Ch19
Disclaimers and that stuff on the first chapter
AN: Takes place Friday April 26th, 2006
James was just getting ready to leave the hospital when some people walked up to him clipboards in hand.
"Mr. Wilson?" the man asked.
"Yes, who are you?" James asked.
James was currently seated in a wheelchair that was being pushed by a nurse while holding the twins. His mother, Sandy was pushing a cart that held the congratulation gifts James had gotten after the twins' birth. Greg had gone to go get the car and pull it around for James and his mother. He'd had to take the carriers out to the car after they saw that yes, he did have them for the twins. Usually the baby had to go out in the carrier but Lisa let it slip by this time since she was the mother of the children. And she could tell that James wanted to hold the twins to show them off as he left the hospital. It really wasn't a secret anymore that James Wilson and Lisa Cuddy had children. No one dare ask why Lisa hadn't been pregnant with them because Lisa had threatened to fire anyone who asked because it was none of their business.
Greg had joked to James that he owed him the cleaning bill because of the vomit and other stuff that was in the car because of him going into labor.
"We're here from the FDA," the man said.
"What do you want?" James asked, throwing his mother a frightened look.
"Could we talk privately?" the man asked.
"No here is fine," James said.
"Fine. You have broken every law there is by going through with this little experiment of yours. We could have you arrested and those things put down," the man said.
"Those things? THOSE THINGS?!?!?" James yelled drawling a few stares from the nurses around him.
"James calm down," Sandy said putting her hand on his shoulder.
"No! Do they look like things?" James asked turning the babies around with some difficulty.
"They're so cute," the woman said. She would have ticked the one baby had her boss not given her a hard stare.
"Seeing as that they're not freaks we won't be putting them down. We will be watching you very closely. Good luck raising them," the man said and walked off.
"Ok, who were they?" Greg asked limping into the hall.
"I'll tell you on the way," James said ready to get out of there.
So on the way he told Greg what had happened. Of course he wasn't too happy either but knew they couldn't make a big deal since James could lose his license for going against the FDA like that.
Since everything of James's was already over at Greg's place it was decided that he'd come over there to stay.
Once they got home Greg parked in the driveway and helped James out of the car and then got the one twin out of the car while Sandy got the other one.
"You know this isn't forever right?" James asked as they were coming into the house.
"Honey I think he knows that," Sandy said carrying her grandson into the living room.
"Yes I do know that," Greg said carrying the little girl into the living room.
'I don't like it but like my girlfriend loves to point out I don't have a choice,' Greg thought to himself while setting the carrier onto the couch.
Since it was only 8 o'clock only James's mother could be there with him to help with the twins. Rob had taken the girls to school and then taken Josh to Mary's place for her to watch him for the day. After work everyone was heading over to Greg and Allison's place because they would be finding out the twins' names today.
James was shocked that his family was at the hospital all night on Wednesday. Then late last night they had went home because they couldn't let the girls miss two days of school. James felt kind of sad because Lisa would miss his two big announcements tonight because of her slumber party.
James had been forbidden from going up and down the stairs until at least tonight, so he couldn't put the twins in their cribs at this moment. Greg or someone had gotten a play pen so Greg and he put them in there. Sandy went into the kitchen to check and see if there had been any bottles made up. She saw that someone had so she didn't have to worry about that for now. Tonight the twins would sleep in their cribs or that was the plan. James wasn't so sure he was ready for them to be out of his sight. Yes they would only be in the next room but being a new parent even that was too far away for him.
Once they got the twins settled into the playpen Greg helped…ok more forced James onto the couch to get some rest.
"Greg I'm not a child. I don't need to rest," James said trying to hide a yawn.
"James rest while you can. I can tell you from raising four children that you need all the rest you can get," Sandy said smiling at her son.
"What about the twins?" James asked.
"They'll be fine. I'll be here in case they awaken," Sandy said.
"Fine," James said sitting on the couch and then laying down after removing his shoes of course.
Since Sandy knew that James wasn't going to be able to bend down for awhile to tie his shoes she'd gotten him house slippers to wear home from the hospital. He hadn't been happy about that but his mother told him it was those or no shoes. So he wore them home not at all happy about it. He was also wearing sweats and a sweater because he couldn't fit into his pre-pregnancy clothes and he wasn't wearing women's clothing anymore.
Originally Greg was going to stay home with James and the twins today but since Sandy was there Cuddy said that Greg had to come into work. She knew that James wouldn't want Greg hovering along with his mother all day long. Besides they were short handed in the clinic so she needed Greg to help down there.
Lisa also planned on going there to see the twins. She and James hadn't figured out where they were going from here. James had been a little overwhelmed with the birth of the twins and then his daughter coming out blue. It'd been a hectic two days and now all James wanted to do was settle in and get to know his babies.
About twenty minutes after Greg left James was awoken by a cry from one of his children. So as quickly as he could he got up and headed to the playpen that was in the dinning room.
"Hey honey what's wrong?" James asked picking up his daughter and cradling her to his chest.
"It's ok," James said rocking her back and forth thinking that maybe she was just fussy.
When that didn't work he checked to make sure she wasn't wet. Finding her not to be he decided to go get her a bottle and see if maybe she was hungry.
"Its ok honey," James said setting her back into the playpen so he could get her bottle for her.
"Want me to hold her while you do that?" Sandy asked.
"Could you?" James asked pushing his glasses back up onto his nose. James knew that he needed to go see his eye doctor. He decided that it wasn't worth opening a fresh pack of contact. Otherwise he couldn't give those back to them in exchange for his new prescription.
"Sure," Sandy said smiling at her son while picking up her granddaughter.
Sandy had decided not to be a hovering mother with her son like she had been with Rob when Lisa was born. She was there just in case he started getting overwhelmed by the twins.
"Thank God for small favors," James said under his breath.
"What was that?" Sandy asked.
"Nothing," James said getting out a bottle.
Greg or someone had gotten some bottles put together and instructions on how to warm them up. It helped that someone had bought a bottle warmer so he didn't have to do the
whole pan of water thing. He was sure to check the milk on his wrist before taking it to his daughter.
"Did you check it?" Sandy asked seeing James coming back into the living room where she was sitting on the couch with her granddaughter.
"Yes mom," James said sitting down on the couch.
"Ok dear," Sandy said.
"You may want to put a pillow down so that she doesn't hurt the wound by kicking it or something," Sandy said.
"Thanks that would be a good idea," James said.
He was in pain but he hid it well besides he had great little drugs that helped with the pain. He was afraid to take them too often because he was afraid of how it'd affect his ability to take care of the twins.
"No problem dear," Sandy said handing over her granddaughter.
"What's this for?" James asked looking up to see that his mother had brought a towel from the kitchen.
"For when you burp her, she may throw up," Sandy said.
"Oh didn't think of that," James said embarrassed.
"Don't worry dear you learn with experience," Sandy said kissing her son on the head and going back to the kitchen.
The rest of the day was pretty hectic for James. During lunch Sam, Beth, Allison, Robert, Eric, and Lisa all stopped by to see the twins. For the most part they slept during the day. They were learning fast that if one cried then daddy came rushing to them so at times they'd both cry. It was starting to get to James a bit because every since he'd brought them home they'd been up and down so much there was no time for him to rest himself. He could have just let his mother take care of them but he really didn't want to make her take care of his children. Besides he didn't want to miss a moment of their life.
By time Greg got home from work James was ready to make him watch the kids tonight while he just slept but he couldn't do that to Greg. Even if he really, really wanted to; he knew it wasn't fair to Greg.
Since James had been on his feet all day long taking care of the twins, Greg told him to take a load off while he washed bottles and got them ready for later on. When Chase saw how many bottles they had he'd joked that they needed a refrigerator just for the bottles since they took up a lot of room.
"Well everyone is here dear," Sandy said coming into James's room.
Greg had decided that James could take the twins up to their room tonight but tomorrow they'd be down stairs during the day. He didn't want James to hurt himself by going up and down the stairs all day long.
"Thanks bring them up," James said not looking up from the twins.
Currently he was wearing jeans and a t-shirt. He didn't like wearing sweats so he'd squeezed himself into one of his old pair of jeans that he'd had when he's first started to gain weight.
"Lisa what are you doing here?" James asked shocked to see her.
"Came to see what my cousins' names are," Lisa said.
"What about your slumber party?" James asked.
"Oh that? Moved it to tomorrow," Lisa said.
"Why?" James asked.
"Well all the girls thought that it was tomorrow anyways," Lisa said.
"Oh," James said.
"So?" Sarah asked.
"So what?" James asked raising an eyebrow.
"What's their names?" Sarah asked.
"Oh you want to know?" James asked like he'd already told them.
"Yes!" everyone almost screamed.
They'd all been waiting all day long to find out the names of the newest additions of the Wilson family.
"Well this little guy's name is Jonathan Thomas Wilson," James said nodding towards his son in his right arm.
"What's her name?" Sarah asked pointing to the little girl.
"Mom?" James asked.
"Yes dear?" Sandy asked having tears in her eyes.
Jonathan was the name of her father and she was honored that her son would name his son after her father. Thomas was the name of Fred's father he too was honored that his son named him after his father also.
"I hope you're not mad at me," James said looking her in the eye.
"Why would I be dear?" Sandy asked letting a tear slide down.
"Meet your granddaughter Anna Casey Wilson," James said.
"Thank you dear," Sandy said letting the tears come.
"That's not all," James said.
"What do you mean?" Sandy asked wiping the tears away.
"I've been thinking long and hard about this. Lisa would you come here," James said.
"What?" Lisa asked coming over to the other side of the bed which was closest to the door.
"Would you do me the honor of being God mother to my children?" James asked looking at Lisa while smiling.
"Wait a minute here, whoever has know Jimmy longer gets to be godparent to his twins," Greg said not believing he'd just blurted that out in front of everyone.
"Really?" James asked eyebrow raised.
"Go on," Greg said trying to figure out how to make a quick exit.
"Not so quick old man," James said sticking his leg out and tripping House. Of course he didn't fall but stumbled.
"What?" Greg asked turning around after catching himself.
"If you would have just listened for a minute longer you would have heard the rest. I know you Greg. You won't be like a Godfather to them you'll be Uncle Greg to them. That's why I want you and Allison to be their extended uncle and aunt," James said.
"I can't do that," Greg said.
"You already do it so it'll be no problem," James said.
"Thanks," Greg said giving a rare smile.
"Welcome," James said returning the smile.
After everyone got to hold Anna and John they left to head home. Sandy went home for the night promising to come back first thing tomorrow. James told her she didn't have to but knew she would anyways which would be nice.
Later that night…
James woke with a start for no reason. He listened to see if maybe the twins were crying but they didn't seem to be. He looked over and saw that it was only ten o'clock. So he tried to get back to sleep but before he could even close his eyes the twins woke up crying for him.
After changing them and getting them back to sleep he moved the rocker to face their cribs and then sat down. About an hour later when Greg and Allison came up to go to bed they found James sound asleep.
"I better wake him," Greg whispered to Allison.
"Let him sleep," Allison said.
"Fine," Greg said knowing two to one James would end up right back there again. Before going to bed Allison put a blanket over James so he didn't get cold.
The rest of the night was anything but peaceful for the small family. The twins woke up so many times Greg lost count. By time morning came James was so exhausted that he looked like he'd been up all night which he pretty much had. The twins woke about every hour to two hours to eat and then go back to sleep.
So that James didn't have to go up and down the stairs all night long, Greg had gotten a mini frig for the nursery. On top it had a drying rack so that James could just go rinse the bottles out and then wash them in the morning and re-stock for that night. There was also a bottle warmer in the room for James. Greg didn't want him going up and down the stairs all night so besides James having to stay downstairs all night this was the only other way.
Sandy of course came for a couple of hours the next morning before she had to go back and help Rob with the slumber party. Sam was working today because she had to prepare for a big case that was coming up the following week.
Next chapter: the slumber party