I Do's and Don'ts
Disclaimer: Don't own CSI.

Please Review! The finally part to this series! Sorry this took so long, please tell me what you think?!

Prologue

"I am so fat." Mandy whined as she entered the doctor's office looking at the table. She just felt mopey today even though today was the day they found out the gender of their twins. She heard Nick sigh.

"Babe, you're not fat." Nick said for what felt like the hundredth time.

When Mandy was younger she did battle with some self imagery issues, and unfortunately for Nick all the compliments in the world were quiet to her own self doubt. In Nick's eyes though she was the most gorgeous woman in the world and somehow even more so now because she was pregnant.

"You are supposed to say that…" Mandy said trying to get on the table. Mandy was about six months pregnant and big. They had been to the doctor previous times in hopes to determine what gender the baby was but the dynamic duo was almost hell bent on keeping it a secret, covering each other and themselves.

"Mommy, you're not fat your belly is just big 'cause it has babies in it." Lily corrected her mother.

"See." Nick said hoping that Lily's words had some more weight. "Why don't you sit in the chair, baby girl?"

"I wanna sit with mommy!" Lily whined as she attempted to climb up on the table with Mandy. Nick picked up Lily as much as she didn't want to be.

"Hello, are you ready to find out what you are carrying?" the excited nurse asked. Mandy smiled as did Nick.

"Yes, please." Mandy said.

"You are carrying twins, correct?"

"That's what they tell me, but I feel like there's a whole family in here." Mandy said putting her hand on her stomach. The nurse squirted some gel on her stomach and began using the ultrasound.

"Daddy, what's that?" Lily said squirming in Nick's arm.

"Jelly, so that the nurse can see the babies inside mommy's belly." Nick explained.

"What do they look like?" Lily asked eagerly.

"Well, honey… they look like to healthy baby boys. They look to be in the same amniotic sac so they will probably going to be identical." The nurse explained.

The next day at the lab, Nick arrived to see the entire team anxiously awaiting his arrival. Nick smiled as he entered. Nick was glowing with fatherly pride whether he knew it or not. He was going to be the proud papa of two precious baby boys.

"So?" Sara asked anxiously. DB even peeked his head from his book and look at the proud father.

"Drum roll?" Greg said as him and Morgan started using their hands and thighs to stimulate a drum roll.

Nick chuckled and held out a picture of the sonogram, in his shaky hands. Nick smiled wide and almost got emotional as he showed his friends the sonogram.

"Its boys." Nick said smiling. The team erupted in happiness as they each gave Nick a hug and shook his hand.

Nick goes to work and sees everyone waiting for him in the break room. They start doing a drum roll and Sara asks what's up? Nick raises a picture of the sonogram and says its twin boys. They erupt in hugs excited for him as Nick glows with fatherly pride.

A few passed as did Mandy's baby shower. Nick and Mandy were blessed with great friends and family and got more than enough stuff to get them by. Nick and Greg were loading all the stuff into the nursery that would soon house the newest additions to the Stokes' family. Nick had really began to depend on Greg for a lot and offend sought advice from the younger CSI and started to respect his opinion more.

"Every time you walk be Mandy, I'm not sure if she's going to kill you and rip your clothes off." Greg whispered as they rearranged some stuff in the room.

"I know… they said that the hormones get all crazy when a woman gets pregnant. I remember when she was pregnant with lily. She would hate me one minute and love me the next. But… she has had a change of desire in me." Nick said awkwardly as he stacked some diapers.

"What did your sex life dry up?" Greg teased, earning a look from Nick.

"No…" Nick said awkwardly.

"Shut up, that is the best problem to have." Greg chuckled as did Nick.

"What are you boys laughing at?" Mandy asked rubbing her stomach as she stood in the doorway in an obvious pair of Nick's pajamas.

"Nothing, babe." Nick said smiling at her.

"Lily's asleep. Are you boys' almost done?" Mandy said biting her lip as she looked at Nick.

"We're done." Greg said. Nick and Greg shook hands as Mandy made her way to Nick.

"Thanks, Greg." Mandy said as she gave Greg a quick hug before going to Nick.

Luckily, Mandy was able to get to full term. This pregnancy was easier then the last in the fact that Nick was healthy and they got plenty of help from her family. Mandy's mom and Nick didn't always see eye to eye, she hadn't quite forgiven him for what had happened when Lily was first pregnant with Lily but she bit her tongue. Mandy's stepfather was really the diplomat and there saving grace. Mandy's parents watched Lily while Nick worked so that Mandy could rest as she went into the final days of her pregnancy.

Mandy sat in bed watching Here comes Honey Boo while she looked over a wedding catalog. As her mother cleaned up. Mandy heard Nick come home and make small talk with her mother before he came back.

"Hey babe…" Nick said kissing her tiredly as he laid on the bed.

"Do you think I'm fat?" Mandy frowning. Mandy had spent the day looking at these size 0 models in the wedding catalogs, and it destroyed her already sore self image.

"No, babe. Yore beautiful and you're pregnant." Nick said rolling over to look at her.

"So, if I wasn't pregnant I would be fat?!" Mandy said upset. Before Nick can say anything, Mandy begins to cry. "You did this to me! We are never going to have sex again! I'm fat… What if our boys aren't healthy?!" Mandy cried, Nick tries to console her and hug her but she pushes him away. "you smell terrible." As confused as Nick was, he did receive some warning from Mandy's mom that Mandy had been a little kooky all day.

Later on that night... Nick put Lily to bed as Mandy's parents watched TV in the living room. Nick crawls tiredly into bed seeing Mandy looking through another wedding catalog. Nick touches Mandy's stomach as he drinks a glass of water.

"I'm thinking we can one boy after your father…" Mandy said quietly but it lit Nick's face up causing Mandy to smile.

"Roger Mason Stokes… the Third?" Nick said rubbing Mandy's stomach.

"I love the name Mason. The third?"

"my grandfather was the original. What about our other boy?" Nick said propping himself up still looking at Mandy.

"I like Beau, after my grandfather and then Franklin. After Frank." Mandy said, Frank being her stepfather.

"Roger Mason and Beau Franklin." Nick said smiling; saying their names aloud made it a little more real. Nick leant over and kissed her stomach. Nick laid down pulling Mandy close as he drifted off asleep. Mandy soon fell asleep too using Nick as a pillow.

In the middle of the night Nick awoke suddenly with wetness in his lap. Nick shook Mandy a little in effort to wake her up to check on her. He was unable to shake the sleepy fuzz from his brain.

"Babe… you feel alright?" Nick asked still very tired.

"Damn it, Nick! Did you spill your water?! You are always eating in the damn bed!" Mandy yelled as she went to the bathroom. Nick began to get up to change the sheet sure that half his brain was asleep.

"Is everything alright in here?" Mandy's mother, Patricia, asked. Nick mumbled as he couldn't wake up all the way. Working the grave shift for so many years allowed his body to do something without being all the way awake. Patricia walked into the bathroom and turned the light to see Mandy holding her stomach.

"Mandy, your water broke!" Patricia yelped, waking Nick up. Nick changes into clean clothes and grabbing the overnight bag. They both tried to control their own panic but it was hard.

When they got to the hospital, Mandy was a mess, and Nick was seeing her that way. Mandy was yelling in pain and at all of the hospital staff. Mandy yells at her nurse as they call her OBGYN. Nick starts to get angry that no one is helping. The duo was a nervous wreck… until she got her epidural and then everything relaxed except for Nick.

Even though Nick was nervous wreck, he was Mandy's rock. As it became time to push, he was her breathing coach and whisper all the words of encouragement he could. After six hours of pushing they heard the cries from their baby boys. Roger Mason was born first but was soon followed by his brother Beau Franklin.

"How are they?" Mandy asked beyond exhausted. Nick face lit up as tears rushed his eyes.

"They're beautiful." Nick said standing up rubbing his eyes trying to hide his tears. Mandy touched his hand smiling at him. Nick wiped his eyes and hugged Mandy.

"I love you, so much." Nick said crying a little as he hugged her tight.

This was the prologue, so the next chapter will show you what they are up to now. Nick and Mandy have the pressure of their wedding, being parents, and something else, that I have not shared yet. I'll introduce the main 'dilemma' in the next chapter that will showcase the tone for the story.

Any ideas for the wedding?