"Two Surprises"

Disclaimer: I do not own Everwood or anything other then the twins.

"Hey Madison," he said as soon as she opened the door. He could tell just by looking at her that she was completely stunned by his sudden appearance at her doorstep.

"Ephram..." was all she could manage to say. She was holding a very small baby boy in right arm. He was rapped in a blue baby blanket. Just then cries could be heard through the apartment but it wasn't coming from the baby she was holding. "Come in," she stood aside so he could come in and then shut the door behind him. "One second," she said as she set the little boy down in the bassinet next to the couch, and then she disappeared into the hall.

Ephram looked around the apartment, it was pretty small and had baby things all over the room. Madison had been gone no more then a couple minutes when the baby she had set in the bassinet started to cry. Ephram didn't know what he should do, he waited a minute but she didn't come out so he stood up and walked over to him. The baby just looked up at him and continued to cry, Ephram didn't want to just standby and watch the baby cry so he decided to pick him up. He reached into the crib and carefully lifted the baby out and held him like he had when Delia was a baby. The baby almost immediately stopped crying as he did this and he was glad. About ten minutes later Madison emerged from the hall with yet another baby in her arms, it must have been the one crying he thought to himself.

She noticed that Ephram was holding the baby; he could tell she had noticed this. "Oh...I'mm sorry...he was crying, and well...I thought maybe if I picked him up...he would stop crying." Ephram explained. "He fell asleep," he added.

"Oh wow," she replied when she noticed that his eyes were closed.

"Should I set him down?" Ephram asked.

"Oh no, he'll probably wake up then, you can continuing holding him if you would like." She replied sitting down on the couch next to him holding the baby girl.

"Did your dad send you?" she asked once the baby girl had also fallen asleep.

"No actually he doesn't know I'm here. He never told me anything." Ephram noticed the confused look on his face.

"Then why are you here??" she asked him confused.

"I got the letter that you were returning to him and well I wanted to find out what it all meant." He replied.

"So you mean you know nothing?" she asked him.

"No, not really." He answered.

"Well then, Ephram I would like you to meet you daughter Julia Ann Brown, and your son Ephram Andrew Brown Jr." she explained. Ephram looked at the two sleeping babies, his babies, their babies he corrected himself.

"How old are they?" he asked.

"They just turned one month yesterday." She replied now standing up and placing Julia into her bassinet.

"Ephram I don't want you to be mad at me, I was just doing what I thought was best. I was scared and didn't want to hurt you by telling you." She said breaking the silence.

"Madison I'm not mad, I'm just...taking this all in that's all." He explained. "I get that my dad asked you not to tell me, I do." He added.

She looked across the room to where he was looking, the bassinet where they were sleeping. "They are really great babies Ephram. Ephram couldn't be more like you, he's laid back and easy going. As well Julia she's defiantly like me, got to get what she wants and right away." She told him half laughing at baby Julia.

"How long will you be here?" she asked him.

"I'm not sure, I don't have school this week, so if you don't mind I would like to stay and maybe we could talk things out." He replied.

"Oh of course, that's fine. Will you need to call your dad?" she asked.

"Yeah probably, but I think I'll call tomorrow, it's getting late. He'll end up calling Amy if he gets worried and she knows where I am." He replied.

"Are you two together?" she asked, she was surprised that she wasn't really jealous. She thought she would be.

"Yeah, since I got back from NY." He answered.

"Well if you would like you can sleep in my room. I can just sleep on the couch for when they wake up." She said.

"No go sleep in your room, get rest. If they wake up you'll still be able to hear them." He replied half pushing her off the couch jokingly.

"Fine," she said getting off the couch and walking towards the hall. She stopped and faced Ephram, "good night Ephram." She said before going to her room for some much needed sleep.

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