January 15th, 2003

The New Year had so far been wonderful for Bug and Lily. They barely spent any time apart. Why should they? They were in love and being in love was amazing. They had taken the day off so they could relax in bed together. It was something they boy deserved.

"Look what I got." Lily crawled into bed with a bowl of strawberries. Bug chuckled softly.

"Strawberries. I seem to remember me mentioning sex and strawberries were a good combination a few weeks ago." Bug chuckled.

"I remembered too of course." Lily said wrapping the soft blanket around her. "It's really cold when you get out of bed."

"That's why I'm not getting out." Bug chuckled as he picked up a strawberry. "Open up."

"All right." Lily giggled. Bug fed her a nice plump juicy strawberry. Who knew that there could be great strawberries found in the middle of winter? Strawberry juice began to trickle down Lily's neck.

"Let me get that for you." Bug leaned over and began to lick up the juice. Lily shivered slightly, feeling him begin to suck on her sensitive flesh. God, she loved his lips. They were so soft and kissed perfectly. Bug kissed up his way up her neck causing her to groan. He smiled brightly at her licking his nice lips. "Tasty."

"Mmmm, yeah." She giggled softly, "I didn't tell you to stop."

"There's no more juice though." Bug chuckled gently. Lily picked up another juicy strawberry and ran it down her neck.

"There's juice now." She said. Bug smiled and began to kiss her neck again. Lily smiled softly closing her eyes. Bug took a strawberry and began to trail across her collarbone.

"Opps. A lot of juice." Bug smiled.

"We can't have that now can we?" She asked, "I don't want to be sticky." Bug licked his lips.

"I'll take care of that." He said as he started kissing his way across her collarbone. Lily groaned softly lying back down on the bed. She picked up another strawberry and trailed it down her stomach.

"Opps." She whispered. Bug smiled softly.

"We're getting really messy." He said. Lily shrugged.

"I don't care." She said, "it's really fun, for me anyway." Bug chuckled.

"It's fun for me too. So much fun." He said. "Not many men get to like strawberry juice off of an amazing looking woman."

"I bet there's more of them than you think." Lily smiled as she closed her eyes. Bug began to lick the strawberry juice off of her chest and then her stomach. This could get really naughty, really fast. Bug looked up at her with a mischievous look on his face.

"I'm glad we took today off." He said.

"This has been the best Monday ever." Lily squirmed underneath him.

"I love strawberries." Bug smiled.

"Me too, but you know what I love more than strawberries?" Lily asked. Bug chuckled softly.

"What?"

"I love making love to you more than eating strawberries." She said.

"Is that a hint?" He asked.

"Oh, maybe." Lily batted her eyelashes. Bug crawled back up next to her.

"I can take a hint." He leaned over and began to kiss her. They needed to have more Mondays off.

February 1st, 2003

Lily had a secret. She really wasn't sure if she was really ready to reveal her secret to anyone. She had to though. She was stressing out too much. Lily stared at Nigel as he worked. She cleared her throat.

"Nigel, can I ask you something?" She asked.

"You can ask me a dozen things." He spun around in his chair to face her, "What's up?"

"When you get a cadaver, do you sometimes run pregnancy tests?" She asked. Nigel nodded.

"Sometimes. It helps the case along a lot of the time, especially when we can get some DNA." Nigel smiled. "It's sad though sometimes. You think you're working with one dead person, but then you find out it's two."

"Yeah, it's a shame." Lily said.

"Is that it?" He asked. Lily nodded.

"Yeah. I guess." Lily bit her lip, "No…"

"All right." Nigel smiled at her.

"Can we have doctor patient confidentiality here for a moment." Lily asked. Nigel frowned deeply.

"Of course. What's wrong, lily?" He asked. "Are you and bug having problems?" Lily shrugged.

"No…I mean, problems may start to develop." She said.

"I don't understand. What's wrong?" he asked looking at his friend with concern.

"I'm late." Lily said.

"Late for whaaaaa…Oh! Oh!" Nigel said. "You're…pregnant?"

"I don't know." She said, "You cant tell anyone, Nigel, especially Bug."

"I swear I wont." Nigel said.

"I was wondering if you could check my HCG levels." She said. Nigel looked around the room and nodded.

"If we keep it hush hush which of course we will." He said.

"Thank you." Lily said softly. This was really happening. She was really doing this.

* * *

The day was dragging. Every five minutes, Lily looked at her watch. Bug walked into her office.

"You want to go get some food?" He asked. Lily shook her had.

"No…I get to finish this report." She said.

"Oh. Want me to bring you back something?" He asked.

"Sure. If you want to that is." Lily said, looking up her computer.

"I'll surprise you." Bug kissed the top of her head; "I love you."

"I...I love you too." She said softly as she watched him leave. He was so good to her. She didn't want anything to mess this up. Nigel walked in.

"He gone?" Lily looked at I'm and nodded slowly.

"Yes." She said softly, "Did…you get the results back?"

"Yes." Nigel said, "you're pregnant." Lily stared at him

"Wh-What?"

"I'm one hundred percent sure you're pregnant." Lily put her face in her hands and started to cry. Nigel frowned and shut her office door. "It's not the end of the world, Lily."

"That's easy for you t-to say." She whispered as she wiped her eyes, "Bug is going to freak. I can't tell him."

"He won't freak, Lily." Nigel said sitting next to her, "You need to tell him though He needs to know. It's his baby too. You can't carry this all yourself."

"I can try." Lily sniffled.

"You can try to hide it from him, Lily, but when you're always throwing up and you're eight months pregnant, it'll be hard to hide." Lily sat there just taking this all in.

"You're sure?" She asked.

"Yes," Nigel said, "You know what, Lily? Whatever happened, I'll still be here, I'll still be your friends." Lily smiled softly.

"That means a lot to me." She said, "Don't you have some work to do?" Nigel nodded.

"Yes." He got up and walked out quietly. Lily stared at her desk. Her life was completely different now. She was pregnant. She and Bug were going to be parents. What the hell was she going to tell Bug now?