"Fall on your knees."
"Fall on your knees and pray for her, please," said a 37 year old woman before quickly turning and stepping down off the platform, off the stage, away from the spotlight.
***
4 Years Earlier, Manning Manor
"A baby?" asked an immensely shocked Lily.
"Yes, a baby," replied a 32 year old Jessie, confidently and cheerfully.
"Wait, is that even possible," asked a confused Rick.
"Yes oh dearest father in law," said the 33 year old Katie.
"Oh....wow....me...a grandpa," let out Rick, a slightly tired sound in his voice.
"Don't sound to excited now Daddy, wouldn't want you to have a heart attack," said Jessie, pretending to be hurt. Katie squeezed her hand slighly, giving her a kiss on the hand, she loved it when Jessie pretended to be hurt, it was soo....for lack of a better word, adorable.
"Yea Dad," said Grace, annoyed that he wasn't giving a hundred and ten percent of his support.
The entire family, including Jake, Tiffany, Karen, Henry, Sam, Judy, Maddie, Zoe, Grace, Eli, Rick, and Lily were gathered, for once, in Lily and Rick's living room. It would be Easter in a couple days, and, as had become tradition the gang was gathered for celebrations. That's why Katie and Jessie had decided to announce their decision to have a child now. The announcement was definately a suprise, to say the least. Not that some people didn't expect it. Jessie and Katie had dropped small hints to certain people. Namely Grace and Tiffany.
Jake and Tiffany's marriage had gone smoothly and Tiff still had her old blonde hair while Jake had a few silver hairs. Maddie had grown up, she had long, waist-length wavy blonde hair and looked like an angel at the age of 18. Lily's face was creased slightly with wrinkles that she hid well and Rick too had some grey hairs. Grace and Eli were married now and each had grown. Eli no longer had spiked hair, he gelled it down and dressed as a man his age would and Grace had let her hair grow to her shoulders, she'd grown taller as well and they made a very handsome couple.
Their parents had been suprisingly supportive of this unusual relationship, since they'd dealt with Katie and Jessie's as well. Lily had come to pride herself on her and her husbands ability to deal with things like this. After her mother had passed away she'd gone through some serious soul- searching and she'd only come out all the better. Karen and Henry had married too. The ceremony was beautiful, they'd had it at the beach and now the couple was coming close to there 10th anniversary. Each looked pretty much the same. Sam and Judy too had tied the knot, about 5 years back and not much had changed in them either. Now Judy grinned and walked over sitting beside Jessie on the couch and patting her on the back.
"Well, congratulations," said Judy.
"Yea....wow, a baby...this is sooo great, I can't wait, I'm going to start planning a shower immediately," said a gorgeous tall, tan, skinny woman who had dark brown hair reaching down a little past her shoulders, aka Zoe.
"Whoa now, slow down it's not like the baby is coming tomorrow," said Katie, though she too was grinning.
"Girls can I ask a question," asked Karen.
"Of course mom," replied Jessie.
"Now...umm...I don't know how to put this...which of you will be having the baby," asked Karen, trying to say it casually. This caused each of the girls to laugh, and Jessie to turn a bright shade of red.
"Jessie will be, I'm not very tolerant of pain," said Katie through laughs.
"Wow, I'm so happy for you honey," said Karen.
"Jess this going to be great," said Maddie grinning as she plopped down beside Katie.
"I hope so," said Jessie, beaming brightly.
"I know so," said Katie as she raised Jessie's hand to her lips, kissing it lightly.
"Awww," came from Grace, Zoe, Maddie, Lily, Karen, and Tiffany.
***
Beach House, a month later
"So what's for dinner gorgeous," asked Katie as she sat down on one of the stools that sat in front of the counter of she and her wifes beach house.
Katie was one of the top public relations agents in New York and Jessie worked as a teacher/chef at the French Culinary Institute of America. They had a condo back in New York but when they could get time off they always flew down to their beach house in North Carolina. The house was set right next to the beach and the long strip of perfect sandy beach that stretched out in front of the house was private, it belonged to the owners of the house. Needless to say the house hadn't come cheap. Nor had it been easy to find. Once they'd bought it Jessie came down for a week and decorated it quickly and beautifully.
The living room was like the inside of a log cabin and connected to the kitchen that was done in modern decor. Steel, mahogany, and deep black were the colors of the kitchen and it blended with the more wooden tones of the living room. The master bedroom was light blue with large windows that led out to a balcony and the guest bedroom was a mix of green, white, and light beige. The large attic was a workspace for the Jessie when she needed to get something done on vacation. And the huge basement was a personal studio for Katie, she still painted and occasionally sold her work though it was more for her enjoyment than a career.
Everything was very calming, an ideal beach house.
"Umm...let's see...pasta and meatballs," said Jessie proudly.
"Good, I'm really hungry," Katie said, rubbing her tummy.
"It's almost done," replied Jess as she leaned over the counter and kissed Katie softly. After the kiss ended Jessie washed her hands and then dried them before walking over to the oven, she lifted the lid off a large metal bowl then slid it off the burner and turned off the stove. She pulled two bowls down out of the cabinet and put some pasta in them then added sauce. Smiling she set it down on the large, polished wooden table then sat down.
"Done," she told Katie.
"Great," said Katie as she took her seat on the other side of Jessie.
"I thought maybe you'd run away when I didn't see you all afternoon," commented Jessie, grinning.
"Oh I was down in my studio," said Katie, twirling pasta around her fork then lifting it to her mouth and slurping the rest of the noodle hanging out of her mouth in.
"I can't believe you still do that," said Jessie playfully.
"You're just jealous cause you can't do it," replied Katie.
"I can too," exclaimed Jessie as she twirled pasta around her fork then raised it to her mouth, she did what Katie had, just a little messier. Katie laughed as soon as she saw all the sauce covering Jessie's face. Jess grinned and playfully hit her girl.
"See, I can do it," stated Jessie proudly.
"You've got some sauce right," Katie leaned over kissing away the sauce, "there."
"Mmm, thank you for getting that for me," said Jessie as she leaned in, kissing Katie again.
"Anytime," said Katie before moving back to her sit and beginning to eat again.
***
Nightime, Bedroom
Jessie shivered as the salty ocean wind blew in through the open doors that led out to the balcony. The white curtains blew gently in the breeze. Katie was lying in the bed, her deep green eyes locked into Jessie's intelligent baby blues. Sliding her arms around her girlfriend, Katie sat up beside the already sitting Jessie.
Her eyes shone with pure love and slight shocks of concern.
"Are you cold," asked Katie in a soft whisper.
"No, of course not," said Jessie, grinning as she leaned over kissing Katie softly as she shivered again.
"Yea right," breathed out Katie as she pulled the blankets up around the two of them.
"Thank you," said Jessie softly.
Pale moonlight shone almost blue on Jessie's angelic face in the dark room. Katie smiled and leaned over pressing her lips to her girlfriends in a soft, sweet, simple kiss. Their arms tangeled around each other as they slide down into the bed to get more comfortable. Laying there, looking into each others eyes, the two girls snuggled up into each other before sleeping.
***
2 Days Later, Beach
"Could you rub me down," asked Jessie, innocently as she held up some sun block and turned so she was laying on her stomach in the cool afternoon shade.
"Anytime," replied Katie with a grin as she took the sun block and moved beside her wife, pushing her hair out of the way and beginning to slowly rub the sun block all over her back.
"I love it out here," commented Jessie absent-mindedly.
"Yea, it's always so calm and all," agreed Katie as she looked out at the waves.
"Ya know what Katie?"
"What Jessie?"
"I wove you," said Jessie, turning her head so she could look at Katie, she held out the word wove.
Katie laughed out, "well I wove you to gorgeous," she then leaned over and kissed Jessie.
"So how much longer does our vacation last?"
"Umm...we have a flight back to the city at 4:30 tomorrow evening," said Katie as she checked her Palm Pilot Series 99.
Jessie moaned, "nooo."
"Yessss," said Katie, grinning. She knew Jessie loved to just be able to relax and her job was often times stressful, but Katie also knew Jess loved her job more than anything....except her of course.
"No."
"Yes."
"N O," said Jessie playing along.
"Y E S," said Katie through a grin.
"N O spells NO."
"Y E S spells YES."
"Yes?"
"No," said Katie without thinking, "I mean yes," she quickly corrected, playfully punching Jessie's arm.
"See we agree, no," said Jessie, grinning at her handiwork.
"Oohh, you're a trickly little person," said Katie, glaring down at Jessie.
"Little?" said Jessie, standing up so that she was taller than the sitting Katie.
"Yea, little," said Katie as she stood making her taller again, "whatcha gunna do about it?"
"Well I'm going to have to...," Jessie jumped on Katie, knocking her down to the ground and she started tickling her, "do this," she finnished devilishly.
"Ahhh!" screamed Katie as she got out from under her wifes tickling hands and ran down to the water, wading in till the water came up to her waist.
"You're asking for it," said Jess as she followed her girl into the water.
"Oh really," said Katie grinning, they both knew she had a tremendous advantage over Jessie in the water.
"Yes really," said Jessie, grinning mischeviously as she splashed water at Katie, causing her to close her eyes, then she jumped on her again.
***
The Next Day, 4:15
"God, I hate airports!" said Jessie angrily.
"Chill honey, it's not like we are in any rush," said Katie soothingly.
"No rush? We have to get on our plane in 15 minutes or we're stuck here till the next flight at 6:00 and we don't even know where we are!"
Katie nodded her agreement to Jessie's point, "true, but all we have to do is calm down and ask someone where," Katie held up their tickets to check, "dock 89 is."
"Do you see anyone to ask!" shrieked Jessie.
"Yea, there is a guy right over there with an airport uniform," said Katie as she walked over.
After talking to the guy for a minute she returned to Jessie's side. The airport was bustling. Large holographic signs for the various stores that were along the sides of all the hallways flickered, trying to attract attention. Sighing Jessie closed her eyes, counting backwards from ten and taking deep breaths. She hated being in such crowded places. Katie stood by her side, waiting till the younger woman reopened her eyes before she began talking again.
"Jess honey, he said it's only a little ways down this hall," said Katie softly.
"Thanks Katie," said Jessie, giving her girlfriend a kiss of apreciation.
"Let's go, I'm ready to be out of here and back home," said Katie, smiling.
***
DISCLAIMER:I DON'T OWN ANYONE, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A REFERENCE OR POST MY STORY ELSEWHERE PLEASE LET ME KNOW
A/N - The disclaimer is down here because I didn't want it at the top.
Spoilers - None seeing as how the show is over.
Rating For This Chapter (RFTC) - PG - 13
"Fall on your knees and pray for her, please," said a 37 year old woman before quickly turning and stepping down off the platform, off the stage, away from the spotlight.
***
4 Years Earlier, Manning Manor
"A baby?" asked an immensely shocked Lily.
"Yes, a baby," replied a 32 year old Jessie, confidently and cheerfully.
"Wait, is that even possible," asked a confused Rick.
"Yes oh dearest father in law," said the 33 year old Katie.
"Oh....wow....me...a grandpa," let out Rick, a slightly tired sound in his voice.
"Don't sound to excited now Daddy, wouldn't want you to have a heart attack," said Jessie, pretending to be hurt. Katie squeezed her hand slighly, giving her a kiss on the hand, she loved it when Jessie pretended to be hurt, it was soo....for lack of a better word, adorable.
"Yea Dad," said Grace, annoyed that he wasn't giving a hundred and ten percent of his support.
The entire family, including Jake, Tiffany, Karen, Henry, Sam, Judy, Maddie, Zoe, Grace, Eli, Rick, and Lily were gathered, for once, in Lily and Rick's living room. It would be Easter in a couple days, and, as had become tradition the gang was gathered for celebrations. That's why Katie and Jessie had decided to announce their decision to have a child now. The announcement was definately a suprise, to say the least. Not that some people didn't expect it. Jessie and Katie had dropped small hints to certain people. Namely Grace and Tiffany.
Jake and Tiffany's marriage had gone smoothly and Tiff still had her old blonde hair while Jake had a few silver hairs. Maddie had grown up, she had long, waist-length wavy blonde hair and looked like an angel at the age of 18. Lily's face was creased slightly with wrinkles that she hid well and Rick too had some grey hairs. Grace and Eli were married now and each had grown. Eli no longer had spiked hair, he gelled it down and dressed as a man his age would and Grace had let her hair grow to her shoulders, she'd grown taller as well and they made a very handsome couple.
Their parents had been suprisingly supportive of this unusual relationship, since they'd dealt with Katie and Jessie's as well. Lily had come to pride herself on her and her husbands ability to deal with things like this. After her mother had passed away she'd gone through some serious soul- searching and she'd only come out all the better. Karen and Henry had married too. The ceremony was beautiful, they'd had it at the beach and now the couple was coming close to there 10th anniversary. Each looked pretty much the same. Sam and Judy too had tied the knot, about 5 years back and not much had changed in them either. Now Judy grinned and walked over sitting beside Jessie on the couch and patting her on the back.
"Well, congratulations," said Judy.
"Yea....wow, a baby...this is sooo great, I can't wait, I'm going to start planning a shower immediately," said a gorgeous tall, tan, skinny woman who had dark brown hair reaching down a little past her shoulders, aka Zoe.
"Whoa now, slow down it's not like the baby is coming tomorrow," said Katie, though she too was grinning.
"Girls can I ask a question," asked Karen.
"Of course mom," replied Jessie.
"Now...umm...I don't know how to put this...which of you will be having the baby," asked Karen, trying to say it casually. This caused each of the girls to laugh, and Jessie to turn a bright shade of red.
"Jessie will be, I'm not very tolerant of pain," said Katie through laughs.
"Wow, I'm so happy for you honey," said Karen.
"Jess this going to be great," said Maddie grinning as she plopped down beside Katie.
"I hope so," said Jessie, beaming brightly.
"I know so," said Katie as she raised Jessie's hand to her lips, kissing it lightly.
"Awww," came from Grace, Zoe, Maddie, Lily, Karen, and Tiffany.
***
Beach House, a month later
"So what's for dinner gorgeous," asked Katie as she sat down on one of the stools that sat in front of the counter of she and her wifes beach house.
Katie was one of the top public relations agents in New York and Jessie worked as a teacher/chef at the French Culinary Institute of America. They had a condo back in New York but when they could get time off they always flew down to their beach house in North Carolina. The house was set right next to the beach and the long strip of perfect sandy beach that stretched out in front of the house was private, it belonged to the owners of the house. Needless to say the house hadn't come cheap. Nor had it been easy to find. Once they'd bought it Jessie came down for a week and decorated it quickly and beautifully.
The living room was like the inside of a log cabin and connected to the kitchen that was done in modern decor. Steel, mahogany, and deep black were the colors of the kitchen and it blended with the more wooden tones of the living room. The master bedroom was light blue with large windows that led out to a balcony and the guest bedroom was a mix of green, white, and light beige. The large attic was a workspace for the Jessie when she needed to get something done on vacation. And the huge basement was a personal studio for Katie, she still painted and occasionally sold her work though it was more for her enjoyment than a career.
Everything was very calming, an ideal beach house.
"Umm...let's see...pasta and meatballs," said Jessie proudly.
"Good, I'm really hungry," Katie said, rubbing her tummy.
"It's almost done," replied Jess as she leaned over the counter and kissed Katie softly. After the kiss ended Jessie washed her hands and then dried them before walking over to the oven, she lifted the lid off a large metal bowl then slid it off the burner and turned off the stove. She pulled two bowls down out of the cabinet and put some pasta in them then added sauce. Smiling she set it down on the large, polished wooden table then sat down.
"Done," she told Katie.
"Great," said Katie as she took her seat on the other side of Jessie.
"I thought maybe you'd run away when I didn't see you all afternoon," commented Jessie, grinning.
"Oh I was down in my studio," said Katie, twirling pasta around her fork then lifting it to her mouth and slurping the rest of the noodle hanging out of her mouth in.
"I can't believe you still do that," said Jessie playfully.
"You're just jealous cause you can't do it," replied Katie.
"I can too," exclaimed Jessie as she twirled pasta around her fork then raised it to her mouth, she did what Katie had, just a little messier. Katie laughed as soon as she saw all the sauce covering Jessie's face. Jess grinned and playfully hit her girl.
"See, I can do it," stated Jessie proudly.
"You've got some sauce right," Katie leaned over kissing away the sauce, "there."
"Mmm, thank you for getting that for me," said Jessie as she leaned in, kissing Katie again.
"Anytime," said Katie before moving back to her sit and beginning to eat again.
***
Nightime, Bedroom
Jessie shivered as the salty ocean wind blew in through the open doors that led out to the balcony. The white curtains blew gently in the breeze. Katie was lying in the bed, her deep green eyes locked into Jessie's intelligent baby blues. Sliding her arms around her girlfriend, Katie sat up beside the already sitting Jessie.
Her eyes shone with pure love and slight shocks of concern.
"Are you cold," asked Katie in a soft whisper.
"No, of course not," said Jessie, grinning as she leaned over kissing Katie softly as she shivered again.
"Yea right," breathed out Katie as she pulled the blankets up around the two of them.
"Thank you," said Jessie softly.
Pale moonlight shone almost blue on Jessie's angelic face in the dark room. Katie smiled and leaned over pressing her lips to her girlfriends in a soft, sweet, simple kiss. Their arms tangeled around each other as they slide down into the bed to get more comfortable. Laying there, looking into each others eyes, the two girls snuggled up into each other before sleeping.
***
2 Days Later, Beach
"Could you rub me down," asked Jessie, innocently as she held up some sun block and turned so she was laying on her stomach in the cool afternoon shade.
"Anytime," replied Katie with a grin as she took the sun block and moved beside her wife, pushing her hair out of the way and beginning to slowly rub the sun block all over her back.
"I love it out here," commented Jessie absent-mindedly.
"Yea, it's always so calm and all," agreed Katie as she looked out at the waves.
"Ya know what Katie?"
"What Jessie?"
"I wove you," said Jessie, turning her head so she could look at Katie, she held out the word wove.
Katie laughed out, "well I wove you to gorgeous," she then leaned over and kissed Jessie.
"So how much longer does our vacation last?"
"Umm...we have a flight back to the city at 4:30 tomorrow evening," said Katie as she checked her Palm Pilot Series 99.
Jessie moaned, "nooo."
"Yessss," said Katie, grinning. She knew Jessie loved to just be able to relax and her job was often times stressful, but Katie also knew Jess loved her job more than anything....except her of course.
"No."
"Yes."
"N O," said Jessie playing along.
"Y E S," said Katie through a grin.
"N O spells NO."
"Y E S spells YES."
"Yes?"
"No," said Katie without thinking, "I mean yes," she quickly corrected, playfully punching Jessie's arm.
"See we agree, no," said Jessie, grinning at her handiwork.
"Oohh, you're a trickly little person," said Katie, glaring down at Jessie.
"Little?" said Jessie, standing up so that she was taller than the sitting Katie.
"Yea, little," said Katie as she stood making her taller again, "whatcha gunna do about it?"
"Well I'm going to have to...," Jessie jumped on Katie, knocking her down to the ground and she started tickling her, "do this," she finnished devilishly.
"Ahhh!" screamed Katie as she got out from under her wifes tickling hands and ran down to the water, wading in till the water came up to her waist.
"You're asking for it," said Jess as she followed her girl into the water.
"Oh really," said Katie grinning, they both knew she had a tremendous advantage over Jessie in the water.
"Yes really," said Jessie, grinning mischeviously as she splashed water at Katie, causing her to close her eyes, then she jumped on her again.
***
The Next Day, 4:15
"God, I hate airports!" said Jessie angrily.
"Chill honey, it's not like we are in any rush," said Katie soothingly.
"No rush? We have to get on our plane in 15 minutes or we're stuck here till the next flight at 6:00 and we don't even know where we are!"
Katie nodded her agreement to Jessie's point, "true, but all we have to do is calm down and ask someone where," Katie held up their tickets to check, "dock 89 is."
"Do you see anyone to ask!" shrieked Jessie.
"Yea, there is a guy right over there with an airport uniform," said Katie as she walked over.
After talking to the guy for a minute she returned to Jessie's side. The airport was bustling. Large holographic signs for the various stores that were along the sides of all the hallways flickered, trying to attract attention. Sighing Jessie closed her eyes, counting backwards from ten and taking deep breaths. She hated being in such crowded places. Katie stood by her side, waiting till the younger woman reopened her eyes before she began talking again.
"Jess honey, he said it's only a little ways down this hall," said Katie softly.
"Thanks Katie," said Jessie, giving her girlfriend a kiss of apreciation.
"Let's go, I'm ready to be out of here and back home," said Katie, smiling.
***
DISCLAIMER:I DON'T OWN ANYONE, IF YOU WANT TO MAKE A REFERENCE OR POST MY STORY ELSEWHERE PLEASE LET ME KNOW
A/N - The disclaimer is down here because I didn't want it at the top.
Spoilers - None seeing as how the show is over.
Rating For This Chapter (RFTC) - PG - 13