Daughters

By- Min

Steven Wakefield has kept a secret from his family far longer than he intended to. A change causes him to let the secret out, and it brings a lot of changes to his bachelor lifestyle.

Prologue

Jessica Wakefield woke up to the sound of her phone ringing. When it didn't stop she rolled over and picked it up. "Hello?" she asked sleepily.

"Jessica?" Nick Fox said. It had been a long time since he had heard that beautiful voice. And he could tell just by hearing it she had still been asleep.

Jessica smiled into the phone at the sound of his voice. "Hey sweetie,"
she replied pulling her comforter tighter around her body.

That brought a smile to Nick's face, "hey yourself beautiful, sleep good?" he asked. He had been released from the witness protection program about a week ago, then he had stopped by to see Jessica, and they were now somewhat together, they were still getting back into things. It had been a long time.

"Yes," Jessica answered. "Watcha doing?" she just loved the sound of his voice not to mention he was drop dead gorgeous, and to die for.

"Thinking about you ," he answered. "What are you doing?"

"Lying in my warm bed waiting for you to give me a reason to get out of
bed," she told him. "So do you have a reason?"

"I definitely have a reason. I have an important question to ask you," Nick said. He had been thinking about this long and hard for the entire time they were apart. This was the right time and he knew it in his heart, he just hoped she felt the same way.

"Ask away," Jessica responded in anticipation.

"Jessie, can I come over and ask it?" he asked," I can't ask this
over the phone."

"Sure, Nick. Are you coming now?" She needed to know how much time she had to make herself presentable since it was already noon and she was just waking up now.

"Yes I'm coming over now," he said as he grabbed the keys to his car. Still on the phone with her he left his apartment locking up behind him.

Todd Wilkins's hands were full of bags of food so he used his elbow to bang
on the front door of the Wakefield Twins studio apartment.

Elizabeth Wakefield ran for the door and opened it allowing Todd, and took a
couple bags from him, so he wouldn't hafta carry all of it into the
house.

Todd gladly handed over some of the food to Liz. "Thanks sweetie" he said as he shut the front door behind him. He followed her into the kitchen and set the rest of the food down. Elizabeth had her back to him, busy with stuff at the counter. He walked up behind her and put his arms around her waist, and brought his face close into
her hair, so that he could smell it.

She loved that, everytime he did that it made her heart beat faster. He still had that effect on her, she rubbed his wrist softly. She didn't want him to let go of her. She leaned back into his
embrace." I love you," she said softly.

"I love you too Liz, more than anything." Todd proclaimed softly back to her. He breathed in the scent of her hair again, she always smelled so good. "Aren't you going to ask me where I went?" he
asked her, still holding on to her.

"I wanted to ask," she admitted as she looked up into his eyes," but I didn't know if you wanted to share that information. But if you do, I'm all ears," she said turning and hugging him around the waist.
She was actually pretty curious.

He looked down into her face and flashed her a coy smile. "Gee, I'm hungry, let's eat first." Todd said, disentangling himself from her, and opening up some of the food, as he began to make a plate for
himself.

She gave him a look but grabbed a plate to fix herself a plate," What do u want to drink?" she asked as she set her plate down at the table and grabbed two glasses from the cabinet.

"Water." Todd answered automatically, from his days as a devoted basketball player. It was a good habit to have, drinking water at every meal, and staying away from sodas. He saw her bury her head in the refrigerator. "I'll bet you a dollar that you're pulling a root beer out for yourself." Todd challenged as he sat down at the table. He knew Liz inside out. Well, perhaps not technically...but he sure knew her preferences.

Her hand froze above the root beer and she turned red and she grabbed two bottles of water instead and put ice in the glasses she poured the water in them and brought them to the table. And she found a dollar in her pocket," you were right, but I should stop before I turn into a cow," she said as she sat down in her seat.

Todd burst out laughing. "A cow!" he exclaimed. "Liz that is entirely impossible. You are absolutely gorgeous, absolutely perfect." he told her. He glanced down at the dollar bill which was laying on the table. "I'll tell ya what. I'll let you keep yourdollar in exchange for a kiss instead."

She couldn't believe Todd liked her the way she was." It's possible, but we won't argue about. Of course you can have a kiss," she said as she leaned over the table and softly gave him
a kiss.

Todd's smiling lips met Elizabeth's soft sweet ones. "I'm sorry we fought earlier." he said as soon as the kiss had ended, and he sincerely meant it. "I was being stupid, and said some dumb stuff."

Todd smiled and met her soft pink lips with his, drinking herin. "Mmmmmm..." he said when they broke apart. "That was nice, let's doit again." he said as she leaned back in. However this time,instead of just kissing her passionately, Todd rolled more of hisweight on top of her, and started to slip one of his hands up and
under the shirt she had been sleeping in.

She lost herself in his kisses, but she felt her body start totense up when Todd went full force. She broke the kiss," Take itslow?" she whispered," please...I've never..." she swallowed,
she had no clue what to do.

Todd heard her words and obeyed. So he started slowing himself down,took his hand out from under her shirt, and moved on to leaving tinykisses on her neck. Much to his dismay, he still felt Elizabethsuper tense underneath him. She was rigid, she was clenched, she wasscared - she wasn't ready to make love. The realization hit him like
a bucket of cold water as he sighed and rolled off of her.

She buried her face in her pillow. It was happening all overagain. She didn't want to lose him again for the same reason, she loved him, but...she couldn't bring herself to do this yet. Shewanted to, but the rest of her wasn't. She didn't want him to hateher again. She didn't know what to do. She was so confused, she felt like crying again for the..she had lost count, she didn'tknow how many times it had been today.

Todd knew right now he should be soothing her, telling her it didn'tmatter at all to him, and he was pretty sure at some point he wouldtell her that, whether it was honest or not. But right now hiscuriosity was getting the better of him. Todd cleared histhroat. "So Liz, uh, have you really never done...it?" Todd askedher, very curious. "Have you ever done ANYTHING?" he questionedher, knowing he was partially incriminating her, asking her some very
personal questions.

She sucked in her breath. Why was he being so mean? Thiswasn't the man she knew. This was the same man from back incollege. She was scared, how could he change personalities sofast." I'm a virgin okay! I'm still a fucking virgin!" she said andburst into tears. Her luck with guys in college had been she never did sleep with anyone. Not Sam, Not Tom, Noteven Max. And those were the three that had been pretty highcandidates after Todd. She felt like hitting something, or
breaking something. It wasn't fair. When she did give herself toTodd, she wanted to be able to enjoy and not just do it, so that he
could get a release. She would have given herself to Todd rightnow, if he could just see that and take it slow and show her how
good it could it be. She didn't even believe anymore that it wassomething special, that was just a myth from all the books.

Todd reeled back from Elizabeth's sudden temper; it had surprised
him, to say the least. "Look Liz, I'm sorry ok, I didn't mean to get
you all upset. Forget I said anything, ok?" She sat there, arms
folded, a steely expression on her face. "Elizabeth I'm not the same
guy from freshman year at SVU. I'VE grown up." he said pointedly.

She looked at him," Show me then Todd," she said her facetear streaked," show me you can be patient. Because I do wantmake love to you, but I want it to be more then that Todd," shesaid softly, her face softening." Please," she said softly." I don'twant to fight," she said softly," I love you," she looked down at thecover on her bed. She waited for him to say something, she wasscared now. If this really how he wanted it, she would have toabandon her fantasies and just sleep with him. Maybe she justhad a deep imagination because she was a writer. She drew herknees up to her chest, resting her chin on them. " It's not that yougot me upset," she said quietly." you scared me," she said," I knowyou're not a virgin, but I am Todd. Yes I'm a 23 year old virgin.Maybe me I'm a loser. But it's just...I always thought the first time
we did make love it would be wonderful, like something soincredibly special," she said quietly," tell me now if there's no
such thing and I'll sleep with you and not dream up a fantasy."

Elizabeth's brutal honesty made him feel about two feet tall. He wasscum,a slimeball, a guy that sometimes allowed himself to be drivenby only one thing. Her words were so vulnerable, so truthful. Hegot up off of her bed and began to pace the room in front of herwindow. "Liz I'm so, so, sorry." he told her, his voice almostcracking. "I can be patient, I will be patient, I promise you that."Todd looked guiltily out the window. "I don't want to fight either.Because I love you so, so much baby." he said, turning his head toher. She was still sitting on the bed, all curled up. "Liz, you'renot a looser. Not even close. If there was one looser in this roomit would have to be me. The guy who ditched the love of his lifebecause she wouldn't put out for him. The guy who crawled into bedwith the first willing candidate. The guy who sleeps with women hedates, because he figure, why the hell not? The guy- the guy whogave up his own sense of idealistic fantasy on sex when he lost you."He exhaled deeply. "Liz I don't know if its possible for it to beincredibly special, because I've never been able to experience that.And I do say that regretfully. The only reasons why I have had sexis so that I could just do the act. So Liz, I really don't know ifwhat you are holding on hope to be out there, well, if its actuallyout there. But I do want it to special for you, I want it that wayso bad. I don't want you to give up on your fantasies, and Icertainly don't want you to just make love with me to just get it out
of the way. Because if that happened, I don't know how I couldpossibly live with myself."

Listening to him speak, made her realize at one pointsomewhere Todd figured that making love was a special bond,
but he had lost that. She wanted to bring that back for him, tomake it special for both them. To show everyone that it wasn't
just something that writers dreamed up to fill space in books.She got up and hugged him around the waist, resting her cheek
against his strong chest, she took his arms and put themaround her, she wanted to be close to him right now. She
needed him. She needed to know that it was still there that theycould make it and it would mean something. She didn't want to
be like the other girls. This was her first and only love and if shecouldn't hope with him, then there wasn't anything left. She
placed a soft kiss on his neck." I will show you that it can bespecial Todd, I will make it special for you so that you won't ever
just need sex," she said softly as she looked into his coffeecolored eyes.

Todd looked down into the face of the woman he loved more than lifeitself. He felt her hold herself close to him, she obviously wantedto be held, comforted, loved... Todd felt her kiss his neck and he
closed his eyes for a second. "Liz you're the most perfect womanever created." he told her, as he listened to her own vows. "You'reright, we CAN make this unbelieveably special for the both of us.And we WILL. I know that now. I know you trust me, so that isn'tthe issue like it used to be. So, so what now?"

She smiled . "Thank you," she said softly when he said that shewas the most perfect woman created. Then she was glad tohere him say that they could make it special. "Now we chill outand spend time together," she said," we can watch a movie. some lunch, anything," she said softly.

Todd nodded his head. "Alright. But Liz- Liz can I ask yousomething. It's not me pressuring you, I swear. It's just somethingI need to know."

She looked at him," Yes," she said softly. Waiting for him to ask,what he needed to know. She hoped she could answer him. Shedidn't want to start another fight w/the wrong answer either. She
was sure things could work out for them, if they would talk and listen to each other carefully.

"Elizabeth, are you going to want to wait until our wedding night to make love?" he asked her, dead serious. "I won't care what theanswer is, you have my word. This, knowing this, will just help give
me a little bit of insight, guidance, on how I should approach all ofthis stuff."

She thought about that. Their wedding night she had always thought she would wait , butthey had planned a February wedding and it was nowMid-October." I'll make you a deal," she said looking at him," If
you can find a way to come up with something special and makeit special for both of us, then I won't make you wait til February if not, then on the night of February 14th I'll do everything inmy power to make it worth your wait and make it special," she
said gently.

Todd was surprised by her answer. And he hoped it wasn'tshowing. "Uh, sure Liz, ok." he told her. He had fully expected tohear her say, 'Yes Todd, I want to wait for our wedding night to makelove with you. After all, there is nothing more sacred orsanctimonious than a wedding night...' But she hadn't said anythinglike that. Now he needed to find a way to make it special for theboth of them. Whew, talk about pressure. Especially with all ofElizabeth's expectations... He hugged her. "It's a deal" heheard himself saying, catching his reflection over Liz's head in themirror.

She hugged him, she hoped he didn't feel he had to comethrough. She wanted him to try, she loved him, she didn't wanthim to feel pressured now. She kissed his cheek softly ,"
Lunch?" she asked.

"Umm, yeah sure. But you know what Liz. I need to go take care ofsomething, and then when I'm done why don't I just pick up some stufffor us, then bring it back here. Does that sound good?" he asked her.

" Sure," she said nodding her head," I'll probably shower and bechanged by then too, so you don't hafta see me in my Pjs," shesaid with a small laugh. She really needed to get ready for the restof the day anyway and this gave her a good chance to do so ,while he was out doing whatever it was he needed to do.

"Alright" Todd said, kissing her on the head before moving to thedoor. "I'll go take care of my thing, then I'll call you when I'mabout to pick up food. You can tell me what you feel like. See ya
in a little while Liz." Todd said, letting himself out of theapartment.