Lucas kept his promise and laid with her upstairs in their bed after taking off her brace. He grabbed what little pain medicine she could take because he knew she was going to need it when she woke up. He curled up next to her with his arm draped over her stomach. He couldn't wait to meet their baby.
Jennifer went in to check on them and when she found them like that, she could not resist snapping a few pictures. She grinned when Lila came in and photo bombed them. She tried not to laugh at the funny faces her daughter was making, but it was hard. Lila paused to give each of them a kiss on the forehead before creeping back out of the room with her mom.
Victoria dreamed about them and the baby in the future. Lucas dreamed about Victoria. All was well. Lucas woke first and smiled down at her, his wife. She was his wife and he couldn't believe it. He gently climbed out of bed and went downstairs to find her crew sitting and playing with Lila. He smiled and watched them interact before Miller noticed him.
"Hey Chief. How's she doing? We heard Frankel tried to put a wedge between you two, but Vic turned into a bear." Lucas laughed because that's exactly how he would've put it too.
"Yeah, I stepped in as soon as I could, but Vic had already handled it, mostly. I was just trying to keep her from punching her battalion chief." Maya gasped.
"That sounds about right." Travis murmured.
"And you all can call me Lucas or just Ripley outside of work." He added and they nodded. Vic woke to find Lucas was gone but heard laughter from downstairs, so she figured her team was here. She grabbed her brace from beside the bed, put it on securely and slowly made her way downstairs. She made her way to Luke and eased herself into his lap.
"They telling you any lies about me yet?" She asked.
"Oh plenty. But I don't believe them." He replied, teasingly.
"Good." She smiled and he wrapped his arm around her waist.
"What lies? We only told him about the first time you came into work hungover as a rookie." Andy grinned and Vic groaned.
"Why would you do that?"
"Because it's funny as hell." Jack replied, laughing.
"No it's not. I almost busted my head open on the damn door that you left open on the engine when I slipped on one of the freaking hoses." She groaned.
"You did not!" Jennifer laughed and she nodded with her face in her hands
"You never cease to amaze me, Victoria." Lucas smiled the teasing evident in his tone.
"We should totally tell them about the time that we convinced you to try and out drink Miller and how you actually succeeded." Travis smirked.
"Damnit Trav. Don't you dare." Vic replied burying her face in Luke's shoulder.
"I have to hear this one." He laughed.
"Lucas I have things to hold against you, so think wisely before you speak." Vic said even though she knew it wouldn't work because she couldn't say no to him, nor did she want to.
"Yeah sure, like you could actually do that." Jennifer grinned.
"I still can't believe you told Andy and Maya about that." Vic groaned.
"About what?" Luke asked, suddenly terrified.
"Yesterday afternoon, this morning, and our marks." Vic replied as subtly as possible and Lucas sent his sister a glare.
"Seriously?"
"You two are never living that down." She laughed in response.
"God, sometimes you are the worst Jen." He whined his thick Australian accent slipping out.
"Been awhile since I heard that come out, Rip." Sullivan chuckled.
"Shut it Bobby." Luke grinned.
"I love when you get all whiny and your accent comes, it's cute babe." Vic smirked.
"Seriously?" He asked suddenly turning red.
"Yep." She smiled and rested her head on his chest and Maya snapped a picture.
"Send that to me." Vic said with a grin.
"Already done." Maya replied.
"So, Vic how's the leg?" Ben asked deflecting from the obvious innuendoes.
"Sore. I had to use the damn wheelchair today. I hate that thing." She whined.
"At least it helps though, love." Luke replied his accent fading.
"Yeah. That makes it worse. Because I know I need it, but it makes me feel so helpless and dependent. That as we all know is not who I am." She replied a hint of sadness in her voice before she squirmed out of Luke's arms and hobbled to the bathroom before getting sick.
"Your kid really picks the wrong times for this." Vic replied a pout evident on her face when Lucas enters with a glass of water for her to rinse her mouth.
"What happened to our kid?" He chuckled.
"It's not funny." She half-yelled and smacked his chest.
"Are you alright, sweetheart?" He asked and she lifted her arms for him to help her up.
"Yeah, I'll be okay." She leaned into him as they walked back to the living room and returned to their previous position except this time Vic's left side was visible to the team. And they spotted the hickey that was only half-covered by her hair and snickered. She looked up, realized what they were laughing at and pulled her hair over it.
"Geez what are you guys, twelve?" She sighed and felt Lucas chuckle against her.
"What are you laughing Mister? I can show them your shoulder if you'd like." Vic added and he immediately stopped.
"I thought so." She smiled triumphantly.
"You two are animals." Travis joked.
"It's the hormones." Vic and Luke both reply at the same time.
"That's just weird." Andy chuckled.
They all decided to go out to the diner for dinner. Vic and Lucas wanted to show them their place. Lucas wanted to make sure Cam knew they were officially 'Hubby and Eggy.' When they got there, they took up the largest booth rather than their usual spot. Cam walked over and smiled.
"Oh it's Hubby and Eggy with friends." He smiled.
"Yep. We wanted to show our family our place but we don't exactly fit at our booth so this will have to work." Vic replied and smiled.
"And we're officially Hubby and Eggy as of two days ago." Luke added.
"Well then, congratulations." He smiled.
"Thanks Cam. Guys this is Cam, he's the manager and he's always here. Kind of like we are most of the time." Vic replied. They all waved, and Cam took their orders. When they left Luke insisted on paying the entire bill and had to make it an order for them to put their wallets away.
"Bye guys, have a good night." Cam said as they left, and they all wished him the same. All in all it was a good day.
