"Oh hello Kelly!" Isabella's voice rang over the telephone.

"Hey Mom." Kelly said awkwardly. "How are you?" She kicked at the floor.

"I'm good, how are you?" She heard Isabella shuffle some papers so that ment she was working. "I'm a little busy so hurry up with whatever you need to tell me."

Kelly glanced at Murdock who nodded. "Mom, I'm pregnant."

The shuffling stopped. "What? Are you serious?"

Kelly bit her bottom lip, an old nervous habit she had when her Dad was deployed. "I'm serious."

Isabella suddenly cried out. "Oh I'm going to be a grandmother!"

Kelly smiled. "Yeah, yeah you are. Well, I'm going to have to let you go-"

"No wait, tell Murdock... Thank you." Isabella said and hung up.

Kelly placed the phone back on the wall and looked at Murdock. "She said... Thank you?"

"You're chewen' on your lip 'gain." Murdock pointed out. "What's bothering 'cho?"

Kelly wrapped her arms around his waist. "I'm just- nervous."

Murdock planted a soft kiss on her forehead. "Don't be, I'm here."

She pressed her head into his chest and stared blankly at the kitchen counter. "I've just never- done anything like this before."

"Good thing you're with the right person." Murdock pressed his nose into her soft brown hair.

"Ain't that the truth?" Kelly pulled Murdock closer.

Murdock slid his hands around until they met at her stomach. "This is going to be a learning experince for all of us." He pulled her in for a kiss.

Kelly wrapped her arms around his neck and stretched on her tip toes to kiss his nose. "I don't like being short."

Murdock smoothed her eyebrows down. "Well, it's an advantage for me."

"And what's that?" Kelly placed her hands on her hips and pursed her lips.

Murdock grinned and leaned down to kiss her again. "That I can get stuff from the top shelf for you."

Kelly frowned. "Why thank you kind male." She swatted him in the chest and started walking into the livingroom.

"Kelly, males are all bad people! Just look at Martin Luther King! He was a great guy!"

Kelly held her frown until she couldn't hold it anymore. "Okay, I can never be mad at you. You always come up with the best stuff to cheer me up."

Murdock leaned in and kissed her. "Well that's my job."

8 months later of madness

"Murdock! Where's the icecream?" Eight month pregnant Kelly called into the livingroom from the kitchen.

"I think we ran out!" Murdock called back. "Do you want me to get some?"

Kelly rubbed her swollen belly. "Yes please, hurry."

Murdock dashed outside and into the van, once Kelly saw the blue van drive away, she sat down in his favorite reclinor and clicked on the TV. Of course, her favorite cartoon came on, the Jetsons. Murdock soon came back with three tubs of chocolate icecream.

"Hey!" He exclaimed. "You took my seat!"

Kelly smiled and wrapped herself up in his old flannel blanket. "Come have icecream with me."

Murdock went into the kitchen and scooped huge servings into bowls and huddeled into the chair with her. "This is how I want to spend the rest of my life, sitting with my wife, eating ice cream and snuggling."

Kelly giggled. "That's probably how you're going to spend it." She planted a chocolatly kiss on his lips.

Murdock grinned. "Ooh! The jetsons!"

Kelly smiled and wrapped her hands around her belly. "Stop kicking me already! We know you're in there!" She cried to the baby.

Murdock pressed his head to her belly. "Hello in there, why are you kicking Mommy so much?"

Another kick came in reply then a sharp pain pinched in her lower stomach. "Ooh." Kelly grunted. "That wasn't a kick."

"Kell, you're leaken'." Murdock jumped out of the chair and pressed his hand to the wet surface of Kelly's pants.

"No! I can't have this baby now!" Kelly hobbled out of the chair. "Murdock go get my bag."

Murdock rushed into the bedroom and came back with the suitcase she had packed incase of this very situation. "I'll drive, come on Kelly." He helped her out the door and laid her in the back across the seats.

He started up the van and drove and quickly as possible without speeding. "How far are they appart?"

Kelly groaned. "Five minutes."

Murdock slid into the hospital parking lot and yanked open the door. "Come on Kell, you can make it."

Kelly grunted in response and clutched onto Murdock's shoulder. "I'm fine." She continued to mutter.

Murdock rushed into the hospital. "My Wife Kelly Murdock is having contractions."

"We have a room waiting for her, take her to room seven." The nurse at the front desk handed Murdock a wheelchair.

Kelly gratefully sank down into the wheelchair and squeazed her eyes shut. "Four-thirty."

Murdock wheeled Kelly into her own private room and helped her up onto the bed. "You can make it, I'm going to go call the team."

Kelly nodded and rubbed her belly as if trying to rub all the pain away. "Hurry."

Murdock rushed out of the room and into the hall. Kelly stared at the cealing and wondered if this baby was a boy or a girl. Murdock came back in as her contractions started again.

She squeazed his hand and clenched her eyes shut. "Why did you talk me into this?"

"Because you love me." Murdock grimmaced as her hand clasped around his wrist.

"Of course I do." Kelly ground her teeth so hard they squeaked and the contraction passed. She sighed. "What does this baby want out of me?"

"It wants to be out." Murdock dared only to speek those few lines.

"No really? I didn't know." Kelly squeazed his hand and threw her head back on the pillow. "It had to be a month early huh?"

A doctor came in. "Hello I'm Doctor Yang and I'll be delivering your baby. I'm just going to check to see if you're dialated." He lifted up the sheets she was under and looked. "You're two centemeters dialated." He said and then left the room.

Another contraction came and she squeazed Murdock's hand tightly. "They're comeing closer now." She said through clenched teeth.

Murdock rubbed her hand, not daring to talk until this one was over. Finally Kelly threw her head back onto the pillow. "Is the team comeing?"

Murdock bit his lip and nodded. "Yeah, Face said he would tell everybody."

Kelly nodded and rubbed her stomach. "Hey, take it easy in there. You're hurting Mama."

Murdock rubbed his slim fingers on her bloated stomach. "How far are they appart?"

Kelly bit her lip. "Two minutes." And she squeazed her eyes shut as another contraction started. "One-thirty."

Murdock didn't complain as the grip on his hand locked itself in a death grip. "How long have you been having these?"

"Three days." Kelly grunted and squeazed her eyes shut while tears rolled down her face.

Murdock quickly wiped them up with a kleenex. "The doctor will be in here soon I hope."

A few minutes later, the team came and Murdock ment them outside her room. "A month early." Hannibal whistled. "I was two months."

Murdock rubbed his forehead. "I'm so nervous."

Hannibal clapped him on the back. "Don't be nervous Captain, I helped give birth a lot of times in 'nam."

"Murdock!" Kelly called out as another one started. "Come here please!"

"I'll be back." Murdock said and ran into the room. "How far apart?"

"Thirty seconds." Kelly said, breathing hard.

Doctor Yang came in and looked under the sheets. "Congradulations, you're dialated ten centemeters. You're ready to have this baby."