The room was all covered in mirrors along with a four-poster waterbed with a mirror on the ceiling to.
"What the?" CC questioned as soon as she found her voice again. "Why do this?"
"What is it?" Niles slowly approached her. "I…. Wow." He placed his arm around her. "This is what I call a man's bedroom."
CC saw all the videos sitting near the TV. "I see they are watching more then themselves having sex." She points to the collection of videos out to Niles who was watching all the angles of her body through the mirrors. CC stepped away from him.
"Oh," he said smiling at her. "Those are for us to watch." He winked at her.
"What?" CC shook her head. "I don't…"
"No," Niles shook his head. "There not those kind of videos. They are…wait he didn't say, but they are for us."
"What kind of videos would he have us watch?"
"Not sure. The note didn't say." He walked over the VCR. "We should see what on them." he placed one of them in the machine. Niles was talking to the captain.
'I wont force my attentions on her but she should know at some point I might break. I'll try to resist as long as I can until she find out what she wants. Weather it be with me or another," Niles stood there for a minute.
Niles knew what he was thinking then and there. He didn't like the sound of the word he was about to say. He wanted CC all to himself. He knew that sounded selfish but so be it. He was a man and he felt in his heart that he found the right woman for him. "Man."'
'There's not another man…." She spoke to him as she held his big hand up. "I don't want another man." He paused the tape and bent down to kiss her.
"Just me right?" he laughed.
"For now."
"What?" he looked hurt. She laughed. "You were just kidding right?" he questioned seriously.
"We will see how things go between us. I can't….." She turned her head away. "I can't make any promises Niles." she sighed. "I still have some things to work out."
"We will work on them together. I mean….you know we can."
"I'm not sure…" CC got up and walked out of the bedroom. Niles was going to go after her but he wanted what time he shared with her to last so he didn't press her. Two days go by and no sign of CC.
Niles was starting to get worried about her. "Why hasn't she come to see me? What could possibly be that bad that the two of us can't work on together? Should I just start the boat moving without asking her first? I better not. I better ask her if that's what she wants us to do."
He knocked on the door to the bedroom. Nothing. "CC, are you awake?"
Still nothing. He sighed. "I shouldn't wake her but what if something's wrong." He slowly opened the door. He noticed that she was in the bed. "Something doesn't feel right here." He silently said to himself. He stood at the door watching her.
All of a sudden she sat up quickly as vomit flew out of her mouth, spraying the bed. He burst into the room as she heaved again. "Oh god what a mess." He tried to pull her from the bed and she puked again, this time it sprayed on the carpet under his feet and on him.
By the time that he got her to the bathroom, she was dry heaving. He drew water over a washrag. He placed the rag on her brow and held her in his arms. He lowered them to the floor. "Are you all right?"
She stared down at her nightgown. She retched again. This time making it to the toilet, very little came up. Nausea roiled and rumbled through her, she was cold and hot at the same time.
"What is wrong with me? Maybe I have the flu or something?"
He wiped her mouth and pushed her hair back from her face. He lifted her nightgown over her had trying no to sear the mess anymore then he had to. He rinsed the washcloth and wiped her again, dabbing at her chest and belly. He looked at her nipples that appeared to be darker and more swollen then he had ever remembered them.
That was something that he wouldn't have forgotten about her. He stared at her belly, usually so flat and taut but now perceptibly swollen. He put his hand on her tummy. He thought he felt something move. Niles' mind: It couldn't be, but what if it was…that night… he shook the thought from his head. It was wishful thinking. "I think you might be pregnant." Suddenly she grinned.
"Really!" She sounded excited about all this. "I thought I was but wasn't really sure.
I've had this for days. Being sick, I just thought it was me. You know being on this boat. I was going to tell you but I felt weak." She looked over at him. "Do you think it true? Could I really be pregnant?" She said more to herself then to him.
She blinked. Then her tone turned sad. "but I…" she lowered her head some. "We didn't plan it to be this way."
We? Niles thought. Niles' mind: So she really wanted to have a baby with me? Why didn't she just tell me so? I…we would have done it years ago. Maybe even had a few more by now. He smiled at the thought of his child growing inside her.
"Well," he said. Niles' mind: this is the thing the she needed to get over. Maybe she already knew that she was. She just said she thought she was. Why is she running from me? She knows that we will get though this together, like we always get though tough times. And kissed her"We will deal with it the best way we know how." He placed her in his lap holding her. "We will survive it…. together." He held her for a few minutes. Tears slipped out of her eyes. CC mind: was this for real? Am I going to be a mother? And with him? She sighed. I can't believe this.
"CC?" Niles stared down at her. "CC?" she looked up him.
"What?"
"Why are you crying? Everything is going to be okay." She just sat there in his lap. He tightened his grip a little tighter around her. "We will be okay."