Joe was holding his wife, who was curled up beside him in her old bedroom at her Uncle's house. She had cried herself to sleep. They had gotten to the hospital to find out that Carson had died on the operating table. Nancy had to be given a shot to calm her, she was so upset. She was resting upstairs. Joe kissed his wife's forehead and carried her upstairs. She stirred in his arms, "take me to Nan." Joe kissed her, "of course baby."

He went into Nancy's room and laid his wife next to her and Nancy stirred looking at them, "a nightmare?" Joe shook his head and Anna had tears falling down her cheek. Nancy and Anna pulled each other closer. Joe spoke softly, "I'm going to go check on the girls and see if Frank has heard anything." They nodded and Joe quietly slipped out of the room.

He walked down the steps and saw Frank who had that look on his face and he knew something was bad wrong. "What's wrong?" Frank ran his hands threw his hair and looked up the steps, "where are they?"

"Anna wanted to be with Nancy, they are lying down together."

Frank nodded and pulled him into the kitchen, their parents and Biff was standing there. Joe gave him an odd look, "Biff, when did you get here?"

"drove up just got here a little while ago. George and Bess are with their family and I came straight here."

Joe nodded and Fenton handed him a note. Joe glanced down at it.

A dad for a dad. Seems fair.

Love your sweet little brother.

Joe was stunned and he didn't even know how to respond. Anna was pregnant and if she saw this she would blame herself, "what do we do?"

Biff had gotten extremely close to Anna. He had become her shadow and was like a little sister to him, "do not let her see this." His response was firm and Joe had to give him a half smile. He knew Biff would have her best interest at heart. Joe nodded his head and looked to his dad, "thoughts?"

Laura stood up and placed her hand on Joe and Frank's shoulders, "I love you boys both but you keep the girls out of this. Anna is pregnant and cannot deal with this stress knowing it was her brother." She said it pointedly and looked at Fenton, who by the looks of it disagreed. Laura looked back at the boys, "Nancy will blame herself for not going along with staying away. Just leave the girls out of it, they have lost enough and have enough to deal with. You mention a word to them you will deal with me." She kissed each one of her sons' cheek and walked away.

Frank let out his breath that he was holding and looked at his father, "you think we should tell them?" Fenton sighed and placed his face in his hands and after a moment looked up at them, "I don't think keeping secrets is the best idea. However I do see where your mother is coming from. I agree that we let them grieve and tell them when the time comes. Biff will become their shadow and we should be able to use the note Nan got to cover the reason why. We have to find her brother. Do you have any of the info still?"

Joe nodded, "yeah I have some e-mails. Nancy did all the research but she copied me on everything and sent me everything after I was told." Fenton nodded, "let's get to work boys."

Anna and Nancy were sitting in the backyard early the next day. They had slept in Nancy's old room and their sleep was very broken. Anna looked up at the sky, "Nan, we have a lot of decisions." Nancy bit her lip and nodded, "we do, but the will and funeral comes first." Anna blinked back the tears in her eyes and looked at her cousin, "I love you, and we will make it through this. I was supposed to find out the sex of the babies today."

Nancy turned quickly to her, "Go somewhere here. That will be happy news. Dad wouldn't want us to stop everything and just be miserable. I can go with you and we can surprise everyone?" Anna looked up, "Think Joe would be upset?" Nancy shrugged, "It's up to you it was just a thought."

Anna nodded and glanced behind her through the glass doors. She could see Joe and Frank pacing the kitchen talking to their dad. "I will go call the doctor but Joe will want to come. He missed a lot with Kendall." Nancy smiled at her, "you and him should go then. Enjoy this moment and when you get back we will start all the stuff we wish we could forget about."

"I love you Nancy."

"Love you sis."

Joe and Anna were riding in the car on their way back to the house. Joe squeezed her hand, "baby, you ok?" She looked at him and he saw the tears that were pouring down her face and he quickly pulled over to an empty parking lot. He pulled her close to him, "oh baby, don't cry."

"I feel bad. I'm happy and I just lost my second father. I'm so sad too though."

"Hey baby, look at me," he pulled her face towards him and he kissed her softly. "Don't deny yourself the happiness that comes with being pregnant and finding out the sex. You are living your life. Carson would never want you to stop doing that."

"But," She started to say to him and he cut her off with a kiss, "babe, no more till this evening. We enjoy this moment and then deal with it all in a few hours." She nodded and kissed him, "I know we already picked out one name but we still have another to pick out."

Joe smiled at her and kissed her forehead, "what were you thinking?"

"Carson Andrew Hardy."

Joe beamed at her and wiped the tears that fell, "it's perfect. Should we tell everyone the names or hold off?"

Anna gave him a smirk, "let's wait. I want it to be a surprise this time." Joe laughed and kissed her and then her belly, "here that boys."

She laughed, "James Fenton and Carson Andrew Hardy, looks like we will have some hardy boys of our own." Joe beamed and kissed her, "I love you so very much."

Sad and happy chapter... still a lot more to come. I would like to make this story long, maybe another 10 chapters if not more. I still have a lot to tell and after getting some input I will just make this one really long and decide later if a 3rd one will work. That is still a long ways away this one isn't done. I still have to write so much with her brother, a funeral, grieving, George & Biff's wedding, the babies. LOTS to come in this story

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