Lives Full of Change

By Crazi-Prodigy

A/n: Sorry about the long delay I was on vacation for two weeks like I said earlier and then when I got home my power went out and unfortunately this was already typed on this computer so I couldn't get it off and this has been the first day we've had power back so enough babbling her it is!

Chapter 4: Making Sure about the Patter of Little Feet

          The next morning Lucy woke late. When she reached out for Kevin there was no sign of him. She opened her eyes to find a sticky on his pillow.

            *Hey hun,

                        Sorry I'm not there, I had an early shift.

                        I'll be back soon! Around 1 o'clock.

Call your doctor see if we can go today.

            Love ya,

                        Kevin*

            Lucy turned over to get a better look at the alarm, 11:00 o'clock Woo! Definitely late. She rolled out of bed still sniffing Kevin's aftershave on the sheets. Quickly she showered and dressed.

            Finally shaking her hair she made her way to the main house. She found Ruthie head deep into the fridge. Ruthie looked up as Lucy entered and said,

            "Hey, Lucy, Nice of you to make an appearance this morning. "

            "Haha, Very funny, where's Mom?" asked Lucy sticking her head into the fridge as well.

            "Mom went to relieve Dad. Peter and I are babysitting the twins tell Simon comes back from taking Matt to the airport." When Lucy looked surprised Ruthie continued, "He had to get back to school. If she gets worse he'll be back. Oh, yeah Kevin told me to remind you to make a call. What call?"

            "None of your business Kevin shouldn't have brought it up." When Ruthie looked sad she continued, "You'll find out soon enough."

            "Fine, I have to go help Peter anyway," said Ruthie a little more happily.

            Lucy laughed at her sister's expression and made her way back to the apartment for some privacy. Flipping through her phone book she called the number.

            "Yes, I'd like to make an appointment with Dr. Dover as soon as possible," said Lucy hurriedly.

            "Okay, today at four she can squeeze you in.," said the voice on the other line.

            "Ok great thanks Bye," said Lucy clicking the phone off. Then quickly she clicked it back on and dialed Kevin's cell.

            "Hey, you, How you doing?" said Kevin glancing at the caller id before speaking.

            "I'm good, slept in late," said Lucy laughing.

            "Yeah, you probably needed it. So you want to go visit Mary today?" asked Kevin.

            "Yeah, after my doctor's appointment, so in the evening," said Lucy happily.

            "So you got it already, I was going to ask."

            "Yeah, I made it for four. I wanted to make sure that was a good time for you."

            "Awesome, I'll get home at 1ish. we can go to lunch and then the doctor's and then go see your sister and then tell them the news whatever it may be."

            "Are you sure you want to come with me to the doctor?"

            "Of course, not like it isn't anything I've haven't seen before."

            "Okay if you're sure! See ya soon! Say hi to Roxanne."

            "Okay will do see ya! Love ya!"

            "Love ya too." Said Lucy hanging up.

            Clicking off his cell phone Kevin turned to Roxanne who was starring at him.

            "What was that all about?" she asked curiously.

            "None of your business, but Lucy says hi" said Kevin laughing.

            "Fine, I'll call Lucy and find out about it later," said Roxanne. "So he finally proposed Kinkirk it was so great! Maybe I should call Lucy right now!" said Roxanne happily picking up the phone.

            "No I think it's better she do without gossiping with you. She's got to much on her plate," said Kevin hurriedly putting his hand over her phone.

            "Fine, Why so secretive Kinkirk?" said Roxanne curiously.

            "No reason, besides you'll find out eventually."

            "Okay fine I wouldn't call Luce for a couple of days if you promise you'll tell me soon."

            "Deal, You can call her just keep it to Mary and your engagement."

            "All right, fine. Let's get going! The sooner the shift is over the sooner I'll be able to find out your big secret," said Roxanne

            "I thought you wanted to call Lucy, and tell her all about his proposal." Said Kevin amused.

            "Yeah well, I did but I figured we'll have a girl's night or something soon after you let her tell me the juicy gossip! It'll be much more fun," said Roxanne as if it was obvious.

            "Whatever, Let's go," said Kevin heading to the door on the way to the patrol car already.

            Meanwhile Lucy was busy futzing around the house trying to keep busy while waiting for Kevin to get home. She showered, babysat the twins for a while. But by 1 she was getting antsy. She kept pacing. In walked Peter and Ruthie, Peter whispered to Ruthie,

            "What's wrong with your sister?"

            "Don't ask me I think she was born that way! Is something the matter Lucy?" Ruthie finally asked.

            "No, just waiting for Kevin!" said Lucy just as the Kevin entered the house. "There he is see you all later!" She rushed over to him and gave him a hug.

            "Hey hunny, ready to go?" asked Kevin

            "Yep, let me grab my purse." she grabbed it and headed for the door.

They got in Kevin's car and headed to lunch on the promenade. They made small talk throughout the car ride mostly about the day and Mary. After they arrived at the deli on the promenade and had ordered the talk changed to the baby.

            "If it's true and we are pregnant. What do you think we should name it?" asked Kevin curiously.

            "Well, Let's not get ahead of ourselves we're not sure of anything yet," said Lucy rather scared and surprised.

            "Hey, I know you're nervous about this all, But even if we aren't pregnant right now. We will be eventually so it can't hurt to throw around some names. But if you don't want to we can do something else, " said Kevin calmly and considerately.

            "All right, I'm sorry I'm nervous it's just we have so much going on right now. A baby is going to take a lot of time. I love the baby already. It's just going to but a big strain on us. That's what I don't know if I'm ready for. " said Lucy rather scared.

Kevin reached across the table for her hand and said, "Hey, If it happens now we'll do fine. It may be a bit stressed but we have each other and our families will help out if we need it just wait and see. It'll be good!"

            "I'm glad you're so enthusiastic," said Lucy. Then she continued trying to get back into the mood, "How bout Laurie for a girl?"

            "That's cute," said Kevin, "how bout Matthew for a boy?"

            "It's a good possibility, it's Matt's full name and I was thinking it would be cool to name our kids after my brothers and sisters or yours but I don't want to hurt any of them by not naming it after them. But also it would take a lot of names out of the running."

            "Good point, hmm we'll have to think about that. Well will have 9 months hehe!" said Kevin

            "Yeah, well you wouldn't have it inside you," said Lucy comically angrily.

            "Hey I'll be your night in shining armor and get you anything and everything you need!" Said Kevin sweetly.

            "Aww, Your so sweet." She gave him a kiss on the lips. "You'll probably regret this later."

            "Hee, I probably will!" said Kevin "How bout Brynn?"

            They continued with names and light bickering throughout the meal before heading back to Kevin's car and driving to the doctor's office. As they made they're way into the elevator Lucy squeezed Kevin's hand tightly.

            "Whatever we find out we'll be okay," said Kevin hugging her tightly.

They both waited patiently with their own thoughts as the elevator went up and Kevin squeezed her hand tightly as the elevator door opened on the doctor's floor and they made their way to the doctor's office.  When they entered the office they made there way over to the front desk.  Lucy spoke to the receptionist,

"Lucy Kinkirk, to see Dr. Dover."

            "Please take a seat the doctor will be with you shortly," said the receptionist.

            "Alright, thanks," said Lucy

        Lucy and Kevin made their way to the waiting room chairs. They both flipped through magazines still really absorbed in their own thoughts. Slowly Kevin reached out for Lucy's hand and held it tightly and began to play with it slowly. Lucy looked up to see her smiling husband. He gave her a sweet kiss on the cheek and then the lips the lips before they both returned to their magazines. But about 3 minutes Kevin squeezed her hand harder and nudged her. Lucy glanced up to see a doctor enter the waiting room. But it wasn't Dr. Dover she turned to explain to Kevin that it wasn't her doctor, but then Dr. Dover walked in.

            "Hello Lucy," said Dr Dover noticing Lucy and coming over to the couple.   "Great to see you again. You are probably the only Camden I haven't seen in this year."

            "Yeah, I've been to busy to get sick," said Lucy. Kevin nudged her "Oh, I'm sorry honey, Dr Dover this is my husband Kevin Kinkirk, Kev this is our family doctor Dr. Dover."

            "Well, You were right about being busy haha, Nice to meet you. By the way, you should join our clinic. When was your last physical?"

            "Not for awhile maybe I will, but that's not why we're here." Said Kevin trying to prompt Lucy. "Hunny,"

            "We.. want to make sure we're pregnant…or not." Sputtered Lucy slowly.

            "Ahh, alright come follow me we'll get some info and then run some tests," said the doctor heading down a hall. The two followed close on (her) heels.

            When they arrived in the office Kevin took a seat and Lucy hopped on the counter.

            "Okay, Lucy let's get to this, When was your last period?" said Dr Dover from her spot in her rolly chair.

            "About 6 weeks ago a week after our wedding" said Lucy.

            "Yeah, I remember," said Kevin adding his two cents.

            "Okay, and we've had you on birth control for the last six months," said Dr Dover adding some notes to Lucy's chart before looking up, " Alright Lucy, if you'll come with me we'll run some tests to see where we're at. Kevin if you wait here Lucy will be back in a jiff and then I'll come back with the results."

" Okay," said Kevin looking at Lucy for approval. Lucy nodded kissed him on the cheek and turned to follow the doctor.

            Kevin sat in silence flipping through doctor's pamphlets. Finally he couldn't stand the deathly quiet.  He called Chandler at the church. He needed a guy to talk to definitely not Roxanne. But he just got the machine.  He called Roxanne's house hoping to catch Chandler. But this unfortunately meant he had to talk to Roxanne first. Not that he didn't like her or anything it's just he needed a man's opinion. The phone rang for a while and of course Roxanne answered,

"Kinkirk, I thought your weren't going to talk to me."

            "I'm not right now, Roxanne I really just need to talk to Chandler Is he there?" said Kevin hurriedly.

            "Nice Kinkirk, Don't care about little old me your partner you need my boyfriend!" said Roxanne sarcastically.

            "I just can't talk to you right now, Chandler is my only guy friend. I need to talk to a guy Please," said Kevin coming off a little more angrily then he had wanted.

            "Kinkirk, chill I was just teasing you cause you weren't giving me the juice. I'll go get him he fell asleep on the couch after lunch," said Roxanne trying to calm him down.

            But just then Lucy returned so Kevin changed his mind.

            " Look Roxanne, Lucy just got back, just tell Chandler to call me when he gets back to the office," said Kevin quickly.

            "Okay Kinkirk," said Roxanne " say hi to Luce."

Kevin clicked off his phone and made his way over to Lucy.

            "Hey sweetie, how'd it go?"

            "It wasn't too bad just a lot of being pricked and prodded."

            "Aww, Well, It's for a good cause."

            "Yeah, but I get to stuffer all the pain for it."

            "Ahh," said Kevin picking her up and hugging her tightly giving her a long kiss. As he was putting her down she said,

"What'd Roxanne have to say?"

" She told me to tell you hi, I called her looking for Chandler to talk. But you got back before she went to get him so I'll talk to him later. Oh and she wants you to call and talk to her soon," said Kevin.

            "Ohh cool, it'd be good to talk to her," said Lucy as Doctor Dover came back in. Kevin nudged Lucy who looked up expectantly.

            "Lucy 's tests results are back and.." "Your definitely pregnant." Dr Dover finally got out.

            There was a defining quiet for a minute No one spoke. Dr. Dover looked around curiously. Kevin looked surprised and Lucy looked scared but happy. Finally Kevin spoke or rather hugged Lucy tightly.

"We're going to be PARENTS!!!!" said Kevin excitedly.

"Yeah!" said Lucy excitedly.

Dr. Dover breathed a sigh of relief and started going into details.

            "Your about 3 weeks along. I want to see you back about once a month tell your third trimester where I want to see you every two weeks and every week in your final month."

            "Thank You," said Lucy trying to take it all in. Realizing Lucy was spacing out Kevin asked the doctor from over his wife's shoulder.

            "Is there an easy way to keep track of it all Lucy isn't that good at keeping track of all the details,"

            "Of course, the nurse at the front desk will know when you need to come in and keep track of it all," said Dr Dover from the her chair.

"Okay, that's good to hear," said Kevin happily heading towards the door with Lucy in tow.

            "Ok, so we'll see you back in about a month," said Dr. Dover when they reached the front desk.

            "Thanks for all your help," said Kevin shaking the doctor's hand. Lucy muttered her thanks quietly.

            "No problem," said Dr Dover "Just doing my job," and with a nod the doctor was gone. Kevin helped Lucy make an appointment at the front desk before taking her to the car. Throughout the car ride, Lucy kept spazzing (leave it to her to have to go over everything.)

            "We're having a BABY!!!"

            "What's everyone's going to say?" Ahh!"

            "I'm going to be a mommy,"

            " Dad and Mom aren't going to be happy,"

            On and on she went as Kevin drove them towards the hospital to see Mary. Every time she stopped to breathe he tried to answer the slew of questions and bring her back to earth.

            "Yes, we are having a baby it's exciting,"

            "I think our families will be surprised cause it's so soon but happy for us."

            "You'll make a great Mom,"

            "Weren't your parents happy for Matt even if he didn't have a baby. They were worried about how it was going to affect their busy schedule but still they were semi happy, besides, they had a baby.. two babies when they weren't expecting it, they'll be happy for us. Besides it's not like it's out of wedlock or anything. We're married and we have a substantial amount of money. Besides it's our life, don't worry so much."

Finally by the time they arrived at the hospital she was fairly calm.

            "Let's tell whoever is there! It'll cheer them up," said Kevin excitedly.

            "We'll see, I kind of want to do it when everyone's there," said Lucy

            "Well let's see who there when we get inside and we'll figure it out then,…Sound Good?" said Kevin still excited.

"Yep, sounds good," said Lucy dragging him out of the car and towards the hospital. They made there way into the building, into the elevator still laughing and talking about things. Once the reached Mary's floor they stepped out into the crowded floor. When they arrived at Mary's room mayhem seemed to have erupted. The twins were yelling, Annie was crying, Simon was pacing, Ruthie was just sitting by herself looking the calmest of all of them.

They walked over to Ruthie,

            "Hey guys, Where ya been?" said Ruthie looking up.

            "We had something we needed to do. What happen with Mary?" said Kevin quickly.

"Oh she's …"

A/N trying to leave it interesting and keep you in suspense!!! I'll try to update soon and I mean sooner then last time J J