thanks so much for the reviews! it means so much to me! i've gotten requests for a ben/jack update and i'm definitely brain storming ideas, i want to make it really super awesome for you guys! lol so, until then...here's this update :) hope you like it, sorry for the wait! thanks for being patient!

summary: Taking care of Julia on her own was crazy enough, but now she's pregnant too? Thankfully, John is around to help while Steve is away. Although, nothing really prepared Alexia for this... (suggested by MaliaRose about a scare during Alexia's pregnancy bc of her work, thank you!)

Danger

2006

It was barely a month after Alexia found out that she was pregnant the second time that Steve had to go away again. They had just recently gotten back from a funeral, one of Steve's friends that had died in action. Having him leave so soon on assignment after sent Alexia's anxiety to an all time high. It didn't help that she felt like she was practically raising three year old Julia on her own and was pregnant again. Busy as ever at the hospital, she was becoming even more dependent on John for help, not that he minded. John loved his granddaughter and loved his daughter in law, both of his own kids rarely ever on the island in the first place.

"Mommy," Julia woke her up that morning. The night before she had been upset that Steve was gone, this time for two months, crying hysterically. The only way Alexia got her to calm down was by letting her sleep on Steve's side of the bed.

"Hm?" Alexia yawned, laying on her side to look at her daughter. She wondered where the three year old got all her energy from, she rarely ever slept.

"When's daddy come back?" she asked innocently.

"Soon," Alexia lied, since she really never knew when Steve was due back until a few days before. At this point, it had been a week and a half since she had even heard from her husband. "But, you know what?" Julia looked at her intently. "Mommy found out what the baby is." She was four months pregnant and at her last doctor's appointment found out what the baby was, having the tiniest bump on her stomach to show that she was even pregnant.

"Really?" Julia asked. That was her number one question about the new baby, if she was going to have a brother or a sister.

"Mhmm," Alexia nodded. "You're going to have a little sister, Lucy." She and Steve had already decided on a name.

"Yay!" Julia cheered; she hadn't really wanted a little brother. "Can I tell Grandpa John?" Alexia was going to be dropping Julia off at John's house today, working twelve hours in the ER. Once she really started showing, they were going to make her stop in the ER and work in a different part of the hospital, but for now they left her there, since they were currently short staff.

"Yes," Alexia laughed, getting out of bed now to get ready for work. "C'mon, let's get ready to go."


"You should go home," her director told her. Alexia was clearly run down, between the pregnancy and running around after a three year old. Staying up late at night worrying about her husband certainly didn't help.

"Our bases aren't even covered as is," Alexia reminded him, grabbing the next chart. She caught him giving her a stern look. "Hey!" she protested with a laugh. "I'm fine." She held her arms away and, under her scrubs, you still couldn't really tell that she was pregnant. "We agreed until I'm showing. And," she smiled. "I'm not getting sick anymore. So, really, it's fine."

"Mhmm," he nodded, still skeptical of her decision to stay. "What does your husband think about this?"

"My husband," she told him. "Gets a say in my job when I get a say in his."


John was making Julia lunch, having taken her swimming that morning. Sitting across the table from her, both of them eating grilled cheese, she was detailing to him how Alexia was going to have a daughter. Julia was going to get to have a baby sister and her name was going to be Lucy. John smiled and nodded along appreciatively, happy to get to spend the day with his granddaughter. He only wished Alexia wasn't working so much. As Julia kept digging into her lunch, the phone rang and John got up to answer it.

"Hello?" John answered. He expected his daughter in law, given that the hospital's number came up on the caller ID.

"John McGarrett?" a male voice on the other end said. John did a double take on the phone and saw that it was indeed the hospital's number; now he was worried.

"Yes?"

"We have you listed as the secondary contact for Alexia McGarrett," the doctor explained. "We were unable to reach Steven-"

"What happened?" John demanded.


Everything had happened so fast, Alexia wasn't even sure what had happened. The file she had picked up at the nurses' station had belonged to a patient that had just been brought in. He was rather aggressive, unhappy about being there but when the paramedics found him he was disoriented enough to call for a psych evaluation. They had him in one of the hospital beds, trying to admit him and he started to freak out. At some point while they were trying to calm him, she got knocked to the ground, falling right onto her abdomen. She was laying in a bed now, hooked up to all kinds of monitors, the doctors trying to make sure that her baby was ok.

"Hey," John said as he came into her hospital room, bringing flowers in with him and setting them on the side table. He had left Julia with Malia, thinking that she shouldn't see her mom in the hospital like this; it would worry her too much. "How are you sweetheart?"

"Mmm," Alexia sighed, laying her head back against the pillows. "Exhausted." She was twisting her hands. "Feeling like an idiot. I should have listened to you."

"Don't worry about that right now," John shook his head, though he had been warning her about her long hours in the emergency room. There were so many things he was afraid of going wrong. Falling. Needle sticks. Exposure to harmful infections. He thought that her work was the last place she should be, but now wasn't the time for an I told you so.

"I tried calling Steve," Alexia continued, her eyes welling up a little. Here she was, laying in a hospital bed, worried something might happen to her baby and she couldn't reach her husband. "There's no answer. They must be out, away from the base."

"Must be," John nodded in agreement. "We'll keep on trying." He smiled a little. "Let him know that everything's going to be all right."

"You don't...know that," Alexia said sadly, shaking her head in an attempt to keep the tears away. "I really, really messed up."

"You didn't do anything," John assured her. "You were doing your job. Now, let the doctors do theirs." She nodded, wiping at her eyes. "How long are you going to be staying here?"

"Three days," Alexia said. "They're just going to monitor, make sure everything's all right." He nodded over at the monitors.

"You're smart," John told her. "You went to school for this. What are those saying right now?" Alexia shook her head at John. He was stubborn, like Steve and would never accept bad news. The house could be on fire and the McGarrett men would tell her everything was all right.

"That everything is all right," Alexia told him. The baby's heart rate was fine, she was moving like normal. So far, no impact from the fall.

"Then trust that," John promised her, squeezing her hand. "Getting yourself all stressed out isn't going to help anything."


John stayed at the hospital with Alexia, even after she had drifted off to sleep. He didn't want her to wake up and be alone and he knew that Julia was having a great time with Malia. Just as he was reading the paper, Alexia's phone started buzzing on the table next to her flowers. The sound of the phone hardly phased her as she was overly exhausted, so John answered it.

"Hello?" John answered.

"Dad?" Steve asked in confusion. "Why are you answering Lex's phone?"

"Where are you?" John asked, not recognizing the number.

"The airport, in San Diego," Steve answered, standing at the payphone. "I'll be back home by tonight. Is she at the doctor's?"

"Ah," John hesitated. Well, you could honestly say that. "She's resting now, she's asleep."

"What's going on?" Steve asked. His dad was never really good at lying to him, Lex, or Mary. Something wasn't right at home and he could sense it.

"It's nothing to worry about," John said, not wanting his son to panic. "She's going to be fine. But..." He sighed. "Earlier this morning, she fell at work-"

"Nothing to worry about?" Steve snapped. "She fell dad, is she ok? Is the baby all right?"

"She's fine," John assured him. "And, I've been with her since they admitted her-"

"Admitted her?" Steve started to panic, interrupting his dad again. "She's in the hospital?! Dad, I-"

"As a precaution," John stopped his son. "Nothing has changed since they brought her in here. Her heart rate is fine, she's moving just fine."

"She?" Steve asked in confusion, then it hit him. "It's a girl?" John groaned.

"Lex just found out yesterday," John said, feeling bad that he had ruined the surprise. "Do you want me to wake her?"

"No," Steve shook his head. "She needs to rest. Just...tell her I'll be there in a few hours."

"All right," John agreed.


Alexia was out for awhile and John figured it was because she really needed the rest. Worrying about Steve took it's own toll, as well as being pregnant, and she was working what seemed to be endless hours in the ER. It seemed to him that she might need to sleep for a few days, though someone rushing into her room caused him to jump and her to wake up.

"Lex," Steve said, going over to her bed and setting the flowers he got her next to his dad's. "Are you ok babe?"

"Steve?" Alexia asked in confusion, looking him over as he leaned over her bed to kiss her once. "What are you..." She was really confused, just waking up now. "Am I dreaming or-"

"No, I'm here," he promised her, squeezing her hand. "I got an early flight back, I wanted to surprise you. Dad told me what happened, are you all right?"

"Well," Alexia said, looking over to the monitors that she couldn't help but check herself. "I mean, everything looks good right now. They just want to keep me for a few days to make sure."

"Every thing looks great," her director and doctor that had kept checking on her throughout the day said as he came in to look at the monitors himself; he extended a hand to her husband who he had never met before. "Dr. Miller."

"Steve McGarrett," Steve said back. "Everything's ok?"

"Fine," Dr. Miller nodded. "We'll just keep her a few days to make sure." He looked at Alexia now, seriously. "Which is when she'll be taking a week off, then she'll be starting at the family clinic upstairs. Scariest thing up there is a kid sneezing on her."

"Got it," Alexia said as he left, not wanting to admit that she was wrong for working as long as she did. Really, it wasn't supposed to be her work place that was dangerous; that was Steve's territory. The only thing she was glad for now though was that the baby was safe and Steve was home.

thanks for reading! :) really hoped that you liked it, sorry again for the wait! next is going to be steve having a sick day with the girls taking care of him, then after that is halloween. still thinking up some older ben/jack ideas lol more soon, please review and give ideas! :)