Chapter 3: Baby Shower
Summary: The Scorpios throw a baby shower for Robin and the men are forced to join the party.
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"I don't understand why Robin asked you to plan the party." Maxie pouted as she crossed her arms and flopped down onto the couch next to her older sister.
"She knew that she couldn't trust you not to look in the envelope." Sam answered as she leaned her head on Maxie's shoulder.
Robin and Patrick had decided to wait till their baby shower to find out the sex of the baby. They had the doctor write the gender and seal it in an envelope. It was Sam's job to take the paper to the bakery, so they could fill the cake with either blue or pink icing. Maxie was the one that came up with the whole idea and was unhappy that she was being left out of the actual event.
"You act like you don't have a history of spilling everyone's secrets. You blabbed to a whole lobby that Kristina lost her virginity." Sam continued as she pulled her feet under her.
"I can keep a secret when it counts and I don't have anything to benefit from it." The blonde defended herself, "Nikolas and Emily aren't coming in for the shower."
"Mom said that Nikolas has to work. Do you think that it's weird that they're still living in Wisconsin?"
"Completely, I think he still thinks that Helena really did give him the house." Maxie agreed.
"Mom and Dad mentioned that he has friends and they host weekly dinner parties and doesn't act like a wounded gazelle at all." Sam added. Alexis and Mac had gone to visit the couple after Thanksgiving and were shocked to see how adjusted the couple were/
"Dad tends to think that he is normal because he is away from us." Kristina interrupted as she entered the living room.
"Dad blames us for the way his only son turned out, yet he is the one that carried around a dog named Princess in a purse."
"Dad blames us for the way his only son turned out. Maybe he should look in the mirror, the man now carries around a Yorkie named Princess."
"I think that there is something behind Nikolas staying in Wisconsin. This is our brother that hates cold weather." Kristina shook her head.
"Why can't we just believe that our brother had created his own life with friends and there is not an ulterior motive?" Sam defended.
Maxie stared at Sam for a moment before she and Kristina burst out laughing, "I am going to find out what it is." She promised, "While we are on the topic, I think that we need to band together to make sure that one of us become the Godmother and one of our guys become the Godfather."
"Robin confided in Emily first that she was pregnant. Plus, I am not sure I want to be responsible for Robin's child. Robin is crazy about everything in her life with all the lists and rules." Sam admitted, "I think it's a waste of energy."
"But I want to be the first one to have a Godchild." Maxie disagreed.
"Emily is going to be the Godmother, I think the only wild card is which guy." Kristina reasoned, "The best way to do this is to call dibs on future babies. I am calling Sam…"
"I want Sam!" Maxie blurted as leaned her head on Sam's shoulder, "I also have a signed contract that gives me the rights to Sam's first born." The blonde added as she pulled out a napkin with crayon writing on it.
"I called her first. I don't want to be stuck with Molly or Nikolas's baby. Molly is going to take forever to have children and Nikolas shouldn't be able to reproduce."
"What about me?"
"You are not going to have a kid and we both know that." Kristina disagreed.
"Sam you are just going to have twins." Maxie declared as Sam tried to understand how the heck the conversation had taken that turn.
"I don't know if I can promise that."
"You and Jason are going to have to figure that out. Either that or you are going to have two babies right after each other."
"Jason and I are not having a baby for a long time and I am going to make Molly the Godmother."
"What the heck did I miss?" Jason asked with an amused look as he stood in the doorway.
"Nothing."
"Jason, I need you to talk Sam into having twins. Kristina and I both want to be Godmothers and can't pick who it would be. Even though I have a contract that states I get the first born."
"Okay." Jason agreed knowing that it was just better to agree with Maxie.
"You can be Bacon or Lily's Godparent." Sam offered as she looked at the pig and German Sheppard that were sleeping on the bed in the corner.
"She's just saying that because no one should trust you with a baby." Kristina laughed as she looked at Maxie.
"I could be a puppy's Godmother." Maxie declared after a moment, "I mean they are a lot less work then a baby and I can still dress her up and stuff. There would be no throw up or diapers."
"I was joking." Sam sighed.
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"Why do we have to go to a baby shower?" Johnny complained as Jason, Ethan, and he sat around the bar. The boys were in charge of closing for the night, since Sam, Maxie and Kristina had final preparations for the baby shower the next day, "I thought it was a girls only thing."
"We have to go because Patrick is the new Wounded Gazelle and thought it would be a good idea to unveil the sex of the baby at shower and now he is forced to go."
"Which means we are now forced to go." Ethan added as he wiped the counter down.
"I'm not going because Patrick is going. I am going because I already think that Maxie is trying to kill me and I don't need to give her any more ammunition to use against me."
Johnny clarified.
"Sam promised me that there were going to be those flatbread pizzas that we had at our wedding." Jason added.
"So food and threat of death is the reasons for why we are going to this party." Ethan summed up, "We could just go because we want to support Robin and Patrick."
"That is not how this works." Johnny advised the younger man, "I know that you are new to the family and all, but we don't do things because its right, we end up doing them because we are forced." He added, "If I had It my way, I would be home watching some sport and drinking beer all the time, instead of being dragged into all the schemes I am dragged into."
"I do things because I want to do them of my own free will." Jason disagreed as he looked around the bar.
"What are you doing?" Johnny questioned.
"This is Sam's bar."
"Okay, do you want to point out something else less obvious?"
"Patrick and Sam spend a lot of time here and I am sure that there are bound to be some bugs around here." He nodded towards the shelves behind the door, where the bottle rested.
"I was just joking. I love Maxie so much and am my own person that makes my own choices." Johnny said in a very loud voice.
"This is my future." Ethan grumbled as he buried his face in his hands.
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"I don't want to play anymore stupid games." Maxie complained as she walked into the kitchen where the guys and Kristina were hidden. It was an hour into the party and the group was ready to run. Alexis had invited a bunch of her friends and were gathered around Robin, telling her all the horrors that were supposed to be joys of pregnancy.
"Johnny, I never want a shower if I even have a child."
"Don't worry, I wasn't plan on throwing you a party. Plus, the only reason that you would want to have a baby is because it would be the perfect accessory for you." Johnny answered as he ducked into the cabinet under the island and pulled out a beer box.
Alexis had also banned drinking from the party because she was worried that there might be a scene and didn't want her friends to witness the chaos that seemed to follow her children. This rule is also why the party was moved from the bar to the Scorpio house. Apparently is wasn't in good taste to throw a baby shower at a bar, or that is what Alexis had told the men.
"We spent hours putting up streamers and blowing up balloons and none of it was used." Kristina sighed as she hopped onto the counter.
"We? I am sure by that you mean us men." Ethan corrected, which caused both Jason and Johnny to inhale sharply before they shook their heads side to side.
"I said what I meant. I know how to delegate work." Kristina frowned, "I delegate the manual labor to you and the other men."
"I don't think that I have ever been more proud of you." Maxie beamed as she pulled Kristina into a hug, just as Sam came into the room.
"Why are you all in here? We are supposed to be supporting our sister." Sam asked as she set the dirty plates down in the sink and turned to face the others.
"I feel that men should not have come to this party." Johnny answered honestly, "I mean we
are the only ones here besides Patrick. No one else brought their husbands." Sam stared at him for a moment before she went on to organize more food for the guests.
"Mac isn't even here and he normally gets sucked into everything. How is that he isn't here and we are?" Ethan added.
"There was an emergency at the station." Jason tried to reason.
"There was no emergency and we all know that." Maxie disagreed as she opened the fridge and grabbed a cupcake.
"Those are for the party." Sam ordered as she slammed the fridge shut and went back to arranging finger sandwiches onto the tray.
"Who are you and what have you done with my sister?" Maxie demanded as she reopened the fridge and grabbed a cupcake. She looked Sam dead in the eye and licked the frosting off the top.
"That's fine. We have plenty more and the cake." Sam shrugged.
"Why are you playing the perfect hostess?" Maxie continued to question as she finished her cupcake.
"I realized that I actually like planning parties."
"Where is Patrick?" Johnny asked board of the conversation. He glanced around the room and saw that his friend was missing and was surprised that he wasn't hiding with the rest of them.
"He is currently winning at who can make the best dress from toilet paper." Sam answered as she went to leave the room with the tray of food.
"There is the real reason that Sam is playing the hostess with the mostess," Maxie grinned as she watched Sam leave.
"She is filming this?"
"Better, she is going to use this party to blackmail Patrick. I don't know what for, but because he has been elected the new wounded gazelle, it makes sense."
"Why would she want to blackmail Patrick?"
"She is a genius; she is getting ammunition and waiting till the perfect opportunity to use it." Kristina added.
"I am really starting to rethink our relationship." Ethan sighed as he stared at Kristina.
"It should make you rethink doing anything stupid." Kristina countered, "Don't give me a reason to use anything that I have gathered."
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"It's time to cut that cake." Alexis announced with a smile as she looked around the room before she handed the knife to Robin, "Which means it's time to figure out what my grandbaby is going to be."
"Before we cut the cake, we just want to thank everyone for coming to our party. Even though I don't know most of you and we have to chance the actual location of the party. I wanted to thank everyone for all the free stuff that you have given us." Patrick proclaimed as he stood in front of everyone in his toilet paper dress.
"A new Nikolas is born." Kristina smirked as she leaned against the wall is Maxie.
"I wonder if he would freak-out if he lost his luggage." Maxie mused with a growing smile.
"We can put that hypothesis to the test." Kristina offered.
"We can't send Patrick away; we can't do that to our poor sister since she is so close to her due date."
"She isn't due for a while."
"With our luck we would send our sister into premature labor." Maxie reasoned, "I also think that we work better solo, the world is not ready for our combined powers."
"Only when there is a dire emergency?" Kristina asked as she held out her hand.
"Yes. Until then we go back to being rivals." Maxie agreed as she shook her sister's hand.
"We are happy to announce that…." Robin interrupted Patrick's longwinded speech as she cut into the cake and waited to pull the knife out to see what color the filling was.
"It's blue! We're having a boy!" Patrick exclaimed as he gently pushed Robin out of the way and dug into the cake with his figures to make sure that it was blue. He had been in the family long enough to be suspicious. He would not put it past Maxie to make a fake cake.
"A grandson." Alexis smiled as she pulled Patrick into a hug.
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"I know that I usually love getting presents but this is not worth the free stuff you get for a baby." Maxie declared as she sat on the couch and watched Sam and the other start to clean up.
"I didn't even know most of the people here." Robin confessed.
"They were all Mom's friends and she just wanted an excuse to show that she is going to have a grandchild before any of them." Maxie agreed.
"Patrick seemed to enjoy the party." Robin shrugged as leaned back against the couch.
"Yes and you have the evidence to back it up." Maxie added.
"I may have had Sam take some pictures to ensure that my child is not named Blue or after some sports team."
"What are you talking about?"
"Patrick and I had an arrangement. If we found out the baby was a girl, I would get to name it and if it was a boy he would get to name it."
"Are you out of your mind?" Maxie exclaimed, "Why on earth would you agree to something like that? You do remember that he named a pig Bacon."
"I only agreed to this bet because I was sure that it was a girl."
"Oh do tell, dear sister how were you so sure."
"I may have called the doctor's office and the receptionist told me it was a girl." Robin admitted, as Johnny came over to the couch and sat next to Maxie.
"You should not trust that receptionist, have you seen how old she is? She was around during the Boston Tea Party. I bet you she read the wrong results. But we did learn a valuable lesson, it is not good to cheat during a bet."
"Me learning that lesson, should not end with my son having some crazy name." Robin frowned as she watched her boyfriend sweeping the floor.
"I've seen the list, most of them aren't that bad." Johnny tried to reassure his friend.