Summary: Is it possible to have a life and a family without having to fallow the old fashion path a family is supposed too take?
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Biscuits n' Gravy
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The break room was relatively quiet. But then again it was eight thirty in the morning; any sane person would have slept that extra half an hour they needed before going to work. Maxine Valera and Alexx Woods sat quietly eating their small breakfasts of fruit and bagels. "Do you always come this early to work?" asked Alexx as she finished swallowing the bite she had taken from her bagel.
Maxine gave off soft smack sound as she bit into her peach before answering her friend. "No, not usually, but I don't normally have 15 DNA cases to process before ten in the morning either. What about you?"
"Honey I have six bodies already in my morgue, so I can defiantly feel your pain." Alexx smiled as she gathered her garbage and put it into the paper bag. "And, if I don't get started now I have a feeling I won't be able to open the door too my morgue by ten am." She threw away her trash. "I will see you at lunch."
"Yeah see you at noon." Maxine smiled, continuing too drag out her breakfast as long as she could.
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8:45am
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Maxine was throwing away her containers and empty coffee cup when a petite blond, who looked very flustered, rushed into the room. She set a plastic bag on the counter. "Oh good, you haven't started too work yet." She stated.
"Well I was just about too go and…" she was cut off.
"Have you seen Tim yet?" asked Calleigh.
"Um…no. I bet he is already working." Maxine looked at quizzically. "Why? I mean you two are sleeping with one another, living together, and dating, so wouldn't you have a better grasp on his schedule than me." She answered for herself as she watched her close friend walk back over to door and stick her head out looking too the left then to the right. "Calleigh are you feeling okay?"
"Yes I'm fine. Why do you ask?"
"Well your sticking your head out of the break room door like you need to sneak down the hall," answered Maxine. "You have your quarks, so do I, but this is a little weird." She finally glanced over towards the bag Calleigh had brought in. Inside the thinly opaque white plastic bag were two small thin boxes. Both sat against each other, same size, same weight, same coloring. Maxine leaned closer too it so that she could get a better look at the bags continence. "OH MY GOD! Calleigh are you!" Suddenly Calleigh lunged from the doorframe towards Maxine covering her mouth so that last bit would be muffled with her hand. "PREGNATE?"
"SHHHHHHHHHHHHH" Calleigh glared. She turned towards the door again as one of their coworkers walked past glancing over in their direction. It wasn't every day they would see Calleigh Duquesne and Maxine Valera creating such antics like these, at least at work. "Hi Bill…." Calleigh smiled. She got a simple wave and he walked off. "Come on. Your standing guard." She took the plastic bag from the counter and Maxine's arm and walked down the hall too the co-ed bathroom.
"Standing guard?! Calleigh! I have work I need too do…" She watched Calleigh go over too sink and pull out one of the boxes that held a pregnancy test. "Why do you need two?"
"Because I just do alright!" Calleigh answered back with stress in her voice. She ripped open the box. "Could you close the door…I don't want you to watch me pee on a stick…"
"Yeah sure…" Maxine shut the door and stood beside it like she waiting to use it herself.
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9:30am.
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"Calleigh…I love you and all…." Maxine began as she opened the door too the bathroom and whispered through a small crack. "But, it has been almost an hour…I need too start my DNA…" She opened the door wider so she could see what was going on in the small-boxed room; Calleigh sat quietly sobbing to herself on the toilet. Maxine lifted her head from the door looking too the left and then too the right and walked into the bathroom shutting the door.
"I…I tried both…still haven't looked at either of them." Calleigh stated through sniffles. "I'm afraid of what they will say. If they will be like the one I took last night."
"Do you want me to check them for you?" Maxine asked laying her hand lovingly on Calleigh's shoulder. Calleigh nodded for her response, and Maxine grabbed both tests. "What did the one say that you took last night?"
"…Positive…" Calleigh said with a slight hiccup.
"Well then Calleigh…your three for three."
"Really?" She looked up at Maxine eyes puffy from her tears. "Both said?" Maxine nodded and gave her a hug.
"So I take it this was defiantly not planned?" Maxine had given up on even trying to go too her work the only people that knew she was here anyways what Calleigh and Alexx. So she did what any other friend would do, that was stuck in a small four by four foot co-ed bathroom stall would do, she slid her back down the wall and sat on the floor next too Calleigh who was sitting on the toilet lid.
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10:25am
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The halls had become filled with strolling workers now, each going about their business. Eric stood up form his seat on couch in the break room and walked over too the sink. He set his soda can under the falsest and turned the knob. There was a sharp gurgling sound as the water began to sprit every, the pipes were filled with air. "God, damn it!" yelled Eric has he shook his wet hands before grabbing for the paper towels that were not there anymore. He groaned inwardly has he left the break room and over too the co-ed bathroom to use the paper towels.
Eric took hold of the hand. He turned the handle and walked straight into the door. "OW! WHAT THE!" It was locked from the inside.
After shaking his head he shook the handle again. "GO AWAY!" yelled two women in unison. He could have sworn it was both Calleigh and Valera. "COME ON! ALL I NEED IS SOME PAPER TOWELS!" The door opened and a hand popped out almost hitting his face filled with paper towels. Soon it was shut again and the lock could be heard. "Thank you?"
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"What's wrong with you baby?" Asked Alexx as she watched Eric walk into the morgue.
"Nothing…Do you have my trace for Tim?" He asked walking up to Alexx, she handed him the bags. "I could have swan I just heard Valera and Calleigh in that unisex bathroom across the hall from the break room that's all."
"What? What are those two doing there?" asked Alexx. Eric shrugged. "Alright. Then I have too see this for myself." She finished writing up her posts and placed them in the piles that she normally would if she was not in the morgue when someone needed her findings.
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"In there?" asked Alexx to Eric.
"Yeah, I'm going too go give this to Tim. If something's up page me okay?" asked Eric
"Of course baby. Now go give those to Timmy before he gets lost in some other case of his." She smiled as she watched Eric walk off. Alexx let off a breath and knocked on the door. "Calleigh sweetheart it's me Alexx." The door opened so that she could see Maxine's face.
"Alright, but is anyone else out there?" Maxine stated as if the bathroom had become a all girls club house.
"No, it's only me." She answered back as Maxine moved out of the way to allow Alexx into the bathroom. "What is going on? You both basically terrified Eric, the poor thing."
Maxine sat back down, and Calleigh looked up towards Alexx. "I'm pregnant…" Calleigh nodded towards the two tests that sat on top of the sink.
"Oh Calleigh, that's wonderful." Alexx smiled giving her a hug. "It still hasn't set in yet has it?"
Calleigh laughed with a smile. "No…no it hasn't, it hasn't set in yet that's all."
"We are trying too figure out the best way to tell Tim right now," spoke Maxine as she kicked Calleigh's foot lightly. "So far we have the baby foods metaphorical method, the not telling him and seeing if he notices if she is even pregnant method, the I figured out what we can do with the guestroom method, telling him while your having sex method, over the phone, and just flat out telling him."
Alexx smiled towards the both of them, and pulled the pushed the kick lid metal trashcan over closer to them and sat down using it as a stool. "Is it just those two tests you have?"
Calleigh nodded. "Yes, that and one I rapped in toilet paper and threw away in the trash last night because I didn't want too tell Tim yet."
"Why so many sweet heart?" asked Alexx.
"I can't get an appointment with my doctor for a blood test till next Wednesday." Calleigh laughed softly. "I was distraught. I figured I could convince myself if I just did like twenty of the tests, or something I don't know…"
The three women laughed heartily for a while when Maxine broke it. "Why don't you just have Alexx test for HGC?"
"Of course baby. I would gladly do the blood test for you. I am a doctor you know." Alexx smiled.
"I couldn't do that Alexx, you could get in trouble." Stated Calleigh back.
"Calleigh…it will only take a few hours." Alexx smiled.
"See. Come on Calleigh if you get your blood tested the sooner you can tell Tim," agreed Maxine.
"Alright. Alright!" Calleigh smiled. "I'm not leaving this bathroom though."
"Here I can get Eric too bring me what I need. He wanted me too page him if anything was wrong anyways," answered back Alexx.
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11:30am
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Eric entered into what had now become a small haven for his three close female friends of CSI. He had in his hand some gauze, a syringe, and a band-aid. "This is all I could find. Why did you need this stuff anyways Alexx?"
"I'm taking Calleigh's blood for her," answered Alexx.
"Her blood! Why?" Eric looked slightly worried now.
"Eric, I'm fine she is just double checking something for me that's all." Calleigh stated as Alex prepped her arm working with what tools Eric could find for her. She winced as the needle went into her skin. "I took three tests for it already, the blood test will just help me feel better that's all."
"What tests? Calleigh what's going on?" asked Eric the worry still plaster on his face.
"Really Eric…" Maxine huffed. "Why do guys always think the world is going too end when a woman wants too have her blood taken for this just incase." She held up the two tests.
Eric stood bug eyed. He could feel his legs become week but they did not buckle. "Your? Calleigh your?"
"Yes, Eric please don't say a word to Tim I want too tell him myself." Calleigh smiled at Eric as Alexx dabbed the gauze on the puncture spot then tape it up.
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Noon
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Eric let out a breath. He was having such a hard time taking this in for himself he couldn't imagine what it would be like for Tim when he would find out, but he had no time to think about this, he had cases he need to process and salve. "Alright, well I should get back too my cases." He opened the door walking out and running right into Tim.
"HEY WATCH IT DELKO!" yelled Tim rubbing his forhead.
"Yeah sorry Speed." Eric continued on his way walking to one of the labs.
Tim still stood there rubbing his head lightly when he saw Alexx, Calleigh and Maxine exit the bathroom as well. "I will call you when I have the results sweetheart okay?" said Alexx as she turned walking back towards her morgue.
"You get me too alright Calleigh?" asked Maxine as she turned for the DNA Lab.
"Of course. After I find out you will be the next to know. I promise," answered Calleigh. She turned back too Tim and smiled. "You always look so adorable when your confused." She kissed his Cheek.
"Why the hell was Delko in the bathroom with you, Alex, and Valera?" Tim asked, his head odiously hurting from trying to comprehend what he just witness coming out of the bathroom.
"I will tell you at dinner tonight. Okay?" Calleigh smiled. "I should get started on my work." She walked off leaving Tim standing there still contemplating on why his four friends where in the bathroom together nonetheless how they all fit in that tiny space.
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TBC