to leave." John said as Christine glared at him.

"You will do no such thing, I have a whole agenda planned and I'm wanting to stick to my plans and I want all my babies here to help us pick out photos of which ones to frame or keep." Christine said as John sighed.

"Okay honey, let's just keep sorting through all these boxes." John said.

"We're going down memory lane and this is fun, I have been wanting to do this for so long." Christine said.

"I know but I would love to have some time with you, the holidays get so overwhelming and you are just very tempting right now." John said.

"We will have plenty of time for naughty activities later on but right now, I want to spend as much time as I can with all of my babies." Christine said as she opened a box to see her children's school pictures as she set them to the side to frame.

"Look, I found one." John said as he held it up for his wife to see.

"Henry's first school photo, he was in kindergarten and I was such a mess that day because my first little baby was growing up." Christine said.

"You were crying as I slicked back his hair because he liked the look of slicked back hair." John said, chuckling.

"Well, I remember when you tried to curl Olivia's hair and you are never touching another hot tool again but you did try baby but you parted her hair wrong and the bow on the top of her head." Christine said, remembering the little shocked face of her daughter of how her daddy was fixing her hair because Christine was on the phone with her doctor because she was pregnant with Emily and was due at any time.

*Flashback- John and Christine's house-*

John, Christine and their kids had just finished breakfast as Christine was picking out their outfits for school.

"Mummy, that's tacky looking." Olivia said as Christine mismatched an outfit.

"I'm just going through your outfits and a dress will have to do." Christine said as she pulled out a red dress with puffy sleeves and a pair of leggings as she got Olivia ready.

"I need help with my hair mummy." Olivia said.

"Honey, you have a phone call." John said as he came in his daughter's bedroom.

"Shit, I have to do her hair." Christine said as she struggled to get off the floor as Olivia gasped at her mummy's choice of language.

"You owe me a dollar mummy, you said a bad word." Olivia said.

"I'll give it to you when we drop you and your brother off at school." Christine said as she held her hand out for John to help her up as he did.

"I'll do her hair baby, the doctor asked if you're still in some pain." John said.

"You've never curled her hair before and the pain isn't persistent enough to head to the hospital, the contractions come and go." Christine said.

"It's picture day and I'll go figure out how to work that bloody thing." John said.

"I'm going to use our phone in our bedroom." Christine said as she plugged in the curling iron.

"Daddy's going to curl my hair?" Olivia asked her mummy.

"It'll be okay sweetheart and mummy has a very important phone call to make and I'll be inspecting your hair afterwards." Christine said as she kissed Olivia's cheek.

"Okay mummy." Olivia said as Christine walked out of the bathroom and into her bedroom to speak with her doctor.

"I'm not the best at this but I sure will try baby." John said as he wrapped a piece of his daughter hair around the barrel of the curling iron.

After the last piece of hair was curled, Olivia chose a bow and John placed it on top of her head.

"Daddy, my bow is crooked and mummy puts it on the side not on top." Olivia said as she took it out and handed it to him.

"I'm sorry baby, daddy is not good at this but I'll put it where mummy usually puts it." John said as he felt bad for the mess her hair was in.

Christine got off the phone as she stood up to go inspect her daughter's hair as she walked into the bathroom where she inspected her daughter's hair as she tried to fix it.

"Daddy tried mummy, he really did." Olivia said as Christine curled the pieces around her finger to fix it.

"He did an amazing job." Christine said as John came into the bathroom with Henry looking at them.

"It looks good mum." Henry said.

"Your daddy did an awesome job." Christine said as she looked at her husband as John came up behind her, placing his hands on her stomach.

"There we go, now it's time to get going my loves." Christine said as the kids rushed.

"What did the doctor say?" John asked his wife as they headed out of the bathroom and down the stairs and out the door to their car as they were on their way to the school.

"He said if I wanted to try and get my labor started, then we can because honey, I want her out of me because I can't wait any longer to see if she'll come without trying to go into labor naturally." Christine said.

"I can think of a way to induce labor." John said kissing his wife's hand.

"We have all day and I want Mexican for lunch and we can order the semi spicy chicken because I'm craving it." Christine said.

"Well, we have pineapple juice and raspberry tea to help as well." John said as they pulled up at the school to drop their kids off as they both got out.

"I love you my babies and have a great day today, I love you so much." Christine said as she hugged and kissed her babies.

"We love you too mummy." Olivia said as she hugged her mummy.

"Bye mum, bye dad. I love you too." Henry said as both he and Olivia walked away from them as John squeezed her hand as they got back in the car as Christine wiped her tears away.

"Hey baby, it's okay." John said as he wiped her tears from her face.

"My babies are growing too fast, I wish time would just slow down just a little bit." Christine said.

"I know baby, it makes me sad too but knowing I have the most beautiful woman to thank and have as my babies mummy is the best feeling in the world." John said as Christine's tears kept coming as she hugged him.

"Thank you for giving me the chance to be a mummy and a wife. I never thought I was ever maternal and now, I wouldn't give this beautiful life we've built for ourselves up for nothing. I don't say this as often as I should but thank you for being the best at everything you do from being the best daddy, husband, bass player and all of the above and I love you more than you could ever know." Christine said as she kissed him.

"Let's get home and let you rest darling." John said as they listened to the radio as their song came on as Christine looked over at him and smiled and started singing.

Speak a little louder
Or even shout
I'm so proud
I can't even get the words out
Ooh ahh, ooh ahh
I wanna be with you everywhere

*End of Flashback*

Christine looked at all these beautiful pictures of her kids and couldn't believe at how much they have grown as she started crying.

"Oh honey." John said as he held her.

"I miss my little babies, now they are all grown up and sometimes, just for a moment I close my eyes and I still see the my babies and wish I could just freeze the picture and stay there." Christine said as they heard a knock on the door.

"Come in." Christine said as Henry walked in a looked at his parents with tears in his eyes.

"Mum, dad. Can we talk?"  Henry asked nervously.

"Of course baby, what's wrong?" Christine asked.

"Sophie." Henry said.

"What happened?" John asked as he hoped nothing was wrong with him, Sophie or the baby.

"The baby isn't mine." Henry said as John and Christine looked at him.

"What?" Christine questioned.

"Sophie had another boyfriend before me and she admitted to me that they hooked up again a week before we did and she looked at her planner, to you know see when her last period was because they asked her at her doctor's appointment and her face went pale and I asked her "What's wrong babe?" She said "I have to tell you something." I said "Okay." She said "I was with this guy before you and I just didn't realize till now that we had sex a week after her period ended and the pregnancy was confirmed by the doctor that the baby was conceived during the time Sophie and her ex boyfriend had hooked up." Henry said as he cried.

Christine was completely heartbroken for her son as she knew that Henry was looking forward to being a father and was so happy and now, her baby boy was heartbroken.

"Oh my sweet boy, I'm so sorry baby." Christine said as Henry completely broke down in his mother's arms.

John was too stunned to hear this as he comforted his son along with his wife as he knew Christine wanted to be a grandmother and he couldn't wait for someone to call him grandpa.

"It hurts mum, it really hurts." Henry said as he cried even more.

"That bitch literally just walked up and knocked on the front door and I opened to find her crying." Olivia said, talking about Sophie as she walked in, she knew about this before her parents did when Henry called her.

"Tell her to go away." Christine said as she comforted her son as Olivia did just that.

"Mum?" Henry questioned.

"Yeah baby?" Christine asked.

"I wish this grown up stuff was easy, I wish I could just go back to the times where life was simpler and better. When I was hurting, this house and you guys made life easier." Henry said.

"Baby, no matter how old you are, this will always be your home and you never have to worry about if it will bother. You made me a mum first and you will forever be my baby boy, I'm so proud of the man you have become and I have never been happier to know that my children will always come home if you ever needed anything. I don't care if it's laundry, my job as your mum is to make sure my babies are taken care of and I don't care how old any of you get, this house will always be your safe place to come to when the world gets to be too much on your shoulders." Christine said as Henry hugged her.

"Thank you for everything mum, I really appreciate everything you did for us growing up and there on after we left home." Henry said as he couldn't express how much he appreciated his mum because this was all too much for him.

"You're welcome baby and I'm so happy to know that I could make this house your home." Christine said as Henry eyed the picture boxes.

"I know something that will take my mind off all this sadness." Henry said as he grabbed a box as all the kids joined in as they grabbed a box.

...

Christine laid down with Molly on her side as Olivia laid on Christine's shoulder with Henry and Emily laying on her legs.

"I remember this, mum made this fairy costume for me for Halloween when I was five and she had just given birth to Emily." Olivia said as she held a picture of all of them, dressed up.

"I was a superhero, you were a fairy, Emily was an angel, Mum was a painter and dad was wearing a white t shirt to be her canvas." Henry said as Christine looked at the photo as she tried not to cry because behind that smile was a woman who didn't know that her husband had cheated and hid it for so long, but it was water under the bridge and she didn't want to think of those dark times.

"All my babies in one photo." Christine said as she looked at another photo taken on the exact same day as she looked at her kids and it was so weird to think about them being so grown up as Molly used her chest as leverage to stand up.

"Mhmm..." Molly hummed as Christine showed her a picture of her and John.

"Found our wedding photo darling." Christine said, showing him the picture as it showed him looking at her with a bright smile as he beamed a bright smile as he held Christine close to him as Christine kissing his cheek.

"That belongs on the wall too. We need a huge picture frame with all these photos and I'll order one to make this easier." John said as he grabbed his iPad and searched for one because there were so many photos he wanted to add to it.

"I hate to leave but I have to go into work early in the morning because I have a bride to be plus five ladies to do hair and makeup for a wedding, so I need to get going." Olivia said.

"I do too, because I have a lot to do at my place even though I really don't want to but I need to do it." Henry said.

"It's okay, you know if it gets to be too much, you can come back home for however long you need to to sort everything out." John said as his heart ached for his son.

"I appreciate it dad, I mean everything you both have done for all of us." Henry said.

"We're your parents and we'd do anything and everything for you, just because you're grown doesn't mean you're not too old to come home for a bit, I'd rather you be here than anywhere else." John said as he hugged his son, his boy.

"I love you dad." Henry said as both of them cried.

"I love you too son." John said as Christine's tears came.

Later on that night as they finished dinner and got Molly bathed and ready for bed, Christine closed her eyes as Molly laid her head on her chest, she dreamed again of the babies she brought into this world and the little baby sleeping on her chest as John came in as he watched his wife rock his last little baby to sleep in the same rocking chair she rocked all three of his babies in.

"I love you Christine and thank you for never giving up on me, even though I was a terrible husband at times and I admit that but I will make sure that you know just how much I love you." John said as Christine stirred in the chair and opened her eyes to see her husband smiling so brightly at her.

"I love you too John, I will always love you now and forever." Christine said as John easily scooped Molly up and placed her in her crib as he helped his wife to their bedroom as they fell asleep in each other's arms.

Author's Note: Hey y'all, I plan on updating all three stories this weekend if I can because between work and my personal life, I write if I get a chance and I hope you guys have a safe and Happy Halloween.

*I plan on dressing up as Stevie and doing a photoshoot some time this weekend or next because one of my items I ordered isn't here yet, so stay tuned for that*

Have a happy and safe Halloween, I love y'all! ❤️🎃❤️🎃❤️🎃