Sorry for the delay, got caught up with exams then had writers' block. Hopefully, I'm over it now :D

Within a week, the women's hormones had meant that they'd been forced to make the office a caffeine free zone. Although Teresa and Grace were now only allowed to do desk-duty (which made the guys happy as Teresa and Grace now had time to do all the teams' paper work, getting the men out of a considerable proportion of their work) they got bored very quickly. This meant various new games were invented for them to entertain themselves with, although many shopping trips also wormed their way into this activity.

This resulted in Grace and Teresa buying many unnecessary, but cute items for their babies and themselves, such as a baby heart monitor which they shared and kept in the office so Jane and Rigsby could use it in their downtime between cases. It also served another purpose which was to make the dads stop worrying about their kids as it turned out that both Patrick and Wayne had over-protective streaks that appeared the instant that the women had told them they were going to be parents. This made Lisbon and Grace secretly glad that they had been forced onto desk duty because they were sure they'd never be allowed any where near the action even if they were allowed on the field.

Although Lisbon had put Jane's worries down to him not wanting to lose another child, it turned out Rigsby also had a very good reason to be overly-worried about Grace as at her 12-week scan, they found out she was having twins. This meant she would have to go on maternity leave a month before Lisbon to try to minimise the risk of premature labour. However, before this happened both women found they became good friends and boss/employee relationship slowly slipped away so that by the time they were half way through their pregnancies, they spent most of their time together at one or the others' houses indulging in their crazy cravings and swapping their maternity clothes, since they'd realised it was a lot cheaper to buy one maternity wardrobe than two. Still, even with the intention of saving money, they still managed to go overboard with maternity handbags making their way into their maternity wardrobe (one of my friends' sisters did actually use her pregnancy as an excuse to buy 'maternity' handbags).

Jane and Rigsby found this hilarious rather than infuriating and blamed it on hormones, which they knew better than to deny after Grace had asked for vanilla ice cream and marmite one afternoon. Rigsby had laughed until she burst into tears, stormed off home and (as it turned out later) changed the locks on her and Wayne's apartment, resulting in Rigsby spending the night at the office though Wayne had won her back the following morning by giving her a bag full of chocolate covered carrots and promising never to laugh at her cravings ever again. Jane, having been a dad before, knew not to laugh at his pregnant partner in the first place.

Six months later

As both women were due around the same time, they decided to throw a joint, albeit unconventional, baby shower since Teresa didn't have that many friends outside of work and many of Grace's lived too far away to travel just for the shower. Therefore, they decided not only to combine but also to invite the men in their lives (plus Cho) to the event. As neither of the women knew what they were having (though Grace knew her twins were fraternal), they decided on a rainbow colour scheme in the hope that this would mean they wouldn't have to worry about getting exactly the same colour napkins as the tablecloths, etc. They agreed to have it at Jane and Lisbon's house since Grace and Rigsby had only just moved into a bigger apartment so weren't able to cope with a big event like a baby shower.

As Jane expected, both women got emotional at the gifts they received- Lisbon got especially emotional at the hand and feet print kit Cho brought her for, she admitted, no good reason apart from it was sweet. Grace spent the entire time on the brink of happy tears at the show of affection from her friends. Four weeks later and both women were almost ready to burst and it was Grace's last day before she went on maternity leave.

"Oh I'm going to miss you guys so much," said Grace as the team threw an impromptu party for her.

"We're going to miss you too," Lisbon responded, nearly as emotional as Grace was due to hormones, which had never seemed to calm down throughout her pregnancy.

"Here's the cake," exclaimed Rigsby who was living up to his reputation as always thinking about cake.

"Ahh, you shouldn't have," Grace said as Rigsby placed the cake in front of her.

"You know you deserve it, sweetheart," he responded before he pecked her on the cheek.

The team spent the rest of the evening sharing funny stories of the women's pregnancies as well as embarrassing stories about the men at Lisbon's insistence. These included the time that Grace had been sick over Minelli's shoes whilst trying to tell him she was pregnant. It was 10 o'clock before the team eventually went home after Lisbon warned them she still expected everyone (bar Grace) to be there on time the following morning. However, it was immediately apparent that Rigsby was distracted as Grace was no longer in the office so he was constantly worried that something was wrong, especially if she didn't phone exactly on the hour like she agreed to (too early and he thought she was in labour, too late and he thought she'd hurt herself or was in labour). With so many of the team about to be parents, Minelli had combined the team with another when Grace went on maternity leave so that their work would not be too badly affected. Although everyone knew it was only temporary, it affected the team's morale as it made them feel as if they were no longer capable of solving crimes, something Jane had quickly disproved.

Just three days after Grace had gone on leave, Rigsby got the call he was both dreading and hoping for - Grace had gone into labour. However, unlike on T.V. there was no immediate rush to the hospital as it was only the early stages so Jane had more than enough time to hypnotise Rigsby to calm him down. In fact, although Grace had phoned Wayne at lunchtime, they didn't even get to the hospital until late that evening and because Grace was determined to give birth naturally, John (Jack) and Michelle (Ellie) were not born until 5 o'clock the following morning. However, being a little bit premature, the babies were immediately rushed down to the SCBU to be checked over because being a twin meant their birth weights and height were even smaller than other babies born at the same stage. Still, it turned out there was nothing wrong apart from being a little too small so they spent the night on heated mats with as many blankets swaddled around them as possible and little woolly hats to boot so it wasn't until more than 24hrs after they were born that the team was allowed to visit the new honorary team members.

Lisbon seemed a bit nervous, but Jane put it down to nerves at their impending parenthood until he noticed her go especially pale. "Lisbon!"

Sorry for the cliff hanger - couldn't think of another way to end this chapter. Hope you like it and please review.