Sorry guys I've got writers block, last time I had it , lasted four years and I don't like to force myself to write when I'm not feeling it, anyways, I'm still thinking on where i want to go with this story, I will finish it, just trying to work it out in my head, thanks for the reviews.

A good portion of their summer was spent in Texas, Ally and the kids enjoyed their time there, but to them Florida was home, their family was there, to the kids and Ally , Shawn , Kevin, Jacob and Jacy, Scott and baby Jessie was their family. By the end of the summer they were all eager to go home and Mark had to admit he felt better about leaving them, knowing they had the guys around to watch after them, especially with Ally being pregnant.

He worried a lot less when he was on the road.

Mark carried the last suitcase in the house and stopped. "Kitten put that damn box down right now." He boomed.

Ally looked at him, he was overprotective ever since she told him she was pregnant , but damn she could carry a small box upstairs. "Mark its fine..."

Mark rushed over and grabbed the box and set it down. "Kitten I don't want to see you lifting anything, I mean it."

Ally rolled her eyes. "Mark I'm pregnant not sick, good grief..."

Mark lifted her chin. "I don't like your attitude little girl, lucky for you you're pregnant or you would be across my knee." Ally shivered, damn if she didn't miss that too.

Mark frowned. "I'm not trying to turn you on, young lady."

Ally giggled and leaned against him. "Well to bad you are." Mark just shook his head, one big hand slid down to rub her ever growing belly, he smiled when the baby kicked at his hand. "Boy he's active." Mark said.

Ally smiled, he never got tired of rubbing her belly and going with her to her doctors appointments, he was very involved with her pregnancy. Mark looked at her. "No more lifting little girl, I mean it." Ally just nodded, better to let him have his way.

Mark took the box and carried it upstairs and Ally went to check on the kids, they were out back playing in the tree house Mark had built. She watched them as they climbed up and down the ladder taking up some of the new toys they had brought back from Texas. She was so happy now, but it scared her, things seemed to good, she just hoped they stayed this way.

Ally set the chicken on the table and Mark took the platter and fixed the kids a plate. "Thanks Mama." the kids all said in turn.

She smiled and poured poured them lemonade. Mark sat down and Ally took a seat beside him.

"Mama whens the baby gonna be here?" Jassy asked.

"The baby is due December fifteenth, still have a while, but we're going to work on the nursery tomorrow." Ally said.

Taby smiled. "Can we help?"

"Sure you can, we have to go school shopping too." Ally said.

Zack moaned. "Mama I hate shopping."

"To bad, you're going." She said taking a sip of her water.

Zack's frown became bigger. "Men shouldn't have to shop with a bunch of women."

Ally gave him a sharp look and so did his dad. "You're just a little boy Zack, and you're going."

Zack muttered under his breath a not so nice word. Mark's head shot up. "Boy I know you're not using that word, especially in front of of your Mama and sisters."

Zack looked down. "I head you say shit plenty of times."

Ally looked at her son "Room now Zack." The boy got up and ran upstairs. Mark shot up from the table too.

Ally stood and took his arm. "C'mon, eat girls we'll be right back."

She pulled Mark in the living room. "Mark calm down, you know he's getting at a age when he wants to act like you, you're not exactly the shopping type and they do here you cuss even if you don't do it right in front of them."

Mark sighed "I know that, but he still not getting away with it, I guess this means I'm going shopping tomorrow to set a good example?"

Ally smiled. "Don't look so horrified, its not that bad."

Mark didn't look convinced. "Let me go deal with the boy."

Ally just shook her head and went back in the kitchen and sat down. Mark was a good father, but he didn't put up with no backtalk or disrespect , Ally trusted him to be fair with the kids and he was, she knew he would never hurt one of the kids.

Mark and Zack came back down about twenty minutes later, Zack very much subdued with still a trace of tears in his eyes. "Mama I'm sorry I cursed." He looked at his sisters. "Sorry."

The girls just nodded and gave him sympathetic looks. Ally got up And hugged him. "Finish your dinner."

They managed to get their shopping done early, Mark tried not to look like he was being skinned alive as the girls ohh and awwed over countless outfits, Zack looked tortured too, he really couldn't blame his son, but he couldn't allow him to express himself the way he did yesterday. He grinned as it took Zack five minutes to pick out his stuff and the girls two hours, they had lunch and went back home and they all pitched in and had the nursery ready by that evening.

Scott and Jacy stopped by with the baby and Jassy and Taby played with her while they sat around visiting.

Mark watched Scott and Jacy, they were a perfect match and Scott hadn't wasted anytime getting a ring on her finger and starting a family. Mark sighed, he was happy with Ally, but he didn't feel like jumping back on the marriage bandwagon.

Ally hadn't said anything, she seemed happy with the way things were. He smiled as he saw the necklace round her neck. When they had got back together, he had asked her to start wearing it again, to him that was all the sign of commitment they needed, hell he had the woman's name inked on him, how much more of validation did they need, he wasn't planning on going anywhere, still he wondered if she was completely happy with the arrangement.

As Ally's pregnancy progressed she found her extended family around more and more, she joked with Shawn and Kevin that they should just move in. Kevin had looked at her in all seriousness. "Do you want us to we can, you know, I don't want you here alone."

Ally hugged him. "You're sweet but I'm not alone, I have the kids, Scott and Jacy are in and out and so are you too, I'm hardly ever alone."

Kevin sighed. "Baby its less than a month before you deliver and Christmas is coming up, you have so much going on, I just don't want you overdoing it, you need someone to take care of you."

Ally smiled. "Mark will be home to stay for a while next week, hes taking some time off."

Kevin nodded. "So when you two getting married?"

Ally shrugged. "I don't care about that we're happy, the kids are happy, I don't need a piece of paper to validate what me and Mark have."

Kevin didn't know about all that, Ally deserved to have it all, Mark needed to get off his ass and propose to her.

Ally got up from the kitchen table and poured Kevin more coffee. "So will Shawn be home for the holidays?"

Kevin sighed. "No he's working, but we'll celebrate when he does get home."

Ally kissed his cheek. "You and Jacob come spend Christmas with us okay, and then you can play with the new baby, he'll be here by then."

Kevin smiled. "Its a deal, lover boy will be so jealous I get to spend all this time with our new nephew." He said laughing.

Ally smiled and looked out the window watching the kids. Jacob was helping Jassy on her new bike, it didn't have training wheels and she was still learning to balance on it, she smiled, Jacob was very taken with Jassy, he watched over her like a mother hen. "Jacob is so sweet to Jassy."

Kevin smiled and came to stand beside her. "He loves her to pieces, hes a couple years older than her, but I don't think that will mater when there grown."

Ally gave him a strange look but Kevin just grinned. "You have much to learn grasshopper."

Ally shook her head. "Kevin sometimes you're scary."

He just laughed and put his arms around her. "You'll see Ally."

Ally was relieved when Mark was home. She was dues in a week and she sure didn't want to go this one alone like last time, she felt as big as a beached whale and moody, she couldn't sleep or get comfortable.

Mark just ignored her bad temper toward him with no comments, he knew she didn't feel good, hell he wouldn't either if he was carrying around that much extra weight, he tried to make her comfortable, but there was not much he could do, so he took care of the kids and tried to take care of all the stuff around the house, so she could rest and he found out first hand how much work she did taking care of the house and the kids, he was exhausted at the end of each day.

Mark fell in the bed beside Ally. "You deserve a damn medal."

Ally smiled. "Huh?"

Mark kicked his boots off. "You do the work of ten people round here, how the hell do you do all this stuff, without passing out at the end of the day?"

Ally just shrugged. "I just do it."

Mark closed his eyes. "Well you must be superwoman."

Ally grinned. "Get some sleep."

Mark turned on his side rubbing her big belly. "How you feelin?"

"Fat." She said sighing. Mark continued rubbing her belly. "Not fat, that's my boy in there."

She just sighed. "Well I wish your boy would get the hell outta me."

Mark pulled her close to his side and rubbed her arms. "Get some sleep."

Ally nodded and soon drifted off. Mark just watched her, she was exhausted, he could tell, one more week and the baby would be here and she would start feeling better.

Mark didn't have long to wait as she woke him up at three am. "Mark my water broke."

Mark fell out of the bed and grabbed his phone dialing Kevin number. "Kev get over her now, I gotta take Ally to the hospital."

He shut the phone and ran over helping Ally up, he took her in the bathroom and helped her get some dry clothes on, he felt like he was going to pass out and his heart raced, but he pushed the feelings aside, Ally needed him, and he couldn't let his emotions get out of hand.

Mark rushed her in the hospital and he snapped at the nurse. "She having a baby, can you get her in a room.?"

The nurse gave him a dirty look and handed him a clipboard. "Fill that out with insurance information and give me your doctors name."

Mark did and looked down at the papers frowning."You're giving birth and they want me to fill out paperwork."

Ally looked at him. "I can fill it out." He looked at her and saw her face contorted in pain and took her hand. "I'll do it, just sit down." He took care of the forms and handed them back to the nurse. "Get her in a room now."

The nurse rolled her eyes."Get your wife and follow me."

Mark paused, his wife, it stung him to the core, they had three kids and one on the way and he was still dragging his feet with no complaints from Ally, he shook his head, he couldn't think about this right now.

Mark watched Ally , she was doing better then he would be, the girl was in pain, he couldn't figure out why women did this more than once, he held her hand through the contractions, fed her ice chips, rubbed her back and shoulders and still felt useless.

He felt her squeeze his hand and he held it tight. "Breath Ally, it wont be much longer little girl." Ally breathed through the contraction and fell back breathing heavy. "Mark I'm so glad you're here."

Mark bent and kissed her forehead. "Me too Baby girl."

He could only imagine how scared she must have been when she had to do this alone with the twins.

The doctor came in and checked her, telling her she was ready to go on the next contraction and Mark's heart beat fast, this was it, he was going to get to see his son born.

Mark held her up through each long painful contraction, supporting her back as she panted and pushed. It broke his heart to see her in such pain, and he couldn't help but regret she had to go through this alone with the twins.

The doctor looked up. "C'mon one more big push and your boy will be here."

Mark propped her up and bent down beside her. "C'mon kitten, I know you're tired, but you can do this, you're the strongest person I know." He kissed her sweaty forehead and she managed a smile. "Okay." She gripped his hand and pushed as hard as she could screaming at the pain.

Mark looked up in awe when he heard his sons first cry. "Dad come here and cut the cord." The doctor said grinning.

Ally watched as Mark cut the cord and stared at his new son mesmerized , the nurses cleaned him up and brought him to Ally, she smiled through her tears and stared in the green eyes of her new son. He had brown curls all over his head. Ally kissed his forehead. "Welcome to the world little man."

They got Ally cleaned up and moved her and her son to a room, Mark had went to call Kevin and the kids and Ally just sat and stared in fascination at her son while he breastfed.

Mark walked in and sat down on the edge of the bed. "He's beautiful Ally."

Ally smiled up at Mark. "Yeah he is, we need a name for him, what do you think?"

Mark settled beside her in the bed stroking his sons tiny arms, he never realized babies were so very tiny.

"I don't know, I like Jaxon, what do you think?" Mark asked.

"I like it, how about Jaxon Carter Calaway?" Mark smiled. "You got it little mama."

Ally snuggled close to Mark, her world was a happy place, she felt like it couldn't be any better than it was at this moment.