A few months have passed and Christi is now three months along and has a small bump forming. Griffin figured it out after about a month and he was over joyed. He loves lying next to her and rubbing her belly at night and talking to her bump. He's really excited about becoming a parent. At the moment they were walking into their Career Choices class. It was career day that day and there were a bunch of parents coming in that day to talk to the class. Walking into the class hand in hand Christi and Griffin along with Veronica and Jimmy who had started dating a few weeks after Christi found out she was pregnant. They walk inside and see Derek and Hotch there. Christi pales and pulls her sweatshirt around herself more to hide her forming baby bump from Derek. She didn't need him going absolutely batshit there in front of the entire class.

The four teens head to the back of the class and take seats there and quietly talk and Griffin every once in a while rubs her stomach making her giggle and Derek frowning trying to profile the interactions.

The bell rings and the presentations start and Derek is attempting to profile them still. When it comes to his and Hotch's turn they show a few photos from old cases and Christi pales and her teachers looks at her.

"Go Christi." She said.

Christi nods and gets up and runs out of the room and down to the hall and into the bathroom to be sick as the photos made her stomach turn and made her lunch come right back up as they just came from lunch. Veronica comes in a moment later and she goes and holds her hair back for Christi.

They go back to the room a few minutes later just as Hotch and Derek are finishing up and Derek has this look on that could kill if looks could kill and Christi would be dead on the floor if the look could kill.

Christi and Veronica head back to their seats and Griffin scribbles a quick note and slides it over to Christi who just nods.

After the class ends and everyone starts leaving Derek steps in front of Christi.

"Stop right there young lady. I need a word with you."

"If this is about my personal life, butt out. I don't live you so you don't need to know what goes on in my personal life. Now if you excuse me I need to get to chorus."

Derek also stops Veronica but she doesn't talk to him either. Both girls just stand there staring at him with their arms across their chests. Griffin was trying to get back into the room but Hotch was refusing to let him there. Derek starts demanding answers out of the girls and Jimmy come out of the supply closet getting something down for their teacher and he sees Derek harassing the girls. He grabs his backpack and he goes over to the girls and steps in.

"Look man back off. They don't want to talk you so back off. You can't hold them here unless you're arresting them which you're not so you are technically kidnapping them. Man for an FBI agent who's an ex cop you sure fuckin' stupid man." Jimmy said stepping in front of t he girls protecting them.

Derek looks at him dumbstruck as Christi walks away. Jimmy puts his arm around Veronica's waist, pulling her close and kissing her passionately. They turn, eyeing him and walk away.

"Are you okay?" Griffin asks as she gets over to him.

"Yea I'm fine." She said as he walks her to class then Griffin goes to his AP Calculus class. XXXXX

Arriving home that night the four teenagers find Derek there.

"Oh my fucking God! You can't leave me alone! What part of stay the fuck out of my life don't you understand!" she says nearly yells in tears.

"I'm father and you give me the time of day."

"Fuck you." She growls pushing past him but he grabs her arm stopping her.

"LET ME GO!" she yells trying to pull her arm free but couldn't.

"Not until you tell me what the hell was going with you and this punk in your Career Choices class." He growls.

"That's a right for you to know and you don't have that right ever since you started acting like a mother fucker asshole to me and Veronica. You never even bothered to ask Veronica and I how we felt about Anna coming into picture permanently. You just fucking assumed that we were fine with it when we're not! You promised us it would just be the three of us! Then you want to ship us off so that you can just fucking replace us now let me go!" she yells trying to push him off of her in tears.

"You know a lot of women and men with kids get new partners without asking their kids' permission! The kids don't complain! You're the only kid in real life I've ever seen with this problem! In other situations the kids benefit from the step parent, they like them! You just can't adapt to change, though, right!" he yells.

"NO I CAN'T! MOM HAD A TON OF FUCKING JACKASSES WHO SHE TRIED TO MARRY BUT ALL THEY DID WAS BEAT THE SHIT OUTTA US! I HATE THIS! I HATE YOU! NOW LEAVE US ALONE! GO BE WITH ANNA AND THE REPLACEMENT CHILD AND JUST LEAVE US ALONE!" she yells in tears as Charlotte and William along with Rita and Danny come running out to see what the problem was.

"Agent Morgan let her go. She doesn't need this stress you're putting on her it's not good for her or her unborn child now take your hands off of her before we call the police." William hisses. He saw Christi and Veronica as the daughters he and Charlotte could never have.

Derek growls and lets her go and he storms off and gets onto his bike and gets out of there. Christi just sits on the ground pulling her knees up to her chest in tears as she wraps her arms around her waist.

Griffin growls at the direction Derek just left in then he goes over to Christi and sits next to her and holds her close.

"He's gone sweetheart, you need to calm down now it's not good for you or the baby." He said.

She nods and leans into him really dizzy.

"Griffin get her inside. I want to check her over." Rita said.

"Sure thing Aunt Rita." He said picking Christi up and carrying her inside and right upstairs to their bedroom. XXXXX

Derek gets home and he's fuming. He walks inside and slams the door shut and goes upstairs to change into work out outfit and grabs his iPod but before he could walk out of the room Anna, who was on bed rest for the remainder of her pregnancy for the fear of preeclampsia so her doctor put her on bed rest at five months and she was now seven months.

"Derek, what's the matter? What happened?" she asks shifting to sit up rubbing her stomach.

Derek tells her everything and she just looks at him.

"DEREK ARE YOU FUCKING CRAZY! YOU CAN'T DO THAT! SHE'S HORMONAL ENOUGH AS IT IS NOW THAT SHE'S PREGNANT SHE'S THEE TIMES AS THAT! AND YOU KNOW THEIR FAMILY HISTORY YET YOU GO AND DO THAT! I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU! YOU'RE OUT ON THE FUCKING COUCH!" she yells throwing a magazine at Derek's head.

Derek dodges it and he picks it up and he goes and sits next to her on the bed.

"Anna, she's acting like a five year old throwing a tantrum since she's not getting what she wants. She needs to learn that I'm her father and she needs to respect me and that I don't need her approval for anything I do in my life."

"I don't care Derek. That was stupid and idiotic!" she said.

Derek sighs and gets up and heads down to the garage to work off all his anger.

Anna sighs and grabs her cell and texts Christi hoping to get a response.

She tells her that she hopes that she would be there when the baby was born even though they don't have a good relationship and that she's upset with Derek. She just wants the baby to know his or her older sisters. She hopes to gain a relationship with her and for them to be a family again with her and Veronica.

She gets a response a little while later telling her they would have to think about it but would like to do lunch one day to work things out and to start over and work things out.

"What's going on, Christi?" Veronica asks, walking into the room where Christi was texting Anna.

"Anna wants a relationship with us and I said we'd meet her for lunch."

"Okay, not that I not totally cool with this, because I totally am, but you could at least clue me in before you agree to stuff for the both of us. I am older, after all." Veronica teases.

"I was this just kinda happened quickly. She put dad in the dog house until further notice which is funny as hell." She said as Griffin came in carrying some Chinese food that Christi was craving.

"Here you go babe."

She giggles and smiles, "Thanks babe."

"No problem." He said.

"Yea, Ronnie and I are making lunch plans with Anna. We're going to attempt a relationship with her. So we're gonna meet up with her."

"That's good so you'll at least get to know you're younger sibling." He said sitting at the foot of the bed and started rubbing her feet.

Christi smiles and leans back eating her Sweet and Sour Chicken with white rice that she wanted. She couldn't have been happier. Griffin was amazing and did stuff for her without her asking. She loved that about him and she was really happy with him. XXXXX

The next day the twins and Anna were meeting up at a local restaurant and were having lunch outside and they were all laughing and talking and enjoying themselves.

"We're really sorry for all the shit we pulled Anna. We're just not used to having someone in our lives who actually gives a shit about us. Our mom really didn't care and all the guys she brought home beat the shit outta us so we were just trying to prevent that. But our dad is just being a total shmuck and is always yelling at us. We needed out of the house and besides the stress isn't for Christi right now so he would have probably stressed her so much she would have miscarried." Veronica says.

"I understand that completely. I know how you two feel. I went through the same except it was my dad when I was ten. You're dad is still new to being a parent he's only known you for six years and is still trying to get the hang of being a parent. But I'm pretty sure he'll settle down sooner or later."

"We hope so too." Veronica said.

Just then all the BAU SUV's go speeding by with all the lights on.

"What the hell?" the twins say in unison.

"Must be a real important case," Anna says. They nod and go back to the conversation, still confused." So, Veronica, how are you?"

"I'm, uhh, I'm doing good," Veronica smiles.

"How's Jimmy doing?" she asked.

"Me and him... We're getting some hard times from kids at school." Veronica hesitated.

"Why, what's going on?"

"Well, Jimmy and his family came here from the Middle East where his mom was doing medic work. Everyone's thinking he's Muslim and I'm a Rasta, and they're doing religious bashing at our Catholic school. They're saying we're gonna have little... Musli-Farian babies..." she coughed, trailing off.

"Well no wonder they think you're Rasta, you pretty much flaunt their religion around."

"I'm not a Rastafarian, I just like their beliefs." Veronica scoffed, "The point is, this country is supposed to have freedom of religion and we can't have that if they bash people for what they think they know. It's like homosexual bashing, but religious. Think of how the religious gay people feel. I can't begin to imagine."

"You should preach," Christi said sarcastically.

"Well maybe I will!" she says laughing.

All three of them start laughing and giggling.

"I'm really happy you girls agreed to come and have lunch with me. I really want this baby to know you girls and of course their aunt or uncle."

"Yea us to. I guess we just got so single minded and wanting our dad to ourselves we didn't even bother to try and do something like this." Christi said.

After they finish lunch they all go and get some ice cream and as they're eating it Christi's cell rings and she sees that it's William.

"Hey what's up?"

"Griffin's been arrested by the people your dad works with! They think he's their unsub!" William said.

"Okay, I'm gonna go down there and try to see what the hell is going on and what the flying monkey's has gotten into them." She said.

That was one thing Charlotte and William wouldn't stand for was fowl language in their presence so the girls found creative ways to replace whatever curs they were going to use with something else.

"Alright thanks Christi."

"No problem. I'll you back as soon as I know something." She said as they hung up.

"What's going on?" Anna asks.

"Dad's a dead man and the team is no longer family." She growls.

"Christi what the hell is going on?" Veronica asks.

"The team arrested Griffin! Apparently he's their most recent unsub and if I know Hotch well enough he's gonna let dad talk to him alone and dad is gonna kill him." She says as they get up and head to their cars and head over to the headquarters.

When they get there they get visitors passes and head up. When they get there JJ, Emily and Reid all see them and a really pissed off Christi.

"Uhh oh. We're about to face the wrath of a pissed of hormonal and pregnant sixteen year old and Derek maybe in big shit where he's not even allowed in the house by the way of how pissed off Anna looks." Reid said getting ready to bolt.

"Well yea, Mr. Pierce must have called Christi because they are dating and he is the father of her child so that would be what he would do." Emily said as they walked in.

"Okay one of you has ten seconds to tell me what the fuck is going on before I go right to the Section Chief AND Director and raise high holy hell and I will get answers from them so give me answers!" she growls in no mood for bull shit answers as Derek, Hotch and Rossi come out.

"I know the punk did this! Hotch give me ten minutes with the little bastard and I'll get answers! He killed all those girls! I know it for a fact!" Derek says.

"No Morgan, we're gonna let him sit in there and sweat a little and then he'll crack until then we're going to figure out his stressor and the connection to these girls."

"Or you can just let him go because he's been home on time every night when he finishes football practice and I know this because we go home at the same time as I sit there watch him practice and when he does out with his friends there's a rule at the house where we have to do half hourly check in calls. Which we all abide by and they know where he is at all times now he's innocent as he's always home." Christi growls.

"You know damn straight we can't do that!" Derek hisses.

"Go to hell. Now let him go!" she growls.

"No." Derek said.

"Fine." She said then went to Section Chief Strauss' office along with the Director.

They come back a while later and they look Hotch and Derek.

"Is it true you are holding a young man here who has an air tight alibi?" Director Jack Fickler asks.

"He fits the profile," Derek was cut off by Strauss.

"And it's also true he's your daughter's boyfriend. You need to let him go for holding him against his will and arresting him unnecessarily." Strauss said sternly.

"Dave…" Hotch says trailing off.

"I'll go let the boy go." Rossi said.

A moment later Griffin comes out and Christi goes and hugs him tightly making him groan in pain.

She pulls back frowns then notices his black eye.

"Oh my god what happened to you!" she cries.

"Your dad got angry and... Forcefully handled me,"

Veronica then grabbed Christi and held her back. She knew that was the straw that broke the camel's back with Christi. Veronica knew Christi well enough whether Christi was pregnant or not she was going to kick Derek's ass royally.

"Christi calm down. Let Section Chief Strauss and Director Fickler take care of him. You don't need this." Anna said.

"Fine." She snorts then walks out before she does something stupid.

"Agent Morgan is this true?" Jack asks.

"Not all sir."

"Dr. Reid, get Miss. Garcia on the line please. I want interview room tape and security footage. I just want to confirm Agent Morgan's story."

"Yes, sir." Reid said nervously.

Anna glares at Derek.

"A bag will be on the porch when you get home. You're not allowed back home until you get act together and see that you need to actually sit down with the girls and actually talk instead of yelling and screaming at them." Anna growls and walks out with Griffin and Veronica.

Christi was leaning up against her black Chevy Equinox talking to William and Charlotte.

"Yea he's fine we're gonna go and get him checked out whether he wants to or not. I just need to make sure he's fine. I know that the Section Chief and the Director will take care of things with him." XXXXX

They were in the hospital now and Griffin was getting checked out. He was taken back for an x-ray and his family showed up along with the team all minus Derek.

"Christi, Veronica we're sorry all of us are. If I had known that he was going to do that I wouldn't have let your dad go in there. We're sorry for everything that we did the last few months not to stop your dad and to make him see the bigger picture. And Christi we hope that you forgive us and let us be your life along with your child's life and be extended aunt's and uncle's if you allow us to be." Hotch says speaking for everyone.

"It's fine I forgive all of you."

"Yea me too!" Veronica said as Griffin's doctor came out.

"Family for Griffin Pierce?" she asks.

"That's us."

"All of you?" she asks.

"Yes, these agent's here are there two girls extended family and whatever you have to say you can say in front of them." Charlotte said.

The doctor nods and says, "Griffin sustained a mild concussion, three cracked ribs and three severely bruised ribs and of course a black eye. His cracked ribs will heal on their own. The black eye and bruised ribs will clear up in a few days. But as for his concussion he needs to stay awake and alert for the next five to six hours. Ask him questions on things he should know and if he starts slurring his words, gets dizzy or any nausea, blurred visions or doesn't know the answers to any of the questions he should know bring him back immediately. I've given him some pain medication so it's made him a drowsy but keep him awake. I'm giving you a prescription for Vicodin as his pain medication just follow the directions on the label. He can have visitors now but just two at a time. I'll be releasing him in an hour." She said then adds, "Any questions?"

Everyone shakes their heads and first William and Charlotte go and see him but not before Charlotte looks at the team and says, "Why don't you all come over for dinner? We have plenty of room and you all look absolutely famished."

"We couldn't intrude Mrs. Pierce." Hotch said.

"Nonsense." She said.

"I would just agree. She won't let you hear the end of it if you don't come. Trust me. I learned the hard way!" Christi giggles.

They all nod and an hour later they were all at the Pierce home ordering take out for dinner at Charlotte's instance.

Christi and Griffin were sitting on the love seat talking quietly with him rubbing her belly every once in a while making her giggle.

"Are they going to find out the sex?" Hotch asks.

"They don't want to but we all want to know so my sister, Rita, who is also Christi's doctor will tell us as soon as she knows. Veronica wants to paint the nursery for the baby and fill it with furniture and everything. We're just going to hide the clothes and everything that will say the sex until the baby arrives. We're also going to make sure they can't get into the room either to peak." Charlotte says smiling. XXXX

A few weeks have passed and Christi is now four months along and everyone is excited about finding out the sex.

"Remember not a word! We want it to be a surprise." Griffin says.

"We promise now let's get on with it!" Charlotte says excitedly.

This was the first grandchild, and niece and nephew in the family and everyone wanted to know, well minus Christi and Griffin.

"So have you two narrowed down the names?"

"We've come up with Landon Wyatt for a boy and Zoey Brianna for a girl." Griffin said.

"Awwwww! Such sweet names! Now all I need to know is what the baby is so that I can get the wooden letters of the name to put over the crib." She squeals bouncing.

"Ronnie calm down! How many energy drinks have you had today!" Griffin asks laughing at her mega hyperness.

Veronica smiles and tilts her head. "Who's watched too many chick flicks?"

Jimmy walks through the door. He had just gone to the store. He sighs, rubbing his head.

"What happened, Jim?" Danny asked.

"Some asshole threw a water bottle at me in the parking lot of the grocery store."

"Jimmy," Charlotte scolds for fowl language.

"Well, I'm sorry, but I'm fed up with this! We got freedom of religion!"

"The thing is though," Veronica said, rubbing his back, "We're Catholic too. We're no different. Now they're all calling me and Jimmy Muslim and Rasta, I'm getting sick of it, too."

"They're gonna end up hurting one of us more." Jimmy said.

"I'm gonna kick their asses if they seriously hurt one of you." Danny said threateningly.

"Well let's focus on Christi and Griffin for the moment." Veronica said, "Let's get to happy talk."

"Please lets we can focus on everything else later." Rita said as she took out the gel and shook it up a bit then turns on the machine.

"Okay Christi the gel is going to be cold." Rita said.

She nods and lies back as she squirts the gel on her stomach.

She moves the wand around and then she frowns.

"What?" Griffin asks.

"There's two heartbeats. You're having twins. See here. Here are two spines, two heads, and their arms and legs." Rita said.

When neither teen said something Rita looks and she looks at them and their faces are contorted in pure shock.

"It is quite common since you and Veronica are twins." Rita said to Christi.

"But we're fraternal twins. We were two different eggs that got fertilized at the same time. It's only genetic for identical twins when there's two in the egg you fertilize."

"Well nevertheless, you're having twins." Rita said.

"Oh dear God that's twice the sleep loss." Griffin groans.

"Tell me about it." She sighs as Rita looks at determines the sexes and smiles.

"Okay Christi you're looking good and so are the twins."

"Good and question how did you not see that it was twins before?" Griffin asks.

"The other might have been hiding behind the other twin and the double heart beat could have been mistaken as baby A's heart beat being slightly faster due to Christi being a gymnast and in ballet." Rita said.

Griffin and Christi nods as she wipes the gel off of her stomach then Christi and Griffin go out to the receptionist to make a new appointment for the next month.

"Okay Rita tell us! Now!" Charlotte said.

"One of each." She smiles.

"YES!" Veronica cheers.

"Okay," Veronica says, "So you all better pitch in with my budget. It busted the moment I did the math for twins."

"Sweetie we'll pay for the room don't worry about it. You just get everything you need and we'll pay for it all."

She nods as they all head out.

"You guys are gonna be sooooo uber surprised!" Veronica squeals.

"Say a word dear sister and your Bob Marley records go on eBay." She said.

"Ha," Veronica laughs sarcastically, "You're funny. Don't worry, I'm not you, Christi, with your big mouth. I tend not to tell someone's boyfriend their girlfriend isn't a virgin."

"You said you wouldn't mention that again." Christi said.

"How can I not mention Chris Adams dumping me because of you?" Veronica laughs half-heartedly.

"How's he doing?" Christi smiled, knowing he hangs out in the group Veronica hangs out in.

"Good. He was asking the other day if me and Jimmy are gonna have mixed religion babies."

"Tell him and his virgin ass to fuck off." Christi smiled.

"Alright stop with the cursing! The twins can hear that!" Griffin said and the girls just stare at him like he just grew five heads.

"What? I read the baby books big whop!"

"I think it's sweet!" Christi smiles kissing his cheek.

They head back out and as they are they see Anna and Derek coming up and Anna looked like she was in pain.

"Anna are you okay?" Veronica asks.

"She's gone into labor." Derek said.

Christi's eyes went wide with fear.

"They have drugs for pain sweetie don't worry." Charlotte said putting a hand on her shoulder.

Christi nods and she, Griffin, Veronica, and Jimmy all head up with Derek and Anna. The girls had promised to be there with Anna as well.

They get back to the room and they have to wait outside with Derek while the give Anna the epidural as it was a minor surgical procedure and it took forty five minutes.

Derek looks up at the girls with guys who were sitting next to the guy holding their hands with their fingers laced together.

Derek wasn't sure on what to do. The girls had been so vicious to him and Anna but he had caused that by being an asshole to them and that caused them to move out and be with the Pierce's and he was missing out on everything with Christi and her pregnancy.

"We have to think of one more boy's name and girl's name since we don't know the sexes we need two of each sex just in case it two girls or two boys." Christi said rubbing her belly.

Derek sighs and looks at his girls.

"I'm sorry. I'm sorry for everything." Derek said making their heads shoot up.

"What?" they said.

"I said I'm sorry. You two just grew up from ten year olds to sixteen year old with boyfriends and hating everything and I over reacted and you were right about me talking to you two first about bringing someone permanent into your lives to see how you felt about and if you were uncomfortable on how I could make it more comfortable. I'm really sorry, can you forgive me?" Derek asks.

The twins get up and head over to their and hug him.

"We forgive you. That's all we've wanted all these months." They said in unison.

Derek smiles and hugs his girls as a nurse comes out and tells them that they can go back to Anna's room.

They head back and Anna looks much more comfortable.

"How do you feel babe?" Derek asks.

"Much better." She said.

"Good the girls and I made up so we're good again."

"Good. How did your appointment go sweetie?" Anna asks Christi.

"Good. We found out we're having twins." Griffin said.

"What are you having?"

"No idea. We want it to be a surprise but Ronnie knows as she wants to do the nursery." Christi said.

"Tell!" Anna nearly squeals.

Veronica laughs and she goes over and whispers it to her.

"Awww! You two are gonna be so surprised!" Anna said as Veronica tells Derek.

"That's great." He smiles as Anna's doctor comes in and checks her.

"You're doing great Anna, you're seven centimeters dilated." XXXX

A few hours later Derek comes out into the waiting room where the four teens were sent out to while Anna gave birth and he was carrying a small squirming blue bundle in his arms who he was gently bouncing.

"Hey kids, come over here and meet Richard Anthony Morgan. He was born at 8:14pm and he's six pounds even and eighteen inches long." Derek said as the kids come over and the girls start cooing over their little brother.

"Hello. Hi, we're you big sisters Christi and Ronnie." They said cooing over him.

"You two wanna hold him?" Derek asks.

"DUH!" they said.

Veronica took him first and smiles as he opens his eyes and looks directly at Veronica.

"Hey buddy, you have such gorgeous brown eyes." She says cooing over him.

"Give Griffin a turn, he needs practice holding an infant as he's gonna be holding one of two." Jimmy laughs.

"Shut up Jimmy." Both Christi and Griffin say as Veronica gently hands Griffin Richard.

"Like this." Christi said helping him adjust his arms to properly hold Richard.

"So are you gonna move back in?" Derek asks Veronica and Christi. They look at each other then back at him.

"I don't think so," Veronica said.

"You and Anna and Richard need a quiet household and once the twins come, I'll need to be with Griffin and we'll need the nursery there for the babies. We'll see you a lot though, more than we have been seeing you." Christi said.

"Okay," Derek said.

They all go and see Anna who was now sleeping soundly and Christi was holding Richard now and she was smiling.

Derek smiles. She looked really happy and that's all he wanted was for her to be happy and she was happy with a good guy who could take good care of her and their soon coming family.

"Have you guys thought about college?" he asks.

"Grif and I both got scholarships to Georgetown. His is for football and mine is chorus." Christi says.

"And I got a scholarship to Columbia in New York."

"And I'm not going to college." Jimmy said.

Anna wakes up and smiles at them.

"Hey, how are you feeling?"

"Happy to finally have him out. He's been using my insides as a jungle gym." She says.

"he's gorgeous." Christi said.

"And so will be your kids." Anna said then adds, "Where are you kids going in the fall?"

"Veronica's going to Columbia on scholarship, Christi and Griffin are going to Georgetown on scholarships and Jimmy here isn't going." Derek says not happy that Jimmy wasn't going.

"Excuse me? Look here Jimmy if you want to continue dating my daughter you will go to college and I don't care if it's community college but you will go to college." Anna says.

"Umm, Anna," Veronica said, "He's not going, big deal."

"He needs an education to get a decent job." Anna said.

"You don't need education to get a job."

"they look for that quality, though," Derek says.

"Hey, it's no big deal if I go to college," Jimmy interjected, "Not to me or Ronnie, anyway. To you guys and my parents it is, but I,"

"You're still not going to go, huh?" Derek said angrily, "You're the bad boy, the one who defies authority and doesn't like to learn. That's why you're not going!"

"Dad!" Veronica snaps, "You are out of line!"

"Just, get him out of here," Anna scoffs."If he goes," Veronica says, walking to the door with Jimmy, "I go. I'll see you later."

"She's PMSing." Christi covered quickly really unsure of what was going on with her twin.

"Yea sure." Derek said.

"Dad give her time, she'll come around see that she can do better." She said then turned to Griffin, "No offense and all."

"None taken. I've been saying that he wasn't going to college for a while now but one believed me." He shrugged then looked at Derek, "Hey uhh…Agent Morgan, can I uhh talk to you privately please?" he asks nervous and starting to fidget a nervous habit he picked up from Christi.

Derek eyed him and nodded. He followed Griffin out into the hall and said, "What's going on?"

Griffin sighs and he gets really fidgety and then he sighs and says, "I want to ask Christi to marry me but I wanna ask your permission and blessing first. We can have a long engagement, but I love her more than anything and I would die for her and our kids, hell if it came to it I would even kill for her…which I would never do by the way it's just an expression." He said.

Derek chuckles and nods. "You have my blessings to marry my daughter."

Griffin sighs and nods in relief.

"Do you need help getting her a ring?"

"Actually I have my great-grandmothers ring." He said fiddling with the ring in his pocket nervous.

"That's good that you have it ahead of time. Trust me it's better to have it ahead of time then to wait till the last minute." He said then he adds, "I know she's going to be really happy with you and be well taken care of and I couldn't be happier that she found a really good guy like you I couldn't ask for a better guy for Christi."

"Thank you so much." He said.

"No problem, when are you planning on asking her?"

"I was thinking when the twins are born. We're getting them chains with their birthstone as the charm so I was thinking putting the ring on one of the necklaces with the charm and surprising her with it. She would never suspect that like most girls do on Valentine's Day or Christmas even." He said then adds, "I want to do something completely different with Christi. She's different and unique and she should get that in a different and unique way."

Derek nods then says, "Why don't you do it now with Richard? She won't be expecting that at all."

Griffin thinks about it for a moment then nods.

"I'll be right back I just need to go and get some ribbon and a blank card." He said.

Derek nods and he heads into the room as Griffin heads to the gift shop.

Christi looks at Derek as he comes back inside the room, "Please tell me he's still in one piece internally." Christi asks giggling.

"Yea he is don't worry." Derek said as she goes and sits down.

Griffin comes back and Christi looks at him.

"Where did you go?" she asks.

"I had to go and get something quickly." He said which was true.

"Okay." She said then adds, "I'll be right back." She giggles then gets up and heads out to the restroom down the hall.

"I have like sixty seconds." Griffin says nervously as Derek quickly fills Anna in.

"AWWWWW!" she coos as she gently hands Richard to Griffin who quickly and gently puts the blue ribbon containing the ring around Richard's neck and the card gently tucked into his blanket.

He gently bounces Richard to help calm his nerves.

"Sweetie, calm down, you know she's going to say yes if you don't see it but we do, there's love in her eyes and by the way she looks you and the same with you. She's going to say yes." Anna said.

"I know, I just can't help it." He says sheepishly.

Christi comes back a moment later and grins, "let me hold my little brother." She grins as she takes him then sits down.

As soon as she sits her eyes go as wide as saucers.

"Oh my gosh!" she says tearing up seeing the ring then gently holding him with one hand and she reads the card.

"So will you please marry me?" he asks really fidgeting now.

"Yes, yes, yes, yes!" she says smiling in tears.

Griffin smiles and gently takes the ring off of Richard's neck and the ribbon and slides it onto her hand.

"Perfect fit. I snatched your class ring and used that for the size." He said.

"That's where it went! Dear God that scared the crap out of me when I couldn't find it." She said smacking him.

"If I told you I was taking it you would figure it out and that would have ruined everything." He said.

She giggles and kisses him gently.

They hand out for a few more hours then they head back to the house and goes upstairs right away surpassing everyone downstairs to get to Veronica.

"RONNIE OPEN UP! I HAVE MEGA UBER SUPER FUCKING NEWS!" she squeals knocking on her door repeatedly till she opened it.

"Jimmy out." Christi said shoving him out and closing the door.

"Okay what the hell Christi?" Veronica asks as Christi sticks out her left hand giggling waiting for Veronica's reaction.

"That's so great! I can't believe it!" Veronica squealed half-heartedly.

"What's wrong?" Christi asked cautiously.

"Nothing, I'm happy for you, Chris."

"You're lying. What's up, is it that fight the family had about Jimmy?"

"Well, I heard what you said when I left. I was lingering by the door, and you said, 'Dad, give her time. She'll come around and see she can do better'."

"I," Christi said, shocked, "I didn't mean anything."

"Do better, Christi? Do fucking better, I can't believe you would say something like that! I don't question how you've emasculated Griffin! I don't question why his family loves you a little too much! You just have a problem with everyone's new relationship, huh?"

"Veronica!" Christi cut her off, "That's not what I meant!"

"What the hell did you mean then! I'm not gonna make him go if he doesn't want to and I'm sure as hell am not gonna break up with him because he doesn't have an education? Would you do that with Griffin if he wasn't going to college? Huh!"

"Of course not," Christi said but Veronica cut her off.

"Then why the hell should I? I love him and I am happy for once in the past year! Accept that, because I'm sure as hell not leaving him!" Veronica shouted.

All of a sudden, the window broke. They hit the floor as a rock flew past and hit the opposite wall. They looked out the broken window to see kids running away. Veronica picked the rock up and cursed, tears in her eyes. On one side was green, yellow and red lines while on the other side was a white crescent moon and star.

"They've taken this too far." Christi said, looking at the Rastafarian and Muslim signs. Veronica looked at her, her face stained with tears.

"They haven't even started."

"We need to call the cops." Christi said.

"NO! YOU'VE DONE ENOUGH NOW GET OUT!" she screams at her.

Christi flinches as tears rush to her eyes and she walks out of the room and right across the hall to her and Griffin's and shuts and locks the door. She just wanted to be alone. She was just telling Derek what he wanted to hear that was all she was doing when she said what she had said. She was really happy for Veronica but she hated her now and won't listen to her. She looks up at the dresser and sees a photo from the last Christmas she and Veronica has with their mom. It was a white Christmas and they were in Times Square in the city. She sighs and she knows she needs to get back to New York for a while and get back to her roots and her home and all her old friends. XXXXX

A few days later Christi had left a note saying she was going to New York and just needed to be alone for a while and to figure out who she was and where her life was going. She said she would call in daily and talk to everyone but she needed to be left alone for a while and she promised to be back as soon as she could. Griffin looked like a lost puppy without Christi but he understood that she needed her space as he heard the whole fight between her and Christi.

At the moment they were walking through the halls to get to their next class when this group of guys comes up and one of them grabs Veronica and holds her back while the others proceeded to beat the snot out of Jimmy.

"Fucking let him go!" Veronica screeched as everyone gathered around.

"Fucking raghead!" one boy yelled, kicking Jimmy.

"Yeah, get the Muzzie!" another boy yelled. They yelled racial slurs, Muzzie, raghead, Hadji, Kaffir. They called him offensive terms for black and Middle Eastern people. They beat him senseless until a teacher came.

"What's going on here!" she shouted. The boys let Veronica go and she rushed over to Jimmy, who was unconscious.

"See what you fucking do!" she yells at them all, tears pouring down her cheeks, "What kind of school is this! What kind of humans are you all!"

A few minutes later the paramedics arrive and take him to the hospital calls Jimmy's parents and the police.

Once everyone arrives in the ER Derek goes over to Veronica and sits next to her putting an arm around her holding her close.

"It's fine baby girl. He's going to be fine. He has you in his life and you to fight for." Derek said.

Griffin was outside on the phone with Christi telling her what happened.

"Is he okay?" she asks.

"We don't know yet. But I really miss you."

"I miss you too. Hey I need to ask you something. Have I emasculated you and why does your family love me a little too much? The reason why I'm asking is because Veronica pointed that out when she was going off on me for what I said to my dad about her being able to do better." She sighs.

"No, of course not, you haven't emasculated me." he said, "My family always wanted a perfect daughter like you. Now I gotta go, the doctor is here."

Christi smiles and says, "Okay thank you and please keep me updated. I'm worried about her and Jimmy and can you try to get her to call me? Maybe you can talk her into calling me. I miss my twin and her not talking to me."

"Okay I'll try. Love you, bye."

"Bye love you too." She said.

They hand up and look at the doctor for his report on Jimmy.

"Jimmy has a skull fracture, concussion, and bruising over eighty percent of his body and all of his ribs are cracked but will heal on their own. He needs surgery to repair his skull." The doctor said.

"Do whatever you have to do to help our son. Please." Danny said.

He nods and he heads back to the room to get Jimmy prepped for surgery and then he heads into the OR to get scrubbed in.

"I'm gonna sue every single one of them. I don't care of how much of the money I have to use of my college fund they're getting their fucking asses sued!" Veronica hisses.

"Let us help you Veronica, we want justice just as much as you do." Rita said.

She nods and sighs.

"Hey Ronnie, I think maybe you should call Christi and talk to her. She misses you and misses talking to you. You should let her explain." Griffin said.

Veronica nods and she gets up and pulls her phone out of her pocket and she dials Christi's number.

"Hello?" Christi said picking up her phone.

"Hey it's me." Veronica said.

"Ronnie! How are you?"

"I'm good. How are you?"

"That's good. The twins are acting up a storm. I might be coming home soon on the train. I know I can't fly so I'm gonna take the train home. It will give me ever more time to think about what's going on in my life ya know?"

"Yeah, it'll be nice to have you back." Veronica said.

"How's Jimmy?"

"He's in surgery. Yesterday was pretty hectic."

"You must be traumatized!"

"I am," Veronica gulped.

"Ronnie things are going to be fine. He has you to fight for. Look I'm sorry for what I said. I was just telling daddy what he wanted to hear. I really am happy for you and Jimmy. You're good for each other." Christi said.

Ronnie smiles and they talk for a while longer then they hang up and she heads back inside.

The surgery goes well and Veronica and his parents head back to his room where he was just waking up. Veronica goes and sits next to him and takes his hand into hers and laces their fingers together.

Jimmy comes to with a groan and he turns his head and winces.

"God damn it." He growls slightly loopy.

"Hey baby, take it easy, you just had major surgery, you need to take it easy."

"Oh god what happened?" he asks.

Veronica sighs and goes on to tell him what happened at school with the kids beating the shit outta him.

"are they being arrested?" he asks.

"Yea they are and they're gonna be sued."

He nods and drifts off to sleep.

Veronica smiled and kisses his cheek and holds his hand. She had been so worried about him but now that she knew he was fine she could breathe and relax. XXXX

A few days later Christi was back and Griffin couldn't be more excited. He and Christi were relaxing on the couch and she was lying back against his chest and he had his hands on her belly rubbing it. The twins were getting active and driving Christi crazy.

"So if we have two boys for one we have Landon Wyatt so how about Logan Christopher for the other boy's name?" Griffin asks.

"I like that. And for a girl we have Zoey Brianna so for another girl how about McKenna Elizabeth?" Christi asks.

"No. I hate the name Elizabeth." He frowns.

Christi all of the sudden leans forward clutching her stomach whimpering pain.

"Hey what?" Griffin asks.

"really bad cramping. It really hurts." She whimpers.

Griffin starts freaking out and he helps her up and he gets her to the hospital and they take her back and he starts pacing in the waiting room and he called Derek who came down there right away.

A few hours later the doctors comes out and looks at Griffin.

"Are you Griffin Pierce?" he asks.

"Yea, is my fiancée okay?" he asks.

"She's fine, both her and the twins are just fine. She just had some Braxton-Hicks. She's going to be fine along with the twins. Just have her take it easy for the next few days and she'll be fine."

Griffin nods and sighs in relief.

"Can we see her?" Derek asks.

"Who are you?"

"Her father."

"Okay, she's in room 1060."

They head back and Griffin goes over to her and holds her close.

"how are you feeling?"

"Fine now that the Braxton-Hicks stopped. I can't imagine of how much worse they're gonna be when it really does happen. But how can you hate Elizabeth?"

"I don't know I just do. But what about McKenna Adrianna?" he asks.

"I like that. So if it's two boys Landon Wyatt and Logan Christopher and if its two girls Zoey Brianna and McKenna Adrianna. Now what are we going to do about the nursery?"

"How about we do a neutral theme since we don't what the twins are. Maybe an ocean or rainforest theme?" Griffin says.

"I like that, they're good, how about the ocean theme." Christi says.

"Okay, or we can let Ronnie do the room since she knows the sex of the twins she can decorate the room and we can let that be a surprise as well."

A few hours later Christi gets released from the hospital and she is told to take it extremely easy for the next few days.

They get back to the house and Christi goes and lies down while Griffin goes and talks to Veronica while Derek goes and talks to Charlotte and William.

"Hey Ronnie, let me ask you something."

"Go ahead."

"We want you to paint the nursery since you know the babies genders. We figured that if we could hold out on knowing the sexes we can hold out on seeing the room." Griffin said.

She squeals and she hugs him.

"Of course! Oh my god yes! And thank you two so much this will help me have something to do to keep my mind off of things!" XXXXX

A few days later Veronica has started on the room. Half the room pink and the other blue. She had already gotten the wooden letters for the babies names. She had already gotten them over the spots where she plans to the put the cribs. One on each wall with the changing table and dresser along the bay window by the massive closet. On Zoey's side she was doing a fairy theme and on Landon's side she's doing a sports theme. She was covered in paint each time she came out of the room and Christi and Griffin would just look at her oddly. She would just shrug and smile.

At the moment Christi was trying to sneak into the room as she was really curious to see what the room looked like. She was really curious and wanted to see the room.

She cracks the door open and is about to peak when she hears someone clear their throat behind her.

"Ahem!"

Christi jumps and turns around. She smiles guiltily and stalks back to the living room.

Veronica follows her and looks at her.

"You little sneak! You were trying to peak!"

"I'm sorry! I just want to know why you're in there for hours on end! It's driving me crazy! I gotta know!"

"Well to bad. You have to wait." She said.

"Bitch." She growls.

"But you love me for it!"

"Yea whatever. I just want to have them already." She said rubbing her belly.

"Well they should be here soon." Griffin said rubbing her belly.

"God I hope so. I'm tried of being pregnant." She complains.

Griffin laughs and kisses her. He couldn't be happier the two of them were getting married, having twins and they were going to Georgetown together. Life couldn't be better and he couldn't be happier.