Also doing short ish chapters in this story just so you know. Hopefully will post next chapter, sooner than I posted this one.

"Sara, I want you to go on maternity leave soon." Sara finished letting the nightie fall over her head and over her before she looked at him.

"I already am going on maternity leave soon. I have to leave in a month, when there's 2 weeks left." She replied as she walked towards the bed and began pulling the covers back.

"I know, I want you to go on maternity leave in two weeks." He stated as she lay down next to him in bed. He reached out to pull her closer but she sat up and looked down at him instead.

"Grissom, you know I'd go insane if I was by myself and didn't have any work to do. Having to leave 2 weeks before is bad enough. Anyway you let me stay up until when I delivered last time."

He calmly looked back at her. "That was before you decided to give birth, with complications and surprises, during a storm when we couldn't get you to a hospital."

She pouted at him. "We went to the hospital later to have them checked out. When it had re-opened."

"Sara, please, do this for me. I don't want to risk anything happening to you or the baby. I'll come and join you for the second week. You'll only be on your own for one week."

She pouted some more, hoping to win him around. He said nothing. Sara finally glared at him, knowing even a week on her own would drive her mad. In the end Grissom tried to bargain with her.

"I'll buy a cookie." She continued to glare. "And a cheesecake, toffee. All to yourself, you don't have to share." Grissom smiled slightly, he knew she had a weakness for cookie's and cheesecake, especially toffee.

Sara glared for a moment before she succumbed. "Chocolate chip cookie?" He nodded. She sat back down and lay next to him in bed.

"Better be a big one." She muttered quietly as he pulled her closer until they lay spoon fashion.

"The biggest one in the shop." He promised before kissing the top of her head, pulling the top of her head, and closing his eyes.

Sara awoke to find Grissom already watching her. She smiled gently as she looked at him, he lent forward and kissed her lips quickly then pulled back and looked at her again.

"So, when you getting me this cookie and cheesecake then?" She asked, slightly impatient and annoyed.

"Good morning to you too, and I was thinking the cookie on the first shift you are on leave, and then the cheesecake on the third." Seeing her nonplussed look he tried to please her and make her happier about his request. "And if you still agree then I'll buy you a bonus cookie on the way into work today." Her look improved but she still didn't smile properly at him.

"Chocolate chip?" He nodded. "Get me a gingerbread man too?"

"I'll get you 2 gingerbread men." She smiled suddenly.

"You want competition from two other men instead of one?"

"I'll have things over both of them."

"What things?" She asked still smiling.

"Well, height for one thing and two, neither of them can do this ..."

He leant forward again and kissed her deeply. By the time he pulled back she was breathless.

"Ok," she said after a moment, "You'll always have that over them." She smiled gently at him. "I hate you sometimes. No man should be able to still make anyone feel this ... weak, after they have already had two kids together, have a third on their way, and can still use it to win arguments." She muttered at him, still breathless, after another moment.

He grinned at her. "Would you really want it any other way?" He asked.

"No." She answered, "I'm just glad I can still do the same to you." She said quietly before kissing him strongly. When she pulled back she was glad to see he was breathless now as well.

"Damn. You're right."

They grinned foolishly at each other for a moment. In the end Grissom spoke. "Ok, enough grinning and kisses which still have the same power as a first kiss. We need to get up now. Otherwise I'll end up laying here watching you all day." Sara opened her mouth to speak but decided against it and let him pull her up. She followed him, still holding his hand as he headed towards the kitchen. He sat her down and began making her breakfast for her.

She knew she should have been getting ready, having a shower or cleaning up. But she was just content to sit there and watch him move about the kitchen as he made breakfast. Especially seen as he was still walking around with only his boxers on.

They headed in to work and Sara looked all about in while Grissom signed them in, checking to see if she caught sight of anything like she had before. She relaxed when she saw nothing. Grissom also glanced around but when he saw Sara relax and look back at him he smiled and led her to the break room. Grissom went towards his office to get the assignments after he dropped Sara off at the break room with everyone else.

For months they now hadn't been the first ones in and the last ones out, both having something happy outside of work, meaning they didn't stay in work as much, and found themselves leaving with everyone else, eager to get home to Ella and Harmony. Grissom picked up the assignments and headed back to the break room.

He was greeted by Catherine questioning him. "You asked Sara, the workaholic out of all of us, to leave for maternity a week early?"

Grissom glanced at Sara. "Guessing you told them." She smiled weakly at him, Catherine began questioning him again.

"You made her stay at home on her own for a week without you?"

"She won't be alone, she'll have Ella and Harmony with her."

"But still Grissom. You ..." Grissom cut her off.

"Catherine I have to give out assignments, if you want to quiz me on our break that's fair enough. But right now we have work to do." Catherine stared at him shocked, so shocked that she couldn't reply. The rest of the team, also shocked, still smiled at Catherine's speechlessness. Grissom suppressed a smile as he gave out the assignments which had come in since the day before and sent the team away to either start or carry on.

Just as he dismissed them, Brass walked in.

"Great news everybody. We have no Ecklie here for Two Whole Weeks. He had an appendicitis and was forced to go to hospital. He is going to be fine, except maybe a little annoyed at missing two weeks. But ... no Ecklie!"

The team cheered as he finished speaking. Sara smiled the most however, she would now not have to see him at all, even the possibility of him until after she came back from maternity leave. She couldn't think of a better send off.