Deeks joined Kensi in bed after saying goodnight to Ray and the boys.
"How cool is it that they are moving down the street?" Kensi asked.
"I am happy our kids will get to grow up together." Deeks answered. "I am excited to see his house, it looks really nice from the outside." He added as he climbed into bed and rested beside her.
"We should probably get some shut eye since we have to get up early." Kensi said as she moved closer to him. Deeks placed his lips against hers and kissed her soundly.
"Love you." He whispered against her lips.
"Love you more." Came her reply.
"MOMMY!" Niko and Ryland came running into their parents bedroom yelling, and interrupting their little moment. Kensi and Deeks both sat up.
"What's going on boys?" Kensi asked.
"We forgotted to tell the baby night night." Niko explained a little out of breath. Kensi and Deeks both shared a smile before he moved over and made room for the boys.
"Come here." Kensi said waving them over. Niko and Ryland both crawled on the bed to join their parents and stared at their mom.
"Night night Smalls, love you." Niko said leaning down and kissing Kensi's stomach. Deeks grabbed Niko and held him while Ryland took his turn.
"Night baby, love you." Ryland said placing a kiss on his moms stomach just like his brother did. Ryland laid back and closed his eyes.
"Oh no little men, you have to sleep in your rooms tonight." Deeks said ruffling Ryland's hair.
"Daddy did you tell da baby night night?" Ryland asked attempting to avoid going back to bed.
"Not yet, but I was going too." He said.
"Do it now daddy." Niko encouraged.
"Alright but then, you guys have to go to bed." Deeks said. The boys moved to the other side of Kensi so their dad could say goodnight.
"Hey Smalls daddy and mommy say goodnight. We love you very very much." Deeks said kissing her stomach. Kensi was so happy she was almost crying, she placed her hands in Deeks hair and just smiled. The boys hugged Kensi and held on.
"Alright my handsome men, it's bedtime." Kensi announced kissing each of them.
"We sweep in here momma?" Ry asked.
"You have a big bed all for yourself Little Prince and Jarvis will get lonely without you." She tried to convince him to go back to his room.
"No momma I wants to stay in here." He said defiantly.
"Well then daddy and I will just have to drag you back to your room." She teased getting up and picking Niko up. Ryland crawled under the covers and closed his eyes.
"Come on Ry, we have to get up early." Deeks tried. After a few more refusals Deeks gave up and picked Ryland up carried him back to his room.
"I was almost certain you were going to give in and let them sleep in here tonight." Kensi said as they both reentered their room.
"I was thinking about it but decided I want you all to myself tonight." He said and added a wink.
"We have to be up early." She reminded him.
"Yes yes we do." He confirmed.
"That was completely adorable how the boys came running in here just to say goodnight." Kensi said getting sentimental.
"They can be cute when they want to be." Deeks said moving to hover over her.
"They are always cute."
"Your right and we are screwed when Smalls gets here, because we will have an overload of adorable and cute going on." Deeks confirmed. He pushed her tanktop up and kissed her stomach. "Smalls I'm not asking for much here, but could you maybe be a little princess, there are not enough beautiful women in this house." Deeks spoke directly to her abdomen.
"Babe I'm pretty sure Smalls is going to be whatever it chooses and you trying to sweet talk them isn't going to get you anywhere." Kensi said softly.
"Ahh I need all of the help I can get." He said with a laugh.
"Just kiss me for now and you can bring up this matter with Smalls another time." She said pulling his face up to hers.
"I will see all of you again in about a month or two." Ray said after he finished the tour of his and Jenna's new home.
"Call if you need any help moving or anything else." Deeks said giving Ray a hug.
"Thanks man, same for you."
"Oh we are not moving anytime soon!" He joked.
"See you soon Ray." Kensi said giving him a hug.
"See you Wikipedia, take care of Marty for me." He said returning the hug.
"Alright little dudes your turn." Ray said crouching down and opening his arms.
"Bye Uncle Way, I love you." Ryland said running up and throwing his arms around his uncle.
"I love you too, I will be back soon and we can go surfing and hang out more." Ray told the small child.
"I love you." Ryland said again refusing to let go.
"Love you too bud." Ray said picking him up and handing him off to Deeks.
"Bye Niko, I will see you soon too." He said.
"Bye Uncle Ray, love you." Niko said giving him a hug and surprising everyone in the room.
"Love you too, little guy"
"Alright we have to get to work and you guys have to go to grandma's." Deeks said gathering the kids to put them in the car. Ray drove away with a wave, leaving the rest of them in the driveway.
"He is coming back this time." Kensi said placing her hand on the small of his back.
"I know it just feels like it will be forever." Deeks said running a hand through his hair.
"It will fly bye, Niko starts soccer in July and then both boys start school in August, these 2 months will pass quickly promise." She assured him.
The time flew bye just as Kensi had promised. Niko started playing soccer for the Silver Currents, while Ryland managed to smash 2 more belt tests making him a solid green belt. Both boys were enrolled in school. Niko was starting kindergarten with Mrs. Moody, and Ryland in pre-school for half a day. Deeks and Kensi helped Ray and Jenna move in and helped prepare the nursery for Braxton. Both of the boys enjoyed the 4th of July, they watched the fireworks from their driveway with family and friends.
Beep Beep Beep Beep. The alarm sounded throught Kensi and Deeks bedroom. Kensi rolled and leaned across Deeks to turn off the annoying sound. Deeks was still asleep unaware of the alarm or his wife leaning over him.
"Deeks wake up." She said gently caressing his face.
"No, Kens go back to sleep." He murmured sleepily.
"We get to see if you get your little princess or if we get another little prince today." Kensi said sweetly trying to get him to open his eyes.
"Yes but our appointment isn't until 9:30 and I am going to guess you set the alarm for 8:00, so if I'm correct we still have an hour and 30 minutes." He said still not bothering to open his eyes.
"Your wrong Deeks I set the alrm for 9:00 so we have 30 minutes to get up, get the kids ready and be there." She said. Deeks eyes flew open and stared at her.
"Are you insane? You only left us 30 minutes, what are you still doing in bed woman?" He asked jumping up concerned.
"Just kidding its actually 8:30. You would not have gotten up if I had not played you like that." She said laughing at the reaction of her husband.
"Toushe." He said quietly and walked into the bathroom connected to their room.
"What no good morning from you, did I upset you that much?" Kensi hollered at him still in the same spot on the bed.
"Get your ass up and come and get a good morning if you really want one." Deeks called back starting the shower. Kensi chuckled to herself and walked into the bathroom. She found him leaning against the counter waiting for her.
"Good morning beautiful." He said sweetly opening his arms for a hug.
"Morning." Came her reply as she accepted his hug.
"You shower while I get the boys ready then you can get them breakfast while I shower." He said rubbing her back. Kensi silently agreed with a kiss and walked over to the shower Deeks had started for her.
"Kensi Deeks" the nurse called out in the waiting room.
"Let's go." Kensi said grabbing Deeks hand. The sonogram tech ran through everything and took all of the pictures showing Kensi and Deeks their new baby.
"Alright I am going to shake your baby so we can determine the gender." She said. Deeks and Kensi watched on screen as she shook the baby to look at the genitalia.
"Congratulations your having a baby girl." The sonogram tech announced.
"A girl Kens!" Deeks said quietly. Kensi could see the pride and joy in his eyes as he looked at the screen. It brought a smile to her face and tears to her eyes. Deeks took his eyes off of the screen briefly to kiss Kensi but then looked right back.
"Here is a towel to wipe your stomach, your doctor will go over the results with you in a moment." She said interrupting the parents. Kensi and Deeks waited for the doctor. The doctor explained that Smalls had no signs of complications and looked right on size and weight. The doctor dismissed them after setting up the next appointment.
"We need to think of a cute way to tell the boys they are going to have a little sister." Kensi said on the way to work.
"We could do balloons with pink confetti in them and make the boys pop them." Deeks suggested.
"I like that, we can go to the party store later and set it up." She said.
"We need to invite Ray and Jenna over for it also!" Deeks said growing more excited.
"It's a plan, first we have to get through work then we can have fun." She said resting her hand on his shoulder.
Deeks and Kensi stopped at the store and bought black balloons to fill with pink confetti. Ray kept the boys entertained while everything was being set up.
"Alright boys come out here." Kensi yelled. Niko and Ryland came running into the living room ready for their surprise.
"Grab a balloon and when we say go pop them." Deeks instructed. The boys each grabbed a balloon and waited for the count down.
"3...2...1... GO!" Kensi shouted. Niko squeezed the balloon between his hands making it distort but not popping it. Ryland smashed the balloon against his head hopeing it would pop. All of the adults stood back laughing and watching as Deeks recorded the whole thing.
"Niko wets put the bawwoons in da middle of us and squeeze." Ryland suggested. Niko smiled big and brought his balloon over to Ryland. Both boys stood facing each other with the balloons separating them. Niko reached over and wrapped Ryland in a hug. The boys each squeezed the other ad tight as they could but the balloons still wouldn't pop. Ryland finally lost his cool and squeezed his balloon as hard as he could.
!POP!
Pink confetti and little papers that said "its a girl" flew everywhere. Niko followed Ryland and squeezed his balloon tight too, to hear the pop and see the confetti. After the boys looked around and examined the contents of their balloon they looked at thir parents confused.
"Why pink?" Niko asked picking up a handful of the confetti.
"Because you are going t-"
"No wait I got this!" Deeks said interrupting his wife. Deeks picked up a balloon and made a small hole so he could suck the helium out.
"You are going to have a baby sister." He said. The helium made his voice very high and squeaky, both boys errupted in giggles.
"Daddy sound funny." Ryland pointed out.
"A baby sister?" Niko asked.
"Yes buddy just like you wanted." Kensi said leaning down to hug both of the boys.
"Well little men we will soon have a Little Princess to protect." Deeks said joining his family in a hug. Ray and Jenna stood their watching the little moment holding hands.
"Ouch what was that for?" Ray asked looking at Jenna. She had been squeezing his hand as they watched the boys, but now she was really squeezing it.
"I think it is time to go to the hospital." She got out through clenched teeth. That caused everyone to look at her.
"It's not time yet, the baby isn't supposed to come until the 8th we still have 5 more days." Ray said in a rush clearly worried and nervous.
"Your son has a mind of his own and he wants out now." She said a litttle out of breath.
"Okay let's go, yeah let's go, alright we are going to the hospital." Ray kept repeating himself.
"Ray!" Deeks said loudly grabbing his friends shoulders and looking him in the eyes. " Fist of all calm down man, this is going to be an amazing night, second of all give me your house keys." Deeks said.
"Why would I give you my keys?" Ray asked after regaining his composure.
"You are taking your wife to the hospital so your son can be born, while I go get her bag from your house. So give me your keys and go have a baby." He explained to his grind who was freaking out.
"Yeah keys, here. Baby the baby is coming, okay Jenna come on." Ray said walking to the front door his wife's hand still in his.
"We will meet you there good luck." Kensi said as they closed the door.
"What happen?" Ryland asked.
"You are about to meet your cousin Braxton." She explained.
"I want to see him." Ryland said excitedly.
"Well let's follow daddy to Uncle Ray's house and then we will go see him." She said. The boys jumped up leaving Kensi sitting on the floor.
"Need help Kens?" Deeks asked, it would have been a nice sincere gesture, but he ruined it with his smirk and laugh.
"No asshat I don't." She said getting up on her own.
"Come on Kensalina I didn't mean anything by it." Deeks said attempting to get back on his wife's good side.
"Your face says otherwise." She informed him.
"I just love it when you are pregnant." He joked, but was instantly sorry.
"Boys go get in mommy's car and tell your daddy bye." Kensi instructed them.
"Really Kens, I'm sorry, I love you." He tried.
"I love you too Deeks, we will see you at the hospital." Kensi said as she grabbed her keys from the table.
"Kensi wait, please I am sorry. I love you and Smalls and I love the fact that you are pregnant." Deeks said as he grabbed her hands and turned her to look at him. She looked at her shoes avoiding his gaze. She was a little hurt by what he had said.
"Kens?" He said her name placing his right hand on her cheek. Instinctively she leaned into it and looked up at him.
"Sorry." He repeated much quieter for the third time.
"I know, but I could have actually used your help getting off of the floor, and you laughed and joked. Next time just help me please." She told him placing her hand that wasn't holding the keys over his.
"I promise I will try not to laugh anymore." He vowed.
"Deeks." She tried warning him but he cut her off with a kiss.
"Just go with it babe, and give me the keys." He said after kissing her. She handed over her keys and walked outside. A quick pit stop was made for Jenna's bag then they headed to the hospital.
"Mommy me is tiwerd." Ryland whined climbing into Kensi's lap.
"Just lay your head down Ry, and close your eyes." They had arrived at the hospital at 8 and it was now 10:50. Braxton had not made his appearance yet and Niko and Ryland were growing more restless by the minute. Deeks was holding Niko who was slipping in and out of sleep.
"Deeks." Kensi said shifting in her seat to look at her husband.
"Huh?"
"Drive the boys and I home for the night. You can come back and when baby Martindale makes an appearance, text me and I will bring the boys back in the morning." She said gently.
"Yeah okay, that's a good idea." He agreed slowly getting up, trying not to disturb his son.
"Just lay the boys in our bed for tonight." Kensi said climbing out of the car. After the boys were placed in their bed and asleep Deeks kissed Kensi goodnight and headed back to the hospital. Kensi heard her phone chime sometime around 4 in the morning. She grabbed it and looked at the clock confirming it was 4:44. She opened the text from her husband. It was a picture of him holding Braxton that said "He is here, showed up at 3:59 this morning. Love you and the boys see you soon." Kensi smiled at the picture and considered waking the boys. She thought about it some more and decided to let them sleep so nobody would have to deal with cranky children. She put her phone down and snuggled back into the blankets with her boys for a few more hours of sleep.
"Boys we have to wake up." Kensi said sitting up, trying to wake the boys.
"Come on guys we get to go see your cousin." She tried again. Ryland shifted closer to her, but made no attempt to wake up.
"Ry, mommy needs you to wake up." Kensi said rubbing his back. Ryland still would not wake up but Niko was awake and looking at his mom.
"Hi bud, are you ready to see your cousin?" She asked. He nodded his head yes.
"Go get dressed and then we will grab breakfast and go." She said. While Niko was dressing she also got dressed and got clothes for Ry. Kensi dressed her youngest while he slept on their bed and left him there, while she got their things ready to leave.
"Ryland you need to get up we are getting ready to leave." She said. Ryland started crying and put his face in the pillow.
"Please don't do this to me today." She begged under her breath and let out a sigh. She moved to the bed to pick him up but Ryland cried louder and moved away from her.
"No me wants daddy." He yelled at her.
"We are going to the hospital to see your daddy if you get up." She tried to reason with him.
"Me wants daddy." He yelled again. His eyes and face were red from crying and yelling.
"Ryland DeAndre Deeks get up so we can go see your dad." She said in a firm tone letting him know she was not playing around.
"No." He shouted back. Kensi gave up all hope of trying to reason with him and picked him up. Ryland started kicking and thrashing around.
"Puts me down." He yelled.
"Niko will you grab the bag and lock the door for mommy?" She asked Niko who was watching his brother throw a tantrum. Ryland was still crying when they made it inside the hospital where Deeks was waiting.
"Take your son." Kensi said handing him Ryland. She was beyond exhausted and frustrated. Deeks who was excited to show them their cousin instantly became worried.
"What is wrong with him?" He asked rubbing Ryland's back while he held him.
"He didn't want to get up this morning, he started yelling and screaming. All he wanted was you." She said trying to calm down.
"You can take Niko in there and I will stay out here and try to talk to him." Deeks said. Kensi nodded and headed inside the room with Niko.
I decided to make Smalls a girl! Hopefully that makes many of you happy. Name suggestions are welcome as well as any ideas that you want to see happen in this story. I will see if I can incorporate them and make this story what you guys want.
