"Oh dear. Jennifer you're bleeding."

She looked down at the spreading blood stain between her legs and gave a strangled cry as Ducky helped her out of bed. She tried to bite back the screams as they made their way down the stairs, each step sending pain ripping through her stomach.

As Ducky had promised, they made it to Bethesda in just over ten minutes. He didn't bother parking, just pulled into the emergency lane, but even so, by the time they arrived, Jenny couldn't help screaming every minute and was doubled over in pain by the time they made it inside.

Ducky got her inside and yelled to the hospital staff for help as if they were not already alerted by her piercing screams. A doctor and multiple nurses rushed to their side. The doctor, who Ducky recognized as the man who had taken care of Gibbs just several days previously, had to yell to be heard over Jenny. "What happened?" he demanded, directing the question at Ducky, as they rushed her to an examination room.

"I don't know exactly. She called me say twenty minutes ago in hysterics, but she appears to be bleeding from the vaginal area. I've just never heard her so…pained."

"Okay is there any chance that you're pregnant?" a nurse asked her removing the bloodied sweatpants. Ducky, being the gentleman that he was, turned away until Jenny grabbed at his hand, shaking her head in the negative at the nurses question, not trusting her own voice.

"Alright. We're gonna do an ultrasound though okay? See what's goin on in there. What's your name honey?"

Ducky answered for her, "Director Jennifer Shepard, NCIS."

"I thought so. Don't worry Director. We'll get you all sorted out."

Jenny gripped Ducky's hand as another wave of pain wracked her body and she whimpered. The doctor propelled his chair over to her and spoke as calmly as possible, "Okay Jenny, it looks like you are pregnant actually." reaching under the gown the nurse had managed to get her into, "and…oh the baby's crowning." His face took on a grave quality and he spoke to the nurse beside him, "We don't have time to get her to delivery. Be ready to take the baby as soon as I hand it to you."

Jenny started shaking her head in denial , "No! No! That's not…this isn't happening!'

The nurse nodded as the doctor turned back to Jenny, "Alright Jenny I know this is scary but I need you to push as hard as you can okay? As hard as you can. You're gonna be a mom today."

She nodded and pushed, screaming through it as he counted to ten.

"Okay good. You're doing good. Again. I'm gonna count to ten."

Five minutes later Jenny's head fell back into the pillows as she heard the baby cry and her doctor cut the umbilical chord. She was panting, her face flushed and sweaty, but her head popped up as she felt him run the ultrasound wand over her belly once more. She grew concerned when his face turned dark and he spoke in a grave voice, "Okay it looks like we have a set of twins on our hands. Listen to me Jenny do not push. The second baby is breach. We're gonna have to do an emergency C-section to get the baby out."

She gasped and looked to Ducky, seeing the same fear reflected in his eyes.

"Prep her." the doctor said to her nurse, exiting the room to prepare himself for surgery.

He nurse looked apologetically at her and set up an IV. "Alright, I'm gonna put you on some local anesthetic. You'll be awake but you won't feel a thing. You're gonna be just fine," assured the young woman.

Jenny just laid there in shocked silence. With the help of the other nurses, she rolled her into the elevator and up to surgery.

As soon as they made the first incision, hardly five minutes later, Jenny gasped, causing Ducky to look at her in concern, concern that only grew at the look of pain that crossed her features. "Ducky. I can feel it still," she whispered painfully. He opened his mouth to say something but she stopped him, "No Ducky. Let them get the baby out first. I can take it."

He gave her a look before complying with her wishes and simply squeezing her hand. As they cut deeper, her grip on his hand tightened to almost vice like until they heard the baby's wail and the nurse's joyful exclamation of, "It's a girl!"

"She sounds just like you Jennifer," Ducky joked, turning to her with a smile, but his smile faltered as her head lolled to the side and her eyes fluttered closed. Everyone turned as they heard the frantic beeping of the heart monitor. Everything seemed to go in slow motion for Ducky as he was pushed out of the way and ushered from the room, the last words he heard before the door slammed in his face haunting him, "She's crashing!"

A/N: Review please! They make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside lol and make me want to update faster… ;D