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Note from the Author: Right so I don't think this is the strongest chapter to return on but I need to put it in there… I guess. New ones will appear quickly…er than before. I apologize for not updating but until now I was not capable.

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Around four o'clock a quiet visitor came to see Donna. Donna was sitting at her old desk, looking over some files before Josh's meeting started.

"Donna?" a voice asked barely believing it.

She looked up from her desk. "Oh my god Zoey." She got up slowly. "How are you?" Donna didn't mind talking to this person at all. She was glad to see a smiling face, not that she hadn't seen smiling faces, but they're eyes gave away their malcontent.

"When did this happen?" Zoey asked pointing to Donna's belly.

Donna cocked her eye. "I thought you would have known by now." She almost let out a laugh; it was hard to laugh about it.

Zoey looked at her confused. "Donna, I haven't really been around much. I..."

Donna didn't know what to say. "I thought your parents would have told you." She suddenly felt embarrassed. She felt inferior on a level she had not even thought possible. Disrespecting one of the few people she actually might be able to see face to face, she felt like she was suddenly wrong for being there all together.

"Well they didn't," was all Zoey said. She didn't seem offended so much as surprised.

"Well I'm pregnant," Donna said throwing her hands into the air. "Better let the news out now. But I think there are some people that are starting to suspect."

Zoey laughed softly; feeling maybe a little awkward and trying not to show it.

Donna motioned for Zoey to follow as she quietly walked into Josh's office.

"Hey!" Josh said when he noticed them. He got up and he gave Zoey a hug. "You look good."

"Josh," Donna began interrupting Josh flat out. "Are you as surprised to know as I am that Zoey didn't know about the babies?"

Josh looked at Zoey then back and Donna. "She doesn't know."

"It would appear so."

"What's going on here you guys?"

"Well... Donna's pregnant."

"We've been over that part," she told him with a smirk.

"And well I'm the father," he said casually. He had learnt to say it casually, and though very few people knew it wasn't something they thought they had to keep secret.

"Oh," Zoey said. Zoey let the shock wash over her. Josh smiled in amusement as he so often did when he told people that he "was the father". Suddenly Zoey gave Donna a hug. "That's great congratulations!" She gave Josh a hug in turn.

"Thank you," Josh and Donna said together. They stared at each other, and Josh shrugged. Donna shook her head. "That's just weird," she mumbled with a grin.

Zoey looked from Josh to Donna and back to Josh. "Well isn't there anything else you're going to tell me."

"Like what?" Josh asked not really sure what she was talking about.

"Like how this got started," she told him. Waving her hands she gestured from Donna back to Josh.

"Wow you're really out of the loop."

"Yeah, yeah," she said. "I should go see my father now." She started to back out of the room.

"Are you coming to the thing?"

"Yeah," she remarked slowly. "I'll see you there." She pointed a finger at them. "And I want details."

"You bet." Josh nodded, smiling as though he had just been caught in the act.

Once she had left Donna stood for a moment in Josh's office gazing at the floor. She suddenly looked up, and saw Josh staring at her.

"You have a meeting in five," she told him quickly.

"I know."

There was a sudden and awkward silence. Donna suddenly looked pale, Josh felt his manly worry swell.

"Are you alright?"

She stood and took in a deep breath. "It's just been a while since I've felt of calm. I mean three months ago I went crazy. And then I thought okay this is great, this is good. And now I just remember that feeling. It's not dread or depression, though I've had my share of those. It's that same guilt and anxiety."

He took a step forward to give her an embrace. She let him rest his hands on her arms before sighing. She didn't like feeling weak, it wasn't Donna like.

"I mean but for five minutes ago I thought I was fine. But now..." she started to cry. She couldn't believe she was actually crying at work, in Josh's office. "I just..." she didn't know why she was crying, she couldn't say for sure. She just knew she was and that for some reason it felt nice. "Damn hormones!" she laughed through something close to sobs.

She leaned into him and rested her head on his shoulder. She took a deep breath and took a step back. She wiped off her eyes and let Josh kiss her forehead.

"Are you sure you want to do this?"

She nodded her head.

"Okay," he turned and grabbed some folders from his desk. "Walk me to my meeting."

Donna took a moment and composed herself. The last thing she wanted was to have a crying fit in front of any one else in the building, not that she enjoyed doing it in front of Josh. But she had moved past that stage where she felt she needed to hide herself from him. He was getting it all, not just the good pieces.

She followed him out into the hall and they started to walk. "I don't think we should do it!"

"What?!" Josh asked, looking up at her in surprise. "You just said…"

"Right and…" she looked at him and thought that if she continued speaking she would sound completely insane. "I just… maybe they can all find out… in a couple of months."

"Like when the babies are born?" Josh asked in mockery.

"Yes!" Donna said as though she felt victories.

Josh looked at her with his eyebrows reaching high.

"You were joking?"

"Yeah."

"I mean what are we going to say… o and by the way you all suck and we're having triplets?" Donna said trying to muster rage somehow.

"Right something like that," Josh said with a smile. "But I'd leave out the part where we tell them they all suck."

"Right," Donna said silently.

Josh looked at her, not so much worried but he felt that there was nothing he could do to make her feel that calm feeling again. "We don't have to do this if you don't want to."

She looked away and then looked at him again. "No we should do this." Suddenly she pulled at his sleeve and pulled him into the communications bullpen and into Toby's office. She slammed the door closed.

Toby looked up alarmed at his desk. "What the…"

"Toby I think you should know because you have been very supportive in the current circumstances which might seem difficult being who you are and doing the job that you have to do, and I am sorry that we might have made it more complicated and I know that it might have been difficult for you to do what you did but it was very good of you, so I think you should no."

Toby looked at Josh, who looked at Donna, both men quite astonished at what was going on. "Donna I don't…" Toby began.

"Toby we're having triplets," Donna said cutting him off.

Josh suddenly stepped to her side. "And I'm the father."

Donna looked at him as though he was crazy.

"Okay then," Toby said getting up. He held his eyes averted for a moment, lost in some kind of thought.

"Toby?" Donna suddenly said.

"Yeah?" Toby said looking back at her. He shook his head realizing that he had phased out for a moment. "Congratulations." Toby came over and gave Donna an awkward but genuine embrace, and gave Josh a handshake and a manly pat on the back.

"Right well," Josh said after a brief lull. "I've got a meeting."

"Right!" Donna said.

They both turned and left the room. Toby went back to his work, not all that troubled by what he had just heard, but reflective. As he sat down he mumbled to himself: "They better name one of those kids after me."