It is great to be inspired …another update..hope all you W and G fans enjoy it.
Grace sat on the couch with her gallon of ice cream and her box of glazed Krispy Kreme. Her ever loyal partner and coach sat on top of her as he poured through the baby books and made notes.
"Here is an interesting fact." Will noted. Grace was more intense with watching the birth episodes she chose. She watched when Little Ricky was born on "I LOVE LUCY." And when Emma was born on "FRIENDS."
"Uhm Will, I am trying to relax here. That's why I only rented comedy shows." Grace said as she shoved another spoonful in her mouth and alternated with a bite of doughnut. Will watched with open eyes.
"Do you really think you should be eating that much?" Will questioned as she continued to eat. With her mouth full , she said" I am eating for two , you know." Will shook his head. "Yeah but you are eating enough to feed a third world country."
Grace made a secret wish. She wished that Will would go away. He hovered over her , day and night. He made little charts of her progress and her pregnancy hormones. He made little meals and protein shakes. It was great to have the father of her baby around, she just wished he would leave alone for one minute and stop telling her boring facts about babies and show her pictures of childbirth. She wished that Jack would breeze through the door like he always did and take Will out. She knew for a fact that Will hadn't been out for quite some time.
Just as she finished a thought, Jack came through the door in his usual gay way.
"I met Mr Right, well Mr Right at the moment at least. There is this great new club that opened up and he is one of the bartenders there.
He grabbed Will's hand and tried to pull him from the couch. "Let's go, its wet jock strap night." Jack announced. Will didn't budge.
"I don't think you understand, this is a gay intercession. I am getting worried about you. You are becoming too straight and I am afraid that one day I will come over here and find you doing the nasty with her." Jack pointed at the pregnant Grace as she gnawed at a chicken leg.
"Some of us have something, you little fruit, called responsibility and cant go flitting off to bars and picking up men anymore." Will said with authority. "It is my duty as the father of my child, to stay here with the mother of my child." He patted Grace's stomach with a content smile. Grace moved the hand from her stomach.
"Nobody said that you had to be a monk. I think a night out would do you a world of good." Grace had prayed for this moment and was glad for once that Jack had come. She also had her eye on a gallon of Ben and Jerry's she could eat in peace. Now she could.
," No, you need me." Will held firm to his loyalty.
Grace smiled sweetly. "Do you want to do something that will help me so oo much?"
"Anything sweety." Will smiled.
"Go out with Jack, have a few drinks, pick up a few guys., you will never know how much that will help me." Grace nudged Will and then sent him to his room. "And how will that help you?" he asked turning around.
"Because if you don't leave me alone, I will kill you and then my baby will have no father." Grace pushed him toward the bedroom again.
"A few guys, honey , that is Will after all." Jack snickered. "OK?"
"Just so he will leave me alone." Grace answered. At the same time, Will emerged from his room in a tight pair of jeans and a small tee shirt. Jack just shook his head , but Grace wanted them to leave so she said nothing about the fact that Will was wearing something way too young and way too tight. "Go! Go! Have fun! Pick up men!" Jack and Will went out the door and with the blanket around her, Grace ran and slammed the door behind them. She then took out her cell phone and dialed a Chinese take out place then grabbed her precious ice cream.
"Hello, I would like to order your family size Dinner for Five , now that comes with everything right? Well I would also like to order a pound of ribs and ten crab ragoon. That is along with the dinner. And happy day to you too. Truman, 555-8421. " She hung up the phone and then waited patiently for her dinner.
An hour turned into two and still no Chinese, Grace started to drift asleep as she watched her videos.
Grace woke up and looked down at her clothes . They weren't her modern ultra chic ones, but a maternity dress from the fifties. Her hair was piled on top of her head and had a ribbon around it. But there was Will , but he didn't look like himself either, he had on a hat and wore a suit and tie. He used a Cuban accent. It was very obvious that Grace was like Lucy and Will was Ricky. She was still very pregnant though.Karen had her done in a fifties style and Jack was still Jack.
"Oh dear sweetie, I always knew that the clothes you wore would come back in style." Karen cooed.
"Something very weird is going on." Grace said as she looked around. "We look like characters on some fifties sit com." None of them looked like they normally did.
"Lucy, you got some splainin to do." Will said with a Cuban accent. "Well I always said I was with one nutty redhead. This proves it."
Grace knew where she was. "Oh my gosh, it is from watching all that television and "I LOVE LUCY. I have ate so much food and watched so much television that I have become the characters." Jack stomped his feet. "Thanks a lot Grace. If you had us become tv characters , why couldn't it have been Buffy or The Creek. That way I could get my hands on James Van Der Beer." Jack drooled.
"Oh God, this makes me Ethel, I don't want to be a second banana on an old sitcom." Karen griped.
"Yeah that's the worst, no one remembers them and so many were better than the leads." Jack commented.
Grace closed her eyes again and now she was in a modern hospital gown and Will was wearing terribly oversized shirts and jeans. His hair was different too, it was more greased down. Grace's hair was now blonde and in pigtails. Karen was wearing a long peasant skirt and boots and Jack was in jeans and a Knicks shirt.
"This is a little better, at least we are in our own time now." Karen said. "Hey I must be in the Wonder Years." Jack took another look at her and gasped. "Jennifer Aniston and Courtney Cox, we're dressed like they are on FRIENDS. " He turned to Karen. "You're Phoebe, Grace is Rachel, Will is Ross, and I must be Joey. " He then got excited and said "Well if I can't have Dawson, I will take some Chandler please." He did it with a Mae West type accent. "I have always wondered about the homosexual undertones between Joey and Chandler. I think they would have made a cute couple."
Will didn't like this one bit. "Ross? Ross is the nerd and the geek. He is whiny and controlling . No body likes Ross. I once heard that the actor who was supposed to play him originally was quite good." He said confidently.
This cheered Grace up immensely. "That makes me Rachel. Ooh I am so pretty and have so much style. Plus I get Brad Pitt." She squealed. "I am liking this dream.'
"Grace I hate to remind you, but Brad left Jen for Angelina Jolie." Will reminded her. Grace began to awaken from her haze as the tv blared . "One more push, let's go ," Ross was easing Rachel to have their baby on an episode of FRIENDS. Grace began to feel something as well, the first contractions.
"Now I will go get the wine and you just relax." Was heard from the hallway. Will had an excellent night at the new gay club. It turned out that another guy was having a baby with his straight friend and the two found out they had a lot in common. "Neil" was an investment banker on Wall Street. Will could picture the ceremony and the bed and breakfast in Vermont they would run together. He had been happier than he had in weeks. Neil opened the door of Will's bedroom and he gave him a kiss. It was a promise of the passion to come.
"Will?" moaned Grace from her perch on the couch.
"No no no. I am not here tonight." Will muttered as he pulled the wine glasses from the cupboard and the wine from the fridge."It is probably that Braxton Hicks syndrome. Nothing to worry about and very common." He said out loud. Grace tried to relax as the door was being closed. Yeah, it wasn't time yet. It also must have been all the food she had ordered tonight. Yeah, that last gyro was a killer. So she continued to watch tv. Then another pain hit.
"Will?" she moaned louder. "I think it is time. Call a cab." She pushed her enormous body off of the couch and started to stumble toward her purse and her cell. She speed dialed Will immediately.
"I told you it is nothing. Now don't bother me anymore." Will said impatiently. Grace threw her phone and proceeded to move toward his door. "Open up! Open up! I am dying and all you care about is yourself!" Neil heard the screaming. "I think she is telling the truth, honey." Will opened the door to a heavy breathing Grace with liquid dripping down her dress.
"Oh my God , her water just broke." He said panicking and then heading for his nightstand and his baby notebook. The bag was packed and the only other thing to do was to make the necessary phone calls. "Sweetie, we are going to take care of this." Will said sympathetically. Then he turned to Neil. "Raincheck, okay?" Neil grabbed his clothes and made his way out.
"This is not a drill! I repeat not a drill." He called Karen and Jack and instead of a cab. the whole group rode in the Walker limo. "It's baby time." He declared as the limo sped away.
The two greatest births of tv had to be I LOVE LUCY and on FRIENDS and that is why I used them…Those characters are the creation of Desilu Productions and BKC Productions. Also a big thanks to my editor and poster …thanks sis…