Chapter 7: New friends
I don't own Castle.
Kate was now four months into her pregnancy and unlike her first pregnancy this one was filled with sickness, not just in the morning but all the time. She groaned as she saw the light go on, causing her to wake up. Rick sat laid down next to her and kissed her head.
"How are you feeling?" He asked knowing she had been up all night throwing up.
"A little better but not a 100%" Kate replied
"Are you still up for today? If you're too sick she will understand." Rick asked in a worried voice.
"No, she has been waiting for this day for a while now. I'll be okay babe, can you help her get ready?"
"Of course, I'll send her down when she's ready."
Kate stretched out on the bed before she eventually got up to shower. Since Rick was watching the girls she was able to take a long shower, she was grateful for this. After fifteen minutes she turned the water off and went to get dressed. Halfway through doing her makeup, Tegan walked in the room with a hair brush. Kate put down her mascara and laughed at the way her daughter toddled over to her.
"Mamma!"
"Hi baby girl!" Kate picked her daughter up and gave her a big kiss. She ran fingers through her hair, noticing it was very tangled. "Did you run away from Daddy when he was brushing your hair?"
"You do pleawse?"
"Of course, what do you want?"
"Piggies please Mamma?"
Kate placed on the bed and made two high pigtails. "There you go. Now go see Daddy when I finish getting ready and then we can go." She laughed again as her daughter toddled away. As she finished putting her makeup on Kate couldn't help but be excited for her day with Tegan. The triplets were beginning to experience a lot of firsts lately, last week they went to a kid mini golf place. Kate and Rick had agreed that some of these new things would be experienced with only one kid. So today Kate was taking her youngest to the zoo for the first time. Twenty minutes later they were driving to the zoo.
"Mamma?" Tegan said from the backseat.
Kate turned down the music, "Yes?"
"You okay?"
"Of course, why?"
"I see Mamma be sick."
Kate began to panic, she thought something was wrong. Maybe it was time to tell the girls she thought. She calmed her voice and responded with, "I'm just fine baby girl. Mommy just had a tummy ache, thank you for asking."
Tegan seemed to be satisfied with the answer and asked her mother to turn the music back on. The rest of the drive was filled with singing music and Tegan dancing in her car seat. When they got to the zoo Tegan ran to the cows right away. Kate followed over, cows were her favorite animal.
"Mooooooo!" Tegan yelled at the cow who then began walking over to her. "Mamma! They coming!"
Kate laughed and pulled out her phone, Rick would want to see this "Do it again honey."
"Moooooo!" The cows came over to her then and Tegan laughed as she pet them.
"I think the cows like you." Kate told her daughter.
"We friends!" Tegan said with a giant smile."
Kate smiled and thought to herself, 'This is going to be a great day.'
And what a great day it ended up being. They spent time with each animal, Tegan making noises and making "friends" After spending two hours at the zoo they were ready to head home.
"Rick we're home!" Kate yelled as she walked through the door.
He came down the stairs with a smile, "There are my beautiful girls! How was the zoo?"
"Daddy, i see lots of cows!"
"That's great bug! Your sisters are watching a movie if you want to join them?" She nodded and ran away giggling. Once she was gone Rick went over to Kate and pulled her into a kiss. They only stopped when they had to come up for air.
"Wow, I should go to the zoo more often." Kate teased him.
"Sorry I missed you."
"There's no need to apologize for kissing me like that. We do need to talk about something." After he nodded she continued talking, "So I know we agreed that we tell the kids about the baby after I start too really show but Tegan is worried about me. So I think we should tell them because my sickness will probably only get worse, what do you think?"
"I agree with you completely. How about we tell them tomorrow night?"
"Okay that sounds good, what do you say to a snuggle session with our girls?"
"Can we bring popcorn?"
"Of course, and lots of it the babies are very hungry." Rick laughed and did as she asked.
I am so sorry that this took so long, I've been really sick lately. This was just a fun and easy chapter and I hope you liked it, write me a review. I'm going to try to have another chapter posted tonight but if not then I will tomorrow.
