If It Happens

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Stevie watched as Lindsey carried both of the babies over to her. She held out her arms and he just smiled at her.

"Both or one?" He asks.

"One so you can crawl in here with me and hold the other." She smiles.

"Which one?" He questions. 

"I don't care." She shakes her head.

"I'll give you her because I want to bond with my son. He's going to be my little man." Lindsey states.

"Are you excited to have a little boy?" Stevie laughs.

"Oh, I am so happy. I love the girls. Really, I do and I can teach them how to swim and play sports and guitar, but a son Steph. I'm excited." Lindsey hands over the little girl and crawls into the bed with her. 

"What are we going to name them?" Stevie asks after a moment. 

"I like the name, Zachary." Lindsey shrugs.

"Lindsey...hear me out." Stevie looks at him biting her lips.

"What?" He asks.

"Blakesley Anne and Zachary Adams." Stevie runs her finger along the Little girl's cheek.

"I like it. As soon as we get home I'll work on the initials." Lindsey laughs. 

"Thank you." She smiles 

"A middle names for a reason?" Lindsey asks.

"Kinzey Alice." Stevie smiles.

"Oh, I'm catching on." Lindsey smiles. 

"I love you, Lindsey." Stevie turns her face up asking for a kiss.

"I love you too." He kisses her. 

"How...how big?" Stevie asks.

"Well, Zack was seven pounds eight ounces. He's twenty inches long. Blake was five pounds twelves ounces at eighteen inches long." Lindsey kisses her head again. 

"She's so tiny...." Stevie cradles her closely.

"Yes, she is. It's about eight now, Kinzey's probably freaking out because we aren't there to tuck her in." Lindsey sighs. 

"Lindsey, you're not going to like what I have to say," Stevie says.

"What is it that you're going to say?" He questions.

"Well, leave me here with the babies. We'll be fine. I'll have nurses and doctor's checking on me all night. Call Kinzey and we'll both talk to her and then you go home and stay with her. She's never stayed overnight at someone's house and I don't think Christine and John are going to be able to get her to sleep." Stevie shakes her head.

"No, I don't feel comfortable leaving you." Lindsey shakes his head.

"I'm fine baby. Nothing is going to happen. And you better bring my baby here first thing in the morning." Stevie points at him.

"Alright, I'll call her. I assume you want to talk to her too." Lindsey smirks 

"I do." She says as Lindsey places Zachary into his mother's arms. 

***

The next morning, Lindsey woke up to Kinzey pushing into the bedroom. He opened his eyes and rolled over to sit up. 

"Hey, kiddo." He lifts her onto the bed.

"Go see momma now." She asks.

"Well, we've gotta get you dressed first and eat breakfast but then we can. She's excited to see you. I know she misses you." Lindsey smiles.

Lindsey picks her up and takes her into her bedroom. He's watching her as she digs through her closet. 

"What are you looking for?" He asks.

"I want to dress nice for momma." She shrugs.

"Well, alright then." Lindsey chuckles.

Kinzey opted on a pair of white leggings with light pink flowers on it and a light pink knit short sleeve sweater with three brown buttons on each hip. Lindsey helped her into her brown riding boots and he pulls her hair into a ponytail. It's the only hairstyle he can do and she didn't want to leave her blonde fuzzy hair down. 

Lindsey had Kinzey's hand in his and he was peeking through the glass on the window, Stevie was sitting up in the bed and she had both babies sitting on her sides on top of pillows. She was just buttoning up her gown which made Lindsey think that she had just finished feeding them. He knocks on the door and a quiet 'Come In' flows through the door. 

"Momma." Kinzey looks up at him and smiles.

"Yeah that's momma, go on in," Lindsey says cracking the door just wide enough for Kinzey to wiggle through. 

"Hah, There's my baby." Stevie cheers as Kinzey runs towards the bed. 

When Lindsey walks into the room, Stevie's trying and failing at helping Kinzey crawl into the bed with her and keeping the babies from rolling. Lindsey grabs Kinzey's hips and helps her up and he kisses Stevie. 

"Momma you're tummy's not big anymore." Kinzey sits on her mom's lap straddling her hips.

"Well, it's still pretty big. It's not as big as it was though. Kinzey honey I want you to meet your baby brother Zachary and your baby sister Blakesley." Stevie points to each baby. 

"Zacky and Blakey?" She asks.

"Yeah. Zacky and Blakey. You look really pretty did daddy pick your outfit for you?" She tugs lightly on the little pink sweater.

"No, I picked it out." She smiles.

"Good Job!" Stevie grins.

"They don't look like me." Kinzey looks at the babies.

"Well, that's not entirely true. Here, Lindsey takes Blake." Stevie instructs. He does as he's told and Stevie shifts Zack into her arms and holds him between her chest and Kinzey. 

"Let's look at Zack. He's sleeping right now so his eyes are closed and you can't see them but his eyes are blue just like yours. He has the same nose as you. The same little ears as you." Stevie points out tugging lightly on Kinzey's earlobe. 

"His hair is different," Kinzey says taking the blue hat off of his head.

"You're right. He has brown curly hair. Who else do we know that has brown curly hair?" Stevie asks.

"Daddy." Kinzey looks at Lindsey.

"That's right. Daddy does. Now let's look, at Blake." Stevie holds the boy out to Lindsey.

As the two peer down at the little girl her eyes come open and Kinzey gasps.

"She has eyes like you momma." 

"Yeah, she does. but the shape of her eye is the same shape as your eye." Stevie lightly traces around both of the girl's eyes.

"She has the same nose as me and Zack." Kinzey lightly pokes the baby's nose.

"That's right, and she has the same little lips like you do and look." Stevie swipes the pink hat off of her head. 

"Her hair is lighter than Zack but it's still curly, Like Daddy." 

"Yes, this is the same color your hair was when you came out of my belly." She tells her. 

"Really!" 

"Mhm, the only difference is that it's curly like daddy's." Stevie nods as another knock comes at the door and Dr. Avery walks in.

"Oh my goodness this must be Ms. Kinzey." Dr. Avery smiles.

"Hi." She smiles.

"Well, I must say. Mr. Buckingham, why don't you hand me that camera and I'll take a picture of all five of you." Dr. Avery suggests.

"That sounds great." Lindsey smiles handing the camera over to the doctor and going over to sit in the bed with his wife and daughters.