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Chapter 3

Previously

"Alright. They say you're pregnant. Oh my God I'm so happy for you."

"Are you serious? Oh my God I'm pregnant. I have to tell Shane. Shane! Shane!"

"What? What's happened?"

"Nothing I've just got some great news. I'm pregnant. You're going to be a dad."

Shane's POV

"Shane? Shane are you still with us?"

"Sorry."

"You spaced for a second there. Are you alright?"

"Yeah you just surprised. So you are really pregnant? I'm so happy to hear that."

"That's good; when you didn't answer I did get a bit scared for a minute."

"You have no reason to be scared and to show you that how about we go and celebrate on our own." I then carried her off to our bedroom.

When we got to the bedroom those plans went right out the window.

"Can you just hold onto that thought for a second?" Claire had to make a quick dash off to the bathroom. Part of me was annoyed and part of me wanted to laugh at this situation and that's what happened when Claire came back into the room.

"What's so funny?"

"Nothing really, it just seems as though our child doesn't like the idea of us having sex."

"I know what you mean, hopefully it won't last cause there will come a time when I can't get enough sex."

"Are you serious?"

"Yes."

I then saw only one thing I could do that would also result in Claire laughing at me. I rolled up her top to sow her stomach where the baby would be.

"Hello baby, I'm going to be your daddy and I have a question to ask of you, will you please , please, please allow me and you mummy to spend some alone time together without you interrupting us? If you do this then I'll spoil you whilst growing up, especially if you're a girl."

That got the laughs.

"Shane! Hey baby, I'm going to be your mummy. Feel free to ignore your daddy he's just being silly. I can't wait till you arrive and I can hold you in my arms."

"I love you Claire"

"I love to Shane."

"And you to baby." I then placed a kiss on Claire's tummy.

I couldn't believe how happy I was at that moment; my future was wrapped up in my arms I just now had to hope that I could keep them safe whilst we live in Morganville where vampires could always attack.

"I should probably make an appointment with the doctor tomorrow."

"Yeah cause then we can find out how long we'll have until the baby arrives. Do you want to bring the wedding forward or keep it where it is?"

"I think wait until we get a due date and possible tweak the date. Technically we don't have a date just a roundabout date set around my graduation. I do know that I would like to be married before the baby arrives, about a month or two that way we can make sure that we are ready. Also how about when we can bear to be separated from them we have our honeymoon somewhere."

"That sounds like the perfect plan, and I think you mean when you can bear to be away from them."

"We'll see."

That night we just laid together after talking about some baby names which was so hard cause one of us could pick a name and the other one could hate it or you'll think of a name and then when you say it out loud you can then hate it. Before falling asleep I placed my hand over where Claire's hand was resting where the baby would be.

When Claire woke up and threw up the next day she made an appointment with the doctor and was lucky enough to get one for that afternoon.

"What time's the appointment?"

"It's at 3:30. Do you have work today?"

"Yes but I'll be finished by 2:30 so I'll be able to come home first. What are you doing today?"

"I've got to go to Myrnin this morning."

"Do you really have to? I really don't like you going to see him but now I really don't like it."

"I know baby but I will speak to Amelie tomorrow about the wedding and I'll tell her about the pregnancy."

"Alright then. Promise me that you'll be careful and have either Eve or Michael drop you off and pick you up."

"Okay. I'll see you later. I love you Shane."

"I love you to Claire." I then crouched down. "I love you baby." I said then placed a kiss on Claire's stomach then kissed Claire.

Going to work then was hard as I knew how Claire would have to spend the day doing but I somehow managed by only thinking of my job, then before I knew it my shift had ended and I was able to get back home.

When I got back home I was relieved to see that Claire was just returning and she had got Michael to give her a lift home.

"Hey Claire, how was your day?"

"Ugh. I sometimes feel as though Myrnin goes out of his way just to annoy him. I now feel really tired and would love to sleep right now."

"How about you go and relax in the living room and I'll make you a snack before we head off to the doctor's."

"I'd like that thank you."

I made Claire a quick sandwich that she could eat before e had to get going.

"Here you are Claire. I'm going to go and get changed and then do you want to go." Claire nodded and I left to have quick change.

When I came back down Claire had already finished half the sandwich.

"Shall we go when you've finished?"

"Sure. Can you get me bottle of water for me please?"

"Sure."

When I came back Claire had just finished and Eve and Michael were coming down the stairs.

"Hey are two leaving yet?" Eve asked.

"We were just about to. Why?" Claire asked.

"We just wanted to know if you wanted a lift there and we also thought that you could call us when you're done then we could go out somewhere for dinner to celebrate also it'll be dark and Michael's a vampire so you can have some protection."

"Yeah that sounds good. Thanks."

(At the doctor's)

I've always hated waiting rooms, always found them horrible places to be in. I've never been sure if it's because I'm not that much of a patient person because I hate waiting and because everyone always talks in whispers. Claire was lucky cause she had something to do, she had to fill out some forms and all I had was outdated magazines that are always found in waiting rooms.

"Claire Danvers."

Thank God.

"Hello Claire, I'm Dr. James. And you are?"

"Shane Collins."

"What can I do for you today?"

"We wanted to find out if I'm pregnant or not and if so how far along I am."

"Can you tell me what makes you think that you could be pregnant?"

"I was throwing up all of last week and I took a test that told me I'm pregnant."

"Okay then to start with I'll request a blood test. This will tell us if you are pregnant although given what you've told I do believe that you could be but if you aren't this might reveal what the problem is."

"How long will it take until we get the results back?"

"It should take a maximum of 30 minutes."

Again with the waiting.

When the doctor came back he had the test results in his hand.

"Okay. You two can probably guess what I'm about to tell you."

"I'm pregnant."

"Yes, congratulations. Now if I could get you to change into this gown as I'd like to get you weight and height to see how much weight you need to put on though the pregnancy. Then I'll do a scan and see how far along you are and see if I can give you a due date."

When the doctor took Claire's height and weight he estimated that she would need to gain around 20 pounds throughout her pregnancy for her to remain healthy.

"Okay now for the scan, if I could just have Claire get onto the bed I can begin."

This is the part I've been dying for, the first chance to see my child even though it probably won't look like much yet.

"Alright then. Let's see what we have here. If you look at the screen you can see what your child looks like at the moment and your other child. And the due date should be sometime around 11th July but with twins there is a good chance of them being early."

"Are you being serious?" The doctor nodded "Wow. Are you alright Claire?" You could see tears starting to well up in her eyes.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I blame my hormones. I can't believe its twins." I placed a kiss on her forehead and wiped away the tears that had leaked out.

"Would you like a picture?"

"You can do that?"

The doctor left to get the picture whilst I helped Claire get cleaned up from this gel stuff the doctor used to help to see the baby and get dressed.

When the doctor came back with the picture, I couldn't help but look at it some more.

"Okay if you could make another appointment to come back for four weeks time. In the meantime here are some leaflets for you to look over and if there are no questions I'll see you in four weeks." We shook hands with the doctor and left.

When we got to the entrance we were glad to see that Michael and Eve were already there.

"So how did it go?" Eve asked straight away.

"Well I'm defiantly pregnant and even better it's going to be twins."

"That's brilliant for you two. Congratulations." Michael said. "Now where would you two like to go for dinner?"

"I don't mind. What do you feel like having Claire?"

"Right now I don't care as long as its food and edible." We laughed at that then headed to Eve's car and drove around till we found the first thing that was open.

Claire's POV

I was so happy to get my pregnancy confirmed by the doctor and to find out that I'm having twins. I don't think I could get any happier.

I'm also quite happy about the due date I may not have to bring the wedding forward but I guess that I'll just have to speak to Shane about that and get his opinion on it.

Now I have to tell my parents, which will happen tomorrow and I'll also have to tell Amelie about this.

I feel a bit nervous about talking to Amelie about this as we never discussed what would happen to me in regards to my work should anything like this arise as she cannot expect me to work as the pregnancy progresses and also after the child (or in my case children) are born and they are going to need to be cared for by me and Shane. I guess I just have to hope that she doesn't get mad at me (though why she would, I have no idea). For now though I shall just see it as another problem for another day.

When I woke the next day the happiness I felt yesterday was still there. At first though I did feel as though it had been a dream but when I looked over at the bedside table I saw the picture we had taken from the obstetricians.

There is one downside with feeling happy and that's that I then start to feel as though something bad is going to follow not too far behind. I guess that's what can happen after what I went though and something equally bad or something even worse could happen. And as always when I start to feel this way Shane always knows.

"Are you alright there Claire? What are you thinking so hard about?"

"Nothing important, what makes you even think that I was thinking hard about something?"

"You get these cute little frown lines that only appear when you're thinking hard. You get them quite often when you're studying."

"Are you telling me that you've actually sat there and watched me study?" That made Shane blush lightly and he buried his face in my hair. "I've never seen you blush before, I like it. I have another question to ask, how can frown lines be cute?" Shane groaned in response.

"I don't know they just are. Everything about you is cute."

That led to a heavy make-out session that I sadly had to stop.

"Shane I need to go to Uni."

"Can't I convince you to stay home?"

"No I'm sorry Shane but I do only have a few weeks left until I finish for Christmas and then when I go back it won't be too long until I'm sitting my finals and then graduating. If you also think about it doesn't seem long until we'll have our children and we'll be married."

"Have you thought about what you want to do about our wedding?"

"Yeah, I don't really know what I want to about it. I am starting to wonder if we should maybe postpone it until after the twins are born. What do you think?"

"If that's what you want just so long as you become my wife."

"I know that's all you care about."

"No it's not; I care about if you'll become my wife and when our children are born that I'll be a good dad."

"I think I just fell even more love with you." Then I saw what the time was. "Okay Shane I really need to go. I wish though that I could stay home with you all day long."

"Ugh. Alright then, I guess the sooner you go the sooner you can come back."

"Yep. I'll text you when I get a chance and I'll see you later." With a quick kiss a dashed straight out of the room and out the front door.

"Hey Claire wait up!"

Oh god I really don't have time for this.

"Eve I'm in a bit of rush."

"I know I was going to offer you a lift."

"Oh thank you, thank you, thank you. Eve you are a life saver."

"Well I could see how much of a rush you were in and as you're pregnant I thought I could help out. I also grabbed this for as I bet you've had nothing yet to eat." She'd grabbed me an apple and a banana.

"Thank you. And thanks for the lift."

"That's fine. I think I might have a talk with Shane to see if he'll buy a car cause you are going to need it."

"I know. There are so many things I need to think about getting and sometimes I feel as though I don't have enough time to get things sorted out. I still also need to tell my parents as I haven't done that yet."

"Well with your parents why don't you do that tonight. Michael or I could drop you off or I could let you borrow my car."

"Again thank you. God, I feel like my life is starting to slowly spin out of control with all the different things I need to think about."

"It's not spinning out of control you just have a lot to think about and you just need a break and when that happens you just let Shane, Michael or me take over and you spend time resting cause all this stress isn't good for the babies."

"I know. Right after tonight I think I'm just going to relax in front of the TV or just lie there on my bed and on the weekend we should go baby shopping."

"That sounds like fun. After Uni come to the cafe and I'll drive you home when my shifts finished."

"Okay. Thanks"

"Don't mention it. What are friends for?"

I got out and managed to get to class just in time.

When I had managed to get a free moment I sent Shane a text to let him know that we were going to see my parents that night. I just hope that they don't get mad because I'm pregnant and my dad could see this piece of news as though we lied when we told them we were getting married and we said it wasn't cause I was pregnant.

As per usual my mum answered the door.

"Claire, Shane what a surprise come in."

"Hi Mum. Where's Dad?"

"He's upstairs on the computer doing something with it."

"Can you bring him down we have something to tell you both."

"Are you in some sort of trouble?"

"No we aren't in any sort of trouble."

"Okay then."

Mum then disappeared upstairs to get dad. When she came back down with dad in tow they both looked worried about what we had to tell them.

"Mum, dad there is nothing you need to be worried about, Shane and I just thought we should come over because we found out come news yesterday that you need to be told about. Yesterday I'd been to the doctors cause I had been ill all of last week. When I went there they did some tests on me and they found out that I was pregnant. With twins."

"What? For how long?" Was dad's response. Similar to what I had sort of expected.

"Only for a few weeks and only got it confirmed yesterday."

"Oh, I'm so happy for you two. But don't you think you're a bit young to be having children?"

"It wasn't planned but as we are planning to get married next year I don't see what the problem is."

After that the conversation went onto how Uni was for me and dad gilled Shane on the job he had and about if he was making sure that I was okay especially now that I'm pregnant. We also ended up staying for dinner.

When we got home afterwards the first thing I did was raided the fridge and cupboards for something with chocolate in it. I think my cravings were starting to kick in or I was just being like a regular girl with a love of chocolate. When I'd found some I then went upstairs grabbed my pyjamas to change into, my laptop and a selection of films so I could relax in comfort. Shane ended up joining me and suffered silently through the films and when I drifted off to sleep was kind enough to move the laptop off me and the rubbish around me.

When I woke the next morning I was blissfully happy until I then had the urge to anything that was fatty and had been fried, especially bread. I guess it was a good that it was time for breakfast. What annoyed me though was just as I was about to start cooking When someone decided to come to the door.

Ugh. Why choose now of all the times in the day? I thought.

"Hello Amelie. Please come in."

"Hello Claire is Shane here as well as I would like to speak to the two of you."

"Okay, I'll see if Shane's awake." Then she hung up.

I then dashed back upstairs to get Shane up and to quickly get dressed as I was still in my pyjamas.

"Shane? Shane you need to get up."

"Why?"

"Amelie wants to see us now."

"Again, why?"

"I don't know but she's downstairs right now."

"Alright. I'm up."

He then got dressed and I was hoping the conversation will go quickly cause I haven't eaten and I still wanted my fatty and fried food.

"Hello Shane."

"Hello Amelie." He replied. I think he still felt tired

"You both are probably wondering what I wanted to speak to you two about. I know that there are things that you need to tell me and I saw that it could just be best to go to you, which I'm not a big fan of. So let's start with the ring on Claire's finger."

"We did plan on telling you this but we haven't told many people know yet apart from my parents and Eve and Michael. We know that we needed to tell you cause at the time we needed to ask for your permission to leave for our honeymoon."I started. "Also there is another that has only just appeared recently and that is that I'm pregnant with twins so I will be asking is it's possible to be have some time off from working with Myrnin."

"What? Claire I'm not sure if what you are asking for will be entirely possible to make happen. Myrnin needs to have an assistant with all the time to help with the work and control him. The honeymoon will be possible because I guess he can be left for a week or two and I could check on him every so often, but for a few months I cannot. You are the only person apart from me and Myrnin that know all the secrets about how Morganville works."

"Well if you can't give me the months I ask for can I at least have a month or two off after the birth?"

"That would be more manageable? Did you say you were having twins?"

"Yes I did."

"Right, that'll mean it'll become a high risk pregnancy. I'll have to come up with some way off helping with Myrnin. How far along are you?"

"Just a few weeks."

"I'm not entirely happy with this but I guess this would have happened at some point so I guess I'll just deal with it. Congratulations by the way."

"Thank you."

"Let me know when you decided to have your wedding and when you would like to have your honeymoon."

"Thank you."

"Well I'll let you go now I bet you want breakfast and I bet Shane wants to go back to sleep."

"Yeah, why was I needed to be here?"

"I thought you might have wanted to contributed to the conversation and have something to tell me."

"Well if you no longer have need of me I think I'll be going now." Shane went back upstairs and I have a feeling that the minute he got to the bedroom he passed out on the bed.

"Sorry about that, he's not a morning person."

"Well I think he better start. Any way good bye Claire." I opened the door to let her out and saw her typical limo waiting for her.

I went upstairs and saw that I was right about Shane. He'd managed to take off his clothes but it looks as though the minute his head touched the pillow he was out like a light, so as I was nice(and also because he looked so adorable asleep) I pulled the covers over him.

Then I finally got the chance to have my breakfast.

AN: There you have it. What did you think? This hasn't been edited much so if there are problems send me a review or PM me and let me know.

Thank you and I'll have chapter 4 up next Wednesday.