"Careful, Fabri. Support his head..." Tommy warned Fabrizio as they came through the door of the apartment with baby Romeo. It was the first day bringing him home and Tommy was extremely over protective.

"Is okay, I've a'got him." Fabrizio replied, carefully cradling their little son in his arms.

The baby cooed and grunted up at him, moving his little arms up and around curiously.

"Sweet bambino..." Fabrizio smiled. "Tu sei il nostro tutto dolce angelo."

"The baby's here! The baby's here!" Cora jumped with glee when Tommy and Fabri came through the door with baby Romi, as they called him for short.

"Tommy here, come sit down. You must be horribly sore." Rose frown sympathetically, taking his arm and leading him to the couch while Fabrizio carried their baby inside.

"Thank ye', Rosie." Tommy replied, voice low as he declined back on the couch to relax. One hand grabbed his lower belly and he winced.

"Let's see it." Jack grinned.

"You don't wanna." Tommy assured him.

"Aw come on. Show off that battle scar. I bet it's neat lookin." Jack pleaded.

Tommy sighed and lifted his shirt little bit to reveal the large painful looking cesarean scar.

"Jesus, Tommy. Couldn't you have just pushed that kid out instead?" Jack asked.

"Yes Jackie. Cause I've got the right equipment for that don't I?" Tommy replied with heavy sarcasm.

"Well hey, you weren't supposed to be able to get knocked up in the first place, but look at there." Jack chuckled then, indicating to the tiny baby who Fabrizio was now feeding a bottle.

"Can I hold him, Uncle Fabri?" Cora asked, pulling on Fabrizio's sleeve.

"Sì la mia principessa." Fabrizio nodded. "Sit down and I'a give him to you."

Cora hurried to the couch and took a seat next to Tommy as Fabrizio lowered little Romeo down into her arms carefully.

"Make sure to support his head, little gem." Tommy told her. "He can't do it himself yet."

Cora shifted her arm a little so that she could better support his tiny head.

Romeo was a very pretty baby. He had little tufts of strawberry blonde hair sticking up off his little head, warm soft skin, pretty dark eyes like his father, and a cute little button nose with sweet tiny ears.

"He looks like his mommy doesn't he?" Rose smiled, sitting on the other side of Cora to peer down at the baby.

"With his father's eyes." Tommy smiled up at Fabrizio.

"I love him." Cora giggled happily, kissing Romi's little forehead and getting a little noise out of him in return.

"Well I'm sure he feels the same." Tommy replied, fixing the baby's little socks so that his feet weren't getting to cold.

"Cora's gonna be a good babysitter. Aren't you, Cora?" Jack smiled at his girl.

"Yep." Cora nodded. "I'm gonna dress him up and play with him, and feed him..."

"You know you've gotta change him too. Don't forget about that." Tommy chuckled.

Cora shook her head quickly. "No, mama can do that part." She said.

They all shared a laugh at that and Jack grabbed his sketch book to get a picture down of Cora with the baby.

"He's so small." Cora commented, looking the baby over then giggling when he reached a tiny hand up. "He's got little fingers."

"He was pretty small." Tommy said. "Six pounds and ten ounces. Doc says its cause he was just a wee bit early."

"Uncle Jack are you drawin' me?" Cora asked, noticing Jack fiddling around with his sketchbook.

"Sure am." Jack nodded, focusing on his work. "Try to keep still, Best Girl. I'll be finished in just a few minutes."

Little Romeo made a noise at Cora and she looked down into his little dark eyes.

"That's perfect!" Jack smiled, carefully shading Cora's hair in with his pencil.

Cora giggled and watched little Romi wiggle his feet around and reach with his tiny hands.

"I think he likes me." She said with a smile.

"Seems to." Tommy agreed.

"Amore. He loves his cugino." Fabrizio agreed, reaching a hand down and letting little Romeo grabbed his finger in a tiny hand.

Cora giggled and grinned happily down at the baby. She loved him too. Very much.

...

"He's really cute." Cora told her friends at school a few days later. "He's really small and his fingers and toes are so tiny."

"My mother had a baby last year." Jenny said, and Caleb nodded along with his sister. "She was really pretty. I love babies."

"Yeah but they really stink sometimes." Finn laughed, making the other children laugh as well.

"He does but it's okay cause once he gets changed it doesn't stink anymore." Cora assured them.

"And his name is really Romeo?" Lilly asked. "That's so romantic. Will they name their next baby Juliet?"

Cora shrugged. "Maybe. I hope so." She said, taking a big bite out of her sandwich.

"He sounds great, Cora." Peter told her. "I'm glad you're a big cousin now. That's really exciting."

"You should all come see him one day." Cora said. "Or maybe I could bring him to show and tell!"

"Yeah! That'd be great Cora!" Jenny agreed.

"Then everybody could see him." Peter said, giving an approving nod and smile.

"I'll ask teacher after lunch." Cora assured them, finishing off the last of her sandwich. Of course she'd have to get her uncles to agree as well. That task might not be as easy.

"Hush piccolo angelo non piangere. Andando di papà cantare una ninna nanna..." Fabrizio whispered while rocking baby Romi in his arms and slowly strolling around he and Tommy's bedroom.

"That a lullaby?" Tommy asked.

"Yes." Fabri nodded softly. "Mama used to a'sing to me back home."

He crossed the room to the bed and gently laid the little infant, who was still refusing to close his little eyes, down next to Tommy. He then climbed up into bed next to them both.

"Romi, you need to go to sleep." Tommy whispered to their wide eyed baby, who was happily sucking on his pacifier and watching his mother with curious dark eyes.

"Is okay, I stay awake with him" Fabrizio assured his lover, letting Romeo grip one of his fingers again with his little hand.

"You staid awake last night." Tommy reminded him.

"Mia amata destino, you need to rest. I will a'stay awake." Fabrizio told him, leaning over for a kiss.

The bedroom door then creaked slowly open and a little face peaked in through the crack.

"Cora?" Tommy asked. "Everything alright?"

"I gotta ask you something." Cora replied.

"Well ask away." Tommy told her. "And come on in. Ye' don't have to stay out there. We're decent. It's alright."

Cora opened the door up and came into the room.

"Can I take Romi to show and tell tomorrow?" Cora asked.

Tommy looked to Fabrizio who chuckled and Tommy had to crack a little laugh as well.

"What?" Cora asked.

"Oh Little Gem, how innocent ye' are. It's quite refreshin' ain't it Fabri?"

Cora frowned and her little eyes grew wet with tears. She'd had her heart set on this.

Tommy looked from Fabri to little Cora and once he saw the tears forming in his little gem's eyes he couldn't deny her anything.

"Aw Little Gem, ye' know I'm a sucker for those big brown eyes 'a yers." He said, looking back down when Romi made a little noise.

"So...can I take him?" Cora asked again with a sniffle.

"Not to a'school, Amore." Fabrizio told her.

"But we can bring him up when ye' need him for yer little show and tell. Can't we Fabri?" Tommy said. Fabrizio nodded in agreement.

Cora grinned triumphantly. Shedding a few tears was one way to keep her uncles under her sweet little thumb.

...

"Sweet dreams, darling." Rose smiled and kissed Cora's forehead gently after tucking her in.

"Mama?" Cora asked before Rose could walk away.

"Yes honey?" Rose replied, sitting back down on the edge of her bed.

"It'd be fun to have two babies around the house wouldn't it?" Cora asked her with a smile.

"What?" Rose asked in confusion. "Whatever do you mean?"

"I wrote a letter to the stork for you and Uncle Jack." Cora told her. "Can I send it tomorrow? I'd like a baby sister very much."

Rose nearly choked on her own breath. "Um...darling..." She tried to explain. "I don't think now is the best time for..."

"Please Mama." Cora pleaded. "I'd be a really good big sister. I'd even help change the stinky diapers."

"I'm sure you would honey." Rose assured her, stroking her hair. "But for now, we need to focus on caring for little Romi. He's so tiny and he needs us all so much. Understand?"

Cora nodded sadly and Rose kissed her forehead again.

"But hey, don't you worry. Uncle Jack and I are going to have our own little ones one day." She assured her.

"Really?" Cora asked hopefully.

"I promise." Rose nodded. "It's just going to have to wait for a little while, okay?"

"Okay Mama." Cora agreed with a yawn.

"There's my sweet girl." Rose smiled, standing back up

From the bed. "Good night sweetheart."

"Goodnight." Cora replied before laying her head down and closing her little eyes.

TBC