"Are you excited?" Laura asked as they arrived at the doctor's office, arms linked and smiles on their faces.

"I am. I can't wait to see our little one," Bill replied.

They took their seats in the waiting room and Laura idly flipped through a few well worn pregnancy magazines, definitely from before the attacks, to pass the time. Bill, who had been reading over her shoulder, stopped her and pointed to a paragraph about spicy food inducing labor.

"Is that true?"

"I haven't the slightest idea. I've heard about it before though." She answered.

"What about that one?" He asked, pointing to another about sex inducing labor and raising his eyebrow at her. She playfully elbowed him.

"Shh! Quit being inappropriate in the waiting room," Laura scolded.

"My apologies, Madame President." She elbowed him again. He laughed.

"Laura Roslin-Adama?" A woman suddenly called out. Bill and Laura exchanged excited glances and Bill promptly helped her to her feet.

"Ready?" She asked giving his hand a small squeeze. She'd had a sonogram before, and Bill had been present, but this one was different. They were going to find out the sex of their baby today.

"Ready," he replied, squeezing her hand right back.

"Do you think it's a boy or a girl?" Bill asked. Laura looked down at her slightly rounded stomach and tilted her head. They were in the waiting room at the doctor's office, and it was the sonogram. The big one, 'the great gender reveal,' as Bill had called it earlier that morning.

"It doesn't matter," she said quietly, bringing the hand that Bill wasn't holding to caress her belly.

"That's not what I asked," he said pointedly.

"I really don't know. There's no way for me to tell."

"Have you felt any kicks yet?" He asked. She shook her head.

"No, not yet. I get little flutters, like butterflies," she said with a small smile. She liked Bill's genuine interest in the baby. She always thought he was determined to be extra involved in her pregnancies, as if to make up for him not being around for either of Carol Ann's. Bill reached his free hand over and placed it on the small bump.

"I still can't believe we're having another baby," he told her truthfully.

"I know. I never expected it to happen once, let alone twice!"

Bill smiled and rubbed her stomach, thinking the same thought that always seemed to be replaying in his mind: how did I get so lucky?

"I feel bad that we couldn't let Venus come along," Laura said suddenly. Bill nodded in agreement. That morning Venus had begged them to let her come to the sonogram, but they stood by their decision to leave her with Kara. They didn't think she'd enjoy herself nearly as much as she would have expected to.

"Roslin-Adama?" A voice called out, causing both Laura and Bill to jump.

"Here we go!" Bill said, gently pulling Laura to her feet.

"This is going to be cold," Ishay said as she squirted the blue gel on Laura's abdomen. She gasped and gave Bill a look that told him Ishay had not been kidding about the temperature of the gel.

Laura's focus shifted when the sound of a strong heartbeat filled the room.

"Oh my Gods," Laura said, looking up at Bill with tears in her eyes. She was met with another pair of teary eyes looking down at her with all the love in the universe.

"If you'll both turn your attention to the screen, you can see your baby," Ishay told them, moving the ultrasound wand across Laura's stomach to get a better view.

Laura let out a happy sob and tightened her grip on Bill's hand. She had never seen anything so beautiful in her entire life. She heard Bill sniffle, but couldn't bring herself to look away from the monitor to look at him.

"Would you like to know the sex?" Ishay asked softly, not wanting to ruin their moment. Laura nodded enthusiastically. They'd already discussed the matter at home, and decided they'd like to know ahead of time.

"Alright, just let me get Cottle," she told them, freezing the picture of their baby on the screen and leaving them alone.

"This is it," Laura whispered, finally turning to look at him again. Tears streaming down his face, Bill Adama gave Laura Roslin one of the biggest smiles she'd ever seen.

Ishay quickly returned with Cottle in tow and a smile on her face as well.

"Well, it looks like you two have a very healthy child. Now, I'm told you'd like to know the sex?" He asked them again. Laura nodded.

"Yes, we would."

"Congratulations both of you, you're going to have a daughter."

Laura's heart skipped a beat. A daughter. A baby girl.

Bill kissed the top of her head while Cottle and Ishay excused themselves once again.

"Would you like to know the sex this time around?" Cottle asked, looking at Bill and Laura expectantly.

Sherman Cottle was technically retired, but still took care of various people from the fleet when asked to do so. Laura always joked with him that he'd always be her doctor, and he certainly didn't doubt that.

"Yes we would," Laura said, mentally bracing herself for the news.

"You two are, once again, having a girl," he announced with a smile. He truly had a soft spot for the Roslin-Adama family, something he'd even admitted aloud once. Accidentally of course.

"I know somebody who will be very pleased to hear that," Laura said, giving Bill a sly smile. Venus had made it quite clear that she wanted a little sister over the past few weeks, and they were running out of ways to explain that it was out of their hands whether the baby was a girl or not. Now it didn't matter.

"Mommy," Venus yelled in excitement, leaping off the couch and running to greet her mother as she walked in the door.

"Hello, sweetheart," Laura greeted her, hoisting her up onto her hip and giving her a kiss.

"How was she?" Bill asked, looking at Kara.

"Good as usual. We all know she's not the troublemaker," Kara replied, giving her two year old daughter a look. Brooke gave her mother an impressive pout in return.

"I didn't do an'thing!" She protested halfheartedly, not bothering to take her thumb out of her mouth first.

"Not today, but I'm not over yesterday's little shaving cream incident yet," Kara said. Brooke looked down in order to avoid eye contact with any of the adults in the room. Laura laughed, walking over to tousle Brooke's dirty-blonde hair.

"I think they've both gotten into their fair share of trouble in the past two years," Bill interjected with a smile.

"True, and soon enough we'll have another little terror on our hands," Kara winked at Laura. "Did you find out what you're having?"

"We did. It's a girl." Not two seconds after the words left Laura's mouth, Venus began squirming in her arms, her eyes lighting up.

"Someone's happy to hear that!" Kara said, taking Venus from Laura before she went completely hyperactive. Laura mouthed a 'thank you' as she sat down next to Brooke, who immediately leaned up against her.

"Is it nap time?" Laura asked, brushing a stray piece of hair out of Brooke's face.

"No." She said calmly, snuggling up against Laura even more and suppressing a yawn. Laura chuckled, pulling the child into her lap and rocking her gently.

"I don't believe you," she whispered.

Meanwhile, Bill and Kara were keeping an eye on Venus, who was practically bouncing off the walls with delight. Bill decided Kara could more than handle an overly excited Venus, and moved to join Laura on the couch.

"Do you think Venus will follow Brooke's example and settle down for a nap any time soon?" He asked.

"I'm hoping she wears herself out within the next half hour," Laura replied, although that seemed doubtful at the moment.

"I'm glad she's happy, though."

"Me too. I'm glad everyone's happy."

She was right. Everyone was happy, and it was the happiest any of them had been in a very long time.