A/N: Basically, you all know I'm lazy. But I'm also a firm believer in the 'vox populi' thing and since the baby's sex is going to be revealed soon-ish(in the next 1-2 chapters most likely), I figured I'd put up a poll in my profile page to give everyone a chance to vote instead of going through all of your lovely, awesome, fabulous reviews and trying to make a list. I'd made up my mind, but now I'm starting to falter and since you're all so lovely and put up with me and keep reading this, you should get a say. Enjoy this chapter and thank you for the reviews.

Good vibes, unexpected surprise

A few days later, Rory and Jess were in a coffee shop, flipping through yet another catalogue filled with pictures and descriptions of houses. Writing a number down, Rory sighed, taking another bite form her slice of cake.

"I reiterate my point: there are no good houses in this city."

"You suggesting we move?"

"No, I'm suggesting we find a house we like and the kill the people that live in it, so then we can get it."

"Faulty plan, it would take a while for the estate to be settled. Plus the people that inherit it might not be willing to sell." Jess smirked, drinking from his coffee. "And how are you going to convince random strangers to let you tour their houses if they have no intentions of selling them?"

"Well, you think of something better!"

"If we don't find something in the next two months, rent a bigger apartment until we can actually get a house we like. The alien won't need a garden that much until it gets older. This will give us the space we need and we don't have to move when you're very pregnant."

"But then we'll bring the baby home to just a random place. I won't have something to point at when I tell her stories about the first few months or years of her life."

"It will get over it. We'll take loads of pictures."

"Remind me we need to get a better camera at some point as well, ok?"

"Put it on your list."

"I don't have a list." She blushed, biting her lip.

"Oh, ok. Write it down on the piece of paper you keep writing down all of the baby related things we need, categorized by value and how urgently we need them, that is totally not a list."

"Mocking your pregnant wife is so nice." Sticking out her tongue, she laughed.

"Add to your list of things I'm not allowed to do." He smirked, leaning over and kissing her. "I like that house. Put it down on the list."

"Which one?"

Pointing to the one of the right page of the catalogue, he smiled. "That one."

"Already down." Rory lifted the list to show him, smiling as well. "Great minds."

"Frustrated minds. I'm willing to go see anything at this point."

"I know." She ran her fingers through his hair, sitting up a bit and kissing his forehead quickly. "Tammy said I should give her a call after I was done with this and she'll arrange viewings."

"Tammy is…?"

"The latest real estate agent."

"I'm done keeping track." He smirked, taking the catalogue and flipping through it. "Is she the one your grandmother recommended?"

"Figured we might as well give her a try."

"The houses in here are in our budget, not your grandmother's, right?"

"I made sure of that. The first one she showed me had columns in the living room."

"Why the fuck…you know what? Never mind. I don't care."

"Where else are we going to put the Greek urn if not next to the columns, Jess?" She grinned, leaning over and kissing him.

"My mistake, I forgot about the urn." He chuckled, shaking his head. Flipping quickly through the catalogue, he pointed to a couple of houses. "Can you make sure you schedule the viewings for these two sometime I can make it as well?"

"Sure. Just those?"

"I'll try to take off work to come see the others, but those are the only ones that look promising to me."

"I'll tell her to put those and the first one you wanted on Saturday and I'll see if and when I can squeeze something more in at some other point in the week. But those three are the ones I'm most interested in too."

"Remember the time when we didn't have to do this?"

"It was fun." Smiling, she placed a quick kiss on his lips before going back to her cake.

Late the next night, Rory walked out of their bedroom, finding Jess on the couch, reading. Curling up next to him, she hugged him while he tangled his hand in her hair, kissing the top of her head softly.

"Something wrong?"

"Bad dream."

Putting his book down, he wrapped his arms around her, rubbing her back.

"Want to tell me about it?"

"I dreamt we brought the kid home here and the entire house was filled with boxes and clothes and toys and the baby was crying and I couldn't find it."

"It's not going to happen, you know that, right? Even if we have to start looking further out than we are."

"I just…really want to move, Jess. I'm tired of always tripping on something and not having a place for books and keeping everything we have for the baby stashed in the closet, having to use our tetris skills every time someone decides to get us something else. I want to start buying things for the baby, not have to postpone until we move because there's no room."

"I know." He kissed her head again, hugging her closer.

"Tell me we'll find something."

"We will. And you cannot ask me how I know or decide to contradict me."

"I won't lose our kid somewhere in the mountains of stuff?"

"We'll put a GPS tracker in its clothes."

"Oh, useful for when it grows up."

"I thought so too." Jess smirked, sliding down on the couch and kissing her. "The houses we're going to see this weekend look good, I'm sure at least one of them will be nice enough."

"If only it was that easy."

"If you mention vibes, I'll kick your butt."

"No, it's not about vibes. I just want…a home, not a good enough house. Ticking boxes isn't everything."

"How is this not a vibing thing then?" He chuckled, looking at her.

"Fine, maybe it's about the right vibe." Rory stuck out her tongue, moving up on the couch. "But we're going to live there for a long time, hopefully. It has to be right."

"We'll find something, ok?" He reassured her again.

"Promise?"

"Yes." He smiled, cupping her face in his hand and kissing her.

"If we don't, it'll be your fault."

"Hey, I have to say whatever I can to make you calm down and get some sleep."

"Only if you come to bed with me." She grinned, kissing his palm.

"Was all this part of your evil plan to get me in bed with you?"

"Got me." Standing up, she took his hand, looking at the bedroom door. "So?"

"Coming."

Saturday morning, Rory and Jess walked to a blonde woman with a folder in one hand and a set of keys in the other.

"Hey, Tammy." Rory smiled as the woman tried to balance everything and free one of her hands.

"Hey." Shaking Rory's hand, she looked at Jess. "You're the husband?"

"Secret lover." He smirked, shaking Tammy's hand as well.

"He's still in denial." Rory laughed.

"I like you guys." Tammy smiled, pointing at the house behind them. "So, what do you think? Could this be it?"

"We're desperate, I'm getting ready to move in a tent."

"'Cause a tent would clearly be bigger than our place." Jess chuckled, looking at the house.

"Hopefully this will be better than a tent. Want to take a look inside?"

"Sure." Rory smiled and the woman headed to the front door, unlocking it before stepping inside.

"This place has hardwood floors in every room except for the bedrooms and the bathrooms, of course." Walking into the large living room, she smiled. "This is where the tour starts. The doors open to the patio and then you can go from there to the garden. Small, but you said you don't need a lot of outside space."

Squeezing Jess' hand, Rory leaned closer to his ear. "I love this room."

"Don't get too excited." He kissed her cheek, smiling.

Opening the door to the patio, Tammy walked outside, with the young couple following her. "There's a roof, so you can put a bench or something out here and not worry too much about rain ruining it."

"Where does that door lead?"

"Office. We'll have to go back inside since it's locked at the moment." Walking back in the house, she walked past the stairs, opening another door. "At least that's what it's used as now, but I'm sure you could switch it to a dining room or something if you wanted to. There's also a small bathroom over there."

"Office is perfect." Rory grinned, looking around her.

"Kitchen is this way." Leading them to the kitchen, she pointed at the cupboards. "There's plenty of storage space for things. Actually there's a ton of storage in the house in general. Appliances come with the house, so you don't need to worry about that." Walking back outside, she opened a door under the stairs. "This is one of the storage cupboards, it's great for small things-vacuum cleaner, boxes, luggage, whatnot."

"Your grandmother's presents." Jess smirked, wrapping his arm around Rory's waist.

"It's a family tradition to store horrible presents."

"At least we haven't yet been re-gifted the dogs."

"Yet."

"Ready to see the upstairs?" Tammy interrupted them, looking at the stairs.

"Yeah, sure."

Following the woman up the stairs, Rory took Jess' hand again, looking at him. "I like this place."

"Good vibe?" He whispered back, trying not to chuckle.

"I just think it's the kind of place we could be happy in." Looking down at her bump, barely visible under the thick winter coat, she smiled at it. "We could even put a small swing in the back."

"More stuff for you to worry about the baby falling from, right?"

"Ok, maybe no swing."

Reaching the top of the stairs, the agent opened a door, waking in a bedroom.

"This is the master bedroom. There's a bathroom over here and a closet." Pointing to the various doors, she waited for the two to explore the place, standing in front of the window.

"The windows face south, so you won't have a problem with the room overheating in the mornings."

"Nice. Can we see the other bedroom?" Rory smiled, walking closer to the woman again.

"Actually, there are two more bedrooms up here. I did mention to you on the phone this house is very large."

"But budget-wise?"

"Still within your limit. They owners are moving to a different city for a job, so they're trying to get rid of it as quickly as possible."

"Ok."

Walking back out of the room, Tammy walked into one of the smaller bedrooms. "This is the first one. They're about the same size, so there won't be any issues. Do you have kids?"

"One on the way."

"Aw, congratulations. Either one of these rooms would work great for a child. They're decently sized and you can use the other one as a guest room or something." Walking outside, she opened the other room, showing it to them. "There's also a bathroom over there." She pointed to the last door and Jess walked to it, opening it and peaking inside. "So, what do you think?"

"Can we look around for a bit more?"

"Sure. We still have a while to go until we're supposed to be at the next place. I really hope you like this one, it's my favorite."

"Are the other ones smaller?"

"Not really, I just think this one has the right energy for you too." Smiling, she looked at the stairs. "I'll be outside, take your time."

As soon as they were alone, Rory grinned, looking at Jess.

"I like it, I like it, I like it!"

"She said energy."

"I said vibe. So what?"

"So…I don't know." He smirked, heading back outside and looking at the bedroom again. "I like the size of this room."

"And the baby's room would be big enough. No stupid closet sized room." She walked up to him, wrapping her arms around his waist from behind. "I love this house, Jess."

"It's the best one we've seen so far, I'll give you that."

"It's the house. I don't want to keep looking."

Turning around, he hugged her, placing a small kiss on her temple. "We might as well go see the last two ones."

"We've seen a million houses so far. I'm tired. I want this one."

"You've made up your mind then."

Nodding, she let go of him, taking his hand again and heading down the stairs again. Dragging him into the living room, she let go of him, lifting her arms.

"It's perfect."

"The fireplace's nice."

"We'll have to get something to block it off once the baby starts crawling but other than that…"

"The office has two desks in it, so we know it'd fit."

"And there's room for bookshelves. Face it, there's no downside to this place." She grinned, walking to him again and kissing him.

"I'm not saying I don't like it, just that we've seen so many, two more aren't going to kill us."

"But I don't want another place."

"Can I look at the kitchen again?"

"Sure." Taking his hand again, she started dragging him to the kitchen, the smile never leaving her face. Leaning against a counter, she watched him as he explored the room.

"A table would fit in here nicely."

"We'll be responsible and have someone come look at it before we sign anything, but I love it. So, so much."

"You'll be ok with going up and down the stairs all the time when you get very pregnant?"

"Jess, unless we move in an apartment, I'll have to go up and down stairs anyway. And I would really like to not have to worry about upstairs neighbors having a party or us walking too loudly and disturbing the downstairs ones."

"Thank fuck the old lady moved out. I would have killed her myself if she'd lived there for more than two months."

"She wasn't…"

"She came to our door 5 times a week, at least, to complain about something or the other."

"Fine, she was bad. So…this house?"

"It's nice."

"It's perfect."

"You asking for my opinion is useless if you're not going to actually take it into consideration." He smirked, standing on the opposite side of the room, crossing his arms against his chest.

"I am. I just needed to state again just how great it is."

"A swing might be nice. Once the kid is old enough." He added, looking at her.

"Plus, if we do decide to have that second kid you mentioned something about, we wouldn't have to move."

"Added bonus."

"Final verdict?"

"Someone is coming to inspect it. Someone official, with a hard hat, boots and clipboard and whatever else is needed. And we're getting a bigger bed. It would fit in that room, so that wouldn't be a problem, plus it would be nice to have one for the middle of summer when it's ridiculously hot and we can't stand being near each other. And the other perks." He smirked, pausing for a second. "I don't care how much you argue, we're putting two desks in the office. I get to organize the books. Your grandparents are not allowed to come anywhere near the place until it's done, otherwise they'll go crazy and offer to buy us more crap. And I really think we should go see the last two houses, if only because we have nothing better to do. Those are my terms." Looking at her, he noticed that she was very quiet, her teeth biting her lip while a hand was resting on her bump, under her now opened coat. "Ror, say something."

"I think the baby just kicked." She grinned, releasing a breath she didn't know she was holding.

"What?" Completely forgetting about his list of demands, Jess just continued to look at her, not knowing what else to do.

"The baby. It kicked." She repeated, walking to him and taking his hand, placing it on her stomach. "Here. I know you won't be able to feel it yet, but it did. I swear."

"You swear or you think?" He smirked, rubbing her bump.

"I swear." She nodded, smiling. "See, even your kid knows this is the house."

Hugging her close to him, Jess smiled, his hand tangled in her hair. "I love you."

"I love you too."

Walking into the room, Tammy saw the two hugging and smiled at them, clearing her throat.

"You guys ready to head to the next place?"

"No need." Jess shook his head, glancing at Rory and seeing her nod slightly. "We're taking this one."