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"Josh this is it," Donna said with a smile. She gazed around the room with a sense that… she just knew that it was all right. "I mean look at this place Josh."

He smiled. Sure it wasn't really his taste. Then again he wasn't exactly sure he had taste. Donna had been the one who had 'decorated' his apartment. But she was smiling; he liked to see her smile.

"This place is perfect Josh," Donna said spinning around as she looked from wall to wall. "It's not too big… It's in our price range…." She looked over at him, her gaze of a questioning nature. "What do you think?"

"I like that you like it," Josh said staring at her, not really having an opinion about the place.

"Josh," she whined. "I want you to have an opinion about this place. I want you to give me your input."

Shit, Josh thought. He knew he had said the wrong thing. He looked about the room trying to find something he could give her an opinion about. Anything. He looked at the window. A BACKYARD! Josh thought raising his eyebrows and heading towards the window.

He looked out on the yard. It was… a pile of dirt. Seriously there was nothing there… No grass… Nothing… What kind of place was this? "The yard might need some work," he said, and nearly grabbed his head instantly knowing he wasn't helping himself. She came over and stood beside him. He looked up at her, and smiled. She was so happy. He didn't know how to explain it. She was happy, and that made him happy.

He took her hand and smiling said, "Let's go make an offer." She almost giggled with delight.

Sometimes Donna couldn't stand herself being so moody. One moment she was yelling at Josh, the next she was giggling. One moment she was telling him they should end things, then they were engaged. And that's when Donna remembered. She nearly bounced with joy. Her day seemed perfect. Of course that was when Josh's cellphone rang.

"Hey?" Josh answered his phone in that polite manner that simply embodied his being. "Right umm…" Josh looked over at Donna, the happy look slowly fading from her face. "Right well Toby, can this wait? I'm about to buy a house…" Then he paused, was that a smile lurking back towards Donna's eyes. "Right okay… give me 30 minutes." He hung up the phone not really caring whether Toby thought 30 minutes was too long to wait.

He smiled at Donna. He did that a lot lately. Just smiled. He didn't really say anything, he just stared at her and smiled. Donna looked at him and hoped she could salvage what was left of her perfect day, all 30 minutes of it.

After negotiating an offer, (Josh explaining very clearly that he absolutely needed to have the house, the real estate agent feeling more scared of Josh's desperation than a need to squeeze out a deal), Josh drove Donna home. "D'you think you can come in for lunch?"

Donna realized he wasn't really asking. She didn't know what he had up his sleeve and she wasn't sure she wanted to know. They had decided to wait to tell everyone about the engagement. They felt they would be a calling any more attention towards their relationship if everyone knew they were planning a wedding. They would rather wait until the babies were born to fall under that kind of stress. Donna felt worried now that maybe some branch of family values had gotten to Josh. She wasn't sure she wanted to know what he had planned.

"Why?" she asked, giving him an inquisitive look.

He shrugged, "Just thought I'd ask."

She gave him a half nod.

That afternoon however Donna didn't come in for lunch but ended up calling Josh's pager.

"Josh?" she answered the phone when it rang.

"Donna?" he began. "Where are you? I thought you were coming in."

"You're in a meeting right now aren't you?"

"Yeah but I can..." he began to tell her. "Donna what's going on?"

She sighed and tried softly. "I don't want you to panic Josh..."

That set him off, "What's wrong?"

"I'm pretty sure it's nothing," she tried once more. "I called Doctor Swayed and he said to come in when I could."

"Why did you call the doctor?" Josh said in an elevated voice. He had been in the Roosevelt room and was now standing in the middle of the communications office.

Toby and Sam exited their offices when they heard Josh begin to rant and pace.

"Josh?" Sam asked meeting Toby's look of confusion.

"I'm pretty sure it's false labour pains," Donna told him on the other end of the line. If it wasn't one thing it was another. She knew it was too soon for false labour pains, but the doctor hadn't been very worried.

"False... That's not good is it," Josh shouted.

Donna wanted to laugh but she was barely in the mood. Uncomfortable and irritated she continued, "It's just Braxton Hicks, I just called because I wanted to be sure. The doctor said not to worry, but to come in and see him." She sighed softly. She wished she knew what was going on with her body. She didn't mind sharing it but all the issues that came along with it were starting to bother her. She hoped it was only Braxton Hicks, or something that could be explained away quickly. She didn't want to think about it being anything else. "If you could just maybe come and take me when you're done your meeting... or if you want to send Sydney. I have some things I want to talk over with her."

"Donna!"

"If it's that much trouble I'll just take a cab Josh," she told him coldly. She hated mood swings, especially when she knew she was having one.

Josh calmed himself down, knowing perfectly well that if he didn't explain himself she would very well hang up on him and take a cab. He knew she hated to bother him when he was working, unless it was about work or of... what she defined as... dire importance. Obviously this was important.

"Donna I'll be there in twenty minutes," Josh told her.

She really hadn't wanted him to stop working but she was too frustrated to argue anymore. "Alright then," she said sternly. "Bye." Then she hung up.

Toby and Sam stood in front of him. "Is something wrong?"

"Yeah," Josh told them. "I'm going to have to go. I don't know how long I'll be. I should be back."

"Aren't you in that meeting?" Sam asked, obviously knowing very well which meeting Josh was in. Five congressmen stared at them, looking a little dumbfounded and star struck.

"With who?" Toby asked.

"Ummm..." Josh muttered barely remembering what he was still doing there. "You know what I'll just tell Leo."

Both men stared at each other. Josh had been over reacting ever since Donna's first mishap. The fact that he had been an arrogant ass had only doubled the radar for reaction time. Still they couldn't help but smile and move on to their own work, at least until Leo told them otherwise.

Josh ran into Margaret's little office. "Can I see him?"

"Let me check," Margaret said getting up. "Can you see Josh?"

"Yeah, send him in," Leo told her.

Josh briskly waltzed into the room. "Leo I have to go."

"What are you talking about?" Leo said looking at some papers on his desk.

"Donna just called me." Leo looked up, it was first instinct to assume the worst, second to assume Josh was insane. "The doctor told her to get the hospital as soon as she could. She says it's false labour, Buxton Fricks, whatever that means. But see I'm in this meeting right now... and I don't know what to say... I know this job has sacrifices... but this seems a little different... and I know I shouldn't be debating this... but Leo I have to go."

"Send Sam to the meeting," Leo said after a pause. He looked back at his papers, not seeming very concerned about Josh's little rant.

Josh stared at him a little shocked. "Are you sure?"

"Yeah, he seems to know more about it than you do," Leo told him. It wasn't exactly true. Josh had been just as attentive to his work as he had ever been. It almost amazed Leo how very good Josh was at what he did and yet how he could be totally ignorant at the same time. "Plus I've seen you when you're worried. Believe me I don't want that Josh Lyman working for me."

Josh was getting ready to sprint from the room. "Thanks Leo."

"Wait a second. Margaret!" Leo shouted. "If you want information you should go straight to the source."

Josh gave him a dumbfounded look. He watched Margaret open the door and succinctly glide into view.

"Yes?" she inquired with pen and paper ready.

"Donna's gone into false labour," he said worried but with an air of lightness. "Do you have any idea what that means exactly?"

"Yes," she said flatly. After a brief silence. "Oh you wanted me to tell you?"

"No Margaret," Leo yelled sarcastically. "We were just testing to your knowledge of the female reproductive system!"

There was an awkward silence that followed this out burst. Josh tried to back slowly towards a doorway. He wasn't sure if he was being mocked. Leo had been enjoying himself lately. Every time Josh had a Donna freak out Leo got this look on his face. Damn him for withholding knowledge for kicks.

"You're joking right?" Margaret finally said.

"Margaret!"

Josh was barely paying attention to what Margaret was saying. She can't have the babies now. It's not safe. It's too soon. We don't even have names yet. He felt his chest pound and felt himself starting to sweat.

He ran from Leo's office and by Sam's office. "Right Sam." Sam rose to look at him. "You're meeting with the people. Umm...I don't remember what it's about...but I'm pretty sure it's important...but then again I can't remember who the meetings with so... yeah... I have to go... Leo says you can take over."

Josh was back in his office before Sam had time to reply. He grabbed his keys and was on his way back home.

"Where's Josh?" one of the Congressmen asked.

"Oh he had a bit of a family emergency," Sam said as he took Josh's seat.

"Is everything alright?" the other one asked, acting falsely concerned.

Sam gave a slight smile. "No worse then usual, I'm sure."