(Author's Note: Grrr… gotta stop making these… fans and characters beating the crap out of me… twisting my arm… the story was fine! I would have gotten away with it if it wasn't for you meddling kids! Blargh… yeah I do wanna see the next adventure too… ok ok fine! Here it is)

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[0300 hours, July 4th 2556 (Military Calendar)/ San Francisco General and Trauma Hospital]

A groan came from inside the delivery room, and then another.

"Ma'am, I need you to push" the nurse requested. Another groan and a whimper from the woman lying in the bed with her feet in the stirrups. She pushed as hard as she could.

"One more. The baby's head is coming out" the nurse said.

"Come on honey, just one more! You can do this!" The father said as he held her hand.

"I can't!" she cried as she winced from the pressure.

"Yes you can, just one more!" the nurse and doctor said. The woman groaned again as she pushed one more time.

"And… the body is out! Good job! Now one more! Just hang in there!" the doctor said. The woman laid her head down on the pillow and breathed deep.

"You can do this, I know you can. You're the strongest woman I know, this is nothing!" the father said.

"You aren't the one in labor!" she snarled at him, and then moaned from the contractions. She had light pain killers already flowing through her system, for what good they actually did.

"Alright, here comes the next one" the doctor said as he waited for her to push.

"I can't do this" she whimpered to her husband.

"You can. Just push" he responded. The woman took a breath and pushed.

"The head is coming along nicely, one more" the doctor requested. The woman pushed once more, wincing and releasing the breath she had held through gritted teeth. Her hair was caked around her face from sweat.

"One more! Just one more and the baby is out!" the doctor said enthusiastically. The woman looked up and pushed once more with her eyes screwed tight. Her husband stood by her side the entire time holding her hand.

"He's out! The baby is out!" the doctor said as the woman relaxed. The nurses cleaned both infants and wrapped them carefully as they cried, gaining their first breaths.

"Congratulations on having healthy twins; a girl and a boy" the doctor told her. She cried in happiness as they slid the children into her arms, weak as they were from labor. The boy was fairly quiet as he looked at her through half closed eyes, cuddled against his mother. The girl, on the other hand, was crying her head off up until the woman started to coo to her, and then she calmed down almost immediately from the sound of her voice, almost instinctively knowing who she was.

"What do we put down as the names for the delivery?" one nurse asked as she typed away on a data pad. The woman looked at her husband as he leaned near her shoulder on the bed and looked at the children.

"She has your eyes" he told her.

"Yeah… and he has your nose" she giggled up to him.

"He better not, it's the worst part of my face" he replied. She laughed as he wiggled his finger near his son's nose.

"So what are their names ma'am?" the nurse asked again. The woman looked up at her husband's eyes, and he nodded in agreement to what they had chosen.

"Alley and Victor Gripen."

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