Okay, I know that Katie skinny dipping thing was weird, but it was totally intentional for it to be weird. I'm not deleting it, just keeping it up for laughs and stuff. I decided to write another Tratie fic, one that isn't bizarre. So, try and enjoy this one.
It was a chilly december morning when Katie first felt the baby kick. At first, she thought she was having early contractions and the baby was coming, but it was just the first sign that the baby showed life. It was so amazing that Katie had to call Travis, who was at work, and tell him the great news. He was just as ecstatic as she was. It was just all so great. So Katie spent the rest of the day with her hand on her stomach, trying to see if the baby would kick again. It did kick another two times! Katie grinned down at her stomach.
When Travis came home, he put his hand on Katie's stomach and grinned. The baby kicked a fourth time.
"What should we name it?" Travis asked.
Katie rolled her eyes. "Oh please Travis! It's not an it! Stop calling it that!"
Travis laughed and patted Katie's stomach. "You hear that Travis junior?"
"Travis! We are not naming our kid that!"
Travis pouted. "And why not?"
"Because." Katie explained. "It's a stupid name to begin with. Besides, it's going to be a girl."
"Ha! You called it, it!"
Katie tried hard not to punch Travis, he could be so irritating. Katie took a deep breath. She wasn't going to argue with him right now. She's pregnant. This was a wonderful time that should be cherished.
"Okay. Wait. I have an idea Travis. Lets put of list of baby names down. I'll make up girl names. You do the boy names. Okay?"
Travis cocked his head. "Yeah thats a great idea. But what about the unisex names? Avery?Jordan?Alex?"
"Why do you feel the need to make my life so difficult Travis? Just get the dry erase board from under our bed."
Travis did as told and set up the dry erase board in the living room so the both of them could easily write girl names on one side and boy names on the other side. Travis announced that he was going to write all unisex names on a napkin since apparently Katie didn't think they were important. Not that Katie complained anyway. She was just happy that her and Travis were finally doing something together. He's been working overtime a lot and it's put a damper on their relationship. Today his boss let him come home early though. There was supposed to be a huge storm this afternoon, the first in december. Thank god for that. Katie and Travis needed this time definitely.
"Done!" Travis announced, handing the dry erase marker to Katie.
"Already?" Katie asked in astonishment. She took a look at the board. "Travis! You only wrote three names down!"
Travis hung his head. "I know. I couldn't think of any though! Maybe we can sprout some ideas in the bedroom...?"
Katie rolled her eyes at that. "Travis your such a perv! We each have to write at least fifteen names down! We'll pick one boy and one girl. Thats the plan!"
Travis sighed. "Okay. I'll look up some names on wikipedia."
So Katie spent at least ten minutes sitting back on the couch as Travis wrote down some more names. Once again Katie put her hand on her stomach and waited for the baby to kick one more time. It didn't. Thats a bummer. The good news was was that Katie already had some names written down in her head. Some pretty girly ones she knew Travis would hate, and some ones that Katie had high hopes that he would like. Thats something to think about.
"Now i'm officially done!" Travis declared, handing the marker back to Katie.
With a little help from Travis, she was able to push herself up in a standing position so she could write all fifteen of her names down. It was going to be hard too. She was seven months pregnant so she might have to take a few breaks.
"Take your time Katie." Travis said.
"I known Travis." Katie snapped.
So Katie wrote down her first five favorite names on the girls list. Than she took a short break, sitting down and glaring at Travis. Damn him for getting her pregnant!
In the long run Katie was able to put the other ten on the board. Travis told her that she should add to the unisex names, which she obliged. Actually, she had to look up some of those names because she only knew some unisex names off the top of her head. When she was finished writing her names down she gave Travis back the marker. It was time they went over these.
"Okay." Travis said. "Lets go over the boys names first. Alright?"
Katie nodded. "Lets make this quick Travis. Your testing my patients."
Travis rolled his eyes and pointed towards the first name on the list.
"Travis. I like that name. Do you Katie?"
Katie was tempted to throw the living room remote at Travis. "No Travis. We went over this."
Travis stuck his tongue out at her and crossed off his name off the list. He went towards the next one.
"Connor?"
"Travis, thats your brothers name. Hell no i'm not naming my child after your demon brother."
Travis sighed an crossed and crossed his brothers name off the list.
"How about Jake?"
Katie shook her head. "No way. Every boy has that name."
Travis crossed that one out too.
"Okay, how about Chris? Or maybe Will?"
Katie stared at Travis in amazement. "Did you just list every male name from camp? Travis! Didn't you come up with one yourself?"
Travis grinned. "I knew you would say that. I thought you wouldn't notice until we got to Nico. I'm impressed Katie."
Katie rolled her eyes. "But did you come up with any names yourself? Anything?"
Travis nodded. "Of course I did!" He pointed to the last name on the list. "Seamus? Do you like Katie?"
Katie cocked her head to the side. "Thats actually a really nice name Travis. I think we have our boy name."
Travis grinned. "Cool. I knew you would like it. Your turn."
Travis tried to hand the marker towards Katie but she told Travis that he should just look over the girl names himself. Crossing out the ones he hates so they could go over the ones that they like together. Katie had a few moments to go to the bathroom and try and find something decent to eat. Travis hasn't bought food in awhile, so Katie had to remind herself that she needed to go out and buy some food. For dinner and for snacks. She couldn't just depend on Travis going out and getting food for the both of them. Besides, Katie's pregnant. She isn't helpless. She's fought dozen's of monsters before so she's pretty sure that she could make a trip to the grocery store by herself. She didn't need Travis. If anything, Travis needed her. But thats what their relationship is mostly based off. Trust in one another. Knowing that the other one is always going to be there. It's nice and both refreshing to know that Katie found someone as genuine as Travis. Even if he is a goofball.
So Katie decided to snack on some sun chips. There was fruit in the apartment, but Katie wasn't really digging that. Travis came in to, with an excited look on his face.
"Well Katie, I hated most of those names you picked out."
"Shocker."
"But." Travis said as he munched down on a sun chip. "But I think it rules it down to a top five. Now don't get offended because your pregnant-."
"Travis." Katie said in annoyance. "Tell me the names."
So the both of them went back to the living room where Katie promptly sat on the couch while Travis took the marker and pointed at the first that Katie picked out.
"Avril, I think I like that name a lot more than I give it credit for."
"Really Travis?" Katie leaned forward. "I just like the name because I like Avril Lavigne."
Travis. "Are we naming our baby after famous people?"
Travis stood on the coffee table. Thank god it didn't break because it definitely wasn't supposed to hold his weight. "I WILL NAME MY KID ROBIN!" He shouted at the top of his lungs." IN HONOR ON THE DEATH OF ROBIN WILLIAMS!"
Katie laughed. "Thats really sweet Travis. He was a big name actor. It's really sad he died."
Travis sat down next to Katie on the couch. "He starred in my favorite movie, you know."
"Really? What movies that?"
Travis beamed. "Hook!"
Katie resisted the urge to laugh. She hated that movie, but she didn't want to make Travis upset so she just smiled.
"Next name?"
Travis blinked. "Oh yeah! I totally forgot we were doing that!" He got up and checked the other names on Katie's list. "Beyoncè!"
"Travis, you put that on there."
"I did not!"
Katie grimaced. "Next name."
Travis looked at Katie in surprise. "You don't want to name our kid after the great almighty goddess herself?"
"Careful Travis." Katie said. "That one will come back to bit you in the butt."
Travis scowled. "Fine Katie. Have it your way. So now were down to three names-."
"Three? We only went over one!"
Travis took a huge breath. "Beyoncè Katie! Beyoncè!"
"Oh right. What other names do you like?"
Travis stared at the board. "You know what? I actually hate the name Colette. I'm def crossing that one off. That means we have Julianna and Naomi left."
"Well if you were to cross out either of those do Naomi." Katie said. "I like that name because it's my grandmothers-."
"But." Travis said, cutting Katie off. "Were not supposed to name our children after relatives. Am I right?"
Katie gave up. "Yes Travis. Of course. That leaves Avril and Julianna-."
"I like both." Travis said.
"What?" Katie asked.
Travis hesitated. "Lets just keep both of the names for now. And if we have a daughter, we can figure it out, right?"
Katie thought about it. It seems reasonable. And it's also a bonus since Travis likes two of her names.
"Sure. How about the unisex names?"
Travis picked up the napkin at the end of the table. "Bailey? Did you write that terrible name."
"It's one of the few that was actually god Travis. I suppose we won't be using that one?"
"Nope." Travis said. "Dakota? Hayden? Why Katie?"
"I think Dakota's a cute name."
Travis growled. "Both south and north dakota have the same population as Guam. And I refuse to name my child that!"
Katie held up her hands in defeat. "Fine. I only put seven on the list so name the others."
Travis stared down at the napkin. "Jamie? Eh, but no. Justice? Justice? You could do so much better Katie. Kennedy? Like the president that got shot? Nope. No, no, no. Kendall? I don't know why but that name reminds me of a candel."
Obviously Travis wanted Katie to pick one of his unisex names that he picked out. He was usually a very picky person, but right now it was just ridiculous! Katie could see how some of those names were bad... But Jamie was a pretty name for a girl and a boy. Right? Ugh. This would be a lot less complicated if the both of them knew the sex of the baby. But Travis refused to know. He wanted it to be a surprise. Katie knows he wants a boy. If he knew the baby was a girl earlier on, Katie assumed he would've been a little dispirited. Katie didn't really give a crap about the baby's gender though. She just want it out of her.
Katie took the napkin from Travis. "Travis! These are the names you said earlier!"
Travis nodded. "Yes. Yes they are."
"Well I don't like any of them. Alex is overused. And i'm not a big fan of Avery of Jordan-."
Travis cut her off with a laugh. "Of course you don't. But take a look at the other names."
"Devin? Hmm... Yeah I like that one actually."
Travis smiled. "Cool. Should we keep that one."
Katie nodded. "Yeah, but let's pick out another one. I feel like if we have two unisex names than it would even it out between the two girl names and one boy name we have. Okay?"
Travis nodded. "Definitely."
Katie looked back at the napkin list. "Travis! Why did you out Drew's name on here! You know I hate her!
Travis held up his hands in defeat. "Sorry. I just really like the name."
"But I hate it! Okay... And the next one is...Harper? Isn't that the girl from Wizards of Waverly Place?"
Travis shrugged. "I don't know. I've never seen it. I thought it was just a cool name."
Katie tried to give him the death stare. It didn't work since Travis giggled uncontrollably. Stupid man.
"Alright and... Reese. Gods damn it Travis! Thats the guy from Malcolm in the Middle! He's an asshole!"
"Yes." Travis said. "A very convincing asshole. I thought it would fir a guy more than a girl though."
Katie wanted to slap Travis. "No for that name and... Oh why didn't I think of Mackenzie?"
"You like the name?" Travis questioned.
Katie nodded. "Yeah. Lets do that name. Huh thats the last one."
Travis put his feet up on the coffee table. "I'm stoned."
"What?"
"Not stoned like i'm high. I'm tired. Did it start to snow yet."
Katie leaned over so she could get a look out the window. From the looks of it it was snowing. Hard. So hard that it was probably sticking to the ground. Snow day for school she supposed.
Just at that moment as Katie leaned over to look out the window the baby kicked her once again. She was so startled that she jerked back onto the couch. Travis looked at her in alarm.
"What? Early labor?"
"No." Katie smiled. "It's the baby."
Katie led Travis's hand over her stomach so once again she and him could feel the baby kicking again. And when the baby did, Katie and Travis shared a smiling look of proudness.
