Alison had been fidgeting about this for a while. Quietly. As much as she hated asking for things -- particularly when she already had so much and had been given so much -- there was something on her mind that she just couldn't shake. The nursery that Robbie and Miyuki set up for the babies was wonderful. She had no complaints at all. But, there ( Read more... )

Alison was excited. Mother's Day had been months before, but her gift for the day had finally been finished. Longshot had worked long and hard on the koi pond he'd built for her. Dakota and John had pitched in on the digging and the final touches. Her husband had wanted to do most of it himself, but it was a very big job ( Read more... )

Alison didn't like it when her husband wasn't home. There were a variety of reasons for it, but the main reason was because he wasn't with her when he was gone. She had spent most of the day in a funk, waiting for Longshot and Asuka to return home from a clan mission. She couldn't complain too much when he was sent away. The jonin knew Alison was ( Read more... )

Alison had asked her husband to wake her early this morning. It was not a request he took lightly and she had to promise not to take the inevitable grouchiness out on him. Then she made him promise to remind her of that, too. Mornings were never her happy times, but add morning sickness to the equation and things really got out of hand. She did her ( Read more... )

Aside from their initial visit, the rest of the visits Alison and Longshot had made to see Dr. Crusher had been exciting and pleasant. Tiny heartbeats and surprise twins. Things had always gone well and been fairly painless ( Read more... )

Alison had been looking forward to this day for weeks. She'd been careful to keep it quiet, though. Longshot loved surprises. She hoped that he would love today's more than most ( Read more... )

Alison shifted anxiously in her seat as the limousine they rode in rolled through the streets to their destination. Her high heels didn't hurt. Well, not yet. She had only had them on for a few minutes. She smoothed down the imaginary wrinkles in her dress for the hundredth time since putting it on. This nervousness wasn't anywhere as bad as the ( Read more... )

Once again, Alison found herself in the Nexus office of Dr. Beverly Crusher. She was laying on the exam table and trying very hard to hold still as she waited for the doctor to get her equipment set up. Today was they day they would hear their babies heartbeats for the very first time. The excitement was so overwhelming that she was nearly ( Read more... )

Two weeks later, as arranged, Alison and Longshot were back in Dr. Crusher's office in the Nexus. Alison was anxious to hear what the doctor's scans and tests had concluded. She was hoping with the technology Dr. Crusher had that the doctor would be able to tell them definitively whether or not her previous miscarriage had just been a tragic ( Read more... )

The knock at the door came almost exactly fifteen minutes after Alison had hung up the phone with John. He had said fifteen minutes, after all. It was little wonder which parent Robbie took after. The boy was almost -- almost -- never late ( Read more... )