Sam's job at the DEO was running much smoother under Beth's leadership. For the first six weeks since Jillian and Paul had been fired, everyone in tech was required to give up two hours a week to help them get caught up. Winn hated it, but Sam loved bossing him around. Once everything was up to date, Beth organized the staff so that each project had two people working on them and everyone had help and support. She worked on projects herself, as well as assigning them, setting deadlines and doing reviews. Sam and she became very friendly and usually lunched together. With the department run with this type of efficiency, Sam found the job to be very satisfying.

She was working on a project with a young unmarried co-worker, Joe. They had stayed past the usual quitting time to finish it.

Sam hadn't felt well that day, so she'd skipped lunch and kept working. By 7 PM, it had been over twelve hours since she'd eaten anything and she started to feel it.

Joe saw that she seemed unwell. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, just a little light-headed. Probably from not eating today."

"We can stop now if you want, finish tomorrow."

"No, I have to start a new project tomorrow. Let's just get this done and then we'll go. My husband is doing some work while he waits for me, so I might as well finish."

They worked a few more minutes, but she found it hard to concentrate.

"I'm gonna get some water." She stood up and as soon as she started to walk, she collapsed.

Joe ran to her, "Sam! Sam!" but she was out cold.

He immediately panicked and ran out to the corridor and yelled, "Help! I need help!"

Two agents were walking by and he pulled them into the department.

"Sam passed out! I don't know what to do!"

They recognized her as Winn's wife. One of them texted him while the other tried to see if he could help her.

Winn glanced at his phone when he heard the text notification, thinking maybe Sam was finished with her work.

It was another agent at work, but the message said: your wife passed out in her office.

He jumped up and started running towards her department. Alex and Kara were walking by when they saw him in a frenzy.

"Winn, what's wrong?"

Without stopping, he called out, "Sam passed out. I don't know what happened."

They ran too and caught up with him.

Sam was starting to come to when he got there. He went down on his knees. "Sam, are you okay? What happened?"

"I don't know. I got a little dizzy, I didn't really eat today, so it's probably just hunger."

"Why don't we find out?" Alex asked. "Let's go to the infirmary and I'll give you a quick check?"

"That's not necessary." Sam said.

"Yes, it is. You passed out" Winn insisted.

"I didn't pass out. I just kind of fainted."

"Sam, that's the same thing." Alex told her. "Come on, it'll only take a few minutes."

"I have work to finish!"

"Not today you don't." Winn said firmly.

"I've got it, Sam." Joe said. "There's only a little bit. I can finish it."

Kara asked her, "Do you want me to carry you to the infirmary?"

"No!" Sam was starting to get embarrassed. She hated being the center of attention. "No, thank you. I can walk."

She stood up, with Winn helping and even though she insisted that she didn't need him to, he kept his arm around her as they walked to the infirmary.

Alex led her inside, but stopped Winn. "You stay out there."

"But…"

"I can get this done faster without you breathing down my neck."

She closed the door in his face and Kara put her hand on his arm.

"I'm sure she's fine, Winn. She's very healthy."

"Her mom died of an aneurysm. She was healthy until that happened. And she was younger than Sam is now. What if…?" he couldn't finish as tears began choking him.

Inside the infirmary, Alex was taking Sam's temperature and blood pressure and drawing blood.

"Is that necessary?" Sam asked her.

"Yes." She put the blood into a machine that instantly analyzed it. When Alex saw the results, she turned to Sam.

"Anything you want to tell me?"

"No. Why? Did you find something?" Sam started to worry.

"Nothing that won't resolve itself in a few months." Alex said with a smile.

Sam looked confused.

Alex shook her head. "You're pregnant."

"What? I can't be!"

"Considering the way you and Winn are all over each other in public, I can only guess what you do when you're alone, so I would say, you most certainly could be. And are."

"But I'm on the pill!"

"It's 99% effective. Lots of women have gotten pregnant on the pill."

Sam sat back, stunned. "Wow. I wasn't expecting this. But I haven't missed a period."

"That happens sometimes too. Especially when you're on the pill. And that's why you fainted. Not enough fuel for the baby."

"Baby. Wow."

"You should go see your OB/GYN to get checked thoroughly, find the due date, get vitamins, etc." Alex glanced at the glass wall and said, "But right now there is a very worried Winn Schott out there."

Sam saw how upset her husband was. "Send him in. I want to tell him. You can tell your sister."

Alex looked at Kara who was trying to reassure Winn, but also looked very concerned. She went out and told Winn, "You can go in."

"What is it?" he asked.

"Talk to your wife."

He ran in and went to Sam. "What is it?" he asked again.

"Nothing. I'm fine."

"No, something's wrong."

"There's something, but nothing wrong. At least I hope you don't think so." She grabbed his hands in hers. "Winn, I'm pregnant."

"You're…you're…you're gonna…we're gonna…oh my god!" he looked totally shocked.

"Is this okay? I know we haven't really discussed this and we weren't planning it now, but…are you okay with this?"

His face slowly broke into a smile. "I'm okay with it. I'm great." He hesitated, then told her, "Can I tell you why I was so worried out there?"

She nodded.

"I remembered what you told me about your mom."

"My mom?"

"How she died. When you passed out, I got really scared that you…" he couldn't finish.

"Oh, honey! No, you can't worry like that. I told you I got checked. I'm fine."

"I know, I know. I was just…I got scared."

She put her hand on his face.

"Anyway, you are fine." he said. "You're great, amazing and we're gonna be parents. Can you believe that?"

"I know." She laughed, "Oh, I have to call Marni!"

"Yeah. And I need to tell my mom." He stopped and looked at her. "That feels good. To have this good news and have my mom here to tell it to."

When he left the room, Kara attacked him and pulled him into a hug. "Oh my god! Winn, I'm so happy for you!"

"Thanks!" he said, laughing. "Pretty cool, huh?"

"This is so exciting!"

Everyone had the same reaction and it was an exciting evening.

That night, as they lay in bed together, Winn was a little solemn.

"You okay?" she asked him.

"It's just hitting me now. I'm gonna be a dad."

"You are."

"Didn't really have a good role model in that department."

"Before he became a murderer, how was he? As a dad I mean."

"He was…pretty okay. We did stuff together. We liked the same things. We'd build stuff. It was cool. I never thought he would, you know."

"So why don't you take the good things that you did with him and remember those? Use them as a guide for your relationship with your child. And put the rest of it away."

"Yeah, I guess."

He was silent for a bit and she almost thought he'd fallen asleep, when finally he said in a quiet voice. "What if I end up being like him?"

"Do you mean as a killer?"

"Yeah."

"Winn, that won't happen. You're different, you could never hurt anyone. We went through this when you saw him before he died."

"I know. But it still goes through my mind sometimes. And now, with our kid on the way…"

She put her arms around him and held him tight. "No. That's not you and never will be."

He held on to her. "Don't stop believing in me."

"Never."

Do you guys love these two as much as I do?