Been sitting on this chapter for a while. Finally decided that it wasn't going to change, so here it is. Enjoy! I've seen a lot of story alerts in my mailbox! Be sure to leave a review!

Edgar was finally deemed stable and healed enough to transport back to Seattle. Kate was banking on the hope that once home Edgar's mood would improve. At first Edgar was just grumpy about being confined to the bed for so long. Even Kate's attempts at humor by making jokes about having him at her mercy didn't crack his funk. He constantly called Sig on the SAT phone, and he had finally told Edgar to stop interrupting the fishing. Colin and Robyn were frequent visitors and he was barely civil to them or to anyone else who came around. The doctors finally cleared Edgar to move around on crutches. His leg had healed enough that moving around wasn't going to damage it and Kate was able to finally sleep with her husband in the same bed again.

It came time for Kate's first ob appointment and she was trying to convince Edgar to get out of the house and go with her. "Like I want to have my pregnant wife helping my gimpy ass into her doctors office."

"Oh fuck off Edgar!" Kate shouted, she had had enough of his pity party. "It's my first god damned appointment and you can get your sorry ass off the couch and come hear your baby's heartbeat with me!"

"Fine!" he retorted angrily, "If you want me to I'll go."

"If I want you to? Don't you want to?"

"I want to be fishing!" Edgar pounded his fist on the coffee table.

Kate softened her voice, "I know baby. But I thank God every day that you are alive."

"What good am I if I can't fish?" he spat back.

"Fine. Stay. I'll g-g-go by myself," tears started to fall from her eyes. Kate grabbed her car keys and left the house. Was it really too much to ask for him to go with her?

At the doctors office Kate was ushered back to a room and given a gown to change into. The ultrasound machine was out of order so she would have to return but the doctor wanted to go ahead and do a preliminary checkup.

"Ms. Hansen, I see you missed your previous appointment. I'm glad you've made this one. I can't stress to you how important regular visits are, especially given your prior history," the doctor flipped through her file. "Your blood pressure is quite a bit higher than it should be."

"My blood pressure has never been an issue before."

"Then that is something we'll need to keep close watch on. Are you under any unusual stress? Big life changes? Anything like that?"

"M-my husband is a crab fisherman and was seriously injured back in January. That's why I missed my appointment. He's finally home from the hospital but things are kind of tense."

"I want to keep a close eye on this, so I'm going to send you for some blood work. You'll need to fast first, so the office will set up an appointment for you. We'll do the ultrasound when you come back."

The ringing of the home phone woke Edgar. "Hello?" he said groggily.

"This is Dr. Fausten's office. Is Katrina Hansen available?"

"My wife isn't home. She was supposed to be at your office. Is everything all right?"

"She just left without getting her pre-test protocol. Please have her call the office as soon as she gets this message."

"Sure, no problem."

As he was hanging up the phone Edgar heard Kate pull into the driveway. He expected her to come bursting through the door, but she sat in the car for several minutes. When she finally came in she looked apprehensive and tense. "Hi babe. Need anything?"

Edgar watched her with probing eyes, trying to discern how the appointment had gone. The doctor's call didn't sound like anything terrible, but it also didn't sound like everything was all right either. "No I'm good, thanks. How'd the appointment go?"

"Fine," she half lied. "The ultrasound machine was down so I need to go back next week."

"Fine? The office called just now. You forgot your pre-test protocol. What's that for?"

"Oh, they want to do some blood work. Just to make sure, you know. It's nothing," answered Kate trying to be nonchalant.

He wasn't going to let this go. "Nothing? We already know you're pregnant so what do they need blood for?"

She realized that Edgar wasn't going to let this go, "My blood pressure is up. They want to make sure it isn't something to be concerned about."

"What else would cause it to go up that much?"

"Gee, I don't know…stress?" She spat. " Let's see, my husband nearly died. And since he woke up in that Anchorage ICU he's been nothing but pissy about not fishing and taking it out on everyone around him. I worry about you. I worry about your leg and what's going to happen IF you don't get full use back. I worry about carrying this baby. Now I guess I get to worry about worrying too!"