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Author's Note: I know, not another pregnancy fic. I know there are a lot of them in this fandom, but this is my attempt to write one that is just a little bit different. I hope you give this one a chance, because I am really excited to write it.
The title comes from "Little Wonders" by Rob Thomas. I'd recommend listening to it!
Summary: It is two months after Cappie and Casey got together again, and they couldn't be happier. But they soon find that they have to rethink their entire futures as one oversight brings about a situation neither of them expect…
Little Wonders
By PiperPaigePhoebe01
Chapter One
It had been two months.
Two months of the most happiness Casey could remember feeling for a long time. Two months of walking up next to Cappie. Two months of not being able to keep their hands off each other. Two months of kissing, of cuddling, of talking, of just being with each other.
The only word Casey could use to describe it would be bliss. Complete and utter bliss.
For so long, they had been dancing around the truth, pretending that they didn't care, pretending that they could get over each other, and now—finally, after all this time—they were together, picking up right where they left off.
And it had never felt so good.
Casey smiled to herself. Although things had not been easy, with ZBZ needing to keep a secret from everyone the fact that they had maybe burnt down the Gamma Psi house and Cappie trying to get over the fact that he had lost four of his best friends, it was what she had always wanted, although she might not have always admitted it to herself.
And she was in love with Cappie.
The only bad part was that they had not admitted it to each other yet. Although they made love as often as they could get away with it (Casey had to stay at the ZBZ house at least some days of the week), they had not said it to each other yet. She understood why Cappie didn't say it, because of how she had hurt him in the past, but situations had come up where she could have said it but didn't.
Casey shifted on the bed next to Cappie, eyes trailing across his face. To use a cliché she had read in one of Ashleigh's romance novels, he looked so peaceful, with his hair spread out haphazardly and his face relaxed, a small smile on his face. As she watched him, he let out a happy noise and snuggled closer to her. Casey put her head on his chest, trying to move even closer to him.
She leaned in close to him, ready to give him a morning kiss, but she withdraw quickly as a sudden wave of nausea washed through her. She groggily stumbled out of bed, running to the bathroom.
A few minutes later, just as she thought she had finished vomiting, another wave swept through her, and she hunched over the toilet again. She felt two strong hands brush hair away from her face, holding it away from her mouth.
"Thanks," Casey said once she finished. She flushed the toilet. "I guess this bug just doesn't want to go away."
"Yeah, I'd say so," Cappie said. "How long have you had it? A week now?"
Casey nodded and stood up, crossing over to the sink. She grabbed her toothbrush and ran the faucet, brushing her teeth. Cappie waited patiently for Casey to finish, standing up from the toilet seat to kiss her once she shut the water off.
"Sorry," Casey muttered.
"It's fine, Case," Cappie said. "A bug's going around. Beaver had something last week, and Rusty's not looking too healthy."
Casey nodded. "I think I'm going to go to the doctor anyway if it doesn't get better in a couple days," she said as they walked back into Cappie's room.
Cappie agreed to this plan. They got ready for their classes, their conversation turning to the mixer the ZBZs and Kappa Taus were having that Friday. Casey just hoped that she would be feeling better in time to go, since it had been her idea.
The Gamma Psis were still on top, even without a house, but the ZBZs were going to get ahead of them.
Even without the Omega Chis.
The possibility of getting over the bug any time soon seemed distant as Casey found herself in one of the campus bathrooms, puking her guts out, Ashleigh holding back her hair in the place of Cappie. All Casey had eaten was a hamburger from the McDonalds right off campus and a coffee from the stand, but it seemed as though the combination had not agreed with her system.
"Casey, this bug has been going on for a long time," Ashleigh said as Casey dug around in her bag for her toothbrush. "Are you going to go see a doctor?"
"I told you that I'll see a doctor if I don't feel better in two days, Ashleigh," Casey said. "Aha!" She took her toothbrush out of her bag, allowing several other items to tumble out in the process. "Ah, crap."
She got down on her knees to grab her blush, lipgloss, and a couple pens. As she stuffed them in her bag, her fingers brushed against a small box, which she pulled out. She sat down, hard, on the floor and stared at it.
What—
It was a box of tampons.
That she remembered buying after her last period. She had not used them since—and her last period was supposed to have been two and a half weeks ago.
"Oh my God," Casey breathed.
"Casey?" Ashleigh asked. "What's wrong?"
Casey couldn't bring herself to say the words. All she could do was brandish the box at Ashleigh. For a moment, all Ashleigh did was stare at it, then she looked at Casey and began speaking slowly.
"Casey… when did you buy these?"
"After my last period. A month and a half ago," Casey whispered.
"Oh my God, Casey," Ashleigh said. "You could be—"
"Don't say it," Casey moaned.
"We have to know."
"I know."
Ashleigh held out a hand for Casey. "We're not going to our next class," she said, leaving no room to argue. "Come on."
Thirty minutes later, Casey sequestered herself in the bathroom with Ashleigh, eyes pointedly averted away from the counter, where five pregnancy tests were lined up in a row on one side, and five more were lined up on the other side.
"Is it Cappie's?" Ashleigh asked a minute into the wait.
All Casey could do was nod.
Her mind was moving a thousand miles a minute.
What if she was pregnant? How could she be pregnant? They had been careful, hadn't they?
But wait.
There had been one moment, about a month ago, two weeks after her last period, where there was a possibility they had not used protection. She had thought they had, but they might have been a little too "into it" to remember…
Oh God.
I could be pregnant.
She stood up, beginning to pace. She hugged her arms across her chest, feeling a chill sweep through her. Ashleigh watched helplessly, opening her mouth several times as if to say something, but she closed it every time.
Finally, when there were about ten seconds left, Ashleigh asked one question.
"What are you going to do if—you are?"
Casey sat down on the toilet at this question.
"I don't know."
"You have to figure it out, Case."
"And I will," Casey snapped. "But only if I am. I might not even be pregnant. It might just be a fluke."
"Yeah, maybe," Ashleigh said, but she seemed skeptical.
Ding.
The little timer they were using to determine when the results would show up went off, and Casey turned to the counter. Her eyes scanned across the results.
The first five: all positive.
Her breath hitched in her throat. She felt something like terror rise up, and she bit back the noise wanting to escape. She felt bile rising in the back of her throat, but she swallowed it back.
The next five.
"I can't look," Casey said, voice shaking. "Ashleigh, look for me."
Ashleigh moved over to the other set of pregnancy tests. She surveyed them for a moment, then turned to Casey.
Her eyes said everything.
"Oh my God," she breathed. "I'm pregnant."
Ashleigh nodded.
I'm pregnant I'm pregnant I'm pregnant I'm pregnant oh god oh god oh god what am I going to tell Cappie?
Casey let tears escape as she leaned her head against the back of the toilet. Without a word, Ashleigh knelt down beside her and wrapped her arms around her. Casey hugged Ashleigh tight as the same thought ran through her mind.
I'm pregnant.
Author's Note: I hope you enjoyed this chapter, even though it is a pregnancy fic. Please review? Thank you!