Monday Morning:
Doctors App:
Tori and Blake walked into Dr. Marks' office and sat down with her for a discussion about Tori's pregnancy. "You must be Blake?" Dr. Marks said reaching over to shake his hand, which Blake gladly did nodding and then sat back down next to Tori.
"So?" Tori asked as Blake reached over and clasp her hand in his. Dr. Marks recognized the simple gesture of love, and support and smiled at the couple.
"Well from the tests I've taken it seems you're about seven to eight weeks along already. Which is good. We wont know for certain until I can do a sonogram and check things out. You'll have to takes some meds."
"Figured as much." Tori nodded.
Dr. Marks smiled. "You'll need to come in for regular visits and eat rather on the healthy side. No alcohol or unnecessary drugs."
Tori snorted in laughter. "Do I look like a pill popper?" Tori felt Blake squeeze her hand and when she looked over at him she smiled.
"No nothing like that I just have to say it."
"I don't know how I got lucky to get a ob/gyn." Tori said teasingly.
Dr. Marks smiled. "Well…I am rather awesome aren't I?" She said jokingly.
Tori smiled. "So how long am I gonna be sick in the mornings cause this is just ridiculous."
"Yeah she doesn't like being sick." Blake said teasingly.
Tori scowled at him playfully and then looked back to the dr. smiling. "Well the end of the first trimester is when it usually ends for most woman, but some have it through the entire pregnancy." Dr. Marks proclaimed.
"Please no." Tori muttered.
Blake chuckled. "So how much is Tori allowed to do?"
"Well she can be active within limits, don't over exert yourself Tori." She said giving her a pointed look.
Tori frowned at both of them sardonically. "What? I can take it down a few notches."
"Yeah right!" Dr. Marks and Blake said at the same time and then started chuckling.
"I know of a fractured wrist, twisted ankle, and a stitched forearm that say otherwise." Dr. Marks remarked teasingly.
Tori sighed. "I'm not gonna win this am I?"
"No." Dr. Marks and Blake said again at the same time.
"Fine. I promise to take it down a notch. I'll only do the minimal. But…" Tori looked over at Blake. "you are not going to stop me from walking my dog."
"You got a dog?" Dr. Marks asked.
Tori turned to her a smiled. "A gift from Blake. Her names Cooper and she's an almost three-month-old black lab." Blake could see how spirited Tori was just talking about a puppy and he could only imagine that she would be a great mother.
"Well that's nice. Anyways yes you can walk the dog, until she becomes to much for you, then I would say maybe pass the duty onto Blake." Dr. Marks instructed.
Tori nodded rolling her eyes. "But I can still until like what the beginning of the third tri?" Dr. Marks nodded.
"Sounds about right. Let me get you those prescriptions and then I'll send you two on you're way. And on you're way out make an appointment for next week for a sonogram." Dr. Marks grabbed a notepad and wrote down the prescriptions she wanted Tori to take and Tori it off the pad and handed it to her.
Tori put the list in her back pocket as she stood with Blake. "We'll see you next week." Tori said brightly giving Dr. Marks a difficult hug over her desk. Blake opted to shake her hand and nod his thanks and then he and Tori left after scheduling the next appointment.
Home later on:
"Seven or eight weeks ago." Blake muttered to himself. He and Tori were sitting on the couch Cooper curled in Tori's lap as they watched some primetime shows.
Tori giggled knowing he was trying to figure out around what particular point the baby had been conceived. "Right around our honeymoon thunder boy." She said not really having to think much about it.
Blake chuckled. "Well that explains a lot."
Tori grinned at him. "Oh you mean the fact that you barely left me alone the entire two weeks."
"Hey, hey, hey there surfer girl…we did leave the hotel room several times to go see the sights like you wanted." Blake protested playfully.
Tori shook her head in amusement. "And the moment we were back in the room you practically jumped me every time." She teased.
"Well…" Blake smiled at her wickedly. "I can't deny that, but there was that one time…"
Tori smirked at him sardonically. "Can we please watch the show?"
"Only if you admit it wasn't all my doing back on our honeymoon." Blake coaxed her smugly but playfully.
Tori looked at him playfully disgusted and sighed. "Alright I admit it wasn't all your doing on our honeymoon."
"Thank you." Blake said leaned over and kissing her softly. "Now we can watch the show." He said cockily as he unmuted the TV and cuddled down on the couch with Tori and coop and the soon to be baby Bradley.
A month later:
Tori was standing in front on her mirror looking at herself just moments after purging everything she had eaten the night before straight into the toilet. Blake was at the thunder academy early to set up some demonstration or other and she was home because sensei had sense she was tired. And in all honesty she was.
Being pregnant kept her awake at night. Not so much the sickness or the feeling ill, but thinking about what kind of mother she'd make or how her mother would react to being made a grandmother at the young age of forty-four. Tori couldn't help but think of her mother in times like these.
She stood there and turned to the side noticing that her tank was a little tighter on her but her belly was still flat. Maybe not as flat as it had started but flat none the less. Tori knew her morning sickness was slowly dissipating by the fact that she only got sick every couple of mornings instead of everyday.
Blake was usually there with her but he couldn't be this morning, which Tori was surprisingly ok with. It gave her time to evaluate the picture before her without him around. She couldn't believe there was a little baby growing inside of her. She was elated at the thought of her pregnancy and worried as well. What if something went wrong in her pregnancy and she miscarried or something happened to her when she gave birth? Thoughts like that scared her sometimes.
But she needed to think about them it was the only way to work through them. If she miscarried they could try again and if that didn't work, Tori knew Blake would love the idea of adoption since his parents had taken him in. If something happened to her Tori was certain that no matter what Blake would take care of their little child, and it saddened her to think she might not be there, but she knew deep down nothing would go wrong with her mother watching over her and the baby.
Tori raised her shirt a little and looked at her belly, it would soon be gone and after the baby was born she'd have to do a little extra work to get it back, but hard work made Tori happy.
The front door slammed and Tori saw cooper who had been laying just on the carpet out side the bathroom door take off out of the room. "Tori!" Tori knew that voice. It was Charlie.
Charlie and Hunter had a key incase Tori and Blake needed them to get in and fee Cooper or something and just in case of emergencies. "Upstairs!" Tori hollered back heading over to her bed to sit Indian style and she grabbed a magazine to make it look like she was resting and hadn't just puked her guts into the toilet.
"Hey cuz!" Charlie said brightly walking in Cooper followed and then walked past jumping up on the bed and cuddling next to Tori laying her head on Tori's thigh.
"Hey!" Tori said softly smiling. Charlie was beaming. "What puts you in such a good mood?"
Charlie grinned brighter then anything Tori had ever seen. "Hunter he um sort of asked me to marry him." She said happily.
"Sort of?" Tori asked smirking at her.
"Well this morning before he left we um…well you get the picture and right after he said 'marry me.'" Charlie explained.
Tori chuckled softly. "Just like Hunter to propose after sex. So what did you say?"
"I asked if he was serious and he said yes he was so I said yes. That if he wanted to marry me I was his." Charlie said smiling so bright as she perched on Tori's bed in front of her.
Tori grinned and nodded. "That's great."
Charlie nodded. "So enough about me how is my little cousin?"
Tori giggled. "You know this is going to get confusing. You marry Hunter and you're the baby's aunt, but really you'll be her like second cousin."
Charlie laughed. "That is slightly confusing. Poor kid. Well then how is my little niece or nephew?"
Tori smiled that she'd rather be an aunt then a second cousin. She could've just as easily said second cousin. "Baby's fine. Morning sickness is starting to go away to."
"Well you're almost to the end of the third trimester that'll be nice." Charlie said. "Not having your head over the porcelain god every morning." She chuckled.
Tori laughed lightly. "Yeah. I know this sounds really corny but I can't wait to show. I mean I still look like Tori I sort of want to look like pregnant Tori."
"Tor that's probably just normal. I mean not everyone wants to be pregnant, but you, you want this and it makes you happy."
"I know all though I wasn't expecting this so soon, but it isn't unwelcome." Tori said happily with the way her life was turning out far better then she could've ever imagined.
Charlie nodded. "Aunt Heather would be so happy to be a grandma." She said softly.
Tori sighed softly and nodded. "Yeah. I've been thinking about her a lot in the last few weeks. I just wish she could've been here to see this. My wedding, the birth of mine and Blake's first child I guess I feel like I'm missing out on all those grown up mother daughter moments."
Charlie sighed and patted her leg. "Tor, don't let that get you down. Aunt Heather is always going to be beside you. She's yours and Roni's guide now and whether you think so or not she'll be there the minute this baby's born and every day after."
A small tear slid down Tori's cheek that she couldn't hold back and it fell from her jaw line onto Coopers head, and it went unnoticed. "Yeah don't tell my dad what I said. I think deep down he still feels all the same guilt from the accident, but he's trying to move past it."
"Have I ever told him anything you didn't want me to?" Charlie said. Tori shook her head with a small smile. "Exactly. This is between you, me, Cooper and my niece or nephew and the fish of course." Charlie said looking over at the fish tank.
Tori giggled. "You are one of a kind Charlie and I'm glad my kid'll have you as an Aunt."
"You mean it?" Charlie asked smiling shyly.
Tori nodded. "Of course."
"This kid is going to be spoiled beyond belief." Charlie said chuckling. "And I plan to do most of the spoiling."
Tori laughed faintly. "Not gonna share the responsibility with Hunter?"
"Oh no he'll help." Charlie teased. "And Nick and Uncle Eric…"
That night:
After Charlie had gotten bored talking to the suddenly sleepy Tori she had left and gone to grocery shop. Tori was laying in bed in knit shorts and a blue tank her hands rested on her abdomen as she lay on her back eyes closed lightly. Cooper was curled up where Blake would normally lay and when he saw how peaceful they were sleeping he didn't want to interrupt, but Tori had probably slept long enough and if he didn't wake her she wouldn't sleep through the night.
"Surfer girl." Blake whispered kneeling down next to her side of the bed taking her had in his and laying a feather light kiss on the back of her palm. "Tori wake up!" He said softly.
Tori yawned softly and went to roll away when she realized a gently firm hand held her one in two of their own. Her eyes came open gently afraid almost of any light that might get through. "Blake?" She asked sleepily around another soft yawn.
Blake kissed the back of her palm once again and sighed contently. "Surfer girl you need to wake up or you won't sleep tonight." He said in a very caring and gentle voice.
Tori got her eyes open fully and used her friend hand to rubbed them of the sleep that still gunked in the corner of her eyes. "Ok I'm awake. What time is it?"
"About five pm. How you feeling today?" Tori loved how caring and sweet he was, it sometimes got to the point of annoying her but it was just Blake. He felt like he needed to take care of her and Tori let him have his way most of the time.
"Good. Best sleep I've had in a couple weeks once I finally settled back down." Tori said softly.
Blake chuckled faintly. "And I wasn't even here with you." He said sarcastically hurt shaking his head.
Tori grinned faintly at him. "Maybe not but I was thinking about you."
"Well I guess that counts for something." Blake said softly teasing. Tori sat up and Blake sat down gently beside her bringing his free hand up to her gently caressing the soft skin as they leaned in together and met for a very loving tender kiss. "So…"
Tori giggled. "What crazy thing did you come up with now?"
"Well Roger called today said the guys were having this big race in Reefside next weekend and…"
"Yes!" Tori said instantly smiling. "Yeah let's go!"
Blake laughed faintly. "Ok. Sensei gave Hunter and me the weekend off. I thought we could make it like a family fun weekend. Nick's been bugging me about taking him to a race anyway and I think your dad would be happy just to get him out and about."
"All the guys and us in what vehicle?" Tori asked slightly bewildered at the idea.
Blake grinned. "Well I've been meaning to get a new ride."
"Blake you never had one to begin with." Tori joked giggling.
Blake frowned at her playfully. "I lived at a secret ninja academy. There was no need for a car at the time. But now that the baby's on the way…"
Tori smiled. "Blake you don't need to convince me. We talked about it long before you left factory blue remember? You want a navy or black ford f three-fifty with four door extended cab."
Blake chuckled softly. "How do you remember that?"
Tori shrugged. "I dunno I just do."
Blake nodded and decided there was no need to take the subject any further right at that moment. "Come on let's get downstairs and make something to eat."
Tori nodded. "You cook if I look at raw meat I think I might be sick. "She said only slightly kidding.
Blake laughed softly and nodded. He helped her up with Cooper following their lead and they all headed downstairs for their supper.