Disclaimer: Unfortunately, none of these characters belong to me, except for Elle and Harrison Stokes.
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Sara went to her doctor the day after revealing to her family that she was pregnant. She hadn't known for much longer than they did. She actually found out Tuesday afternoon, and was going to tell Nick the following night. But after she had to leave for North Carolina, she had no time to tell him and had to wait until she came home. During the plane ride, she had thought of ways to tell Nick. It didn't work and she only made herself nervous about the thought of telling Nick that they were expecting another baby. They hadn't really talked about it, being so pre-occupied with their children. But she thought that now would be a good time to have a baby as the twins began school.
Sara found out that she was a month and a half along. 5 and three-quarters of a week, to be exact. It was too early to tell the sex of the baby, but Sara had a premonition that she was going to have a boy. Boy or girl, the Stokes family just wanted a healthy baby. A brand new healthy baby, as Elle reminded them.
She had gone to work the night before to reveal the news to the rest of the team. Grissom, seemed less than surprised that the couple was expecting. Warrick was delighted at the thought of more Stokes children. "Hey, if the new baby is anything like the twins, you'll have the perfect all-American family." Catherine was overjoyed and began to rub Sara's tummy whenever she saw her, although you couldn't really even tell yet. Greg, who was still getting over the idea of Sara even being married to Nick, was thrilled and asked to be the godfather. Warrick was Elle's and Nick's brother, John, was Harrison's. "Sure Greg, we couldn't have thought of anyone more perfect to be the godfather." Sara said, hugging the now beaming Greg.
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6 months had passed, and with each month, Sara's stomach began to grow bigger and bigger. Elle was a little weary about touching her mother's expanding belly. "Mommy, are you sure I won't hurt you?" Elle said, only lightly rubbing it. Harrison on the other hand like to touch her stomach as much as he could, rubbing lotion on it and holding his little tape cassette player up to the stomach with the song "Lullaby" by Billy Joel. Preschool had ended for the twins about a week earlier, and they were nearing the end of March. Sara had another doctor's appointment today, and with the twin's usual sitter on vacation, Nick was forced to bring them to the appointment.
"Now don't move from this spot. If I come out, and you're dancing like a jelly bean, Mommy is not going to be happy." Sara said, placing some toys down on the waiting room floor as Nick signed her in at the receptionist desk.
"Don't worry, Mrs. Stokes. This place is rarely full of activity, so I'll keep an eye on your young ones." The receptionist said. Sara smiled politely at her, she looked no younger than 60 with curly white hair.
"Thank you, we shouldn't be very long." Sara said, walking into the examination room.
"OK you guys, we'll be right in here. Don't try anything funny." Nick said, tickling Elle in her side and following Sara into the room.
"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Stokes. Its so nice to see you again." Dr. Robel said, getting her chart out of a file cabinet. "Wow, you seem to be progressing nicely." He said, indicating her large stomach.
"Yeah, I feel enormous." Sara said, getting up onto the examination bed, with a little help from Nick.
"OK, you probably want to do the sonogram before I ask you questions. Am I right?" Dr. Robel said, getting the cart with all of the sonogram equipment on it.
"Yes, please." Nick said, rolling a stool over from the corner of the room and sitting next to Sara.
"OK, Sara, if you could just lift your shirt up to right above your belly, that'd be great." Dr. Robel said, applying the customary cream to Sara's large stomach. "OK, can you see this?" He said, pointing to a certain position on the screen.
"That blob?" Nick asked, scrunching his forehead.
"Yes, that blob is your child. See the fingers?" He said, pointing to another area on the screen. At that moment, Elle walked through the door.
"Daddy! Tell Harrison to stop bothering me." She said, climbing into Nick's lap.
"Nick, go get Harrison in here. Sorry, Dr. Robel but they're at this age where they don't know how to get along anymore." Sara said, embarrassed that, here she was, barely able to take care of two kids, and now she's having another.
"It's no problem, some children like to see the new baby before it comes out." He said. He was the same doctor who delivered Elle and Harrison, and to see them older made him nostalgic. "Hi Elle, how are you?" He said, as Nick came back in with Harrison.
"I'm fine. Mommy's having a brand new baby!" Elle said, pointing to her mother's stomach.
"I know, want to see what it looks like on the screen?" He said to her. Elle ran over to him and he helped her onto his lap. "Now, this is the baby's fingers. And.. wait a second.. Mrs. Stokes?" Dr. Robel said. She always told him to call her Sara, they've known each other for so long that formalities were no longer needed, but he still felt uncomfortable not using them.
"Yes, Dr. Robel?" She said, taking her attention off of Harrison and focusing it on what Dr. Robel had to say.
"You're only expecting one newborn, right?" He said, going over his papers from her last visit a month ago.
"Yes, only one." She said, looking at Nick and back at Dr. Robel.
"Well, from what I can see, well really, what I can hear, well, what I'm saying is" Dr. Robel started to go on.
"What's the matter, Doctor?" Nick asked, now worried about his wife and unborn child.
"Listen." Dr. Robel said, taking Elle off his lap and moving around on Sara's stomach. "Hear that?"
"Yes, isn't that the baby's heartbeat?" Sara questioned.
"Yes, it is. But now listen." As he moved over Sara's stomach, they heard a new heartbeat.
"Oh my God" Sara said, low enough to be a whisper.
"Twins?" Nick asked.
"I'm a twin!" Elle said, not really understanding what was happening. "See? Me and Harrison are twins." She said, grabbing Harrison around the neck and pulling his face towards hers.
"Yes, I see. Mrs. Stokes, listen again."
She looked at Nick and mouthed "Twins? Again?" He looked just as confused as she did.
"That's a third heartbeat." Dr. Robel said, looking from the monitor to the shocked couple.
"Wait a second" Nick said. "That's a third heartbeat? I mean, are you sure you're not hearing Sara's heart beating?"
"No Mr. Stokes, that's the heartbeat of another baby. Congratulations, you're having triplets!" Dr. Robel said, smiling at the dumbfounded couple.
"What? Triplets? Dr. Robel, are you sure? Triplets? As in, 3 babies all at one?" Sara exasperated.
"Yes, triplets. Now, we could try to figure out the sex of each one now, although it still may be a little too early. From what we can see here" Dr. Robel said, moving again around Sara's stomach. "I can see that one of your three is a boy."
"A boy? Cool, see Elle? I told you Mommy was having a brother, not a sister." He said, sticking his tongue out at her.
"Hey guys, cool it." Nick said, placing Elle on his left and Harrison on his right.
"And this one" he said, pointing again towards a 'blob' on the monitor "that's a girl. So far, we have a boy, a girl, and an undetermined."
"An undetermined?" Nick asked, still stunned from the news.
"Well, your third child, his or her back is facing us, making it difficult to tell the sex." Dr. Robel said. He looked at the young family. "Shall we start with the questions?"
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Nick walked into work that night, still flabbergasted from the news earlier in the day.
"Hey Nicky" Catherine said, walking into the break room. "Whoa, you look like you just saw a ghost."
"Or three" Nick mumbled under his breath. It wasn't that he didn't want triplets, because he did. He wanted as many kids as Sara could possibly push out, but three? How were they going to afford having three more?
"What was that?" Catherine asked, taking a seat at the table with a newspaper and a cup of coffee.
"We went to the OB/GYN today." Nick said, figuring it'd be best to break the news to Catherine first.
"And what'd they say?" She asked, taking a sip of her coffee.
"Well, Sara's in perfect health and all, but she's.. um.. she's.. we're having triplets." He said, looking up at her.
"Triplets? Wow, well that's just great! Are the twins excited? Is Sara?" She quizzed.
"We haven't really told the twins yet, but Sara was more shocked than anything else. It's just that we got news like this when she was pregnant with the twins. But now, I mean, we're going to have 5 kids. 5 children."
"Oh Nick" Catherine said, understanding quickly his concerns. "You guys are going to do fine. You're house is big enough for 5 more, right?"
"Yeah, we have the guest room and a little work to the basement, and we could make that a bedroom. Its just, a surprise, that's all. We're excited, though." He said, just as Warrick and Grissom walked in, with Greg behind them.
"Hey guys, Nicky has some news." Catherine said, getting up from her seat and putting her coffee mug in the sink.
"What's going on, man?" Warrick queried.
"Its Sara." He said.
"What's wrong with Sara?" Grissom asked.
"Nothing wrong with Sara, she's fine. We went to the doctor today, and he told us we're having three instead of one." Nick said, calmly as he would say 'Hey, I bought a new shirt.'
"Three babies instead of one?" Greg said, now paying attention at the thought of Nick and Sara having five kids.
"Yep, three babies. So June comes, and Sara and I have three children." Nick said, sitting on the couch.
"Well, congratulation, Nick. That's great." Warrick said, going over to give his friend a hug.
As Nick got up to give Warrick a hug, he said "Thanks, man."
Greg and Grissom did the same, and so did Catherine.
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Sara went to her doctor the day after revealing to her family that she was pregnant. She hadn't known for much longer than they did. She actually found out Tuesday afternoon, and was going to tell Nick the following night. But after she had to leave for North Carolina, she had no time to tell him and had to wait until she came home. During the plane ride, she had thought of ways to tell Nick. It didn't work and she only made herself nervous about the thought of telling Nick that they were expecting another baby. They hadn't really talked about it, being so pre-occupied with their children. But she thought that now would be a good time to have a baby as the twins began school.
Sara found out that she was a month and a half along. 5 and three-quarters of a week, to be exact. It was too early to tell the sex of the baby, but Sara had a premonition that she was going to have a boy. Boy or girl, the Stokes family just wanted a healthy baby. A brand new healthy baby, as Elle reminded them.
She had gone to work the night before to reveal the news to the rest of the team. Grissom, seemed less than surprised that the couple was expecting. Warrick was delighted at the thought of more Stokes children. "Hey, if the new baby is anything like the twins, you'll have the perfect all-American family." Catherine was overjoyed and began to rub Sara's tummy whenever she saw her, although you couldn't really even tell yet. Greg, who was still getting over the idea of Sara even being married to Nick, was thrilled and asked to be the godfather. Warrick was Elle's and Nick's brother, John, was Harrison's. "Sure Greg, we couldn't have thought of anyone more perfect to be the godfather." Sara said, hugging the now beaming Greg.
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6 months had passed, and with each month, Sara's stomach began to grow bigger and bigger. Elle was a little weary about touching her mother's expanding belly. "Mommy, are you sure I won't hurt you?" Elle said, only lightly rubbing it. Harrison on the other hand like to touch her stomach as much as he could, rubbing lotion on it and holding his little tape cassette player up to the stomach with the song "Lullaby" by Billy Joel. Preschool had ended for the twins about a week earlier, and they were nearing the end of March. Sara had another doctor's appointment today, and with the twin's usual sitter on vacation, Nick was forced to bring them to the appointment.
"Now don't move from this spot. If I come out, and you're dancing like a jelly bean, Mommy is not going to be happy." Sara said, placing some toys down on the waiting room floor as Nick signed her in at the receptionist desk.
"Don't worry, Mrs. Stokes. This place is rarely full of activity, so I'll keep an eye on your young ones." The receptionist said. Sara smiled politely at her, she looked no younger than 60 with curly white hair.
"Thank you, we shouldn't be very long." Sara said, walking into the examination room.
"OK you guys, we'll be right in here. Don't try anything funny." Nick said, tickling Elle in her side and following Sara into the room.
"Hello Mr. and Mrs. Stokes. Its so nice to see you again." Dr. Robel said, getting her chart out of a file cabinet. "Wow, you seem to be progressing nicely." He said, indicating her large stomach.
"Yeah, I feel enormous." Sara said, getting up onto the examination bed, with a little help from Nick.
"OK, you probably want to do the sonogram before I ask you questions. Am I right?" Dr. Robel said, getting the cart with all of the sonogram equipment on it.
"Yes, please." Nick said, rolling a stool over from the corner of the room and sitting next to Sara.
"OK, Sara, if you could just lift your shirt up to right above your belly, that'd be great." Dr. Robel said, applying the customary cream to Sara's large stomach. "OK, can you see this?" He said, pointing to a certain position on the screen.
"That blob?" Nick asked, scrunching his forehead.
"Yes, that blob is your child. See the fingers?" He said, pointing to another area on the screen. At that moment, Elle walked through the door.
"Daddy! Tell Harrison to stop bothering me." She said, climbing into Nick's lap.
"Nick, go get Harrison in here. Sorry, Dr. Robel but they're at this age where they don't know how to get along anymore." Sara said, embarrassed that, here she was, barely able to take care of two kids, and now she's having another.
"It's no problem, some children like to see the new baby before it comes out." He said. He was the same doctor who delivered Elle and Harrison, and to see them older made him nostalgic. "Hi Elle, how are you?" He said, as Nick came back in with Harrison.
"I'm fine. Mommy's having a brand new baby!" Elle said, pointing to her mother's stomach.
"I know, want to see what it looks like on the screen?" He said to her. Elle ran over to him and he helped her onto his lap. "Now, this is the baby's fingers. And.. wait a second.. Mrs. Stokes?" Dr. Robel said. She always told him to call her Sara, they've known each other for so long that formalities were no longer needed, but he still felt uncomfortable not using them.
"Yes, Dr. Robel?" She said, taking her attention off of Harrison and focusing it on what Dr. Robel had to say.
"You're only expecting one newborn, right?" He said, going over his papers from her last visit a month ago.
"Yes, only one." She said, looking at Nick and back at Dr. Robel.
"Well, from what I can see, well really, what I can hear, well, what I'm saying is" Dr. Robel started to go on.
"What's the matter, Doctor?" Nick asked, now worried about his wife and unborn child.
"Listen." Dr. Robel said, taking Elle off his lap and moving around on Sara's stomach. "Hear that?"
"Yes, isn't that the baby's heartbeat?" Sara questioned.
"Yes, it is. But now listen." As he moved over Sara's stomach, they heard a new heartbeat.
"Oh my God" Sara said, low enough to be a whisper.
"Twins?" Nick asked.
"I'm a twin!" Elle said, not really understanding what was happening. "See? Me and Harrison are twins." She said, grabbing Harrison around the neck and pulling his face towards hers.
"Yes, I see. Mrs. Stokes, listen again."
She looked at Nick and mouthed "Twins? Again?" He looked just as confused as she did.
"That's a third heartbeat." Dr. Robel said, looking from the monitor to the shocked couple.
"Wait a second" Nick said. "That's a third heartbeat? I mean, are you sure you're not hearing Sara's heart beating?"
"No Mr. Stokes, that's the heartbeat of another baby. Congratulations, you're having triplets!" Dr. Robel said, smiling at the dumbfounded couple.
"What? Triplets? Dr. Robel, are you sure? Triplets? As in, 3 babies all at one?" Sara exasperated.
"Yes, triplets. Now, we could try to figure out the sex of each one now, although it still may be a little too early. From what we can see here" Dr. Robel said, moving again around Sara's stomach. "I can see that one of your three is a boy."
"A boy? Cool, see Elle? I told you Mommy was having a brother, not a sister." He said, sticking his tongue out at her.
"Hey guys, cool it." Nick said, placing Elle on his left and Harrison on his right.
"And this one" he said, pointing again towards a 'blob' on the monitor "that's a girl. So far, we have a boy, a girl, and an undetermined."
"An undetermined?" Nick asked, still stunned from the news.
"Well, your third child, his or her back is facing us, making it difficult to tell the sex." Dr. Robel said. He looked at the young family. "Shall we start with the questions?"
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Nick walked into work that night, still flabbergasted from the news earlier in the day.
"Hey Nicky" Catherine said, walking into the break room. "Whoa, you look like you just saw a ghost."
"Or three" Nick mumbled under his breath. It wasn't that he didn't want triplets, because he did. He wanted as many kids as Sara could possibly push out, but three? How were they going to afford having three more?
"What was that?" Catherine asked, taking a seat at the table with a newspaper and a cup of coffee.
"We went to the OB/GYN today." Nick said, figuring it'd be best to break the news to Catherine first.
"And what'd they say?" She asked, taking a sip of her coffee.
"Well, Sara's in perfect health and all, but she's.. um.. she's.. we're having triplets." He said, looking up at her.
"Triplets? Wow, well that's just great! Are the twins excited? Is Sara?" She quizzed.
"We haven't really told the twins yet, but Sara was more shocked than anything else. It's just that we got news like this when she was pregnant with the twins. But now, I mean, we're going to have 5 kids. 5 children."
"Oh Nick" Catherine said, understanding quickly his concerns. "You guys are going to do fine. You're house is big enough for 5 more, right?"
"Yeah, we have the guest room and a little work to the basement, and we could make that a bedroom. Its just, a surprise, that's all. We're excited, though." He said, just as Warrick and Grissom walked in, with Greg behind them.
"Hey guys, Nicky has some news." Catherine said, getting up from her seat and putting her coffee mug in the sink.
"What's going on, man?" Warrick queried.
"Its Sara." He said.
"What's wrong with Sara?" Grissom asked.
"Nothing wrong with Sara, she's fine. We went to the doctor today, and he told us we're having three instead of one." Nick said, calmly as he would say 'Hey, I bought a new shirt.'
"Three babies instead of one?" Greg said, now paying attention at the thought of Nick and Sara having five kids.
"Yep, three babies. So June comes, and Sara and I have three children." Nick said, sitting on the couch.
"Well, congratulation, Nick. That's great." Warrick said, going over to give his friend a hug.
As Nick got up to give Warrick a hug, he said "Thanks, man."
Greg and Grissom did the same, and so did Catherine.
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Aah, triplets! Read and review. Woohoo!!