Josephine had talked to her professor about her pregnancy and her wedding in some weeks. He was happy for her and told her to relax and take everything easy. "I'm sad that you won't be a part of our team anymore, but a family is the most important thing. When I look at some of my students they just have science in their heads and work like freaking dorks all day and night. Of course they will be successful one day, but which price do they have to pay? When they are getting old and the young ones take their places they will be lonely and have no one to share their joy, money and love with and that's really sad." He closed his eyes tiredly for a second. As Josephine started talking again he smiled at her and looked at her. "I'm so happy that you take the news like this. I've been thinking about this conversation for days now and I'm so glad that it turned out this way." She smiled back at him. "I wish you good luck and we can talk once in a while if you like." He gave her a hug. "I'll call you or visit you, Professor. Thank you so much for all the things you taught me." As she turned to leave he said. "Don't you think you'll come back to us after you're baby is old enough? I would be happy about that. As much as I love families, I still think that you will be a brilliant scientist." Josephine looked at him and laughed. "I will try to come back, I really want to work again." For the last time she walked down the majestic halls of the old university of Sorbonne. She had been so happy when she got the news that they accepted her and it was one of the best universities, because they had some of the best labours here to work in. She had been so happy during the last weeks of her pregnancy. She was about to marry the love of her life in 5 days and in 4 ½ months her baby will be born. But now she felt kind of sad that she wasn't able to come back and work here for a long time. She was sure that she would miss all of this here. She had been working so much the last months and all of a sudden she had nothing to do. Well, she had things to do but not for science or study. It was weird and she didn't know if she will be able to enjoy it.

As she came home she found a note on the table in the living room. No one was home.

^^ I'm at the airport waiting for my parents. We will be home about 8 o'clock in the evening. (You know what the traffic is like here in Paris, so it will take and eternity to come back from the airport). I called the Chinese restaurant and they will bring the food around 7. 45. So you don't have to tale care of this. I love you. JD ^^

She read the message again and smiled. Sometimes it felt like as if he was pregnant too. He made her stay home nearly all day and lay down and relax and things like that. But she wasn't ill or something and sometimes she got made at him for being so overprotective about her and the baby. But today she was thankful for his organisation because she was late. It was 7 o'clock and they will be here in about an hour. She went into the bathroom and took a shower. Later as she walked into their bedroom she looked at herself in the mirror and was stunned. Everytime she looked at her belly it seemed to grow. She had already been shopping with Pauline and had bought some new clothes, because she didn't fit in her old ones. She decided to wear her new black long dress. She loved it. It was tight and showed her swollen belly and she was proud to show it. She started setting the table in the dinning-room with lots of candles and turned some classical music on. "Oh my God! This climate is horrible!" The door had been opened and JD's little sister Pauline came in. Her jacket and her black short hair were all wet. "Hey Line, you look nice! Come on, I help you." Pauline hugged her and laid a hand on Josephine's belly. "How is it going in there, little one?" She asked and Josephine laughed at her. She could always make her laugh and Pauline was so excited about the baby. She couldn't wait for it to be there. "Thanks Jo! So where is JD?" She asked as Josephine gave her a nice dress from Pauline's wardrobe. "Don't you remember? Helen and Jack are coming over today and they will stay here for a week or two. Jack always takes part in the cooking-competition. And they will be here in about 2 minutes so hurry up!" Pauline was happy to hear that. She liked her brother's adoptive-parents very much and because of all the stress in the last weeks she had totally forgotten about it. The doorbell rang and both women went to the door. Finally the food came and they prepared it nice on the fire to keep it warm. "That looks good, don't ya think?" Pauline said as she took a closer look at the table. "Yeah, I hope everybody will like it, even if I'm a bad housewife." Pauline looked at her with wide eyes. "Well, actually I was supposed to cook something when my soon-to-be parents-in-law will visit us for the first time." Pauline laughed. "Awww, come on, we live in the 21st century and in this time, there aren't rules about who's supposed to cook or clean the house. Some of my friends' Dads do the housework." "Hi, we are home. Josephine, Pauline are you here?" JD shouted as he opened the door. The two women came into the hall and greeted the guests. "You look so beautiful, honey." Helen said as she hugged Josephine tightly, before looking at her again. "It's so good to see you again, Helen." Josephine said and hugged her back. Both women were very good friends and because of Josephine's hard childhood she was like a Mom for her. She gave Jack a welcoming hug as well, before turning to her fiancée. JD smiled at her lovingly and her heart jumped happily. She kissed him on the lips softly, before turning back to the others. "I have to say that I wasn't the one who cooked this meal, but I hope it will taste good anyway, please come in." She led them into the dinning room and everybody sat down. "It tastes delicious. You have really good restaurants here." Jack said and looked at them. JD nodded. "Yeah, that's true, Dad. The food is really good here in Paris. We aren't even able to decide which our favourite restaurant is." After finishing their meal and cleaning the table, the whole family sat down in the living room. JD opened a bottle of wine and they started talking happily about the newest events. "So what about the wedding?" Helen asked them. Pauline sat next to JD and they were holding hands lovingly. "In 5 days on Saturday we will marry in the cathedral Sacre Coeur. It's always been a dream of mine to marry there and normally you have to wait like 2 years to get a date, but my friend's father is working there and so we got it so soon. After the ceremony we will go to a small French restaurant near the church in Monmatre. It's such a beautiful part of the city and the restaurant is fantastic. We can walk there, it's just about 10 minutes from the church." Jack and Helen smiled happily at them. "That sounds really amazing. I'm sure it will be a very romantic wedding here in the city of love?" JD and Josephine blushed a little as Pauline giggled at them. "We wanted it that way and we also have just family and some of our closest friends and partners from work. So it will be small and familiar." Jack nodded and looked at his wife, who was about to say something. "What about Meg, Eric and Bunji. Will they come here?" JD squeezed his fiancée's hand as he looked back at his parents. "Eric and Sarah will arrive on Thursday, Meg and Friedrich on Friday and Momo and Bunji on Thursday as well I think. They weren't sure when their plane will arrive." Helen was so excited to have all the members of her family and the "new" members together at one place. They kept on talking about the future for about 3 hours. "I'm sorry, but I'm really sleepy. It's been a really long day." Josephine said and everybody agreed. The flight had been stressful too. Jack and Helen said goodnight to them and went into their guestroom. Pauline went to bed as well. JD and Josephine cleaned the room a little and soon walked into their bedroom. As soon as they lay in bed JD wrapped his arms around Josephine's waist from behind and softly caressed her belly. She moaned in satisfaction and wrapped her arms around his neck. "I missed you today..." She whispered into his ear and he kissed her neck lightly. "The next week will be really busy and I think that we won't have much time together. But we will take it for us and spend as much time together as we want." She laughed at him and his words and turned around to face him. "I love you so much, JD." She said right before he kissed her on the lips lovingly. It took some minutes till their kiss slowly stopped. "I love you so much that it hurts my angel. No words can express my feelings." He whispered and they kissed again, before falling asleep in each others arms.