The day dawned quietly, sneaking up on everyone who was distracted slightly any way. Its rays peeked over the horizon and sought out the eyes that were still closed to the world and the new day. Those golden rays eventually found their way into 2D's eyes. Sleepily he opened them and panicked. Where was he? Why was this place not familiar? After a few moments everything came rushing back to him and he remembered, he was in the middle of nowhere. No, not just nowhere; Freaking Nowhere.

For a moment he just lay in bed wishing he could go back to sleep. He thought he could hear the muffled sound of rattling chains and 2D wondered if maybe he wasn't the only one that couldn't sleep. He considered getting up to see if the bassist was ok but after seriously debating with himself he decided that being in a warm bed with the woman he loved was much better than being harassed by the bassist he had hated for a majority of their acquaintance.

He turned his attention to Elle, still sleeping like a log. Rolling over to his side, he propped his head up on his hand to get a better look at her. Her blonde hair was spread out like a sheet of pale yellow across her pillow, shiny and soft. His eyes followed the curve of her neck to her shoulder and resisted the urge to place a kiss on the fluttering pulse at her neck. Why should he steal her away from her dreams when he could no longer continue dreaming his? Continuing on, he noted with happy excitement of how round her belly was becoming. Now ignoring his conscience he softly placed a hand on her stomach loving the feel of her skin on his hand.

There was a fluttering at his palm and he quickly pulled his hand away. Was that just his imagination? He turned his hand over to stare at the musically worn skin as if it would give him the answers he sought. Would babies be moving around this early in pregnancy? Slowly he calculated the days since Elle realized she was carrying their child and came up with a number a little less than a month but she must have been pregnant for a little while before that, right? He wished there was a book he could consult but it wasn't exactly as if Murdoc had kept a library of pregnancy books, the closest thing he had had to anything involving women were porno magazines and 2D had always been afraid to touch those.

Elle shifted a little in her sleep, turning toward 2D. In sleep, her hand found his and, one by one, their fingers laced together. Her brow furrowed and her lips parted. Enraptured, 2D watched as she mumbled quietly to herself. He only caught a few words, one of them being his own name. Her fingers tightened around his and suddenly her eyes were opening.

"Hello beautiful." He murmured to her.

She smiled sleepily at him and let go of his hand to rub hers across her stomach.

"Morning." She yawned back at him.

He tucked a stray lock of hair behind her ear. "How'd you sleep?"

"Ok," she murmured "I had a lot of dreams. Most of them about the island."

2D leaned over and placed a kiss on her neck, she was awake now so there was no risk.

"How about you?" she asked, returning his kiss with one of her own on his lips.

"Good. The sun woke me up." He hesitated, wondering if he should tell her about the fluttering feeling beneath his palm. "Elle?"

"Hmm?" She murmured back to him, too wrapped up in her stomach to look up at him.

"How far along in your pregnancy are you?" He asked. For a moment he panicked, was that a rude question to ask? Was that like asking how old or how much a woman weighed? But Elle looked up at 2D and gave him a reassuring smile.

"I'm not exactly sure but I'd say maybe about four months." She shrugged again and went back to caressing her belly. "Why?"

"I thought I felt it—him—her—move." 2D stuttered.

She looked up at him and slowly sat up, "Really?"

He shrugged, "It might have just been me, I wasn't sure. I thought maybe it was my imagination or maybe my hand just twitched."

Elle shushed him and placed a hand on her belly. For a moment they both went completely silent and 2D wondered why being quiet had anything to do with the situation. He opened his mouth to say something but Elle gasped and pulled her hand away from her stomach. She stared down at her belly and then looked up at 2D.

"I felt the baby move. I felt the baby's hand up against mine." She whispered and without a moment's hesitation she placed both her hands back on her stomach.

"Hello in there." She cooed softly to the creature growing inside of her. "Good morning."

2D smiled at her and wrapped an arm around her. His other hand joined hers on her stomach.

"Mummy and Daddy can't wait to meet you." He whispered.

Elle leaned her head into his shoulder and they spent another long moment in silence. Finally Elle spoke up.

"If our baby is a girl, what do you want to name her?" she asked.

"I haven't really thought about it." 2D admitted, "What do you think?"

"Well, your mom's name is Rachel what about that?"

2D scrunched up his face in disgust, "No, I've had enough of my mum for a lifetime; I don't need my future possible daughter to be named after her. What about your mom?"

"What Elizabeth? I don't think so." She snorted.

2D sifted through his thoughts, looking for a name.

"I've always liked Olivia." He said without even realizing he said it.

"Olivia." Elle whispered, tasting the name on her tongue. Then she nodded appreciatively. "I like it too. Olivia; it's a good name."

2D smiled. "Olivia Noodle Pot."

He felt her lips split into a wide grin. "Olivia Noodle Pot," she repeated, "I love it."

2D placed a kiss on her hairline. "And if it's a boy?"

He peered down at her face; she was chewing her lip in concentration. Her eyes were screwed up as though the answer to his question was written in tiny lettering on the wall across the room.

"We could name him after your dad, John." He whispered.

"Yeah," she said uncertainly, "Or we could name him Zeke. I like the name Zeke."

Now it was his turn to taste test his possible son's name. "Zeke. Like short for Ezekiel?"

Elle shook her head so violently 2D's whole body shook. "Ew, no. Just Zeke."

"Zeke." 2D tested it again.

"Yeah, Zeke Russel Pot." Elle whispered.

There was another pause as both enjoyed the company of each other and silently congratulated themselves for their creativity involving baby names. 2D compared, with astonishment, how difficult it was to name one small person compared to how easy it was to write a song and be done with it.

2D smiled. "You know what?"

Elle looked up at him, "What?"

"I honestly don't care what our baby's name is. As long as we always stay a family we can name the baby Sunshine Rainbows."

Elle laughed, a sound that 2D felt he hadn't heard in years. Laughter was healthy, he didn't know why they didn't do it more often. Elle quickly sobered up and placed a slow and meaningful kiss on 2D's lips that left him begging for more. She placed her forehead on his and a slow smile spread across her face.

"Always."

I appologize if this is an utter load of crap. I promise,whenever I get the time, the next chapter will be soooooo much better.

Anyhoo, I'm hoping its not too cheesy that the baby's middle name is either Noodle or Russel. I figured since they saved 'D and Elle from Mudsy and his Island of Doom they should get some kind of lifetime recognition or something.

So tomorrow I leave for San Fransico. Which is good, I need a serious vacation right now. Junior. Year. Sucks. Monkey. Balls. Do not ever go to high school and if you already are in high school (which I'm assuming most, if not all, are already in high school) then you feel my pain and you probably know how much I want to shoot myself.

Ok, notes on the whole contest thing that I threw out there a couple of chapters ago: I don't think I've gotten any submissions yet but that's ok, Love You So Much These Days is not over yet. I've still got a few chapters in me. I've got to make sure that everybody lives happily ever after and all that. And really, if none of you submit that's fine, I don't really know what I was thinking but I thought it would be really cool to do something like that. But the offer still stands, if you send 'em I'll read 'em.

lalalalalalalala I feel like I had something else to say to you guys but I forgot. Oh well. Just stay classy while I'm gone.

OH RIGHT. P.S. Here's your chance to vote, BABY: BOY OR GIRL.