Author: Stephearth
Rating: G, Adult situations
Catagory: Romance, Drama
Timeline: Post all seasons, alternate univ
Spoilers: None
Summary: A little love and romance for Jarod and Miss Parker.

Disclaimer: The characters portrayed in this fan fiction belong to NBC and any other copyright holders. No infringement is intended.

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Miss Parker rolled onto her side for what seemed like the tenth time in the past hour. Sitting up on the edge of the bed, sighing heavily, as a familiar pressure grew in her abdomen. Again! she thought, unhappily. Parker rose to her feet and padded into the bathroom. When she came back out she had decided to give up. Miss Parker had not been able to get back to sleep for the last hour, and she had just completed her fourth trip to the bathroom. Reluctantly giving in to the fact that she was not getting anymore sleep this morning.

Miss Parker walked to the glass doors that led to the large balcony outside the master bedroom of their ranch style house. She opened the doors and walked through them soundly. As Miss Parker looked before her, a view she had seen a hundred times over the last year, Miss Parker=92s breath was taken away. Beautiful, she thought. The landscape that stretched before her was gorgeous. The sun was rising just above the small rolling hills of their peaceful valley and the thin layer of fog that blanketed the surrounding valley was quickly dissipating.

The view from their balcony stretched from the rising sun in the east to the shoreline of the Pacific ocean in the west. Sunsets were spectacular, even more so than sunrises. Miss Parker thanked him again for bringing them here. The central coast of California was where she had always longed to live.

From somewhere behind her she heard the rustling of the bed sheets. Within seconds he was standing behind her, wrapping his arms around her midsection. Miss Parker smiled and leaned back into his embrace. His strong arms and the warmth she felt there made her close her eyes, shutting out the rest of the world, drowning in his arms, his love. Jarod=92s hands--how she loved those hands--were gliding over her swollen belly, massaging the ache away. Her hands that were at her sides came to rest atop his as they moved lightly to the underside of her seven-month swollen belly. Her dark purple silk night gown stretched comfortably over the mound and the material allowed his caressing hands to easily move over her belly. Jarod bowed his head and began to lightly kiss the nape of her neck. Parker smiled and turned her head to face him.

=93I love you,=94 he softly murmured in her ear as she turned her head towards him, as she kept her body facing the warm rising sun.

Jarod=92s head was now level with hers and she leaned forward, kissing him passionately. When she finally tore her lips from his she replied, =93You better, =91cause I=92m not going through labor for the fun of it,=94 a small chuckle escape her as she continued, =93and I love you too, so very much.=94

Jarod smiled. He loved to hear her voice. It didn=92t matter what she said, the fact that she was talking was enough. He leaned forward again to capture her lips, while his hands wandered around the top of her expanded abdomen.

The kiss deepened, becaming more passionate, but it was abruptly interrupted by a kick from the baby. =93Ah!=94 Miss Parker said as she broke the kiss and looked down at her belly, the origin of the intrusion. Jarod=92s hand had been gently rubbing over the upper left side of her belly when the baby had decided to make itself known to its parents.

His already pleasant smile grew ten-fold as the baby kicked again at Jarod=92s hand. =93Oh!=94 Miss Parker burst out at the second kick. =93I think the baby likes it when you do that.=94

=93Well it always settles the baby down when you can=92t sleep,=94 Jarod reminded her. He pulled his wife closer against his chest and ran his right hand down to the sloping curve to the underside of Miss Parker=92s belly.

=93Yeah,=94 Miss Parker sighed, =93well your kid has finally decided to get off my bladder.=94 She pulled away from Jarod=92s embrace and headed towards the bathroom, =93but not before making me have to pee, again. Thanks,=94 she shot back at him over her shoulder as the bathroom door closed.

Jarod was reluctant to let her go. He loved the intimacy of these embraces, caressing his child and its mother, the two people he loved most in the world. Jarod stared out at the landscape, enchanted once more by its beauty before returning to the bedroom. He sat on the edge of the soft bed to wait for Miss Parker=92s return.

A few minutes later Miss Parker finally exited the bathroom, sighing. =93I feel much better, now. You know this kid of yours can be cruel sometimes,=94 she joked half-heartily, smiling.

Jarod smiled and held his arms out, he rose from the bed, to embrace his wife, this time from the front. Happily she obeyed the silent request. She knew he loved to hold her, and lately that need had become increasingly dominate in him. Miss Parker figured it had something to do with her growing state of pregnancy and the predominate feature that was the clear evidence of her current status. That thought warmed her as he closed his arms tight around her rather awkward shape.

The End!