Baby Proof – pt7

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Epilogue

Kass shifted the diaper bag on her shoulder, knocking on Nikki’s door. She then glanced over at Evan.

Evan shot her a grin, squeezing Kenzie’s hand.

“They’re going to love her you know.” he said, a moment before Nikki opened the door.

Nikki beamed at them.

“You guys are here finally! Everyone is out back.” she said, scooping up Kenzie. “Hey little Miss how are you?” she asked the girl.

“I’m good Auntie Nikki, we saw Daddy’s mom and she gave me this.” she pulled out a necklace with the letters ‘ML’ on it, beaming.

“That’s gorgeous, sweetie.” Nikki said, setting her down and watching as she ran off. Evan followed her waving at Bar, Mirth and Jayne.

“So, how have things been in Pegasus?” Nikki asked, grinning at Kass.

Kass chuckled, following Nikki into the yard.

“Things have been good. It took some adjustment at first but we’ve all settled in lately.” She said, setting the car seat on the table out of the sun.

Within moments the triplets had descended upon them, like a flock of hungry seagulls.

“Well come on, let us see the baby!” Jayne demanded.

“Yeah, your pictures didn’t answer the million dollar question.” Bar said.

Mirth remained silent, instead pulling the blanket off the car seat, drawing an ‘awww’ from the others.

“She’s absolutely adorable!” Mirth exclaimed, grinning at Kass.

Kass laughed, extracting the baby from the seat.

“Bar, Jayne, Mirth, Nikki, I’d like to introduce you to Olivia Samantha Lorne” she said, as Olivia blinked her eyes open.

“Wow, she sure got Evan’s eyes.” Jayne said, plucking Olivia from Kass’ arms.

Nikki laughed, watching the other three women.

“So, how’s your down time been?” she said, directing the question at Kass as she settled into a chair next to her.

“It’s been a long few weeks.” Kass said with a shrug. “We spent a couple weeks visiting his mom in San Francisco, and then swung by the farm. It will be nice to spend our last week back at our house.”

Nikki laughed.

“Yeah, I’ll try and keep the triplets busy but I’m not guaranteeing your quiet time.” she said, glancing out to where Kenzie and Evan were playing.

Kass snorted softly.

“Yeah, I figure they’ll come up with some excuse to be in The Springs.”

Jayne suddenly looked up from where they were fawning over Olivia.

“So, when are you two going to have another?” she asked curiously.

Kass nearly choked on her drink, looking at Jayne wide-eyed.

“Wha-wha-what?” she managed to stammer out.

Jayne looked at her and laughed.

“I was just teasing you, Kass.” she said with another laugh.

Kass scoffed out a nervous laugh.

“Right, of course I knew that.” she said, as Jayne turned back to Olivia.

Kass sighed contently, drifting off into her thoughts as she watched the others.

******** A bit later ******

Evan glanced in Kass’ direction when he heard Olivia fussing, grinning when he saw that she’d dozed off. He quickly fished a bottle out of the diaper bag and crossed the yard.

“Mind passing her here, Mirth?” he asked, as he settled into a chair.

Mirth handed him Olivia, watching as he started to feed her.
“So how are things going?” she asked finally.

Evan looked at the expectant faces of the triplets and grinned.

“It’s been great. Well other than the flight out to San Francisco.” he said with a laugh.

Bar raised an eyebrow.

“Oh, what happened?” she asked, curiously.

Evan chuckled and glanced down at Olivia.

“Apparently while this little lady does fine with Jumpers, she doesn’t like planes. She screamed the whole flight and poor Kass couldn’t get her calm. One of the other passengers said that if she couldn’t keep her quiet maybe she shouldn’t have come.”

Jayne grimaced slightly.

“Please say that Kass didn’t have her stunner?” she asked.

Evan shook his head.

“No, thankfully she didn’t. Though she snapped that maybe if they weren’t such aliens, maybe Olivia would be happy with such a simple mode of transportation. I’m pretty sure the guy’s head nearly popped off at that.” he said with a laugh.

The triplets laughed at the image of their mild mannered friend snapping at a stranger.

“Well I guess he picked the wrong mamma bear to mess with.” Bar said, with a laugh.

Evan nodded and glanced at his watch.

“Yeah, but we should probably get going. Have to keep the kids on some kind of a routine.” he said, standing up.

“You guys are going to be up in The Springs right?” Jayne asked.

“Yeah, but if you’re going to visit, call first?” Evan asked, buckling Olivia into her car seat. “I’d like Kass to take some downtime.” he said, glancing in her direction.

He watched her and Kenzie for a moment before calling out.

“Honey, you ready to go?”

Kass looked up and grinned at him.

“Yeah, sure. You tell them they have to call first before visiting?” she asked, nodding in the triplets’ direction.

Before he could answer, Nikki piped up.

“Yes, he already did. Now you better get going.”

Kass rolled her eyes from the porch.

“See you ladies later.” She said with a wave, before disappearing off into the sunset.

The End

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