Here Again - Chapter 5

Thanksgiving Week - November 24th - 17 weeks 2 days

The rehearsals ended up getting cancelled, which was good for Blaine.  He had two weeks at home with his family, getting ready for Christmas.  They called their families and simply told them that they wished to do the holidays in New York that year and invited everyone to come up and visit them.  They also invited Finn and Quinn, Kurt and Dave, and Mr Shue and Emma.  Everyone else was still out of state, and wouldn't be able to come.  They decided to announce Blaine's pregnancy for Thanksgiving and not over the phone.  And it was possible to find out the sex's after their doctor appointment on Tuesday.  They had to push the appointment off by a week due to several of Dr. Summers patients going into labor.  

Tuesday morning, they took the kids to the daycare they were a part of and dropped the kids off on the way to Dr. Summers.  After checking in, the nurse weighted Blaine, took his blood pressure, a urine sample and then led them into the room.  Blaine very familiar with the process sat down on the table and waited for Dr. Summers.  A few minutes later she knocked on the door and then came in.  

"Hi Blaine, Rachel.  Happy Thanksgiving, how are ya'll doing?  Blaine, you look much better than the last time I saw you.   Look at that little belly you got on you now!"  She exclaimed very happily.  She hugged Rachel and Blaine, before getting settled.  "Let's take a look shall we."

Blaine got settled on the table, and pulled up his shirt and then pulled down the edge of his maternity pants, yep, he'd officially made the switch.  She squirted the familiar blue goop on Blaine's belly and the wand, and Rachel walked over to stand by Blaine and held his hand, she smoothed the hair against his forehead and placed a kiss there.  Dr. Summers took some measurements and switched on the Doppler as well, so they could listen to their twins heart beats.  Now that they knew, both Blaine and Rachel could tell they were hearing two separate heart beats.

" Well, by now your twins are each about 10cm  or almost 4 inches, from crown to rump. They now weigh about 100g each.  They each have their unique fingerprints. And when you poke your stomach gently and they can feel it.  Blaine, you will probably start to feel your ligaments stretching again soon.  And you should be able to feel the twins moving soon as well.  Probably within the next week or so, you'll know what it feels like now, since you've already gone through this once.  Now do you want to know the sex....yes, I know you too, of course you do!"

Blaine and Rachel smiled and nodded at her.  

"You're going to be the parents of.......2 identical twin boys!"

Rachel looked down at Blaine, who was still stretched out on the table and started grinning and then crying.  She leaned down and gave him a second kiss.  Dr. Summers took several more pictures for them to show off to everyone.  

On their way out they made an appointment for 3 weeks from then, the week before Christmas.

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Thanksgiving went fantastic.  Everyone had been able to make it, so they had a full house.  Reilly and Kallie, put on their best behavior.  Rachel and Blaine still hadn't told them the news, since they didn't want their two darling kids to spoil the surprise.  But they had to rethink their plan, it was pretty obvious now as soon as you saw Blaine that he was pregnant.  So they decided to put the dvd of their last ultrasound going on the TV and let Rachel greeted everyone at the door when it rang.  It only took a matter of moments for the shock and surprise to happen each time, all the heads would swivel at Rachel, who would laugh, and then Blaine walked around the corner.  It was awesome.  And Rachel and Blaine quite enjoyed themselves.  They were adorable together all day, hugging and cuddling, Rachel would stand behind Blaine and just caress him.  She was constantly touching him, rubbing his belly.  It was adorable to watch the two of them, they were still so in love with each other.

Immediately after Thanksgiving was Kallie's 2nd birthday.  Blaine couldn't believe it had already been 2 years since he'd had his beautiful baby girl.  Being the princess that she was, it was no surprise that she had a Disney Princess Party.

Christmas they had everyone come back.  Reilly and Kallie were thoroughly spoiled by everyone.  As was Blaine and their two new boys.  Blaine and Rachel received dozens of toys and new outfits, matching outfits, of course.  Blaine was the center of attention.  He was constantly being asked by someone if they could touch his belly, which he loved, as long as it was family or loved ones.  But he exhausted quickly now.  About 3pm, Rachel quietly began to let people know that Blaine was tired and needed to rest, of course everyone was understanding and would quickly say their goodbyes.

Derek called later Christmas Day, and asked if he could stop by for a bit.  Rachel took his call since Blaine was napping and assured him that of course he was welcome to come over for awhile, but she let him know with all the excitement and having family over, Blaine was tiring out fast.  Derek said that was fine, he just wanted to say hi, and give Blaine an update on Hit List.

He stopped by at 6pm, Christmas Night.  And surprised Rachel when he arrived with an armful of presents.  

"Derek, you didn't have too!"  She said in astonishment, and then quickly let him in, he set everything down and gave her a big hug.  They had become close in the last couple weeks.  Reilly and Kallie were excited to see him, they had taken to calling him Uncle Derek, and Derek seemed quite taken with two of them as well.  Blaine woke up from where he had been sleeping on the couch.  "Honey, you should have woken me.  Derek when did you get here?"

"Just now, mate.  No need to get up, how are you doing?" Derek called and waved Blaine back down from where he had started to get up off the couch.  

"I'm good.  We're good," he laughed, gesturing towards his belly.  "What are you doing here surprising us?"

"I couldn't resist the chance to get the kids something.  Got something in there for the two new ones as well.  Couldn't have sibling jealously now could we?"  Derek laughed.  "I just wanted to stop by and wish you and the family a Merry Christmas.  I also wanted to give you an update on Hit List."

"Thanks Derek.  How's everything going there?"

"Well the creative team decided to take a break for the holidays....and by that I should said the producers did.  We're going to have our first meeting again the beginning of January.  Probably the second week.  By then you'll be what....20 something weeks pregnant?  Over halfway there."

"Second week of January.  I'll be ......" Blaine did quick math in his head. "About 24 weeks pregnant.  

"Okay, I'm going to propose that we something similar to what we did in Bombshell, and use shadow selves.  Have another 'you' on the stage to do all of the dancing, and you take care of the singing.  And as soon as you're back, we'll just adjust the blocking.  It wouldn't be too much work and I think they will go for it.  It's a simple fix for now, and it's temporary.  But we probably won't even get back into rehearsals until early February.  Have a couple months of rehearsals, and go to previews in mid to early summer.  Do you think you could be ready by then?"

"If we can push it to around mid June, yeah probably.  But it still probably won't be anything to major, dancing wise.  I'll be 6-8 weeks out from giving birth, and that's assuming I don't have to have a C-Section....which I really don't want."

"Okay, I think we can work with that.  We can work around the date, it's just a ball park.  Now another question.  Have you seen the papers recently?"

"Yeah.  I saw that it leaked to the news.  I was expecting it.  I don't care.  But hopefully it means everyone else involved will be a little more understanding about working with us.  And it gets us publicity.  So whatever."  Blaine said, in reference to several pregnant pictures of him being posted in several different newpapers.

"How's Rachel taking it?" Derek asked?

"She was surprisingly fine about it.  But that's probably because we got a positive reception to the news.  If it had come back harsh, things might have been different."

"Well I'm gonna let you get some rest, you're looking tired.  Be sure you take care of my god-kids.." Derek joked as he stood up.  
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