"Don't you just love the ninth month?" TK asked with a false cheerfulness. "We get to visit Dr. Greystone almost every day!"

"TK! Not here!" TK and Kari were in the doctor's office, waiting for Dr. Greystone to see them.

TK folded his arms, muttering to himself. The baby wasn't due for another week and a half. Was it really nessecary for him to be at every appointment? But then, he had to be at this one so that he could take Kari out to dinner afterward. His thoughts were interrupted by the arrival of their obstetrician.

"Good afternoon, people! I hope you're having a nice, cold Valentine's Day!"

"Uh, yeah." Nice, cold Valentine's Day? TK had never heard that one before.

"So any special plans for tonight?"

"No." Kari sighed. "TK thinks I should take it easy."

"On your last Valentine's Day with just the two of you? What a horrible husband!" Dr. Greystone looked at TK in distaste.

She thinks she knows everything. "Well, for your information, I have a surprise planned for Kari tonight." TK boasted.

"You do?" Kari looked hopeful.

TK slapped his forehead. I wasn't supposed to tell her that! How do I cover it up? Um…um… TK thought fast. "Water! I know the way!" He rushed out of the room.

"Thirty seconds." Kari checked her watch. "A new record."

"Yep." Said Dr. Greystone, unconcerned. "So tell me, Kari. Are you ready to have this baby?"

"Yes!" The anxiety had been building up for weeks now. "I am so tired of being fat!"

"Well it won't be long now." Dr. Greystone pulled out a stethoscope and began checking heartbeats. "Another week or two, I'd say. Right on time." TK came in about that time. "Ah, Mr. Takashi. Thank you for joining us. You have your bags packed?"

"Yes."

"Been practicing your breathing exercises?"

"Yes."

"Good." Dr. Greystone finished taking Kari's temperature. "Now, if you don't have any new questions…"

"Not since yesterday." TK answered.

"Okay. Everything checks out. I'll see you tomorrow. Happy Valentine's Day."

"Bye." Kari climbed into the car. "Now see? That wasn't so bad."

"Wasn't so bad? Every day she finds new ways to annoy me! Just last week she pointed out to three of her nurses that I was wearing two differently colored socks."

"Dear, that was your fault."

"Even so! And now she's ruined your Valentine's Day surprise."

"That was your fault too. You let it slip. Besides, it's still kind of a surprise. I don't know where we're going."

"You aren't supposed to know that we're going anywhere at all." TK slowed down, creeping up a hill.

"Well now that I do, will you tell me?"

"You'll see when we get there."

"Wait. We're going now?"

"Yep. I have reservations."

"Early reservations, apparently. Wow. There's a lot of traffic today."

"Yep."

"I don't even get to change clothes?" Kari asked as TK started down the hill.

"Nope."

"But I look like a- TK! Look out!" TK slammed on the brakes just in time to miss the car in front of them. Kari jerked forward as the car stopped. Then she jerked forward again.

And all time stopped.

Ten miles away, Gatomon suddenly sat straight upright, stiff as a board.

"Soon." She hissed.

Kari felt the seatbelt tighten against her chest as she was flung back against her seat again.

"Oh my god! Kari! Are you all right?" TK shouted in her ear.

"Yeah. Yeah, I'm fine. What happened?" Kari caught her breath.

"It looks like a bumper-to-bumper pile up. Someone up there stopped, and the car behind it couldn't stop in time. And then the car behind it couldn't. A chain reaction. I was far enough away from that guy that we didn't hit him. We got hit in the rear, though. Just a fender-bender, I think. Are you sure you're all right?"

"Yes."

"Maybe we'd better go back to Dr. Greystone…"

"I never thought I'd hear you say that. But really, I'm fine."

"All right." TK let it go once he heard that his wife still had her sense of humor. As it turned out, TK had early reservations so that they could catch a movie after dinner and still get Kari home before it got too late.

TK thought it was a good date. Kari gasped and squeezed his hand during a preview for a horror movie and they kissed during the mushy parts. In fact, TK didn't even suspect anything was wrong until Kari gasped again and held her stomach on the way out of the theater.

"Kari! You're having a contraction, aren't you?"

"I think so."

"Come on. We're going to the hospital."

"TK, they're over an hour apart. We don't have to go until my contractions are-"

"I don't care! After that accident today, what if something goes wrong?"

"But TK-"

"No. We're going. Now." And with that he sped off to the hospital.

Dr. Greystone was waiting there for them. Somehow, in his rush, TK managed to call ahead.

"Now," said Dr. Greystone, helping Kari into a wheelchair, "tell me what happened."

TK explained (in great detail) what had happened that afternoon. "It was just a little fender-bender!" He finished.

"Little as it might have been," Dr. Greystone ran a few tests, "Something still could've gone wrong. Luckily, nothing did. Just started the labor a little early. It's good that you brought her in."

TK looked at Kari as if to say, 'I told you so.' "Now what?"

"Now we wait. There's no sense in you going home, just to bring her back here." Dr. Greystone shrugged.

"Excuse me. 'Her' has a name!"

Dr. Greystone smiled. "Sorry, Kari. Okay, I need you to put this on and relax in room 330. It's going to be a long night." She gave Kari a hospital gown and left.

"TK," Kari turned to her husband, "I need you to call Matt and Tai. Tell them to stop by the house and pick up my bags. Oh, and tell them to tell Patamon and Gatomon what's happening."

"How will they get inside? I locked the doors."

"They have a key."

"They do?"

"Yes. After you do that, call the digidestined and tell them what's happening. Tell them that I'm going to be here a while, but if they insist on coming, tell them that they can drop off their digimon at our house before they come here."

"How will they get in?"

"They have keys too."

"Okay, so first everyone has a key to Matt and Tai's house, and now everyone has a key to our house?"

"Yeah."

"Do you realize that if one of our friends was a robber, we'd all be screwed?"

"TK!"

"I'm going, I'm going." He took his cell phone out into the hallway.

"Hello, this is Tai," Tai strained to hear over the crowded restaurant, "Oh, hey TK… She is?…What?… Car accident!… Yes, I can…Okay. See ya in a few." He hung up. "Oh my god, my sister's in labor!" He ran out of the cafe, leaving a confused Sora behind. Then he remembered and ran back in. "Sorry, honey. Check please!"
Izzy unlocked the Takashi's door. He and Tentomon met Augumon in the hallway.

"How's the egg?" Izzy asked him as Mimi walked through the door without having to unlock it.

"Fine. Come see." Augumon replied. Mimi said goodbye to Palamon and looked up at Izzy uncertainly.

"Izzy, Kari's in labor." She told him.

"I know."

"Come on, Izzy! This is vital to your research." Tentomon said.

"I know!" He looked at Tentomon, then at Mimi, then at Tentomon again. He got out his pad of paper. "Take notes!" He tossed the pad to Tentomon. "Kari's more important."

"Well that's just great." Tentomon said as the door slammed shut. "I don't even have fingers."

"Heck, I don't think you even have hands!" Augumon said, and he leaded Tentomon into the digimon's room.