"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Arya screamed. "Someone just moved around in there and they're going downward!"
"I'm getting Osha!" Catelyn said taking her daughter's hand in reassurance and pressing the call button for the nurses station.
"I'm going to go down the hall and see if I can find her!" Gendry said going to exit the room.
"No you're not!" Cat said to her frightened looking son-in-law. "I will go down there. You helped Arya get into this you're staying here until it's all over and we're all holding a baby in our arms!" She said sternly exiting the room leaving the horrified couple to themselves.
"Gendry." Arya said as the pain slowly died down. "Do you think we planned enough for this?"
"Whether we're ready or not we really don't have a choice in it." He said walking over and sitting next to his tired looking wife. "We'll make mistakes, we'll do things out of the ordinary, we'll love them, we'll fight with them, we'll be there for them when they need us most and when they won't want us there at all. We'll be there biggest fans, they will be our worst nightmares, but through it all, we'll be a family and we will all love each other."
"When did you stop being stupid?" She asked him with a smirk and taking his hand in her own.
"I'm just going with what my hearts telling me right now." He said, then smirked. "Don't worry I'll be stupid again the moment I see the first head start coming out."
Arya chuckled at that, and then stopped as though she had a realization. "I know it's only a joke that everyone says every now and again, but what if the babies heads are all to big? What if the first two have normal sized heads and the last one's head is the exact same size as yours? What if they all have your size head? What if they're all enormous? No one has told us their weight! What if our children come out looking like Jon! Lyanna looks like me, it's possible that my children could all look like him! What if..."
"You have a lot of things going through your mind right now of the worst things that could happen to us while we have a child on the day you're giving birth to our children." Gendry said solemnly. "Where were all of these ideas earlier in the pregnancy?"
Tearing up Arya says, "I wasn't concerned with them then. I am concerned with them now though!"
"If you weren't upset over anything like them before then it's something you don't need to worry about now." Gendry said kissing her on the head and holding her hand as Osha and Cat re-enter the room.
"Ok Arya let's see what's going on." Osha said checking Arya's cervix again. "Hmm, someone's beginning to crown down there and you my dear are at the full ten centimeter's that are needed."
"So that means I'm ready?"
"That it does." Osha said with a smile. "Dr. Lewin left for the day and told me to just go ahead sence I seem to have a better perspective of what's going on with your body then he does."
"That's fine with us!" All three said in unison.
Mean while in the waiting room, Rickon, Mya, Robb, Theon, and Edric all come walking in. "So glad all of you could make it." Ned sad with a smirk at the five late comers.
"Sorry dad." Robb said kind of sheepishly sitting down and taking Jeyne's hand in his.
"What took you all so long to get here?" Robert asked looking at all of them.
"Traffic." Rickon and Mya said.
"Work." Robb and Theon said.
"Sex." Edric said causing a look of shocked amusement from everyone waiting to see what Robert would say in return.
"Well at least your honest!" Robert said causing everyone to start laughing hysterically.
"What have we missed?" Robb asked regaining his composure.
"Jon cried like a girl and threatened Gendry's life apparently." Bran said causing everyone to snicker a bit.
"So nothing exciting than." Edric said sitting down next to Jon. "Honestly if I was in your boat I would have said the same thing."
"See at least someone is on my side."
"Ed, doesn't count a family idiot can not defend another family idiot." Mya said sitting on the arm of the chair Rickon was sitting in at the time. "Besides, Gendry's not completely in the wrong."
"You defend him yet he wants to kill your boy-friend." Jon said staring over at her. "That's a low blow to Rickon don't you think?"
"Theres a difference in it though." Rickon pipped in. "Gendry wanting to kill me because I'm dating his sister is one thing for the simple fact that I'm her first boy-friend and he is extremely over protective of her and always will be. You wanting to kill Gendry on the day our sister e.i. his wife is giving birth to his child is completely wrong on your part because they've been together for years, he is your best-friend, not to mention they are married and it's not like we're all just finding out that they're having a baby it's the DAY that she's giving birth!" Rickon stated making all very rational and good points. "You just got a little too emotional for your own good."
"You'll never understand why I feel the way I feel about it because you're the youngest in our family and there are no younger siblings after you." Jon said defensively.
"I understand where Jon's coming from." Robb said entering the conversation. "You two of course wouldn't because Arya and Sansa are your older sisters and you both have a strong fear of Arya killing you in your sleep to understand where we're coming from on our parts."
"True, of all of us Arya is the most terrifying." Bran said making everyone laugh. "Which is why I'm not mad at Gendry, I honestly feel sorry for the poor bastard."
"Same here." Rickon added. "But enlighten us anyway, we could use it to kill some time."
"Well say the roles are reversed." Robb began. "Say you two are the eldest siblings for a second."
"Okay."
"Now say you are so used to having your younger siblings depend on you for things like, a bully at school, or how to get one over on mom and dad, or when they first learn how to drive wanting you to show them the best way to maneuver around the city and get away with recklessness, or if they need to get something worked on with their car. those are the things where as an older brother for example," he says pointing between himself and Jon "that we always looked forward to concerning all of you, now say you were in our shoes, yes your happy that one of your best-friends are the husband to your little sister and your happy that they're having a baby, but at the same time you're also sad that a chapter of dependence in your life is being taken from you because you're losing one of the people who depended on you for most of their life and now they don't need you anymore."
"I said it to Jon earlier and I will say it to you now Robb." Sansa said speaking up. "We will ALWAYS need you. No matter what happens we will always need our older brothers in our lives and helping us to become better people. No matter how old we are, we are family, we're just adding new editions!"
Ned sat there looking like he was ready to cry and took the opportunity to leave the room. Robert and Renly both stood up and followed him silently telling Loras and Cersie to stay with the others while they checked on Ned. They found him in the hallway in front of the nursery staring at all of the newborns.
"You ok there Ned?" Robert asked of his best-friend of the last forty-five years.
"Yeah." Ned said looking over at the two Baratheon's standing in the hallway with him. "I'm just emotional, my children are all grown and it saddens me a bit."
"Look at the bright side of it." Renly said with a cheerful pat on the back. "Now you'll have grand-children to instill all the same morals in that you instilled in all of them."
"This is true." Ned said with a very genuine smile. "If all of my grand-children grow up to be as close as my children did then I'll feel I did something right in their lives."
"Speaking of grand-children." All three men looked over to see Cat standing there holding a little pink bundle in her arms.
"She had her!" They all exclaimed.
"Follow me there is more to it then just Margaritte here." She said smiling down at the baby girl in her arms.
Ned, Robert, and Renly obeyed and followed Cat into the room that was Arya's delivery room, only to come face to face with the biggest surprise they had ever seen. Arya was in her bed holding a baby girl wrapped in a pink blanket to match her sister and Gendry was sitting on the side of the bed holding a baby boy in a blue blanket. All three men stood there with their mouthes gaping open in astonishment.
"Where did they come from?" Robert asked.
"The same place she came from." Gendry said looking up and noticing his father, uncle, and father-in-law all now in the room with them.
"Did you know and just not tell any of us." Renly said starting to get offended. "Because if you did that's just not right at all!"
"No this was a surprise for us as well." Arya said looking back down at the daughter in her arms smiling at her. "Honestly it felt easier after the first one came out."
"That's because she cleared the way for the second and third one." Cat said looking over at her dotting daughter. "So have you two decided on names for them yet?"
Gendry and Arya looked at each other than down at the two babies they were holding and then over at the four people in their room and smiled.
"How do these names sound." Gendry said holding up the baby boy. "Rhaegar Robert Waters."
"And Ygritt Catelyn Waters." Arya finished looking up from the sleeping baby.
"I love both of those names!" Ned exclaimed walking over and looking at the two surprise additions to his family. "Lewin made a mistake again I see."
"What do you mean again?" Arya asked looking up at her father.
"Well when your mother was having Robb and Jon he told us that we were having twin girls not twin boys." Ned said with a bit of a smirk to a shocked looking Gendry and an amused looking Arya.
"You didn't tell us that part Cat!" Gendry said staring over at his blushing mother-in-law.
"I honestly forgot about that myself, I'm surprised Ned even remembered."
"I remember the birth of every single one of my children as if it was just yesterday!"
"But there is one problem." Renly said looking at the two new parents with wide eyes directed at their son. "Everything for the baby is pink! There are no neutral colors at all!"
At that Arya started laughing hysterically causing the baby to wake up and cry a bit. "Don't worry I insisted to Sansa a few weeks back that I wasn't going to settle for just pink girlie clothes whether I was having a girl or not. So he will be well taken care of where clothes are concerned."
"That's a relief." Renly said whipping at his brow. "Just because I like the way Loras looks in a dress doesn't mean I'll like the way my great-nephew will look in one as well."
At that everyone laughed and just continued to fawn over the three newborns. Margaritte, Rhaegar, and Ygritt.
Ok, I'm not officially done with the story but Arya finally had the babies! And they have names! R&R let me know what you think!
