Sky froze, twins, they were having twins! He felt like someone had hit him over the head with a baseball bat.
"Twins…" he sputtered after about three minutes of complete silence "We're having twins… oh gosh, I don't know what to say"
"I don't either, it's just so much so fast," Kathleen said
"I'll leave you two to discuss this," Felix said
"Okay, thank you Doctor" Kathleen said before Felix left the room "Now what?" she asked after Felix was well out of the room
"I'm not sure, do you think we're ready for twins?" he asked
"I don't know, but we're about to see aren't we?" Kathleen said
"True… we're just going to have to wait and see"
"Sky, when I figured my due date I was a bit off"
"How far and in which direction"
"My figure was about four weeks early" she said
"Okay, I thought that seemed a little soon" he said
"I just have one little problem, how do we tell the rangers, Cruger and my mom that we're expecting not one but two babies?"
"I guess we just tell them like we told them that we were going to be parents to begin with, immediately and with no fooling around" Sky said
"Okay, let's go to the command center and see if they are together" she said, come to find out, they weren't, but Boom was more than happy to do the running to bring together the two teams, who actually were all in one general area, the rec. room.
"Rangers, you're needed in the command center, Sky and Kathleen, they have some news for you guys" he said breathlessly as he had run all the way there from the command center.
Kat was a bit concerned about her daughter
"Kathleen, will you tell me what's going on?" Kat asked
"As soon as the rest of the rangers get here, I don't want to have to repeat myself," Kathleen replied gently.
The rangers arrived a few moments later.
"What is it, Kathleen?" Sydney asked, "Boom said you had news for us, what about?"
"Well… Syd, you know how I told you guys I was expecting a baby… well, that was only half of the truth…"
"Meaning…" Z said
"I'm actually expecting twins," Kathleen said feeling awkward as hell.
"TWINS!" Z echoed in shock
Kat gave her daughter a shocked look "Kathleen, why didn't you tell me earlier?"
"I just found that out myself, mom" Kathleen replied
"Congratulations, Kathleen… Sky, I have to admit this is quite a surprise," Cruger said
"Yes it is, sir," Kathleen replied
After the rangers left Cruger walked over to Kat
"You seemed extremely shocked by that… why?" he asked
"Well, I was shocked, when she told me there was something going on I didn't know what to expect, but Doggie, believe me, that wasn't one of the ideas that came to my mind…" she said
"It wasn't exactly the first thing that came to my mind either," he admitted
As the weeks went by, Kathleen was put on light duty, meaning no patrols, period and no heavy lifting… meaning that she was monitoring the command center a lot.
Soon she hit the four-month mark, meaning they should be able to find out what the twins were.
Kathleen went to the infirmary to find that Felix was no longer consulting her; he had brought in an outside obstetrician for this case.
"Well, Mrs. Tate, it's a pleasure to meet you, I'm Dr. Barns, I'll be taking care of you through the rest of your pregnancy as Dr. Felix doesn't have the training to handle your case any further," he said
"It's a pleasure to meet you too, Doctor" Kathleen smiled
"Sky should be here in a few minutes, he is on patrol," Kathleen said
"Do you want to wait until he gets here?" Dr. Barns asked
"Yes, I'd like that" Kathleen said
"Okay then do you have any questions or concerns?"
"What are the chances of it being possible for me to deliver naturally?"
"Do you mean completely natural, or just not by c-section?"
"Just not by c-section is what I mean," Kathleen said
"Well, it's hard to say, it depends on the positions of the babies, I honestly recommend that you go ahead and have a c-section to reduce the risk of complications," he said "when twins are delivered naturally after baby A is born baby B has a nasty little habit of flipping into the breach position, making delivery difficult and dangerous."
"So a planned c-section is the safest route to take?" Kathleen asked
"Yes" Dr. Barns said, "especially for a first time mother"
Sky walked in a few moments later.
"Well, it appears I got here just in time. What are we having?" he asked
"We waited for you, I don't even know yet," Kathleen said
"So, you're Schuyler Tate" Dr. Barns said, "I'm Dr. Barns, Felix called me to handle you're case"
Dr. Barns shook hands with Sky and then turned back to Kathleen and noticed a weird similarity to one of his first patients about twenty years prior.
"Mrs. Tate, if you don't mind my asking, would you happen to be related to a Dr. Katherine Manx?" Barns asked
"That is my mom, why?"
"That poor woman, I felt so bad for her when she lost her son"
"Wait, Kat lost a son?" Sky said in disbelief
"My mom had a baby boy?" Kathleen asked in astonishment
"Yes, but he was dead at birth" Dr. Barns said, "She didn't tell you?"
"No, I didn't know, this is the first I've heard of it…"
"Well, I'll let her tell you about that," Dr. Barns said, "Now we have to find out what you are having"
Dr. Barns set up the ultrasound machine and began the scan of the twins.
"Now you do want to know what you're having, don't you?" he asked
"Yes, sir" Sky said
"Kathleen, you ant to know too, right?"
"Yes sir"
"Okay", he checked and smiled "Well, I'd say you two are having twin girls, and by the way they are interacting with each other I'd say that they are identical twin girls"
To Be Continued…
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