Serena screamed. Literally screamed.
"Eva! That's fantastic" she leapt across the room and engulfed the brunette into a hug, squashing the life out of her. Eva giggled giddily. She was going to be a mommy. Eva had always wanted kids. She just had to find the right guy first and she did. Chris. Eva's smile dropped as she thought about her fiancé.
"What If Chris doesn't want to keep it?"
"Well it's your body, if he doesn't want it, he can't force you to give it up. But part of me thinks he's going to be just as ecstatic as you are."
"You think?" Serena just nodded at her friend and was about to hug her again but they were interrupted by their pagers. The two of them made their way back to the break room and at the sight of her colleagues in there, Eva hid the paper bag with the tests in and discretely managed to put them in her locker.
"Eva? Are you feeling okay? Chris mentioned that you were sick this morning" Proctor asked as he saw her enter the room.
"I'm fine, I feel a lot better now, thanks"
"Okay, you head up to the roof with Serena, Chris and I will go down to the ambulance bay, Tuck, make sure the trauma rooms are prepped."
That morning was a busy one for Alpha Team, they had four victims from a deep sea dive gone wrong. They were all rushed off their feet and barely got a minute to themselves. Eva was sat in the break room going over paperwork when Chris came in, aggravated because of his patient withholding information from him. He smiled when he saw Eva and then remembered something Nurse Graceffa said to him earlier that day.
"Big Block Letters eh?" Eva turned to look at him with amusement written all over her face.
"Graceffa and the other nurses were asking me about it, wanting to know whether it's true or not. I just nodded and went with it. You know...It's funny Dr. Zambrano, we've been together for over a year and I don't seem to remember any big block letters."
"My mothers name, on my back"
"Eva you dirty liar, they're not big block letters"
"What the others know won't hurt them. Plus it could have been for the amount of pain it caused, I couldn't lie down for a week!"
Chris chuckled and was about to reply when they were paged by Proctor.
They went down to the front of the building to see him riding in circles on a bike. Eva looked over at Chris with a look of puzzlement and Chris just shook his head, not wanting to question it. They both should be used to it by now.
"What presents like the Benz but deteriorates with worsening respiratory and mental status?" He asked the couple as soon as he saw them. They all debated it for a few minutes when Chris came up with a likely cause.
"They were in the Bahamas, what if she got malaria from a mosquito bite?"
"Or they were at a crowded bar, sharing shots of tequila and the glasses weren't cleaned properly, Pretty good way to pick up hepatitis or meningitis" Eva butted in.
"So it's malaria on one hand, or meningitis on the other" Proctor stated while he waited for the two of them to decide on one.
Eva and Chris both had a silent battle, looking at each other. Eva raised one of her eyebrows at her fiancé and he weakened.
"It's meningitis" he groaned as he caved in. Proctor watched their silent debate with amusement and laughed when Chris gave in.
"Man you are so whipped" he laughed as he walked off. Chris made to go follow their chief, arguing the fact that he wasn't whipped, Eva would just kick his ass if he argues with her, but Eva grabbed his arm, stopping him from leaving.
"Can we talk for a second?" She asked, biting her lip. Chris frowned and followed her to a more private area where they could talk in peace.
"What's up babe?"
"So...the steak last night wasn't what made me sick, it's a bit bigger than that..." she trailed off
"Eva? What's wrong? You're starting to scare me now."
Eva sighed and closed her eyes. She may as well get it over with.
"I'm pregnant" she chocked out, voice no louder than a whisper. For a second she thought that Chris didn't hear her and opened her mouth to say it louder but was interrupted by Chris.
"Yo-you're pregnant?" He looked at her with his mouth hung open in shock. In any other circumstance, Eva would have laughed.
"I know we didn't really plan for this to happen but I really want kids. I don't know about you but I don't want to give this opportunity up, I know it's going to be difficult with work, I don't expect you to give up your job for this, in fact, if you do I'll probably kill you but please don't leave me because of this. I don't know what I would do without you. Are you mad?"
Chris didn't say anything for a few seconds and the tears started pooling in Eva's eyes. She turned away and started to walk back into the surgery when Chris pulled her back. He pressed his lips to hers urgently.
"Are you serious!?" Eva just nodded and Chris let out the biggest grin ever, tears starting to accumulate in his eyes.
"I'm going to be a daddy!" He lifted Eva off her feet and span her around. She let out a sob of relief and giggled at him, wrapping her arms tightly around his neck. However, their happy moment was short lived because they were yet again, interrupted by their pagers.
A couple of hours later Eva and Chris were sat at the front desk when they saw the blonde that they saw with Proctor that morning walk it. They watched as Proctor handed her the wad of cash that Chris saw him receive earlier.
"I'm going hooker" he said to Eva
"For that amount of cash!?"
"Maybe she's got a few moves you don't know about"
Eva shifted so she was looking up at Chris with a look of amusement on her face, eyebrow cocked.
"Highly doubtful" she drawled.
"Oh yeah, you wanna share?" Chris sent her a wink and Eva smirked playfully.
"I would say yes, but last time we did that you got me pregnant"
"So we can't have sex until the baby's born? Dr. Zambrano, that's at least 9 months away!"
Eva smirked at him and leant closer.
"Now, I didn't say that did I Dr. Deleo, anyway, did you know that apparently women get hornier while they're pregnant?" Chris gulped as he watched Eva wink as she turned and walked off, going to check on Brandon.
That evening when they got off work, they all headed to the Crab shack. They saw the blonde from that morning pull up in a car in front of them and Proctor explained how he was buying the car off her dad. Eva and Chris looked at each other and burst out laughing.
"We thought she was a hooker or something" Eva gasped, crying from laughter. Proctor looked at the two of them who were doubled over with laughter bemusedly and shook his head. He got in the car and was about to drive off when he turned to the pair with a smirk on his face.
"Congratulations by the way"
"How did you know?"
Proctor snorted and looked at the brunette.
"You've been giddy all day, you were sick this morning, you and Serena were in the toilets for a very long time, when you came back you had tear marks down your face and you put a paper bag in your locker, you've also been glowing and whenever you and Chris have been stood together, he's stood behind you with his arms around your waist and holding your abdomen protectively. You haven't been very secretive. We'll talk more tomorrow, I'll let you get some rest."
With that, he drove off into the night. Eva turned to Chris who was opening and closing his mouth repeatedly, trying to find something to say.