"Jen are you free for lunch today?" Mac asked as she went through her post.

"Yes ma'am." Jen replied.

"You're not having lunch with Jason?" Mac questioned.

"He has to drop his extra credit assignment off at lunch today. It's the last assignment for the year." Jen replied. "Besides our lunch breaks never usually tend to collide."

"Good so you can have lunch with me?" Mac asked.

"Yes ma'am." Jen replied.

"I'll call Harriet and invite her too."

"Did you call Mrs Burnett yet?" Jen asked.

"Harm called her last night, after I finally got morning sickness."

"Oh, you were doing pretty well with the morning sickness until now."

"Yeah." Mac said.

"How did she take it?"

"She screamed for at least ten minutes. She's happy she's going to come out the end of January to help out for a while."

"That's a good idea. Courts at 0900."

"Thanks Jen."

#

"This was a good idea ma'am." Harriet said as they sat out in the sun eating lunch.

"Actually I had an ulterior motive for inviting you." Mac admitted. "There's something I wanted to tell you both, Jen knows some of this but not all of."

"There's something I need to tell you to." Harriet added.

"I don't have anything to tell anyone, just so you know ma'am." Jen stated.

"Harriet, why don't you go first?" Mac suggested.

"I'm pregnant." Harriet said.

"Congratulations ma'am." Jen instantly said.

"That's what I was going to say too." Mac added.

"You're pregnant too?" Harriet questioned.

"Yes."

"Congratulations." Harriet said.

"You too. When did you find out?" Mac asked.

"At the weekend. I saw the doctor last night after work for confirmation. I'm two months; I'm going to see the Admiral after lunch."

"How did Bud take the news?" Mac questioned.

"He toppled back into a chair." Harriet replied. "What about you?"

"Three months, but I've know for two. The Admiral knows, but we thought we'd keep it quiet for a while just in case, and we didn't want to over shadow Jen's wedding."

"How did Harm take the news?" Harriet questioned.

"You never did tell me that ma'am." Jen replied.

"I'd gone to see the doctor about getting the contraceptive shot they did the test just in case, and it came up positive. I wasn't exactly sure how to tell Harm, so I wrote it on cards, and sort of flipped through to the relevant one, the Admiral came in to demand to know why Harm told Jason that the Admiral would have to wait a few minutes for him to come and see him. That's when he found out. But that's not exactly all."

"Is this the something to do with the reason you looked a little spaced when you got back from the doctors office yesterday ma'am?" Jen asked.

"Yes. It turns out I'm having twins."

"Wow." Harriet said. "How did Harm take that?"

"Surprisingly well after he got over the shock. It just means there are going to have to be some more practical changes in our lives."

"With you both on maternity leave at the same time, I can help out in the office." Jen asked. "Help keep things running."

"Thanks Jen. That does sound like a practical solution." Harriet replied. "I could suggest it to the Admiral. Colonel what do you think?"

"Sounds like a practical solution. Doesn't hurt that you'll be closer to Jason either?" Mac winked at her.

"No ma'am." Jen smiled.

"So have you had any odd cravings yet?" Harriet asked.

"I had risotto on taco shells with strawberry yoghurt on for dinner last night." Mac said.

"That actually sounds nice." Harriet said.

"At the moment, I think it's basically strawberries and chips." Mac continued.

"Not bad for cravings." Harriet said. "I'm waiting for them to hit."

"The Admiral is going have a fit." Jen muttered.

"I'm going to have a fit about what Petty Officer?" A voice from behind her asked.

"Sorry sir." Jen said getting to her feet; Mac and Harriet started to get up.

"You didn't answer my question." AJ said.

"Er..." Jen looked at Mac and Harriet for support.

"Sir, have you talked to Commander Rabb this morning?" Mac asked.

"Yes." He didn't know if Harriet and Jen knew.

"It's okay they know sir." Mac replied.

"Congratulations, it's going to make things interesting."

"Yes sir."

"But I don't think that is what the Petty Officer was talking about."

"No sir." Harriet said. "I was coming to see you after lunch."

"What about Lieutenant?" AJ questioned.

"I'm pregnant too." Harriet replied. AJ didn't say anything.

"Congratulations to you too Lieutenant."

"Thank you sir." Harriet replied.

"You're not pregnant too are you Petty Officer?"

"No sir."

"Good. I'm going back to my office to draft a memo about inter-office dating." As he left the women bit their lips not to laugh out loud.

TBC

A/N: I had to add Harriet being pregnant with Jimmy at some point just because I liked the fact that Bud managed to slip the fact that they had named him James Kirk past her.