What the future holds
A/N: This is the sequel to Yankee White Tate Style that several people asked for. I haven't decided whether to do another episode centred story, or just add bit in to fill in the storyline. What do people think? Please R&R. I haven't written very much of this story yet, so bare with me, it may be a while coming.
Just to add – Twilight is being shown here in the UK on Saturday (along, with SWAK) so I have until then before I have to go into complete denial over what happens. Next Saturday, we have Kill Ari parts 1 & 2!
Disclaimer: I own nothing of NCIS. If I did, I would definitely, not have ended Twilight like they did.
Part 2 – Chapter 1
By the time the three of them reached Tony's apartment, Emily was already fast asleep. Tony picked her up and carried her into the spare bedroom while Kate hunted round for the child's clothing. "Hey Tony, where did you put Emily's pyjamas." Wordlessly, he pointed in the direction of the chair in the corner while he gently laid his daughter down onto the bed. "Thanks."
They remained in silence as he watched Kate remove Emily's day clothes and get her into her pyjamas. It never ceased to amaze him how natural she was at being a mother. He remembered how anxious and nervous she was when they first found out about her pregnancy.
"Tony." Kate padded quietly into the bedroom of their apartment and sat down on the bed. They had only been married for 18 months, and were still trying to save up enough money to be able to afford a proper house. With her job in the Secret Service, and Tony being a policeman, they had thought that they could have afforded it by now, but they were wrong. Up until then, the one bedroom apartment was quite adequate for their needs.
"Yeah."
"You might want to sit down for this." Tony looked at her, worried. He could see she was nervous, and agreed to sit down next to her on the bed. He remained silent, knowing that whatever she needed to tell him, him forcing her would not help. "Well…" She began, "You know I've been feeling a little funny the past few days?" He nodded. "Well I went to the doctor's this morning." She could see the worry begin to appear on his face, so she quickly tried to reassure him, "Don't worry, it's nothing serious, well I suppose it could be if you want it to be-"
He held a finger to her lips to try and stop her rambling. "Kate, calm down, what did the doctor say?"
She paused, "I'm pregnant."
The confusion on his face quickly changed to shock and then excitement as his brain processed the news. He surprised her by wrapping his arms around her and almost squealing. "Really?" She nodded, "Ooo sorry, I'm not hurting you, am I?"
She laughed, "Don't worry. So you are happy about this then?" she asked nervously.
"Of course." He had his trade-mark 'DiNozzo' grin. "What about you? How are you handling this?" After noticing tears beginning to form in the corners of her eyes, he wrapped his arm around her again, "Come here," he whispered and passed her a tissue.
She dabbed her eyes with the tissue before sighing. "I'm sorry, I don't know how I feel at the moment." Pausing, she took a deep breath before continuing, "What if I'm a horrible mother? I don't know anything about being a parent. What if we are bad parents?" Tears had begun to fall down her cheeks.
"Hey, I know without a doubt, you will be a great mother. Anything we don't understand we can always ask help with and I'm sure we will be able to this together. Don't worry, everything will be fine." He soothed, rubbing her back.
She smiled, sniffing, "Thanks Tony. I love you."
"I love you too, Kate." He smiled back at her as he leant in to brush his lips against hers.
He was brought out of his reverie by a tap on the shoulder, "Hey, Earth to Tony. Anyone in there?" She joked, "What are you smiling at?"
He grabbed her by the waist and pulled her towards him, "Just thinking about when you first told me you were pregnant." She smiled back at him, "You seemed to think you would be a rubbish mother, but you seem to have done a brilliant job." Her smile seemed to fade a little and she dipped her head to avoid eye contact.
"It would have been nice to have had you helping me for more then 2 years before you moved out." He placed a finger under her chin to lift her head to face him.
"I'm sorry for not being there the past few years. I've missed you so much." She moved even closer to him and placed her head on his shoulder. "You've still been a great mom." He felt her smile again against his shoulder. "Hey, you wanna watch a movie or something before we go to bed?" She nodded and reluctantly removed herself from his grasp to search for a DVD in his collection.
It wasn't long before the two of them were cuddled together on the couch watching the movie. Tony didn't think Kate was an action/adventure film kind of person, but she told him that she knew it was his favourite so she had chosen Die Hard. It also gave her several opportunities to snuggle even closer when she didn't want to watch the screen directly. Tony's arm was coming in very useful as a screen blocker, which made him smile, but he didn't complain.
Kate had decided to fall asleep by the time Hans Gruber had fallen off the building. She jumped awake at the loud noises coming from both the TV and the man next to her. She turned her head to stare at the sleeping man. She smiled, 'perhaps I didn't miss the snoring,' she thought. After noticing that the credits had started rolling, she shook him awake. "Wake up sleepyhead."
"Mmpf."
"Come on," she stroked his arm, "I want to go bed with my husband."
He slowly came round, "Well why didn't you say that then?" Yawning, he stretched and stood, before holding out a hand to pull Kate upwards as well. She turned off the TV as he led the way to the bedroom.
Just before getting into bed, however, they both stood in the doorway of the spare room staring at their sleeping daughter. Kate had stopped first and he stood behind her, wrapping his arms around her waist and resting his chin on her shoulder. "I still can't believe we created such a perfect little girl." She whispered.
"She's beautiful, just like her mother." He whispered back. Silently, he closed the door to the room and pulled Kate into the master bedroom.
Since they were both still tired from the long day, so once they had changed into some suitable nightwear, they got into bed and soon fell asleep. Kate had left most of her clothes either back in her house or at the hotel she had stayed in the previous night, so she borrowed a t-shirt and some boxers from Tony. Automatically, she went to the right side of the bed as he went to the left. Even while they were separated, and therefore sleeping on their own, they still kept to their side of the bed as if it would make the separation more final.
TBC... Please R&R :D