Hi everyone!

I love that we all love how excited our boy Gilbert is over the baby. it just feels right for him to be excited for Anne to be excited for them to have the excitement!

I can't say at this point if I stick as close as I have been to canon on it or not, but what I can say is that it certainly has an impact on their lives! You'll all see and I hope you all see why I do what I do. It both is a give away and not I know!

I love you all for your kind words even one or two new people which have been brand new in saying hello. I love you all so much thank you!

Carrots x

"Owen!" Anne said opening the door with a smile on her face.

"Hey Anne." He said casually. "Do you have the notes for Foster's lecture, I made notes but I can't for the life of me read my own writing."

Anne laughed and welcomed him in. "Sure." She agreed.

"Are you starting to feeling better now?" He asked her.

Anne rolled her eyes unseen to him, she wasn't out of the first trimester yet, they had chosen to keep it quiet, all anyone knew was that Anne hadn't been well all through the Christmas period, and was slowly getting better and to Anne's credit (and often Gilbert's dismay he wanted to keep her wrapped up in cotton wool!) She was looking forward to the twelve week mark, that was the week they would get to see their baby for the first time. "I'm fine." She told him. "I have the notes just over here." She said taking him over to the bookshelf, she looked over at him as he seemed to be pacing somewhat nervously. "Are you okay Owen?" she asked him.

"Me?" he asked jumping "yeah sure you know..." he said looking around "Is um, Gilbert here?" he asked nervously.

"No." Anne answered confused by his behaviour.

"Good." Owen said his head nodding. "Good."

"Owen?" she asked confused.

"I wanted to see you alone, Anne. There is something I must tell somebody, or I think it will drive me mad. I've been trying for months to look it in the face—and I can't. I know I can trust you—and, besides, you will understand. A woman with eyes like yours always understands. You are one of the folks people instinctively tell things to. Anne, I love Leslie. LOVE her! That seems too weak a word!"

His voice suddenly broke with the suppressed passion of his utterance and looked at him a little shocked by his admittance though she had guessed it a while ago.

"Does Leslie know this, Owen?" she asked quietly.

"No—no,—unless she has guessed it. You surely don't think I'd be cad and scoundrel enough to tell her, Anne. I couldn't help loving her—that's all—and my misery is greater than I can bear."

Anne's lips upturned as he sat on the sofa she sat in the cuddle chair opposite him. "A cad and a scoundrel?" she questioned with a grin.

"You can't pretend I am anything but!" he exclaimed.

"Why did you not want Gilbert here?" she asked him.

Owen took a heavy sigh "He's so morally right!" Owen exclaimed "where you are too, you know what's right, I feel you know, I can feel..." he sighed.

They sat in silence for a moment before Anne's hand when to her bare feet she looked away and said quietly "But she is not free, Owen."

"I know!" Owen exclaimed quietly.

"So the only thing you can do is to not see her and leave her to her own life."

"I-I can't." He broke his head going into his lap. "I could love her so much more, so much better then-"

"Owen you can't say that." She whispered.

"But I..." He started.

"Owen." She said quietly to him.

They both sat in silence for a few minutes before he broke the silence "I know." He sounded so ashamed of himself.

"And that's why you're no scoundrel nor cad." Anne said quietly. "You know she is someone else's wife and you won't act on it."

"Never!" he exclaimed, "I just, I needed to get it out!" he told her.

"I knew." She told him.

"You did?" he asked Anne looking up at her, "D-do you think Leslie does?" he asked.

"I honestly can't tell with her." Anne admitted. "I get such mixed signals from her I never know..." Anne trailed. She finally looked up and asked him "What will you do?" she asked him.

He took a sigh "I want to still be there for her, I want to be her friend, she needs friends she needs someone on her side, Anne like us, she needs us."

"Unrequited love?" She asked sadly "Is that really the role you're going to settle into?"

He swallowed not answering before Anne came over to his side wrapped her arms around him and gave him the cuddle he so desperately needed.

"How is Owen?" Gilbert asked her that night, Owen had still been in the apartment when he had returned from medical school that evening, he had found them studying over some modern literature criteria together, it had been nothing unusual, and truth be told Anne had long passed him in a literacy sense, Owen at least could keep up with her now, he could claim relative illiteracy when he struggled to keep up with Anne and his medical knowledge.

"He's fine, though the finer details of 'new weird' is a bit lost on him." Anne chuckled.

"Ah!" Gilbert exclaimed happily "my girl outshining him?" he said with a grin as Anne crawled into bed with him.

"Naturally." She replied wryly which made him chuckle.

There was a silence as Gilbert typed on his laptop for a few moments, Anne was settling beside him, tired from the day, she was a little surprised when Gilbert asked her "He's in love with Leslie isn't he?"

Anne's eye cracked open as she looked up at him "What makes you say that?"

Gilbert gave a heavy sigh before he whispered "He looks at her like I look at you."

Anne lay quietly for a moment before she asked him "Would it be so bad if he did?" she asked him.

"She's married." Gilbert told her plainly, before the lay quiet for a few more seconds before he took a deep sigh.

"But..." Anne probed him.

Gilbert swallowed before he said "I can't help but think of the way I felt for you when you were with Roy." He said quietly "I know you weren't married but for all intentions and purposes you were with someone else, I never acted on my feelings but..." he swallowed again "and I know it was different I knew you before Roy and we had a romantic history but you were still someone elses." He took a deep breath and whispered "I could control my actions but I couldn't help the way I felt." He said meaningfully.

Anne slid closer to him and whispered to him "So you do understand?" she questioned "if he did love her?" she wrapped one arm over his stomach "You put out this imagine of being so practical," she said with a wicked grin "but you're a romantic at heart."

He grinned and whispered to her "I thought I've told you before never to let on."

Anne chuckled and whispered "I would never do such a thing!" she exclaimed playfully. "So..." she said innocently reaching below his waist her hand cupping him which made him gasp in delight his head momentarily threw back his eyes closing he felt himself rise "I guess it'll just have to be our secret." He nodded forward his eyes opening looking at the flirty smile plastered on Anne's face as her hand remained where it was her eyes shut and she cuddled into him for the night.

"Are you excited?" Anne asked Gilbert as she lay on the bed for the scan.

"Of course I am." Gilbert said with a smile to her "I kill two birds with one stone, I have to witness 12 pregnancy scans so this counts as one." He said cheerfully.

"Glad I could be of assistance." Anne said rolling her eyes.

"Plus I don't have to make the time up, anyone else would be told to make up the half an hour but because I'm technically working..." to which Anne rolled her eyes "and I get to see my baby for the first time." He said sentimentally.

"Maybe you'd like to assist Gilbert." The midwife said with the ultrasound machine in hand, "tell me the size, the measurements you see, I can double check them all make sure they are right, I normally do this alone."

He looked to Anne with an excited eye to which she rolled her eyes and said "ever the doctor aren't you?" she grinned.

"Thank you!" he exclaimed jumping up excited. "I can't wait to see my girl!"

The midwife looked to Gilbert for a moment before Anne explained "he's insisting its a girl, though he has no proof." She said with a smile. "Can you tell this early on?" Anne asked Gilbert.

"Not on an ultrasound no." He admitted "The penis or vulva actually look similar until about 14 weeks."

"Not on an ultrasound?" Anne asked.

"The blood test for Down syndrome and a few other chromosomal conditions, It also looks for pieces of the male sex chromosome in the expectant mother's blood to see if she's carrying a boy or a girl." The midwife said "You chose not to have that test?" she asked them.

"We know there would be some emotional adjustment, or physical one, mental ones, if the baby did have down syndrome, but ultimately, we're in the happy positions where it wouldn't matter, so why risk it?" Anne said with a smile to Gilbert.

She smiled and reassured Anne of the gel going on her stomach and where the ultrasound would measure.

The Gel on, the scanner went on her stomach Gilbert watched and smiled at the very small item showing. "There!" he said pointing at it, "can you see, that little thing just there Anne?" he asked her with a smile. The midwife then zoomed in on it and she nodded.

"Its should be the size of a lime." She said looking at the scan.

"Is it alright?" Anne asked concerned.

The midwife smiled and said "well lets see." She said.

"There, that's it heartbeat look Anne!" Gilbert said with a smile pointing at a tiny flicker on the screen "Can you see?"

Anne looked at the screen and smiled nodded "Oh my god!" she exclaimed "that's our baby!" she exclaimed tears coming to her eyes. "Gil look!" she exclaimed "Look what we did!"

He smiled nodding he kissed into her hair. "A miracle!" he whispered as they looked at its heartbeating. "It has a strong heartbeat!" he laughed.

"Yeah?" Anne asked.

"Oh yeah!" Gilbert confirmed.

The midwife smiled and said "We need to take the measurements Miss Shirley if that's okay?" she asked Anne to which Anne nodded.

Gilbert read out the measurements and explained to Anne what each measurement meant, Anne held her tongue the best she could. She was dying to know if the baby was normal so she was practically bursting at the end "Is it okay?" she asked.

Gilbert looked at the final measurements and looked up at the midwife who looked at it "Are you sure on the dates?" she asked them.

"Absolutely." Gilbert said with a nod knowing what the midwife was thinking "Its this date."

"Is-Is everything okay?" Anne asked at the look on the midwife's face.

"Everything is fine." The midwife confirmed. "You can see the placenta right here, you can see DS getting to the baby, just here, see?" she confirmed pointing to it on the ultrasound, they all laughed at the foetal movement at the ultrasound scanner pressing, its tiny leg kicking at it.

"Oh I felt that!" Anne gasped. "I think." She said with a smile to Gilbert.

"You may have done!" The midwife laughed, " some people think its imagined this early on, I think its the mothers instincts. See fine." She said "its just the baby is a little small for its age." The midwife confirmed.

"Its not so small that you're worried though?" Gilbert asked the midwife.

"No," the midwife confirmed "some babies are small, some are big, Just to put it in some perspective for you, your baby is about the size of a plum where we'd expect a lime, but different babies grow at different rates, we'll just keep an eye on it on the next scan at sixteen weeks." She looked again at the young couple "You should think of being a midwife Mr Blythe." She said with a smile to him "Now do you want pictures of the scan?"