A/N: Well here you go! Long awaited, I know! Well my Beta didn't respond with the chapter (if you're reading this, you're not fired yet!) so it's all edited by me so there may be a few mistakes (sorry!). Let me know how you like it!

Chapter 8

I heard crying. Screaming was more like it. It wasn't a woman's screaming, but like a baby. I could hear humming too. And Ezra's voice. Ezra? Baby? I slowly opened my eyes. There was a lot of pain in my stomach and pelvis area, and "down there". Then I remembered just what had happened. That baby was mine. The crying was my baby. It was Ezra's baby. Our baby.

I looked over and tears came immediately to my eyes. There was my husband, still in a white button down and tie, holding our baby that we made. Then, I looked over to the side and saw another baby.

"Ez," I said. I felt like I was talking trough shards of glass. He looked up and the smile slightly wavered. He set the now content baby down and came over to me.

"Aria." He was breathlessly white. I lifted my head to his and kissed him on the lips. He cradled my face and passionately kissed me. The baby cried again.

"Why are there two babies in the room? Did we get moved to a dual room?" I asked.

"No Aria, they're both ours," he said, walking over to the cradles and picking up both in his strong arms. "Aria, meet your children."

He set the tiny little babies in my crooked elbows. One was wrapped in a tiny little pink blanket, the other in a blue. The girl had huge eyes and long eyelashes (for a girl) and the dark hair feature that Ezra and I both shared. She only looked at me once and otherwise she had her eyes closed and she snored lightly. She was a spitting image of me with a few of Ezra's features.

"Ruby Lucielle," I cooed. I looked at Ezra he lifted his eyebrow slightly. "Her name is Ruby." He nodded and I turned my attention to the boy. He looked like the few baby pictures I had seen of Ezra, longish dark hair, small almond eyes, same straight nose as opposed to his sister's button nose. His lips were small, like Ezra's and he even had Ezra's ears.

"Ryan Ezra," I said. This time, Ezra didn't need an explanation.

Ruby began squirming and crying and Ezra took Ryan so I could attend to Ruby. I tried to sway as best as I could in the bed to get her to quiet down to no avail.

Ezra eventually took her after seeing me struggle with her and rocked her in the chair that was next to the bed. I still had tiny Ryan in my arms.

We called my parents and his parents letting them know everything was okay and that in the morning they could visit. We soon realized it was 4 am.

"Ez, what happened after I blacked out?" His eyes knitted together and he looked down at Ruby. Ryan squirmed in my arms.

"Well," he sighed, "where to start? Well first I almost blacked out too. They got Ryan, he was born first, out and the doctor took over to deliver the placenta or whatever that is and, well a baby showed up instead. They knew that you couldn't push so they took this... thing. I think they're called forceps? They pretty much pulled her out. I was there with you. They had to check the babies out in the NICU to make sure they were okay, which they were, so they were taken back here to the room." I squeezed Ryan just a bit tighter and smiled. This was my baby. My lil man. I would get to take him home with me-

"Ezra, we don't have two cribs, in fact, nothing is set up and we barely have any clothes and-" he cut me off.

"Slow your role. Your dad and my stepdad have already set up a nursery and my mom of course bought some clothes for each and the crib is taken care of." Wow. "And I think your mom is bringing us a bag of clothes and things in the morning." I realized he was still in his white shirt from the wedding as well as the khaki pants. My dress was still hanging up in one of the shelves. I could only imagine the gossip going around the nurses' station this morning.

My parents came later that day with Mike who seemed to light up when Ruby was placed in his arms. They stayed for a while and then Ezra's mom and stepdad with Alex and Jenifer came. When Alan, Meredith and Carter showed up, they said quick goodbyes and left. Alan and Meredith left when Hanna with Caleb, Emily with Maya and Spencer with Toby walked in. Everyone was holding something. Hanna and Caleb came with two different bouquets each, Hanna had a pink Gerber daisy and purple Gerber daisy bouquet, Caleb had the same in blue and green.

"One for each!" Hanna said.

Emily handed Ezra a "Baby Manual" and me a statue of two parents each holding a baby.

Spencer and Toby gave us each a baby book set. Just like them to give us a practical gift.

They oohed and ahhed over the babies; they passed them around and at one point I fell asleep. I awoke and they were still there, but the nurse was shooing them out. I smiled. Just like my friends to stay past the visiting hours.

The babies were surprisingly good sleepers. They usually only got up once or twice to eat and although I was feeling a bit tired, it was manageable.

They next day, we were going home. I had gotten the babies dressed in their going home outfits. Ruby was wearing a frilly yellow and brown polka dotted dress with matching leggings and socks and Ryan was wearing brown overalls with a yellow shirt underneath.

I, to say the least, was not what I was pre-pregnancy. Everything was so, yuck. Ezra and I looked defeated walking (in my case, rolling) out of the hospital. The poor lady in labor was seeing her future in a few days as she waddled into the hospital.

Ezra clicked each of the babies into the car seat bases which were purchased literally hours earlier at a Babies-R-Us when I realized we didn't have one. He also put the seven (seven!) bouquets of flowers into the backseat along with the other presents we received. I had absolutely no core muscles to lift myself out of the wheelchair, so Ezra nearly had to carry me out of the wheelchair. He had broken a sweat by the time we drove back to the apartment.

Then I realized I had to climb stairs. That was quite hilarious actually. We had to make sure that not one baby was alone for too long so Ezra parked and allowed me to go upstairs. He took both of them out of the car seat while I slowly climbed upstairs. The moment I walked in and sat down so did he. I took Ruby in my arms as he set Ryan down in one of the swings. In one corner of the flat was the "nursery" with the two cribs, the names on the walls, two dressers and a changing table. It looked very homey.

The large bathtub that held Ezra's books (some of them were very inappropriate, I had gotten bored one night) had been cleared and now held toys.

Ezra had to make a few trips back and forth and then he had to find something for dinner. He called in Chinese when we got settled in.

Some greasy teenager knocked on the door. I was attempting to feed Ryan (which meant both boobs were completely on display) before the neighbors complained of the noise, and the kid looked scared shitless. Spending time around kids was one way of birth control I guess.

Ezra thanked the kid and paid him as I finished up with Ryan. I laid him back into the rocker and reached for the box of yellow rice.

"Their egg rolls are the best," Ezra commented, winking. We ate in silence, savoring the food which was much better than hospital food I had eaten the night before.

After we had eaten, Ezra and I moved the babies from the swings in the living room to the small bassinet that my mother had received when I was a baby. We settled them in and then got ready for bed ourselves.

I found a large t-shirt that was once Ezra's and slipped it on, ashamed of my new figure. I sighed and made myself comfortable in Ezra's queen sized bed. Ezra eventually joined me and attempted to cuddle up next to me. Normally, this would have made me happy, but I pushed him away.

"What," he asked. I could feel the hurt curling around his words.

"I'm not the same sexy girl you married, Ezra. I had two kids. I'm all gross. My stomach has stretch marks and my thighs juggle and-" Tears were pooling at my eyes.

"Aria," he said as he pulled my face closer to his. "You are still, if not more, beautiful. And, just because you had two children doesn't make you not as sexy. If anything, it makes you sexier." Tears rolled silently down my face as he swiped them back up.

"But I don't feel sexy." I said, being stubborn.

"But you are," He said softly.

I smiled, giving in for just a moment. And then a baby started crying.

*Ranting so there will be spoilers BEWARE!

A/N: Press the review boutton right there to shut up the crying baby in my mind and get the next chapter up! Did anyone else get the egg rolls refrence? And who saw the episode last night? Easily my favorite. I started crying when he was like "I love your daughter!" and then Mike had to go and punch him ugh!