"Elle?" Kay whispered as he pushed the door to their apartment open and came in. The lights were out but he could make out his wife sitting on the couch watching the door.
"Kay?" Elle had been anxiously waiting for him ever since he cut off the transmission, torn between fear and hope. What was she going to do if he wasn't happy about the idea of them having a baby? Their relationship was so new, felt so fragile still. What if this destroyed things? It wouldn't be the first time that an unexpected pregnancy had done that, She had seen her best friend from high school's marriage fall apart when she had became pregnant and they had been married a year when it happened. She and Kay had only been together three weeks.
"Are you alright?" Kay asked as he came over to the couch and sat down besde her, reaching out and taking her hand. "What did the doctor say?"
"Everything's fine. I'm cleared to return to duty tommorrow, I just need to take it easy," Elle whispered. Kay's concern touched her but still he hadn't said that he wanted the baby, that he was happy about it.
"Is he sure that things are alright? That you're strong enough to go back to the lab, especially now?" Kay asked. He didn't want to take any chances, didn't want to risk Elle getting sick or something happening to the baby. He had came much too close to loosing her.
"I feel fine. I'm pregnant, not sick," Elle said with a slight laugh. "So, how do you feel about this? I know we hadn't talked about a child and I did say it was safe." Elle was kind of worried about bringing up how she had told him that it was safe for them to make love, afraid that he might think she had tricked him or something. "I just didn't think that.... It was an honest mistake!"
"Suuusssshhhh," Kay whispered as he reached out, gathering Elle into his arms and pulling her close. "A baby together could never be a mistake." He lightly rested one of his hands on her lower abdomen as he imagined the tiny life growing inside.
"I got Bee to videotape part of the ultrasound for you," Elle murmured as Kay leaned down and kissed her, his lips running down her neck.
"Any reason we can't watch that in the bedroom?" Kay asked as he stood, scooping her up into his arms.
"No reason at all why we can't," Elle said with a giggle as she snatched the tape up as Kay carried her into the bedroom and firmly closed the door behind them.