A/N: Sorry, the format got messed up when I was uploading this! Thanks to BrillentlyTalented, I found that out and fixed it immediately. This chapter's kind of boring, but I wanted to get something up! Will write more interesting things next. :)
"Boy or girl?" Fitz asked, laying upside down on the bed with a sleeping Teddy on his chest. Mellie was sitting on the couch in their bedroom, staring at her cell phone. She had 1 minute and 52 seconds left, until she could go look at the pregnancy tests that were sitting on the counter in their bathroom. They had been trying for a few weeks, and this was the first time that she had taken a test since she had been afraid that she was pregnant a few months before.
Mellie looked up at Fitz, too caught up in eyeballing her cell phone to pay attention to what he was saying. "Hmm?" She questioned.
"Do you want a boy or a girl?" He repeated.
"Fitz, we don't even know if I'm pregnant yet." She glanced at her phone again. "But if I am...I don't know. I mean, I know everyone always says they want a healthy baby and that the sex doesn't matter. But I don't know. Because I mean, Teddy is the sweetest. And Ben is the sweetest. But our girls have always loved you more. So I might be leaning toward another boy...but all in all, that would make us what? Four boys, two girls?" She shrugged. "Maybe another girl. I don't know. I guess we'll have to see."
Fitz nodded, watching as she stared at her phone. "I'm gonna go with the healthy baby crap because honestly, I don't really care either."
Mellie got up after a minute and walked back into the bathroom. "Fitz!" She yelled and Fitz put Teddy on the bed before she got up, going into their bathroom and looking at her. "Fitz, it's positive." She told him, smiling as Fitz just stared at her. "I'm pregnant!" Mellie squealed and Fitz grinned like a child, pulling her into his arms.
"Mommaa!" A little voice came from the bedroom, interrupting Mellie and Fitz's embrace. Mellie just chuckled quietly and let go of him, going into their room and smiling at baby Bellamy, who was holding herself up with the help of the coffee table.
Mellie smiled when she saw her daughter. "Hi princess. Look at you, standing up and all that cuteness." Bellamy giggled and dropped to her knees, crawling over to her mother and holding her arms up toward her. "Well hello there beautiful." Mellie picked up Bellamy and kissed her cheek, rubbing her back as she balanced the little girl on her hip. "Where's your brother?"
Fitz looked at Mellie. "I'll go find him. And then we can all watch a movie together. All six or seven of us."
Mellie glared at him. "You're not funny. There better only be one baby in my uterus or I will murder you with my bare hands."
Fitz just laughed as he left the room, going to look for their youngest son. He brought the little boy back a few minutes later, and he was immediately reaching for Mellie when he saw her. "Mommy!" He giggled and Fitz handed him over, switching for Bellamy. He smiled at his daughter, tickling her as he sat down on the bed next to sleeping Teddy.
Mellie and Ben sat next to them and Fitz turned on Cars. The second that Teddy heard Lightning McQueen's voice, his eyes shot open and he was wide awake, ready to watch the movie. They all laid there, Teddy's head on Mellie's chest, Bella and Ben curled up and cuddled together, and Fitz's hand on Mellie's belly. Mellie just smiled to herself, thinking about their cute little family and how much she was in love.
There was a knock on the door toward the end of the movie and Mellie looked up, unable to believe who was standing in her doorway. "Mom?"
"Karen...hi, sweetie. What're you doing here?" Mellie asked as she sat up, receiving a loud groan from Teddy when she did. She ruffled his hair and looked back at her daughter. "You can come sit over here if you'd like." She looked at Fitz, who was sleeping with his arms around the twins.
Karen walked over and smiled at her, sitting down next to her mother. "Are these the twins?" She asked, rubbing Bellamy's back. Mellie nodded and Karen looked back at her. "What are their names again?"
"Bellamy." Mellie told her, running her hand through her youngest daughter's blonde hair. "And Ben. But we call him B for the most part."
Karen nodded. "They're beautiful." She told her mother, watching as Bellamy rolled over and looked at her sister, giving her a big smile. She reached over and grasped Karen's finger, squeezing it gently. "Hi there, Bells." Karen smiled back at the infant. "I'm your big sister. I'm Karen." She told her, looking over at Ben, who was sleeping curled up close to Fitz.
"He looks just like dad."
Mellie nodded. "He does, doesn't he? He's such a sweetheart."
"So is his sister." Karen told her, giving Bellamy another smile. "So I'm sure you're wondering why I'm here..." She mumbled, looking at Mellie.
She nodded and wrapped her arm around her oldest child, pulling her closer to her. "I am. But we can let that wait. For now, just watch a movie with us. It's nice to have my babies all together." Mellie just smiled to herself as she looked at the babies, Teddy, her teenage daughter and her husband. But her smile faded when it hit her...When she realized that she would never have her babies all together. Jerry was dead. She would never have her oldest son back. She would never been able to curl up with him the way she does with Teddy and the twins. She would never get to see him again. And that made her heart hurt. She couldn't be happy because she felt guilty...It was her fault.