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PHOEBES POV
Oh shit! My father just fainted! Like a bitch!
My mom kneels down beside him and gently brings him a around. All of us are trying our hardest not to laugh...except Ava. She is in a full on belly laugh on the sofa clutching her stomach. When he comes back around fully, Teddy and Alex help him stand and sit him down on a chair while my mom stands behind him massaging his neck. He comes out of his fog and looks me straight in the eye
"You're having a baby?"
"Yes daddy" god I'm blushing! I know I'm a married woman but I don't like the idea of my father now knowing for a full fact that James and I...have relations.
He stands up and walks to me pulling me into a bone crushing hug. He peppers my forehead with kisses and then leans down to whisper in my ear
"If you make half as good a mother, as you are a daughter, your child will be truly blessed" my eyes water up and I hug him back. When he pulls away he does the manly "damn allergies" thing with the tears that are clearly coming from his tear ducts.
"Ok well...let's go, you and James can jump in with your mother and I"
"What? Where are we going?" I look around the room and all the younger ones are confused but my mom, Eva and Gideon seem to know what he means because the start putting on jackets
"To the hospital, I have a standing appointment with Dr Green for situations like this" of course he does.
An hour later and much to the amusement of Ava I'm laying on a bed, with my legs in stirrups. It's only James, Ava and myself in the room as per my request because when Dr Green started asking things like "when was your last period?" I asked for my parents and Eva and Gideon to leave the room. Talk about embarrassing! Dr Green walks back into the room from the bathroom where I had to leave a pee sample.
"Well, it's confirmed, you're pregnant" she shows us all a stick that is now blue. We all have big smiles on our faces. I'm having a mini amigo. I have James one side of the bed and Ava the other, both holding my hands.
"Let's see if we can see baby Grey-Cross, if I can't see from a ultra sound we can just do it vaginally" Ava snorts when she says this but I glare at her.
She squirts some cool Gel onto my belly and presses down with this thing that looks like a microphone. All three of us are staring intently at the screen, none of us knowing what we are trying to see exactly.
"Ok...if I just go over here...and there..." She freezes the screen on a very clear picture of...well it looks like a alien head...but that's my baby. I look at James and he is beaming and when I look at Ava she's crying. She squeezes my hand and smiles.
"Ok if I turn this up a little we should hear baby's heart beat" Dr Green turns the volume up and we all hear the rhythmic thumping.
Tha-thump Tha-Thump Tha-Thump.
It's the most beautiful sound in the world. I know I was a little...reserved at first but at this moment, hearing my babies little heart beat for the first time, I'm a mother. My life will never be the same again from this point forward.
"Dr Green? Can we get the rest of our family in here please?" I ask her but she has a slight frown on her face as she looks at the screen. My blood freezes in my veins. Something's wrong. James and Ava see her face too and both their grips tighten
"What's wrong?" James asks her, thank god because I don't think I could talk at the moment.
"Nothing's wrong Mr Cross but I can hear...almost had it...if I can get baby to move a little to the left...there...seems you're having twins and I would say you are about 13 weeks so you're out if the first trimester" she beams at our three shocked faces.
"Wh..wh...excuse you? twins! Are your sure? Lemme see" I lean up in the bed and Dr Green points to baby number 2 which is slightly hidden by baby number 1.
Oh dear god I'm having a fucking litter! I start to panic again but James grabs my hand and makes me look him in the eye
"It's ok, we can do this Phoebe...baby I love you so much, thank you for giving me my children, I'm so happy" he kisses me sweetly on the lips. He's right. We can do this. Hos hard can 2 little babies be? I look at Ava and frown, she's holding her hands about a foot apart and is looking from her hands, to my belly and back again.
"Ava what are you doing?"
"Holy shit pheebs! If they come out side by side it's gunna rip you apart!...holy mother fucking god! Dr Green? We need to get a birthing plan in place, what if she goes in labour when I'm with her? I can't deliver a baby! no not A baby she growing half a fucking kindergarten class in there! Holy fuck...wait wait..., is she having 2 because of the amount of sex they have? Because they do it all the time! Like seriously she spends more time on her back than a coma patient...OMG! What if we're trapped In a elevator and you give birth? I can't do this! Seriously I can't do this! Oh god I'm going to faint...can I get a paper bag please, oh god. This is gunna hurt...Ava women up, you can do this...I can do this...oh god I am going to get cankles? Can you catch cankles" Dr Green hands her a paper bag and tells her to put her head down.
"Ava Grey! I am the one having the babies not you so you won't get cankles for fucks sake.. Sorry Dr Green"
"Phoebe Grey! When we were 6 years old you broke your arm and I could not move mine for a week. When we were 13 you snuck into your dads drink cabinet with James, got drunk and I was the one with a week long hangover even though I didn't touch a drop and do I have to bring up the night you cashed in your V card? Dr Green I couldn't walk straight for a week! It's like we have this weird connection and I know this pregnancy is going to kill me" she finishes her rant and gets back to breathing in her paper bag. The look on Dr Greens face is priceless and it makes both James and I laugh.
"Ava, can I call you Ava?" Dr Green asks her and Ava nods with her face deep in the bag "Ava when the day comes that you decide to start your family and you become pregnant...I think you should see Dr Barker"
"Why can't I have you?" Ava pouts
"I'll be on vacation that week...shall i go get your parents?" Dr Green asks us and we nod. Before she leaves she turns the volume back up so we can hear our babies heartbeats.
Finally Ava comes out of her freakout and hugs me and James, telling us both she is over the moon for us and that we will have 2 mini members of our little gang.
I look up and the doors open and our family comes in being led by my father who comes straight over to me and then stops and listens to the babies heart beat with a massive smile on his face.
The room is a little cramped because it seems my whole family and extended family is here. My parents, James parents, Kate and Elliott's, all our brothers and sisters, Mia and Ethan and all our cousins and my grandparents. To any one else this would not be allowed but what Christian Grey wants, Christian Grey gets.
"Ok gang, now that everyone is here" Dr Green turns the machine right up and every one stops and listens to the heart beats. All the women are crying, my dad and Gideon are trying to hide their tears and my uncle Elliott is full on sobbing. Dr Green freezes the screen so that both the babies can be seen and then takes a step back. Everyone is beaming at the little screen but my mom leans right over me looking intently at the screen. She's spotted the other baby
"OH MY GOD IS THAT? are you?" She looks at me and I not my head. I can't talk my face is streaming with tears.
"Oh honey I'm so happy for you baby" she grabs me in a death grip and we both cry.
"What's happening I don't understand?" My father never was a patient man
"Phoebe and I are having twins" James announces and the whole room explodes with cheers.
When everyone has calmed down I tell them that I am 13 weeks
"Well the worst is over then, should be plain sailing from here on out. The first three months are the hardest, well in my opinion they are" Eva tells me and the other women in the room agree with her.
I lay back on the bed and smile at not only my husband but my whole family
"The next 6 months should be a breeze. I got this, I mean really, How hard can this be?"
5 MONTHS LATER, PHOEBES POV
Oh god when will this be fucking over? I am the size of a house! I haven't seen my feet in weeks and my back feels like it's broken!
I thought the last five months would be easy but boy was I wrong. I had morning sickness every single morning during my second trimester. My boobs are huge and so sensitive it hurts to have a bra on. My feet are swollen and my hands are swollen so I had to take my wedding ring off and now I wear it in a chain around my neck. The babies think it's funny to kick me in the kidneys ever hour on the hour and I get heart burn so bad I moan like a whore in church. And the cravings! What the fuck Is all that about?
It started at the wedding a few days after we found out about the babies. I put BBQ sauce on my slice of wedding cake and everybody saw it so we made an announcement at the wedding that we were having twins. I made sure that first everyone knew that James and I had already been married for 2 years. I didn't want them to think James was marrying me out if obligation. The wedding wasn't really for me and James though it was more for Eva and my mom. We went, we danced, we had some pictures taken and we left. We did go to Miami for a week on A Mini moon but when we came back we both got stuck into work.
I love working along side my father and husband. It gives me a thrill in a board room to know that when I make my point I have three alpha males backing me up. Christian Grey, Gideon Cross and James Cross. James is so sexy in his suits in work that more than once we have given in to our urges and done some type of fuckery on either his desk or mine. Our offices are next door to each other and they have a connecting door so getting to him is easy.
I have admit the one good thing about this pregnancy, apart from getting my babies at the end, is my sex drive. It went off the charts, so much so that James actually spent a few nights at his parents just to get a break from me. He tried sleeping in a guest room to get away from me but I kept sneaking in to him in the middle of the night. He said his poor dick was red raw at one point.
I had to go on maternity leave a few weeks earlier than I wanted because it's just getting to hard to even move. I'm 36 weeks now but I feel full term. I literally waddle and have to keep my hands on my lower back when I walk. Sex is pretty much either stand and slam or from behind these days. It's still rocking but I can't wait for this to be over, and then the 6 week wait until I can hold my husband the way I want to again.
James has been perfect. He's been at my beck and call and he's always giving me foot rubs or massaging my back. He has been sending me flowers ever day since my maternity started with little notes telling me how beautiful I am or that he can't wait to see our babies.
The only thing that we didn't see eye to eye on was my father insisting that we move in with him and my mother for the last couple months of my pregnancy. I was dead against it but James and my father persuaded me and I'm glad they did. It's been a blast these last few weeks.
My mother has been a god send in preparing me for mother hood, giving me helpful advice and putting me in touch with various different people such as house keepers and Nannies in case we want one. My parents never used a nanny nor did Eva and Gideon so James and I don't want one.
I do miss Madison and Alexander though. Maddie is at Harvard with Lexi and Alexander is at MIT. Much to everyone's shock the girls are transferring to the university of Washington in a few weeks. They both decided that they want to work at GCE and by moving to UW they can both do part time internships at Grey House while they study. My father and Gideon were a little disappointed because well let's face it, Harvard is Ivy league but the girls said that part of the reason was they missed their family's so my dad and Gideon bought them an apartment just off campus and have had Elliott re-do it to their standards.
Alex is loving MIT and after he was there a month Liam quit his job at Grey House and moved to be with Alex. They make a great couple and I can't wait to see my baby bro when comes home for summer vacation in a few weeks.
I walk, or I should say waddle, to the kitchen to find Ava eating ice cream. She's been my shadow these last five months and has been the best friend a girl could ask for. Every doctors appointment and parenting class she's been there. She moved in with Andrew 2 months ago which made me very happy because when, or if my father finally let's me go back to my own apartment, Ava will only be a few floors below.
"Hey I thought you were going into work for a few hours?" Ava is fast becoming the must have architect in Washington. Her designs are fabulous and she has a waiting list of clients a mile long.
"No I decided to just finish my blue prints up later, it won't take me long. Beside Andrew is on a site visits today so it's not like I could even have a nooner with him" she shrugs. She always teased James and I about the amount of times we have sex but her and Andrew are on par with us.
"What? you don't want to go into your office because the chance of having sex is 0? Very professional Miss Grey" I tease her as I get up onto one of the bar stools very un-gracefully. My back twinges when I finally sit down. It's been bothering me all morning.
"I don't know what it is Phoebe but we can't keep out hands off each other. He's so hot and he makes me feel oh so good" she winks at me offering me some of her ice cream which I decline. She was right about what she said to Dr Green. She's been having pregnancy symptoms so bad at one point we all thought she was prego and Kate made her take 10 different tests. She wasn't, but it put the fear of god into her and she switched her birth control up and got the depo shot.
"It's called being in love Ava. It makes sex so much better, well I assume it does. I've only been with James so I wouldn't know"
"Trust me it's better being in love. How are you and James making out with the whole sex thing? I mean no offence Pheebs but you are like a whale at the moment so it's got to be uncomfortable!"
"First off, thanks for calling me a whale Ava! And second of all, you're right, it's not very comfortable at the moment and we aren't doing it as much as we were, buts it's still off the charts good" I squirm a little in my seat because I keep having sharp pains in my back
"You ok over there?"
"Yeah, my back is playing up a little I think I may have tweaked it"
"Have you done any lifting? You know uncle Christians rules Phoebe no lifting or reaching"
"I haven't done anything...well...James gave it to me pretty good in the shower this morning"
"Get up and walk around a little like Eva told you to do" she helps me off the stool and we go for a walk/waddle in the back yard. I really do love my parents house and James and I have been looking at property in the area. We want the kids brought up close to our parents and I have been dropping little hints to Andrew about the area? If I move Ava needs to move. I know it's probably unhealthy to be this codependent on a person but she'd like my sister.
We walk around for 20 minutes and then go back into the kitchen. Just as I go to the fridge to get us a couple of bottles of water it happens.
I feel the gush of liquid and when I look down there is a puddle on the floor and the bottom of my maxi dress is soaked.
My waters broke.
"Ummm Ava" she comes over and then sees the puddle I am stood in and she starts rubbing my arm
"Hey it's ok Pheebs it's nothing to be embarrassed about. I read that lots of women lose control of there bladder during pregnancy, it's nothing to be worried about. So you peed your self, it's no biggie"
"Ava that's not pee...my waters broke!"
"WHAT? Oh my god...I'm ok I can handle this umm sit down...no wait you need to change out of that dress because it's wet..." She takes my hand and starts to lead me to the stairs when my mom and Eva walk in
"Phoebe are you ok?" My mom must see the panic on my face but before I can answer her, Ava has yet another freak out
"Oh my god aunt Ana! Her waters broke because James gave it to her really rough this morning in the shower and she's having the baby we need to cal James and uncle Christian and Uncle Gideon and we need to call the hospital and get her bag and...oh god I can't breath" she supports her self on the wall and starts breathing really heavy.
Eve strides over to her as calm as can be and slaps her, not hard, but hard enough across the face.
"Feel better?" She asks her with a smile
"Yes thank you...I needed that"
My mom walks over and engulfs me in a hug which calms me down
"This is it baby girl, are you ready!"
"Not really but it's time to put on my big girl pants I guess" I give a nervous laugh. My mom goes to grab her phone but I pull her back
"Don't leave me mama I'm scared"
"Ok baby girl I won't leave you. Eva call James and Gideon, Ava call uncle...actually grab my phone from my office please i'll call uncle Christian" Ava scampers to get the phone and Eva runs upstairs to get my bag and some sweats and tee that I put on quickly. My mom sits me down on the sofa holding my hand while she dials my dad while Eva starts timing my contractions on the timer on her phone
"Hey baby...yes I'm fine...at the house...Phoebe, Ava and Eva...yeah...um listen don't freak out and try to stay calm but Phoebe is in labour" she has to take the phone away from her ear because we all hear my father scream "WHAT?"
"Christian calm down she's fine...yes we are taking her there now...ok I'll meet you there...I love you too..grandpa" she hangs up giggling
"Come on let's get you to the hospital"
"Eva did you get hold of James?"
"No I didn't his phone is out of area, so is Gideon's but I know where they are so I've rang Reynolds to go get them"
5 hours later and my husband is still not here. My labour is progressing alarmingly fast. I'm 9cm dilated and it's almost time to push. The pain is getting to be unbearable and much to his annoyance i made my father leave the room. I don't want him in here when I give birth any way. I'm his little girl I don't want him to see me with my legs spread trying to push two babies that feel like they are the size of baby elephants out of my vagina.
We decided to not find out the sex of the babies but we have 2 girls names and 2 boys names picked out so we have all out bases covered.
"Ok Phoebe it's time to start pushing" Dr Green tells me while she sits on her little stool between my spread legs
"No James isn't here I can't!" I pant out. I'm so tired. I'm dripping in sweat. Ava is at my head with a cool cloth pressed to my forehead, Eva is to my right and my mom to the left
"I'm sorry but these babies are not hanging around. On your next contraction I want you too push" oh my god
"Where the fuck is he?" I scream and then I hear him
"I'm here, I'm here, oh my god baby I'm so sorry, there was an accident on the I5 we couldn't move so your dad had his helicopter land next too the freeway for us" he takes my hand and starts kissing me
"It's ok you're here now...oh my god here it comes" I grip his hand so hard he winces. Good! He fucking did this to me!
"Push push that's it Phoebe you are doing great...almost there...ok one more big push Phoebe now come on" I give it my all and then I hear the most adorable little scream. I look up as Dr Green lifts my baby In to the world
"Would you like to cut your sons cord Mr Cross?"
"It's a boy? I have a boy?" James is stunned but he takes the instrument he's handed and cuts our baby's cord. Dr Green hands him over to another doctor to get cleaned up. He's beautiful, but I don't have time to even think when I get the urge to push again
"Ok Phoebe, one down one to go...and push push push that's it...one more and the shoulders will be out...that's it ...good girl...daddy would you like to do the honours again" she holds the baby up and I see I have a daughter. James cuts her cord with tears streaming down his face
"Oh my god Phoebe you did it! Baby they are beautiful, thank you so much I love you so much" I pull him down for a kiss
"I love you too James"
An hour later and I am in a private room with just James and the babies. When my dad was told he had a grandson and a granddaughter I was told he cried like a little girl and when Dr Green walked out the room, much to her shock, he picked her up and swung her around whooping.
The baby's are perfect but I may be a bit bias. Our little girl has a small tuft of brown hair and our baby boy has jet black hair all over his little head. We have just picked out their names so we texted everyone to come back in. My suite is more like a massive hotel room so everyone should fit.
All our parents are here, my brothers and sisters who flew back in as soon as they were told, my grandparents and all my aunts and uncles and cousins are here so now is the perfect time to introduce the two newest members to our family.
"Okay everyone...James and I thought hard about names and we have decided" I pick up my baby boy from his perch on my lap
"I'm would like you all to meet Greyson Christian Grey-Cross" I look at my father and I can tell he is touched that I named my baby after him and he mouths the word thank you to me.
"We think it's cool that his initials are GCGC" James laughs while he presses a soft kiss to our daughters head who is snuggled to his chest
"This little cutie caused us some problems because we wanted to name her after three extraordinary women but we had to combine two names and sorry dad and Gideon, we stole the name of your boat. This little ladies middle name is Evastashia after the two best mothers in the world" Eva and my mom are both crying, hell the whole room is crying
"You said that's her middle name what's her first name?" Teddy asks
I look at Ava who is sat on the end of my bed gently rubbing my feet
"We named her after the best friend a girl, or boy, could ever ask for. Her full name is Ava Evastashia Grey-Cross" I smile
"Oh my god you named your baby after me?"
"Of course I did. I love you Ava and I can't think of a better role model for my daughter" she beams at me and James hands baby Ava over to big Ava who starts talking softly to her
"Hey baby Ava, you and I are going to be best friends just like your mommy and me. I'm going to take you shopping and to the park and I'll teach you how to skate...and when you get a little older I'll take you clubbing and talk to you about boys...it's going to be so fun"
"You will not be talking to my baby girl about boys Ava" I smirk
"Oh Phoebe...you gave this little girl my name, it's only right I give her all my wisdom"