Title: Dreams Coming True

Disclaimer: I do not own CSI:NY or CSI Anthony Zuiker and CBS do.

A/N: Sequel to "The One She Is Meant To Be With" as requested by csiny96 (Beth) and takes place six months after the last story and there will be Jac (Jo/Mac) in here as well. Also any cursing here will be majorly toned down.

Beta'd by: TotalCSIFan

Genre: Family/Romance

Rating: T

Chapter 1: The New Arrivals

Mentions of: The Greater Good (5.23)

-November 29, 2010-

It had been over six months since Stella had told Nick the happy news and now Stella was at the maternity ward at Trinity General awaiting the arrival of hers and Nick's little girl. Stella was thirty seven weeks along when their little girl wanted to make her debut and now began the real waiting game. Jo who was with Stella keeping her company was outside trying to get a hold of Nick and Mac who had been called to a crime scene.

For the time being Stella was in her room alternating between steady breathing, mustering through the pain and thinking about all that has happened. Once she had told Nick the good news they had decided to wait until the twelfth week check-up before telling their family friends. So after a romantic ten day honeymoon in St. Lucia they went in for checkup and once they had a sonogram printout they told all their family and friends together and everyone was equally overjoyed especially Jillian and Bill who look forward to the grandchild that was to join the family; though, that was not the only surprise.

There were changes at the lab as well as they had two new additions to the team. The Crime Lab had a received a grant to hire two new CSIs; first of the Nick. When Nick found out he immediately put in a request for transfer because he knew Stella wouldn't want to move from the city she grew up in and with Nick's stellar record and strong recommendations from Catherine and surprisingly Conrad Ecklie, Sinclair approved of the transfer. When Nick told her right before the start of the week of wedding celebrations Stella kissed him hard. Although she had also made plans to move to Vegas she was grateful for the sacrifice Nick made. The other addition was Jo; when Sinclair found out a case had caused Jo to lose popularity in DC he immediately had her transferred over to join the New York Crime Lab. Now both Jo and Stella shared the assistant supervisor position.

Stella was happy that Jo was now working at the NY crime lab. Though she and Jo have become best friends after they met and had grown closer after they began working together, there was a problem there was something about Jo that bugged Stella though and she had tried to ask Jo her and Mac's no strings attached/flirting only relationship—Stella knew that Mac wanted something more especially now but Stella could tell Jo was uncomfortable with the topic, so she dropped for now.

As Stella continued wait she thought about the biggest surprised of all However, there was an even bigger surprise. Before Stella's sixteenth week checkup they decided for decorating purposes they were going to find out the gender of their baby.

-July 6, 2010-

So during the checkup and sonogram the technician asked, "Okay Mr. and Mrs. Stokes would like you like to know the baby gender or wait till the baby's due date?

With a firm resolve they answered, "We would like to know now, please."

The tech smiled and said after moving the transducer to the right place and said, "Mom and dad, meet your daughter."

Stella and Nick gasped; another dream was coming true they were now expecting a little girl! There were no words right now on how good their life is right now.

Stella was still lost in thoughts when she saw Jo walk with in with her ob-gyn, Dr. Gwendolyn Linden and the nurse, Raeanne Berger came in and were followed by Nick, Jo and Mac. As soon as he cleared the door he ran to her bedside and asked in a concerned voice, "Stella mou, Jo called and told me our little girl is ready to make her debut, how are you feeling now? How far are you?"

Stella tried to smile but had been experiencing pain as another contraction came and went before placing answering, "Nicky sweetie we should wait for the doctor to do a checkup and let her tell us, okay?"

Nick nodded, toning down his enthusiasm a tiny bit as they all anxiously waited for the nurse to finish the vitals. Once the nursed handed over the charts to the doctor, the doctor checked on Stella's progress to update them. Once the doctor had made notes on Stella's chart Dr. Linden said, "Well Stella it looks like you're only dilated at 5 cm so it may take a while before she is going to arrive."

The moment Stella heard Dr. Linden say that she threw her head back. She thought great just great our little girl once to come and now she is taking her time. When Nick, Jo and Mac heard what Dr. Linden said they shook their heads and knew it was going to be a long afternoon.

-x-

For the next ten more hours were filled with intense contractions and when it came to deliver their daughter, Stella who normally didn't curse screamed a few choice words at Nick, like "You freaking butthole I am never letting you touch me again". However, following forty five minutes of pushing their daughter came into the world with a healthy set of lungs. Born ten minutes past midnight on November 30th Stella and Nick fell in love with their daughter the moment the nurse placed her in Stella's arms—their daughter was the perfect combination of her parents as she had inherited Stella's olive skin tone and nose and Nick's brown eyes and had tufts of Nick's dark brown hair and Stella knew Nick was already wrapped around their daughter's tiny fingers.

Several hours later after baby had been cleaned, weighted and measured (she came in at seven pounds five ounces and 20 ¾ inches long and scoring a 9 on the APGAR and was brought to Stella's room where she was asleep in her father's arms. As Stella slept Nick quietly whispered, "Baby girl you are the luckiest baby your mama and I loved along with many aunts, uncles and cousin and Grandma Jillian and Grandpa Bill who all love you so much."

It may have seemed like Stella was fast asleep but she heard every word Nick said their daughter. She woke and said, "Nicky sweetie we are going to name our daughter soon we can't keep calling by nick names alone."

Nick looked up and at Stella and smiled, she was right their little one would need a name soon. Soon they had settled on Gabrielle Nicole Stokes. Nick chose Gabrielle in honor of his maternal great-great grandmother Gabrielle Leveque and Stella choose Nicole after her amazing father; with the name taken care of Stella and Nick decided on who they wanted to be their daughter's godparents.

When the visiting hours began all visitors including Jillian, Bill, and Jena and Catherine who came on behalf of the crew in Vegas came by to visit everyone was cooing over Gabrielle (which Jillian was moved when she found out that Nick and Stella had come to an agreement on a name for their daughter after a beloved family member).

Don was holding their newborn daughter, when Stella and Nick made the godparents announcement. Stella cleared her throat and said, "Now this was not an easy decision to make but Nick have come to an agreement that I would choose the godfather and he would pick the godmother and then we would swap next time around. So with that said, "Don, Nick and I would love for you to be Gabrielle's godfather."

Stella briefly paused and added jokingly, "Don remember when you said to Mac that godfather was code word for diaper change? Well now it is on you buddy!"

Don groaned as everyone else gently chuckled and a few minutes later it was Nick's turn to bestow the honor. He turned to Catherine and said, "Cath you have been my friend from the first moment I moved to Vegas and supportive of me all throughout my time with you guys and when I transferred here to New York and I cannot think of a better woman suited to be Gabrielle's godmother than you."

Catherine was bowed when she was asked. When she came out of her daze, she said, "Nick, Stella I am honored to be your beautiful daughter's godmother, thank you."

Right then Don placed Gabrielle in her godmother's arms and Catherine whispered in a low voice, "Gabrielle, you have the two greatest people for parents."

Catherine briefly paused and said, "You know when your Cousin Lindsey meets you, you are going to be so spoiled."

With that the guest of honor continued to bask in the cooing and awing even if she had slept through most of it.

Once the guests had left and Nick had closed the door and placed all gifts in one location he saw baby Gabrielle fast asleep in Stella's arms. Nick smiled and to the best of his abilities he tried to squeeze himself on to the bed and took a nap along his wife and their daughter.

A/N 2: Thanks for reading the first chapter of "Dreams Coming True". As always reviews are welcome!