Author's note: Hey guys sorry it has taken me a while to update this story but I kind of came to a mind block, until the other night I came up with the idea to go ahead and end it, but please read and review!!!
Chapter 9
(This story is in the point of view of Nick, also this is set in Sara's ninth month of pregnancy)
I wake up when I hear the alarm clock; I roll over to discover that the warm body that usually lay next to me was not there. I look around the room and to my surprise she was not anywhere to be seen. I get out of the bed and stretch my arms above my head, and then I walk out of the room into the kitchen and discover my girlfriend making something. I sneak up behind her and placed my hands around her bulging stomach. That's when I feel my baby move inside her. She was nine months pregnant and we were excepting our baby at any moment.
"What are you making baby?" I ask her as take in a breath and smell her hair; it smelled like coconuts.
"I'm making cookies, would you like to like the spoon?" Sara asked me as she turned around and shoved the spoon near my face.
"Nah I'm not hungry." I tell her as I push the spoon away.
After putting the cookies in the oven Sara turned around and grabbed the kitchen counter with both hands began breathing heavily.
"Are you okay?" I ask her as I walk over and begin rubbing her back.
"Nick…I'm….having a contraction." She said between breaths.
After a minute it was over. "How many have you had today Sara?"
"That was my first one." Sara said while she caught her breath.
"Do you want me to stay home with you?" I ask her as I follow her into the living room.
"No you need to go to work." She tells me as she takes a seat on the couch. "Everything will be fine, if I have anymore I will call you I promise." She told me as I sat down beside her.
"Nick feel." Sara tells me as she takes my hand and places it on her stomach. This makes me smile.
"The baby is awful hyper today." I tell her. After taking my hand off her stomach I entwine my fingers with hers and bring her hand up to my lips and gave it a quick kiss. She smiles as I do this. That is when I felt her engagement ring touch my nose as I kiss her hand. I look down at it, and notice the diamond shining.
Sara and I got engaged while we were in Texas visiting my parents.
-Flashback-
"Nick, this is beautiful." Sara tells me as she stares out into the lake.
She and I decided to go on a picnic, so we came to the lake and laid out a blanket near the water.
After we finish eating a slid up behind her and place my arms around her, she leaned back against my chest and sighed heavily. We sat like that for a few minutes as she watched the sunset.
"We better get out of here, and get back to the house." I tell her as I stand up and reach my hand out for her to grab it so I could help her up. Being four months pregnant it was hard for her to get up off the ground. After she gets up I turn around and start to pack up our stuff, that's when she spoke up, "Nick" I turn around to face her.
"Yeah?"
"I have something I want to ask you." Sara said as she reached into her coat pocket.
"What's that, sweetheart?"
"Nick will you marry me?" She asked as she should me a gold band in a small black box.
This took me by surprise; I stared at the ring for a moment. "I thought you didn't want to marry me." I tell her as I look into her eyes.
"Nick the reason I said no, was because I thought you only wanted to marry me because of the baby, not because you loved me; but spending the past few days with you I realized I was stupid for telling you no. I love you Nick and I do want to spend the rest of my life with you."
"Of course I'll marry you Sara." I told her as I gave her a hug.
She took the ring out of the box and slid it on my finger.
After we got back to the house we told my parents and they were extremely excited. We laid in bed that night talking about our future together and our baby. "Oh I almost forgot." I turn away from Sara and reach in the nightstand beside the bed, and pull out the little black box. I turn back to Sara take out the ring, which lie inside the box, and place it on her finger.
"You carried this down here with you?" Sara asked me as she examined the ring.
"Yeah I was hoping I would ask you again, I just didn't know when." I tell her as I laugh a little. She gave me a kiss on the lips, before laying her head on my chest. After a few minutes I heard her breath heavily that is when I knew she was asleep. I look down at her belly; I placed my hand on it and felt my child move within her. I smile as I close my eyes and fall asleep.
--Flashback over—
"Are you sure, you don't want me to stay home?" I ask Sara again.
"No Nick, I insist you go to work." Sara said demandingly as she got up off her couch and began walking towards the kitchen. I follow her.
She gets her cookies out of the oven and placed them on top of the counter to cool. She glances at the clock on the wall before turning to me and saying, "Don't you think you should be getting ready to go to work?"
"I guess unless you really want me to stay home in case you go into labor." I tell her as I walk to her, place my arms around her waist and kiss her on the lips.
"Nick you know I love you very much, but you are starting to get on my nerves by asking me that." She tells me with a little chuckle.
I sigh heavily as I kiss her on the lips once more. "Since you making me go to work I guess I better go get ready." I say jokingly.
Sara pursed her lips at me before shoving me playfully. I walk out of the kitchen and down the hallway into the bedroom. After putting my clothes and shoes on I walk back into the living room to find Sara sitting on the couch and rubbing her stomach while breathing deeply.
"Another contraction?" I ask her as I rush over and sat down beside her. Sara just shakes her head in response. After a minute it was over with.
"I'm staying home." I tell her.
"No you are not I will be fine, get out of here." She tells me before shoving me again playfully.
-------------Later that night--------------
I was sitting in the break room with Warrick waiting for shift to finish, it was a slow night and we were just sitting there watching the 5 o'clock a.m. news. I then heard my cell phone ring.
"Stokes" I answer.
"Nick baby, I'm headed to the hospital because my water broke."
"Sara you don't need to drive in while you are in labor." I tell her.
"I'm not driving Catherine is on her way over here to take me."
"Well I'll meet you there, love you bye." I tell her as I hang up my cell phone before giving her a chance to say anything else.
"Warrick I got to go, Sara is in labor, tell Grissom where I went okay?" I tell my best friend Warrick before rushing out of the room and out into the parking lot, where I hopped into the Denali and began driving towards the hospital.
When I arrived at the hospital I found Sara to already be upstairs in the triage room, with monitors already hooked up to her.
"How close are the contractions now?" I ask her as I take a seat next to her. Sara didn't respond, she was to busy breathing heavily.
"They are coming every 3 minutes." Catherine said from the other side of Sara's bed.
It wasn't but 30 minutes later they had Sara on the delivery table.
"Mr. Stokes, I'm going to have to ask you to step out of the room for a moment while we get Sara prepped and give her the epidural." The doctor told me.
"Sure." I tell him.
I walk over and kiss Sara. "I'll be back in a few minutes okay? I love you."
"I love you too." Sara tells me.
I walk out into the hallway to find Catherine, Warrick, Greg, Grissom and Brass standing around. "Well any news yet?" Greg asked.
"No they are getting her prepped right now." I tell him.
"Are you excited?" Brass asked me.
"Yes very excited, I can't wait to hold me little son in my arms." I say with a smile.
Sara had an ultrasound done when she was five months pregnant and they told us we were going to have a little boy so we decided to name him Braden Nicholas Stokes.
Not long after I walked out into the hallway the doctor came and got me.
"Good luck." Greg tells me as I walk back into the room leaving all them standing around.
I walked to Sara's side and grabbed her hand. "Nick this epidural is awesome, they say I am having constant labor pains but I can't feel anything." Sara said as she smiles up at me.
"Are you ready to push miss sidle?" The doctor asks.
Sara nods in agreement.
"Okay miss sidle, take a deep breath and push until I tell you to quit okay?" The doctor says.
Sara takes a deep breath and pushes as hard as she can. Through out the delivery I keep on telling her she's doing great.
"I see the top of the babies head, he has a hair full of black hair." The doctor said.
Two more pushes and the baby was out. "Oh no, I hope you guys weren't really wanting that boy, because you two have a little girl."
"What?!" Sara and I say little surprise.
Sara and I were expecting a boy but instead we got a really big surprise by having a little girl.
"I guess those ultrasounds were wrong." I said with a laugh.
The nurses cleaned the baby and then handed our daughter to Sara.
"Oh Nick look at her, she is so beautiful." She tells me as she starts to cry.
"I know." I respond as I kiss her on the forehead.
"Mr. Stokes, would you like to carry your daughter to the nursery and get her weighed and checked." The nursed asked me.
"Of course." I say as I pick up my daughter from my fiancé's hands.
I carry my daughter out into the hallway, where I am met by all my friends/co-workers.
"Oh Nick, he is adorable" Catherine said as she stared at the baby.
"Uh, it's a girl." I tell her.
"Oh my gosh what a surprise!" Catherine said excitingly.
"I better get her to the nursery." I tell all of them as I walked passed into the nursery.
"7 pounds and 13 ounces." I tell my friends as I walk back out into the hallway.
We all stand there looking into the nursery window, watching the nurses check my daughter out.
"She's beautiful, Nick" I hear Warrick say behind me.
"Yeah you guys did great." I then hear Grissom say behind me also.
"Thanks" I say as I smile.
----Later that day---
Now I sit here watching my fiancé sleep while I'm rocking my daughter, Alyssa Skye Stokes, in my arms. This was the name Sara and I decided before we had the ultrasound done.
I see my daughter's eyes open, I smile at her as she looks around, before I say, "You know what little, one your mommy carried you for nine months, but I'm going to carry you for the rest of your life." I then kiss her on the forehead.
I was happy, I had a wonderful fiancé, who in two months would be my wife and now I had a beautiful daughter. My life was perfect.
The End….PLEASE REVIEW!!! (I'm sorry for ending it here guys, but I couldn't think of anything else to do with this chapter, but I'm thinking of making a sequel to this where Alyssa is older, what do you think about that idea? Anyways…What did you think of the story? I hope you liked)!!!!
