AN: Thanks for the reviews. Here is the next chapter, Grissom's reaction to the news.

Chapter 21: Telling Him

1 week later

With a couple of files in her hand, Sara took a breath as she started walking toward his office that use to be Brass's.

After a week of trying, which got interrupted multiple times, to tell him that his life was about to change again, it was finally time. She wasn't going to let anything stop her this time.

Now she knew how she was going to tell him shouldn't have happened this way, and that he should have been there for the first checkup and ultrasound, but she was just too nervous it tell him, but knew she had to be strong now because she couldn't wait forever. Plus, she didn't want to go to future appointments alone, especially if she continued to get those sympathy looks from other women there with their significant others, thinking she didn't have anybody by her side, which was very far from the truth.

After that last thought ended, her finally thought was. 'Or I hope.'

She mentally shook her head and took another deep breath as she stopped in front of the office door that was closed before she lifted her left hand up and knocked.

A few seconds later she hears. "Come in."

She opened the door and poked her head in and asked with a smile. "Hey, I have a few files I need you to look at."

Grissom smiled brightly from his seat at his desk with a nod. "Ok, come in."

Once she was in, she closed the door and walked toward his desk, handing him the files when she got there, then watched him take them and place them on a pile to his right before picking up his pen again, ready to sign his name on another file he had, but stopped when she spoke again. "Aren't you going to look at them?"

"I will, later."

With her heart pounding, she continued. "I really think you should look at them now, especially the top one."

He raised an eyebrow as he asked. "Is it really that urgent?"

Sara nodded while stuttering a little. "Ye...Yeah, it is."

Now concerned, he asked. "Are you ok?"

"Just please look in the file."

"Ok."

He sets his pen back down and grabbed the top file as she looked down on the floor, then she heard him now speaking in a stuttering voice. "What uh...What am I...I looking at?"

She took a breath before looking into his eyes. "I think you know what you are looking at."

He stands up with a nod while he still held the ultrasound picture in his hand. "And it's true?"

Sara nodded with tears in her eyes as he walked to the other side of the desk. "Yes, it's 100% true, I'm pregnant, we're having a baby." He stopped in front of her and cupped her cheek while she continued. "Griss, I'm..."

He cuts her off as he asked after clearing his throat to get some of the emotion out. "How long have you known?"

She swallowed before whispering. "A week, and I would have told you that same time, but after you said you couldn't handle any more changes/surprises at the moment, I freaked and I kept loosing my nerve."

He wiped a few unexpected tears off her cheek as he whispered back. "So, in a way you decided to let the baby tell me."

She chuckled/sobbed a little. "Yeah, and I know, or hoped anyway, you would have liked to have been there to my first appointment..."

He cuts her off again. "You're right I would have, and I'm not missing anymore, ok? I'm with you every step of the way."

After Sara nodded, she asked. "Are you ok with this, Griss?"

Grissom cleared his throat again because the emotion was coming back, more heavily this time as he spoke. "This baby may have been unexpected, but it isn't unwanted. He or she is going to have the best parts of us, and I can't be more excited to share this baby with you."

Her eyes lit up, hearing that. "Yeah?"

He nodded with a smile. "Yeah."

Seeing the truth in his eyes, and without even thinking on where they were, she wrapped her arms around him and sighed in relief. "You don't know how much I needed to hear you say that."

He ran his hand up and down her back and whispered. "You wouldn't have been in this much anxiety if you would have told me a week ago." Sara nodded as Grissom continued as he pulled back from her before cupping her cheek. "I hope you know by now that you can tell me anything."

Sara nodded as she looked down with tears in her eyes. "I know, I'm sorry, I just feel like I keep making the same mistake."

He shook his head as he lifted her heard back up before running his thumb up and down her cheek. "You didn't run away this time, I say that was a mistake you didn't jump to."

"And I never would have, I would have never kept your child away from you, I hope you know that."

He nodded with a smile. "I do."

"Good."

They continued to look into each other's eyes, showing one another their love and happiness, then he cleared his throat as he removed his hand from her cheek, finally remembering where they were. "Let's go home and talk more about this."

"What about your files?"

He waved it off as he walked to the other side of his desk so he could grab his briefcase from the floor and his coat from his chair. "I'll come in before shift tonight. Right now I just want to hold you, while we discuss this further."

"Ok, I'll meet you at home."

"Alright."

Sara nodded as she walked toward the office door, but stopped when Grissom said her name, so she turned around as he continued. "I love you, Sara, and thank you for the greatest gift of my life."

Sara replied with tears in her eyes. "I love you too, and thank you for the greatest gift of my life."

After one more deep look, she turned and walked out of the room, relieved everything was out of the open and that he was happy about this new development.

Once they both made it home, Grissom started their breakfast, and they talked about shift, their new development and when they were going to share the news, then once the dishes were put in the dishwasher, they retired to their bedroom, and after Sara was done in the bathroom, she walked out and saw Grissom looking at the ultrasound picture, something she noticed he couldn't take his eyes off since they've been home.

Since it was still early there wasn't much to see, but knowing that a baby was there, still made this the best picture Grissom, and Sara for that matter, has ever seen.

After she was under the covers and sitting up in bed, she looked over at him and asked. "Griss, are you ok?" She didn't know why, but she felt something was bothering him now, which to be honest got her a little worried again.

He took a breath before looking in her direction, and she could see the worry now in his eyes, so she frowned a little, but before she could speak, he started to. "Since you've told me about this baby, we've talked about how happy we are, and excited on telling everybody, but there is something that wasn't brought up."

"Ok, what is it?"

He cleared his throat before continuing. "You know why my mother is deaf, right?"

Sara nodded. "Of course." Then after a short pause, she looked at him with worry as she placed her hand on top of his. "You're afraid our child will become deaf, too."

He does a short nod before replying. "I would be lying if I said I didn't, I mean it could still even happen to me."

She moved her hand from his hand before cupping his cheek. "And if it happens to you or our child, I'm still going to love you both. He or she will be a part of you and that just makes this child even more special to me, so deaf or not, I'm all in."

Grissom had tears in his eyes as his heart melted at those words, but not able to tell her how much of what she said meant to him, he leaned toward her and kissed her, which she reciprocated immediately.

After a couple of deep kisses, they finally pull back and put their foreheads together to catch their breaths, and once they did, she cleared her throat and spoke with a smile/smirk. "Well, if I get kissed like that after saying words like that, I'll definitely want to keep that in mind."

He chuckled before whispering. "You and this baby." He placed his hand on her stomach as he finished. "Mean everything to me."

She placed her hand on top of his as she replied with tears in her eyes. "For as long as I can remember I never felt like I had a family, or a good one for that matter, but outside of Nick and Warrick, I have you and our little one now, so you guys are my family, and you don't know how much that means to me."

He pulls his forehead off hers to look into her eyes as he cupped her cheek again. "I can see that's a great deal to you."

She nodded. "It is." She cupped his cheek and brought him to her again as she whispered. "I love you so much, and there is no one else I would want to share this experience with."

They kissed again before he could speak, and after they were laying down, he finally pulled back and kissed her on the forehead before whispering. "I love you too."

He gets comfortable on his back as she scooted closer to him, and after she laid her head on his bare chest, he lifts the ultrasound picture up, so they could look at it, and while he held his whole world in his arms, he made an important decision about their future, and he just hopes Sara will like it.

AN: Next Chapter. Momma Grissom comes for another visit, to hear about the baby. What's she going to say about it? Find out. Please review.