Lotto

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As they were getting ready for bed that night, Stevie was laying there in her red and black lace chemise night gown and she was just reading her book when Lindsey crawled in bed. 

"Do you really want to try for a third baby?" Lindsey asks.

"They're five and ten, almost eleven...it'll keep up our trend...but three is it Lindsey Adams do you understand. Three is it." Stevie looks at him.

And with that, Lindsey crawls over to her with a supposedly sexy look on his face and she just snorts out a laugh, but he just smiles at her and starts kissing her. She laughs into the kiss but eventually she scoots down into the bed and wraps her arms around his neck and her legs around his waist. 

***

The next morning, Stevie was up starting her day. It was Tuesday and that meant Luna had dance and Freya had swimming. So she was up getting the bags ready, plucking the bathing suit and the leotard out of the washer when she felt a tug on her skirt.

"Morning Luna Lou." Stevie smiles 

"Mamma, was daddy hurtin you last night?" She asks. 

And Stevie stops dead in her tracks. She knew she could be vocal during sex but she didn't know she was THAT vocal. Luna's room was four doors away from theirs. 

"No baby, daddy wasn't hurting me last night...I'm perfectly fine." Stevie shakes her head.

"But I heard you calling out for him, and it sounded like you were hurt."  Luna tells her.

"I'm okay baby. There was just um...there was just a spider in the bedroom. I was freaking out over that." Stevie shakes her head, picking Luna up and hugging her close. Rolling her eyes as soon as Luna's face was tucked into her neck. 

"What?" Lindsey asks when he emerges from their bedroom seeing the eye roll from his wife. 

"Luna thought you were hurting me last night." Stevie sighs, and Lindsey has to bite back a laugh. "But I told her it was just that spider you killed." 

"Oh yeah, jelly bean, it was a giant spider." Lindsey comes over and takes Luna into his arms. Freya coming out of her room and going to the bathroom.

"Morning Mom, Morning Daddy, Morning Luna." 

"Morning Freya." Luna cheers nuzzling into her father's neck. 

"Alright, come on let's get downstairs and start working on breakfast." Stevie sighs.

As Stevie is making her version of the McDonald Egg McMuffin, Lindsey wrapped his arms around her waist. "Feel any different?"

"No, no I don't...Lindsey it'll take time." Stevie shakes her head, a nagging feeling in the back of her head. 

"I'm just hoping for a little Oliver." Lindsey kisses her neck.

"I'll be happy either way." Stevie shrugs. 

"Is breakfast almost done so I can round up the children." 

"Yes, go get them." Stevie chuckles.

***

Stevie slid into her seat next to Christine in the Teacher's Lounge and she smiled.

"What?" Christine asks.

"What do you mean what?" Stevie inquires.

"That cheeky little grin...what's it about?" Christine pokes.

"Oh well um, Lindsey and I are trying for another baby, but we don't have to try for another baby." Stevie bites her lip and Christine raises an eyebrow. 

"You okay love?" Christine says concern lacing her voice.

"I took a pregnancy test this morning and it was positive...but I didn't ask him to start trying again until last night and the last time we had sex was Christmas Eve, so I must be super early." Stevie sighs.

"Why'd you take the test." 

"I don't know, there was just something telling me to take the test." She shrugs.

"But either way you're happy..." 

"Oh of course I am...but if it was Christmas Eve then the baby will be here in September...I don't think it's from when we had sex on Halloween, because I'd be showing at this point." Stevie sighs. She had dressed up in a sexy cat suit for halloween and Lindsey pounced on her.

"Just go to the doctor and figure it out." Christine states.

"But what do I tell Lindsey...I literally told him this morning that it was going to take time." Stevie sighs.

"Stevie, don't question it, just be glad that it happened for you..." Christine bites into her apple.

"I know, I just had to vent about it." 

"It's going to be fine, you and Lindsey want a third child and you're having a third child, just be happy." 

"I know, thanks." 

"Of course, now eat your egg salad before I do, because that looks really good." Christine winks. 

***

Oliver Michael Buckingham was born on September 10th, a week early. He weighed eight pounds and 9 ounce and he was 20 inches long. And as Stevie laid there in her hospital bed looking at her two little girls loving on their brother on the little hospital couch Lindsey had been sleeping on she just threw her head back into her pillow and she started laughing. 

"What, what's so funny." 

"The fucking Lotto worked." She states.

"In what capacity..." Lindsey trials off.

"I don't think we would have ever met if it wasn't for the lotto but Lindsey, I can't see myself being with anyone but you...And I don't know if it's because Destiny is just fucked up like that, or if I'm feeling this way because all I have known is you." 

"I think we would've found each other eventually...Los Angeles let me work, and I would've figured that out eventually. San Francisco certainly wasn't working out for me period, I was literally about to kill my mom, because though I love her, I was having such a horrible time living with her." Lindsey explains. 

"I love you Lindsey." She holds her left hand out to him.

"I love you too." He takes it and brings it up to his lips kissing it. Just a day ago that hand was crushing his hand as she pushed their son out, but this time, this time it was a soft gentle caress and he brought it up to his cheek and just rubbed his cheek against her palm. She gave him a sweet smile and then he swooped down and kissed her. 

The End