Kendall sat at the kitchen table eating a bowl of cereal. His mom had been in the hospital for over three weeks and every day he had been visiting her after breakfast. Still suffering from contractions she had yet to be allowed home. Usually Katie and one, two, or three of the guys joined him. Sometimes, when she wasn't busy with work, Jo came. This morning James had already left to sit by the pool and work on his tan. He'd been spending a lot of time visiting Mama Knight that he felt he was getting too pale. Everyone else was asleep and Kendall was going to let them be. They could come by the hospital later.

"One second, Mom." He swallowed his food and then picked up his ringing phone. "Hello?"

"Kendall Knight?" OK, that wasn't his mom. "This is Gennie Encarnacion with the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center."

"Is my mom okay?" He blurted without giving the woman time to explain anything.

"She's currently in labor and deliv—"

"She's having the baby!" Kendall yelled.

"I didn't need that ear, sir," the receptionist joked.

"Sorry."

"It's okay. I know you're excited."

"She's going to have the baby before I get there?"

"I don't know. If you come to The Birthplace we can give you all the information about what's going on with your mother."

"Thank you." Kendall hung up the phone and then immediately dialed James's number while jumping up, almost knocking over his half empty bowl of cereal, and running to Katie's room.

"Mom's having the baby!" He shouted into the phone and at sleeping Katie at the same time.

After gathering Logan, Carlos, James, and Katie and driving to the hospital (Logan drove because Kendall was too antsy), Kendall sat in the waiting area of the hospital's maternity ward. He had not been back to see his mom as she was currently in delivery. A nurse promised to let her know they were there.

"Dude!" James exclaimed placing his hand over Kendall's tapping fingers on the armrest.

"Sorry." Kendall extracted his hand and immediately put it in his mouth, nibbling on the remains of his fingernails which were already bitten down to the quick.

Katie picked up a magazine and then put it down. She pulled her handheld gaming system out of her hoodie pocket, but then put it right back.

"Why don't I—" Logan began but stopped talking when both Kendall and Katie's phones beeped.

Kendall opened the text message to reveal a picture of his mother, sweat-ridden, with a smile on her face holding the tiniest baby he'd ever seen wrapped in a blue blanket with a tiny blue cap on his head. The accompanying message read:

Meet your new little brother, Keegan Knight Olsen.

Before he could reply a nurse appeared.

"Jennifer Knight?"

Kendall stood up.

"We have to take the baby down to the NICU, but we thought you'd like to meet him first." She motioned for everyone to follow her. "Your mom's getting patched up so you can see her in a few."

Kendall gasped at the sight of his newborn baby brother already with wires attached lying in the incubator outside what he assumed was his mom's room as she had been moved for the actual delivery.

"He is 11 inches long and weighs 1lb 3oz," the nurse said.

"Not even a foot," Carlos whispered.

James stuck his hand out placing it on the Plexiglas wall.

"He can probably fit right in the palm."

"He can probably fit right in my palm." Katie placed her small hand next to James's.

"Is he going to be okay?" Logan asked.

"We have to take him to the NICU and run some tests, but there have been many babies born at 23 weeks who've survived. We're not going down without a fight."

Kendall watched Keegan. He had wires in his nose. His tiny tiny nose. Too tiny. He couldn't breathe on his own. His lungs were underdeveloped. His eyes wouldn't even open for a few more weeks. A tear slid down Kendall's cheek. He was the big brother. He needed to protect his brother and there was nothing he could do.

"We've got the best team working on him." The nurse patted Kendall on the back. "We're going to do the best we can."

Kendall nodded and stepped closer to the incubator.

"Hi, Keegan," he said softly. "I'm your big brother, Kendall." He placed a hand on Katie's shoulder even though he knew Keegan couldn't see it. "This is your big sister, Katie."

"Hi."

"We love you and we're going to be here every step of the way."

"OK, we need to get him down to NICU now," another nurse stepped in.

"Bye, Keegan," Kendall whispered.

"Bye, Keegan," the other four said together.

"He's so tiny," Mrs. Knight said. Katie and the boys were finally able to see her and there were enough chairs in the room for everyone to get a seat. "He can't breathe on his own. He didn't even cry when he was born. I feel like I did something wrong. I know it's not my fault, but I still feel like I wasn't a good home for him and…"

Kendall placed a hand on his mom's shoulder. He didn't know what to tell her. He didn't want to tell her the same cliché lines. He knew sometimes things like this just happened no matter what. He also knew, as did his mom, that with her being over 35 the chances of this happening were greater.

Jennifer put her hand on top of Kendall's and began to cry. Carlos, Logan, James, and Katie leaned in and gave her a great big hug.

Jennifer stood in front of the window of the NICU watching her baby sleep. She wanted to take him in her arms and make everything better. She was the mom. That's what moms do.

"Come on in," a nurse said. "Spend as much time as you need to here. Talk to your baby. Spend time with your baby. You're Keegan's mom."

Jennifer nodded. All the babies, mothers, fathers, doctors, and nurses in the place was overwhelming.

"Can we?" Kendall motioned between him, his friends, and Katie.

"Well, we only allow three visitors aside from the parent. It gets kind of crowded in there. As long as the mom or dad is okay with the visitor he or she is allowed in."

"You and Katie go," Logan suggested. We'll go down to the gift shop or the cafeteria or something."

The three Knights entered the room and made their way to Keegan's incubator. Keegan's doctor introduced himself and told them all about what was going on and what they would be doing. Many of his organs were underdeveloped so they would be working to get them to keep growing as they would if he was still in the womb. Since he was so tiny he had a hard time regulating body heat. It was the incubator's job to do that for him.

"Look at all the wires," Katie whispered. A few more had been attached since Keegan's arrival to NICU.

"He's got one for breathing," Kendall said. "And what is that?" He looked at the doctor.

"That is a feeding tube. Until he gets bigger and has enough energy he will not be able to suckle on his own."

"Oh my poor baby," Jennifer gasped.

"If you wash your hands you can touch him, but not for too long. His immune system is still pretty weak. We'll allow special times where you can hold him. A mother's touch is very important."

Mrs. Knight did so and placed her hands inside the rubber gloves attached to the incubator. Once inside she was able to rub her son's stomach.

"Hey, baby, it's Mama."

Don't forget Monday March 17… The other day I remembered that last season (last fall) I was checking out the DWTS message board on and for some reason I was nervous about it, but they had an official post asking who we wanted to see on the show. I remember someone requesting Danica McKellar (of The Wonder Years fame, if you've never seen that show you should [Fred Savage aka Kevin Arnold directed a few BTR episodes]—oh and her connection to BTR Phoebe N—the feminist mathematician lady was based on her) and she's on there. I was nervous (like I previous said) but I decided to post James Maslow and look where it got him! I have tweeted him, but him being a celebrity and all he'll probably never see it, but I do want to thank him for doing this.

So, if there's someone you want to see on DWTS (and don't be like the rest of BTR because I don't think it quite works like that) don't be afraid to let the show know via the message board (as long as the show's still going on…). They ask and they want people on there that we want to watch (it's all about ratings, duh!).

PS The internet is a great place for research. Oh and where's Mitch? Well…just read on (I didn't forget about him).

Baby Names. It of course had to start with K. There were two names I just couldn't use because they are the names of Kendall's real life brothers. Some other names just didn't seem like something you would name a baby and I don't like the idea of taking a C name and changing it to K like Kris and Konrad. So, the baby gets Keegan.