This chapter fasts forwards a lot at the end, and the beginning of the next chapter will have skipped until the kids are older.
Once Kate knew that her babies were healthy and alive, she couldn't wait to get out of the hospital. In general, she hated to be near them, unless she absolutely had no choice, Jack knew this, which is why he stayed with her, sleeping in the chair beside her bed. She slept for a few hours, but when the dawn came and Jack woke up, she was already awake, with her hand on her stomach protectively.
"Hey, sleepyhead." She said playfully when Jack rubbed the sleep out of his eyes.
He checked his watch. "Well this is a first." He said. Kate cocked an eyebrow in question. "It's only 5am, and you're already awake."
Kate laughed quietly, not wanting to wake anyone else up. "Just can't wait to get out of here." She told him, and he grinned, picking up her hand and kissed it. She turned so that she was lying on her side facing him. "Twins.." She whispered. "I wonder what they'll be."
"My guess is two boys." Jack said.
"No way, we're having girls!" She corrected him.
"Boys."
"Girls."
"Boys."
"Girls."
"Boys."
"Girls."
This argument carried on for a long time - right up until the birth. When shopping for abby clothes, which led to them buying sets of both pink and blue; When they went for the scan where they could have found out the sex of the babies, but decided to wait to prove each other wrong; even when Kate was experiencing her first contractions, the arguments were going on in the ambulance.
Once the labour had fully kicked in though, the arguments stopped. Jack stayed at her side, while Charlie and Claire, who had been with them at the time, waited outside in the corridor, asking Jack for updates whenever he rushed out to get Kate another drink of water. She was in labour in total for 8 hours, which was definately too long in her frame of mind. When she heard the first baby cry, it was worth it though.
"It's a boy."
Jack kissed her and tucked back the stray peices of hair that had fallen from her ponytail. "See," He said, "I told you. You ok?"
She nodded. "Absolutely perfect."
"Ok, Ms Austen, here comes the other one."
Kate pushed, and soon there was the sound of another baby crying in the room.
"This one's a girl."
Kate sat back and smirked. "See, I told you." She repeated at Jack. They kissed again, and their children were brought over to them. Kate was given their son whilst Jack was given their daughter. This was enough to send Kate into tears, looking down at her children for the first time, that she had carried for eight months.
She looked up at Jack, to see tears forming in his eyes as well. "They're so beautiful." He said, kissing Kate again. "Thank you."
"Looks like we were both right." She told him. "Still keeping the rule?"
She was referring to the rule they had that meant that Jack would name one twin and Kate would name the other. Jack nodded. They had changed their minds, not out of dislike for their originally chosen names, but because Kate had decided that she wouldn't know which name suited her children until she saw them.
"Evelyn." He said, confidently, nodding as he looked down at his daughter. "She looks like an Evie." Kate nodded, showing she agreed, and then they both looked at their son.
"What about, Evan? Evander." She suggested.
"Yeah...Evie and Evan." Jack said, testing the names out. "I love them."