Chapter Ten

Cat stood leaning against the wall outside the doc's office. She wasn't sure that that was real. She had this enormous range of emotions in a matter of seconds. Joy, panic, fear, terror, happiness, more terror, and then numbness.

What was Lake going to say? What was L.T. going to say? He had taken an enormous risk being on of the first Lieutenants in the Navy let alone the seals to have a woman on the front lines voluntarily, and she had gone and gotten pregnant. But this was impossible, she was on the pill, they used a condom religiously…and now here she was somewhere in international water pregnant.

What was Lake going to say? They never talked about the future. Ever! She had never felt the need to bring it up. They had known each other over two and a half years, and been together almost a year. She rubbed her hand over her face. She needed advice badly, she decided to tell L.T. first, this was going to interfere in her work and he was her boss.

She knocked on the door, "Enter," She pushed open the door and saw, L.T. Waters behind his desk.

"Sir," She saluted and he saluted back.

"At Ease." He was rifling through all the papers on his desk. And glanced at her, He pointed at a seat, "have a seat Woods."

She sat down with a thud. He looked at her over the half lenses he was wearing. "Uh sir, I need a word."

"So I gathered." He gave her a sardonic smile. She nodded and licked her lips.

"I am pregnant," He just continued to stare at her. "I didn't mean to I mean if I had been trying I wouldn't have signed up with you, I don't know what to do sir."

He looked at her calmly. "Lake's?"

She nodded and looked at her hands. He nodded again. "Does he know?" She shook her head. "Right, well you tell him discuss what you are going to do and then come back to me." Cat nodded and let after being dismissed. That wasn't as helpful as she had hoped it would be.

Catherine stood in the doorway looking out on to the flight deck. It was an amazing day, blue skies with fluffy white clouds dotting the sky. There was a lot of wind though. They guys were all hanging out. Lake, Slo, Silk, Red, Flea, and Doc were all hanging out around the choppers laughing having fun. Of course they were all in uniform. With their brown pants and crisp white tops. No one had on a hat. Catherine all of a sudden felt like running back to her barrack and hiding under her bunk.

What was he going to say? She took a deep breath and looked down at her self. She was wearing a brown a line skirt that ended at the knee and a white blouse. She took another deep breath before heading out on to the deck.

The guys were joking about something or other; Catherine wasn't really listening to any of them. She tapped Lake on the shoulder. He turned and smiled at her.

"Cat, you feeling okay now?"

"Depends, can I talk to you a minute?" He nodded and they walked along the flight deck. They stopped and Lake turned to stand in front of her. She took a deep breath again.

"What's up?" He asked crossing his arms.

"Lake, I'm…"

"You're…." He prompted.

"I'm pregnant." He stared at her like she had just slapped him. His hand went to the back of his neck

"Uh…you sure?" He asked looking out over the ocean.

"Yeah," She said quietly. He put both his hand on his face and turned to face the water. Cat wasn't sure what his reaction would qualify as.

"You're serious?" He asked looking at her again.

"As a heart attack," She answered still trying to judge his reaction.

"Yeah!" He wrapped his arms around her thighs and lifted her up. She intertwined her fingers and leaned back using his neck as support. Cat was very shocked by the reaction. He was smiling up at her.

"You're not upset or scared, or mad?"

He laughed casually, "Scared? Hell yes, but I mean the woman I love is going to have my baby, how much can things get better?"

"Whoa, whoa, whoa," Cat struggled down from his hold and stood in front of him. She looked at him in the eye. She knew how she felt about him, Catherine loved him with every fiber of her being and she was fairly sure he felt the same about her but he had never actually said the words. "You have never said that before, you actually love me?" She asked it was like it was too good to be true.

He wrapped his arms around her, "'Course I do Cat," She smiled at him.

"You think we are ready for this?"

"No,"

"Oh thanks for the vote of confidence." They laughed and then turned to see the guys all looking at them. Cat took a deep breath and looked at Lake. "Why don't you tell them?"

"Really?"

"Yeah," He ran over and soon the flight deck was filled with the shouts and congrats of six grown men.

Catherine smiled to her self, things were going well.