Growing Family
Chapter 1: The News
AN: I am redoing the story Growing Family. It has been too long since I updated and it needs a lot of changes made. Bear with me.
"Congratulations Mr. and Mrs. Walker, you're having multiples, care to guess how many?" asked Dr. Evans as he sat there looking slightly amused at the parents faces. "With Walker as the father I'm afraid to ask!" Alex said looking a little faint. "Hey!" Walker glared an amusing glare at his wife.
"Do you want to guess or should I just tell you?" asked the doctor trying to act all business like but at the same time choking down laughter for he knew the legendary Walker Texas Ranger. Walker looked from the doctor to his wife and took her hand and squeezed it and said "Shoot (the Texas Ranger way of saying tell us)." They squeezed hands as the doctor said "Triplets!" Right away there was a battle starting to form in his head "Work vs. family". He knew that Alex would need help with the four kids (they already have Angela), but at the same time being a Texas Ranger was a big part of his life. Right then Alex looked at Walker because there was no response and knew right away by his face what he was thinking.
But what she thought he was thinking was not right at all. When she had Angela there were complications with the pregnancy and labor. The doctors told them the chances of them ever having another child again were very slim. So, there were three thoughts she thought of that he could possibly be thinking. 1. "The doctor said we could never have another baby again. But we're having three? Geez!" 2. "How will Alex survive this pregnancy with three babies when she barely survived the last pregnancy with only one baby?" 3. "Oh boy, we're in trouble!" Little did Alex know that those thoughts were not in his mind as much as a more serious thought.
Alex squeezed Walkers hand so as to bring him back to reality. Walker jumped back to life and after a ½ hour of talking to the doctor they finally said goodbye to the doctor and went into the waiting room with James Trivette (Walkers partner) and 10yr old Angela Walker. She was sitting there reading a book with Trivette and just kind of looking up once in a while to see if her parents were coming. When she looked up for the hundredth time and saw her mom and dad coming she jumped off her chair and quickly ran over to them
Trivette not really knowing where she was headed but knew her attention span had hit its record, 3 ½ hrs. So he ran after her and looked up and saw Walker talking to her.
"Honey, if you were to get a choice of having a baby brother (and he emphasized the word brother) or a baby sister what would you choose?" asked Walker looking at his daughter with love. "Sister!" said Angie looking very firm and confident. Walker looked disappointed and asked "What about a brother?" "Nah, brothers are a pain in the neck." Walker gave her a look and asked "Who told you that?" "My friend from preschool." Angie said truthfully. Walker could not help but laugh which caused Alex and Trivette to start laughing. Then Alex chimed in "What if you were to get three babies, then what would you want?" After thinking long and hard she said "Two sisters and a brother that way he wouldn't dare use karate on girls, and if he tried it on me he wouldn't have a chance since I'm well on my way to a black-belt." That made everyone start laughing. Alex then said "Well honey, you might get your wish, I'm having three babies." Trivette congratulated them and Angie screamed with delight, though Trivette did notice that his best friend and partner looked a little off since he left the examination room.
TBC.