Chapter 22
* ~ 3 Weeks into Sara's Pregnancy ~ *
Nick woke up to the sounds of Sara emptying out the contents of her stomach into the toilet. He looked over at the clock it was 5:30. They had to be into work at 7. He got up and walked into the bathroom, filled a glass of water and handed it to her. "You gonna be OK Sar?"
"Um, yea I think so." She said just as she turned to throw up again. Nick knelt down beside her and rubbed her back, and held her hair up.
"Come on let's get you back to bed." He said as he lifted her up off the floor and into his arms. He carried her to the bed and laid her down and covered her with the sheet on the bed.
"Nicky I'm cold" Sara said with her eyes closed. He didn't answer he just laid down beside her and wrapped his arms around her pulling her tightly to him.
"Better?" He asked.
"mm Hmm." She mumbled and drifted to sleep.
* an hour later *
"Oh my god Nicky! It's 6:30! We're gonna be late!" Sara cried as she jumped up out of bed.
"Sara, are you sure you're going to be OK to work?" Nick asked as he sat up in bed.
"Yea, I'm fine. Never been better. I'm really hungry though. Hey Nick, do we have any peanut butter?"
"Yea"
"What about eggs?"
"Yea" Nick cringed a the thought of peanut butter on eggs.
"OK good." Sara said as she finished getting dressed and walked out of the bedroom. Nick got dressed and walked out to the kitchen where he found Sara crying on the floor.
"Sara what's wrong?" He asked as she turned around.
"I was just thinking about the chickens." Nick was confused.
"What about the chickens?"
"They're all so helpless, and then some never get to be chickens. They just get to be eggs. And then the others aren't so lucky. I don't think I can eat the eggs I made." Sara was sobbing.
"I'll eat them." Nick said as he pulled her into a hug.
"Nick am I a bad mother?"
"Sara that's a crazy question! For one this baby isn't even born yet and two, you could never be a bad mother."
"What are you trying to say Nick?"
"That I love you and you're going to be a great mother."
"Oh"
* ~ At the lab ~ *
Nick Stokes walked into the lab…alone. Sara had left the house without him. He walked into the breakroom, where he found Catherine and Warrick drinking coffee and reading the newspaper. Catherine looked up from her paper and spit her coffee out.
"What the hell happened to you Nicky?" She asked referring to the black and blue eye he had, and his cut lip.
"Sara" Catherine just laughed.
"What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything. She went to go make eggs with peanut butter, and when I went to the kitchen she was crying. I asked her what was wrong and she said the chickens. And she goes on and on about how the chickens are sad or something. Then she started saying that she was going to be a bad mother, and I told her she wasn't and then all of a sudden she got really mad and punched me and slapped me, and then she left."
"Tough it out soldier, there's going to be a lot more of that" Catherine said and went back to reading her paper.