Authoress Notes: Hee hee, another update~ XD And so I'll be updating Jail Break after this chapter, 'kay? ^_^

Notes: This chapter is split between Louise and Feldt. The next one is split between Christina and Marina. Then Marie and Louise, and then Feldt and Christina...etc.

Claim: Kyla, Lorrie and I own the original characters that won't be showing up for a little while.

Disclaim: Damn it, I don't own anything that belongs to Gundam 00.

Merry-Go Round

10

Louise had forced him to accompany her to the doctor, adamant that he attend the ultrasound as well. And so that was why he was sitting in a seat next to the bed she was perched upon, and they both turned as the doctor entered. The doctor was male, though it didn't seem to produce a problem as he moved towards the machine near Louise, slipping latex gloves on as he went.

"I apologize, the gel will be cold," he said, smiling slightly as he squeezed the tube onto Louise's exposed abdomen and then pressed the remote-shaped device onto it, moving it around in the expanse of silvery white, moving around in search of something. "Aha, there you are."

He reached forward, tapping the screen with his index finger.

"There are your children," he said, and Louise and Saji shared a glance that expressed the same emotion before the gel was washed off her skin and she slipped off the table, correcting her shirt.

They were given small photos of the developing fetus and Louise was strangely quiet as they got into the car, something that worried Saji as he glanced over when he could, brown eyes expressing his concern over his silent wife.

Louise was never this quiet. Her blue eyes were focused elsewhere, somewhere beyond the window into the scenery that was flashing by in blurs of green and white. Her silence persisted until they were half-way home, upon which she waited until the light had flicked to red and the car had slowed to speak.

"Twins," she said, and he glanced over at her. She was staring at her hands, which were clasped in her lap, seatbelt stretched across her shoulders and she turned towards him, smile working it's way across her face. "We're having twins, Saji."

"I know," he said, and he was relieved that she wasn't being quiet any longer. Her silence had concerned him, though it had just been her thinking about what the doctor had said, he supposed as the light turned to green, and they headed home.

"You know, we'll have to buy clothes for both."

Somehow, Saji figured that it wouldn't have been that easy.

[Haro!]

"What are we going to name her?" Feldt blinked at Neil from where he had his head against her stomach. Despite not being able to hear the baby, he was adamant on doing this, just for the sake of it. It was sweet, she supposed, and so she wouldn't ruin it for him as she toyed with his hair.

"What makes you so sure that the baby will be a girl?" she asked, and he grinned from where he lay, single blue eye seeking her emerald ones as he reached up, poking her nose.

"Call it intuition," he breathed, and she smiled.

"You don't know that for sure," she said, and he lifted his head from her stomach to pull her against him, his arm warm and comforting around him as he rested his chin atop her head, humming in thought.

"Do you want to make it a bet?" he asked, and she blinked, pulling away to glance at him inquisitively. He smiled, eye bright and teasing as she asked,

"What kind of bet?"

He smirked, forehead pressing against hers. "I'll bet you that our child will be a girl," he said, and he paused before speaking once more. "And if I win, I earn gloating rights."

"You'd do that anyway," she stated dryly, and he gave her a pout that failed to work on her. "I think our baby will be a boy. And if I win, you have diaper duty the first week."

"That's not fair," he complained, and she laughed, prodding his nose just like he had done to her earlier.

"It's a bet, Neil. Bets aren't fair," she teased, and he smirked before pressing his lips against hers.