A/N: So to fore warn you I'm writing this while watching the National Championship and I'm a HUGE football fan so forgive me if some of the words are misspelled or for any mistakes. Again sorry.
Mark got up at 4 a.m. and started getting ready to report for duty at 5 a.m. Once he got out of the shower he put on his armor and went to make coffee. Elisabeth woke up at 4:30 because she had to be at work by 6 and it took her forever to get ready, Mark had begun to figure out, it seems all the Shannon women took a while to get ready. "Hello Mark." Elisabeth said walking in to pour her a cup of coffee.
"Morning Lizzie." Mark replied going to sit down to put on his boots. "Did you sleep well last night?" Elisabeth questioned sitting beside him on the couch. "Yes ma'am. As well as to be expected. I would rather have been at home with Maddy, but what can you do. I don't want to stress her out." "You're a good man Mark. And don't worry Maddy will be fine, just give it time. Are you going to be at the infirmary today? "Sure am. I'm about to leave to get there early to go talk with Commander Taylor. It's at 2 right?" "Yes. Do you know what is going to happen today at the appointment?" "No ma'am?" "We will be able to see how far a long she is, hear the heartbeat, and tell if she is having more than one baby." "Wow. Ok good. Well I better get going. I'll see you at 2." "Bye sweetheart." "Bye." Mark replied walking out of the house.
Mark walked up to the command center and knocked on the door lightly. He heard a muffled "Come in." and opened the door. He walked over in front of the commander's desk and stood at attention. "Mark you aren't on duty yet, stand down, soldier." Mark shifted into a more comfortable position but still slightly at attention, showing respect. "Sir can I ask a favor of you?" "Depends. What do you need?" "Well sir, Maddy has her first doctor's appointment today and I would like to be there. It's at 2 but if I can't get off then it's fine but I wou-" Mark stopped when Taylor held his hand up. "Son you are starting to sound like your wife. Of course you can get off early." Mark laughed, "Yeah apparently I am, everyone has been telling me that lately and thank you sir." "No problem Mark. Just be sure to come back here afterwards with pictures." "Oh sir you can count on that." "Dismissed soldier." Taylor got out between laughs. Mark walked out and down the steps to his post and started counting down until he got off.
At 1:45 he walked back up to let the commander know he was leaving. He knocked and Wash opened the door. "Mark, hi." "Leiutenant." She closed the door behind him and they walked over to the commander. "Sir, I just wanted to let you know that I am leaving." "Alright, I will see you in a little while Reynolds?" "Yes sir." Mark nodded and walked out and started toward the infirmary. He got there 5 minutes early and tried to find Elisabeth. He was looking around, worried. "Mark, follow me. She's back here." Elisabeth said from behind himand he turned fast walking toward her.
They walked in the room and when the door closed Maddy turned to see who came in. "Mark!" she said excitedly, "I'm so sorry I didn't tell you. I meant to, and I tried calling you but I just-" "Maddy it's fine. I'm here now and that's all that matters." Mark said grabbing his wife's hand and gently kissing it. Right then the doctor walked in. "Hello Mr. and Mrs. Reynolds..Elisabeth." "Hi Dr. Jones." Elisabeth said to her colleague. "Hi." Mark and Maddy said. "So how have you been?" the doctor asked looking at Maddy. "I've been ok i guess. Not really myself though. My mood swings are crazy, I'm not that far a long and I already can't fit in any of my clothes, and I eat the weirdest things." Maddy replied. The doctor laughed and said, "That's common. I can give you some medicine that may help with the mood swings. But from what I see you shouldn't have gained that much weight. I'm going to need to weigh you to see how much you've actually gained."
"Alright." Maddy complied getting up and walking over to the scale. "Hmm.. that's odd. You have gained 25 pounds." the doctor said looking to Elisabeth. "Is that bad?" Mark asked Elisabeth. "Well she shouldn't have gained that much in such an early stage in the pregnancy." she replied. "Well why would she then?" Mark questioned, concern clear in his voice. "There's many things that could have caused it. We will know more when Dr. Jones does the sonogram." "Well let's get started." Dr. Jones said, ushering Maddy to lie down.
"Ok now this is going to be cold." the doctor said squeezing the gel onto Maddy's stomach. Maddy jumped when it hit her skin and shivered. Mark grabbed Maddy's hand and out his other hand in her hair as he bent over to see the monitor. The doctors waited for the image to clear up, when it did they both gasped. "What? Is everything ok?" Mark asked. "Mom, what's wrong?" Maddy asked. The two doctors just looked at each other, Dr. Jones turned up the volume so maybe the young couple would figure it out. Boom, boom! Boom, boom! And Mark and Maddy's head both jerked toward the screen.
"Why is the heartbeat irregular?" Maddy asked worried. "Lizzie what's going on?" Mark asked his mother-in-law. "Umm..." Elisabeth just looked at the other doctor. "Will someone please tell me what's going on?" Maddy half yelled. "Mads calm down." Mark said rubbing her hand and head. "Doctor what is it?" Dr. Jones looked at him then back at the monitor, pointing. "This is your baby." "Well is everything ok? Why are you and Lizzie freaked out?" She shifted the screen, "And this is your...other baby." Maddy looked unbelievingly at her mother and said, "Other baby? That means...twins?" "Yes honey." Elisabeth didn't know what to do or say. Mark almost fell but caught himself on the bed, and regained his composure instantly.
"Are you serious?" Mark asked almost out of breath. " Yes sir." the doctor said turning the monitor around and showing him both babies. "Mark, we get our twins!" Maddy said and Mark leaned down and hugged and kissed his wife. "You wanted twins?" Elisabeth asked. "Yeah because we wanted twins so we could have a girl and a boy." Maddy answered. "Would you like for me to upload the pictures on your tags Mr. Reynolds?" Dr. Jones asked. "Yes, of course!" Mark said ripping off his tags and handing them to the doctor. "Can you put a picture on mine too?" Maddy asked. "I sure can." Dr. Jones said. After she got pictures on both of their tags, she handed them back to their owners and wiped the gel off of Maddy's stomach.
"I will see you guys later." Elisabeth said walking them to the door and hugging both of them. "Congratulations baby." she said to Maddy. "Thanks Mom." Maddy said and her and Mark walked out holding hands. "I can't believe this." Maddy told her husband, who hadn't said anything in a few minutes. "Yeah I know. Me either." Mark said turning to kiss his wife's head as they walked, "You want to go to see Wash and Commander Taylor with me?" "Sure, why?" Maddy asked. "He let me off early and told me that I better bring him back pictures, and you know Alicia wants to see." "Yeah Licia is going to be really excited. She already wants to take me shopping." "Really?" Mark asked his wife with his head turned a little to the side. "Oh yeah. She come to the house the other day but I wasn't feeling good so she said we could another time." About that time they were walking up the steps and knocking on the door.
"Come in." Commander Taylor said. When he glanced up and saw Mark and Maddy his mood completely changed. "Well if it isn't the Reynolds'. How was the doctor?" "It was good. Where is Alicia?" Mark asked. "She took over your post when you left. Did you bring pictures? Is everything ok?" "Yes sir. But we want Licia to be here, to you at the same time." Maddy jumped in. "But she isn-" Maddy held her hand up, "You don't know anything until she does." Mark just laughed and brought his wife closer to him. "Mrs. Reynolds are you trying to blackmail me?" "No sir. I just want Licia here." "Fine then." Taylor grabbed his com and she heard it screach to life. "Dunham, go to the east gate and take over for Leiutenant Washington. Tell her to get back to the command center as soon as possible." Taylor told his soldier. "Yes sir."
10 minutes later Wash came running in the door to find the commander, Mark, and Maddy."Commander is everything ok? I got here as fast as i could." "Wash calm down. Mrs. Maddy Reynolds here wouldn't show or tell me anything about her doctor's appointment without you being here." Wash glanced at Maddy, who was smiling from ear to ear. "Hi Licia." she got up and walked over to hug her friend. "Hey Mads. So you want to tell me how this doctors visit went?" "I sure do. Why don't you sit down." Maddy said guiding her to a seat. After she sat down Maddy sat down and her and Mark just looked at each other.
"Well is one of you going to talk?" Commander Taylor questioned getting anxious. "Yeah you guys come on, spill." Wash said. "Mads, do you want to start?" Mark asked his wife. "Well everything is normal and I'm fine. They gave me some medicine that will help with my mood swings so maybe I will stop kicking Mark out." Everyone laughed loudly but Mark didn't laugh as much because he hated being kicked out. After that Maddy stopped. "And? What about the baby?" Wash pushed, excitedly. Mark reached for his tags and held up the little video/picture. "This is our baby, our very healthy baby." Mark said. Then Maddy reached for hers and started to pull up the video/picture on hers. "Aww Mads..Mark. I'm so happy for you." Alicia said. When Maddy's picture projected, Alicia and Taylor stopped and looked at each other.
"And this is our baby's very healthy brother or sister. We couldn't find out what they were this time." Maddy said looking at a smirking Mark. Alicia's jaw dropped and they heard the Commander skip a breath. "What did you just say?" Wash finally got out. Mark started pointing to the picture on his tags, "This is our baby." "And this is our other baby." Maddy said pointing to hers. Then Wash screamed at the top of her lungs, scaring all of them. When the scream was over she took a deep breath, "TWINS!" She jumped up and rushed over to Maddy and jerked her up, Maddy just laughed. "Careful Alicia." Mark said. "Oh shut up." Wash said. Taylor got up now and reached for Mark hugging him. "Congratulations son!" "Thanks Commander."
Then they switched and Wash was hugging Mark. "Mark, I'm so happy for you! Good job Reynolds." "Really Wash? Good job again? That just sounds so wrong, can't you just say congratulations like a normal person?" "Absolutely not." Wash said. "Maddy congratulations. I want to thank you for everything you have done. Mark is like my son and I am so glad he found you. He was in a bad place before you and now he has turned his life around and it's all thanks to you." Commander Taylor said. Maddy started crying. "Sir I think you have it backwards. He saved me, you have no idea how bad I was before I got here and found Mark. I never imagined I would have a life like this and it's all because of him." "Well then I guess you saved each other." Commander Taylor told a crying Maddy.
Mark and Alicia finally realized that Maddy was crying and they were both by her side in a heartbeat. "Mads." Alicia said rubbing her back. "Maddy babe are you ok?" Mark asked doing the same. "Yeah I'm fine. Me and the Commander were just talking and of course I had a mood swing and started crying. Being pregnant sucks, I cry about everything!" Maddy said with a laugh. "Maddy you can call me Nathaniel." "Really?" and she teared up more. "Yes. We are basically family now considering I see Mark as my son." "Alright. Thank you,..Nathaniel." she said hugging him one more time before going to Mark, who immediately wrapped an arm around her drawing her closer. "Well baby let's get you and our babies home to lay down. You've had an eventful day." Mark said kissing Maddy's head.
They said their goodbyes and walked out the door. "So does this mean I'm forgiven again and get to come home and stay?" Mark asked. "Yes it does. Take me home. I've missed you and I'm sorry. I love you." Maddy said grabbing his hand and intertwining their fingers. "I've missed you too. I love you and our babies. Let's go home." They walked toward their house happy knowing their children are healthy and they are together, the way it will always be.
So the fluff came back. Sorry I couldn't resist. There will be a time jump soon so I hope you are enjoying it! REVIEW!