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[luca angelo giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: dddddd; border: #1c1c2f solid 8px; width: 420px; padding: 15 5 15 5px;] I WON'T LET YOU GO, I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR ARE MY HEART FOREVER AND ON AND ON AND ON The Lyrics: 'i can't wait (to be my wife)" runner runner The Outfit: t-shirt, boxers for now Tagged maggieThe Notes YAY --- FINALLY, he was home. well, he was close. it was reachable, but maggie wanted to wait. she wanted to talk to dr. banks and luca just had to bite his lip for once and accept it. however, right now, luca was with maggie. the day before, she came over to his hotel suite and she told him news that luca never would have expected her to say. she said that she was pregnant. after a classic maggie and luca argument, they somehow found common ground and understanding. luca had asked if he could move back in. he thought that no doubt she would let him. live with her so she wasn't living alone and pregnant, but maggie was unsure, she didn't want to rush things, almost. it was like they were dating or something and things were going too fast. funny that maggie and he never really did date. all he knew with her was being engaged and being married. however, maggie did say that she wanted him to spend the night back at the loft. luca didn't want the opportunity to pass with being as stubborn as he could be. being back in the loft was a little strange. he had only been in the loft since he came back from boston an outstanding two times. the first time was the day he came back to see maggie. she kicked him out. the second time was the disastrous attempt at an apology with the poker night with his friends and her friends. they got into such a big argument about his time in boston, she kicked him out again, this time, though he willing left. but now it was different. he was wanted in the home that once was his, then was theirs, and now was hers. last night, it wasn't really awkward. it was just... cautious. he didn't really want to try anything, even though it was really hard, because he just wanted to scoop her up and celebrate the pregnancy in the right way, but they really couldn't since everything was currently strained and they weren't even living together. they laid in bed though, talking and talking, forehead to forehead, until they both fell asleep. it was a moment that luca had been really waiting for for four years. every night in boston, he had been imagining that she was with him, that she was lying next to him. even if it was a shitty bed in a shitty apartment, he wished she was there, close as humanly possible to him, so close that during the night their breathing even matched up like they were one person. he had been miserable. her touch was the only thing he could cling onto, and now, it was like the real deal. no dreaming here. by morning, luca was up, though, he didn't get up. his arm was draped over maggie's body, and her back was nestled perfectly against his chest, like the missing piece to a puzzle. luca didn't want to get up because he wanted to enjoy this, he wanted to watch her sleep. he wondered what she was dreaming of right now. everything was simpler when you slept, so he did hope escaping problems he essentially probably caused her, wasn't invading her mind. luca didn't know how long it was. if it was fifteen minutes, a half hour, or more than that before he felt her stir and move against him. when she started to move away in an attempt to get up, his arm muscle's tightened around her, not letting her to get up. "wait, wait," he said and pulled her back against him. "just five more minutes. i missed this." he kissed the back of her neck and moved his hand down to her stomach. they were going to see the doctor today. sort of make sure everything was ok with the baby. luca didn't really want to tell his family she was pregnant until they knew everything was ok, and he really wanted their relationship to at least appear that they were taking steps into the right direction instead of taking two steps back. "the appointment's today..." he said, trailing off. luca kissed her neck again, drunk off the contentness of the morning. "i can already see it. the doctor will tell us it's a boy." created by ADE! Pb-ified by WILL

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[magdelena e. g. giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/lilpuppyluver2003/bg.png); width: 457px; padding-top: 30; padding-bottom: 30; -moz-border-radius: 35 35 35 35; -webkit-border-radius: 35 35 35 35;] hi . where scars have healed maggie couldn't believe this was all finally happening. it was like the old days back when she and luca could be happy. back before everything had gone to hell and they'd been forced to spend so much time apart that the distance had nearly broken them. maggie certainly had been more than effected by the time apart. she'd been miserable. she'd been a wreck. maggie had wanted nothing more than to feel like she had everything she wanted, and those wants weren't huge. maggie didn't want like the typical gangster. she didn't want all the money and power in the world. she wanted her place in life, she wanted to feel like she was wanted, and she wanted someone in her life who she could trust. for the past few years it had felt like some of that wasn't possible, and everything had hinged on whether or not she and luca could stay together. that was the hardest part, to build up this drug business with the giovannis as her backing and to not be sure whether or not they were going to weather the storm with her and want to keep her around. she had to wonder that if luca hadn't said he wanted them to be together, if he'd given up years ago as she'd thought he had, if the gios would have kicked her out on her sorry ass. it was possible. after all she'd done all the work for them and brought them a business that they could have run all by themselves. it was possible that over time the gios would have seen her as dispensable and would have rather gotten a blood relation into maggie's position. that was the scariest part about all of this. maggie never knew where she stood with the gios and mostly because she never asked. she didn't want to know what they really thought of her sometimes. maybe it was better being in the dark. maggie didn't really know. all she knew was that with luca back and with the hopes that they could be what they once were, that the pieces would fall back into place all over again. all she wanted was to be secure and happy. that didn't seem like a ton to ask of but maggie had been dreaming of it for nearly four years. everything else just felt...insignificant next to that. she couldn't believe that she was pregnant. the whole concept had never really registered with maggie but she knew that she, like just about every other woman in the world, was capable of becoming pregnant and giving birth to a new life. it happened hundreds of times every day. men and women made their families bigger all the time so it honestly shouldn't have been much of a shock to maggie, but that didn't change the fact that she really was shocked. were maggie and luca those kinds of people? were they the type to have kids, settle down, and live life all normal-like? would they have to surrender who they were to accomplish that? god maggie hoped not. she wasn't the type to give up this lifestyle. it had been what she'd worked for all her life. it was everything she'd ever dreamed of having. the idea that it could slip through her fingertips simply because she and luca were expecting, it terrified her. for the entirety of her life her father's job, and the job she wanted so badly, defined her. she had always been the daughter of a drug lord. she'd always been begging, clawing, and scheming to get to where she was now which was the leader of her father's business. she was now the drug lord. would she have to give all that up for some two story house in a neighborhood with some white picket fence and a playground out back? the thought of that both disappointed and nauseated her. she didn't want to become some suzy homemaker. she wasn't designed to cook breakfast, lunch, and dinner for her kids and watch her husband walk out of the house with a briefcase and tie to some nine to five job. that was like something out of maggie's worst nightmare. scary that the life some people dream about being a part of all their lives was the makings of maggie's worst nightmares but it was true. she was built for a life on the edge, not a life in suburbia. she wondered if luca felt the same. honestly she didn't want to think about it because right now all she wanted to do was lose herself in this feeling. she hadn't felt this way since their honeymoon when she would wake up in his arms on a daily basis and it just felt right. for years she'd been waking up to an empty bed with nothing and no one to comfort her when she felt that black cloud of emptiness and abandonment overshadow her. now she was here with him. she wasn't dreaming of what had happened in the past and she wasn't living in some memory. he really was here, she really was lying beside him, and they really were expecting to have a child together somewhere in the near future. god. they were going to have to tell people now. maggie had to wonder how the giovannis would like that information. aside from violet, thye were the first married giovannis to have a child. that had to be good news for fausto who had become more like a father to maggie than anything else. that wasn't hard to achieve seeing as how maggie's own father had been a total waste of space in her opinion, but fausto really had been the rock she'd needed while luca had been gone and while she'd adjusted to being a whole new person. he'd always demand she attend family dinners just so he could keep an eye on her and make sure she wasn't falling apart at the seams. he would pull her aside and discuss business with her while subtley asking her a few personal questions to make sure she really was on the up and up and not withering away by spending twenty four hours a day in her back office at the m lounge. it was nice knowing that someone cared but maggie couldn't help but to think it was more so fausto looking out for his investment than anything else, but maggie had done wonders for the giovanni organization and she knew that. it was the one thing that had gotten her through the past few years, knowing that she had responsibilities and that people still relied on her. it helped her from really becoming just a waste of space. but that didn't matter now because luca was back and maggie was putting it behind them, everything. she didn't want to look back on her marriage and only see that huge gap of time that they could never get back. all she wanted was to move on and they'd done a pretty good job of making sure that needed to happen. they had a doctor's appointment to go to today. maggie was nervous, really she was. she'd had a run of bad luck and she didn't want it to come to a head now. all she wanted was for things to look good, to get the green light, and for everything to be okay. that didn't seem like too much to ask. she woke with a bit of a stretch, her body conforming to his as she realized for once she wasn't alone in the bed. she'd been so used to being alone in a bed..she felt him grip her and hold her still as she tried to get up. well she couldn't really argue with him. she didn't want to go anywhere either. "well if you insist." she said in a mere whisper, a smile forming on her lips as she felt him kiss her. "that's funny because i can just see you being wrapped around the finger of our little girl." she taunted him as she rolled over onto her other side, her les intertwining with his as she cozied up next to him. "you really think it's going to be a boy?"

[/b] she asked him with a bit of a sigh, her nerves taking over. "why am i so scared about this?"[/b] she asked with a chuckle before she gave up with the questions and kissed him. there was time to think and worry, if necessary, later. right now she just wanted to get lost in him which was much easier to do now that he wasn't three thousand miles away. "mmm i missed this."[/b] she said as she kissed him again, her hands fisting in his shirt and pulling him closer.

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[luca angelo giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: dddddd; border: #1c1c2f solid 8px; width: 420px; padding: 15 5 15 5px;] I WON'T LET YOU GO, I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR ARE MY HEART FOREVER AND ON AND ON AND ON The Lyrics: 'i can't wait (to be my wife)" runner runner The Outfit: t-shirt, boxers for now Tagged maggieThe Notes YAY --- LUCA STILL COULDN'T FULLY RELAX WITH MAGGIE. she was in his arms, he was kissing her skin, but it just wasn't one hundred percent yet. he still just wasn't sure. he wanted to completely lose himself in her but he still felt like he couldn't. it was a weird feeling. it almost felt like they weren't married. like, before they did end up tying the knot. when they were unsure of how far they should go physically. luca guessed that was how he felt right now. like they were back to that. how high school of them, right? but maybe he felt like she felt the same way too. even like the way they went to sleep. luca was wearing a t-shirt. something he rarely went to sleep in. maggie was wearing straight-up pajamas, another thing luca wasn't used to her wearing to bed because she never normally did when she was with him. so they were just... taking it slow. but damn... how badly he wanted to take her in his arms like he used to and "make-up" already. it's not like she could get pregnant... she already was. maggie fitted back against his body. at least she wanted to stay there with him for a few more minutes. luca laughed when maggie mentioned that they'd have a girl. she rolled over to face him and luca felt her legs against his. he wrapped his arm around her and rubbed her back. "it's a boy. definitely." yeah, luca knew there was a fifty fifty chance it was a girl, and really, he wasn't picky. it wasn't like he was going to be devastated if it was a girl. it was going to be his kid. as long as it was healthy, he didn't care. "why am i so scared about this?" she kissed him. "don't be. they're going to say everything is ok," luca kissed her forehead and pulled her closer. maggie started pulling him closer by pulling on his shirt. "i miss this too," luca said and started pulling on her shirt. "this is how every morning should be." because yes, he wanted to move back permanently. this was basically like a sleepover. he was here for the night and he'd be gone. he felt her skin and caressed it. no one would have known that they were feeling each other up under the covers. luca knew he should stop. because the kissing was leading to touching, and then touching could lead to a list of things. it had... been awhile. and, it wasn't like they've had sex to be close since he came back. it really only had been a lot of left over tension and angst and confusing feelings that they didn't know how to separate anything. "we should probably get ready..." he said and sighed into her. he himself didn't really make attempts to get up, and his hand still rested on her hip. "we have to go to the doctor's." luca really couldn't wait to tell his family. his parents, his uncles, his cousins. this was going to be really great. he knew they would all be very happy. they would say 'finally!' and wouldn't be leaving them alone from now until the baby was born. the giovannis loved adding on to the family. and out of his cousins, he would be the second one to bring a kid in to carry on the family name. luca didn't want to ask if maggie kept any of his clothes here. he already could tell that that kind of question would have been a potential argument, and today, he didn't want that. he wanted them to have fun. he wanted to hold maggie's hand as they walked into the doctor's office. "ok. i'm getting up," he said and kissed her one more time, completely pressing their bodies together before he pulled himself away. he regrettable pushed the covers away and got up. now he could really look around and take in the new loft. it did look the same from when he lived there, but he saw little changes here and there. because it had been years, and one place can't stay the same over a long period of time, it just looked boring. however, luca did want to make a new home with maggie. once they were at a good place at least, he'd buy her a new house. the loft couldn't be a place to start a family. it was too... small. maggie was living in this loft for awhile now, longer than he did. luca just wanted to make it up to her. he wanted her to feel better. any way he could, he would. luca made his way into the bathroom to take a shower. it was nine fifteen now, and right as he put on the water for the shower he called out to maggie, "hey, babe. when is the appointment again?" created by ADE! Pb-ified by WILL

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[magdelena e. g. giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/lilpuppyluver2003/bg.png); width: 457px; padding-top: 30; padding-bottom: 30; -moz-border-radius: 35 35 35 35; -webkit-border-radius: 35 35 35 35;] hi . where scars have healed yes this wasn't the ideal life that she had envisioned for herself and luca, but maggie also had to remember that this wasn't the way she'd imagined living her life anyways. she'd never thought that she would have been married at nineteen years old not because she had to but because she was in love. she had never thought that her life would have ended up looking like this at all. she figured that after struggling forever to earn something with her father that things would have come to a head at some point. maybe she would have won the battle and maybe she would have lost. if she'd lost then mexican police would have found her body floating in some pond or river or off in a gutter on the side of the road. people would have suspected a rival gang affiliation because maggie was juan corinthos' daughter so it wouldn't have tied back to him, especially if he'd doctored her up to look like some drive by victim or murder victim. had she won the head to head with her father it was possible that maggie still could have been in over her head. had she done it, and taken over, maggie would have had to kill her father which would have brought her the greatest joy a father could give his daughter in the position they were both in. she would have had to ruin the lives of her family members who were for some reason so attached to the man but that was a sacrifice she was willing to make. even if she had taken over though there was always the possibility that the mexican families, the different drug leaders in the community, would have seen her as some snot-nosed whelp and tried to off her, or didn't give her the kind of respect she felt she deserved so that a war began in some way. either way the options for the outlook of maggie's life hadn't been pretty without the giovannis in the mix. they had been an unwanted side road that had turned out to be the greatest addition to her life and though things now were trying, they were never as bad, and could never be as bad, as some of the possible futures maggie could have been looking forward to had she never come to valkyrie on her father's orders and had it not been for the marriage arrangement. it was hard sometimes to remember how lucky a person could be. maggie had to wonder if she didn't take everything that she had now for granted. of course she'd made good, solid work of the opportunity that had been handed to her but had she really accepted everything as she should have? she had to wonder if maybe pushing luca away had been too much at first and though her pride was stung and those awful memories of her past were back in full-swing, she had to remember that the giovannis were not the corinthos. they had a sense of familial bonding that the mexicans never had. her family had always in some way been pitted against each other. mexican drug clans had always been at war with innocents dying in the streets for the sake of staking a claim. just in the corinthos family brothers and sisters had been pitted against each other as well as fathers and children. pretty much everyone knew about the battle between juan and maggie but there was also the fight between juan and j.r., that battle of wills to see who would break first in an effort to secure a "title" to the "throne." what a lot of people didn't know as well were about the fights between siblings. maggie and j.r. had always been on relatively good terms up until now but raoul was another case entirely. hell raoul had proved just how much he hated his family the day he'd set maggie up to take the fall with the castillos. maggie hadn't been caught off guard that day at the docks when she'd been ambushed and had tried her damnedest to fight back. she had been strategically placed there by people she'd thought were closer to her. raoul hadn't even been working off their father's orders. juan had always seen raoul as a spineless little twit who was always trying to throw people under the bus to get it better in life. he'd never had any respect for the boy and had always shunned him. as such raoul had grown up with just about as much hate as maggie did, only he didn't fight back. instead of making his father look stupid and instead of taking the opportunity to one-up their father, raoul let all the words, the slaps, and the anger get to him until he'd set out to right the things he saw as wrong in his life. he's gone out and intentionally set up his sister out of anger and spite. to have family turn on you like that...it was the hardest thing maggie had come to terms with. of course she'd made a point of making a better life for herself now that she wasn't under her father's roof and she felt as though she'd come pretty close to that. she now had a bunch of people who cared about her. hell they cared about her so much that they still hadn't stopped giving luca hell for leaving and not coming back when he should have. she knew that it rode on luca's last nerve that his family chided him for the things he'd done, but for maggie it was so much more. she now had people standing up for her. she felt for the first time like she was a part of something bigger than herself, and she was. the giovannis didn't see her as just a way to make money. they saw her as luca's wife and the woman who had stuck around despite her husband having taken off without so much as a word. fausto had been incredible over the past few years. he'd checked in on her every day and he'd asked her about how she was doing not in a pitying way but subtly, so much so that it was often that maggie didn't even know he was only checking in to see how she was doing. she'd always thought that it was about the business. he'd given her what she wanted. he cared about her without pitying her and making her feel more weak than she'd already felt. because no one else in the giovanni household had their spouses leave them by choice, which was what luca had done for those last few years or so. but that was being put behind them, or at least they were working on it. after all that was the point of therapy right? to get past what had gone on in their lives, learn to accept it, and to find a way to love each other again despite that? the latter didn't seem that difficult now. maggie knew without a doubt that she still loved luca and that now there was all the more reason for them to make it work. they had even more reasons to stay together which was all maggie wanted. she honestly felt now that luca wanted to be with her not solely out of obligation, but because he loved her. and he was taking her slow hesitation like a trooper. she knew that and she appreciated his efforts. actually she'd been surprised at just how pg the night before had been after they'd gotten back to he loft. it had been nice and slow and everything that maggie had needed. she honestly didn't want to get up right now. she didn't. she wanted to lay like this all day and relive the honeymoon days that they'd had some four years ago. she chuckled at his stubbornness. honestly he seemed so dead set on having a boy that maggie hoped he wouldn't be disappointed. maggie didn't care either way, a child was a child, but she wondered if there would be a problem pending the outcome of the child's gender. but regardless she was still reassured by his words. everything would be okay, it had to he sucked in a breath as luca's hands brushed over her flesh, a contented smile on her lips. her hands smoothed up his back, slowly pushing his shirt out of the way before he spoke up again. maggie groaned, her head falling back against the pillow. "we don't have to."

[/b] she said but it was already too late. luca was already up and heading for the bathroom. maggie tugged the covers back around her, fending off the cool breeze as she watched luca head to the bathroom. she heard him call from the bathroom and looked over at the clock on the side table. they stil had time. "it's at ten thirty." she called as she finally pushed off the covers and got to her feet. she started a pot of coffee for luca and popped toast in the toaster which would likely be done by the time luca got out. maggie grabbed a bit of fruit juice for herself. caffeine wasn't good for her and a drink with a hint of sugar was rumored to make the baby more active for a good ultrasound read. she wanted to know the gender probably as badly or worse than luca did and ensuring that there would be some movement meant that there wouldn't be any crossed legs or guessing when it came time for the sneeky peek. "you got breakfast waiting for you so hurry up."[/b] she said over her shoulder, a smile coming to her lips immediately after. she hadn't had to say those words in forever. this really did feel like they were back to being themselves once again.

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[luca angelo giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: dddddd; border: #1c1c2f solid 8px; width: 420px; padding: 15 5 15 5px;] I WON'T LET YOU GO, I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR ARE MY HEART FOREVER AND ON AND ON AND ON The Lyrics: 'i can't wait (to be my wife)" runner runner The Outfit: t-shirt, boxers for now Tagged maggieThe Notes YAY --- LUCA COULD TELL THAT SHE WAS SO CLOSE TO JUST SAYING, 'to hell with it.' and they'd be rolling in bed within a matter of seconds. but luca didn't want to rush things. only because he still knew that she wanted to do so. though it was incredibly hard to pull himself away from her hands fighting with his shirt. she was disappointed, but it wasn't like he wasn't either. it was very hard to turn his wife down. especially when everything was slowly falling into place. but he took a page from the old luca and just dealt with it. maybe they should talk to dr. banks about everything. he could feel the trust was... rebuilding, slowly but surely. however, maggie wanted that approval or whatever, so he wanted that so he could give her all of him and her the same. it was just they couldn't do that yet. he wondered how all this would affect his work. before maggie was in his life, it was always 'luca luca luca.' he really only had to look out for himself. well, yes, he still had his crew, and his family, but as a person, he was on his own to the extent to where he wasn't in charge of anything but himself. he didn't need to look out for anyone's welfare but his own. and then, there was maggie, coming in, knocking him down a few pegs. she took whatever luca had known and thrown it out the window. he knew she had that ability to take care of herself, but luca for the first time felt what it was like to want to pull someone out of danger. he'd jump in front of a bullet in front of her. luca was looking out for both of them, even if she would be slow to admit that. though, he left and it was back to only him in boston. sure, he was working with an allied italian mob that owed fausto a favor, but luca had no true loyalties to them. they weren't family. now, he was back in valkyrie, trying to gain back what he had with maggie, and now he had a new responsibility. they were bringing a baby into the world, and that was going to be a lot of work. they both held high ranks in the mob, and he knew maggie wasn't just going to quit the m lounge to stay home with the kid. he remembered when violet took him aside in the giovanni mansion in los angeles over ten years ago. he was only older than her by some months, so they were like brother and sister growing up. it had been some time after they recovered violet after she was kidnapped by the irish. it had been sometime after dinner and violet pulled him into her bedroom and shut the door. she said she didn't know what to do and he was the one she wanted to talk to. luca had been really concerned. he sort of suspected it was going to be about the days she spent in the basement, because she had been very mum about what happened since she was back home. the conversation had taken a turn to what luca had not been expecting. she told him that she was pregnant and she didn't know what to do. first, luca wanted to find the guy and rip him to pieces, but secondly, he realized she was telling him this because she trusted him and that she wanted his advice. luca remembered that he told her everything was going to be ok, that everyone in the family would be there for her. they had been fifteen and sixteen at the time, and he knew violet and rocco had turned out pretty good. if violet could have raised a kid as a teenager, than as adults, maggie and luca could. rocco would be happy to have a new cousin. that poor kid had only grown up around adults. at least luca's generation, there were a bunch of cousins all close in age. luca was always good with his godson. why was he so worried and nervous about his own kid? luca quickly washed himself, running water and shampoo in his hair. it only took a few minutes, because guys never took as long as girls did. he turned the water off and heard maggie yelling about breakfast being ready. luca grabbed a towel off the rack and fastened it around his hips. fog didn't reach the mirror so he ran his hands through his hair, while looking at himself. then there was the problem he faced about not knowing if she kept any of his old clothes, or if she moved them. he walked out of the bathroom and crept up behind her by the counter. still slightly damp from the shower, her snaked his hands around her, resting on her stomach. "smell's good," he said, implying more to her than the coffee and food, and kissed the crook of her neck. "so, i have a question..." he started and rocked her back and forth against him as if there was music playing. "do i still have clothes around here, somewhere?" he asked, trying to not make it sound like a big deal, just so she wouldn't get mad. before he left, he had everything here. he left with just a change of clothes. surely she didn't burn all of his clothes, right? created by ADE! Pb-ified by WILL

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[magdelena e. g. giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/lilpuppyluver2003/bg.png); width: 457px; padding-top: 30; padding-bottom: 30; -moz-border-radius: 35 35 35 35; -webkit-border-radius: 35 35 35 35;] hi . where scars have healed maggie had always wished that family could be a strong influence in her life. growing up she'd wanted nothing more than to feel included in the kind of life that luca had been a part of. she'd had a big family. there had been six children with j.r., raoul, herself, bella, dominic, and hannah as well as the two "wives," one former and one current, and the ring leader behind it all, the dear father figure. it was a big family though there were bigger ones in mexico that didn't have nearly as much money as the corinthos' had growing up. it was really hard to grow up surrounded by so many people and to feel like such an outcast. the funniest part was though that maggie's relationship with most of her siblings wasn't bad. maggie had been close to j.r., bella, and even dominic and hannah to an extent but for some reason she just could not feel super connected to them because of her father's influence. juan made a point of never letting her feel like she was part of the family. despite how included she would feel at times around her siblings and even her step mother, there were always times where the awareness would hit her that somehow this wasn't hers. her father had subliminally made sure that maggie would always doubt herself and that was true even today. especially after luca had left there had always been this niggling little voice in her head that sounded just like her father saying that she didn't deserve any of that she had and that the giovannis were going to give up on her at some point. it was part of the reason why she absorbed herself so completely in the business. not only did it make her feel better to be doing something connected to luca in a small way but it felt like she was proving herself to the giovannis and that in turn they would want to keep her around for more reasons other than the fact that she was luca's estranged wife. it wasn't fun, living life like it was always something that you just weren't appreciating it enough and like it was always something that could be taken from you. this business was all she'd had for the last four years. she honestly didn't know what she would do with herself should that be taken away from her. she didn't want it taken away from her. maggie knew this business was a dangerous one. she knew it just about better than anyone else. she'd been threatened since birth by someone close to her, she'd been drugged and kidnapped, she'd been shot at, and just about everything else could ever imagine a thug would see. thug. yeah she could wrap herself in pretty fabrics and in diamonds but when you stripped maggie giovanni down to the bare essentials the person you would be left with had the same mentality as any street thug you'd be afraid to run in to. she lived a dangerous lifestyle and she was in no condition to do so now, maggie knew that. things were going to have to change but maggie was attached to her business. it had been her life's blood for so long now that she couldn't fathom ever living without it. she couldn't imagine waking up in the morning and not having someone update her on overnight shipping details. she couldn't imagine not going into the m lounge in the morning to be greeted by her guards who had a dealer that needed a little attitude adjustment. this was her day to day life and it wasn't something she could imagine giving up for a second. even with the fact that she was pregnant and carrying luca's child, something he would probably use to get her to cooperate, she was useless if she didn't have something dangerous to do. it was her high. every person in the world had one and they were lying if they said they didn't. everyone had that something in their life that made them feel good or whole or whatever. for some people it was being a coporate raider and getting their way in the white collar world. for others it was raising kids and knowing they were going to grow up to be better people. for others it was gardening. for maggie her high came in the form of doing something dangerous, gaining just a little more power, and proving herself to the people around her who had just a little higher a ranking than she did. most people worked all their lives to end up in the position maggie was in, a position she'd gotten within the first year of working with the giovannis. she wasn't blood, at the time she'd hardly been married into the family, and she was a woman. there were so many things about her position of power that would have raised some hackles but no one worked harder or had deserved it more than maggie. at least she wanted to hope that that was the case. she wasn't surprised when the water turned off relatively quick. men didn't have as much primping and polishing to do as women and thus took a fraction of the time to bathe. all the more reason why she was glad the toast she was cooking was quick to make. as she'd pulled out the butter knife and began to smooth a little butter over top the finished toast, maggie felt damp hands wrap around her, luca's equally damp body pressing against her. it brought a smile to her face. "yeah i bet it does"

[/b] she said with a chuckle as she relaxed agaisnt him. "hmm?"[/b] she said as she picked up another piece of toast and slathered butter on that as well. "oh, um, yeah. they're actually in the bottom drawer of the bureau. i never had the heart to pack them up."[/b] she put down the toast and the knife and turned around in his grasp to face her husband. she splayed her hands over his chest as she looked into his eyes with a smile, leaning in to kiss him. "i know i'm not completely rational when i'm angry but i didn't have the heart to get rid of them. slept in a few of your shirts from time to time and all that."[/b]

she gave a little shrug and tried not to let the emotions of those past few years get under her skin and bother her once more. stress wasn't good for the baby, she had to remember that, and thinking about the past was a surefire way to induce stress. "i couldn't even bring myself to try and burn them. i just shoved them into that drawer and tried to forget about it. of course that didn't work, but whatever."[/b] she leaned into him, her head resting on his shoulder as her hands loosely wrapped around his waist, her hands resting on the knotted top of his towel. oh how badly did she want to just rip it off and get back to those good old days when they would be lost in one another for just hours at a time. really badly. as in it was torture to try and stop herself in this very instance. with a groan she retracted her hands and turned back around. food. focus on the food. your body wants the food so eat it. she told herself with a shake of her head. "go. clothe thyself. i have a shower to hop in."[/b] she said as she popped toast in her mouth and scooting around luca with it there, hunting for clothes.

she headed to the shower and closed the door behind her, pulling off the massive amount of clothing she'd worn to sleep in and hopping under the hot stream. maggie was all too happy to let things go back to the way they were but they really did need to go see the shrink. god she ever thought she would have said that. she never would have thought she would need some stranger's opinion in order to make her a little more relaxed in her own relationship but it was true. maggie was in a fog, a happy, dazed, luca-filled fog and it was nice. it was everything she'd wanted to feel for nearly four years but at the same time she didn't want to make some rash decision knowing that she was back to living in a love-drunk haze. it was nice, it was wonderful in fact, but it wasn't conducive to repairing a marriage. at least, that was what she wanted to make sure about. part of the repair had to be that they wanted each other again and that was clear as day, but they had to be adults about it. they needed to work on what had gone wrong before in order to keep history from repeating itself.

she finished about fifteen minutes later, immediately going into primp mode where she applied her makeup and did her hair, all of which took a combind total of fifteen more minutes. it wasn't a rush job but they had some time before the appointment so why not. she emerged with a towel wrapped around her despite the fact that she was wearing lingerie. they were going slow. she had to constantly remind herself, especially because she was used to walking around her loft however in the hell she felt like walking around it. she grabbed a tank top and shorts and hopped into them quickly, padding over to luca once she was fully clothed. "hey, do you want to head over early and see if we can't jump the line?"[/b] she said as she turned to him with a smirk. they wouldn't be there more than ten minutes early but sometimes that was all it took.

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[luca angelo giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: dddddd; border: #1c1c2f solid 8px; width: 420px; padding: 15 5 15 5px;] I WON'T LET YOU GO, I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR ARE MY HEART FOREVER AND ON AND ON AND ON The Lyrics: 'i can't wait (to be my wife)" runner runner The Outfit: t-shirt, jeans, Tagged maggieThe Notes YAY --- HE KEPT HER CLOSE. against his chest it just felt right. even though it had been just yesterday when they had yet another fight, it felt like ages ago. mainly because everything seemed so calm right now. probably because they were both trying. but, luca couldn't help but think, he couldn't keep up this act forever. he was different, this was true, but he was still the same after all these years. the two of them couldn't change so drastically that they lost what brought them together in the first place. luca was so in love with her, he didn't even know if she knew how much he needed her. how much he needed last night. and the thing was, they didn't even do anything. they just lied there, next to each other. that was all he wanted. for these three long months he had been back, he had slept alone like he was back in boston, and now here she was, comfortably leaning against him, like they never missed a beat. or this could quite possibly be the start of the new stage in their relationship. maybe... they weren't always meant to fight. maybe the baby would just change everything. maggie said how his clothes were packed away in the bottom drawer. at least he didn't have to put on what he was wearing the day before. she turned to face him in his embrace. her hands rested on his bare chest and kissed him. he frowned slightly when she told him that she couldn't have thrown them away and she would sleep in some of his shirts. luca didn't really want to hear that because he didn't want to think about her being alone here. he rubbed her back through her thick clothing, and he felt her hands slide around his waist. ugh, it was like they were so close to getting down to business. luca was silently begging her to pull his towel away. he couldn't say it out loud because they were taking it slow, but if it just happened naturally... they really couldn't stop it then. but just as she was debating it too, she pulled her hands away. and said she needed to get in the shower. luca reluctantly let go of her and walked over to the drawers maggie said his clothes were and quickly got into some clean boxers, jeans, and a plain white t-shirt. he could hear the shower still running when he ate some of the toast she made, then he poured himself some of the coffee. he fingered through the paper that was dated from a few days ago, just to pass the time as maggie was taking her shower. eventually, he heard the shower turn off, but she remained in the bathroom. he sipped his coffee and something caught his eye. something he had nearly forgotten about until now. it was the door to the red room. where he had his pictures. he debated for a few minutes on what to actually do. he hadn't picked up a camera since he left. photography had been his thing. it was just something he had aside from the mob. something he got into when he was extremely young and just stuck with it. keeping his coffee in one hand he walked across the loft to the door. he wondered what was on the other side of the door. was it all cleaned up, or was it the exact same as how he had left it. he opened the door and reached up to turn on the red light. it looked mostly the same, but maggie must have at least poured out the liquid that he used to develop his pictures. his tubs were stacked neatly to one side of one of the tables, and his various cameras were on the other side of the table. a few of his pictures were still hanging on the line as if they had been drying. most of them were of maggie because the time leading up to him leaving had been him and maggie and he was always taking pictures of her. he looked over his former work room one more time before turned the light off. it felt like a lifetime ago. he left the room and shut the door behind him, right as maggie was getting out of the bathroom herself. he could see straps around her shoulders even though she was still wearing her towel. he knew instantly what she was doing. all this 'taking it slow' was only building up all this sexual tension between them. he walked away to the living room and waited around till maggie got dressed, then she came over to him. "yeah, sure. i'll drive." even though he came over with maggie, he'd drive her car, since his was still at the inferno. he found her hand and kissed her knuckles, "i love you. no matter what happens today." he pulled his arm around her shoulders as they left the loft and got into maggie's car. he backed the car up and got them on the street and headed towards the clinic maggie had her appointment. "i was thinking..." luca started, his free hand resting on her leg, "that maybe tonight, i can stay the night again? and maybe we could not dress like eskimos when we go to sleep?" he glanced over to her, still keeping his eyes on the road. "don't get me wrong, you kept me really warm last night, i just think that maybe it'll be easier for us, if we acknowledge the elephant in the room." created by ADE! Pb-ified by WILL

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[magdelena e. g. giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/lilpuppyluver2003/bg.png); width: 457px; padding-top: 30; padding-bottom: 30; -moz-border-radius: 35 35 35 35; -webkit-border-radius: 35 35 35 35;] hi . where scars have healed the first pregnancy was pretty much scary for any and every woman. in most cases a woman had to read just about any pregnancy book known to man just in order to get some kind of feel for what they should be expecting in the near future. that, or they had a mother or sister or some other woman in their life who had previously gone through their ordeal and knew little tips and pointers or little tidbits of wisdom that could help the expectant mother from blowing her top. that was a nice sentiment but right now maggie had next to nothing to go on. she hadn't a book in the world and there was no one really to go to about any of this. she had no clue what she was supposed to be looking forward to or should be shying away from. all of this was a vortex and it was terrifying. she didn't know what to expect. true she could probably go to vi and see what it was like with rocco, but she'd just told luca. it wasn't like she was keeping this from the giovanni family. she had just learned the news and was giving herself some time to acclimate to what she knew was going to be an interesting twist to her future. honestly she still couldn't wrap her head around it. she still felt as if any moment now she would wake up and it would all be a dream. though it would have been a good dream, to imagine that luca was back and that they were bringing life back to their relationship and that they actually had something worth fighting for now, she would much rather it be the real thing. a person could only live in a dream world for so long before the necessity to get back to reality drove them away. maggie almost couldn't believe that this was her reality now. sure it wasn't perfect, but it was hers. hell, it was theirs. it definitely wasn't perfect. for the past few weeks maggie had been pushing luca away to no avail because she was hurt. they fought all the time before but it had never been with the intention of actually hurting one another as they had done lately. she didn't like to admit it but going to that counselor had been one of the best ideas they could have hoped for. fausto's interference could have very well saved their relationship and especially now, when they now knew there was something worth fighting for, it was good to know that luca was back in her corner. it was good to know that the one person who meant the most to her was here and to know that she wasn't trying to make an effort for nothing. but here they were, going to the doctor to make sure that everything was in good shape and working out well. at this point it was likely they would know the sex of their baby and they wouldn't have to tease one another anymore with who was right or wrong, because knowing them it was bound to come up. it was nice though. to hand over the keys to luca and smile over at him like it was something she'd been doing all of her life. it was nice to be here with him now and just feel like those past four years just didn't happen. it was like they could start off fresh if they wanted to. they needed to learn one another all over again because it was obvious that they were two slightly different people now, old, more mature, etc., but that didn't mean that the love wasn't there. the love was definitely there. maggie could see it every time she looked at luca. she could feel it every time he was close because he drew her in like a magnet. she couldn't help but to be in his orbit and when she was she felt entirely different from when she wasn't around him. when she was within arm's reach she was happy and it felt like nothing else she'd ever experienced. it was like her body knew when they were close because she could just relax and she could feel his love radiating to her. when she wasn't around him she was colder, more insecure and she was stuck with all kinds of what ifs that her mind could conjure up. it wasn't fair but in order to avoid any of that she was best just to not deny what she knew was right and not push him away. that was counterproductive now anyways. luca knew that maggie wanted him around full time. he knew that this was the closest they'd been to officially being back together since he'd taken off. this was his opportunity to pounce on the old times and just remind maggie of the fact that what they had together was special and wasn't going anywhere and that maggie would be responsive to that. she wanted him back, no doubt, and it was obvious that that notion was making her happier because she was noticeably more perky and light hearted than she'd been in a while. sure the whole idea of being pregnant was scaring her silly but now she wasn't alone. that was a start. maggie nodded as luca spoke about driving. it was only natural. that was the rhythm they'd fallen into before luca had left and it just felt right to jump right back into said rhythm now that he had returned. she smiled up at him as he kissed her knuckles, her hand reaching out to smooth over his cheek momentarily before they continued on. they headed out into the car and as maggie sat down she could feel a new prickle of nerves settling in, all baby related. well now that things felt better with luca it was only natural that she moved on to the next thing to worry about right? this was maggie we were talking about here. in most cases she didn't feel like she was being successful unless she was a nervous wreck. luca's voice pulled her out of her mind for a bit, giving her something to concentrate on while they drove to the clinic. "oh?"

[/b] she said with a slight smirk on her face, "and here i thought you enjoyed sleeping as though you were on the third layer of hell."[/b] maggie couldn't believe that had been how they'd slept the night before. she hadn't worn that much clothing to bed since she was a child living under her father's roof. she was much more comfortable in very little clothing, despite how much sense that might make for other people. "yeah i would like it if you stayed again."[/b] she said with a smile as she watched her fingers pick at her nails. "i really enjoyed waking up to you this morning. it just felt right."[/b] usually they never opened up like this, maggie in particular, but one of the things that the shrink had harped on the most was their lack of communication. here she was giving it a go. "the elephant in the room...yes you're right. it's just...it's been so long. i'll be the first to admit that it's my fault because i've got trust issues, but you know i love you and i think that we can work past this."[/b] she sat silent for a moment before realizing she hadn't quite answered his question. "but yes i would like it if you stayed and we could try getting back to the way things used to be. nothing would make me happier."[/b] she said just as they were pulling into the clinic parking lot.

maggie's knuckles went white as they pulled into a space, her hands clenching together. she was so used to bad news. what if this was just the next in a long lines of things that karma took the time out to screw her with? she took a deep breath to try to still the racing pulse thrumming in her ear but after a moment it didn't let up so maggie just caved and opened her car door. she stepped out and looked over at luca who had come to her side and took a deep breath as her eyes locked on his. okay okay. they could do this. they would do this. it was inevitable. one way or another something was going to happen. might as well just get past it. she reached out and took his hand, letting him lead the way inside the building. she took a seat as luca checked her in and within moments someone was at the door, ready to usher her inside. all the while she never let go of luca's hand. after a round of routine checks maggie found herself in a sterile exam room with posters of female organs and babies spotting the walls. maggie hooked her legs together at the ankle, her hand still locked in luca’s as he stood beside her. "god i think i'm gonna pass out."[/b] she said due to the nerves. she didn't know why she was so incredibly nervous right now but she just couldn't help it. now were the times for things to go wrong. now was the time that the next wrench should be thrown in their plans for happiness. she was terrified that her body was going to produce some kind of results that pushed them apart once again. she reached out and tugged luca closer, her arms wrapping around him as the quiet settled in around them. all you could hear was a flurry of movement outside with nurses calling for supplies or for exam rooms to be set up for the next appointment. finally they heard a knock at the door and a woman walked in with a name badge that read ultrasound technician. alright so she wasn't her doctor, but this was a step in teh right direction. 'hello mister and misses,' she said as she looked down at the chart, doing a visible double take at their names and gulping, 'giovanni. i hear we have a baby on the way? congratulations! what do you say we take a peek.' maggie nodded, regaining her composure now that a stranger was in the room.

the tech had her lay back and pulled up her shirt up beneath her bra, exposing her torso as she spread the gel on her stomach and pulled out the ultrasound device, giving a little explaination as to what they would see on the screen before she began the exam. maggie watched as a flurry of black and white splayed across the screen. 'alright now we're looking for a heartbeat.' the tech said as she walked them through what was going on. maggie never let go of luca's hand as the woman explored her insides, looking for the day's focus. 'alright. here we go.' the tech said as she looked to be getting ready for her speil when she fell silent. maggie could hear a fluttering coming from the monitor but she had no idea what that meant. was that her heartbeat? was it the baby's heartbeat? was she going insane? what? "what?"[/b] her words mirrored her thoughts as the tech pulled the monitor toward her so maggie couldn't see it. 'do me a favor and stay just like this for a moment. i need to get the doctor to double check something. stay here.' she said as she stuck her head out the door to flag someone down. the doctor appeared moments later, a seasoned man who looked like he'd been awake for one too many pregnancies this morning. 'mister and misses giovanni, how are we this morning? eh let's just take a look shall we?' the doctor said without pause, not giving luca or maggie a chance to speak. maggie felt the device press to her skin again, this time a little more forcefully. she watched the doctor's face to no avail as he pressed a few buttons at the computer before pulling the device away. 'just as i thought.' the doc said as he nodded at the screen with a hint of a smile. "well what the hell is it. you're killing me here."[/b] maggie said as she watched the doctor turn the monitor to them again. 'you see this right here,' he said drawing a circle with his finger, 'this is little boy.' maggie smiled, heaving a sigh of relief that was short-lived. the doc didn't sound like he was done. 'and this,' he said making yet another circle at another figure on the screen, 'this is a little girl.' maggie's eyes opened so wide she's surprised they didn't pop out of her head. "are you saying we have...we've got..."[/b] she trailed off, her hand clenching at luca's. the doc only smirked and nodded, 'twins.'

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[luca angelo giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: dddddd; border: #1c1c2f solid 8px; width: 420px; padding: 15 5 15 5px;] I WON'T LET YOU GO, I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR ARE MY HEART FOREVER AND ON AND ON AND ON The Lyrics: 'i can't wait (to be my wife)" runner runner The Outfit: t-shirt, jeans, Tagged maggieThe Notes i wasn't quite sure how far to go with it. --- LUCA WAS DRIVING, therefore, right now, he was only concerned about going from the loft to the clinic. he was nervous for maggie. only because her nervousness was radiating off her skin, so concentrating on something else right now was all he could do. luca knew that there wasn't much he could say to ease her mind. there were just a lot of things that could be going wrong here. given their track record, bad news came so often for them. maybe something happened to the baby, or maybe they were just mistaken and she wasn't really pregnant at all. maybe the home pregnancy test she took was wrong. that stuff happened all the time. maybe instead of being pregnant, it was the stress that caused her to miss her period. ok yeah, now luca was worrying. since maggie told him that he was going to be a father, he would rather be a father than not be at this point. and if she wasn't, was that an opportunity for them to just try and have a family? or were they really, when it came down to it, not ready to have their own kids, and this unexpected surprise was forcing them to really grow up and move on from all the drama that invaded their lives? luca wanted to be a dad. he wanted to be a dad so bad. he was nervous and maggie made him even more nervous. he grinned over at her when she said he could stay another night. "yeah?" he asked, squeezing her leg a little. "i like how things used to be. "i promise," he started as he got into the lane to turn into the clinic. "i'll try and keep my hands to myself." he turned his head to look at her and smiled, leaning over to give her a quick kiss. luca pulled into an empty spot and turned the car off. he watched as maggie knotted her hands together in nervousness. he got out and met her on the other side. he took a deep breath as they stared at each other for a moment and then luca grabbed her hand when she reached for his. "just think... in less than an hour, we'll know." they were very nervous about this one thing though. they still had the rest of the day and once this was over, they didn't need to worry about it like they were now. he led her inside and he checked her in as she sat in the waiting room. it was weird because they were just in a doctor's office. before, it was for marriage counseling and now here they were for a pregnancy. only them, right? he sat with her for only a few moments before she was called and they got up to go to one of them rooms. luca stood by her the entire time. whenever the nurse was asking her routine questions, he glanced around the room looking at all the very colorful posters that corresponded with why there were here in the first place. a chart that displayed what a kid looked like over the span of each month of pregnancy got his attention. it was a little weird. looking at something that looked like a little shrimp. bleh. he turned his head away from the poster and focused back on maggie, because everything around him was starting to freak him out. maggie pregnant didn't freak him out. it was everything that surrounded it that did. the nurse left, leaving them alone. maggie looked up at him and said she felt like she was going to pass out. "everything's ok," he said, which he felt like he had been saying a lot of all morning. maggie tugged on his arm, pulling him closer. his arms easily flitted around her back. luca sighed into her embrace and turned his head so he could lightly kiss her neck. well... this was it, wasn't it? luca wondered if he didn't leave, and they had still been together like they had been years ago, would they have already had a kid? would all this nervousness have gone and pass and they would just be living their own lives now with a little toddler. when the knock at the door came, luca let go of her just as the woman walked in, her name tag highlighting that she was the ultrasound technician. the poor woman seemed visibly nervous to be around them when she said their names. yeah... the giovanni name here in valkyrie had the effect on people. mainly because they were the only giovannis in valkyrie and giovanni meant trouble. luca felt bad for the poor woman though. they really weren't here as any giovanni. in fact, they were just here as a husband and a wife, believe it or not. the nurse sat down next to maggie and set up the equipment for the ultrasound. this was it. she spread the gooey stuff on maggie's stomach and looked at them saying that she was looking for a heartbeat. luca's eyes were immediately glued to the monitor of black and white. he was trying to look for whatever the tech was looking for. he wasn't trained in this type of field, but hell, he wasnted to know what to look for. it killed him that this woman was knowing more about his personal life than he did. if you didn't know already, luca really didn't like people prying into his private life. intentional or unintentional. the woman didn't say anything as she looked at the screen. none of them breathed a word, but he could hear a muffled beat. the heartbeat? when the tech pulled the monitor closer to her, luca frowned? why the fuck wasn't saying anything to them? it was nerveracking enough even being her, but not walking them through it? maggie was the first to speak asking what was going on. the tech got up, saying she needed to get a doctor to double check something. "double check what?" he asked out loud turning to the woman. was this a good thing or a bad thing? she could at least say something that could put their mind at ease or prepare them for not-so good muse. instead, she was like carrying it out, as being as grim as possible. the doctor came in within a few seconds and sat down where the technician was sitting before. setting up again, the monitor lit up once it made contact with maggie's stomach again. "yeah," he echoed maggie, "what's going on?" finally, the monitor was turned to them so that they could see what was going on. the doctor circled around something on the screen. 'this is little boy.' luca's hand tightened around maggie's. haha, yup, he was right. 'and this, this is a little girl.' luca was still semi-celebrating the fact that he had guessed right that he wasn't really paying attention to what the doctor was saying. "wait, what?" he asked. did he say they were having a girl, too? that meant that... "twins." the doctor told them. luca let go of maggie's hand and ran both his hands through his hair. "twins?" he repeated. "are you shitting us?" the doctor looked a tad taken aback, "it is always a surprise because twins aren't... planned." becoming pregnant wasn't really planned either, was what luca wanted to say, but he kept his mouth shut for once. didn't they say that twins could be a hereditary trait? well, he was a twin. dammit. even luca knew how much of a handle twins could be. they were just planning for one. his mind couldn't even go down the road of having two. luca laughed slightly under his breath. "well, baby, i guess we're having twins." he kissed her on the forehead and rubbed her shoulder. he looked over at the doctor. "but, everything seems ok? they're healthy?" they both nodded. "strong heartbeats," the doctor said, "everything looks very good so far." so far. huh. between now and when they came, there were a lot of opportunities for complications. created by ADE! 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[magdelena e. g. giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/lilpuppyluver2003/bg.png); width: 457px; padding-top: 30; padding-bottom: 30; -moz-border-radius: 35 35 35 35; -webkit-border-radius: 35 35 35 35;] hi . where scars have healed the back and forth between scary moments, good news, and ominous words was driving her crazy. honestly maggie was pretty sure her head was about to explode here. her heart raced and then nearly stopped altogether as the doctor spoke, revealing their good fortune. well, the question was was it really good fortune? one child was a handful in itself. maggie had grown up around a lot of kids and she'd seen her, well, two mothers chasing them around like crazy. she'd met rocco and watched him grow over the time that she and luca had been apart and she'd even taken care of him on occasion and lessened the burden of violet's mothering with a little of her own. it was just what a family did for one another. but twins? weren't starting families just supposed to have one as kind of a test theory as to whether or not they could afford or handle more children? maggie didn't know what to think. this obviously was an incredible feat but could they handle it? she and luca were going to be new, first time parents. were they capable of raising two children at the same ages at the same time? this meant two children entering the terrible twos at the same time. this meant two children reaching puberty at the same time. this meant two teenagers in the house at the same time. two college tuitions to pay at the same time should that ever be the case. this was a huge responsibility to take on. maggie had been nervous about doing so with just one child and here they were now with two? it was enough to make her head spin. she listened to the more ominous words of the doctor and her blood slightly chilled. the words 'so far' were suddenly blacklisted words in maggie's opinion. never to be uttered again. luca stepped away from her and all of a sudden maggie could feel nothing but panic. this was supposed to be a moment of pure joy wasn't it? this wasn't how they were supposed to be reacting was it? maggie couldn't help but take note of the worry on the doctor's face at their reactions. this probably wasn't something he dealt with every day. not only was he in a room with two mobsters, but they were two unhappy mobsters, or at least that was what they appeared to be. she visibly calmed as luca stood by her once more, feeling that comforting kiss on her forehead. she leaned her head on his shoulder, taking a deep breath as she listened to the rest of their conversation, pretty much tuning it all out. twins. holy god almighty they were having twins. the doctor said a few things to luca before handing maggie a towel to wipe off her stomach. maggie numbly grabbed at the fabric and wiped away, her fuzzy mind only able to register one thing at a time. she finished with her stomach and tossed the towel aside, lowering her shirt and rearranging her pants so that she looked just as fine as she did when she'd come in. she stared at her stomach and everything else seemed to fade to black. all that there was in her focus was her stomach with some characters on her t-shirt looking back at her. all she could see were two tiny beings growing inside her, her mind playing tricks on her and wanting her to see something that wasn't there. suddenly her name started sneaking through the fog, softly at first but making it's way through the haze that was her mind until luca's voice was clear as day, uttering her name. "huh? what?"

[/b] maggie said as she looked up, the eyes of both doctor and husband locked on her with nervous, anticipating expressions.

"i was just telling your husband that we needed to get you on a regimen of prenatal vitamins and get you a list of things that can't be eaten and whatnot. i also suggested getting pre-term pregnancy books in order to read up on the condition and what you will be expected to experience over the course of te next few months..." maggie felt herself fading away again and it took luca's touch to startle her back into reality. "right. vitamins, books, stuff."[/b] she said, trying to contribute to the conversation like she'd been listening. they both looked concerned again. "what now?"[/b] she said with a hint of frustration in her voice. "i was just saying that avoiding as much stress as possible would be...erm...healthy. in your line of, um, work..." maggie leveled her gaze at the doctor and watched him gulp as he slowed to a stop. she knew what he was insinuating and it pissed her off. sure she might be a mobster, but to assume that she was going to put her children, gah children, in danger was a little much for her. "i'm the owner and proprietor of a burlesque club, one i do believe i've seen you enjoying, so do not preach to me about my line of work."[/b] she slid off the table, taking luca's hand as she headed toward the door.

once outside maggie stopped at the check out to schedule her next appointment, get her slip for the new prescriptions, and make sure she was all taken care of. within a few minutes both she and luca were outside the doctor's office, maggie leaning against the car and luca hovering near her. "we're...we're having twins."[/b] she said as she let it sink in a little more, finally looking up to luca, her gaze locking on his. "we're having twins."[/b] she said with a little more conviction this time, a hint of a smile on her lips. finally it all sunk in and maggie smiled a full-fledged smile. "oh my god baby we're having twins!"[/b] she stepped forward and wrapped her arms around his neck, her lips finding his before she tucked herself against him, enjoying the feel of his body and that she had now entered a time in her life when luca was going to be back full time. she took his hand, placing it on her stomach, gauging his reaction to see just what he was feeling right now. "luca i want,"[/b] she trailed off taking a moment to think before she continued, but not a long moment, "come back. i want you to come back. i know i said we'd do the shrink thing and see what doctor banks had to say and i know i was hesitant about it before but it's a reality now. we're a family and we have a reason to be a family and i love you and i want you to move back in. tonight. today. i don't care when, i just want you to come back."[/b]

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[luca angelo giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: dddddd; border: #1c1c2f solid 8px; width: 420px; padding: 15 5 15 5px;] I WON'T LET YOU GO, I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR ARE MY HEART FOREVER AND ON AND ON AND ON The Lyrics: 'i can't wait (to be my wife)" runner runner The Outfit: t-shirt, jeans, Tagged maggieThe Notes bleh, mine is short, too --- THE DOCTOR STARTED TO EXPLAIN other things. like how they'd have to get maggie on special vitamins, get more appointments scheduled, and what not. luca nodded though he really wasn't registering what the doctor was actually telling him. books? books on what? wasn't this kind of like a thing where you just popped out the baby and continued living life? well, in their case, two babies. "uh huh," luca replied in an attempt to at least feel like he was paying attention. he looked over at maggie, "babe, you get all that?" he asked, and when she asked 'what?' he knew she was paying about as much attention as he was. they were both still in shock. the doctor re-explained what she should get and maggie nodded, catching more than probably luca was. luca placed his hand on the back of her neck and rubbed it slightly as the doctor and the tech looked at each other and brought up her work. or... "suggested" work. maggie recovered with ease and he smiled. though, if he was going to be honest, he sort of agreed with them. if he had married anyone else, they'd be fine staying home and just being pregnant. with maggie... he could see her barking orders at the m lounge until the day her water broke. maggie's hand slipped into his and she tugged him out the door. he waited patiently as she set up another appointment and they left together, hand in hand. she leaned against the car once they approached it and stated that they were having twins. he smirked. "i know." they both looked at each other and she said it again. and then she smiled. it was a smile he hadn't seen since he left for boston. her arms flung around his neck and he instinctively wrapped his arms around her waist, pulling her close to his chest. she kissed him quickly and pulled her head away to look at him. before he could lean in again, she stepped back and held his hand and put it to her stomach. it was just mind-boggling that she was carry twins. he just couldn't comprehend it. "i just can't believe it. two..." he trailed off. she caught his attention when she said his name. it was all in the tone. he looked at her, and then she just said what he had been waiting to hear for the past three months. maggie wanted him back. full-time, no more sleepovers or separate sleeping arrangements. they could be like they wanted to be, no more holding back and treading in the shallow water. "really?" he said. today was sure full of surprises. he cupped her face with both of his hands and kissed her deeply, pushing her back against the car. "ok," he said, pushing her hair out of the way and smiled down at her. "i'm moved back in. i'll get my stuff later." he placed his hands on her hips and kissed her again, his fingers finding bare skin along her short's waistband. yup, they were in a parking lot and he didn't care. they were back together, they were having kids together, and it felt like they were finally married again. sorry if he was finally happy again for the first time being back in valkyrie. luca literally had everything he wanted right now in his arms. he reached behind her and pulled than passenger's door opened to let her in. "home?" he asked her as he walked around the other side to get on his side. "or did you want to get anything?" once he got in, he started the car and pulled out. "you know, babe," he said, deciding to choose his words wisely to avoid a fight. "the doctor in there did make a good point about working." he glanced at her but kept talking before she could start. "i'm just saying... twins change everything. at some point in the coming months, you'll have to swallow your pride. don't get me wrong, i love you kicking ass, but if something happens... i'm not just losing you. i'd lose my entire family." luca reached for her hand and kissed the top of it, hoping that he was able to not sound like he was demanding. "i just want us. forever." he pulled his hand from hers and laid it across her seat. "so you know... i was technically right. we're having a boy," he said and smirked. created by ADE! Pb-ified by WILL

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[magdelena e. g. giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/lilpuppyluver2003/bg.png); width: 457px; padding-top: 30; padding-bottom: 30; -moz-border-radius: 35 35 35 35; -webkit-border-radius: 35 35 35 35;] hi . where scars have healed maggie and luca had had a tough road and maggie understood that but all she really wanted to do overall was put it behind her and move on with the new life they were going to have. it was bext to impossible to live with a man that you were mad at, simultaneously raising two children in the process. this was something maggie had never considered possible with the marriage and the two kids in her future, and all that. it had never been a possibily before and maggie hadn't ever even fathomed that it could eventually happen for her. she was so used to people telling her what she couldn't do that she didn't even know how many things she could do anymore. of course maggie was finding out on a day to day basis what it was she could do. she'd started up a business all on her own and she'd managed to make it a success. she'd found a man who wound up loving her and giving her everything she always wanted but never thought she was capable of. that all meant a lot to her. because of luca maggie had learned that better things were available to her in her life. even when she hadn't liked him and when she'd wanted to put a bullet in his brain she had been doing things that she'd never before had the opportunity to do. not to mention the fact that maggie certainly hadn't ever thought she had the personality for this kind of thing. she'd been used to doing no more than pushing everyone away before she'd learned not to have any faith in any one. it was just easier that way. why should she believe anything that would come out of her father's mouth when two seconds later he was trying to come up with some new way to have her killed? why should she trust her mother to take care of when she only cared about spending her father's successfully laundered blood money? her siblings had been the only people she'd ever really cared about from her past and now all of them were gone. bella was off at college somewhere in california or for all maggie knew she'd chosen somewhere else to go where her father's influence hadn't touched. raoul had been lost to the wind, the traitorous bitch hiding away somewhere where corinthos and giovannis alike did not have any reach. j.r. was so deep in a bottle that he wasn't likely to be coming back any time soon and she hadn't seen her two youngest siblings in almost six years. so what else was there to expect? she had done a right fine job of pushing anyone and everyone away and had done so all within the past few years. it was pretty much safe to say that no one wanted a thing to do with her and quite frankly, maggie wouldn't blame them. she had a way of turning people off to her and maybe it was just safer that way. if there weren't people around for her to count on then maybe she wouldn't have to worry about letting people down or people leaving her down. of course it was hard to say something like that when she was asking luca to come back. as much as she didn't want to have anyone around to hurt her anymore, she couldn't live without her husband. she loved him more than life itself. she loved him as much as the pair of new lives growing within her. he was part of the reason why she was now the protector and incubator for two new lives so how could she not live without him. it wasn't like she wasn't beginning to forgive him either. he was growing on her all over again and though they were older, more mature and yes different people did that mean that they couldn't get back all they'd used to have? maggie couldn't help but wonder if they would have been these kinds of people had they grown up around one another but it wasn't like that was something she could have changed. she would have liked to. of course she would have rather made things perfect and made their lives like it had been during their honeymoon, but she didn't have that kind of power. still she wanted to give him everything and if that meant letting him back in then she would take that risk. her children, her son and daughter, deserved to grow up with their father in their lives and quite frankly maggie wasn't ready to be letting him go at any time in the future. "really really." she said with a nod. maggie was more sure now than ever before. she wanted him back in her life for good. she didn't want to risk him seeing a chance to get out and drop her with everything or see that he was crazy for thinking she was worth it all along. she wanted him back here and now. she wrapped her arms around his neck as he kissed her, feeling the immovable frame of the car behind her as her body molded to his. "okay!" she smiled, her pearly white teeth baring as she couldn't help but to let them show. she was just that happy. "we could head back or we could go to the hotel so you can get your stuff now." as she eased herself into the car, securing the seat belt in place she heard luca pipe up and she almost immediately knew where he was hinting at. "i won't hear it luca. i know what i can and cannot do and working is something i can easily manage. don't you dare try to take that away from me." she watched him kiss her hand and though she didn't pull it from his grasp, she gave him a narrowed look. "you have us forever. me working isn't going to change that." her eyes rolled as he piped up again, a smile coming to her lips. "and technically i was right too." 1,010, outfit, TAG: LAGGIE, total shit. sorry.

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[luca angelo giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: dddddd; border: #1c1c2f solid 8px; width: 420px; padding: 15 5 15 5px;] I WON'T LET YOU GO, I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR ARE MY HEART FOREVER AND ON AND ON AND ON The Lyrics: 'i can't wait (to be my wife)" runner runner The Outfit: t-shirt, jeans, Tagged maggieThe Notes bleh, mine is short, too --- THE WAY LUCA SAW IT, this was a blank slate for the both of them. they had their many differences, he knew that, but now he could become something better. he could really be in the moment now. maggie and he were back together. officially. husband and wife. like it used to be. now, luca wouldn't have to hear anything from his family about the reconciliation with maggie. he couldn't wait to tell them that everything was a-ok. how would they tell his family that she was pregnant? just outright say it one night during family dinner? anyone with half a brain would know that the math wouldn't match up. that the twins were conceived when they were separated. and twins? holy shit. luca never would have suspected the first time maggie got pregnant that they would have twins. they were never together long enough back when they had gotten married to really discuss having a family. he knew it was going to happen, but he wasn't about to ask her since she was still a teenager when she married him. even though his family had already been asking him if maggie was pregnant yet. leave it to the italians who only knew teenage marriage and everyone living happily ever after. he was happy about how everything was slowly falling together for them. he never would have guessed when he was a hotshot twenty year old kicking ass and taking names that he would ever fall so deeply in love with someone like he did with maggie. as everyone had known, luca didn't do relationships very often. sure, london was a chapter of the past, but he just had a string of one night stands while he was living in los angeles. it was easy back then. he was a photographer for fashion magazines and he always ended up going to events in hollywood. no apparent reason, he'd get invited, he'd show up, he'd find a victoria's secret model to hook-up with for the night and he's go back to breaking fingers in the morning, it was funny. he never did photography for the money. he had all the money he ever really needed with his other job, his permanent one. but photography had been one of the few things luca had that no one else in his family could take away from him. how dumb and naive he was back then. like he needed some other hobby to deflect from the violence that was a constant variable in his life. he still missed the photography. he was damn good at it, too. at least he knew what he probably would have been if there was no giovanni crime family. he was ok with letting it go, though. just like someone who played high school football, you couldn't have it forever and one day you'd just wake up and realize you needed to move on. boston had help that. he didn't bring his camera with him. it just collected dust in the closet that looked like not even maggie had been in in years. they could go back to the loft, though he could count how many seconds it would take until he'd pulling her clothes off. they could go back to the hotel to get his things, but yeah... same thing. too fast maybe? sounded ridiculous since she was pregnant. luca still just wanted to maybe do what they planned. he was moved back in so they would be sharing a bed together again. they weren't going to act like eskimos, so they could fall asleep together like they did last night. maggie's even breaths was the lullaby that put him to sleep. "i got a better idea," he told her and started going the way that was towards the mall. he knew asking her about taking it easy would be a battle. that's why he tried to keep it light. she tried to too, but he could see through it. "i don't want to take it away from you, babe. just maybe when you start to waddle you'll take it more easy?" he knew there were already a lot of dangers in a pregnancy. luca also knew the they doubled when you lived a dangerous lifestyle. he didn't even want to know how many guns were hanging out at the m lounge. was luca getting protective? well yeah. maggie was having their kids. it was his responsibility as a husband to make sure nothing was going to happen to her. "i know working isn't going to change it. it's the bastards that could hurt you that i'm concerned about." maggie smiled and luca took his eyes off the road to catch it. yeah, she was right. "looks like someone didn't want either of us to be wrong." luca turned into the mall parking lot and tried to park closest to the barnes and noble entrance. "here's the thing," luca started and shifted the car into park and turned it off. "i don't know anything about parenthood or babies... i thought maybe we could check out the kid section?" created by ADE! Pb-ified by WILL

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[magdelena e. g. giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-image:url(http://i33.photobucket.com/albums/d100/lilpuppyluver2003/bg.png); width: 457px; padding-top: 30; padding-bottom: 30; -moz-border-radius: 35 35 35 35; -webkit-border-radius: 35 35 35 35;] hi . where scars have healed maggie didn't care where they went. all she cared about was that they were going as full on husband and wife. this was the first time that maggie could say she was feeling like maybe there was a little bit of hope. they were having children together. they were immediately jumping back into the family thing, not necessarily by choice but it was this accident, this happenstance, that brought them back together with good reason to make it work. maggie would have liked to think that if there hadn't been children now involved that they still could have come together to make this work but with twins due in six months or less, they had all the more reason to put things behind them and really get back to being the married couple they had been some few months before he was ripped from their home. of course he had left by choice and of course he refused to let her do with him, but that was in the past and now that they were working for something greater maggie could put it behind her. yes, she said that now that there was a reason to. maggie was a bit fickle. she had trust issues and she'd had them months into their marriage even when things had been great between them. those trust issues had been heightened when luca had left and she hadn't heard from him for three years. she'd felt abandoned and she'd felt alone and she hadn't been all too keen on just letting him back in her life when he'd come sneaking up on her in their loft the day after the quake had hit. after putting a lot of her emotions behind her and just trying to live life day to day she really had hated him for just coming in and expecting things to be normal again. having sex with him had been a mistake and she knew that much for the moment it was over. she had hoped that being with him qould bring back the spark and would again wash away all her fears and her issues but it hadn't. all it had managed to do was heighten them until there was nothing left than acusatory and threatening thoughts. she had felt extremely threatened. it had absolutely killed her that he could just come back into her life like that after being gone for longer than they'd even been together, and that she had just let him back in like that. he hadn't forced her and he hadn't needed to. she had wanted him back. it just hadn't felt the same. it was different now. they had a reason to get past it all and though she may have taken a lot longer to do so had there not been a reason to get the hell over it, maggie would have liked to think she still could have gotten past it and that this would have been their future. it would have been nice to think that had they not wound up with twins now that they would still have as many or more children down the line. maggie would have preferred it be later on in life as she was only twenty-three years old and the possibility of pushing out two children one right after the other scared the crap out of her. this was a big deal. this was a life changing, body changing kind of deal and for someone who had just gotten out of her teen years by the skin of her teeth, this was an even bigger deal. she had noticed the streets that luca was directing them down, a hint of confusion dotting her features as he stopped in front of a book store. of course that confusion turned to one big smile only seconds after he explained himself. "this sounds like a good idea to me. i haven't had any time to read up on pregnancies either." she opened up the door and headed around the front of the car, catching his arm and pulling him back to her. "look i know you're scared about what we do and me being involved and all that, but i need you to trust me. i'm not going to push the boundaries and try to make everything work but i need you to not try and take this away from me before i'm ready to give it up. while you were gone that place was my everything and parting from that would be like giving up these babies. i need you to understand that." she said with a little sigh as she slid her hands up his arms, leaning in to kiss his neck for a moment before she rested her head on his shoulder. "don't push me. the more you do the more i'm going to push back and no one's going to win. i promise i'm not going to deliberately put myself in harm's way and if it gets to be too much then you can say something. right now no one knows and there's no danger. i need you to trust that i can handle myself." she gave him a little pat before she looked up at him, gently kissing him before she took his hand and lead him into the barnes and noble. he had to understand that she wasn't going to back down from this and though he didn't like it, she wasn't going to go easily. the m lounge was her baby after all. she didn't really know how to live without it. "alright. the kids section is over...this way." she said as she scanned the aisles and found something that looked like the right thing. she scanned the spines of the books as they hit the aisle, a smile growing on her lips. "there are so many books on this kind of thing. are you even gonna have enough time to read all of these?" she picked up one of the classic what to expect when you're expecting type of books and thumbed through the pages, landing on a section of full on real shots of babies as they were exiting the womb. "oh hell to the no!" maggie said as she dropped the book on the floor and took a few steps away like the thing was going to sprout legs and come chasing after her. "i'm letting them cut me open for crying out loud." she said as she bumped against the other rack of books, giving herself a moment to calm down and get her stomach right. she was all kind of nauseous right now. 1,107, outfit, TAG: LAGGIE.

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[luca angelo giovanni]

[atrb=border,0,true][atrb=style, background-color: dddddd; border: #1c1c2f solid 8px; width: 420px; padding: 15 5 15 5px;] I WON'T LET YOU GO, I NEED YOU TO KNOW THAT YOUR ARE MY HEART FOREVER AND ON AND ON AND ON The Lyrics: 'i can't wait (to be my wife)" runner runner The Outfit: t-shirt, jeans, Tagged maggieThe Notes oh luca xD --- AFTER ALL THE SHIT THEY HAD BEEN THROUGH, they did at least deserve a happy ending, didn't they? through the lies that fausto told them of the fake engagement, to the kidnapping of maggie, and luca having to leave. it really was too many blows to a relationship luca was sure no every couple would have been able to survive it. they themselves had barely survived it all. luca really didn't know what would happen if maggie wanted to get the divorce. he was sure fausto would still let her run the drug business because he loved her like a daughter and it wouldn't be just about business. then luca would have to see her every once and awhile during meetings and family get-togethers because she still would be family. and somewhere through the years he would have to witness a new guy in maggie's life and sit there on the sidelines as started a family with him. and luca would end up marrying some boring italian girl his mom always wanted him to marry and he would hate it because he would know he was suppose to be with maggie. it was always going to be maggie. luca knew that everything could have fallen that way and he would be forever be grateful that it didn't. he was a shitty husband and he was going to prove to maggie that he was like he was before. gentle and caring only to her and he'd be the best father to their kids. he had more responsibilities now. fausto had once told him that a man's responsibility was to protect his family. spoken like a true italian. now, luca really knew what he meant because he was about to start a family with maggie and now it wasn't going to just be his job and his wife. like his father and his uncles, he'd have to find a balance. maggie met him in front of the car and she grabbed his arm. he stopped, giving her his full attention. she was right that he was nervous and scared because of their jobs. he wanted to talk to fausto and ask how he did it. he raised his kids and he was the boss. that must have been extremely nerve-racking. and his other uncle, vito, had to go through violet being kidnapped. it must not be easy to live this life and have kids. luca didn't know how his parents did it for him and benny. luca never felt smothered either growing up. like his parents guided him so much that he wouldn't be able to stand on his own two feet. but clearly he could see he was fine now. how were they able to balance it all when they were kids? shit, how would luca know what to do? "i do understand, maggie. i never would take the m lounge away from you." he felt her lips against his neck. "i trust you, i do," he said to her. he knew he probably trusted her more than she did him right now. it was progress and he knew he'd have to work his ass off to fully regain her trust again. he kissed her back when she kissed him and she took his hand and led him towards the book store. "you know, god help us if both our kids inherit both of our stubbornness." once inside, she led him towards where the books on pregnancy and parenting where it felt like the aisle went on forever. lots of books on this just one thing. maggie asked him if he would have time to read some. "i'll find time, trust me." they both picked up random books. luca found one on expecting twins and started looking through it. right as he was reading something that interested him, maggie said, "oh hell to the no!" she dropped the book and backed away from it. "what? what's wrong?" "i'm letting them cut me open for crying out loud." he bookmarked his own page with his finger and bent down to retrieve her book and flip through the pages trying to find what freaked her out. "it can't be that bad, babe," he told her and fell across some pictures of newborn babies coming out all bloody and contorted. "oh, gross," he said and chuckled a bit. he knew where babies came from. he knew the logistics of how they came out. but just seeing the pictures was kind of... real? he closed her book and put it back on the shelf. "look, here's something," he offered maggie. he could see that she was kind of freaking out. he put his hand around her waist and guided her back over to him. luca opened his book again and showed her, "here's like some pictures of what you'll look like with twins." sure, maybe it wasn't the best idea to show her that she was pretty much going to balloon out. he started flipping through the pages more, "don't worry. you're still going to look sexy as hell." he stopped on a page and started to smile. "oh, i think i'm going to like this," he told her. "it says here that your boobs are going to grow one or two cup sizes during the pregnancy." he turned to her, grinning. of course that was the first thing he stumbled upon in a pregnancy book. "see, baby? it's not all bad." created by ADE! Pb-ified by WILL

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