Kriss came straight off her pill but it took three months before she actually became pregnant, when it did finally happen, she couldn't believe at and took three tests. They all came back positive and Kriss was overjoyed. She went straight to Dave.
"Dave, I'm pregnant," she blurted out
"YES!" screamed Dave a the top of his lungs "fan-smegging-tastic" Kriss smiled "how long?"
"Six weeks I think" she told him "but that's all so we mustn't tell anyone just yet!"
"Can we start choosing names?" he asked her
"Sure" she agreed "what were you thinking of?"
"For a boy, Jim-Bexley"
"Jim-Bexley?" Kriss ran it over in her head "Jim-Bexley, I like it"
"Great"
"What about a girl?"
"Hum" Dave though about this one "Aimée" he finally said "Aimée or Ashleigh" Kriss nodded in agreement
"But" Kriss said suddenly "if we've got two girls names to choose from, we need two boys names too"
"True" Dave agreed
"What about Llewey?" this had always been Kriss' favourite boys name.
"Llewey it is" Dave agreed "so to sum up, if it's a boy Jim-Bexley or Llewey and it it's a girl Aimée or Ashleigh" Kriss nodded and smiled.
Again the remaining six weeks flew past, Kriss was now three months pregnant, they all congratulated Kriss and Dave when they were told and life went on as normal on Starbug.
Kriss made an appointment with Kryten for her first scan, it was in five minutes. Dave had stolen all the pregnancy stuff off of Red Dwarf's medi bay and put it in theirs.
Kriss laid down on the bed while Kryten emptied the contents of a tube of jelly onto her stomach, he then turned on the machine and pressed where he had just put the jelly, a black and white image flickered onto the screen.
"That doesn't look like Chloë did" Kriss sounded worried "what's wrong?"
Kryten looked at the screen and smiled "it's twins" he said softly
"Twins?" Kriss and Dave said in unison
"Are you saying I'm going to have two more children?" Kriss asked
"Yes" Kryten responded, "they're identical too!"
"Boys or girls?" Dave asked, this was the first time his lips had met since the news.
"Boys" Kryten told them "identical twin boys"
Dave couldn't hide the excitement in his face
"I'm going to have two wonderful boys!" he yelled to everyone in the mid section after the scan.
"Two?" Asked Arnold
"Twinnies!" Dave sang, "Two little boys had two little toys, each had a wooden horse"
"I'll give you a wooden horse" Kriss told Dave "calm down or go and sing it somewhere else, stop annoying me"
Dave skipped off singing the Rolf Harris classic
"He's excited" Arnold told Kriss "so twins eh, got any names yet?"
Kriss nodded "Llewey and Jim-Bexley" Kriss told him "Llewey was my idea, Jim-Bexley was Dave's"
"I guessed that" Arnold laughed, "Are they identical twins?"
"Yeah"
"How do you feel about twins, Kriss?"
"Shall I be honest?" Kriss asked him "I'm bloody petrified, Chloë was bad enough, now I've got to push two full grown elephants out through my virgina, bloody nature" Arnold laughed but wished he hadn't "it's not smegging funny" she walked out and left Arnold wondering what had just happened.
Kriss seemed to get very big very quickly; she decided to spend as much time as possible with Chloë and did her best to warn her that her brother's were on their way. But as Kriss got bigger and bigger she seemed to get used to the idea of having twins. When she reached the sixth month she got really stroppy and snapped at everyone except Chloë. She and Dave fell out every 30 minutes and then made up again, life on Starbug was hell.
Llewey and Jim-Bexley came early, six weeks early. It was a horrible birth, long and painful. Kriss swore then and there that she wasn't having any more and managed to call Dave all the names she could think of and a few more she made up herself. Finally after sixteen hours of pure hell Kristine Kochanski gave birth to Llewey Lister-Kochanski. He was beautiful; he had lovely tanned skin and huge brown eyes. His hair was nearly black and very curly like his Dad. Kriss had enough time to give him a kiss and Dave to cut the cord before Jim-Bexley made an appearance. He was just the same as his brother in every way except a little smaller but they were both fine. Kriss put Llewey straight to her left breast while Dave bonded with Jim-Bexley, fifteen minutes later Kriss put Jim-Bexley to her right breast while Dave bonded with Llewey! Suddenly Kriss started to cry.
"Twins!" she called out "I love them so much but they'll be hard"
"Hey" Dave comforted her "I'm always here with you, you've got nothing to worry about, I love my son's too" Dave was so pleased
"You better be here" Kriss told him "I need you more than ever now"
"They're wonderful, Kriss" he told her "thank you"
Kriss smiled "Can you get Chloë for me?" she asked him "I want her to meet her brothers"
"Sure" Dave told her, he put Llewey down in his cot and came over to give Kriss a kiss "be back soon"
Chloë ran up to her mother
"Mummy, Mummy!" she had come a long way in the last eleven months. She could walk, run and say lots of different words, she mastered Kryten and Arnold. She could say hello to everyone 'hello mummy' 'hello daddy' 'hello Cat' 'hello Arnold'. Everybody loved her and she loved everybody.
Chloë gave Kriss a big hug
"Mummy's missed you very, very much" Kriss told her, Chloë smiled
"Baby" Chloë said "baby, baby"
Dave brought Llewey over to her.
"Chloë" Dave told her "this is Llewey"
"Llewey?" asked Chloë
"Yes" Dave said "your baby brother, Llewey" Llewey started to cry
"Llewey crying!" Chloë sounded as worried as a two year old can
"Don't worry" Kriss told her "that's his way of saying hello"
"Hello Llewey" Chloë smiled and gave him a kiss
"Do you want to see Jim-Bexley now?" Dave asked her. Chloë nodded and Dave put Llewey back in his cot and picked up Jim-Bexley
"Here he is" Dave smiled "this is Jim-Bexley"
"Hello…" Chloë attempted to say Jim-Bexley but failed miserably, Kriss and Dave laughed
"Can I have some time with Chloë on my own please?" Kriss asked
"Sure" Dave told her "I'll sit with the boys".
Kriss spend a whole hour with Chloë, they talked they did drawings and Kriss had a great time.
"I'm going to spend one whole hour a day with Chloë, uninterrupted without the boys" she told Dave when he came in later "and I want you to do the same" Dave agreed a hundred percent with what Kriss was saying. He thought this was a wonderful idea.
Kriss took the boys back to her quarters later that evening, Kriss had also decided to let Chloë take part in the boys' and do as much as she could to 'help' Kriss and Dave.