1A/N: Yeah, so I know I said this story would be up at the beginning of January, but I was busier than I thought so I am just now getting the first chapter posted, and I haven't even began the next chapter so it will probably be awhile before the next chapter gets posted, just a heads up on that.
A/N2:And I do not own anything related to CBS or NCIS, that's Donald Bellisario's unique work.
>For those of you who don't know, this is a continuation of What's Not Lost is Gained, so you might want to read that before you read this.
RECAP: Tony and Kate have been married for ten years. They have four children and are expecting their fifth. What adventures await them in this story? Read to find out!
Anthony Michael DiNozzo (Tony)-43
Caitlin Marie Todd DiNozzo (Kate)-39 ½
Kayden Andrew DiNozzo (Kade/Scout)-9
Antimony Caitlin DiNozzo (Annie/Munchkin)-8 ½
Kaylee Anthea DiNozzo (Kay/Lee/Baby Girl)-6
Anthony Colton DiNozzo (Ace/Little-T)-4
Chapter One: Unexpected News
It has been two months since Kate found out she was pregnant, which now makes her four months pregnant. She is really starting to show, and she a bit depressed about it, because with her other four pregnancies she didn't start to really show, until she almost six months pregnant. Gibbs has restrained her to desk duty only, and has told everyone to keep a close eye on her. When Kate found about that she completely lost it, she yelled and threw things at everyone, including Gibbs. She claimed she was a grown woman who had already given birth to four other children so she knew what she was doing. Then she threatened to kill anyone who mentioned her age, or told her she wasn't as young as she was when she had the other kids. A couple of hours later she apologized to everyone, blaming her hormones. Everyone forgave her, including Gibbs, because they knew what pregnant women were like, especially Kate, and she could get quite emotional about...well just about everything.
Today she and Tony were going back to the Dr. for another checkup. Gibbs let them leave at 4 o'clock because their appointment was at 4:30 on the other side of town. Once they got there they only had to wait a few minutes before the Dr. was ready to see them. When the Dr. began the ultrasound Kate and Tony smiled and held hands as they watched the picture. Then as the Dr. moved the device around on Kate's belly he commented,
"Oh my..my, my, my"
Kate and Tony looked at each other before Kate said,
"What?"
"Doc is everything okay?" questioned Tony
The Dr. told them to be quiet for one more second while he listened to the heartbeat. Then he turned to face them with a smile on his face.
"Doc what's wrong?" Tony asked again, obviously not paying attention to the Dr.'s face, but looking intently at the monitor.
"What is it Dr.?" Kate asked, noticing his smile
"Well there's nothing wrong with the baby, but I have some good news and some bad news"
"How can there be both" Tony commented annoyed
"Depends on how you look at it I suppose"
"Just tell us Dr. before my husband has a coronary" Kate said as she saw how red Tony's face was getting.
"Well you are definitely going to be spending more money than you thought"
"Why?"
"Because you're having twins" the Dr. told them happily
Kate's jaw dropped and Tony's face went from red to white before he fainted.
"TONY" Kate yelled as he fell. Luckily the Dr. had caught him on the way down.
"Wow, do you think he will be okay?" the Dr. asked
"Yeah, he does that sometimes. He'll get nervous or grossed out by something and forget to breathe, then he'll faint. He should wake up in a minute" she told him as she got off the table and knelt next to Tony, "Don't you remember when Kayden was born?"
"Oh yes, he did faint during that birth, and Kaylee's I believe"
Kate smiled and nodded. Then she bent over and kissed Tony on the lips. A few seconds later his eyes opened and he had a huge grin on his face.
"We're having twins" he said
"Yeah we are" Kate smiled at him
Then Tony grabbed her and kissed her again. This time the Dr. told them to make their next appointment when they were finished and he would see them again next month. As he left he rolled his eyes and said,
"Now I can see why you have four kids and two more on the way"
Tony and Kate both stopped kissing and laughed at his comment. One of the reasons they had picked Dr. Grayson was because he was funny, and him and Tony had hit it off right away. The first time Kate had met Dr. Grayson he made a joke that reminded her of something Tony would say and of course Tony thought it was hilarious. Kate actually had to break up their little interaction of jokes so that she could actually ask some serious questions that had to do with the reason they were there, which was because she was pregnant. It amazed Kate how much two men could be alike, yet so different. Dr. Grayson was probably about ten years older than Tony, and even though he cracked jokes and was very immature for a Dr. he, unlike Tony, had married young, straight out of highschool, to the girl he had dated since they were fourteen. Kate had found over the years that they only had two children, which she thought was a little strange, but he had told her that his wife said it was like she had three children to take care of, not just two. Kate had laughed and told him she felt that way about Tony, he was nothing but a child in a man's body.
After the Dr. had left Tony sat up and he smiled at Kate, and said,
"Twins Katie, we're having twins"
"I know Tony I was there when he told us" she smiled at him
"This is amazing. I just...I think my life gets better and better the older I get" he told her
"Wow I never thought I'd hear you say that" she told him
"I know right" he responded
She smiled at him and said,
"Well I'm glad your happy, but you not the one who has to pop these two babies out of your body"
Tony laughed and answered, "Yep that's true. Thank God I'm a guy, we just get to do the fun part"
"Anthony Michael DiNozzo, you better watch it, or we will never engage in that kind of activity again" she told him as she kicked him in the shoulder, causing him to fall back on the floor onto his back.
"Ouch Kate" he told her as she stepped over him to get to the door. Normally he would have grabbed her ankles and pulled her down with him. But now that she was pregnant they couldn't goof around like they used to. She had just opened the door when he said,
"C'mon Kate I was kidding around-"
SLAM
That was all Tony heard as she slammed the door before he couldn't finish his sentence. He quickly jumped up and ran after her, afraid that she would leave him at the Doctor's office. When he got to the waiting room the receptionist pointed at the door, indicating that Kate had left. Tony thanked her as he ran out the door and down the hallway. He spotted Kate as she stepped into the elevator and the doors shut before he could get there. So he ran down four flights of stairs to the parking garage and got to his car just as Kate had started the car. Luckily he opened the passenger door before she could lock him out.
"C'mon Kate, I'm sorry" Tony told her, trying to get her to look at him. She just ignored him, not saying anything and not looking at him.
"Kate please. I mean you know I respect you so much, especially having to give birth to four children...well now six. But seriously after you had Kayden, and especially Annie, I had a new respect for what mother's have to go through. I'm just so lucky that you are the mother of my children."
"Yeah and I'm wondering why I ever agreed to it"
"Because you think I'm sexy and funny, and more importantly sexy" Tony said with that charming smile, which Kate caught out of the corner of her eye.
"You are so full of yourself"
"I know, but admit it, it's why you love me"
"I doubt it DiNozzo" she said looking at him out of the corner of her eye.
"Seriously though, if I could do more for you I would, but unfortunately a guy wasn't meant to have to go through what you women do" he told her
"Yeah because you wouldn't be able to handle the pain" Kate said under her breath
"What was that babe?" he asked, even though he knew what she had said.
"Nothing I just said luckily you are there to help me with the pain" she told him with a sly smile. But instead of contradicting her he just smiled and nodded his head. He didn't want to piss her off anymore and he knew she was right about men not being able to handle having a baby, but he would never admit it anyone.
When they got home Jackie, their babysitter, informed them that Annie and Kaylee had gotten into some kind of fight, resulting in Kaylee getting pushed out of her room and into the wall, while Annie slammed the door to their bedroom and put something heavy in front of it so that no one could get in.
"Is Kaylee alright?" Kate asked concerned
"Yes she's fine, just a little upset" Jackie told her
"And you couldn't get her to tell you what happened?" Tony asked Jackie
"Nope, neither one will talk to me. Kaylee said she would only talk to mom or dad, and Annie wouldn't talk to me at all" Jackie answered him
"Okay thanks Jackie" Kate told her as Jackie grabbed her things to leave.
Tony looked at Kate as to ask her what she thought happened.
"I think I have an idea of what might be going on" Kate told Tony, before he could ask the question
"Well are you gonna fill me in" Tony asked sarcastically
"You know the kids have been acting up a lot lately"
"Uh yeah"
"I think it might be because we are having another baby. I think that they think we might forget about them once the baby is born and they're acting out to get our attention, even if it means they have to get into trouble to get it."
"But none of them ever did anything like this before" Tony stated
"Yeah but they were all too young to understand the true meaning of having another baby around"
"Kayden wasn't, I mean he was almost five when Anthony was born" said Tony
"And he's always been too sweet to cause many problems. But remember when he first found out about us having Anthony. He hid up in the attic and scared us to death, when we couldn't find him. We searched for a couple of hours and-"
"We called Gibbs and McGee to start a search party. Yeah I remember, because when I went up to the attic to get those big flashlights he was hiding behind those boxes. He's always been a good climber" Tony said with a small smile as he remembered that day nearly five and a half years ago.
Flashback:
Tony and Kate had just gotten home from a Doctor's appointment with a picture of their new baby inside Kate's five month pregnant tummy. They rounded up the three kids they had so that they could show them the picture.
Kate sat down on the couch, with a one and a half year old Kaylee on her lap, while Tony sat down beside her, a four year old Annie on his lap, and a four year old Kayden sitting between him and Kate.
"So guys would you like to see a picture of your new baby brother or sister?" Kate asked
Kayden and Annie nodded their heads, so Kate showed them the ultrasound picture.
Kayden and Annie both squinched up their faces and tilted their heads to the side.
"That doesn't look like a baby" stated Kayden
"That's not a baby" Annie said agreeing with her brother.
Kate and Tony both laughed at the two children, before Kate told them,
"This is what the baby looks like right now. It's not fully grown yet."
"Did we look like that?" asked Kayden curioulsy
"You sure did sport. All three of you did" Tony told them
"Well we weren't very pretty then. I don't like it" Annie commented seriously
"Oh honey, don't say that, you haven't even met the baby yet" Tony told his daughter.
"Where did it come from?" Kayden asked
"What?" asked Tony slightly confused
"How did it get in mommy's tummy?" he questioned his parents, looking up at both of them
Tony and Kate looked at each other, slightly shocked. They weren't expecting that question for another ten years...okay maybe five.
"Umm, well..." Tony began
"When...um...what your father's trying to say is..."
"When two people love each other-"
"TONY" Kate shrieked, thinking he was going to tell them the truth and add some details of his own.
"God puts it there" he finished, smiling at Kate
Kate pursed her lips at him and shook her head.
"How?" Annie asked, now equally interested
"When he sees how much two people love each other then he decides it would be good for them to have a baby." Tony told her
"And he puts it in there?" Kayden asked
"Yeah you could say so" Tony told his son with a smile
"Oh"
"That's silly" stated Annie with a laugh
"Well if you find a better answer, let me know" Tony told his daughter
"Is it going to be a boy or a girl?" asked Kayden
"We don't know sweetie" Kate told him
"What if it's a boy?" he asked
"Well then I guess we'll have another strapping baby boy" Tony told his only son
"Oh" Kayden answered quietly
"I guess you better watch out Kade, or you might not be your mom's handsome little man anymore" Tony told his son jokingly
"DiNozzo that's not funny, don't joke like that" Kate told him sternly
Then Tony and Kate started arguing, which mad Annie and Kayden both quietly exit the living room. Then a few moments later Kate and Tony quit arguing and they decided it was time to start dinner. So Tony took Kaylee from Kate and walked back towards the kids room while Kate went to start dinner.
After Tony had put Kaylee in her playpen he went back to the kitchen to help Kate with dinner. Every five minutes or so he would walk back to the bedroom and check on Kaylee.
Then around 5:30 dinner was ready so they went to round up the kids. But when they went into Kayden and Annie's room (they shared a room at the time) they couldn't find them. Then Tony found Annie in Kaylee's room playing.
"Where's your brother?" he asked her
"Don't know"
"Wasn't he in her with you?"
"Nope"
When Tony told Kate she started getting really nervous
"Tony I've looked everywhere a four year old would hide and I can't find him"
"I'm sure he's around here somewhere. Let's look again"
So they split up and searched the house again, they even searched outside in the yard, but they couldn't find the boy anywhere. It had been almost forty five minutes, it was starting to get dark, and Kate was starting to freak out. So Tony called Gibbs and McGee and asked them if they would come over and help them look for Kayden, to which they of course agreed to.
Within fifteen minutes Gibbs and McGee had arrived and they were going from house to house asking the neighbors if they had seen the boy. Tony had told Kate to stay at the house in case he showed up. Of course she put up a fight, so he allowed her to help search also. He took Kaylee with him and went one way down the street, while Kate took Annie with her and went the opposite way. Gibbs and McGee took the houses across the street.
Before they even got to the end of the block it was completely dark. So they all headed back to the DiNozzo house to round up some flashlights. They found some small ones, but Tony remembered storing some of his bigger police issued flashlights up in the attic when they had moved here about a year ago.
Their attic was inside the house, located in the laundry room, which had been added to the house before they bought it. There was a closet in the laundry room with shelves going all the way up to the ceiling. And the entrance to the attic was located in that closet and wasn't much. You had to get a ladder, climb up and push up the board that was covering the entrance to the attic.
Tony got the ladder out of the garage and then climbed up lifting the board out of the way, and poked his head up into the attic, carefully. He was always very cautious when he was in the attic, because there were always spiders, and if there was one thing he hated it was spiders. He would usually send Kate up there to get anything they needed, but since she was pregnant he didn't want her to get hurt. He carefully lifted himself into the attic when he heard a noise behind a couple of boxes. When he turned towards the sound he saw a light, which he thought to be a flashlight.
"Who's there?" He squeaked out
Then he heard a whimpering sound, and that's when it hit him.
"Kade is that you?" Tony asked gently, as he walked closer to the boxes. When he looked over them he saw Kayden sitting on the floor, his legs pulled into his chest. He was holding a flashlight in one hand and his blue blanket in the other hand. Tony smiled down at his son before going over and sitting down next to him.
"Hey buddy, we were scared something happened to you" Tony told his son
"Why do you care. You'll probably get another little boy anyway" Kayden told his father sadly
"Hey it doesn't matter if we have a boy or a girl. You'll still be my first born son, my little boy, okay" said Tony
Kayden just shrugged his shoulders when Tony said that, so then Tony said,
"And no matter what you'll always be your mom's Little Man, and you will always, always be your sisters' big brother. And that's an important job to have, you know" he told his young son
"Why?" asked Kayden, showing interest
"Because you will be the one they will count on to protect them from anybody mean, especially boys. And when they get older you and I will be the ones who will decide who they can date, because we don't want anything to happen to them right. We want them to be with someone nice. So there is a lot of responsibility, but also a lot of fun being a big brother."
"Yeah I don't want them to ever get hurt" he told his father, the love and care for his sisters shining in the little boys hazil-brown eyes.
"Well then you can't run away, because they need you. We all do, I don't know what I'd do if anything ever happened to you. And your mom's going crazy down there" he told the boy
"Really?" Kayden asked, unsure
As if on cue Kate yelled from the bottom of the ladder,
"DiNozzo what's taking so long? Our son is missing, just grab the flashlights and come on, we're wasting time. Don't make me send Gibbs up there"
"Yikes we better go, huh" Tony said to his son with a smile
"Looks like your in trouble daddy" Kayden replied also with a smile
"Yeah yeah, come on" he said taking his son's hand and walking back over to the attic entrance.
Tony stuck his head down through the opening looking down at a very angry and pregnant Kate. 'Oops one thing you never do, is piss off a pregnant woman, or they will let you have it' Tony said to himself. But he let out a smile and said,
"Hey babe, look what I found up here"
"Tony if it's not our son then I don't care" she told him angrily
"Well then you'll love this" he said as his head disappeared and in his place appeared Kayden.
"Kate's eyes got wide as she asked,
"Kade are you okay?"
"Uh-huh" he answered as Tony lifted him down onto the ladder. When he got halfway down Kate grabbed him off the ladder and held on to him, as she began to cry a little. Kayden held onto her tightly as he whispered,
"Sorry mommy"
Kate then released her hold on him and leaned back a little, to look in his eyes.
"Kayden Andrew DiNozzo don't you ever do anything like that again, do you understand"
"Yes mam" he answered sadly
"I love you so much baby. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you" she told him as she hugged him again.
"I love you too mommy"
By then Tony had gotten down from the attic and Gibbs and McGee told them they were glad everything was okay, but that they should get back home. Tony and Kate walked them to the door, Kate still holding Kayden.
After McGee and Gibbs had left Tony looked at Kate and noticed she was still holding Kayden.
"Umm, sweetie, is it good for the baby, for you to be holding Kayden for that long?" he asked her
"Tony I've been pregnant three other times, and if I want to hold my son while I'm four months pregnant I'm going to hold him, okay" she told him annoyingly before turning and going into the living room and sitting down in a rocking chair with Kayden.
"Okay then" Tony said, mainly to himself, before heading down the hall to Kaylee's room.
As Kate was rocking Kayden they began talking about the baby and soon Kayden began to get excited about maybe getting a brother. He fell asleep in Kate's arms, so she carried him to bed, tucked him in, and kissed him goodnight.
"Night Little Man" she said to him, before kissing a sleeping Annie goodnight as well.
Then she went to Kaylee's room and found Tony asleep in the rocker, with Kaylee sound asleep in his arms. She kissed Tony on the forehead and he woke up.
"I'm sorry I got angry at you earlier, I was just scared" she apologized
"I know" he replied, getting up and placing Kaylee in her crib. As they stood looking down at their baby girl Tony said,
"I can't believe we're having another one"
"I know, isn't it amazing" replied Kate
"I was actually thinking about how much money it was going to cost"
"Tony!" she said angrily, before pushing him and heading to their bedroom.
"Kate I was just joking, wait" he said running after her
When they got to their bedroom Kate was on the verge of tears and Tony kept apologizing,
"I'm sorry babe, I was joking"
"No you weren't"
"Okay maybe I wasn't. But there's no way I'm not happy about this you know"
Kate turned to him with a confused look, "Does that even make sense DiNozzo"
"Look what I'm trying to say is that I'm happy about this baby. I know we talked about stopping after Kaylee, but I'm glad we are having this baby, and I think he's going to turn out great" he told her with a smile.
"Oh, so you think it's a boy"
"Yeah I have a feeling"
"Well you had a feeling about Annie and Kaylee being boys as well" she told him with a smile
"Yeah but I was right about Kayden and after you were further along with Kaylee I changed my mind and said it was a girl, even though I wanted it to be a boy."
"It still counts as you saying she was going to be a boy"
"Still I was right about Kayden"
"Lucky guess"
"Well I can't imagine not having those girls, you know. And if this one's a girl too, I won't mind either. But I have to say, I still think this one's gonna be a boy." he told her
"Yeah and with my luck he'll turn out just like you" she responded
Present:
Kate and Tony decided to each pick a girl and talk to her. So Tony went to talk to Kaylee, while Kate talked to Annie. Kate realized that Annie was still in her room and had the door shut so that no one could get in. She knocked on the door and Annie yelled,
"Go away"
"Sweetie it's me" Kate said
"Mom?" Annie responded from the other side of the door
"Yeah baby it's me" Kate told her, "Will you open the door so I can talk to you"
"You can talk to me from there" Annie told her
"You don't want me to come in and sit with you?" Kate asked her, but she didn't get an answer from the girl.
"Do you want to talk to me?" she asked ehr daughter, but still no response.
"Well I'm going to wait right here until you're ready" Kate said as she sat down on the floor and leaned her back up against Annie's bedroom door.
Meanwhile Tony found Kaylee in Anthony's room sitting on his bed while he was playing with some toys on the floor.
"Hey there guys" Tony said as he entered the room
"Hi daddy" Anthony said looking up at him with a smile
Tony returned the smile before kneeling down next to Anthony and saying,
"Hey Ace do you mind going and playing with Kayden so I can talk to your sister"
"But it's my room" he whined
"I know but I really need to talk to her"
"Then go somewhere else" he told his dad
"Anthony Colton, don't make me angry. You can come back in here when we are finished talking" he told his son sternly
"Fine" Anthony said angrily, as he threw his toy on the ground, got up, and stomped out of the bedroom. Tony couldn't help but chuckle to himself, Anthony could be so overly dramatic sometimes. Then he turned his attention to Kaylee, who was still sitting on Anthony's bed holding her stuffed dog.
"Hey baby girl, mind if I sit with you" he questioned as he walked over to her
She just shrugged her shoulders without looking at him, so he sat down next to her and before he could react she threw her arms around his neck and held on as she began to cry. Tony wrapped his arms around her, pulled her onto his lap, and began to rock her back and forth the way Kate would.
"Shhh, it's okay baby" he told her softly
In the meantime Kate still hadn't made any headway with Annie. A few minutes after she had sat down on the floor she heard stomping and turned her head towards the end of the hallway where she saw Anthony come stomping out of his room and towards her. As he got closer she asked,
"Hey Little-T, what's wrong?"
"Daddy's a meanie" he replied angrily as he kept walking past her and into the living room where the TV was.
She just shook her head at Anthony and smiled. Right after that Annie finally spoke to Kate,
"Are you mad at me?" she asked
"Well I'm disapointed in you for pushing your sister into the wall, and locking her out of her room" Kate told her, still leaning against the door.
"But it's my room too" stated Annie
"I know sweetie, that's why you have to share it"
"It's not fair, the boys don't have to share a room"
"Not right now, but they will soon"
"Because of the baby?" Annie questioned
"Yes because of the baby" answered Kate
Then it was quiet again and Kate asked,
"Annie do you think I could come in now?"
There was no reply but Kate did hear some noises in the bedroom that sounded like moving furniture. Then a few minutes later Annie opened the door, almost causing Kate to fall over.
Kate stood up and followed Annie back into the room, shutting the door behind her. Kate looked around and recognized immediately that Annie had somehow pushed her four drawer dresser in front of the door, because she could tell it hadn't been put back in the same place. She could still see the indention marks on the carpet of where it was supposed to be.
Kate watched as Annie sat down on her bed and looked at the floor.
"I'm sorry" she said softly
"Well you should be apologizing to your sister" Kate told her as she sat down across from Annie on Kaylee's bed.
"I know...I just..."
"What sweetie? What's bothering you?" Kate asked her
"I'm tired of sharing my stuff and my room"
"Honey that's part of having brothers and sisters" she told her daughter
"Not for Lucy. She has three sisters and a brother and they don't have to share their stuff"
"Uh-huh and what do her parents do?"
"I think they are doctors or surgeons or something like that"
"I see and her sisters and brother, how old are they?"
Annie looked at the floor and shrugged.
"Antimony Caitlin, tell me how old they are" Kate told her daughter
"Her oldest sisters are in college I think, and her other sister is sixteen and her brother is ten"
"Uh-huh, so the oldest two don't live with them anymore"
"No but they still have a big house" commented Annie
"I'm sure they do sweetie, but look on the bright side, one day you will be all grown up and you'll have a whole place to yourself" Kate told her daughter with a smile
"Mom that's gonna take forever" she whined
"Sweetie I'm sorry, but part of having brothers and sisters is sharing things"
"Well then I don't want anymore brothers or sisters" she told her mother seriously
"It's a little too late for that sweetheart" she told her daughter, "Besides I thought you were happy about the baby"
"I kinda was until you started talking about it all the time. You and daddy only talk about the baby now" she told her mother, a hint of sadness in her voice.
"Oh baby I'm sorry" Kate said as she got up and moved across to sit next to Annie. She put her arm around her daughters shoulders and pulled her to her. Annie instinctively leaned into her mother's chest and wrapped her arms around Kate's waist. Kate rubbed Annie's back with one hand and her daughter close with the other.
"Did you think your dad and I were ignoring you?" Kate asked her
Annie just shrugged her shoulders.
"I'm sorry that we ignored you and we'll try to include you in making decisions about the baby, okay"
"Do you still love me?" she asked her mother
Kate smiled down at her daughter before replying,
"You bet I do, and unfortunately I will never stop loving you"
Meanwhile Tony had finally gotten Kaylee calmed down, so he asked her,
"What's wrong baby?"
Kaylee looked up at her dad and answered,
"Annie hates me"
"No she doesn't" Tony told his daughter
"She said she did. She said she wished she didn't have any brothers or sisters" Kaylee stated
"I'm sure she's just upset about something" he said, trying to reassure his youngest daughter.
Kaylee looked down at the floor, before getting down off of her fathers lap and walking over to the window. As she was looking outside she said,
"Annie said you and mom didn't love us anymore and that's why you are having another baby"
Tony was caught off guard with that remark and he was a little shocked that Annie would say or even think such a thing. He got up off of Anthony's bed and walked up behind Kaylee.
"Your mother and I love you very much, all of you. And we would never stop loving you just because we are having another baby"
Tony put his hand on Kaylee's head to get her attention, "Hey"
Kaylee turned around and looked up at her father with tears in her eyes. So he bent down and picked her up, holding onto her tightly. As her arms wrapped around his neck she said,
"Promise?"
"I promise" he whispered in her ear as he held her, "Let's go try and find your mother and sister"
So Tony walked out of Anthony's room, still holding Kaylee, and proceeded down the hall way to the girls room. When he got there he put his ear up against the door to see if he could hear anything. When he heard a giggle, he smiled to himself before knocking. As soon as he knocked he heard Kate say 'come in'. He opened the door and peeked inside, before stepping completely into the room, and he saw Kate and Annie sitting on the bed, both with smiles on their faces. So he walked into the room, Kaylee still in his arms.
"How's it going in here?" Tony asked, looking at Kate
"I think it's okay now" answered Kate
Tony nodded as he sat Kaylee down and walked over to Annie's bed where she and Kate were sitting. Annie got up as Tony sat down and she walked up to Kaylee and looked down at the floor before saying,
"I'm sorry Kaylee. I didn't mean what I said. I'm glad you're my sister. I just wish we didn't have to share a room"
"Uh-em" said Kate
"But I'm sorry"
Kaylee smiled and threw her arms around Annie, who hugged her back.
"I love you Annie" she told her sister as they hugged
"Love you too squirt" Annie replied
Tony and Kate both smiled at the interaction between their daughters as Kate laid her head on Tony's shoulder. Then a few seconds later Anthony poked his head into the room, his face wrinkled up like he was angry, and he asked,
"Are you done with my room now"
"Yes Ace" Tony told him
"Good" he replied as he stomped back to his room
Tony and Kate just looked at each other and laughed before Tony asked,
"So when should we tell them?"
"Tell us what?" asked Annie
"I guess now" Kate told Tony
"I'll get the boys and meet you in the living room" Tony told her
"Kay. Come on girls, to the living room" she said, ushering them out the door and to the living room couch.
Once Tony had gotten the boys into the living room and everyone was settled, Tony and Kate stood next to each other in front oof the children, holding hands. They looked at each other before Annie broke the silence and asked,
"So what's the news?"
"Well" began Tony, "You know your mom and I went to the Doctor to make sure everything was okay with her and the baby, right"
All of the kids nodded their heads, so Tony looked at Kate and she spoke up,
"When we were there we found out that we are not having just one baby, we're having two"
She looked around at her kids and then said again,
"We're having twins"
"There's gonna be two babies?" Kaylee questioned
"That's right baby girl" Tony answered, looking at his daughter
"I don't want the babies" stated Anthony seriously, as he crossed his arms and leaned back against the couch.
"Ace you don't mean that" said Tony
"Uh-huh" he replied
"Two babies are gonna be a lot noisier than one" Annie said, "Do we have to keep both of them"
"Yes sweetie we have to keep both of them" answered Kate
"I don't want to" Anthony said angrily as he got up and ran out of the room. Kate started to go after him but Tony stopped her.
"Let him go, I'll go see him in a minute"
"So what do you think?" Kate asked the kids in front of her
"I don't know yet" Annie answered, getting up and walking off, followed by Kaylee and Kayden.
Kate had been so preoccupied by the girls reactions earlier and to the new that she didn't notice how quiet Kayden had been during their discussion. It wasn't until Tony was trying to talk to Anthony a little later that night when everyone was in bed that she felt something wasn't right, something was bothering her. Then she realized she hadn't really talked to Kayden since she and Tony had gotten home from the Doctors office, and it was unusual for her and Kayden not to talk or interact for that long of a period. Then she thought back to the gamily discussion they had had that afternoon and she realized Kayden had never said anything. She tried to think back and remember his reaction and then she remember looking over at him one time and she thought he looked said, too said she now realized.
Kate immediately got out of bed and headed down the hall to Kayden's room. She knocked lightly on the door, before opening it and peering inside. She saw Kayden in bed, the covers pulled up around him and he was lying on his stomach, his head facing the wall that his bed was up against. She carefully walked up to his bed and heard a whimpering sound. She sat down on his bed and rubbed his back.
"Kayden I'm so sorry" Kate said to her son
He didn't answer but just laid there, but had stopped crying. Kate continued to rub his back as she turned on the bed so she could see him better.
"Oh sweetheart I'm sorry about earlier" she said again
This time he did reply,
"For what?"
"You know what for. I didn't even realize you were upset. I'm guessing about the baby"
This time Kayden rolled over onto his back so that he was looking up at his mother. She could tell that he had been crying and her heart ached for not noticing sooner.
"I'm not mad that you and dad are having more babies, I'm just sad" he told her
"Why?"
"Because you said that you'd still have time for me, but you don't" he said sadly
"I guess we just got caught up in the excitement of a new baby" she told her son
"I know, but now your having two babies and you definitely won't have time to spend with just me" he told his mother, the sadness evident in his voice.
Kate had to fight back the tears as he told her that.
"Sweetie I'm gonna make you a promise"
"Don't make it if you can't keep it" he told her and she couldn't help but smile.
"Tomorrow you and I are going to sit down and schedule a day, each week, that will be a day for just you and me to spend together" Kate told her son
Kayden looked at her and said,
"Mom you and me haven't spent hardly any time together the last couple months and you barely noticed me today. I mean it took you the rest of the afternoon, supper, and tonight before you realized I'd never said anything about the babies and that I was upset"
Kate's heart broken into pieces when he told her that, because it was true and she was ashamed that it had happened. Then she couldn't control herself anymore, she broke down crying, which scared Kayden because he knew his mother didn't cry unless she was truly, truly upset about something.
"I'm sorry mom, don't cry" he said sitting up
She looked into her sons hazil-brown eyes and then wrapped her arms around him, to which he wrapped his arms around her neck and hugged her back.
"I'm so sorry Kade. I love you so much and it hurts to know that happened today" she told him
"I love you too mom" he told her
"Promise me Kade, that if something's bothering you, you'll tell me, no matter what. And promise me that if I'm not paying attention to you like I should, that you'll tell me"
"Mom-"
"Please Kade"
"I promise" he whispered in her ear
As Kate was hugging Kayden he asked,
"Will you lay with me until I fall asleep?"
"Sure sweetie"
With that Kayden laid back down and Kate laid down next to him. Within a few minutes they had both fallen asleep.
About fifteen minutes later Tony had given up trying to talk to Anthony. The boy just wouldn't listen to reason. So he gave up trying for the night and when he got back to his bedroom he noticed Kate wasn't there, so he went back down the hall to the kitchen, but she wasn't there either. Then he checked the living room and the girls' room, nothing. When he opened the door to Kayden's room he couldn't help but smile. He saw Kate sound asleep on her back, her arm around Kayden who had his head on her chest and his arm draped across her stomach.
'Duh this is the first place you should have looked' Tony told himself
He then walked into the room and took the blanket at the foot of Kayden's bed and covered Kate with it. Then he kissed Kayden on top of the head, followed by kissing Kate on her forehead.
"Love ya babe" he whispered before walking back over to the door and down the hall to his bedroom.
A/N: Sorry it took me so long to update. I'm definitely a lot busier than I was when I wrote the other story, so I'm not going to make any promises on when the next chapter will be up. But just so you know I haven't even written it yet, so it will probably be a few weeks at the least. But please let me know what ya'll think about this next story. I already have an idea of what I want to do with it, but let me know if this chapter was any good, plllleeeeasssse review! Thanks!