Patamon woke up before Gatomon did. He went into the kitchen to see TK and a three month pregnant Kari off to work. He said goodbye and looked at the clock. 7:30. A half-hour to go. He went back to his room.

"Good morning, honey." He snuggled against her. "It's time to get up."

"Why?" She murmured. Patamon had never woken her up intentionally before. Especially this early.

"Because I have a special surprise for you today. And you can't enjoy it if you're asleep."

"Is that so?" She opened her eyes in curiosity. "And what might it be?"

"Well, if you get up you'll find out."

"Okay." Patamon left her to get ready, and went out to prepare breakfast (not very easy for someone his size). Gatomon came out, looking groomed and more awake. He gave her a can of tuna.

"Oh, tuna for breakfast. What's the occasion?"

"No occasion. You just work so hard at taking care of our egg."

"Oh, that is so sweet!" She smiled and ate her breakfast gingerly. The doorbell rang.

"Oh! Who could that be?" Patamon asked innocently. Gatomon giggled. He was a horrible liar. She followed him to the door.

"Biomon! Palamon! What a surprise!" He was talking like that on purpose now.

"Oh, cut it out." Gatomon said playfully. "What's this all about?"

"We're taking you out." Biomon answered.

"Yes. You work much to hard." Palamon added.

"But what about my egg?"

"Don't worry honey. I'll egg-sit."

"But-"

"Have a good time!" Patamon called after them and closed the door. He let out a sigh of relief. "Another minute and we would've had a big problem." As if on cue, the doorbell rang again. "Hey guys!" He said to Augumon, Gabumon, Tentamon, Gomamon, Wormon, Hawkmon, Armodillomon, and Veemon. Basically, all the boys had come.

"I'm glad you're here. Quick! To the garage!" Patamon flew past them toward his temporary woodshop. "We need to work if we want to get done before Gatomon comes back. The girls can only distract her for so long."

"Where'd you get all this stuff?" Augumon asked when he saw all the building supplies in the garage.

"Yolei's uncle owns a construction company." Hawkmon explained.

"This was a great idea, Patamon!" Gomamon exclaimed.

"Yeah, but who's watching the baby?" Wormon asked.

"Aah!" Patamon ran in the house to bring out the egg. "Now," he said as he got it settled into one of the cloths TK used for the car, "I've been working on this for a while. I've already got the walls constructed, but we need to put them in the room and paint them."

"Okay, guys. Let's do it." Augumon and Gabumon picked up one of boards and headed back toward the house. The rest followed their example.

"Wait!" Patamon remembered the egg this time. "After I just got it out here." He complained.

The digimon began putting up the walls, separating Patamon and Gatomon's room into many different rooms. A whole digi-house. The walls were only about waist high on a human, but they were perfect for the soon-to-be threesome that resided there. Patamon planned to have a family room, master bedroom, kitchen, guest room, and, of course, a nursery. (It was a big room, and could fit all that.) TK had helped him with the floor plan and measurements. In addition, a small door that they could use was to be cut at the base of the real door. That way, Gatomon didn't have to wait for Patamon to fly and reach the doorknob that she couldn't. (She had refused to let TK install a pet flap because she was 'not a dog.')

"What about this?" Tentamon motioned toward the rookery.

"Move it into the hall. It'll get in the way." Wormon and Hawkmon obeyed. Patamon put the egg inside. "Now someone has to watch it. I want the door closed so the noise won't disturb it."

"I volunteer!" Gomamon rushed out and shut the door.

"He seemed a little too eager." Veemon said suspiciously.

"Forget about it. We need to get busy." Armodillomon said. The room was soon filled with the sound of hammering and drilling. When all the walls were up, the painting began. The digimon talked while they worked.

"So, Augumon. Gabumon." Hawkmon said, "What's it like, living in Matt and Tai's bachelor pad?"

"It's, um," Augumon glanced at Gabumon, "Eventful."

"How so?"

"Well," Gabumon replied, "Last night Tai fell asleep on the couch and Matt duct taped him down and yelled 'Fire!'" Everyone laughed.

"Poor Tai." Said Wormon.

"Yeah." Augumon agreed. "The only thing he could come up with was the old 'fly in the ice cube' trick."

"Matt didn't even blink." Gabumon recalled. "Hey, Patamon? What color's the nursery supposed to be?"

"Blue. Baby blue."

"Oops." Augumon said under his breath. "Is green okay?"

"What kind of green?" Patamon walked in and was almost blinded by a bright neon green. "You nitwits!"

"We didn't know!" Gabumon defended.

"Who in their right mind would paint a nursery neon green?"

"Uh…Don't look at me! I'm…colorblind. Blame Augumon, it was his fault!"

"What!" Augumon shot dirty looks at Gabumon.

"Why do you have green paint anyway?" Patamon asked.

"How should I know? It was in the garage."

"Well, there's only one thing to do. Hawkmon! Tentomon! Veemon! Come and help us re-paint the nursery. We're going to need a few layers of paint to cover up this green." With all six of them in there, it was kind of crowded. "You two," Patamon pointed to Gabumon and Augumon, "Take over the master bedroom. And paint it white!" They obeyed.

The rest of the painting went smoothly. And quickly, with eight digimon on the job.

Armodillomon gasped. "These fumes are getting strong. Let's open the window and the door to air it out."

"Yeah." Patamon agreed "And we aren't drilling, so the noise won't bother the egg."

"It won't bother Gomamon either." Tentamon opened the door to reveal a drowsy Gomamon.

"Hey, guys. Done already?"

"Have you been sleeping the whole time?"

"Yep. Easiest baby I've ever sat." Silence. Then everyone broke out in chatter.

"I can't believe it!"

"After we've been working like dogs!"

"I knew he volunteered a little too quickly."

"Yeah, Veemon, you were right."

"I say make him do the rest of the work."

"No! We don't have enough time. We'll help, but he owes us, big time." Gomamon grinned sheepishly.

They did not let Gomamon have it easy. He could hardly breathe in between, 'Paint this' and 'Fix that.' But they got done a lot faster than expected. And then they got to move in all the furniture.

"Where'd you get all the small furniture?" Augumon asked.

"One of Yolei's uncles makes doll furniture. TK and Kari bought it off of him."

"It's perfect!" Veemon exclaimed, "You have a table, chairs, a bed, a couch… even a crib! How much did they pay?"

"A lot. But when I explained my idea, they were all to happy to contribute the money." To the disbelieving stares he admitted, "Okay, I had to beg and plead and agree to become housemaid for a month."

"Wow. You must really love Gatomon."

"And our future child." Patamon smiled.

"Maid for a month. Man, would I hate that job!" Gomamon said.

Gabumon and Augumon got matching devious smiles. "Hey, Gomamon, come here." They each took one of his smiles and forcefully led him out the room.

It was easy to get the furniture moved in. The flying digimon could lift things over the wall and leave the halls more clear for those who couldn't fly. The 'house' started to look like a 'home.'

"Done!" Patamon slumped down on the new couch. "Finally!"

"I'm am so pooped, I bet I couldn't even eat a pickle and onion sandwich!" Veemon joined him.

"Why would you want to?" asked Tentomon.

"Hey Patamon!" Augumon and Gabumon came in, "We want to give you your housewarming present. Tada!" They opened the door wider to reveal Gomamon, in a full maid's outfit. He had an apron, feather duster, even one of those doily things on top of his head. Everyone laughed, even though they had kind of suspected what Augumon and Gabumon were up to.

"Patamon! How's my baby?'

Patamon gasped. "Gatomon's home!" Everyone ran out of the room and closed the door.

"Patamon? Why is everyone in our house? And why is Gomamon in a dress?"

"Because of this." Patamon opened the small door.

"Oh, you installed a new door for me. How sweet! Wait. What's that?" She walked in and saw the boys' work. "Oh my god…" Gatomon was breathless, the suddenly excited. "Oh my god! You have to give me a tour! I can't believe it! How did you do this? Did you all help? Thank you. Aaah, we have a house!" Gatomon ran to her mate and hugged him, hard. Then she began tugging on his arm to give her a tour.

"Ah! Arm…attached…"

"Come on! Show me!" Everyone helped show her around. Then they all had dinner. Newly fed and completely exhausted, Patamon and Gatomon were left with eight worthless lumps.

"Oh, you poor guys. You can't possibly go all the way home." Gatomon said sympethetically.

"I'll tell Kari and TK to call their partners when they get home. In the mean time, you sleep on the couch." He pointed at his friends. "No, better yet, Kari and TK's couch. It's bigger." The digimon lugged themselves out.

"Oh, Patamon, you are so sweet. I can't believe you did all this for me. Thanks." She kissed him. They suddenly heard a door open and close. TK's voice came drifting from the hall.

"Who put these lumps on my couch?"