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Sharona quickly shot through the bathroom door behind Natalie and quickly locked it behind her.

Turning she quickly mouthed off.

"I knew you were up to somethin'...but this is lower than I thought you could possibly go."

Natalie turned around with tears still running down her eyes and still managed to give a withering look to Sharona.

"You don't know what you're talking about!" Natalie said and turned around to go into a stall, but Sharona quickly stopped Natalie by stepping between the stall and Natalie.

"What the hell do you think you're doing?!" Natalie snapped at Sharona.

"I wanna know what you did to him. And I'm not gonna leave here to you tell me." Sharona said as she crossed her arms and gave Natalie her stone stance.

"I didn't do anything to him! Now move!"

"Your lying! You did somethin and I wanna know what it was."

"I need to use the bathroom!" Natalie yelled as her body screamed that she needed to go.

"You can hold it in for two seconds for God sakes! You're not pregnant or sick so give it a rest!"

And it was as though Natalie was slapped in the face.

Suddenly it was as though pieces of a puzzle she didn't know she had to solve had fallen all into place.

Her libido! Her wild mood swings today! Her need to go to the bathroom so urgently!

Oh my God!

"Who the hell do you think you are that you can tell me to keep away from Monk! He's my friend!"

And it just came out of her mouth. Almost as if her mouth didn't consult with her brain. With no real evidence she blurted out her new found reason...why she could stake her claim on Monk.

"Who am I?! I'M THE WOMAN CARRYING HIS CHILD!" Natalie yelled out into Sharona's face.

And there it was.

The words out in the world.

Sharona's face fell as the words slowly soaked in. Sharona's eyes showed some recognition of the words and slowly her brow wrinkled in shock. "Oh my God."

Then Sharona's eyes looked into Natalie's frightened blues and realized EXACTLY what Natalie had just said.

A face of utter shock and disgust crossed her face. "Oh my GAWD!" Sharona said as her eyes went from Natalie's eyes to Natalie's stomach.

Before Sharona could say one more word Natalie quickly spoke.

"If you think for one second that I am just going to stand by and watch you take him from me then you're sadly mistaken. You better put up one hell of a fight because I love him more than you ever could and I am not gonna watch you manipulate him away from..."

"WHOA WHOA! What?" Sharona shouted as her eyes continued to look down at Natalie's flat stomach and then back into Natalie's tearing eyes.

"Yh..Your pregnant?" Sharona asked with a wrinkled brow and plain shock. "Ha...How..." Sharona began to ask and then stopped.

Sharona's brain quickly drank in the words and quickly figured out what the hell Natalie was saying.

"Wait a second!" Sharona said as her face lit up with realization.

"You think...you think I'm - IN LOVE with Adrian?!" The actual thought so foreign to her that just saying it sounded ridiculous as a smile appeared on her face.

Natalie didn't let Sharona's smile fool her.

"I've seen the way you touch him and the way you talk to him! Not to mention how you always call him Adrian! You look at him with this light in your eyes..."

"Natalie!" Sharona said with her hand held up in a classic 'stop' position and a shaking of her head, a smile pulling at her lips as she understood why Natalie was soo hostile towards her. Looking up at Natalie with a lowered head she said words that made Natalie suddenly stop her tirade.

"Natalie...I'm not ~ IN LOVE...with Adrian."

"You're...you're not...you're not in..." And as she said the words she let out a relieved laugh as Sharona too laughed and smiled along with Natalie.

"No." Sharona said as she smiled at an incredibly relieved Natalie.

"I love Adrian like a brother. Nothin' more." Sharona elaborated more.

In that second both understood why the other had acted the way they had.

Natalie covered her face with her hand as her face flushed with embarrassment. "Oh my God!" Natalie mumbled.

Sharona again looked down at Natalie's stomach and arched a brow as she shook her head.

"Oh my God..." repeating Natalie's words...but for a very different reason.

Natalie too looked down and as she did almost fell to the floor.

Sharona quickly acted and grabbed her, walking her back to the wall of sinks and helped her lean against the counter.

Sharona quickly went into nurse mode and quickly grabbed some paper towels and wet them down and applied it to Natalie's forehead. Quickly assessing Natale's pupils and pulse by holding her wrist.

"When was the last time you ate?" Sharona asked as she looked Natalie over.

Natalie shrugged her shoulders as she honestly couldn't remember when she had. To say the least she had been very stressed out.

"How far along are you?"

It was of course this question that had Natalie blushing again.

"I don't...I don't really know if I am." She admitted.

Natalie saw Sharona's defenses going back up and quickly told Sharona the truth.

"I hadn't made the connection until you actually said it."

Sharona relaxed a little as Natalie continued to explain.

"I haven't really been regular for a few years because of all the stress," both shared a smile at the knowledge of what Natalie meant, " and I have been moody as of late."

At that Sharona huffed out a laugh.

"Yeah! You trying to shove me around the precinct more than proves that." Sharona said as she again lifted her hand with the wet towels and Natalie swatted her hand away because of the dig at her expense.

Sharona grimaced at her but slowly it morphed into a smile.

"Just because you haven't gotten your period this month...and sleeping with Monk - that doesn't mean your pregnant."

Natalie considered this but quickly knew that she was indeed pregnant.

"Well I haven't gotten my period for a while now."

Sharona made a hand motion that was universal for 'see'. Natalie didn't 'see' though.

"See you haven't been regular for months! Like yah said - you've been stressed out! Just because you slept with Adrian.." Sharona grimaced as she said the words, " once doesn't mean you're pregnant."

Natalie's mouth opened slightly and slowly turned her face away from Sharona's sight, a blush instantly coloring her face.

Sharona shifted her body away as her mouth yet again hung open as she read Natalie's motion of embarrassment...now with ease.

"Oh my GOD! Wa...Wait!" Sharona said as she held up both her hands this time. "You mean to tell me you've been with him...in...in that way...more than once?" Sharona asked with a raised nostril and an arched brow.

Natalie let out her nervous laugh and quickly said, "Yeah...um...three times."

Sharona's mouth hung open so wide she wouldn't have been surprised if it hit the floor.

"THREE TIMES!"

"SSSHHHHHHHH!" Natalie hurriedly hushed Sharona.

Sharona just looked at Natalie suspiciously.

"With Adrian? Adrian Monk?!" Sharona clarified.

Natalie was suddenly very embarrassed for the way she had been acting.

"Oh my God Sharona...I'm soo sorry for the way I've been acting. You really didn't deserve it. You were just protecting a friend."

Sharona smirked as she looked at Natalie. For the first time since meeting her she saw how nice and humbling a person Natalie Teeger could be.

Natalie's head was hanging down as she fiddled with a piece of wet paper towel in her hand.

Sharona smiled as she nudged Natalie with her body, causing her to look up and smile back at Sharona.

"It's ok!"

Natalie looked down again and nodded her head.

Sharona let out a huge sigh that Natalie too followed sweet on.

Again Sharona's face morphed into one of disgust.

"I never even thought Adrian was capable of actually..."

Before Sharona could even complete her sentence as Natalie was laughing her classic laugh as she looked over at Sharona with a look that woman knew to be 'you have no clue how capable.'

Sharona's face again morphed into one of disgust as she turned away from Natalie.

"Sorry! Like a brother right?"

"Are you trying to make me throw up?!" Sharona said as she turned back around to find a happily smiling Natalie.

Sharona's grimace fell and she too smiled back.

It looked like she and Natalie had gone from foes...to friends.

All because of one Adrian Monk.

Author's Notes: REVIEWS! REVIEWS! REVIEWS! -I don't care if you hated it or loved it...I want to know! And I'm not writing one more chapter until I get at least ten. AND I MEAN TEN! It's a nice eeevveeenn number!