If He Won't I Will chapter 11
At the lab Sara was wearing her vest that Gil had given her. Everyone would look at it and smile, they all had to get used to it.
Gil called everyone into his office, "Catherine and Warrick will be back tomorrow. But for now we are still short, I wanted to take one of the cases myself."
Sara gave him a look that said DON'T YOU DARE. "But I still have these damn crutches, so I can't." He looked at Sara and smiled.
"So I guess you will have to double up on cases. Brass has told me that each of you will have an officer with you to help out."
He handed out the assignments and went to work on some overdue paperwork. Ecklie came into his office, "When will we have your crew back to 100% again?"
Catherine and Warrick will be back tomorrow and I have an appointment in a week to see about the leg. Why?"
"I would like my man back and it is becoming a habit for something to be going on with your crew. You have not been 100% for a while." Ecklie walked out, Gil chuckled to himself, "Wait until he finds out that Catherine is expecting and Sara and I are thinking about having a child."
Back at the house Gil tells Sara what Ecklie told him, "Poor Ecklie!" she said, then laughed. "I am off tomorrow so I made an appointment with Dr. Gray then."
"I wish I could be there with you," he said, "but I can't take the time off." Sara told him she understood. The phone rang, it was Catherine.
"Just got back in town, I was wondering about work tomorrow?" "I am off tomorrow," Sara told her. "Great," Catherine said. "I have an appointment tomorrow but would love to meet you for lunch."
"Sounds good," Sara said. "We can catch up on things." "That will be great," Catherine said. "See you at EAST END GRILL. Goodbye Mrs. Grissom." "Goodbye Mrs. Brown." They both laughed.
"What's so funny?" Gil wanted to know. After Sara told him she said, "It is just something everyone will have to get used to saying."
Gil pulled her close to him and kissed her. "How about an appetizer before dinner?" he asked her. "Sure," she said. She started towards the kitchen, Gil grabbed her, "Not the kind of appetizer I was thinking of," he said as he started kissing her neck.
They went into the bedroom. Later as they were cuddling Gil said, "I would love to lay here forever, but I am starved." Sara agreed with him, they got up and went into the kitchen.
Sara made them fish and veggies and ice tea. While they were eating Gil made Sara promise to call and tell him what happened at the doctors.
At the doctors office, the next day, Sara was filling out paperwork when she heard, "Hello, Mrs. Grissom." She looked up and saw Catherine. "Mrs. Brown, what are you doing here?"
Catherine told her that Dr. Gray was her gynecologist. "Mine too," Sara said. "Are you?" Catherine asked. "No, but we have been talking about it. I just want to make sure everything is OK."
After her appointment Sara called Gil. "Grissom," he said. "Gil," Sara said. "I promised I would call." "What did the doc say?" Gil asked. "He said I do not need to refill my pills," Sara told him.
"Fantastic," Gil said. "Dr. Gray did say it might take a while," she told him. "Sometimes after a woman goes off the pill it takes a few months."
Gil just laughed, "That's OK," he said "Imagine all the fun we can have trying."
The next week Gil had his appointment, his doctor told him that everything had healed fine and he no longer needed the crutches. He cleared him for field work, he told him that there might still be some soreness and maybe a little stiffness.
That evening at the lab the graveyard crew was 100%. "We should have a party," Nick said. "I think this is the first time in almost three months that we have all been together."
"I know Ecklie is having one," Gil said. Everyone laughed.
Gil asked Catherine how long she would be able to work. "I am four months now and the doctor said I can do field work until six months.
After that I can work right up to the first of my ninth month, as long as I stay in the lab." "I guess I can wait a while before I burst Ecklie's bubble.
Now lets get to work."
At the house after shift Gil is sitting on the sofa rubbing his leg. "A little sore?" Sara asks. Gil nods his head. "Let me do that," she tells him.
"Stand up and drop your pants." Gil looks at her, "I am not sure I am up to that." "That is not why I told you that silly," Sara said.
"I have the medicine the doctor gave you to rub on it." Gil kissed her, as he was taking off his pants he said, "The honeymoon is over. My wife is no longer attracted to me."
Sara hits him with a pillow, "If you don't behave yourself the honeymoon WILL be over." Gil sat down and Sara gently applied the medicine.
"It can't be," Gil said, "Not if you still want a baby." Sara looked at him and smiled. "That smile still melts my heart," Gil said to himself.
It is three months later, Catherine is now in her seventh month and confined to the lab.
Ecklie decided to just let graveyard have a new member, he was tired on loaning his people.
Gil hired Candy, the young lady he had met before. She and Greg have been seeing each other. Sara is disappointed because she has not been able to get pregnant yet.
Gil talked to the doctor, he told Gil to try and get her mind off it, go away for a weekend and just relax.
Friday after shift Gil does not head home. "What's going on? Where are we going?" Sara asked. "You will see," he told her. Gil took her back to the ranch they had visited before.
They went camping again in the same place. They spent three days there, just relaxing and enjoying each other. Making love by the moonlight.
At work the next week Sara is about to leave for her scene when she felt sick to her stomach. She ran to the bathroom just in time.
Catherine told her to stop at a drug store and get a pregnancy test. Sara laughed but decided to anyway.
After she processed her scene she came back to the lab, her first stop was the bathroom, again. After getting sick again she decided to take the test.
POSITIVE, Sara just sat and stared at it. She wanted to tell Gil when they were home alone. She thought that she would have soft music and candles.
Everything would be just right, then she would whisper the news into his ear. Catherine stuck her head in the door, "Gil is looking for you."
Sara went to Gil's office, "Sara!" he said. He was very upset about something, he had never spoken to her in that tone of voice before.
He threw a piece of paper down on the desk, "What the hell were you thinking? You made mistakes on this that a rookie CSI would not have made. Hell, a cadet in the academy would not make them. Will you please tell me where you head was because it was not on the case."
Sara stood looking at him and as she was chocking back tears she said, "It was this!" She threw down the pregnancy test and stormed out the door crying.
Gil picked it up and looked at it. "Just in case you are wondering," Catherine said, "the blue line means you are going to be a father."
Gil looked at the test then at Catherine, "WOW" he said, then he took off to find Sara. He found her standing next to the car, she was crying.
"Darling," he said as he scooped her into his arms,. "I am so sorry. I had not idea. I ..."
"You can be a total ass at times," she said. "I had everything planned out, just the right way to tell you." "And I messed it up, do you forgive me?" He kissed her, "how can I stay mad at the father of my child," she said kissing him. "I love you so."
"Honestly, love I am so very sorry. I have been so frustrated having been cooped up in the lab, then Ecklie jumped me because some of the forms were not filled in right. I decided to proof read them ... I think maybe I should shut my big mouth before my foot gets in it so deep I can never pull it out."
Sara kissed him and laughed. "I understand, honey, I really do. It is just that I wanted you to find out in a - well let's say in a more romantic way."
"I am so very excited," Gil said. "I doubt, except being married to you, there is anything that can made me happier. Have you been to the doctor yet?"
"No, I called the office today and have an appointment tomorrow," she told him. Gil told her he would go with her.
Back in his office Gil could not wait to tell everyone. Sara begged him to wait until after the doctor's appointment just in case it was a false positive.
"Has anyone seen Nick?" Gil asked. Everyone shook their heads. Nick came into the office with a black and blue eye, a fat lip and holding a bloody cloth to his nose.
"What in heavens name happened to you?" Gil asked. Nick sat down.
"Mike?" Sara asked. Nick shook his head and she laughed. "Not at all funny, Mrs. Grissom," he said.
"Mike? Do you mind filling me in," Grissom asked. Sara said, "Do you remember when you were gone? I had called and asked you about the dinner 'date'," Gil said he did.
"Remember what I told you happened after, between Nick and Mary Ann?" Once again Gil said he did.
"Well, what I did not tell you was that Mary Ann slept with other men just to make her husband defend her honor. Their idea of 'make up sex' is 'get out of jail sex'"
"Let me guess," Gil said, "Mary Ann told hubby Mike and Mike decided to use Nick as a punching bag." "BINGO" Nick said.
"So is Mike back in jail?" Sara asked. "Nope," Nick said. "I decided that I did not want anything more to do with them. Lesson learned, is all I have to say."
Over the intercom NICK STOKES YOU HAVE A VISITOR IN THE MAIN LOBBY. Nick went to the lobby, standing there was Mary Ann.
"Why did you not press charges against Mike?" "I want you both out of my life," Nick said. Mary Ann walked over to him, "If you want to get together again," she said as she was kissing his cheek and running her fingers through he hair.
"Leave my wife alone!!" The booming voice belonged to Mike. "That is unless you did not get enough the first time!"
Nick was trying to get away from her. Grissom had seen everything that happened, he went over to Mike, "If you BOTH don't get out of my lab and leave my CSI alone you will both be in jail. Now get out of here before I call security."
Mike grabbed Mary Ann's hand and left the building. "My hero," Nick said as he laid his head on Gil's shoulder and snickered.
Gil laughed, "Get out of here and stop acting like a fool."
The next day Sara and Gil sat in the exam room. "So, you think you might be expecting?" he asked Sara. "Let's take a look." He finished the exam, "How late are you?"
"About six weeks," Sara said. "That would have been my guess," the doctor said. "You are six weeks along." Gil hugged Sara.
"I want you to make an appointment for next month. We will do a sonogram and see if we can see anything. It is possible that we may even be able to tell if you are going to have a little lady or a little gentleman."
The nurse stuck her head in the door, "Dr. Gray, I just got a phone call from the hospital. Mrs. Catherine Brown is in labor, she is about a month early."
Dr. Gray told her to tell them he would be right there. "Sorry, I have to cut this short, we will talk more next month. Oh, by the way, congratulations."
Sara and Gil stopped at the desk and made the appointment. The nurse gave Sara some vitamins and some pamphlets she could read about becoming a mother for the first time.
As they left the building Gil's phone rang, it was Warrick. He told Gil what the nurse had just told the doctor. Gil told him not to worry, just to be with Catherine and keep him updated.
At the lab that shift Gil called everyone into his office. He told them about Catherine.
"She delivered a healthy boy, Eli WARRICK Brown, 5 pounds 4 ounces and 18 inches long, about three hours ago. He is a little early but the doc says there is nothing wrong. Warrick will be out tonight and Catherine will need at least six weeks. So, once again, we are a little short handed. I know we will be fine. Now, before I hand out assignments, there is one more thing I want to say."
He took Sara into his arms, "My beautiful wife has, once again, made me the happiest man in the world. We found out today that we are expecting." Sara blushed.
"Oh good heavens, not another one!" The voice belonged to Ecklie, he had been standing at the doorway.
He shook his head and walked away. Sara looked at Gil, "There is nothing he can say or do that can bring me down off this fantastic high," Gil said as he kissed her.
"No public displays of affection," Greg said with a smile. "Screw the rules," Gil said as he kissed her again.
"Now, here are the assignments for tonight. Everyone will have two cases."
At the house Sara told Gil he could go first in the shower. "I will teach him to mess up my surprise," she said to herself.
"I will have it even though he already knows." Sara walked into the bedroom, she stood in total surprise.
Gil had beat her to it, he had candles and soft music, brand new silk sheets on the bed. He had fixed her a bubble bath with her favorite lavender bath salts.
There was a bottle of apply juice chilling on ice and some fresh fruit. "When did you find the time?" she asked.
"I only took one case tonight," he told her. "I had to do something to make it up to you for messing up your surprise." Sara finished her bath, Gil dried her off then carried her to the bed.
That night they made love with more passion than even before.
The next morning Gil woke to the sun coming in the bedroom window. The sheets were tangled around their bodies, the candles burned out and the sweet smell of lavender was replaced by the musky smell of sex. Gil smiled, "Life can't get any better than this." he thought.