****Chapter was updated to reflect a more accurate depiction of Sam's kids' ages and names. Trying to keep my story as close to series as I can - other than Nell and Callen being together.*****

They wake up in the morning, Nell's condition still going strong. Soon after they were showered, dressed and finishing up breakfast. They work side-by-side in the kitchen prepping and making the food for the afternoon. The only thing left is to buy the ice, which they decide to buy right before the party.

"Hey Nell, I just wanted to let you know that Michelle and the kids aren't coming until later. I wanted just the team together when we told them. Sam understood and they will be coming around 5. I also told Sam that he could tell Michelle what was going on so she understands about the time difference."

"G, that's a great idea and I'm glad that you thought about it."

They work in silence for a while longer. Callen glances at the clock and notices that it is about 11:30. "Nell, are we done with everything that we need to do before the teams arrives?"

She looks around and nods, "Yup, I believe we are."

Callen nods, "Good, can you do something for me without asking questions, just for a little while?"

Nell looks at him and sees that he is nervous, which he never is. "Yes, I can do that."

Callen looks relieved. "Thank you. Can you go and get dressed in whatever you are wearing this afternoon? I'm gonna do the same."

They both dress quickly and quietly. Nell can see that he is really nervous. They get into Callen's car. He makes a quick stop at a roadside market and he buys a bouquet of flowers. As they drive, Callen is tapping his fingers, something he does when he has excessive energy. Nell takes his hand, pulls it into her lap and squeezes it gently. Callen looks over at her and smiles, squeezes her hand back and he visibly relaxes. Their hands remained intertwined resting against her baby bump for the remainder of the trip.

Nell looks more confused as they drive into a cemetery. A few minutes later, they stop. Callen gets out of the car, grabs the bouquet, walks around, opens the door for Nell, and helps her out of the car. He doesn't let go of her hand as he leads her over to a specific grave.

Callen takes a deep breath and sighs, "OK, I know that we have people coming over in a little while, so we are pressed for time. In effect, I'm introducing you and the stowaways to my family and you are sort of doing the same thing. I know that we still discussing how we are telling your family. But…"

He stops not knowing how to continue. Nell pulls his arm into her body and hugs it. "G, you know that you can tell me anything. Please let me in. Why are we here, now, in a cemetery?"

He sighs, looks into her eyes. "But we both know that I don't know a lot about my background or my family. I know nothing about my father. I brought you here today, because I wanted to introduce you and the stowaways to my sister."

He turns back to the gravestone, lets go of Nell's hand, squats down and lays the flowers down. "Hey Amy, I don't have time for a long visit today, but I brought someone with me today. Someone important to me."

Callen holds out his hand towards Nell. With tears in her eyes, she takes it. She walks forward and kneels next to Callen. He has tears in his eyes as well. Callen clears his throat, "Amy, this is Nell. I know that I told you about her. But we are coming clean to the team today and wanted you two to meet. Nell this is Amy."

Nell smiles, "Hi Amy, I just want you to know that I really love your brother and that I will takes really good care of him, just like he takes care of me. I know that together that we will take good care of our children." Nell rubs her hand lovingly over her baby bump.

Callen leans over and gives Nell a loving kiss and whispers, "Thank you." He looks over to the gravestone again, rubs the top of the stone, "Amy, we can't stay long today, but will come back for a longer visit when I'm able to."

After spending about a half hour at the cemetery, they stop to pick up the ice and some cold beers. They get back to the house and unload everything in the backyard. Together, they fill up the coolers with ice, soda, and beers.

As they enter the house, Nell pulls Callen into a hug and gives him a kiss. She looks him in the eye, "G, thank you so much for today. I love that you introduced me to your sister. Thank you for letting me in. If it is ok with you, I would love to visit again, both with you and without."

Callen is completely touched by her gesture. The love is apparent in his eyes. "Baby, thank you, that means so much to me. Whenever you want to go is fine with me, whether you go with me or on your own."

Callen hangs a sign on the door instructing the team to head around to the backyard. Sam and Hetty are the first ones to arrive. Sam brings the pasta salad; Hetty brings one of her best bottles of scotch. If Hetty is surprised to see Nell already there, she doesn't say anything.

Sam helps Nell and Callen bring out the appetizers to the table set-up in the backyard. Hetty finds a comfortable chair under the umbrella and notices the interactions between her team. Soon afterwards, Nate, Eric, Kensi and Deeks arrive. Callen and Nell take the food that needs to be bought inside.

The team makes themselves comfortable outside. Nell and Callen were getting more nervous knowing that the time has arrived to talk to their team. Nell and Callen look at each, communicating with their eyes. They give each other a hug for moral support. Nell armed with her ginger ale, Callen with his beer, head outside to face the team.

Ironically, two seats are left next to each other and Nell and Callen sit down. The conversation dies down as they sit. Callen looks at his team. "I gotta say I'm a little disappointed in you all. I know what great investigators you are and yet, you had a mystery under your nose for the last year, year and a half and not one of you has figured it out or questioned it. Nate has an excuse because he hasn't been around much during that time. Hetty I think knows, but has been biding her time and has been poking the sleeping dog this week."

Callen glances over to Hetty; she smiles and nods her head.

Callen continues, "I think that some of you may be catching on to a part of the mystery, but not all of it. "

The team just looks at each other; really not having any clue what Callen is talking about.

Callen glances at Nell, she nods, and he continues, "Nell and I have been dating since we got back from Romania last year and she moved in here about a 6 months ago. Now some of you may have noticed Nell's excuses the past few days/weeks about not feeling well, stomach flues, and food poisonings, well I am happy to say that we are 3 months pregnant, and we have 2 stowaways in there."

For the second time in two days, the team is stunned silent. Even Hetty appears to be shaken. Sam is again the first to break the silence, since he already knew this information. As he is sitting on the other side of Nell, he stands up, grabs Nell, picks her up into a bear hug, and swings her around. "Congratulations Nell, I am so happy for you and G. It couldn't of happen to two better people."

Callen laughs as Nell squeals as she is being swung around. Nell laughs, "Sam, put me down, I would hate to get sick on you."

Sam laughs back, put Nell back on her own feet, "Point taken, I have been wanting to do that for a few days."

The rest of the team finally comes to their senses and starts the whole congratulations all around. Hugs and kisses are freely passed around. Hetty is the last one to speak to the couple. "Mr. Callen, Ms. Jones, I must say that you have even surprised me. I knew you moved into together, I get notice of all change of addresses for the team. I also assumed that you might be expecting, my dear, but I did not expect twins."

Just as Hetty finishes, the twins decide to make their presence known and Nell runs back into the house. Callen sighs, "She doesn't have morning sickness, she has all-day sickness. Excuse me for a moment, I want to go make sure Nell is ok and do my part by holding her hair."

The team has never seen the domestic side of Callen and really don't know how to respond. As they settle back down into their seats, they discuss the news they just receive. Nate has been thinking about all that has been said, "Sam, when did you learn about Nell and Callen?"

Sam laughs, "The night we spent Idaho with the Red team. I woke up to go to the head. G was not in his bunk and Granger was still sound of asleep. I walk into the common room and I overhear G on the phone talking with someone. Based upon his comments, I couldn't walk away, and then I figured out who he was talking to. They told me the basics at that time. I got more details on our drive home from El Centro after the case was over."

Callen walks out with a sleeve of saltines and more ginger ale for Nell. "She's doing ok and she will be out in a couple of minutes."

Kensi looked a little hurt, "Callen, how come you guys didn't tell us sooner?"

Callen sighs, "In the beginning, it just happened. We started hanging out as we were taking care of Hetty when we returned from Romania." Callen stops as Nell walks out and back to the table, "Hey baby, feeling better."

Nell nods, "Sorry about that, the stowaways knew that we were talking about them and wanted to be part of the conversation."

Callen smiles and hands Nell a glass of ginger ale, opens the sleeve of saltines hands her a couple and places the rest of the package in her lap. As Callen is taking care of Nell, the rest of team reassures Nell that she has nothing to be sorry about.

Deeks being Deeks cannot let the domestic Callen pass by without a comment. "Dude, you keep this up and we may have to revoke your man-card."

Callen just looks at him, and lets it go. "Anyway, let me finish answering Kensi's question. So we are helping Hetty, we bonded over that, over Hunter's wrecking havoc at OSP, and realized that we have a lot in common, in spite of our differences. Hetty returned to the office and we continued hanging out; started dating. When Nell's lease was up, it just kinda made sense for her to move in here. If we weren't working, we were together at night. Some of the furniture in the house is mine, some is Nell's and some we bought together. At first we wanted to keep it to ourselves, wanted to see where things were headed. Then it became a game – who was going to figure out, we did leave some hints, who was going to say something. Finding out about the stowaways, cemented the decision that we needed to come clean to you guys. But I'm really surprised that no one picked up on Nell's sudden 'illnesses'."

The team spends the next hour and a half talking. Some conversations were about Nell and Callen, but not all were. The team was taking their relationship in stride. Sometime during the conversations, Nell grabbed Callen's hand and he squeezed her hand. They held hands until the next round of guests arrived. Michelle, the kids, and Granger all arrived at the same time.

Sam greeted his family, Callen and Nell waited until Sam was done. Callen hugged Michelle and she whispered in his ear, "Congratulations, I'm happy for you. Now you need me to introduce this girl that has captured your heart."

Callen releases Michelle from the hug, but kept is arm around her. He holds out his free hand for Nell. "Nell, this is Michelle, Sam's wife. Michelle, this is Nell, she is our intelligence analyst." Michelle scoops Nell up into a hug, "Thank you for breaching his walls, he is one of my favorite people. Take care of him."

Nell whispers back, "I will." They pull back from the hug and Nell continues, "Hey, do you think I can talk to you about the pregnancy. All I know I what I read in the books."

Michelle chuckles, "Of course you can honey, books can only tell you so much."

Sam grabs Aiden in a headlock, "G, can you believe how tall this guy is now?" Callen chuckles and holds out his hand, "Aiden, it's good to see you. It's been to long." Aiden shakes Callen's hand, "Hey, Uncle Callen. Good to see you, too."

Kamran runs over to Callen and hugs him around his waist. "Uncle Callen, I so happy to see you today." Callen chuckles, "I'm happy to see you. You will have to tell me about the last movie you saw." Kam nods, "I've been looking forward to it Uncle Callen."

Callen bends down so he is eye level with her. "You know, Nell and I bought some things that might be fun to play with. You and Aiden can check them out if you want." He nods towards a small storage closet at the back of the house. "See if you can find something fun."

Kam hugs him again, "Thanks Uncle Callen." She turns towards Aiden and pulls on his arm, "Come on, let's see what they have."

Nell smiles as she watches the interchange as she walks back to the group, "Hey does anyone what a tour of the house, while G and Sam try and man the grill." She giggles as she says the last part.

Callen rolls his eyes. "Ok Sam lets fire this bad boy up."

The rest of the evening passes in a nice camaraderie. There is some ribbing about Callen cooking and helping with the food and of Kensi's 'homemade, store bought' cookies. Deeks gets sucks into playing with Kam and Aiden – he is not one to let games and toys go by without partaking in the fun.

Some time later, everyone is sitting around the table, winding down and enjoying the last of the dessert. Nate broaches a subject that has been on his mind all night. "Callen, are you worried about the babies?"

Callen chuckles, "Nate, Nate, Nate, I have been waiting for you all night to switch into psychologist mode. But I didn't think that you would strike in front of everyone."

He takes Nell's hand and continues, "I was surprised that I didn't freak out when Nell first told me. I am extremely nervous, but I figure, the stowaways are pretty lucky…"

He pauses as he looks at the individuals sitting around the table, "…They are going to have two bad-ass aunts, two uncles that can teach them to surf, one of whom can teach them all the computer stuff that their mom can't. The other can help them on the shooting range, and teach them about loyalty and having someone's back. A third uncle that can teach them all about survival training, camping, swimming, and another uncle that can make sure that they are well grounded and developing correctly. They will have a couple of cousins that can teach them ropes in manipulating their parents. They are also going to have a grandmother, who will have the best stories, and teach them how to sneak up on people."

When Callen was done, most eyes weren't dry. Hetty get up gets the bottle of scotch she bought and a bunch of the plastic cups by the drinks. "Well said, Mr. Callen, I'd say that it's time for a toast." Hetty pours a shot of the scotch for everyone but Nell and Sam's children. "Here's to friends, family, love and loyalty. To taking chances, stepping out of your comfort zone, and letting people in. Salute."

A chorus of "Here, Here's and Salutes" are heard in response.

Soon afterwards, everyone helps clean up, put the food away and head out. On the way out everyone hugs Nell and Callen. Hetty and Granger are the last two people to leave. Granger stops, "Thanks for the invitation Agent Callen, Ms. Jones. I don't see any reason that would prohibit you from continuing to work on the same team. Please just try and keep PDA's out of OSP." He turns and leaves.

Hetty watches as Granger walks away and waits until he is out of earshot. "Very well done Mr. Callen. I'm glad to see you taking to heart our last conversation about Granger. I'm sorry that I threw a wrench into your lives this past week. I felt that I needed to push you two just a little. Ms. Jones while pregnant, you may eat and drink in OPS, but your drinks must be in containers that close and crumbs should be kept to a minimum. I am off; this has been a lovely evening. I'm very glad that you are both happy and thank you for thinking of me as their grandmother. I am very honored. See you both on Monday."

"Good Night Hetty."

FYI...Chapter for Live Long Day will be posted shortly