"Come on you" Nikki groaned as she pulled Graham onto her stomach as she lay in bed the next morning. The twins had already been up for an hour and it was only seven o'clock.

"Be careful Nikki" Harry warned from the bed next to her as he stopped Edward from crawling off of the bed. Nikki rolled her eyes slightly.

"I am" she told him and turned her head so she was looking at him. She saw the worry in his eyes and she relented. "I am being careful Harry. I'm fine"

Harry leant over and placed a kiss on Nikki's lips and put one hand on her stomach. Graham turned around slightly to frown at his fathers hand then looked pointedly at his father as if wondering why he was touching his mother.

"Sorry son but you are going to have to share" Harry laughed and ruffled Graham's now brown hair

Edward crawled over to Nikki and wrapped his arms around her neck, he then leant down and gave her a sloppy kiss on the cheek.

"Love mummy"

"Love you too Edward" Nikki replied and felt her eyes fill with tears, cursing the hormones already raging through her body. Harry reached out and ran his hand over her hair, a smile on his face. Suddenly they heard a cry through the baby monitor and both boys turned their heads to the device.

"Dawus cwy" Edward said and pointed towards door "Edward hug Dawus?"

"Gwaham hug too?" Graham asked from his position on Nikki's stomach and Harry climbed out of bed and into the eight month old's nursery. Nikki groaned slightly as she sat up and Graham fell backwards off of her stomach and onto the duvet causing him to shriek with laughter. Nikki reached out and started to tickle both of the boys who laughed loudly.

"Mama no" Edward laughed loudly and Nikki stopped when Harry walked in with Darius who was now only sniffling.

"I think he knew he was being left out"

"Aww. Come here baby" Nikki cooed and held her arms out so Harry could deposit him into his mothers arms.

"Dawus not cwy" Edward said and he leant down to kiss his younger brother on the nose the baby looked surprised for a second then his face broke into a bright grin causing both twins to clap their hands. "Dawus happy"

Harry climbed back into bed and sat up pulling his twins closer to him.

"Now I want you two to be careful of mummy because she has a baby in her tummy"

Nikki smiled as she watched her boys together and sat Darius on the bed next to them. He reached out and tugged at Harry's hair. His father turned and placed a kiss on his youngest son's nose causing him to laugh. Both the twins however turned to Nikki and looked down at her stomach. Graham reached out and placed his hand on the pyjama top that was covering her stomach.

"Mama have baba?" he asked and Nikki nodded and kissed him as well "Bwuver?"

"Or sister" Harry nodded

"Sis..sis?" Graham struggled to say but gave up after a while.

At just under three months left until their second birthday, and even at their young age the twins were already stringing some words together to form meaningful sentences, much to Harry and Nikki's proud delight. The phone rang suddenly causing Darius to jump and glare, rather cutely in Nikki's opinion, at the ringing device as his mother picked it up.

"Hello"

"Good morning Nikki" came Leo's voice down the phone and Nikki mouthed 'Leo' to Harry who nodded and set about playing with his sons.

"Morning Leo what can I do for you?"

"I was actually ringing up to offer my congratulations" Leo chuckled "Sam accidentally let slip last night"

"Thank you Leo" Nikki grinned "and tell Sam to not feel guilty, which I know she is right now, I didn't actually tell her to keep it a secret"

She heard Leo relay this message to his wife then he came back onto the phone.

"Sam didn't give me details though"

"Okay I'm just over two months pregnant and we are both fine. I'm due around the twentieth of January"

"Well congratulations again" Leo said again

"Thank you" Nikki repeated and looked down as Graham placed his hands on her leg.

"Unc Leo?" he asked and pointed to the phone.

"Yes it's Uncle Leo sweetheart" Nikki nodded she held the phone to his ear.

"Hewo Unc Leo" he said loudly into the phone

"Hello Graham" Leo chuckled down the phone then Nikki put it back to her ear and leant back against the back of the bed allowing Graham to crawl onto her stomach and sit up. "Well I wont keep you from whatever you are doing. Talk to you later"

"Okay Leo. Bye"

"Bye"

Nikki hung up the phone and placed it back on the bedside table before turning over and facing Harry.

"Leo says congratulations"

"I thought he was" Harry nodded and leant over his son to give Nikki a kiss, placing his hand on her cheek as he did so. He then looked at the clock and sighed "I have to be in work in two hours"

Nikki pouted and moved her head to kiss Harry's hand and he stroked her face with his thumb.

"I know" he sighed "I would much rather stay here with you but someone's got to work"

Nikki nodded and looked down at Darius to see that he was fast asleep. She leant down and gently scooped him into her arms and climbed out bed, she then padded into his nursery and put him back to bed.

I might upload another chapter at somepoint tonight. ;)

xxx