Going to her doctor's appointment while Dave was home sick with the a stomach virus Carmen bounces her feet. They had come up with Veronica Theresa Caprice and Christina Jocelyn for the girls. Lately she had a feeling that one of the tests her doctor was running was going to bring them devastating news. She looks up at her name is called and she gets up and heads back.
She's lead back into a room and gets her examination done then her doctor goes over everything asking how the Lamaze classes are going and if they have a birthing plan yet and everything else.
"The classes are going well. We go as much as we can since Dave is on his book tour two weeks out of the month and we're still discussing the plan."
"Okay very well, well one of the tests was to see if you're prone to bleeding and you're prone to hemorrhaging when you give birth is doesn't matter if you do a vaginal birth or a c-section you'll still hemorrhage."
Carmen calls Dave right away. Once he picks up she goes onto the explain everything.
"can we get the girls out now?" Rossi asks then adds, "We can always makes another baby, but we can't make another Carmen."
"No Dave, absolutely not! We're not killing our girls."
"Mr. Rossi, Carmen is too far into her pregnancy to abort them now. The only time an abortion can be done is during the first trimester. And she can hemorrhage with any birth; it's a bleeding disorder that has just come to light."
"Can you fix it at all?" Rossi asks.
"No there's no way we can fix it, we can attempt to the stop bleeding when Carmen gives birth but it's not always affective."
Rossi gets pissed and hangs up.
She sighs and leans against the exam table.
"Well come back in a month and we'll see how the girls are developing then."
She nods and sighs. She goes and makes her appointment at the front desk then she heads home and goes and finds Dave's den in a mess.
She goes and finds him on the back porch having a few beers.
"Dave…" she says softly trailing off putting her hand on his shoulder only to have him shrug her off.
"Leave me alone." He growls shrugging her off.
"Dave there's nothing we can do about it!" she says as her hormones act up causing her to tear up.
He just huffs and just ignores her.
"Oh my god Dave you think this is my fault when it's not!" she growls.
Dave just goes and heads out of the house and he heads upstairs and grabs his bag and heads out of house and over to Hotch's.
He knocks slugging his bag over his shoulder as Hotch answers the door.
"Dave what's going on?" he asks as he lets the other man in.
Dave sighs and goes on to tell Hotch everything.
"Dave did you ever think about of how scared Carmen must be? She has to be terrified."
"Carmen just got a death sentence!" he nearly shouts.
"So are you just going to blame the twins for the rest of their lives because of this?" Hotch asks.
Rossi just grunts.
"You have no idea on how I feel about this Aaron. You can't even imagine how I feel! You have no idea on how it feels to possibly lose the love of your life like me! You have no idea!"
"You're right I don't know but I can tell you're not handling this in the right way."
"I'm not sure how I feel about any of this. Sure I want to be a father but this birth is going to kill her one way or another. I can't loss her."
"I know that Dave, but let's not focus on the negative and lets focus on the positive."
"What positive?"
"The positive is that you're getting two new baby girls and you'll get unconditional love from them."
"I guess you're right. I can talk to them about Carmen as they grow up and get older."
Rossi heads home and finds Carmen lying in bed rubbing her baby bump quietly talking to their girls.
He gently knocks on the door and she looks up and ignores him.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry. I'm just so scared of losing you. I love you so much but I'm just so terrified of losing you." He said going and sitting next to her on the bed covering her hand on her belly with his own.
"I forgive you, but Dave you can't keep acting like this. I'm scared too, trust me. But with you acting like this is stressing me and it's not good for the girls. Besides we need to get the girls room ready for them."
"I know, and I'll stop that. How about we go shopping for the girls things tomorrow?"
"That sounds like fun, but first we need to clean out one of the rooms and paint it pink and purple." She said.
"Will do. I'll call Aaron and see if he can come over and help me clean out the room and paint it tomorrow. Then Friday we can go shopping for the stuff. I say we get on crib and put both of the girls in there to save money and space in the room."
"Okay, and do you think you can cancel a few book tours? We should make with what little time we have left. Because I mean look at how fast these past four months have gone I mean pretty soon the girls are going to be here." She said, "I wanna make the best of these last five months."
"I'll try my best to cancel them."
She nods then says, "Even if you can't I'm going everywhere with you."
He nods and he goes and lies behind her and wraps his arm around her waist and lies his hand on her belly and rubs it as he could feel the girls kicking and punching up a storm.
He starts talking to them softly in Italian which he discovered they liked.
"They're gonna be such daddy's girls." Carmen says turning her head looking at him smiling at him.
"I completely agree with that." He smiles. XXXX
A few days later Hotch and Dave were painting the room for the twins each wall was going to be a different color either pink or purple. At the moment they were taking a lunch break. Carmen and Rossi were sitting on the couch and Carmen had her feet in his lap as they were having Chinese for dinner.
"Have you and Haley ever talk about having kids?" Dave asks.
"We have, we just want to wait until I'm more settled in the job and I'm home more to help her out." He said.
Carmen threw a chopstick at Rossi and nailed him in the side of the head.
"Why can't you be more like Aaron and want to stay home more with me!" she growls.
He rubs the side of his head then says, "Carmel you're coming everywhere with me so technically, I am with you the entire time."
She just snorts as he hands it back to her and she goes back to eating.
Hotch is biting the inside of his cheeks to keep from laughing at the complete mood swing that just went on.
"So two girls huh? How are you holding up with that Dave?"
"Freaking out." He said.
"You've faced serial bombers, killers, sexual sadists yet you're terrified raising two girls?" Hotch asks laughing.
"This is different, these girls are my flesh and blood and if I mess up, bad things could happen and I'll be held responsible for that."
"Okay, well do you have names for them?"
"Veronica Theresa Caprice and then Christina Jocelyn."
"Those are good names for the girls."
"Carmen named the girls."
After they finish lunch the guys go and finish painting the room and then they start putting together the furniture as a surprise for Carmen. Rossi and his mother had gone to the store to pick out stuff for the twins room to get it ready for them right away so that Carmen could stay home and rest instead of going out.
"I might come back to the bureau."
"That's a bad idea Dave."
"I'm going to need something to keep me distracted after the girls are born and after I lose Carmen and that will be the best bet for me."
"I guess, but you have to think positively, that Carmen is going to be okay in the end." Hotch said.
"If she does turn out okay then I won't have to worry about leaving the girls with some stranger, Carmen would be here to take care of them and watch them grow up and record everything that I miss in their lives working."
"You just have to let it work out on its own, you never know." Hotch said as they got the crib into place on the wall opposite of the window. Then they placed the changing table under the window. Rossi went and put the rocking chair in the corner by the changing table as Hotch started putting all the twins clothes in the closet. They each had had gotten different colors for the twins. They got pink for Christi and Veronica.
"If they're both in pink how are you going to tell them apart?"
"Dr. Johannsen said that the girls are fraternal twins so we'll be able to who's who."
The guys finish up the room and then they head downstairs and Rossi covers Carmen's eyes and leads her upstairs to the twins' room.
"Okay keep your eyes closed." He said.
She nods as he opens the door and leads her into the center of the room.
Rossi pulls his hands back and tells her to open her eyes.
"Oh my god! Dave! This is perfect for the girls! They're gonna love it!" she squeals hugging him.
"I'm glad you like it. Now I know Dr. Johannsen wants you to rest as much as you can. So off to bed Carmel." He said.
Carmen just grumbles and agrees.
"I have a meeting with Trevor so I have to leave for a few hours. Will you be okay?"
"I think so. Just hurry home."
"I will." He said.
Both he and Hotch leave.