Keep them guessing

The whispering between Bobby, Mandy and Archie stopped when Nick walked into Prints and he gave the trio of lab techs a look.

"Ok…what is the newest gossip now? Let me guess Grissom went out East to see his kid that no one knows about?" asked Nick sitting down some prints for Mandy to run. Archie made a face.

"Please the Grissom Guessing Game ended last week," said Archie.

"Besides this is juicer…someone came home from parts unknown," said Mandy picking up the prints.

"Amelia Earhart," joked Nick. Bobby raised an eyebrow.

"Jenna Bianchi came home," said Bobby and Nick's jaw dropped. He had been the last person to speak to her after her fight with Greg in the lab's break room and she had told him about Greg standing her up at the court house and how she just needed to be away for awhile. For about two weeks now the lab had being dealing with a depressed Greg, the fall out from breaking up with his girlfriend of almost two years

"For real?" asked Nick.

"I saw her at Whole Foods yesterday morning shopping," said Bobby.

"And Greg is having what looks like homemade Pod Thai," said Archie.

"And he's really cheerful this evening," said Mandy logging the prints.

"So are you all planning on taking the field test in the future?" asked Nick.

"It's just general observation," said Mandy.

"Yeah right…I'll talk to Greggo and see what's going on. You three behave yourselves," said Nick.

"Can't make any promises," said Bobby.

"We get bored easily," called out Mandy. Nick left and Hodges came in.

"What the hell is up with Sanders? He's down right giddy about something," said Hodges.

"Twenty dollars says Jenna got him liquid latex and a portable stripper pole for a homecoming gift," said Bobby.

"Oh you're on," said Mandy throwing down a twenty.

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Greg was tapping his foot and doing a web search on the logo he found on the umbrella they had found in the dead guy's body. He found his mind wondering, god he really wanted to tell someone about Jenna being pregnant. Jenna had asked him to keep it between them and their parents for a little while longer. She was still a little nervous about getting too excited about anything until she saw the doctor and they were going to the doctor this morning for a prenatal exam.

What a second…that matches. The DB had been found with no bones and no tissue. They would have to stay in state to make sure that the tissue was still viable, one of the companies he found was called, Longevity Tissue Services. The logo was a Chinese character that was on the umbrella handle. Bingo. He printed out the site's page and went to find Nick who was working the case.

"Hey, I thought you had a deposition today?" asked Nick when Greg found him.

"Ah it got postponed; anyway I started looking in tissue donation companies in the state and there's only two on them. One of them is in Summerland; it's called Longevity Tissue Services." Greg handed Nick the web site print out.

"It's the same logo you found on the umbrella that was found in the DB."

"Yeah it's a Chinese character for long life."

"Yeah long life my ass, I'll get Sofia and we'll check this out. So a little bird told me that Jenna was home, how's it going?" Shut up.

"It's good…wait what little bird?" Nick grinned.

"You had a lunch that wasn't ramen, you seem to be in a good mood and Bobby Dawson saw her shopping yesterday morning. So seriously how's it going, you two able to work out what issues you had?"

"Yeah, we talked, she explained why she took off like a bat of hell, I explained why I was a jackass and we agreed to give it another shot." Nick gave him a look.

"I just know you were in a real period of mourning there for a while I just wanted to see if you were ok? I like Jenna, but if I find out she's playing you the way Tina does with Warrick, I'll have Catherine and Sara beat her ass."

"Jen wouldn't do that to me we're fine." Nick gave him another look.

"You want to share with the rest of the class why you're so chipper?"

"I'm just happy that she's home." His cell phone went off, Greg unclipped it, looked at the caller ID and it was Jenna.

"Hey I have to go I have a doctor's appointment. Do you think you can cover for me?"

"Sure, you feeling ok?" asked Nick.

"Yeah."

"Than why are you going to the doctors?" Greg shrugged.

"Routine physical stuff, nothing major."

"You are a bad liar and I'm gonna find out what's going on one way or another. I'll see you later," said Nick. Greg shrugged and headed out. Wendy came up to Nick.

"You want in on the pool?"

"What's the pot?" asked Nick.

"Sixty dollars so far says that Jenna let Greg have a night a brothel as a make up present for leaving and Greg got her a huge ring as a make up present for being a jerk." Nick handed her a twenty.

"Eighty says that now." Wendy took the twenty and went back to Mandy the pool keeper.

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Greg was sitting in a chair next to Jenna who was sitting on the exam table. A nurse took her blood pressure and temperature.

"Well your temperature and BP are normal." The nurse went over to a closet and pulled out a gown and had Jenna hop off the exam table so she could set it up. "Please undress, put the gown on, open in the back and if you could give us a urine sample that would be great. The doctor should be in to see you shortly." The nurse left the room and Jenna picked up her gown and sample cup and went into the bathroom. Greg looked around the exam room and felt a little weird.

"Jen?"

"Yes."

"Why do I feel like I'm back in my middle school sex ed class?"

"It could have something to do with the 1970 poster of the female anatomy on the wall; it could have something to do with the little pamphlets in the waiting room about safe sex, maybe because that nurse is old enough to have taught us sex ed." Jenna came out of the bathroom and sat the cup down on a tray and got back on the table. "I hate these gowns they itch."

"Could be worse, you be asked to bend over and cough." Jenna started laughing.

"No I just get to put my feet in the stir-ups." The door opened and someone with an Indian accent started talking and came into the room.

"Hello my name is Dr. Minhi and I…oh hello." Jenna seemed to turn three shades of red.

"Um, hi. Where is Dr. Massy?"

"He went into retirement last month, me and a couple of other OB's I know are slowly taking over his patients. If we're going to have an issue, I get another OB in here…" Greg looked between them and was lost.

"I'll give you two a moment…oh I'll take this too," he said grabbing the urine sample and leaving them alone. Jenna looked at Greg and was a little red and just grinning her ass off.

"I'm sure you'll find the humor in this if you really think about it."

"What's going on?"

"You remember that I told you about the one night thing I had between Andy and you, um that was him."

"What?"

"Dr. Minhi, um Amar and I had a one night stand a very long time ago." Jenna looked at the blank expression on Greg's face and grinned. "Oh come on its really funny it think about it."

"You had sex with him."

"It was a long time ago, it was one time and." She started giggling uncontrollable.

"Why is it so funny?"

"Because it is, oh come Greg you have to appreciate the irony of this. Oh come on, what is it?"

"You had sex with him!"

"One time, one time a very long time ago and it didn't mean anything. You had sex with other people before we got together this time, are we going to go into your sex life?"

"My pervious sex partners aren't my health care providers though." Jenna raised an eyebrow.

"Didn't you have a thing with the oral surgeon once upon a time, and most of your pervious sex partners waited tables and danced in a line? At least my one has an MD, so suck on that."

"Alright, let's not go into whom we had sex with and what they did, I'm not sure how I feel about him treating you and our future offspring."

"Sweetie, trust me he's a good doctor or else he wouldn't be taking over Dr. Massy practice. And when I say it was nothing, I mean that it was nothing."

"You had sex with him, that's something…" Jenna started laughing again.

"If I tell you something about him will it make you feel better about him being my doctor and we can move and I can get out of this itchy gown?" asked Jenna.

"Sure tell me anything."

"You're bigger." Greg raised an eyebrow.

"That guy is like five inches taller than me." Jenna started giggling.

Think about it, really think about it sweetie." He thought about it and grinned. "Now that your male ego is fixed can we please move on I'm cold now too?"

"Yeah he can come in now?" Greg went and poked his head out and told the nurse they were ready to see the doctor again. She walked back down a hall to find him. A few moments later Dr. Minhi and a nurse came back into the exam room loaded down with stuff.

"Since this is the first prenatal appointment this could take awhile. We're going to need some blood from the both of you to test for blood type, Rh Factors and any diseases that you may or not be aware of. I'm sorry I'm going to assume you're the father, I'm Doctor Amar Minhi and I didn't get your name," said Minhi offering Greg a hand to shake, Greg took it and shook it.

"Greg Sanders and you would assume right about me being the father." Dr. Minhi had him sit down and the nurse took blood from the both of them.

"We should have your lab results back in a couple of days and now we get to play twenty questions about your medical history. I would advise total honesty in answering these questions; the answers will help us determine any risks or health issues your baby could have. So let's get started, are there any serious health issues that anyone in your family has?"

"Um, my mom had cancer; I think my grandfather on my dad's side had a heart issue. I can't think of anything else," said Jenna.

"My grandparents on my dad's side both had heart disease; my grandfather on that side had a triple bypass six months ago. I can't think of anything on my mom's side," said Greg.

"Do you two have any heart issues? Do you smoke, drink, drug use?"

"I used have a drink every once in awhile, but I haven't had one since October. I don't smoke and I've never touched a drug. Oh wait, I was having headaches and I took some aspirin, could I have screwed something up?"

"Was there ibuprofen in it?"

"I don't think so," said Jenna.

"Well it should be alright than; if the headaches continue I would suggest baby aspirin for the pain. Mr. Sanders?"

"Um, I don't smoke and I only drink once in awhile and…well I was twenty, in New York and there was some pot…" Jenna gave him a look and Dr. Minhi shook his head.

"Well it's been over ten years; I think you're good, now if it had happened ten days ago I would be worried. Do you have any pets or allergies?"

"We have a cat…oh god I scooped the litter box," said Jenna and Greg looked really confused.

"I shouldn't have because of some random toxic in cat litter," said Jenna

"Relax, it's still early and the odds of it happening are one in a thousand, but from now on he's going to have to change the kitty litter. But we'll test your blood for toxoplasmosis. Now, Jenna I'm going to have to ask you to lay down on the table and we're going to start the pap and pelvic exam. If you would like Greg here with you, he can stay." Jenna took his hand.

"Oh he's staying." Greg moved out the nurses way so she could the table set up.

"So when was your last period?" asked Dr. Minhi.

"Some time in November." Jenna let the nurse get her in position and her grip tightened on his hand during the exam. He didn't blame her it looked uncomfortable and he had a feeling that the small talk was even weirder. At least his doctor just got the exam done and they went on with their lives.

"Did you take an at home test?" asked Dr. Minhi pushing down on her, Jenna's grip tightened on his hand again.

"No, I fainted and the hospital ran the test and the ER doctor pegged me at about eight weeks."

"Alright everything looks normal I didn't find anything to suggest entopic pregnancy. I'm going to give you a prescription for the prenatal vitamins. Would you like to hear the heartbeat?" asked Minhi.

"I didn't think you could hear a heartbeat so soon," said Greg.

"Well it can be tricky, but it can be done. We got a new Fetal Doppler that we've been wanting to try out. Would you mind if we try it out on you?" Jenna looked at Greg and he gave her a small grin.

"Do you want to be guinea pig?" asked Greg.

"Sure, let's give it a try."

"We'll go get the Doppler while you get dressed," said Dr. Minhi and he and the nurse left the room. Jenna hopped off the table and walked back into the bathroom and got dressed.

"So do they always have the small talk portion of the exam?" asked Greg.

"Yeah, it's suppose to make you feel better about having a stranger poke and prod at you in very uncomfortable fashion. I never want to hear you complain about bend and cough again; at least you only have to do that once every couple of years. I get one of these every year, so yeah no more bitching from you."

"You will never hear me complain again. So how do you feel?"

"Good…I'm starving; do you think you have time for breakfast?" He had a feeling that he should get back to the lab and see where they were on the tissue collection and the DB, but he really wanted to spend a little more time with her.

"Yeah I have time." Dr. Minhi came back in with a pair of head phones and a something that looked like a giant calculator of some sort of a wand attached.

"Ok, this is very straightforward, now I'm going to warn you it can be tricky, the mother's heartbeat and the baby's sometimes go together and we can't tell one from the other. Or they like to be sneaky and hide where we can't find the heart beat. But, we'll give it a shot. Lie back down and lift your shirt up a little bit and undo your jeans." Jenna followed his instructions and a nurse came in with the ultrasound goo and placed some on Jenna abdomen.

"Ok, let's give this a shot," said Dr. Minhi putting the headphones on. He took the wand and started to move over her abdomen, he frowned and took a second trip and he reached over and turned the volume up on the monitor and when he went on his third try he gave a small grin and took off the headphones.

"Congratulations, we have fetal heartbeat. Would you like to hear?"

"That's a dumb question," Jenna blurted out.

"Jen! Well she's kind of right it's a dumb question," said Greg and Dr. Minhi handed them the headphones.

"Here you go." Jenna let Greg have the headphones first and he put them on and waited.

"I don't hear anything," he said.

"Hold on, let me turn the volume up," said Dr. Minhi, he turned the volume up and Greg started listening again. It was subtle at first, but then he heard it loud and clear.

Bump bump…holy shit there it is. Oh wow this is so cool. He looked at Jenna and she was looking at him with a grin. Oh this was so cool; it was that scared but happy feeling all over again. He was really excited and he almost didn't want to give her the headphones.

"Can I hear…please?" she asked. He reluctantly gave her the headphones and let her listen. She bit her lip and listened, her face broke into a huge smile and her eyes started to tear up. "Oh my god…oh my god," she looked up at Greg and pointed to her abdomen. "Our baby."

"Yes, that's our baby," said Greg kissing the top of her head. Dr Minhi smiled at both of them.

"I hate to be the bad guy in this, but I have to ask for the monitor back." Jenna frowned a little bit and handed the headphones back to him.

"Well, I'll see you back here next week for your test results and we'll start keeping track of weight and address any issues you may have. Oh and with your last period being in November, I'm going to give you a due date of July. Here is your prescription and I'll see you next week. Well set up an appointment for an ultrasound in a couple of weeks." Dr. Minhi and the nurse left the room and Jenna was using some wet naps to get the goo off her stomach. She fixed her pants and her shirt and looked at Greg. He stood up to get their coats and Jenna grabbed the collar of his shirt and pulled him into a kiss.

"What was that for?" he asked.

"Because I can and wow, did you hear it?"

"Yeah, it was a little bump bump…bump bump and," he picked her up and gave her another kiss.

"We're having a baby!!!! Us…oh my god," said Jenna.

"You still want breakfast?"

"I really want some pecan pancakes and some fried eggs."

"And the cravings begin," said Greg.

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Nick was looking through tissue records when Greg sent him a text that he would be back in another hour. Dr. Robbins came in with another batch of death certificates.

"I hope you nail this guy to wall for faking records like this." Robbins noticed Nick texting back with a puzzled look on his face. "Something up?" Nick looked up and put his phone away.

"Oh it's Greg ditching work for another hour. He had a doctor's appointment an hour ago and now he's ditching work for another hour."

"Smart man…I heard a rumor about a pool going on about Greg and his love life." Nick grinned.

"It's up to one hundred bucks that Jenna and Greg had some crazy night of make up love." Dr. Robbins shook his head and slide Nick a twenty.

"She's expecting." Nick looked at Robbins and started laughing.

"What? He would have told us by now," said Nick. Robbins shook his head.

"There are very few things that can make a man happy while going see a doctor and get back with a girlfriend who left town. My money is on baby." Nick took Robbins money.

"I'll put in the pool." Robbins left and Nick went back to reading the death

certificates. Greg a parent…yeah right and Grissom is dating a college girl out East.

Notes-Kitty litter and pregnancy are bad and they should not be mixed at all cost.

Episode Referenced-Meet Market.