Budding
Chapter Eighteen
Catherine seemed to be rushing to the restroom every time somebody looked up.
Her morning sickness was horrible and at work, she could hardly get anything done because she was throwing up. She couldn't even smell food or else that would send her running. Greg teased her about being pregnant and she went off on him and started crying. She cried forever and Warrick had a nice talk with Greg.
The morning before, they went in for a sonogram and it revealed that she was six weeks along.
Warrick waited patiently for Catherine to exit the restroom. Nick came by and shook his head.
"First comes sickness, then comes cravings," Nick said.
"How do you know so much about pregnancy?" Warrick asked.
"I'm one of seven kids," Nick said. "My mom had morning sickness with all of us, then after a month or two, it was egg and peanut butter sandwiches."
"That's nasty," Warrick said. "No wonder you are the way you are."
"Hey," Nick said. "I came out just fine thank you."
Catherine came out of the restroom.
"Ready?" She asked.
"Yeah," Warrick said.
***
Warrick enlisted the help of Nick, Grissom, and Greg to move everything into their new house.
Catherine, Lindsay and Sara were dictating where to put things and how to put them.
Warrick looked at Catherine, who was glowing, and she smiled.
He put down the end of the couch that he was carrying and he kissed her.
Nick yelled at him, and he went back to work.
Later, when they had everything moved in, they all sat in the back yard thinking of names for the baby, colors for the house, and how to arrange things.
"I like Alexis," Catherine said. "Alexis for the girl, and Hayden for the boy."
"I don't know if I like Hayden," Warrick said.
"How about Greg?" Greg asked.
"No," everyone else said in unison.
"How about Isaiah?" Catherine proposed.
"That works," Warrick said.
"Isaiah Thomas Brown," Catherine said with a smile.
"That's perfect," Sara said with a smile. "But what if it is a girl?"
"Then, how about Alexis Rose?" Catherine said again, looking at Warrick. "You like that?"
"I love that name," he said.
They leaned in and kissed each other.
"Aw, would you two give it a rest?" Nick said. "You're killin' us."
They pulled away and looked at each other lovingly, and Sara made a gagging gesture as the couple kissed again.
***
After about three more weeks of Catherine's crying, morning/evening sickness, and irritability, she was happy as a lark, and eating everything in sight. She ate everything from bagels to asparagus, which really grossed Warrick out. She started eating her weight in Ben & Jerry's Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream and cottage cheese for breakfast every morning, and she drank water and Sprite Remix nonstop.
Warrick had to catalogue things that made her sick: she couldn't stand the smell of laundry detergent, so Warrick took care of all the laundry, and pickles, Doritoes, ham, bacon, pork chops, Italian dressing, and butter were banned from the house because they made her sick. Everything else she ate and enjoyed with much satisfaction.
She wasn't showing yet, but the weight she had gained didn't go unnoticed.
"Catherine's getting a little soggy in the midsection," Nick commented. "I didn't know Catherine had that big an appetite. Before you sewed the seed, Catherine would barely finish a hamburger."
Warrick shook his head. "She's been eating Lindsay and I out of house and home," he chuckled. "But I'm glad she's eating. She's having a healthy pregnancy so far."
When Warrick and Nick entered the break room, they saw Catherine reclining in one chair and she had her feet propped up on another, watching television chomping down on a pastrami sandwich, which happened to be Warrick's.
"Hey babe," he said as he kissed her on the cheek.
"Hi," she said. "Where have you been?"
"Checking up on some results," he said. "You know you're eating my lunch."
Catherine pouted. "I'm sorry but I was hungry," she said. "I mean, I'm only pregnant with your son."
Nick grinned at her comment.
Warrick chuckled and he put his hand on her now soft belly from the weight. "Eat up."
She smiled.