The next afternoon, Fran drug Spencer and Leah with her to the supermarket, fully intending to get the whole story on what was going on between them. However, by the time they were leaving their last stop, an opportunity to discuss it had yet to present itself.

As they were exiting a bakery, Fran saw an old enemy of Derek's, Rodney, approach.

"Who's the Barbie doll?" Rodney drawled, grasping Leah's arm.

Before Leah could even pull her arm away, Spencer her all ready pinned Rodney up against the side of the building.

"If you ever," Fran couldn't remember ever hearing that much malice in the usually mild-mannered Spencer's voice. "Touch my wife again; I swear I will blow your brain to kingdom-come."

Without his minions surrounding him, Rodney was quick to back off, slinking back through an alley.

"Are you all right?" Spencer asked.

"I could've done that myself," was her answer.

"Your wife?" Fran asked.

Spencer bit his lip and nodded. So did Fran, slowly processing it.

"You're hiding that fact, I take it?"

Again he nodded as they walked towards the car.

"Are you pregnant?" Fran asked.

"Yeah. How'd you know?"

"Spencer's comment about "everything" struck me as odd. I didn't actually know until you confessed."

"You know you can't hold out forever, right?" Fran asked, sliding into the car.

"Yeah."

"When are you going to tell them, then?"

"When the time is right." Leah said. Spencer just shrugged.

"That's not a good answer. You'll be telling them on the way to the hospital, if that's your plan."

"Yeah, well, we just found out yesterday, so nothing is really set in stone." Spencer said from the back seat.

"Or even a pebble." Leah said dryly.

"Time is going to fly, though. It'll be here before you know it. But, you've made your bed, so now you have to lie in it."

"That doesn't help." Spencer said. "It's a possibility that we could lose our jobs."

"I thought Derek said that the fraternization rules had been done away with?"

"Yeah, but I'm not sure what their views on marriage are, so we're playing it safe for now." Spencer explained.

"This is going to be a fun hole to watch you two dig yourselves out of. So what do her parents say about this?"

Spencer groaned aloud. "I don't even want to think about it!"

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