This is a revised part 5. I'm not sure what exactly is different from the previously posted version but enjoy!
"Sorry to interrupt, Doctor M, Where's Jordan?" It was Friday morning when Woody poked his head into Garret's office to ask not only him but Nigel and Bug as well.
Nigel answered, looking up from the file they were all conferring on, "She's in trace."
"Great," Woody fully entered the office and shut the door behind him, "I need your help. As you know we're moving to her dad's house. I want to set up a nursery and everything for her as a surprise. Will you help?"
Garret, Bug, and Nigel all replied at once:
"Of course."
"Sure."
"Yeah, why not?"
"Great," Woody smiled, "Lily and Renee already agreed to keep her occupied. Meet me at the house tomorrow around noon."
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Little did Woody know, Jordan was working up a surprise of her own.
"Hey, Cal," Jordan answered her phone with the aid of caller ID. She was finishing a DNA profile for Woody in Trace.
"Hey Buttercup, how's my niece?" he was convinced Jordan and Woody were having a girl.
Jordan smiled at the question as she rolled across the floor on the rolling chair to the other work station.
"She's great; moving like crazy; sort of feels like she's doing the hokey pokey."
"21 weeks, right?" he asked.
"Yeah. I am fully into maternity clothes now." she took her results and headed to her office. She looked around to make sure no one was with in hearing range and she asked,
"When is your flight?"
"In four hours," he told her, "I should be there by six tonight, your time."
"Wonderful," she got to her office and closed the door then looked out the window.
"You sure Woods wants to see me?"
"I'm positive," she reassured him, "We talked about it just last week. He said that if you succeeded in turning yourself around he'd be very proud and he would want to see you."
"Ok. Then I'll see you tonight."
No sooner had Jordan hung up her phone and put it on her desk than Woody came into her office.
"Hey, do you have those results for me?" he asked with a smile.
Jordan handed them to him, "I have a question. If Cal got his life in order, would you want to see him?"
"Yeah," Woody replied, a little confused as to why she was asking again, "But I know he won't. He doesn't change. He is Cal."
"You never know," Jordan told him.
Woody shrugged "I have to get back to the precinct. I'll see you around seven."
"Alright," she replied.
Woody gave her a quick kiss then bent down to kiss her pregnant tummy before leaving.
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"Buttercup!" Cal exclaimed as soon as he caught sight of Jordan.
"Hey, Cal." She replied, hugging her brother-in-law as best as she could being five months pregnant.
He held her at arms length, "Wow, you look great! I can't believe I'm gonna be an uncle."
"Me either," she smiled. They started walking to baggage claim, weaving through all the other people in the airport.
"So, you never told me. Are you Dr. Hoyt or still Dr. Cavanaugh?" Cal asked.
"I actually changed to Hoyt. You might think that would be confusing but it's not really," Jordan explained as they walked through the crowded airport. "And between you and me I love saying it."
The two laughed, finally arriving at the baggage claim. They watched the conveyor belt, like everyone else, bring around all of the luggage from the flight, looking specifically for Cal's.
"Woody doesn't know I'm here?" Cal asked over the noise after a few minutes of not talking.
"Not yet, but he will when he gets home."
They finally found Cal's bag and walked out to Jordan's car. Once in and on they way to Jordan's apartment, she called Woody on speakerphone.
"Hey, Jo," he answered.
"Hey, how much longer are you going to be?" she asked.
"Um, I should be home around 7:30, why?" Woody estimated.
"No reason, I was just curious," she told him elusively, "I have a surprise."
"Alright, I know you're not going to tell me now and it can't possibly be that you're pregnant because we already know that" he replied with a chuckle, "I'll see you when I get home."
"Ok," Jordan answered, he could hear the smile in her voice, "And do you think you could pick up some dill pickles, chex mix, and cherry Garcia ice cream?"
"Sure…" he replied, she was having some crazy cravings.
"Thank you. I love you."
"I love you, too…bye."
Jordan hung up and Cal laughed to himself then shared with Jordan – she kept looking at him strangely "You should have told him you had a surprise – you just found out you were having triplets."
"Cal, we want to surprise him not give him a heart attack," she replied, pretending to scold him.
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Cal and Jordan got back half an hour before Woody would be home. Cal sat on the couch while Jordan made some tea.
"Thank you again, Jordan," he said over the back of the couch, "Greg is awesome. You both have helped me out so much."
"You're welcome. I'm glad we could help you," she sat down next to him.
"You're not very big," he to her, referring to her stomach, "I imagined you would be bigger."
"Not yet. I'll at least double in size before she's born," Jordan replied, lightly rubbing her tummy, "She's kicking. Do you want to feel?"
"Absolutely," he replied, excited and wide eyed.
Jordan smiled at his response. "Ok."
She took his hand and placed it just to the right of her belly button. "Press a little, it's alright. You won't hurt her," she reassured and her smile grew with the baby kicked Uncle Cal's hand.
"Whoa," he smiled and took his hand off and sat back again, "That's so cool. Do you guys know it's a girl for sure, yet?"
"No. I think it's a girl and Woody thinks it's a boy."
Their discussion was cut short by the sound of keys in the lock. Jordan didn't have a plan for when Woody got home so when he opened the door she just smiled.
"Surprise."
Woody's eyes got really big – almost as big as Jordan's stomach.
"What's he doing here?" he asked, setting the bag on the counter.
Jordan got up and walked over to Woody while explaining. "Well you said that if he turned himself around you'd want to see him."
"Ok, but can you prove it?" he challenged her.
"He's working for my friend, Greg Fishman, in L.A. Greg is also his roommate."
"You have a friend in L.A.?" he asked, slightly more amazed at that fact then anything else.
"Amazing, huh? But Greg has been keeping me up to date and Cal is doing wonderfully," she reported and at some point during their little discussion Cal had made his way to stand a few feet behind Jordan. "Cal called me a few weeks ago to tell me himself. He wanted to see you."
Woody's expression softened and he looked past Jordan to his brother, "I'm impressed Calvin."
"Thank you, Woodrow. And congratulations, dad. Jordan told me she was pregnant when I first called," he told his big brother after he hugged him, "and that you guys got married."
"Thanks. How long are you staying?"
"A week," he stated, "I leave next Saturday."
"Excellent," replied Woody – more help with his surprise.
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The first part of Woody's plan was put into effect. Lily and Renee took Jordan shopping the next day while Woody met with Garret, Bug, Nigel and Cal at the house to start the nursery transformation.
They all stood on plastic floor covers in the middle of the empty room, mainly lit by the sunlight streaming into the two windows, surrounded by paint cans, brushes, trays, rollers and wallpaper bordering.
"So what's the plan?" Garret asked, looking at all the supplies.
"Well, I just want to get everything painted today," Woody told the group in front of him.
Bug looked at the four paint cans sitting a few feet away from him. "What color did you pick?"
Cal retrieved a screw driver and began to pry open the lids of the paint cans.
"Light purple, sort of lilac color for the walls and a few shades lighter for the ceiling and windows. Then about half way up the wall we're going to put this Pooh Bear bordering," he told them, holding up a roll of the wallpaper.Everyone gave Woody their word not to tell Jordan about the room and the painting began with rollers and brushes.
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"Jordan, this would look great on you!" Lily told her friend, holding up a light pink silk tank top.
Jordan and Renee both went to inspect the maternity top, Renee pushing little Megan in her stroller between racks of clothes.
"I agree with Lily," Renee said, taking the top and holding it up to Jordan, "You look great in pink."
"Thank you," Jordan replied, taking the shirt and draping it across her arm on top of five other shirts and four pairs of pants to try on.
"You know," Jordan told the two, "I am shopping just about every month to get clothes that fit."
Renee nodded, "That's how it was for me, too."
"Maaa!" came from the stroller.
"Megan's awake," Jordan told Renee, purposefully stating the obvious.
Renee reached in and picked up the 18 month old, "She's probably hungry."
"So am I," replied Jordan, "I'll try this stuff on and we can get some food."
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"Woody, are you guys almost done?" Lily asked over the noise. She and Renee were sitting in the food court with Megan while Jordan was in the bathroom.
"Yeah. We just have to clean up," he answered, putting a lid back on a paint can.
"Great. We will probably be leaving here in half an hour," Lily told him, keeping an eye out for Jordan.
"That's plenty of time," Woody told her, "What are you guys doing with her next weekend?"
"Renee is busy but Jordan and I will probably see a movie," replied Lily. Suddenly she saw Jordan, "Woody, she's coming back. I'll talk to you later."
Lily hung up the phone and put it away in just enough time to escape any questions from Jordan.
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"Thank you so much for your help," Woody told Garret, Nigel, Bug and Cal three hours later, "Cal and I can put up the wallpaper tomorrow or during the week. Next weekend, however, we need to put the crib together and get the changing table and rocker in here."
"Just tell me when you want me here," Nigel replied, speaking for the others as well.
"Will do. I need to get home before Jordan," Woody told them, looking at his watch.
The group broke up and mumbled good-bye's on the way to their cars. Woody and Cal changed at the house then made it back to the apartment about five minutes before Jordan.
Jordan had two bags of clothing from Maternity World.
"Did you have fun?" Woody asked, quickly kissing her hello then taking the bags to their room and setting them on the bed.
When he returned Jordan was putting away the orange juice, "Yes I did. Lily and I are going to see a movie next Saturday."
"What movie?" Cal asked from the couch.
Jordan leaned back against the counter and Woody wrapped his arms around her waist. Jordan put her arms around his neck and rested her head on his chest.
"We don't know yet," Jordan told them.
All of the sudden, Woody felt something sort of bounce lightly against his stomach.
"What was that?" he asked, moving away from her slightly to look down at her pregnant tummy.
She rubbed the front of her stomach and with a smile she asked, "You can feel that too?"
"Feel what?" Cal asked. He walked to where Jordan and Woody were standing in the kitchen.
"She has the hiccups," Jordan told the two men, "But I didn't think anyone else could feel them."
Interested, both Woody and Cal out their hands on Jordan's enlarged abdomen and waited to feel it themselves.
"You should be able to feel it…." she calculated in her head and a few seconds before the baby hiccupped again she said "now"
Sure enough all parties involved felt the tiny lurch from the hiccup. Woody smiled and Cal, removing his hand, suddenly had a memory to share.
"Woods, remember that puppy Aunt Betty had?" he asked his brother, "Tobey, the chocolate lab?"
"Yeah," he remembered and shifted his gaze to Jordan, "That dog got the hiccups at least twice a day when she was a puppy – she would get so excited."
Jordan laughed at the image that provoked – she had never seen a dog with hiccups.
"It's not as funny until you see it," Cal told her, also laughing at the memory, "I'm sure she hated them but whenever she had hiccups her entire body moved."
"Tobey out grew them," Woody added, "Aunt Betty said her older yellow lab, Dixie, also had hiccups a lot as a puppy."
"But how would the baby get them?" Cal asked.
"She starts testing out her lungs," Jordan told them, remembering what she read from that website, "occasionally she inhales some of the amniotic fluid and gets hiccups."
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Later that night Jordan and Woody lay in bed cuddled up together, the room softly lit by the glow of the full moon outside. Jordan was lying on her left side using Woody's shoulder as a pillow.
"Woody, what if I mess this up?" Jordan asked.
Woody's brow furrowed, "what do you mean?"
"I'm scared. What if I mess up its life? What if I don't know what to do or I screw something up or – "
Woody put a finger to her lips to stop her. "I'm scared, too, Jo, no one knows what they're doing when they have a baby."
That didn't seem to help Jordan so he went on, "Of course we're going to mess up but that's what it's all about. But you're not alone - I'm going to be messing up along with you. And we have our friends. Garret has Abbie and Renee has Megan so they can help us not totally screw up our baby's life."
"That's true," Jordan replied, feeling a little less scarred.
"What do you think we should we name the baby?" Woody asked, trying to take her mind off of her fear of messing up.
"If we have a girl I wanted to name her Emily after my mother," Jordan replied, tracing random shapes on Woody's bare chest with her finger.
"I like that," Woody told her, kissing the top of her head, "And if it's a boy we can name him Jacob after my dad."
"What was your mother's name?" she asked.
"Claire," he replied, not completely sure where she was going with that.
"Emily Claire or Jacob Maxwell," Jordan stated, looking up at him.
"I love those," he told her, smiling.