Chapter 9

"Good save, but don't think I didn't catch what you meant to say! If I could get my hands on the idiot that devised all the 'extras' that went along with being pregnant, I sure as hell would make them go through it over and over again! I mean, don't get me wrong! I just love having to stop whatever I'm doing to go pee every ten to fifteen minutes! Then there is the varicose veins, stretch marks, swollen ankles, bigger boobs…"

"Hey now, that is a good one!" Bug protested, looking to Nigel for conformation, but Nigel only rolled his eyes.

With a glare at both men, Jordan told them, "I think I will wait for that report in my office. But don't think that I'm not going to hold you to that fifteen minutes!" With one more glare she stomped out, and regretted it the moment that she left the lab and hobbled back to her office to put her feet up on the couch as soon as she got there.

Standing staring at the calendar on the wall Jordan could hardly believe that it was still four weeks until her due date. She felt like she had been pregnant forever and she just wanted it over! To top it all off, she had another doctor's appointment today, and tonight they were supposed to be at her dad's bar for an unsolved case night.

Last night Woody had put the finishing touches on the nursery and when she'd seen all he had done, in an uncharacteristic moment of appreciation she had kissed him. Now, she had been aiming for his cheek, but he hadn't realized that the kiss was coming at all and had turned his head to ask her something just as it was happening so the kiss she'd intended for his cheek had landed on his lips.

Woody had been very surprised to find himself being kissed. In the months that they had been married the fact that he loved her had become a known fact, as well as the fact that Jordan really didn't know hew she felt at all. In Woody's mind this kiss was telling him that had changed and he lost no time in taking her in his arms and returning the kiss.

Strangely, Jordan found that she didn't mind this at all. She sighed and melted into his embrace, happy to return it. Her arms crept up around his neck and they became lost in each other for quite some time, until the baby decided to make himself known and kicked Woody.

This unexpected action startled him into pulling back enough to look down at her stomach. Jordan was suddenly embarrassed by the kiss and her reaction to it, as well as what the baby had done and found herself apologizing, "I am so sorry Woody!"

"Hey it's okay, you can't control what the little guy does. Ummm, Jordie we really should decide on a name for him, its only a month until he will be here."

Glad that the subject was not going to be about the kiss, she was happy to discuss anything else, but that. They spent over an hour going through the baby name books she had and actually narrowed it down to three possibilities by bed time.

They said awkward good nights to each other and went to their own rooms.

In the morning Woody had rushed out without eating, saying that he needed to get to the station early. Because of her doctor's appointment Jordan would be going into work later that usual.

The appointment went off without a hitch, the doctor telling her all the same things. She was doing well and so was the baby and the only change he wanted to make was to start seeing her every week instead of bi-monthly so he could better track her progress to her due date. Jordan made her next appointment and left the office.

That evening she was in her room changing clothes to go to her dad's place when she heard Woody call out to her, "Jordan, are you ready to go?! You know your dad hates it when we are late!"

"You can always blame me," she called out.

"I don't need to do that, your dad knows it's you," he replied.

To be continued…