Ooh, another story, little bit less Smacked than the others that I've written so far, but there will be some and I hope you like it.
Mac thought it would be politer not to comment but when Stella threw up at a crime scene for the first time since he'd known her, he knew he had to say something.
"Stella?" Mac said as he was driving back to the lab after finishing up the scene
"Yes?"
"I don't mean to seem rude but I can't help but notice that you've changed recently."
"What do you mean?" Stella replied, slightly offended.
"Well, you were sick this morning, you were almost asleep on your feet by the end of shift and you're getting more temperamental."
"It was a gory scene, I was working a double and you're getting on my nerves."
"We've worked on far worse, you've worked trebles before and still some out wide awake and I was just trying to be helpful."
"Well don't" Stella replied, her voice breaking with emotion.
"Hey, it's okay. Whatever's wrong, you know I'll be here for you. That's what we do."
"Could we stop off at a chemists?" Stella asked, though it was almost a whisper.
"Course" Mac said
There was a pharmacy on the next block and Mac waited in the car whilst Stella went in and emerged five minutes later with a small paper bag that Mac knew better than to comment on.
When they got back to the lab, Mac took the evidence to the layout room and Stella disappeared off. 10 minutes later, Mac saw her come out of the ladies and, when she noticed him, joined him in the layout room.
"You okay?" Mac asked her.
"Ah hah."
"Okay, well we know the victim was found by her boyfriend, which explains his fingerprints and DNA, but we still have one unknown source…which we can guess came from Mars on the asteroid" Mac added seeing that Stella looked a million miles away.
"Yes. What did you say again?"
Mac smiled "Do you want to tell me?"
"I'm pregnant."
"Then for goodness sake take the rest of the day off and tell Daniel." (Daniel is Stella's boyfriend at the moment in this story) "Oh and congratulations!"
"Thanks Mac. See ya!"
Stella gave him a hug then walked off with an extra bounce in her step and Mac spent the next half an hour smiling to himself at Stella's news until she returned in floods of tears. On seeing her, Mac rushed over to her and took her into the break room.
"Here, have this" Mac said as he offered her a cup of tea
When she calmed down, she explained that when she'd gone home, she'd found Daniel in bed with one of his co-workers and when she told him she was pregnant, he'd shouted at her to get rid of it as he didn't want to be a dad, especially with Stella, who he'd called an uptight workaholic bitch who's fucking her boss so has no right to be angry with him.
"Whoa there, he thinks we're having an affair?"
Stella nodded, "well, I do spend all the working day with you and a considerable amount of my social time too."
"Yeah but…"
"it's still completely implausible."