"How are we doing in here?" Dr. Sussin asked, walking toward them. They smiled uneasily in response. "Well. I have your test results here." He was grinning from ear to ear. Jed and Abbey exchanged suspicious glances. "Is that a smile you put on to comfort your patients or did you not find anything?" Jed asked.
"Oh, we found something all right"
Jed squeezed Abbey's hand reassuringly, both of them scared to death. "We're ready." "Well, it seems that…Abbey's pregnant." Jed frowned with confusion and Abbey's jaw dropped.
"I'm sorry, what did you say?" Abbey asked. "I said you're pregnant." He looked down at his clipboard. "You're due December 13th." "But…that's impossible. My daughter's pregnant! I can't be pregnant too!" Abbey exclaimed. "Ah, but you can. I thought you of all people would understand that, DOCTOR Bartlet," Dr. Sussin replied. "But…I'm forty-one years old," she protested.
"I'm aware of that." "Jed"
He snapped out of his daze.
"What"
"You predicted this! Last night. You said 'what if you got pregnant again'! Now look at us!" Abbey exclaimed.
He ignored her and looked at Dr. Sussin.
"I don't understand any of this. We haven't had unprotected sex in….oh, no." "What, Jed"
"Last month. Your parents' house. They took away your pills so we couldn't"
A look of horror replaced the confused expression on her face.
"…but we did," she finished.
"Yeah…we did"
Dr. Sussin smiled at the exchange between the couple. "Oh, no." "I'm going to leave you two alone so you can"
"Wait!" Abbey exclaimed. "You're positive about this, Tom"
"Positive, Abbey. I don't know why you're both so surprised. It's not incredibly uncommon for women your age to become pregnant. After forty-five is when it becomes abnormal," Dr. Sussin said.
"But my daughter"
"Yes, I know. Your daughter is pregnant. And she's…how old"
"Sixteen," Jed answered, ruefully. "When is she due"
Jed and Abbey looked at each other.
"We don't know. She never told us." "You should find out. Who knows? You may be looking at a double delivery here"
"Dear God," Jed whispered. "We should call Liz," Abbey suggested.
"When can she come home, Doctor?" Jed questioned.
"I don't see any reason why she can't leave today. I'll get a nurse down here and we'll start preparing your discharge papers." "Thank you," Abbey said, absently. Dr. Sussin laughed and slowly backed out of the room, leaving them alone. Jed reached for the phone next to the bed and began dialing the McGarrys' number. As expected, Mallory answered.
"Hello"
"Mal, it's Jed. Can I speak to Liz please?" "Oh, um, sure. One sec"
A few seconds later, Elizabeth picked up the phone.
"Dad? Is everything ok?" "Yeah, yeah, everything's fine"
"Oh, thank God"
"Listen, when are you due?" Jed asked, bluntly. "When am I…oh. When is the baby due"
"Yeah"
"December 10th. Why?" Liz replied.
Jed looked up, and, as if speaking to God, said, "Anything else"
"What!" Liz said.
"Oh. Nothing. Um, we'll be there soon, Liz"
"Already"
"Yeah. Tell everyone your mother's fine," Jed said.
"Ok…I will. And Dad"
"Hmm"
"You're not mad at me right?" "No, Liz"
"Ok. See you soon"
"Bye, honey"
He hung up the phone and looked over at Abbey.
"December 10th." "Oh, my God."

Fifteen minutes later, Jed Bartlet returned to the waiting room. Leo and Jenny stood immediately, anxious to hear an update on Abbey's condition.
"What's going on"
"How's Abbey"
"Oh…she's um, she's fine. They're letting her leave today. We should be ready to go in half an hour or so," Jed told them. "She's fine? That's it?" Leo said. "Uh…yeah. That's it"
"They don't know why she fainted?" Jenny wondered.
"Well, actually, there is something"
"What"
"Well, we wanted to tell everyone together. Liz has some news as well and we figured we'd get it all out in the open at once." "Jed, you're scaring us," Jenny stated. He smiled.
"Don't worry."