Frank had renewed hope in fact they all did. Biff, Joe, Fenton and Frank were barely emerging from the dining room. Everyone else kept out of the way. It had only been a few hours since they got the note from Nancy but it certainly did light a fire under all of them. Anna was making sandwiches for them when George walked in. "need some help?"
Anna smiled at her while she placed some turkey on some bread and started piling up the ingredients. "You can get Kendall's food together."
George nodded and starting getting some lunch meats and cheeses together for her, "I talked to Bess."
"How is Ms. Miller?"
"Her and Gertrude have become inseparable. She is almost healed. Bess said they could come home but I told her the less people here the better. I told her to enjoy the city and if we needed her we would call."
"Probably for the best, I figure the less people know the better. We are keeping this note close."
"I get it totally, I didn't say anything."
"George after all we have been through I trust you as much as I trust Nancy. I just hope we can find her. This note is a miracle."
"Agreed. By the way how are you feeling?"
"I'm okay. I talked to Uncle Carson earlier, he hates that he had to go back to River Heights. I told him he needed to focus on something and his therapy would be a wonderful thing. Focus on walking and surprise Nan with it."
"That sounds like good motivation."
"I thought it might be but I am not so sure. He feels really helpless. He will be back tomorrow I think."
George got a few grapes and cut them and placed Kendall's food on her highchair tray, "want me to go get her?"
Anna smiled at she placed chips in a big bowl. "She is in the back yard with Laura." George nodded and went off to get her. Anna placed the big plate of sandwiches, the bowl of chips, a pitcher of lemonade, and some cups on a tray and carried it into the dining room.
Joe jumped up and grabbed the tray, "you shouldn't be carrying that."
Anna gave him a look, and Frank chuckled at them, "she will be fine Joe." Fenton looked up from the files he was looking at, "how are you feeling?" Before Anna could say anything Biff quickly said, "Did I miss something?"
Everyone laughed slightly except for Anna who was biting her lip. Joe placed the tray on the table, "Anna is pregnant." Anna groaned and added, "In no way is this taking any attention away from finding Nancy. I don't want this to overshadow that. Yes, I am pregnant. I am about 10 weeks. I am capable of doing everything I did before. So let's move on."
Everyone was stunned by her little outburst and Biff decided to break the silence, "Well congratulations." Anna gave him a small smile, "so what is the progress?"
Frank quickly spoke up, "still going through case files but we have a couple that do stand out. Once we are done we will review them all and dig some more."
Fenton then added, "We are over half done on the files and hope to be done by the night."
"That's wonderful. I will let you guys work if you need anything let me know." Anna said and walked out of the room as they murmured thanks for the food. Joe followed her back in the kitchen. Anna smiled as George was eating a sandwich beside Kendall who was eating and babbling. Laura was feeding Elizabeth and eating herself.
Joe grabbed her, "Let's talk for a while." Anna looked at him smiling, "okay." He quickly pulled her up the stairs to their room. He shut the door behind them and Anna sat on the edge of their bed and he joined her. He kissed her passionately then kissed her stomach that didn't even have a bump yet.
"Joe, did you want to talk about something?"
"I wanted to spend some time with my wife. With everything going on we have hardly talked about us having another baby."
Anna kissed him and smiled slightly, "honestly, I keep forgetting I'm so focused on us finding Nancy and taking care of the girls."
"Well we haven't even known a full day yet. But baby promise me you will rest. I don't want you to have a rocky pregnancy."
"I know and I promise I will. Just please don't get yourself thrown into jail because that wouldn't help my stress level."
"I don't even want to think about that happening. We could always pull a heist like in The Dark Knight."
Anna laughed slightly, "You guys could never do that, it would involve killing."
"I forgot about that part. However he didn't really get caught."
"Unless there is an unknown Batman in Bayport."
Joe laughed and kissed Anna. "Too soon to talk about names?"
Anna shook her head, "Not at all, I have my first ultrasound tomorrow. You want to come?"
"Did you really just ask me that?"
"I take that as a yes."
"That is a definite yes. How about we think about some names and then tomorrow we can decide after the ultrasound."
"Perfect, now go look through cases and find Nancy."
Joe nodded and kissed her passionately as they left the room.
Frank kept rereading Nancy's note. He had it almost memorized. He had to find her soon. He smiled down at Elizabeth who was sleeping and rubbed her head, "don't worry, I will find mommy." Frank sighed and turned on the light beside the chair in his guest room. Anna had set up a crib for Elizabeth in the guest room he was sleeping in so Elizabeth could be with him if we wanted. He was going over case files.
He glanced at Elizabeth and he knew he had to find Nancy she was missing so many moments that they would never get back. He missed her and he knew Elizabeth did too. At least Nancy was able to help them and got them that note. They had narrowed it down to about 6 cases and Frank knew it was one of them. They were going to do more digging tomorrow but they were running out of time before they had to rob this bank.
Joe was holding Anna as they walked out of the doctor's office. Anna was holding the sonogram out staring at it. They found out that she was almost eleven weeks pregnant with twins and everything looked perfect and healthy. Joe opened the car door for her and she quickly got in and he ran to the other side of the car and took off back to their house, "Baby, you want to tell everyone our surprise?"
Anna squeezed his thigh, "I honestly don't, they know I am pregnant. I just want to find Nancy. Have you heard any progress yet?" He nodded and grabbed her hand and kissed it, "I love you baby so much. We will keep this between us. I got a few texts from dad."
She smiled at him and rests her head back, "I love you. Nervous about twins?" He shook his head, "No baby we are in this together. I couldn't be happier."
She smiled, "This is pure bliss, this life we have if only Nancy was here. So what did your dad say?"
Joe smiled at her as he continued driving, "He said that they narrowed it down a bit more. He didn't want to go into a lot of detail over the phone but it sounds like they are really on to something. We do know thanks to Nancy we were barking up the wrong tree with this whole parole thing."
"Yes, at least now maybe we can get some answers. Let's spend the rest of the driving thinking about our two babies."
"Sounds good. Names?"
"Well I would like to try to include some of the family names."
"I was thinking James Fenton for a boy."
"I love that. If we have a girl Laura as a middle name?"
"Mom would love that. First name though?"
"Evelyn."
"Ms. Miller's first name?"
"As long as you don't mind."
"Not at all. I think she would consider that a special honor. We still need another boy and girl name."
"We can think on it we have a while to decide."
"Very true. Now let's focus on Nancy." Anna said while they pulled into their garage. Joe turned the car off and turned to her. "You do realize they will want to see the ultrasound."
Anna bit her lip, "Crap. I don't think anyone will pick up on it except maybe your mom. We just won't point it out or mention the sonogram photo." Joe nodded and quickly got out of the car and went to help Anna out of the car as they both made their way in the house.
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