Hello everybody! I'm here...

Sil: *clears throat* -.-

Wk: 0.o I mean...WE'RE here with a new story!

Sil: Our first ever collab to go on WKSF1's profile!

Wk: YAY! 8D Anyway, this story is written by both SilverWaterBombadil and me, so we both hold the credit. Hope you enjoy this new Kate story! 8D

DISCLAIMER! I and SilverWaterBombadil do NOT own Wild Kratts. X) Sil: We do, however, own the following characters: (Sil) Wren, Kitty Carlo, Gabe, Trent, Donte, Survivor! (WKSF1) Kate, Daniel, Tasha. X)

Kate slept soundly in her room in her pink hammock, Anna under her arm, Tasha asleep on her swing. Tasha, her pet peregrine falcon that she saved as an egg, still wasn't fully grown yet, and was just starting to learn how to fly. Kate had been a peregrine falcon all day, trying to teach Tasha how to fly. It was fun, but exhausting, and Kate fell asleep almost as soon as she hit her hammock. Everything had been extremely busy the last few months. Tasha was growing, since it was spring, the crew had been traveling a lot more then in the winter since the cold, cloudy weather wasn't as intense, and Kate's mother, Aviva Corcovado, was expecting. You heard me right, Aviva was going to be a mother along with all the other creatures that spring. Chris and her had married about three years before, right after Kate had spent a few days with Donte, Kitty's brother.

Kate's door was closed and since the Tortuga was so huge, sometimes it was hard for sound to travel all around the place. And Kate couldn't hear a thing and continued to sleep, even though everyone else had been woken up that night from Aviva's screaming of pain.

"What's going on?" a faint sound of Koki's voice came from outside the hall. There was rushing footsteps, and the muffled voice of Martin going by answering, "It's time!"
"Did her water break?"
"Chris frantically just told me, like five minutes ago!" and one could here him hurry off.

By this time, Tasha was awake, and gently cooing and squawking. Yes, Tasha couldn't fly, but she was especially good with branching. Branching is when young birds glide from branch to branch, learning how to keep their balance for later on. So, Tasha glided down from her swing, right onto Kate's head.
Though, the bird was careful not to get it's talons stuck in the girl's messy hair. Picking at her ear, Tasha was able to wake up Kate with a startle, causing her to sit up suddenly. The falcon chick fell back onto Kathrine's stomach. Kate looked around her room, hearing all the commotion outside as people ran by. She was confused, and it was unfortunate she hadn't been awake during Koki's and Martin's conversation. So, she was tired and clueless.

Reaching over to put Tasha back on her swing, Kate slowly put her bare feet down on the floor, and got out of her hammock. It was strange, because all the noise had suddenly stopped... as if everyone was all in one place, far away.
Only one sound broke the silence, it was the soft patting of Survivor's paws as he walked pass Kate's room. Kate knew it was Surv, mainly because Tasha shrunk and little, with her feathers raising and hissed. The bird and the lion had an awkward friendship.

Kate then figured that Survivor had woken everyone up by accident, or caused some trouble or something, and in her tired state, didn't think anything more of the matter. Trudging back to her hammock, Kate fell back in, and as exhaustion took over her small self, she fell back asleep, even though Tasha and Survivor tried so hard to wake her up.

~~~~~BREAK~~~~~

Not to thrilled, Kate opened her eyes a second time from being waken up by someone. But this time, it wasn't by her falcon, no; it was by her dad, Chris, "Honey... wake up..." he shook her gently.
Kate rolled over to look at the clock on her wall, "Dad... it's five a.m.! Can't this wait until morning..." she closed her eyes, grumpily.
Chris simply chuckled, "Honey... there's someone I want you to meet..."
That rose suspicion in Kate, as she looked back over to her father. He wore a tired but happy smile, "C'mon." He said finally, pulling her down from her hammock and onto her feet. Tasha seemed to almost be smirking at Kate, considering she was a bird and didn't have to come.
Going out into the hall, hand-in-hand with her father, she first walked pass Jimmy Z, Survivor and Koki. They all were just standing there and smiling at her... even Survivor. Kate blinked, and kept going, passing through the main control room. There in the next hall, Kitty and Martin stood, both looking as equally tired and happy as Chris did.
Martin ruffled Kate's hair as she passed. Kate was still clueless, as she looked back at her uncle and aunt. She had also supposed their toddler(and her cousin), Gabe, was still asleep in their room.
Finally, Kate was brought to Chris and Aviva's room.

Chris picked the nine year old up into his arms, so she could see as they walked closer.
Her mother looked even more tired then Chris was, but she was beaming, and Kate soon found out why.
In her mother's arms, Kate saw...a baby! It had happened! Her brother was here!
"Is that what all the shouting was about earlier?" Kate asked Chris, still rubbing her eye, but memorized by the young child's big brown eyes.
Chris nodded.
The baby looked right at his sister with curious eyes, and that's when Kate realized...
"He looks just like you, Daddy." Kate said with a giggle. And it was true. The boy even had little tuffs of brown hair sticking up.
Kate then heard a small sniffle behind her.
"Uncle Martin?" Kate asked with a sly grin.
"I...I promised myself I wasn't gonna cry!" Martin replied, wiping his hand that had a tears on it on his shorts.
Kate laughed.

Martin was standing in the doorway with Kitty behind him. Kit rolled her eyes, and giggled, "You also promised you'd leave the family alone with their new addition for the night..." she said softly.
Martin smiled sheepishly, "Right..." he looked to his brother, and put a hand on his shoulder, "Congratulations bro." Chris hugged him, before MK and Kit left, closing the door softly behind them.

Kate got down from her father's arms, and walked over to the queen sized bed, and climbed up carefully.
"Did... did you name him?" Kathrine whispered, as Chris sat beside her on the bed, so she was in the middle of her parents.
Chris looked at Aviva, and both were a little surprised. They hadn't even thought of a name yet.
"Maybe...you could help us, Mi'ha?" Aviva asked.
Even though Kate was tired before, she was wide awake now, and thought hard.
"I...I kind of like Danny." Kate finally said.
"Danny?" Chris asked.
"Yeah, because he looks so much like Daddy, just smaller. See?" Kate motioned her hand to Chris, "Daddy," then to the baby, "Danny."
Aviva couldn't help but laugh a little at her daughter's cleverness.
"Maybe just...Daniel would work?" Chris asked, since they might get the names, Daddy and Danny confused.
"Danny could be your special nickname. Something that only his big sister would call him." Aviva asked with a smile.
Kate smiled at that, "That'll work..." and she leaned up against her mom and closed her eyes, repeating what she said with a yawn, "... that'll work.. "
Chris looked to Aviva and put a finger to his lips; Kate was falling asleep again. Pulling up a blanket over Kate, Aviva gently gave Chris Daniel, and whispered, "She might as well stay with us tonight..."
"She might as well." Chris echoed, bringing the baby close to his face, so his lips softly touched the infant's forehead.

*fades to black*