Chapter Six

(June 2005 Donna is 6 months pregnant. The twins are a boy and a girl)

"So,"

Donna said as she caught up with her husband on his way to a meeting with Leo and the President.

"I've been thinking about baby names. We know that we're having a boy and a girl. I was thinking of Anna Felicity and Noah Josiah."

"I like Anna and Noah, but Josiah might be a bit formal. How 'bout Jed?"

"I like Jed. What about Felicity?" Donna asked.

"I was thinking of Natalie, rather than Felicity." Josh said as the walked into the Oval Office.

"Natalie for what?" Will asked when Josh and Donna appeared.

"Baby names," they both answered simultaneously before Leo entered through the connecting door.

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"Josh you're muttering again." The President commented.

"Sorry, sir. I'm just thinking about the New Year."

"It's June Josh unless I'm very much mistaken."

"I won't have a job in January and Donna wants to go back to college. So I guess I'll become one of those 'house husbands'."

Leo laughed, picturing Josh as a house husband. It struck him as funny because until he and Donna became an item Josh had never been a 'family man', he was always great with kids but never seemed to want any of his own. Leo tried to change the subject.

"Have you decided on baby name yet?"

"Yeah. Noah after my dad, and Jed as a middle name," Josh said nodding to the President. "Anna for the girl because I wasn't sure about the name Anne with an 'e', so we compromised with an 'a' at the end instead. Natalie as a middle name because it means Christmas in Hebrew, which Donna celebrates and I only do for her."

After a minute the President interrupts the meeting again.

"Natale Domini?"

"Yep, that's it. Natalie is Natale Domini in English, occurring to my mom." Josh said smiling.

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"Josh, you're brooding again."

"I'm not! I'm just thinking. We need to arrange for an assistant to help you out here now and for later on."

"I know, I'll start looking later, but we've got two months until I'm meant to go on maternity leave."

"Yeah, it's just I don't want another assistant. I want you."

"You have me, forever. At work and at home."

"I know. I know but it's gonna be really weird without you around nearly all the time."

"I'll always be on the end of the phone."

"It's just not the same, you know." Josh says, quietly.

"You really are very sweet sometimes. Anyway, think about it this way: soon we'll have children."

Donna says, resting one of Josh's hands on her bump and one of her own.

A/N: Thanks again to cg's-gal-27689 for reviewing.