AN: Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there! Whether you're a fur mama or a human mama, or a mother figure to someone, I hope you had an amazing day!

Adi had requested this story line, and I do hope I have done it justice! As always reviews keep the writing flowing, so let me know if you're liking the story and I'll give you more! Happy Reading!

A Mothers Intuition

1992

Henry was finally back home and settled after his deployment for Desert Storm. They had spent the past six months reconnecting and learning how to be a married couple. He had been deployed shortly after they wed. Elizabeth was more than happy to have the love of her life back safe and sound.

They lay in bed snuggling up against each other, enjoying the relaxing Saturday morning. They had no commitments for the day and could stay in bed as they were for as long as they had liked; making up for missed time.

Soon the snuggling became passionate love making, they couldn't get close enough to each other. The tenderness of their movements conveyed how much they had missed each other and how much they needed each other. Afterwards they lay together, Elizabeth with her head laying on Henrys chest and Henry with his arms around her drawing random designs on her arm.

"I love you so much, Henry. I am so glad that we can really start our life tougher now that you're home safe with me."

"I love you too, baby. I cannot wait to get our life together up and running. There's nothing else I want more in the world." He said as he pressed a kiss to her head.

"I cant believe we've been married now for two years, it just seems so unreal. I can't believe I'll be at my job for a year in a month. Life is so wonderful right now, but I think we could make it even better in a year or two." she said with a smile dancing across her lips, waiting to see if Henry caught on to what she was hinting at.

His had stilled on her arm as the words filtered into his head. "Babe, are you saying that you want to talk about having babies soon?" He asked as a smile grew on his face.

She looked up from her spot on his chest to see the reaction on his face. He had an excited aura around him and if he could, his eyes would be shining like sun rays. She reached up to kiss him before answering. "Yes baby, I want to have a baby with you. I want to grow our little family and I think in a year or two would be good since we will both have a few years at our jobs under our belts. I just think the timing is good too so it gives us more time to get used toeing a married couple since we didn't have that chance our first year of being a married couple."

Henry had no words at the moment and bent down and placed a chaste kiss on her lips, taking it deeper as the moment lingered. "You make me the happiest man on the planet with those words, Mrs. McCord. I cannot wait to have babies with you, and even though we are waiting another year or so there's no harm in perfecting our dance. You know what they say: Practice makes perfect!" as he flipped her over and positioned his body atop of hers lovingly trailing kisses down her phenomenal body that one day will carry their children.

November 1993

It was Thanksgiving and that meant Elizabeth and Henry would head to Pittsburgh to spend the weekend with his family, although she didn't see eye to eye with Patrick or Maureen, she enjoyed spending time with Erin and Henrys mom. His mom had always made her feel like a part of the family from the day she met her.

As they loaded up the car to get on the road, Elizabeth had a sudden wave of dizziness wash over her, it wasn't uncommon for her so she thought nothing of it. Henry caught sight of her grabbing the side of the car for balance, "Babe are you okay?" He asked his tone laced with concern.

"Yeah, just one of those weird dizzy spells I get sometimes. I'm fine, really." She reassured him noticing the look on his face. "I just need to drink some water and I should be good to go." She gave him a small smile to let him know she was really okay.

"Okay babe. I'll grab you some water and then we need to get on the road. You know mom is excited for us to get there." He said leaving her to run back into the house to grab a few bottles of water.

Henry parked the car at the front of his parents house. Looking over at his gorgeous passenger he hated to wake her up, but knew he needed to, she looked so peaceful with her head resting along the window.

Reaching over he gently shook her shoulder "Hey baby, we're here."

"Okay, thanks for waking me up babe. Sorry I fell asleep on you, I just got comfortable with the sun beating down on me." She apologized to him and shot him a smile.

"Not a problem babe, you've been working so much you needed the nap." He leaned over and pressed a sweet kiss to her lips.

"Henry! Elizabeth! It's so nice to see you kids!" Henrys mother, Jane, excitedly greeted them as they entered the kitchen.

"Hi mom!" Henry greeted her with a hug and a kiss to the cheek.

Elizabeth hugged his mom, and she placed a kiss on Elizabeths cheek.

"Dear, you look exhausted. Are you feeling okay?" Henry's mom worriedly asked Elizabeth.

"Yeah Jane, I'm okay. Just fell asleep on the drive here. I've been working some overtime and I guess its catching up to me." She reassured the elder Mrs. McCord.

She looked Elizabeth up and down for a minute, and was half satisfied with her answer.

"Kids make yourselves at home, I'm getting some dinner ready. I'll let you know when it's time to eat." She walked with them into the living room and then satisfied they were settling in went back into the kitchen to prepare dinner.

As they ate dinner that night Jane had noticed Elizabeth pushing her food around on her plate. Normally her daughter in law was a great eater, tonight though, something was off. Jane had a gut feeling she knew what it was but knew Elizabeth hadn't had a clue yet.

After cleaning up dinner, Elizabeth excused herself to the bedroom. She really was starting to wondering if she was catching what was going around at work or if the long hours she's been putting in were starting to take their toll. She made herself relax on the bed, a book in hand, but it didn't take long until her eyes were closed and she was off to slumber land.

"Henry, dear, are you sure Elizabeth is feeling well?" Jane asked her son, wanting to see what his take on the situation was.

Smiling at the concern his mother was showing for his wife, he turned to look at her and answer her question. "Yeah mom, she's fine, really. They have been working on something at work and its been very time consuming and she hasn't been getting much sleep, or healthy meals for that matter. Plus she said the other night that a stomach virus is going around." He reassured her, kissing her on the cheek as he headed upstairs to check on his wife.

Opening the door to his bedroom the sight that was before him was one of knowing, yet a flicker of concern crossed his mind too. Elizabeth was fast asleep on the bed, book draped across her chest as she had fallen asleep reading. Henry began to wonder if his mom was on to something else. Elizabeth was a little pale, but she also had this look to her that he couldn't place. He crawled into bed with her and snuggled up tight, embracing her in his strong arms.

Thanksgiving morning Henry awoke to the smell of the turkey roasting in the oven and cinnamon buns that had freshly been cooked for breakfast, a tradition in the McCord house since he could remember. Looking over at his sleeping beauty he decided to let her be, placing a kiss on her forehead and slipping out from under the covers as to not disturb her.

"Mmmm, it smells wonderful in here mom!" He exclaimed as he greeted her with a kiss to the cheek.

"Like old times, my dear! Cinnamon buns and coffee for breakfast!" She returned his peck on the cheek with a hug. "How is Elizabeth feeling this morning?"

"She's still sleeping and I really hated to wake her. She truly has been sleep deprived lately." He relayed falling in line, helping his mom with preparing for Thanksgiving dinner, that they would be eating later in the afternoon.

Noticing an hour had gone by, he decided to go check on Elizabeth. Noticing she was no longer in bed, he heard an all to familiar sound coming from the bathroom. "Babe, are you okay?" he asked while lightly tapping on the door.

"Yeah, I'm okay. Just really nauseous but nothing is coming out." she replied exhaustion laced in her tone.

Opening the door she walked right into his arms, at least he could soothe her a little if nothing else could.

Downstair Jane overheard their conversation and her gut instinct was telling her they had so much more to be thankful for this Thanksgiving, even if her son and daughter in law had no idea. She'd been through this four times, and had known when Shane's wife had been pregnant before either of the two of them had known. There's nothing stronger than a mothers intuition in this situation. Her Henry and Elizabeth were about to start the best, most exciting journey of their lives together.