Title: Twins
Rating: T
Summary: What if Shules had twins? I couldn't decide if I wanted to write about the ultrasound or about after they were both, but Ashley said to write both.
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Shawn inspected all the medical-type items on the counter of the exam room – there were jars of cotton balls, tongue depressors, band aids, and something else Shawn wasn't sure of.. Juliet was laying on the exam table waiting for the doctor to come back in after Juliet changed in preparation for the ultrasound.
Just as Shawn was about to take some rubber gloves to blow into balloons, the doctor came in. Shawn returned to his spot next to his wife and the doctor explained how the transvaginal ultrasound worked and what Juliet should expect. Shawn took Juliet's hand, lacing their fingers together, both of them excited to see their baby.
"I would say you're about 9 weeks along," the doctor told them with a smile, "and both babies look good."
"Both?" Shawn and Juliet asked.
She turned the screen so they could see. "You're having twins. Congratulations."
They finished up with the doctor, collected copies of the ultrasound photos, and left the doctor's office after making her next appointment.
"Jules there are two babies there," Shawn stated, in shock about that fact.
Juliet started driving toward the Psych office. "I know."
"How did we do that? I'm not even certain what to do with one baby and we're having two," Shawn told her.
"We'll figure it out," Juliet said with a certainty that reassured Shawn. But then she had a realization. "Oh my god, I'm going to be huge."
Shawn reached across the console to take her hand. "You will be beautiful! And at least we're not having, like, quintuplets. Because THEN you would be huge. And what would we do with seven kids?"
Juliet laughed, "Shawn, quintuplets is five."
"I've heard it both ways."
Shawn, Juliet, and their three-day-old twin daughters got settled at home. Juliet went to take a shower leaving Shawn with Emma and Kaylee. Shawn called Gus while changing their diapers. Shawn had his phone on speaker while he took care of the twins.
"I'll come visit you tomorrow, is that cool?" Gus asked while Shawn was working on the second baby.
"Yeah. And I can help you get over your fear of babies," Shawn told him.
"You are not leaving me alone with them, Shawn!"
Shawn chuckled, snapping up the onesie. "Sure. Text me later, man."
"I will. Bye."
Shawn hung up with Gus, put the baby back in her swing next to her sister and realized he had a problem. Juliet found him standing in front of the swinging swings with his fist under his chin when she came out after her shower.
"What are you doing?"
Shawn held his hands out to the swings. "I don't know which one is which. I have messed up their lives."
"Well Emma was wearing green and Kaylee was wearing purple," Juliet told him.
He looked at her with his mouth open in confusion, "I changed their diapers and their outfits while I was talking to Gus. They're identical, Jules! And they're three days old."
"Then it's a good thing they still have their hospital bracelets on, hmm?" Juliet said with a smile, trying to not laugh at him.
Shawn let out a heavy breath and sat on the couch, rubbing his hands over his face. "Emma is baby 1, Kaylee is baby 2."
Juliet sat next to him. "Yep. We'll keep the bracelets until we come up with another way to tell them apart…or we get bigger bracelets. And maybe our moms will have ideas. Your mom will be here Friday."
Shawn wrapped his arm around her. "At least we didn't have quintuplets."
"Yeah," she giggled, "What would we do with seven babies?"
"Quintuplets is five, sweetheart."
"I've heard it both ways," Juliet replied before laughing.