Saturday, January 1st

Brian was gowned up and escorted into the theater were his husband was being prepped for surgery. The brunet looked around at the medical team getting everything ready as he was shown to a stool at the head of the operating table in which his husband was already set up and laying on. Just shy of thirty-one weeks pregnant with sextuplets, Justin was about to have a cesarean delivery of their babies.

Brian smiled down at his blond as he sat on the stool, a hand automatically moved to Justin's head, running his fingers through the golden locks. Justin smiled back up at him sleepily. The medical staff was large, a team for each baby about to be born. It was a lot to take in for the couple that in just a few short minutes they were going to be the proud parents of six little girls.

When Brian and Justin had first broached the subject of kids almost three years ago they never believed this is what would happen. They had been actively trying for a baby for just over two years now, Justin having suffered two miscarriages before the surprise sextuplets. When they had learned Justin was pregnant once again they refused to tell their family until the fourth month. By then they had also discovered that it wasn't just one baby, but six. And all were girls.

Justin was ecstatic, ready to dress up his little girls like princesses. Brian was terrified, he didn't know anything about girls. The only girl he dealt with - not including Lindsay and Melanie - was Jenny, and she was only his niece. Over the next month Justin was pretty much on mostly bed rest because Brian did not want to take a chance with his or their unborn children's health. Throughout that month, knowing all six babies were girls, they had talked their heads off with names.

Their family knew they were having sextuplets and they were all girls. It was just easier that way when buying everything they needed for the babies, but Justin didn't want to announce names until the babies were actually born. Knowing the girls would be in the NICU for some time after birth, Justin had designed and decorated name plates for each baby's incubator. They were already set in the room and ready for the babies.

Both mothers - soon to be grandmothers - were sitting out in the waiting room. The rest of the family had been sent home once it was time for the delivery. Justin had been on major bed rest for the last week in hospital as his doctor wanted to keep him monitored. The delivery was suppose to take place almost two weeks before but Justin's doctor had assured them as long as they could keep him monitored, they could wait a little longer. That was how Justin found himself settled into a bed and wired up to machines to monitor both him and the babies for the last eight days.

"Alright boys." Dr. Langden stepped up to the side of the operating table Justin was on. "Are we ready to meet your girls?"

Justin smiled and nodded and Brian followed. The doctor nodded once and then turned to his medical team. Nurses lined up with towels, ready for their charge once she was born. The doctor talked the boys through what was going on behind the screen that was erected over Justin's chest, blocking their view from the doctor's work. Five minutes later the first baby was officially born and quickly passed to the waiting nurse.

The nurse gathered her in the towel, took a step towards Brian and Justin and held her up. "Baby A."

"Ava Louise." Justin's smile was beaming.

The moment the nurse stepped away, the second was in her place. "Baby B."

"Daisy Elizabeth." Brian nodded.

The line continued.

"Baby C." "Leah Grace."

"Baby D." "Hannah Rose."

"Baby E." "Emily Nicole."

"Baby F." "Marie Jane."

Once the last baby was born it didn't take long for Justin to be stapled back together and cleaned up. Brian stood and walked along the incubators that held his children, a smile on his face. They were so tiny, all between two pounds, three ounces and two pounds, nine ounces. He was then escorted out of the theater and after disposing of the hospital scrubs he headed for the waiting room to announce the births to Jenn and Debbie while Justin was finished and returned to his private room to begin his recovery and the babies were taken to the NICU.

It was just a little after nine in the evening when Brian entered the waiting room and found Jenn and Debbie sitting in a corner together. Debbie was reading a book and Jenn was flipping through files Brian figured were from work. He stalked up to them not saying a word, Jenn was the one to spot him first. She nudged Debbie as she tossed the files onto the empty seat next to her and stood; Debbie following suit.

"Well?" She asked as Brian stopped in front of them.

"All six have been delivered and so far so good." Brian smiled. "They are heading up to the NICU now and Justin is being settled back into his room."

"Oh!" Jennifer reached out and pulled Brian into a hug.

As soon as she released him, Debbie did the same thing. "Congratulations!"

Brian hugged them both back and then pulled away from Debbie, the smile never leaving his face. At almost forty years old he never expected this would be his life. He never thought he would find someone that could climb over the walls he had built around his heart, around his whole life. Not even Michael, his best friend, had been truly able to do so. But now he wouldn't change it for the world. He loved his husband, and he loved his children - which included his ten year old son Gus.

Jennifer placed her hands on her hips. "Now do I get to know the names of my grandchildren?"

Brian chuckled. Everyone had been trying for the last month to get Brian and Justin to slip and spill the names, since they had announced they had the names picked for each little girl. "As soon as you can see them in the NICU you'll see their names. Sunshine made name plates for their incubators."

"And when can we see them?" Debbie asked.

"Tomorrow morning. We're going to do this in shifts of people because there are too damn many of you." Brian huffed when Debbie slapped his arm. "You two with Tucker, Carl, and Molly are first."

The mothers waited just long enough to peek in at Justin and give him hugs and kisses before they left the hospital to return home, calling the rest of the family to announce the births. Brian sat down in a chair next to his husband's bed, running his hand through Justin's hair as the blond drifted off to sleep, a megawatt smile gracing his face.