"What?" Lori said and her eyes froze, locked on his face.

"Marry me Lori. I love you so much and I don't ever wanna live without you."

Lori panicked and she didn't know what to do. She loved Callen, but were they ready to get married? Callen took a step towards her but Lori stepped back. She needed some space, some time to think. Without thinking she left and ran out the door and down the street.

"Lori! Wait!" Callen said and he ran after her.

Lori ran to the corner of the street and she suddenly felt a sharp pain in her stomach and she fell to the ground.

"Lori!" Callen said as he saw her fell and within seconds he was at her side. "Lori, you okay? What's wrong?"

"I don't know. It just hurts," Lori cried out.

"Alright, it's okay honey. I've got you," Callen said and he picked her up and carried her to his car.

His keys were still in his pocket. He drove to the hospital and Lori was taken up to the maternity floor. In the elevator she grabbed Callen's hand, holding onto it tight. Callen gave her a kiss on her head and said: "Everything is gonna be okay honey, don't worry. I'm right here with you."

Lori was brought to a room and a doctor game to check on her. The pain in her stomach had gone down.

"Any problems with your pregnancy so far?" The doctor asked.

"No, this morning I had my 20 week ultrasound and everything was fine," Lori said.

"Alright. I'm just gonna check you over okay."

The doctor checked to see if the babies were okay.

"Everything looks fine here. The babies are doing fine. Their heartbeats are normal and there's no sign of any bleedings."

Lori let out a relived sigh. "Then what caused the cramps?"

"I'm gonna do some more test, some blood tests to see if there's something that would have caused it. What were you doing when you had the cramps?"

"I was just running," Lori said not wanting to share the whole story.

"Okay. The nurse is gonna draw some blood and I'll be back later with the test results."

The nurse drew some blood and left the room. Callen sat on the bed in front of Lori.

"I'm sorry, G."

"For what?"

"For running out and now this."

"Hey, it's okay honey. It's not your fault," Callen said and he sat next to Lori and wrapped his arms around her and pulled her closer and Lori started to sob. "It's okay Lori, I'm here. It's okay."

Tears rolled over Lori's cheeks as she crawled closer to Callen. Callen lay down on his side on the bed with her and pulled her as close as he could and he kissed her head.

"Shhhh sweetie, it's okay. I've got you. Everything is gonna be alright. I'm here sweetie."

A little later the doctor came back in the room with the test results.

"I've got your test results here and everything looks fine," The doctor said.

Lori and Callen both led out a relived sigh.

"Then what caused the sudden cramps?" Lori asked.

"Probably some sort of anxiety or panic attack. You just overexerted yourself. So no more long runs."

"So everything is fine than with me and the babies?"

"Yes, all your tests came back negative but I would like to keep you overnight, just to make sure. It's standard."

"That's fine. Thank you doctor."

The doctor left the room and Callen kissed Lori.

"I'm so glad everything is okay with you three. You scared me when you went down."

"Yeah, me too."

Callen lay back down on the bed with Lori in his arms and they fell asleep.

The next morning Lori woke up and she saw Callen sitting on the chair next to her bed and his head was lying on her stomach and he kissed it and his hand was stroking over her stomach. It was at that moment that Lori realized that he really loved her and their babies and that his stupid rules didn't matter anymore.

"Morning," Lori said and Callen looked up.

"Morning," Callen said and he lifted his head up and kissed her. "How are you feeling?"

"I'm feeling better."

"Good. I called Hetty to let her know what's up and she gave me a day off so I could be at home with you today."

"That's nice of her."

A little later the doctor came by and examined Lori again. Everything was fine so she could go home.

Lori sat down on the couch when they came home and Callen went to get some breakfast for them and joined her on the couch. They both finished their breakfast and once they were finished Lori climbed on top of Callen's lap and she kissed him.

"I love you. I really do, more than anything," Lori said.

"I love you too."

"Ask me again."

"Ask you what again?"

"What you asked me yesterday."

"You sure? You're not gonna run this time?" Callen teased.

"Yeah I'm sure. I'm not going anywhere."

"Alright, but this time I'll do it right," Callen said and he rolled Lori off of him and he stood up and he got down on one knee and took her hand. "Lorainne Carter, will you marry me?"

"Yes, I would love to marry you, G. Callen."

A big smile appeared on Callen's and Lori's face and he got up and kissed Lori again.

That Saturday Lori woke up by the smell of freshly baked bread. She got up and walked to the kitchen.

"Morning," Lori said.

"Morning," Callen said. "I made you some breakfast."

"Thank you. It smells delicious," Lori said as she sat down at the kitchen table.

Callen put the bread and the scrambled eggs on the table.

"Wait, I've got something more for you," Callen said and he pulled a box out of his pocket and put it on the table in front of Lori. "Open it."

Lori opened the box and her mouth fell open from amazement. "Oh my G, it's beautiful."

"I didn't have a ring with me when I asked you so I'm giving it to you now," Callen said and he grabbed the ring from the box and took Lori's hand and placed it on her finger.

"It's absolutely beautiful G. Thank you," Lori said and she gave Callen a kiss.

"You're welcome."

They had a nice breakfast and later that day the furniture for the baby room was delivered and Callen went to work to put it together.

"How's it going in here?" Lori asked when she walked into the room a few hours later.

"It's fine. Just assembling the pieces together, I'm getting there."

"Okay good. Here, I brought you a beer."

"Thank you," Callen said and he took the beer and sat down in the rocking chair that was already in the room and Lori sat down on his lap.

"This room is absolutely gonna look beautiful. I just know it. Thank you for doing this again."

"It's my pleasure. It's the least I can do since you're carrying our little babies," Callen said as his hand ran over her stomach.

"Yeah, our little babies," Lori said and she placed her hand on top of Callen's hand and Callen kissed her. "Everything is okay between us right?"

"Yeah of course. Why wouldn't it be?"

"Well because of the way I was acting lately and then running away. I don't know why I did that. I guess I've must have panicked or something."

"It's fine honey. Everything is fine."

"I love you, I really do and I don't regret anything, not for a second, it's just all happening so fast. I mean about 5 months ago we weren't even dating yet."

"I know yeah and you're right, it is happening a little bit fast. But it feels right to be here with you, with our babies."

"Yeah it does feel right. I've never loved anymore more than I love you."

"Same for me, I love you so much," Callen said and he put his beer on the floor and wrapped both his arms around Lori and kissed her.

Lori and Callen walked into the bullpen, Kensi and Sam were already there.

"Good morning," Lori said.

"Morning," Kensi and Sam replied back.

Lori sat down behind her desk and started to unpack her stuff.

"Oh my god. What's that on your finger, Lori?" Kensi asked shocked.

"You mean this?" Lori said as he showed Kensi her ring.

"Yeah."

"It's something G gave me over the weekend."

"Really? Callen gave that to you?" Kensi said and she looked at Callen who nodded. "Wait, does this mean….."

"You're getting married?" Sam interrupted Kensi.

"Who's getting married?" Deeks said as he walked into the bullpen.

"Me and Lori," Callen said.

"Well congratulations," Kensi said before being interrupted by Eric's whistle.

The team went to work and managed to wrap the case up before the end of the day. Callen and Lori were the last the go home.

"Goodnight Hetty," Callen said as they walked passed Hetty's office.

"Goodnight you two," Hetty said. "Oh and congratulations on the engagement."

"Thank you Hetty. Goodnight," Lori said.

Hetty watched them walk out, Callen with his arm around Lori and Hetty was happy for him that he finally found someone special in his life and that he was about to have a family of his own. The only thing she wasn't happy about at first was that it was a fellow agent, but they had showed her that they still could work together just like before. At least Lori knew who he really was and what kind of past that he had.

…..

Callen was watching some sports while Lori was just fumbling around with her laptop, just surfing on the internet.

"Hey G, just a question," Lori said.

"What's up?"

"About us getting married, when would you like to get married, before or after the babies are here?"

"Well, I haven't thought about that. But I think it would be nice to marry you before the babies are born. You know, marrying the woman that I love while she's carrying my little babies."

"Yeah, that's nice. But then we would have to get married within now and 10 weeks or so, cus I don't know if I'm up for it when I'm in my last trimester."

"That's fine by me. If it were up to me we'd get married right now," Callen said with a little smile.

Lori replied with the same little smile and kissed him. Callen put her laptop away and cradled her in his arms and carried her to the bedroom and gently placed her on the bed and he lay next to her, kissing her again and they made love, very gentle, loving and sweet.

…..

"So you and Lori are getting married?" Sam asked as he and Callen were training together.

"Yep we were, pretty soon actually. We're getting married before Lori's in her third trimester."

"Well that's soon, cus she's about 20 weeks now right?"

"21 weeks. So it's within now and a week or 10. Haven't set a date yet."

"Well, look at you G. A soon to be husband and father. I'm happy for you G. You and Lori seem right for each other."

"Thanks Sam. I do have a favor to ask you."

"Anything G."

"Would you be my best man?"

"Of course G, I'd be honored."

"Thanks Sam," Callen said and they gave each other a bro hug and went back to training.

Lori was already at home. Callen was still at work. He needed to finish something. Lori decided to call her parents to let them know she was getting married.

"Hello," Lori's mother said as she picked up the phone.

"Hey mom, it's me Lori."

"Hey Lori, how are you? How are the babies?"

"I'm fine. The babies are doing fine. They are growing nice and big. How are things over there?"

"Fine, fine. Everybody's good."

"Good to hear. I actually called to tell you something."

"Oh really? What?"

"Greg and I are getting married."

"What?! For real? That's wonderful. Congratulations."

"Thank you. I'm really happy right now."

"I'm glad to hear that. When will the wedding be?"

"Don't know the exact date yet but soon, in a couple of weeks. We'll send you an invitation once we've set on a date."

"Okay good. And if there's anything I can do to help just let me know okay."

"I will. Could you tell dad too? I'll call the others."

"Sure I will."

"Okay good. I'll talk to you later."

"See ya."

Lori hung up at phone just as Callen walked in.

"Hey G."

"Hey Lori, who were you talking too?"

"Oh I just called my mom to tell her about us getting married. She was very happy for us."

"I'm very glad to hear that," Callen said as he sat down on the couch next to Lori and gave her a kiss and then kissed her stomach.

"You finished with you work?"

"Yeah for today. Tomorrow is a new day. I'm just gonna go grab a beer, you want something?"

"Yeah, could you bring a soda and some popcorn?"

"Here you go," Callen said as he returned a few seconds later.

"Thanks sweetie. I've been thinking about our wedding. You know about all the stuff that needs to be done and I was thinking about where we should get married."

"Uh-uh. Where would you like to get married?"

"I don't know. It doesn't necessarily have to be in a church. We could rent a place somewhere. There are a lot of places here where you can have a wedding. I've been looking at some things," Lori said as she grabbed her laptop and showed Callen some locations. "I really like this one. It looks very nice, not too big and we can have both the wedding and the reception there."

"It looks very nice. Do you have a number there? I'll call them to see if it's available."

"Yeah it's right here."

Callen called and the place was available at Saturday 5 weeks from now. They both agreed with that date and Callen booked the place.

"Well looks like we'll be married in 5 weeks," Lori said.

"Yes we will," Callen said and he lifted Lori unto his lap and kissed her.

….

Lori and Kensi had a girl's night out, they had become very good friends, being the only two female agents there. First they went to the movies and after that they went to the diner.

"So you and Callen are getting married?" Kensi said.

"Yep, in 5 weeks."

"Well that's really soon."

"Yeah, we talked about it and we decided that we wanted to get married before the babies are here and before I'm in my last trimester."

"That's very nice. I'm happy for you two. You two make a cute couple."

"Thank you Kens. Can I ask you something?"

"Sure, what's up?"

"Would you like to be my made of honor?"

"Really? I'd be honored."

"Good."

"Is your family coming too?"

"Yes they are."

"Do they know about what kind of work you do and what Callen does?"

"Yeah they do, sort of. They know I'm a federal agent. They just think I'm still with the bureau and they think G is too. They don't know about NCIS or OSP."

"Have they met Callen yet?"

"Yeah they did, at least my parents did. We went to visit them a couple months ago when G and I went to Portland."

"They don't live here in LA?"

"No, they live in Seattle."

"That's a bit far from here."

"Yeah, we moved there when I was young and I worked in Portland with the FBI for a while before I moved back to LA. I do miss them sometimes, but I made the decision to move back here and I don't regret it. I'm happy here. I feel at home here in LA and with NCIS."

"And you have Callen here."

"Yes that's very true. He really is a sweet guy and I love him very much."

"I can tell and I also can tell Callen loves you very much. I've never seen him like this with any girl before. How is he about becoming a father?"

"He's okay about it. We both are. It happened quite unexpected for us, but we are really happy now. Excited about becoming parents but also a bit scared, cus we have no idea what's it gonna be like when the babies are here."

"I'm sure you're gonna be fine. And the babies will have 3 aunts and 3 uncles extra, all of us."

….

That Saturday Lori and Kensi went shopping for a wedding dress while Callen worked on the baby room.

They walked into the bridal shop and the sales woman went to get some dresses for Lori and Lori tried them on.

"Which one do you like best, Kens?" Lori asked when she tried on the dresses.

"They are all very nice, but I would have the say the second I think," Kensi said.

"Yeah I liked that one too, or the third one."

"Try them both on again."

Lori decided to go with the second dress and she picked out matching shoes and a veil to go with the dress and they also chose a bridesmaid dress for Kensi.

…..

Callen and Lori continued to plan their wedding. They had made invitations already and decided on the cake they wanted and they also picked out rings and now they were going over the other stuff that needed to be done.

"Did Kensi already talk to you about picking out a suit?" Lori asked.

"Yes she did, we are going this weekend. I'm really curious how you'll look in your wedding dress," Callen said.

"It's a really beautiful dress. But you're gonna have to wait until the wedding. You can't see it yet."

"Come on, just a little bit, tell me what it looks like."

"No, you'll just have to wait."

"Are you sure you don't wanna tell me just a little bit?" Callen said and he kissed her shoulder and slowly made his way to her neck.

"This is not gonna help. I'm not gonna tell you."

"You sure?" Callen said and he kissed her on the spot in her neck that he knew that she loved when he did that.

Lori let out a tiny moan as Callen kissed her there. "You can kiss me all you want, I'm not gonna tell."

"You're no fun," Callen said and he stopped kissing her.

"Though," Lori said with a little smile on her face.

"Okay, now you're just teasing me."

"Maybe," Lori said with a cheeky smile.

Callen kissed her again. This time on her lips and Lori totally kissed him back. She pushed his back against the couch and climbed onto his lap. Callen wrapped his arms around her back and was stroking her back. They kissed each other like that for a couple of minutes before returning to their weddings plans.

Callen couldn't sleep at night so he decided to go out and get a cup of tea. He was just about to grab a cup when some grabbed him from behind. They started to fight. Lori had woken up from the noise and when she didn't see Callen next to her she grabbed her gun and carefully peeked outside the bedroom door and she walked through the house. She saw Callen struggling with some guy.

"Freeze! Let him go!" Lori said and she pointed her gun at him.

"Lori! What are you doing here? Stay back," Callen said.

The guy turned around to face Lori and a few seconds later the noise of gunfire filled the room.