Chapter 7: Cam Mitchell

Evan was still in the bathroom and had been for what seemed like the last two hours. After his appointment with Carson, Evan had went into the bathroom and had failed to come out. For a while Cam had stood by the door, trying to decide if he should talk to Evan or not. When he had attempted to get Evan out of the bathroom, he was met with silence. It made his heart ache when he finally put his ear up against the door and he could hear sobbing. His Evan, was crying in the bathroom and refused to let him in. This was ridiculous.

"Come on Ev. I can't help you if you don't let me in. Please, baby, just open the door." His plea was met by silence. He knew that Evan was a hardened soldier, one of the best that he knew. He wasn't the type to just break down crying. But he knew that finding out that he was pregnant was probably one of the biggest shocks that he was dealt to date. They had never discussed having a family, it wasn't something that Cam had even considered since he realized that he liked men more than he liked women. And as far as he knew, Evan had never expressed the desire to adopt, even though there were more than enough orphans in the Pegasus Galaxy. He leaned his forehead and his hand against the cold metal of the door and let out a frustrated breath. "Evan, come on. Please. Come out so we can talk or at the very least put your radio in."

Cam Mitchell was tired, probably more tired then he had been in recent memory. His brain was telling him that he needed sleep but his heart was telling him that there was no way that this would happen, so long as his boyfriend was in duress and continued to keep himself where he couldn't be reached. This was why he was shocked and a bit confused when he found himself on his knees in the bathroom, which had previously been closed to him. It took him longer than he would have admitted to anyone to realize that Evan had finally opened the door.

Evan extended his hand but Cam waved him off. "I am not going to have my pregnant boyfriend help me off the floor." Cam said as an explanation as he hauled himself to his feet. He grabbed Evan's hand, slowly moved his hand up to his shoulder, wrapped his arm around the other man and all but lead him to the bed. He pointed to the bed as Evan wiped angrily at his eyes. "Sit here, I am going to make some tea and then we are going to talk."Evan didn't trust his voice so he just nodded.

It wasn't long before Cam came back with two mugs of tea and handed one off to Evan. "Athosian calming tea. No caffeine, perfectly safe." The because you are expecting was implied. He waited until Evan had taken a sip of the tea, and exhaled a shaky breath before he continued. "Do you want to keep the baby?" Cam could have smacked himself in the head for just blurting that out, this was not the conversation that he had wanted to have, but apparently his over-tired brain had decided that to take over his mouth.

Evan closed his eyes, took a deep breath and then re-opened them. "That wasn't what I was expecting you to say but I guess that if we have to address the elephant in the room, then it's best to get it out in the open. I want to have this child, as long as it poses to health risks to myself. I have always wanted a family but I put my military career first, and then when I realized that I was attracted to men, I resigned myself to the idea that I would never have a family. I know that the Pegasus Galaxy is dangerous, but that hasn't stopped families from popping up here and there. There will always be the threat of the Wraith until we completely destroy them, but that said I still want this child." Evan closed his eyes against the tears that he could feel prickling behind his eyes and took another deep breath. Cam rubbed his back when Evan re-opened them and he noticed that his lashes were wet. "If you don't want this child, that is okay. We can break up, you can go back to Stargate Command and I won't ever ask anything of you."

Cam shook his head while putting his mug on the near by table. The hand that wasn't still rubbing Evan's back, was rubbing slow circles on his stomach. He was still in awe that there was a tiny, living, breathing entity growing inside. He couldn't bring himself to think of it as a baby just yet. "If you're willing to have this baby, I want to have this baby with you. Now, no more tears. You're not going to do either of you any good if you continue to get yourself worked up. Drink your tea, then we'll take a nice hot shower and get you back into bed, before someone gets the bright idea that we are needed back in the infirmary."

Evan smiled as he sipped his tea. "How did I ever get so lucky?"

Cam grinned goofily. "Baby, I'm the lucky one." He placed a gentle kiss on Evan's forehead as Evan leaned into the touch.