A/N: It's been a bit longer than I intended since I last updated – sorry! (Forgive me?) I hope this chapter will make up for the slight delay, so without me going on for ages, here it is.

All day I'd been feeling unusual. I just couldn't put my finger on what it was that was causing the feeling. Regardless, nothing had come of it and I'd managed to work the whole day with just a few painful twinges in my back that I merely attributed to Becker being in danger. Again.

You'd think the worry would have dulled after all this time really, wouldn't you?

This time he'd been rammed against a wall by an herbivore. How he managed it was a question I was forever asking without ever getting an appropriate answer.

"You okay, Jess?" Abby asked, coming over with Nick, her newborn son strapped to her front. He'd been born three weeks ago and we all enjoyed fussing over him, smoothing down his fuzz of pale blonde hair. Even Rex had already had his introduction and was soon yapping to his new friend.

"Yeah…"

She squeezed my hand. "He'll be fine. He always is."

"I know."

And, of course, Becker was fine. He came back to the ARC just as I prepared to leave, packing the few things in my locker into a bag when I got the impression it would be a while until I was there again.

"Hey, let me carry that," he said, taking my bag from my hands. It was one of those really fashionable floral, oversized handbags. "Christ, Jess, what have you got in here? It weighs a tonne!"

"Pretty much everything in my locker," I replied, following him out the Locker Room.

"Why?"

I shrugged. I didn't want to worry him.

When he deposited my handbag in the boot, next to the bag we'd started putting together for when I went into labour, the car even dipped slightly before bouncing back up.

Back at the apartment, the feeling that something was wrong didn't go away. I knew I was no longer worrying about Becker, but I didn't want to face the fact that something much worse could be happening. Instead, I carried on acting as normally as I could and stuck to the routine Becker and I had: sitting down to eat, watching a bit of TV and then heading to bed when my back and feet needed a rest.

But it wasn't long before I was awake again, a sharp pain in my stomach. I winced and rolled over, more or less forgetting about the fact I was carrying twins.

It flared up again seconds later.

"Becker!" I hissed.

He mumbled something and burrowed his head deeper into his pillow on the other side of me.

"Becker!" I repeated louder, jerking him awake.

"What? What is it, Jess? Is something wrong with the baby?" He was alert in an instant and already scrambling out of bed, grabbing and pulling on clothes whilst I sat there, silent and trembling, holding the covers about me in fear.

It's my fault. I should have done something. I should have gone to the hospital earlier.

Tears began pooling in my eyes and, seeing my shining eyes, Becker came to my side and tenderly held my hands.

"Hey," he murmured gently, "It's going to be okay. We just need to go to the hospital and check everything's okay. I know you Jess you're probably worrying over nothing like you always do."

I nodded, swallowing against the lump in my throat, and he helped me out of bed and into my dressing gown before walking me back down to the street and the car, with his hand on my lower back all the way.

At the hospital, we had to wait for ten of the most painful minutes of my life before Dr Kingsley called us in to her room. Becker pushed the wheelchair I had been given the moment we'd entered the front doors because of Becker's phone call prior to us leaving the flat.

"Okay, if I could ask you to just get up on the bed and lie down, Jess, and we'll see what's going on."

I stood but before I could pull myself onto the bed, Becker bent and took me into his arms, lifting me carefully and placing me on my back.

Again, Dr Kingsley took a scan. We were all silent as the thudding of overly quick heartbeats filled the room.

"Okay, it looks like you're going into premature labour, Jess," Dr Kingsley told us.

"What?" Becker demanded. "There's still got six weeks before the due date!"

"Sometimes these things happen."

I cried out in pain as what I realised was a contraction ran through me.

Oh! God that hurts! I can't believe Connor thought that a kick in the balls would be worse than giving birth!

"Oh God," Becker muttered, forgetting his anger and taking my hand. My fingers clamped around his like a vice, turning his hand purple.

"Sorry," I said through gritted teeth.

"Don't worry about it," he replied, kissing my head. "You're doing great."

"Is this your first contraction?"

I shook my head.

"What? Jess, you were having contractions and didn't tell me?"

"I had twinges in my back all morning and afternoon. I didn't realise they were contractions," I explained in gasps.

Dr Kingsley began a proper examination and asked me to change into one of the horrible hospital gowns.

I can't believe women actually wear these…they're disgusting. Not at all fashionable.

Still, I did it and all the while my contractions got closer together. When they were ten minutes apart, I was told I still had a while to go, though Dr Kingsley then checked to see how dilated I was.

Becker sat in the chair beside me and kissed the back of my hand. He had yet to let go of it despite my bruising grip through my contractions.

"I love you," he murmured.

I nodded, but was too tired to return the sentiment.

It was an hour later – four hours after going into the hospital – that I finally managed to push one of our children into the world. Dr Kingsley handed a beautiful boy wrapped in a blanket to me and Becker and I gazed down at him in wonder before he was taken away and put into an incubator.

It was another thirty minutes before our other child was born, but she was breath-taking. Already, she had a full head of dark hair and bright blue eyes.

She too was taken to be looked after in an incubator, leaving my arms feeling empty.

"You are truly brilliant, Jess," Becker whispered, wiping some of the sweat away from my brow.

A/N: So Jess and Becker's twins have been born! At the moment I haven't named them anything because on my poll there are four names tied so please, please go and vote if you haven't already! I would really like two definite winners to avoid any confusion. Also, I need the winner's before the next update because that's when I'm going to name the babies! Remember to review! I always want to know what people think.