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As requested, Liam and Steffy spent the week following their wedding lock away at the cliff house in Malibu. Unfortunately for them, they were unable to fly due to the pregnancy and the risks that they were facing. At the end of their peaceful week, Liam decided it was time to tell Steffy about Ivy's visit the day of the wedding. While sitting together on the couch, entangled in each others arms, Steffy notices that Liam is in another world, little does she know he is trying to work out how to tell her about Ivy's latest attempts to end their relationship.
"Where were you just then? You certainly weren't here, with your wife!"
"Hmmm, what? Sorry baby what did you say I was lost in my thoughts!"
"I asked where you were, I hope that whatever I am doing to you in your thoughts is worth not mentally being here with me! Tell me about it, what is on your mind."
"Ivy."
"Please tell me that you did not just tell your new wife, who just so happens to be 22 weeks pregnant that you are thinking of another woman, but she isn't just any other woman, she is your ex-wife who just so happens to be madly in love with you!"
"Hey whoa, calm down, deep breaths, unless you calm you sexy as hell ass down I won't tell you the latest scandal, because if this is going to make you stress out, then I am all for keeping things from you until these twins arrive."
"Okay, alright it get it, you want me to relax, you want me to stay calm, well when your wife asks you what you are thinking about don't blurt out your ex-wife's name!"
"You are right; I shouldn't have started our conversation like that! But there is something I do need to tell you. I promised Caroline I would tell you the day after the wedding, but we were a little distracted that day..." Liam says with a smirk on his face and a nibble on Steffy's ear.
"Go on; tell me what you have been keeping from me!"
"Promise to not lose your cool?"
"Liam if you don't tell me fast, I am going to lose it big time! Now what it going on!"
"On the day of our wedding, when you sent Caroline over to the guest house... I wasn't alone when she got there!"
"I never thought you would be, I expected that your Dad, Katie, Wyatt and even Will would be there with you..."
"Ha, if only! When Caroline walked into the guest house she discovered that, she found, I was in the middle of...!"
"God Liam if you can't spit it out soon the twins will be one by the time you finish your story! What did Caroline witness?"
"Ivy came to the guest house, on our wedding day. Steffy, she, tried to get me to leave you. She, she kept going on and on about how you were trying to trap me with these babies. She was saying that they aren't mine and that I am only marrying you because of the twins, that I don't really love you, that our marriage was one of obligation. All of that I could handle, I hated every second of it, but I could handle it because there has never been a doubt in my mind that they are mine, you my love, are the loyalist person I know, in fact it is your loyalty that ends up getting you hurt most of the time! The thing that cut me to the core was... was when... was when she pretended to know and understand what happened that day. She was acting like she knew what it was like to lose a child, to have something so precious taken away from you. Ivy mentioning our little girl is not okay with me. I know I should have told you sooner, but I just didn't know how to, all I ever want is to keep the three of you safe, and that crazy woman is a risk to you all! I'm sorry baby!"
"Oh Liam! She is not worth my stress! You knew then and you know now that everything she was telling you was utter crap! If that was her last ditch effort to win you back, she doesn't know you or our story very well at all! I love you so much, husband! As for her mentioning Aspen again, she better not be in the office when I am next in there... let alone when I return to work. Maybe we could send her off to the international office in Paris... surely they can use her! I am sorry she did this to you, especially on our day."
"Wait, what, that is it? No yelling, no screaming, no threatening to kill her?"
"What good would any of that be? All it would achieve is raising my blood pressure and stressing out the twins, and we don't need that!"
"Wow, they say pregnancy and marriage changes people, but I never expected this change!"
"At the end of the day, I won! I am Mrs Spencer, I am having your babies, I am the one who gets to call you my husband and I am the one who is happier than I have ever been in my life and that is all thanks to you! So yeah, maybe I have changed or maybe I have gotten a little perspective on this thing called life, and Ivy is not my problem nor is she my priority. You and these babies on the other hand are my biggest priority!"
"Who knew I married such a wise woman!"
"Oh I did! I also love that you defended my honour, you have no idea how sexy that is!"
"Oh really! I will have to remember that!" He says while kissing Steffy.
"Mmmmmh enough about the plant, I want more of that please." Steffy manages to get out as she steals more kisses from Liam.
After quite the intense make-out session, Liam starts talking about the incident again.
"All those motherly instincts must be starting to kick in for Caroline, you should have seen her jump down Ivy's throat! I was like you were her lion cub, she was ready to go in for the kill! She told me after that if she wasn't so pregnant she would have slapped her half way back across the Pacific!"
"Now that I would have paid to see! Can we please stop talking about Ivy now? She is a jealous, vindictive, manipulative, crazy woman who does not deserve out time, especially not the last few hours of our honeymoon!"
"Don't remind me... this is almost over! Tomorrow I have to leave our little bubble and return to work. I wonder how much damage control I am going to have to do tomorrow. Do you think they have killed our company?"
"Our company? Don't you mean my company!" Steffy says with a smirk on her face.
"Oh don't you know, this wedding was only so I could get control of Forrester and take it away from you. You are just a victim in my evil plan!"
"But that is my plan... I am only in this marriage for the rights to Spencer Publications, the amazing sex is just a bonus. I suppose it doesn't hurt that the lovesick fool I married is mighty good looking too. Alas, I think I might be falling for him, oh no my evil plan is foiled, I can't possibly leave him, I love him!"
"I guess I can work with that! After all even while pregnant my wife has a rocking body! Woman all round the world can only dream to look that good, and the men, the men of this world would love to steal her away from me, it is a good thing I am super possessive over what is mine! I might have to go all cave-man and lock her away from the world so only I can ravish her, following her every whim, fulfilling her every desire!"
"Whoever said being a housewife was boring obviously wasn't married to my husband! Oh all this talk of fulfilling desires and being ravished... my, oh my, what a lucky woman I am!"
"Oh yeah, and don't you forget it! Especially in a few months time when you want to kill me because you are in so much pain from the twins making their entrance into this world!"
"Nah, I have got this labour business! I am going to rock it or I am going to absolutely suck at it and you're going to be the one holding me together, keeping me sane, helping me through each and every contraction! I am aiming for the first one though!"
"I plan on doing the last part no matter how you are coping with it! I plan on holding your hand the entire time, helping you to remember to breath, keeping you sane and if you need me to I will you together. But like everything else you have done it your life I am sure you will rock this too!"
"You hear that little ones, your Daddy thinks Mummy is a rock star! Little does he know he is my rock!"
"I think we are each other's rock. Gosh it has been nice to spend all this time together; I am really not looking forward to getting back to work! Don't get me wrong I love our job but I just love you more!"
The next few weeks trickle on by, everything is running smoothly at Forrester and Steffy has managed to stick to her one hour a week rule imposed by Doctor Caspery. To date the doctor is very impressed with Steffy and how determined she is to bring healthy babies into this world. Liam had continued to support Steffy in this endeavour by leaving as much work drama at Forrester. Grandpa Bill has continued to spoil the twins, finding endless ways to buy things for the two little ones, filling the house with more baby items then Steffy and Liam can ever imagine needing. Steffy and Liam made the decision that they want to share Aspens room with her siblings and have finished fixing up the nursery for the impending arrival of the twins. When Steffy reached the 26 week mark, Liam surprised her with a special dinner with all their family. He figured that it was worth celebrating such a big moment.
Later that week at her doctor's appointment, Steffy and Liam receive the news they had been dreading, Steffy's blood pressure was now at a dangerously high level. For her safety and the safety of the twins Doctor Caspery places her on strict bed rest. Only allowing her to get up to use the bathroom and to shower once a day any food is to be brought to Steffy and she is not to be left alone. While scared that something terrible could happen to her babies, Steffy remains determined to see this pregnancy to the end, or as close as she can get.
"Good morning my love, how are you feeling today?"
"Pregnant! Very, pregnant I am sure I am currently the same size as Caroline and she is due any day now meanwhile I am only 28 weeks! I am over it Liam, this is all your fault!"
"Babies, Mummy loves you she is just frustrated!"
"Liam, frustrated doesn't even begin to cut it! I have the hottest, most loving husband on the planet and here I am stuck on bed rest!"
"Baby, I know you are over it, but just think it will all be worth it in the end, soon we will have our beautiful babies!"
"Liam you are not helping me! I am as horny as hell and we can't do anything about it! I can't even have sex with my husband!"
"I know, I am sorry, you know I would in a heartbeat if it didn't go against Doctor Caspery's rules of bed rest. Now my love, since there is nothing we can do about that situation, how about I run you a nice relaxing bath and fix you some breakfast, lets enjoy the last day of the weekend! Let me spoil my wife!"
"Mmmm a bath does sound good! Can you make us some of the fruit salad... you know where you cut it all up into tiny little pieces... but no banana this time, we don't like banana anymore."
"Whatever you want my love!" Liam leaves the room to run a warm bath for Steffy. Once the tub is full, Liam helps Steffy undress and helps to lower her into the water, when she is settled; he leaves to make the fruit salad she is craving.
Halfway through cutting up the fruit Liam hears Steffy's phone ringing from in the bedroom, knowing his wife and her ring tones he knows that it is her father calling and he rushed to the bedroom to grab the phone and take it to his wife in the bathroom.
"Hey Dad, what's up? It's a little early for you to be calling me to check on you grandbabies don't you think?"
"I know it is early but I figured you and Liam wouldn't mind. In fact I think you would be rather angry with Caroline and I if I didn't call you!"
"What Dad is Caroline alright, is the baby okay?"
"Sweetheart, Caroline, is perfectly fine, tired but fine and your little brother, he is perfect too!"
"WHAT! She had the baby! I have a baby brother! Liam I have a baby brother!"
"Yes darling girl you do! Spencer James Forrester decided that he was ready to come and meet his Mum and Dad in the early hour of this morning, all 8 pounds 2 ounces of him!"
"Is Caroline doing okay?"
"She is doing really well; she is a natural at this, just like I know you are going to be!"
"Oh Dad I am so happy for you, for both of you! Now you have to send me some pictures of my little brother... if you can't work it out get Caroline to do it! I can't believe he is here!"
"Will do honey, now you take it easy and calm your excitement down, I don't need my son and my grandbabies sharing a birthday!"
"Very funny Dad! Give that little man a cuddle and a kiss from his big sister and do the same for Caroline! Love you all!"
"We love you all too! I will talk to you soon."
"Bye Dad."
"So tell me all about your little brother my love!"
"His name is Spencer James Forrester, born early this morning, Sunday March 27th, weighing 8lb2oz. Dad said they are both doing really well and he is going to try and send me some photos, but I wish I could go and visit them!"
"Oh my love, maybe when we go to Doctor Caspery tomorrow for your appointment we can ask if you are allowed to have a quick visit to the maternity ward. I am sure that it will be fine, after all you will be in a hospital!"
"I would like that! My husband is such a smart man! How did I get so lucky?"
"I am the lucky one... have you seen how good my wife looks naked! Hot dang, she is stunning!"
"Hmm, baby, do you think you can help me up and out of this tub, I am ready to get out now and the twins are rather hungry!"
After Liam finished making the fruit salad he and Steffy spend the rest of the day watching movies in bed and constantly checking their phones for new photos of baby Spencer.
Steffy's appointment with Doctor Caspery the next day went really well, he blood pressure had stayed the same as the previous week but the doctor did remind them of the warning signs that is it getting too high and that if Steffy ever has blurred vision or feels dizzy or light headed, they need to come straight to the hospital. When asked if they could pass by the Maternity ward on their way home Doctor Caspery allows it, but only for 10 minutes.
"Knock, knock! I hear the newest heartbreakingly handsome Forrester wants to meet his big Sister"
"Steffy what are you doing here you're supposed to be on bed rest! I know this is a bed and it is restful-ish, but you aren't supposed to be here! If your dad finds out he will flip!"
"It is okay we cleared it with Doctor Caspery, I have 10 minutes before I have to be on my way home so hand him over while I still have time! I need to cram in as many snuggles with this little dude as I can!" Steffy informs Caroline as she takes baby Spencer out of her arms.
"How are you coping with everything?"
"God knows I am going insane on this bed rest business, but knowing that at the end of it I am going to have two little ones, who are perfect just like this little guy is going to make it all worth it!"
"It can't be easy for you... giving up all your independence, having to rely on everyone else..."
"It's so hard and not to mention boring! You know I actually miss being at work, seeing the new designs, giving my input, feeling needed by someone other than the pair of monkeys who currently steal every ounce of my energy!"
"If it is any consolation, Forrester misses you too. Nobody does sexy, sassy and classy quite like you do!"
"Caroline, truthfully, how painful was it... like on a scale of 1-10...!"
"What the delivery? Steffy they call in labour for a reason, it is bloody hard work but at the end of it all you get the best reward ever, this little human who is all yours to love and adore! You may have double the work coming up but you are also going to have double the reward... I know there isn't anything you wouldn't do for those babies and that includes going through a bit of pain to bring them into this world. For your entire pregnancy, you have done whatever was needed to ensure your babies have the best chances. You are already the best mum to them, and I know you are going to love them with every fibre of your being, just like I love that little guy!"
"You really are a mum now, you know all the perfect things to say and just when to say them! Oh baby Spencer, you are one lucky boy, not only do you have the most amazing Mum and Dad but you have the best big sister in the entire world looking out for you! Trust me little man, when you need to know how to get what you want out of Dad, come and talk to me... I have him all figured out!"
"Steffy my love it is time to give him back, we need to get you home..."
"I love you little man, it won't be long and you will get to meet your nieces or nephews! Until I am allowed out and about, take care of your Mum and Dad for me!"
"Thanks for coming to visit us! Now get home and rest big sister!"
"Bye Caroline, give my love to Dad, he is pretty special!"
Before anyone knew it baby Spencer was a week old and thriving. They had been released from hospital of the 4th day of Spencers life and we slowly settling in to life at home, including planned visits to his big Sisters house to help keep her company.
Late at night, before one of Spencers visits to Steffy and Liam's house Steffy wakes up in a damp bed, thinking instantly that her waters had broken it isn't until she reaches down that she notices her pyjama bottoms are dry and the dampness is coming from Liam's side of the bed. Slowly Steffy sits her 29week pregnant body up and reaches to turn on the light. It is in that moment she realises that Liam is covered in sweat and is shaking uncontrollably.
"Liam sweetheart, wake up!"
"Soooo cold! Steffy why is it soooo cold in here?"
"Liam, it's not cold in here, something is wrong with you, baby I need you to sit up for me okay!" Slowly Steffy rises to her feet and waddles into the bathroom grabbing a glass of water, the Tylenol, the baby thermometer they picked up last week and a damp washcloth.
"Liam, wake up, open your eyes for me! I need you to wake up and take some medicine; it is going to make you feel lots better..." Steffy continues as she places the washcloth on the back of Liam's neck and proceeds to take his temperature.
"Oh Liam, you have been so busy taking care of me you failed to look after yourself and now look at you! You are sick as dog and running a fever of 102.9!"
"My job is to look after you!"
"Yeah well I love you for that but you aren't much good to me like this are you!"
"Mmmmm love you!"
"Yeah baby I love you too, go back to sleep and I will keep an eye on you!"
"Aspen sleep too!" Liam mumbled as he drifted back to sleep.
"Oh baby, you aren't well at all are you?"
Meanwhile during his addled sleep Liam receives a visit from a beautiful brunette girl who has her mother's eyes, looking deeply into his soul.
"Daddy you need to get need to get better for Mummy, they will be here soon and she needs you to be better."
"Who will be here soon baby girl?"
"The twins silly! They will be here soon, it is almost time, Daddy I hope you are ready!"
"Oh baby girl your Mumma was right you are so beautiful!"
"Aunt Phoebe tells me that all the time! Grandma Kelly told me the other day that while my eyes might be the same colour as Mummy's, I give her the exact some soulful looks that you used to give her. She also thinks that while I am an old soul I have all of mummy's spunk, whatever that means. I am okay here Daddy, really I am, I have the best people with my all the time!"
"Hey Daddy, when mummy was in the pretty dress and you had the butterflies, you know when you let them out of the box, that was such a fun day... I like it when I can come and be close to you both... sometimes it is easier than others but I do try to visit you often, you just don't notice as much as Mummy does."
"How did you become so clever and so big? Oh darling girl, Daddy loves you so much, and so does Mummy!"
"Daddy don't be sad, I can't come back if I make you sad, please don't be sad Daddy!"
"Daddy isn't sad baby, I just miss you and wish you were here with us waiting for the twins to arrive."
"Aspen my darling girl, do you think you can do something for Daddy... When you see Grandma Kelly next can you give her a big cuddle and kiss from me and tell her that Daddy loves her so much and that I miss her, just like I miss you baby girl."
"Oh Daddy, we already know these things! Grandma Kelly and GG tell me that whenever I feel the breeze on my face it means that you and mummy are thinking about me, blowing me a kiss or missing me! Sometimes the days are still with only the slightest breeze and other times I almost get knocked over in the wind. I love you Daddy, but I have to go now... remember they are coming soon so prepare mummy, tell her not to worry, everyone will be okay!"
Steffy decides to go and rinse the washcloth in cool water and reapply it to Liam's forehead, as the Tylenol starts to kick in and Liam's fever begins to break he starts to rouse from his troubled sleep muttering as he comes to.
"Aspen baby don't go!" Steffy struggles to make out the end of the sentence but can clearly hear Liam mention their daughters name.
"Liam, sweetheart, it's okay, it's just a dream, you are okay, we are okay."
"Mmmmm Steffy. Where did she go, Aspen, she was right here!"
"Liam baby, Aspen is gone, you are sick, you're running a fever, we need to cool you down."
"No Steffy she was right here, our baby girl was right here! I could see her, hold her, kiss her, She, She, She was just here a second ago... Oh our darling princess is just like her mother, stunning in every sense of the word!"
"I know it is hard, to see her and let her go again... I get it baby, but right now we need to get you into the shower to cool down and we need to change the sheets."
Steffy gets Liam into a lukewarm shower in an attempt to bring his temperature down while she makes her way to the linen closet to get a fresh set of sheets for their bed, when she returns to their room she notices Liam sitting on the end of the bed, looking off into space, as she walks up to Liam he stands a takes the fresh linen from her.
"Hey I will do that, I may have a fever but I am not letting you do the hard work, you are supposed to be on bed rest remember!"
"Mmmm, I know! Trust me these little guys aren't letting me forget it either! My back is starting to hate me and my belly is so tight, and my bladder is sick of being a trampoline, this pregnancy business is uncomfortable!"
"Why don't you go and get that cream from the bathroom, the one Caroline gave you, and we can rub some into that gorgeous belly... if you ask me really nicely I might find some energy to rub some into your back too!"
"Oh you smooth talker you, you know exactly what to say to get me to do what you want!" Steffy replies as she makes her way into their bathroom.
"Hey Liam, LIAM, LIAMMMM!" Steffy yells the panic and fear evident in her voice.
"Steffy, what, what is it?"
"Liam something is wrong, I'm, I'm bleeding!"
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