"It's okay Lori," Sylvie told her. "You can do this. I'm right here with you. G will be here shortly, I'm sure. You have to Lori, these babies are ready. You have to push."
"Okay," Lori nodded. She really didn't want to do this without G but she didn't have a choice. These babies were ready to come out.
"Okay Lori, with the next contraction I want you to push."
Lori grabbed Sylvie's hand and when the next contraction came she pushed.
..
"Excuse me," Callen spoke as he arrived at the desk on the OB floor. "My wife Lori Carter, she was admitted here. She's in labor."
"One moment sir," the desk nurse replied and looked at her computer. "She's in delivery room two, that's down the hall here to the left, through the door and then it's the second room on your right."
"Thank you."
Callen ran towards the room. He really hoped he wasn't too late. Callen knocked on the door and carefully opened it.
"Lori," Callen called without looking inside, in case he had the wrong room.
"G, you made it!" Lori called relieved.
"Lori," Callen spoke as he walked into the room. "I'm so sorry I'm late."
Callen quickly walked up to the bed and grabbed Lori's hand. "You're still on time honey."
"Alright Lori, one more push and the baby's head is out."
Lori grabbed Callen's hand tightly and pushed.
"You're doing great honey. I'm so sorry I wasn't there before." Callen gave Lori a soft kiss on her head.
"It's okay G, you're here now."
A few pushes later the first baby was out. He immediately started crying.
"Do you wanna do the honors dad?" The nurse handed Callen a pair of scissors and Callen cut the umbilical cord.
"Is he okay?" Lori asked.
"He looks fine but we're just gonna check him out."
Callen and Lori watched as the doctor checked their baby out, their little baby boy.
"He's beautiful honey, you did great," Callen spoke to Lori and gave her a kiss.
"Yeah he's beautiful."
"Apgar score is ten, that's very good," the nurse spoke. She wrapped the baby up in a blue blanket and handed him to Lori. "Here you go mommy."
"Hey little guy."
Callen and Lori looked at the little boy lying in Lori's arms. He was just perfect, ten little perfect fingers and ten little perfect toes, the cutest little nose, piercing baby blue eyes and blond hair. Callen bend down and gave the little guy a soft kiss on his head.
"I'm just gonna check you Lori," the doctor interrupted them and felt between Lori's legs. "You're only seven centimeters so we just have to wait. Don't worry it's perfectly normal with twins."
"He really is beautiful," Sylvie stated.
They sat there for about ten minutes before Lori needed to push again. She handed the baby to Sylvie and took Callen's hand again. Lori started pushing when the doctor told her. She hadn't experienced this with Myra and Julie but giving birth to twins was really hard and it hurt. She was so glad that Callen had come back on time.
"Alright Lori, one more big push," the doctor told her after three pushes.
"I can't, I can't anymore," Lori replied dead tired.
"Yes you can honey, you can. You're doing great honey. Just one more big push," Callen coached her. "You can do it honey. Just one more push and we'll see our second baby boy."
Lori squeezed Callen's hand so tight that Callen felt something pop but he wasn't about to complain about that, not now. Lori could squeeze his hand as hard as she wanted to. Lori gave it all she got and screamed with pain when the second baby came out.
"Okay relax honey, he's out," Callen told her.
Lori fell back down on the bed but looked up worried when the baby didn't immediately start crying.
"Why is he not crying?" Lori asked concerned.
The doctor stroked his little cheek, trying to get him to cry. About a half minute later they heard a strong cry coming from him. Both Lori and Callen let out a relieved sigh.
"It happens sometimes that they don't cry immediately. He looks fine."
The doctor handed the baby off to the nurse who checked him out. The doctor delivered Lori's placenta.
"Apgar score is ten," the nurse called after a while.
As the nurse cleaned him up and wrapped him up in a blanket Lori looked at Callen who was holding his injured hand.
"You okay honey?" Lori asked.
"Yeah I'm good," Callen replied but Lori could see his hand was hurting.
"Did I squeeze your hand too hard?"
"It's okay honey. It'll pass."
"You want me to take a look at it sir?" The doctor asked.
"It's okay."
"G, it hurts, get it checked out."
"It'll only take minute sir."
"Don't worry G, I'll stay here with Lori," Sylvie said.
The nurse handed the little baby to Lori. Sylvie was holding the other baby. Callen looked at the baby. He was just perfect as well. Ten little perfect toes, ten little perfect fingers, a cute little nose, the same piercing blue eyes as his brother and brown hair.
"How should we name them?" Lori asked.
"Well I like the names we picked out."
"Yeah me too. But which shall we call which?"
"I think we should call the blonde haired one Finn and the brown haired one Charlie."
"I think that would be nice."
The nurse wrote the names on the wristbands and put them on the babies' wrists.
"I'll be right back." Callen gave Lori a kiss. "I love you honey and thank you for these two beautiful boys."
"I love you too G and thank you too."
Callen gave the little baby a soft kiss on his head and turned to leave. "Oh G." Callen turned back around. "My parents are in my room, room three fourteen, with Myra and Julie. Can you get them when you come back?"
"Yeah I will."
Callen left with the doctor to get his hand checked out. Luckily it wasn't his shooting hand that was injured. Lori sat on the bed holding one baby as Sylvie sat next to her holding the other one.
"Congrats, they are really beautiful sis."
"Thanks. Yeah they are. Thank you for staying here with me and helping me."
"No problem. I was happy to do it for my nephews. You now have two of each, two boys and two girls."
"Yeah we do."
..
"Daddy!" Myra yelled when Callen walked into Lori's room about twenty minutes later and she ran up to him followed by Julie.
"Hey you two." Callen crouched down and pulled Myra and Julie in his arms and gave them both a kiss. "Daddy missed you two."
"Missed daddy too," Julie and Myra replied.
"Babies hewe?" Julie asked.
"Yes the babies are here I was coming to get you so you can go meet them."
"Hey G," Susan spoke as she and Richard stepped up to them. "How's Lori doing? Are the babies here?"
"She's doing fine. Yeah the babies are here, two little boys."
"Aww how cute. Congratulations." Susan gave Callen a friendly kiss.
"What happened to your hand?" Richard asked, pointing to Callen's left hand which was in a cast.
"Oh just a little accident with the delivery."
"Lori squeezed you too hard?" Richard replied with a little smirk.
"Yeah, but it's okay. It's no biggie, she could do that. Come on guys, we'll got meet the little boys."
Callen picked Myra up and Richard picked Julie up and together they walked to Lori's delivery room.
"Look who's here mommy," Callen spoke as he walked into the room.
"Hey guys."
"Mommy, babies hewe," Julie spoke.
"Yes sweetie, your little baby brothers are here." Lori looked down and noticed Callen's hand was in a cast. "Oh my god honey, is your hand okay?"
"The doctor said I broke my trapezium, trapezoid and metacarpus."
"Oh honey, I'm sorry. It's cus I squeeze you too hard right?"
"It's okay honey, don't worry about it. It'll heal," Callen replied and gave Lori a soft kiss on her heard.
"Congratulations sweetie," Susan spoke to Lori and gave her a friendly kiss.
"Thanks mom."
"Congratulations Lori," Richard told her and gave her a friendly kiss too.
"Thanks dad."
"So you got two boys this time," Susan stated.
"Yeah we did."
"They are really cute."
"Thanks mom."
"They both have your blue eyes G."
"Yeah I noticed that," Callen replied.
"Would you like to hold one?" Sylvie asked.
"Yeah sure, if I can."
"Of course mom," Lori said.
Sylvie handed the baby she was holding to Susan.
"Hey little guy, I'm your grandma."
Susan sat down on the chair with the little baby in her arms.
"Would you like to hold one too dad?"
"Yeah of course."
Callen and Richard put the girls on the floor and Lori handed the baby she was holding to Richard. Richard sat down on the chair as well. The girls walked up and looked at their little baby brothers. Sylvie pulled the camera out of the bag and took some pictures. Callen sat down on the bed next to Lori.
"You sure your hand is okay honey?"
"Yeah don't worry Lori. It's fine."
"I'm sorry I did that to you."
"It's okay honey, you can do anything to me. You just gave me two beautiful little boys. I don't care about my hand, it'll pass. And it's not my dominant hand so."
"What are their names?" Susan asked.
"The blonde one is Finn Richard Callen and the brown one is Charlie Nicholas Callen."
"Those are cute names."
"You gave them the middle names of their grandfathers?" Richard asked touched.
"Yes we did," Lori replied. "We gave the girls the middle names of their grandmothers so now we have boys we've given them the middle names of their grandfathers."
"Thank you."
Lori and Callen looked at their little baby boys lying in their grandparents arms. They were so adorably cute. The girls loved their new baby brothers. Myra sat on Richard's lap and was holding Charlie together with him. Julie sat on Susan's lap and was holding Finn together with her. It looked so cute to see. Sylvie was busy taking pictures.
"G, can you hand me my phone please?" Lori asked.
"Yeah of course." Callen handed Lori her phone.
"Thanks. I'm just gonna call my brothers. Or did you guys already call them?"
"No we didn't, not yet," Susan answered.
"I'm just gonna go call Sam to let him know," Callen said.
Callen stepped out of the room and called Sam.
"Hey G," Sam answered the phone. "How's Lori? Are the babies here?"
"Lori is doing fine and yes the babies are here. Two little beautiful baby boys."
"Aww you got boys this time. How cute. I'll tell the others and we'll stop by later."
"That's fine Sam, see ya later."
Callen hung up and walked back into the room. Lori was on the phone with Ryan. She had already called Chris. He would be on the plane later today from San Francisco. Ryan would come too later from Houston.
About twenty minutes later a nurse came into the room telling everyone that visiting hours were over. Callen could stay. Richard handed Charlie back to Lori and Susan handed Finn to Callen.
"You okay holding him with your arm in a cast?" Susan asked as she handed Finn to him.
"Yeah I'm good."
"Why don't you two sit on the bed next to each other and I'll take a picture," Sylvie suggested.
Callen sat on the bed next to Lori. They held the babies to the camera and Sylvie took a picture.
"While we're at taking family picture," Susan interjected. "How about one with Myra and Julie there too."
Susan lifted Myra and Julie onto the bed. Sylvie took a picture of the family.
"Thank you guys for coming."
"It's our pleasure. We'll come back tonight," Susan told them.
"That's fine."
"Do you want us to take Myra and Julie?"
"Yeah that's fine. They can get a nap then. Take them to our place."
"Alright, we'll see you later."
Susan, Richard and Sylvie left with Myra and Julie.
"They are so cute," Lori stated as she looked at the little babies.
"Yeah they totally are. I'm so in love with them already. Thank you for giving me these two beautiful baby boys honey."
"You're welcome honey and thank you too. I love you."
"I love you too."
Callen turned his head and gave Lori a kiss.
"Sorry about your hand honey. I didn't mean to squeeze so hard."
"It's okay honey, it's no biggie. You can squeeze me as hard as you want. You were busy bringing our little babies into this world. Don't worry, my hand will heal."
"I can't believe we have two sets of twins now."
"Yeah me neither. Two girls and two boys, just perfect."
"Yeah, our little family is perfect."
"I'm just glad it weren't girls again, cus then I would be totally outnumbered at home," Callen joked.
"Haha yeah, you'd be the only man in a house full of woman."
"Five woman and one man…. Yeah that would have been fun when all of you would start PMS'ing."
"Haha yes, poor you then. So it's good that we got boys this time."
"Yeah, but don't get me wrong I would be happy with girls too as long as they're healthy."
"Oh yes me too, but it's nice to get boys since we already had girls. And now you have someone to carry the family name on. You may not have found your family but you've made a family here by yourself, me, Myra, Julie, Finn, Charlie, my parents and siblings, the team, we're all your family."
"I know honey and I'm really happy that I have you guys. I love my family."
"I know you do G and we love you too."
Callen was about to give Lori a kiss when Charlie started crying.
"Hey little guy," Lori softly spoke to him. "I think you're hungry." Lori exposed her breast and Charlie immediately started sucking. "There's a good boy."
Callen watched as the little boy sucked on his wife's breast. He was making these cute little suckling noises.
"He's drinking very well," Callen stated.
"Yeah he is."
Just as Lori finished feeding Charlie Finn started crying too. Callen handed Finn to Lori and took Charlie from her so he could burp him and Lori could feed Finn. Lori attached Finn to her other breast. It took a few seconds before Finn found the nipple and started drinking.
"That's a good boy."
When Finn had drunk enough Lori put him over her shoulder for burping. As she was burping Finn two nurses walked in.
"Hello, I'm here to take you back to your room," the female nurse spoke.
Callen placed both babies in their cribs and pushed them towards Lori's room after making sure they had all their stuff. The nurses pushed Lori's bed back to her room.
"I'll be right back with a bath," the female nurse spoke once Lori was settled and the nurses left the room. A little later she came back into the room with a warm bath. "Mommy, daddy, do you want to help?"
"Yes please," Callen and Lori spoke.
Callen helped Lori out of bed and over to the baby bath. The nurse picked Charlie up from his crib and undressed him.
"I think you know how this works, I mean you have two girls already right."
"Yes we do," Lori replied. "And yes we know how to do it."
The nurse placed the baby in the bath. Lori replaced the nurse's hand underneath Charlie's neck with hers.
"Be careful of your cast honey, it can't get wet."
"I know Lori."
Lori and Callen proceeded in washing the baby. The nurse was filming it with the camera. After Charlie was washed Lori took him out and wrapped a towel around him. She took him to the changing table and dried him off.
"G, can you hand me the diaper bag please?"
"Of course."
Callen grabbed the diaper bag and pulled a diaper and handed it to Lori. Lori put the diaper on and Callen handed her a onesie. Charlie was dressed in a white, blue striped footed onesie with brown edges. On the chest stood 'Daddy's best buddy' with a little doggy. Lori placed Charlie back in his crib and grabbed Finn. She undressed him before putting him in the bath. While Lori was undressing Finn the nurse changed the water in the tub with new clean water. The nurse filmed again as Callen and Lori washed Finn. Lori dried and dressed Finn as well. Finn was wearing a white, blue striped footed onesie with grey edges. On the chest stood 'I love mommy's hugs', with the love part as a heart.
The nurse left and Callen helped Lori back to bed. They looked at their little sons. They had fallen asleep in their cribs.
"They are so cute," Lori said.
"Yeah they are."
"What about the case? Is it finished?"
"Yes it's finished."
"Okay good. I'm glad you got here in time."
"Me too, I would have hated to miss this."
"I can't believe they are finally here."
"I know me neither, but I'm loving it."
"Me too. And our girls were so cute with them."
"Oh yes totally cute. I think they will be great big sisters."
"Oh yes they will. It is gonna be a little getting used to though for both us and the girls once we get home with the boys."
"Yeah it will be. But we can handle it, we can handle it together."
"Yeah we can."
Callen sat on the bed next to Lori and pulled Lori in his arms. Lori rested her head on Callen shoulder. Within minutes she had fallen asleep. Callen sat there and just looked at his two little boys. He felt so lucky to have them, Myra, Julie and Lori in his life. He really hoped nothing bad would happen to them, especially it was his fault.