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Kate Beckett was a damn good detective. She was one to find the justice for the victims of these heinous crimes. While she could never understand the motives of how one person could actually take someone's life, she always found a way to the truth. But now she had a problem. And it covered more fronts that she had liked. It had been 9 weeks since she had met and made love to the man of her dreams. Despite all the little voices in her head telling her that it was a terribly bad idea to fall for him, she did exactly what those voices told her not to.
Even though their meeting had been brief, she knew that she had feelings for him even before she left him early that morning. And this was her problem. She might have let him "love" her a little too much. So this is why she is lying on an exam table, in a paper gown, and with her feet in stirrups letting her OBGYN give her an exam. Her OBGYN doctor had been sympathetic to her, she had been he OB since she was 16.
"So Kate, what brings you here today?"
"Doctor, I'm about 8 weeks late. I think I might be pregnant."
Th doctor stopped her exam and looked up at Kate with a question bubbling to the front of her mind. Knowing that her boyfriend was not able to father any children, so she asked her the question anyway.
"So Kate I'm not being nosy but I thought Josh couldn't have any children?"
"Yeah Doc, you're not wrong about that."
The doctors face got blood red quickly. "So Kate what do you plan on doing? I know a doctor that can take care of your pro..."
Kate cut the doctor off. "This is NOT a problem and I'm not going to get an abortion!"
Seeing that Kate had made up her mind, the doctor finished the exam and told Kate to meet her in her office.
As Kate sat down in the chair across from her the doctor started speaking.
"Kate I will prescribe you some prenatal vitamins, and a really good book on motherhood. I really think you should read this book it explains a lot."
"So can you tell from the blood work what I'm having?"
"Actually no. But we will take care of that on your next visit. I'd like to get you in here in a month's time. Then we should get a clearer picture of what you're going to have."
Kate held tightly onto the appointment card made out for her next months appointment. But now it was back to the daily grind. On her drive back to the 12th, every thought was about him. What was he doing right now, Is he thinking about me? She quickly squashed those thoughts, because she meant what she said in the letter to him. But now since she had this issue to deal she with, she was second-guessing her decision.
The next month flew by. She had almost forgotten her OB appointment. Making it to the office just a little late she takes a seat in the reception area. Her name is called and the doctor sees her. She is on the exam table once again and at first the gel is a little cold. The sonogram is finished and she now has an image of her daughter. She is prescribed another medication to help with the never ending morning sickness. Getting home after filling the prescription she finds something easy and quick to eat for dinner.
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Kate had already made it midway into her second trimester and she needed to tell her captain that she was expecting a baby. Although she did not show a baby bump yet she knew the time would need to come soon. Deciding that there was no better time than the present she got up from her desk and knocked on the captain's door.
"Enter" was the response.
"Captain, do you have a minute?"
"Sure detective."
"Sir, there's something I need to tell you."
"Oh? Is there something about a case you need to talk about?"
Kate thought about how to tell him that this has nothing to do with her work ethic and everything to do with her personal life. So she just came right out with it.
"Sir, in a month or two I will no longer to be able to go out in the field."
"Beckett, why would you purposely pull yourself from investigating? Is there a problem with any of your junior detectives? Or are you just fed up with not getting the results you need to solve a case right away? You know tha..."
Kate cut him off in mid-sentence. He was thinking that this was work related and she did not have the heart to tell him that it wasn't.
"Sir, I am going to have a baby!"
Captain Montgomery was slack-jawed. So many thoughts ran through his head, first being how this could happen. He knew about Josh's condition and then dropped into his chair, thinking.
After a while, he was finally able to put his thoughts into words. "Kate, does Josh know?
"Actually sir, that's a funny story," Kate said trying to go for the humor in what she was about to say.
"You see..." Kate was interrupted when Ryan walked into the captain's office and started to update him on their current case.
"Detective Ryan, could you hold that thought for just one second." "Kate you were saying?"
"Sir, I think this is a topic for a later date. I just wanted to inform you about my intentions."
"Understood, but this is far from over detective!"
"So Ryan, what do you have?"
Ryan looked at Kate with a puzzled look as she walked past him. Just then the captain asked him again what the update was. Ryan explained and then left. After sitting at his desk, he motioned to Espo and he turned around to face his partner.
"Yo Espo, somethings go on with Beckett."
"Ryan, this case has her all stressed out. This is a case where nothing makes any sense. Not the usual suspects in this one." Espo tried to explain.
"Javi, it's not this case. I think there's something more to it on a non-work level."
"Nah, just run down that lead and see where it brings us. Beckett would never keep us in the dark, hell we are like brothers and sister."
Ryan just went back to work. This was going to eat at him until he figured it out.
Kate had all the resources to find her man. But with nothing to go on other than a physical description, she was spinning her wheels. How hard could this be...she thought to herself. I am a detective for god sakes. This should not be that hard. Kate had run his description through the FBI's NCIC and came up empty. What she needed was a name. The description was vague and returned about 651 hits just in the NYC area alone. It would take time, but she had no other way to locate him. This would be a project she would keep to herself, away from the prying eyes of the precinct. She would come in early and stay a little late to sift through the results.
T-14 days!
