Always

It had been just over a week since the incident in the bar and Liz and Adam were finally back on track. After everything that had happened, they figured they needed a date night and tonight was Adam's first night off since the night at the bar. It was their first real date in a long time and it was nice to actually spend time just the two of them enjoying a night out. Liz had to admit that she had probably never laughed as much in her life as she did that night. She loved being with him. She loved the stupid stories he had about the dumb things him and the guys did when they were travelling on the road. She loved how long and untamed his hair had gotten; although she didn't know how she felt yet about the mullet he was beginning to sport. She loved the way he looked at her and had the ability to make her feel like the only girl in the room. There wasn't much she didn't love about him. They had just gotten back to Adam's place after their dinner at a Chinese restaurant and they both made their way to the couch flopping down lazily, both being overly full. Liz curled up into Adam's side and he wrapped his strong arm protectively around her pulling her into him.
"So much fooooood." She whined, closing her eyes and resting her head on his chest.
"I know. We probably should have had some of that to go." He chuckled thinking back to the amount of food they consumed.
She nodded into his chest, her eyes still closed. He ran his fingers through her hair as he looked down at her. Leaning down he kissed the top of her head and put his feet up on the coffee table in front of them.
"What time is the appointment in the morning?"
"10 I'm pretty sure, I'd have to check my phone though and it's far away."
He chuckled at her laziness and grabbed the blanket from the arm of the couch beside him throwing it over the both of them.
"So does this mean you're sleeping here tonight?"
"Unless you're driving me home and carrying me up the stairs and into my bed, yep."
"That sounds like way too much work and it would be much comfier if you were in bed with me tonight."
"Well then it's settled."
The apartment was completely silent, save for the late January wind whistling outside. Liz looked up at him and admired the nice coat of stubble that was coming in and reached her free hand up brushing her fingers over his chin.
"I like this."
"My chin?"
"The stubble, smartass." She chuckled lightly.
He smirked and winked at her. She shook her head and nuzzled her head into his chest getting even comfier.
"You nervous?" She mumbled into his chest quietly.
"Nervous?"
"Tomorrow."
"What's there to be nervous about?"
She pulled herself away from his side and moved so she was sitting in his lap.
"I donno, I guess it all just becomes real tomorrow."
"The only thing I'm nervous about is having to call our parents after."
Liz groaned and nuzzled her head further into his strong chest.
"Don't make me think about that."
"We could just not tell them, that's always an idea."
"We could, but Christmas would be pretty awkward when we walk in with a baby."
"I'm sure we could make up a good story."
She chuckled, "or we could just tell them."
"That's much more frightening than my idea."
He ran his fingers through her hair again and she sighed happily loving the feeling. She sat up, moving herself so she was sitting in his lap facing him. She grabbed one of the curls that hung in his face and twirled it in her fingers.
"I hope they have your curls."
"Only if they have your eyes."
"Deal."
She leaned down and placed her lips on his.
"You know, we've never talked about stuff like this before."
"What stuff?"
"Baby stuff. Future stuff. We've kinda been in panic mode lately."
"Well, you're going to have a baby and that's going to take up a lot of our future." He ended his sentence and a small smirk started to spread across his face.
"No shit sherlock," she said with a chuckle, "I meant more like what did you want for your future, before all this madness."
He shrugged as she continued to play with the curls at the back of his neck. "I don't know, I never really thought about it. It was all hockey for me."
The look on her face dropped slightly as he said that. She was worried about that being his answer, she knew his career came first and the last thing she wanted to do was mess that up for him. Adam didn't fail to notice the change of expression on her face and he slid his hands up her back.
"But that was before you came around."
"Yeah?"
'Yeah. Now it's you and hockey. And of course whoever's in there." He chuckled poking at her stomach.
"You sure? I have a feeling they're going to be a little trouble maker."
"Makes life interesting." He leaned forward and kissed her. "What about you, what was in your future?"
"Finishing school, finding a job, putting up with my psycho friends." She chuckled. "I always wanted little babies running around, wasn't planning on the hotshot boyfriend though," she said with a smirk.
"What did you do to get so lucky?"
"I have absolutely no idea." She smiled and pecked his nose.
He looked up at her with a more serious look to his face.
"I still want you to finish school you know."
"I know, I want to too, it just might take a little longer."
"Good."
She scooted off his lap and grabbed the blanket moving down the couch a bit and plopping her feet in his lap.
"How many kids do you want?"
"I don't know, hadn't really thought of it. You?"
She shrugged, "I'm open. Two, three, four, five, whatever."
"Five, huh? What do you expect of me here woman?"
She chuckled, "Not too much considering how quickly you got going." She winked at him and he grabbed her foot tickling the bottom. She fought him, trying to get her foot out of his grasp and he let go smiling over at her. She narrowed her eyes at him and he raised an eyebrow at her.
"Have you ever held a baby?"
He thought for a minute and shrugged, "don't think so."
She smiled at him, "awe. So you're gonna be super cute then."
He looked at her with a weird look, "you're weird."
"You love me!"
"Truth."
She winked at him and reached forward grabbing the remote tossing it in his lap, "pick a movie why don't ya?"

The next morning Liz woke up to the feeling of Adam's arm stretching across her. As she opened her eyes she saw him hovering over her grabbing for her phone that was violently vibrating with the alarm she had set to wake them up for the appointment they had this morning. As he hit the button to silence the noise, she sighed and closed her eyes again wanting nothing more than to lay in bed for the rest of the day. She felt Adam's lips press against her forehead and she opened her eyes to look up at him.
"Morning babe."
"Morning," she groaned as she stretched her arms above her head. When she brought her arms down she circled them around his neck.
"You ready for today?"
"Yep. But I don't want to get out of bed. It's been too long since I've woken up like this."
He leaned down and pressed his lips against hers, "so you're sleeping here again tonight?"
"You didn't even have to ask." She leaned up and kissed him.
He glanced at the clock and looked back down at her. "Shower and then head out?"
She smirked up at him, "team shower?"
"That can be arranged."
He sat up and swung his legs around the side of the bed hopping up and reaching across the bed picking her up and heading towards the bedroom.

Half an hour later both Adam and Liz were dressed and in his car headed towards the doctors office. It didn't go unnoticed to Adam when Liz's leg started bouncing a couple minutes into the drive. He looked over at her and saw her staring out the window, leg bouncing away and hands folded in her lap. Reaching over, he grabbed one of her hands and pulled it over so it was resting in between their seats and he linked their fingers together. She looked over at him and a nervous smile appeared on her face.
"You okay?"
"Yeah. I'll be better when I know everything's okay though."
Adam pulled her knuckles up to his lips and kissed them. "It's gonna be fine, babe."
She squeezed his hand, "I believe you."
Twenty minutes later Liz was sitting in the office, Adam's hand still wrapped around hers and leg still bouncing away. So many thoughts were going through her head. Of course she was going to be nervous until the doctor told them that everything was okay, that had been a concern of hers for weeks. But she was also excited at the thought of seeing their baby for the first time. It was still crazy to her to think that all this had happened in such a short amount of time, but there was no one else she would rather be sitting with in that office. Liz looked beside her at Adam who was scrolling through his phone and squeezed his hand. He looked up at her and smiled.
"What's up?"
"I love you."
He chuckled lightly and leaned over pressing his lips to her forehead.
"Love you too."
Just then they heard the door open and saw the doctor walk in and immediately Liz's nerves skyrocketed.
"Hello, Dr. Marks. Liz and Adam?"
"Yea, hi."
"How are we doing today?"
"Alright. But she's nervous as hell." Adam smirked, glancing over at Liz.
"That's understandable, how about we settle those nerves then?"
Dr. Marks patted the table and Liz headed over sitting down, Adam following close behind her.
"So we got your blood test back and you're definitely pregnant, about 4 months along, we're just going to do an ultrasound to make sure everything's on track, sound good?"
Liz nodded and looked up at Adam who gave her a re-assuring smile. Although he was being strong for her, he was starting to get nervous himself, he didn't know what to expect and just wanted to make sure that everything was good with Liz and his baby.
Dr. Marks told Liz to pull up her shirt and tucked a towel into the waist of her jeans and grabbed the gel.
"This is going to be cold."
She nodded and flinched at the feeling of the cold gel on her stomach. As the doctor started searching around on her stomach, Liz looked up at Adam and grabbed his hand giving it a squeeze. Both of their heads turned towards the screen as soon as they heard the steady sound coming from the monitor.
"So there's the heartbeat." She moved the probe around a little more on Liz's stomach and a clear picture showed up on the screen. "And there's your baby."
Liz stared at the screen for a moment taking in the little shape on the screen. She had seen ultrasounds before, but it was a completely different feeling when you were looking at your own baby. She felt a relief wash over her when she heard the doctor say 'everything looks great!' and felt Adam squeeze her hand. She looked up at Adam standing beside her and smiled. Everything they had been through over the past couple weeks seemed to melt away when they looked at that screen and saw that little baby that they had both created.
"That's our baby." Liz said quietly, feeling the tears starting in the back of her throat.
"Yeah, that's our baby." Adam repeated equally as quietly. He leaned down and kissed her, smiles apparent on both of their faces. If either of them had been nervous about what they were going to do before, it suddenly melted away and they knew no matter what they were going to get through this.
"So, do you guys want to know what you're having?"

Notes

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What are they going to have?! WHO KNOWS!
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P.s. I'm SO SORRY it's been so long. I've been pulling 60+ hour weeks and it's INSANE! but but but I'm 3 weeks away from being done my undergraduate degree! HOW EXCITING IS THAT?!

I hope you guys enjoyed this one! Some cuteness for your lovely people!

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