She's 4 months pregnant now, and according to her, disgustingly huge. The sad part is that she's just going to continue to get significantly bigger, and that she's not even half as big as she's going to be in the end. As long as things go as planned, which things usually don't in her life, she should make it to term with these two. Her and Fitz's relationship is great, and for no reason should she have to resort to drastic measures. She should never have done that with Teddy, but she would do anything for her marriage and for Fitz.
She doesn't want to know the sex of the two babies, but Fitz does, and America does. But these aren't America's babies. These two weren't necessarily planned, but even if they were, they wouldn't have been planned in order to save Fitz's presidency, much like Teddy was. So they'll be finding out the sexes in a month from now and she's actually pretty excited so that they can start decorating the nursery. She already has the most beautiful cribs picked out and there are gifts coming from nearly everyone that her and Fitz know, and that's a lot of people. Mellie has all intentions of being the best mom that she can be this time around. She's going to give her babies the best lives possible.
"Mels." Fitz looked at his wife, who was looking through Jerry and Karen's baby books. Mellie glanced up at him and smiled, moving over so that he could sit next to her on the bed. He reached over and played with her hair, resting his head on her shoulder and looking at their children's baby books. He couldn't help but smile when he saw pictures of Jerry when he was younger, on Fitz's shoulders, in Mellie's arms, and swimming with his water wings.
"So. We need to come up with two girl names and two boy names." Mellie told Fitz, who was unconsciously rubbing her stomach. "I don't want to have to wait until after the babies are born to name them, like we did we Teddy."
Mellie nodded and leaned into him, resting her head on his shoulder. "I like Bellamy. For a girl." She told him, resting a hand on her large stomach. "I'm not sure about a boy yet...I like Nicholas. I've always liked Nicholas. Nicky. But it's a bad idea. It sounds too much like Nichols." Fitz just nodded, rubbing his hand in circles as he listened to her. She was right. Nicholas was definitely a bad idea.
"What about Benjamin? After Ben Franklin. We already have a child named after a president, why don't we add another one? Besides, I like the name." Fitz offered, looking up at his wife who nodded in agreement. She liked Benjamin. It was simple, and would work for a baby, a toddler, a child, and an adult. She really liked Benjamin.
"So we have Benjamin and Bellamy. What about Candace?" Mellie asked and Fitz just nodded.
"I like Candace. Candace, Benjamin, and Bellamy. Now we need one more boy name." He thought for a second, trying to think up another name. Many names ran through his head, but nothing was good enough to give to their child to live with for his entire life. "What about Brady? We have three B names and a C name."
Mellie smiled at him, kissing her husband's cheek. "I like that. That's perfect. I honestly expected it to take us much longer to figure out names." She laughed and Fitz pulled her into his lap, softly kissing her lips.
"Well then we have time to do something else, don't we?" He smirked and Mellie just grinned as she kissed him.
They had decided not to do what they did with Teddy, and instead of announcing the babies genders on national television, they would find out privately at Mellie's OB/GYN's office. They were up early, getting dressed and chatting away as Fitz obsessed over Mellie's big round stomach. He planted two kisses on it, one for each baby, before standing up and letting Mellie continue to get ready. The two of them got Teddy, and walked down to the car, hand in hand, all over each other while everyone around them watched. But they didn't care. For once, they weren't pretending. Their love, their marriage, it was real for the first time in a very long time, and they couldn't be more grateful for it.
They waited in the exam room, Mellie nervously tapping her foot against the leg of the table. Fitz just laughed as he watched her, smiling at her nervousness. It was adorable how she was nervous about solely finding out the genders of their babies, their twins. He still couldn't believe that she had two babies inside of her. He didn't have a clue how they were going to handle two infants at their age, but they would figure it out. They always figured it out.
Mellie's doctor came in and greeted them both, smiling when she saw Fitz. It was a great change to her since he never went to any appointments when she was pregnant with Teddy, but he hadn't missed an appointment during her current pregnancy. Fitz bounced Teddy on his leg, smiling as the toddler anxiously waited to figure out if he was going to be the big brother to two girls, two boys, or a boy and a girl. He was on board with the idea of Mellie having two babies, except for the fact that he was going to have to stop nursing. But Fitz and Mellie were spoiling him, in order to make sure that he didn't feel left out, so it wasn't a huge deal to him.
Mellie paid attention to Teddy and Fitz as her doctor started the ultrasound, and they all looked up at the monitor as an image popped up. The babies had gotten so much bigger than last time. Mellie smiled as she stared at the screen, and Fitz had a hue grin on his face. "Babies!" Teddy squealed and all three adults laughed, smiling at the little boy.
"Yes, Teddy. It's the babies." Mellie told him as the doctor showed her the babies' feet, hands, and their huge heads.
She asked if they wanted to know the sexes and Mellie nodded, smiling at her. "Well, baby A...The one with it's thumb in it's mouth. That would be a boy." She told her and Teddy squealed again, starting to shout about how he was going to have a baby brother. The doctor smiled and looked at the other baby. "And this one, the one who's hiding behind big brother here, that's a girl, Mrs. Grant."
"A boy and a girl." Mellie smiled over at her husband, who had a huge grin on his face.
"A boy and a girl. Bellamy and Benjamin." Fitz told her, looking at Teddy. "You hear that, buddy? You're getting a baby brother and a baby sister." Teddy smiled and jumped off of Fitz's lap, running over to Mellie and climbing up next to her and kissing her belly.
"Me loves you, baby brudda and sissy."
Mellie and Fitz grinned from ear to ear, watching as their little boy loved on his brother and sister. This made it seem so much more real. They were having twins. Two babies. Another boy and another girl. And neither of them could be more excited.