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You’ll Be In My Heart

“We are not naming them Luke and Leia.”

It’s a warm May evening and a very pregnant Lainey is laying back on the couch, her head on her husband's lap, and a bowl of reese's pieces positioned on her swollen belly as they watch a movie. “Besides, the doctor said they are both girls.”

CB groaned in frustration. “Why would a higher power give me twins and not make one of them a boy.” He quickly looked over at her and then put his hand on her belly. “I’m sorry girls, daddy loves you very much, but we really got to talk about names. I mean they are going to make their appearance any day now.”

Lainey sighed and looked down at her stomach. “I mean they could totally come out now, I’m ready.” She winced when one of the girls kicked her sharply. “Seriously, I’m ready.”

“But they can’t be nameless.” CB interjected and Lainey nodded in agreement. “So-”

“So, we are deciding tonight?” She asks and her husband nods his head. “Can I be honest with you, I have had one name on my mind, Theodora, for my Gam-Gam. I was thinking we can call her Thea for short.” Hazel eyes looked up at him with hope. “And then I thought about your Nana, Eleanor. So Thea and Ella, what do you think? Our girls are named after the two women who made us who we are today.”

CB beams at her. “I love that, and I think it will make Nana and Gam-Gam’s day when they meet them. How long have you been holding onto that one.”

Lainey moves the candy from her belly and sits up. “A while now, I don’t know, it just fits for the girls. Believe it or not, Beverly Goldberg put the thought it my head. I mean, she suggested that I name one of them after her, so it got the gears turning and-”

“You do know that means that she will be beyond disappointed when she finds out one of them isn’t named after her.” CB warns and Lainey shrugs. “I mean the woman has been a saint since you’ve been put on bedrest, cooking for us, coming over here while I’m at work, cleaning our house-”

“Easy fix, Theodora Beverly Brown and Eleanor Lillian Brown, I have it all planned out.” Lainey teases as she leans in and kisses her husband softly.

“Mm, did I ever tell you that you are a genius.” CB flirts back and then frowns when his wife pulls away, wincing. “What? Do I have popcorn breath or something?”

Lainey shakes her head no and puts a hand on her stomach. “No, it’s just- they are very aggressive with the kicking tonight.” She hisses again in pain and CB sits straight up. “Whoever is doing the kickings just needs to chill out.” Lainey said through gritted teeth.

“Are you sure it’s just kicking?” CB carefully asked, standing up to get the phone. “How long has it been going on?”

“Oh you know, since this afternoon- ow, damnit.” Lainey growls and then looks up at her husband. “What? Don’t look at me, it’s not time yet!”

CB nods his head, wanting to point out the fact that five minutes ago, she was lamenting about how she was ready. Now his strong wife looked terrified at the fact that it was time. “Okay, I’m going to get the bag ready and call your dad and my parents- and Beverly Goldberg to meet us at the hospital, I think it is time.”

Lainey takes a long breath in and stands up. “Look, babe, I am fine. No need to call anyone because I am perfectly-” And just like that, her water breaks and Lainey looks down at the stain on their new carpet. “Aw crap.” She curses and then rolls her eyes. “Don’t forget to call the neighbor, someone has to let Snoopy out!” She looks over at their first baby, the one year old border collie who has managed to sleep through this. “

~*~*~*~

She is pretty sure that CB actually broke a few laws while getting her to the hospital and he sort of forgets her in the car when they reach the ER. He does come back for her though and helps her out, holding her hand as she waddles to the front desk. “This is my wife.” He huffs, out of breath. “And those are our twins in there.” He adds pointing to her belly. “And they want out.”

The nurse looks at them for a moment and Lainey wonders if just like the TV, they are going to be forced to wait in the waiting room. “Alright sweety.” She says with a smile. “I already got a wheelchair ready for you, Susan will take you up and get you a room.” The nurse kindly says. “Will there be any family coming?”

Lainey nods, breathing through the pain as she sits down in the chair. “Yeah, a big group of people-” She looks up at CB. “Did you call Erica?”

CB face turns white. “Crap, I knew there was someone I forgot. Lainey, I am so sorry. I-”

“It’s alright, I called her!”

They both turn their heads to see Beverly Goldberg rushing through the front doors, nightgown on and her hair in curlers. “I already took care of that, this is a crazy time am I right?” She adds with a laugh. “Just get up there and deliver those babies so I can squeeze them, I’ll take care of everything else.”

After ten hours of labor, the girls are finally brought into the world. CB thinks they are the most beautiful babies he had ever seen. They are a little bit on the small side so after they are taken off of Lainey’s chest, they are whisked away to the nursery. CB sits by Lainey until she shoos him away so she can sleep, so CB stands outside the glass window of the nursery and smiles down at his newborn daughters. He can’t quite figure out who they look like now, but they are perfect.

“They are beautiful.” Says the voice of Beverly Goldberg who was standing right next to him. He doesn’t exactly know how or when she joined them. “Such precious little girls.” Her voice is kind and soft. “You know Charles, I totally saw this coming.”

“Saw what coming?” CB asks and Beverly shakes her head.

“You and Lainey. Don’t get me wrong, but when my son and Lainey got back together, I didn’t see it lasting. They were too different and they were both holding each other back. Now, you know I love Lainey as if she was one of my own, hell I adored her even before She and Barry started dating. The girl needed a mother and you know me, I don’t mind mothering. So when I got news that they broke up, I was actually relieved because now they could actually grow. So then I thought back to when I first saw the two of you. I came by the school to help Lainey with a difficult parent and you two were talking in the hall. In all my years of knowing Lainey, I had never seen her smile the way she was smiling at you. So-” She went into her purse and pulled out an index card. “I put the two of you into my yenta dex and correctly predicted how long it would take for her to realize that you were the one for her. See that, two years. I called it.” She smiled proudly.

CB looked down at the pink, glittery index card and smirked. “You really did.”

“Though I am disappointed that one of the girls isn't named after me.” Beverly grumbles and CB shakes his head.

“Actually, Lainey decided and I agreed to name them after women who changed our lives, helped us to become who we are today. So Eleanor Lillian is named for my Nana and my mom and Theodora Beverly is named for her Gam-Gam and-”

“Me? She said that I changed her life?” Oh that girl, she’s amazing.” Beverly was sobbing now, happy tears as Lainey came walking down the hallway. “And there she is, oh you amazing and beautiful woman, come here and give me a hug!”

Lainey looked over at CB with a confused look. “Thank you?” She pulls away. “Are you crying?”

“Yes, of course I am crying. Charles here told me about how you gave one of those darling girls my name. Where is Erica, I have to tell her- wait, how are you feeling honey?”

“I’m alright, a little tired still and in a whole lot of pain-” Lainey turns to look at her daughters. “But Thea and Ella were worth it.”

Beverly Goldberg can’t help but grin at the young couple. “I’ll just leave you to be then and go scold my own blood related daughter about not naming her son after me.”

CB smirks as he wrapped his arm around his wife’s shoulder. “Look at them, we made that.”

“Didn’t take long did it?” Lainey teases, smiling coly up at her husband. “Married for about five months and bam, pregnant.” She shrugs. “I was so worried at first, the two of us on a teacher's salary with bills and a house and a dog who chews through everything, but looking at those two? I don’t know, it just makes everything worth it.”

CB can’t help but to lean down and kiss her, he didn’t think it was possible to be even more in love with Lainey Brown.

~*~*~*~

Thea and Ella really aren’t difficult babies. When they finally take them home, Lainey and CB work out a schedule for them which quickly backfires so they end up making an easier one that they can both follow. CB enjoys his time off of work, even more so that he doesn’t have to go back until September, being that the school year would be over by the time his leave was over. So he gets to spend his summer with his three favorite girls. He begins to notice that the twins are a perfect mixture of himself and Lainey, his Nana was right, they do make very pretty babies.

He keeps thinking how lucky he is during quiet moments when he catches Lainey singing to the girls. It’s usually a song that was currently on the radio, his favorite was when he caught her singing ‘Zombie’ to the girls. She could only look back at him with a simple shrug, explaining that it was important that the girls expand their musical knowledge and she honestly couldn’t get the song out of her head, also she was a bit delirious from lack of sleep.“Besides, I do believe that a song by The Cranberries was playing during our first kiss.” She would add with a wink.

Though his favorite song to hear her sing to the girls was ‘You’ll Be In My Heart’ It was all over the radio now, and the power balled was perfect for her. CB would lean against the door frame, listening quietly as she sang.

He is grateful for all the help they get. Between his mom, her own mom and Beverly, they really aren’t alone in this. They teach him the simple things, how to warm up the milk, how to swaddle them, even how to change a diaper. CB is always happy when he hears one of the older women announcing that they have arrived because as much as he loves his daughter, sleep is also much appreciated too.

Though as the hot mornings begin to cool down and it’s almost time for them both to return to work, CB and Lainey take time to lay on their bed with Thea and Ella on CB’s chest and Lainey wrapped around him. “I was thinking.” He begins and Lainey hums in response. “We should start thinking about having another one.”

He feels her smile against his chest, her knuckles dragging up Ella’s back. “When these two start Pre-k, then we can have another.” She sighs as her babies snore softly. “For now, these two are all we need.”

~*~*~*~*~

That isn’t exactly how things work out, the girls are three when Lainey gives birth to another little girl. Chloe was a surprise to say the least, more so that Lainey and CB got a little too drunk at the staff christmas party. Chloe’s birth was fast and easy compared to the twins and when CB asks for another one, all Lainey can do is roll her eyes and tell him that she’d think about it. She just had to get through Thea and Ella’s first day of pre-k.

~*~*~*~*~

It was a cool September morning, 2000 and something when the girls posed for pictures for their first day of Pre-K at William Penn Academy. Thea is 100% Lainey, sticking her tongue out and striking a pose. She had the habit of turning everything into an instrument and the level of sass inside her tiny body could rival her mother’s. While Ella, however, was all him. She was on the shy side, loved a good book and had no problem watching Star Wars over and over again. Chloe sat calmly in her rocker, her tuft of brown curls falling into her blue eyes as she laughed at her sisters.

As the family of five piles into the minivan, Lainey stops her husband and puts a hand on his chest. “Remember, we drop them off, give them love and then let them do their thing. We can’t show how upset we are that our babies are going to school and then out into the real world before we know it.” She takes a deep breath, running her hand through Chloe’s curls as the infant on her hip begins to fuss. “That’s it, we’re having another one. Thea and Ella are going to Pre-K, I’m dropping my baby off at daycare, we need another one.” She decides and CB smiles softly and grips her shoulders.

“Lain, the girls will be okay.” He comforts her. “They are fierce and strong just like their mom and as much as I love this talk about another kiddo, let's wait until Chloe is at least walking on her own.” CB wraps a loving arm around his wife and kisses the top of her head. “The girls will be fine, besides, we can totally check on the twins during the day and who is to say that a certain ‘Smother’ won’t be checking up on Chloe?”

“Aw, you called in the cavalry?” Lainey asked and CB shook his head. “You are a great man, Charlie Brown.”

“And you are an amazing woman, Lainey Brown.”

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