A/N: Wow, the last chapter is finally here, I know it is a weird place to end but I really have to end this story. Please review. Thanks.
"There!" Sara exclaimed as she added the last touch of light blue paint to the sky of the mural on the nursery wall. Sara and Grissom had decided on a calm mural of a tree, long grass, a bright blue sky and a few flying butterflies.
Catherine clapped her hands together and said, with a smile, "Present time."
Nick, Warrick, Catherine, Brass and Greg ran to the living room and took seats around the present loaded coffee table.
Normally a baby shower was just women, but Grissom had decided to go against tradition and invite everybody, and pass on Catherine's ideas for some very girly games. He'd rather not decorate onesies and giggle all afternoon Painting the nursery had been a much better idea.
"I'll get you for this," Sara said to Grissom.
"Sure you will," he said, clearly teasing. He cupped her face in his hands and leaned his forehead onto hers.
"Oh, I will," she said and stood up on her tippy toes and kissed him, reaching behind his neck to toy with his hair.
She pulled away and giggled at the smile she was still able to put on his face.
"It's crazy how much I love you," Grissom said starring into her coffee brown eyes. "And our baby," he added, rubbing circles on Sara's now bulging belly.
"Are you two coming or what?" Nick yelled from the living room jokingly.
"I can't believe that we're going to be parents," Grissom said, completely ignoring Nick.
"Regrets?" she asked, though she knew he could have regrets about a lot of things but becoming a father would never be one of them.
"Oh, god no. It's just that in 2 weeks…" he trailed off with a smile.
She smiled back and rested her hands on top of Grissom's, on top of her stomach. His eyes got wide as the baby shifted positions. It wasn't the first time he had felt it, but every time it put a look of love and amazement on his face.
"Honestly you two, did you forget about us?" Catherine called after them from the living room.
"We should probably get in there, huh?" Grissom said.
"Yeh, before they come in and drag us out there by the ears." She took off one of Grissom's old shirts she had worn so she didn't get paint on her shirt. A couple months ago Catherine and Nick bought her a few maternity shirts, the one she was wearing was her favorite. It read: F.B.I., and underneath that it said in parenthesis Fabulous Baby Inside.
Afterhaving opened all the gifts that had practically been thrown at her, Sara relaxed on the couch. She had received many baby necessities such as onesies of all sorts, bibs, and a variety of other items.
As well as all that Brass had gotten her an enormous hard cover Mother Goose storybook. Warrick had given her a gorgeous patchwork baby blanket with multi-colored fringe on the edges. Other more sentimental gifts had been received from the others as well.
As Sara closed her eyes and rested her head on Grissom's shoulder she drowned out the chatter that was all around her and imagined what the baby would be like. She wondered how Gil would be with children and although she had never seen him around children he always got emotional when a case involved children. He'd be a great father, she decided. They would make it work, that much she was sure of.
Just as she drifted deeper into her thoughts she felt a cool rush of liquid between her legs. As that registered with her mind she thought 'I know that did not just happen.'
"Uh, you guys," she said politely trying to get somebody's attention. Nobody seemed to hear her and they carried on with their own conversations. "Ahem," she cleared her throat. She got really aggravated when nobody stopped talking long enough to listen to her.
She took a deep breath and screamed in one quick breath, "Can you all shut up for two seconds?"
That got everybody's attention and she smiled sweetly back at them.
"What is it, Sar?" Grissom asked.
She was suddenly very aware of six pairs of wide eyes fixing her with piercing stares, waiting for what she had to say.
She leaned into Grissom's shoulder and whispered, "My water just broke." Like it was no big deal.
His expression remained blank for a few seconds then he shot off his seat and said, "Who's coming to the hospital, we're about to have a baby."
"I am," they all said in unison.
Sara finally got up and said, "Great but I'm getting changed first."
"What is taking so long?" Greg said, anxiously pacing in the waiting room.
"Greg," Catherine said, "She's having a baby, these things take time. Trust me they do not just pop out. Take a nap or something."
"Sleep? You expect me to sleep?" he said loudly, but Catherine was no longer listening to him.
It was Warrick who spoke up from Catherine's right side, "Seriously dude, just shut up and read a magazine or something."
Within the next two hours Catherine had taken her own advice and had fallen asleep, her head resting on Warrick's shoulder. Nick had stumbled upon an old deck of cards and was trying to play rummy with Warrick. Brass had finally shut Greg up by telling him some of his old cop stories.
"Just move her," Nick said to Warrick, who was struggling to pick up a card from the table without disturbing Catherine.
"No, she looks too peaceful. Plus I'm willing to bet she hasn't slept in 2 days," Warrick said and tucked a stray piece of strawberry blonde hair behind her ear.
Nick rolled his eyes, "fine, I'll play solitaire while you cuddle."
Warrick mouthed, "Shut up." And threw his hand of cards at Nick.
After a while Sara and Grissom heard the four words they had been waiting to hear for so long. "Congratulations, it's a girl," the doctor said and handed her baby girl to a nurse.
Sara's weariness caught up with her and she closed her eyes and drifted off to a light sleep.
Grissom took this chance to slip a silver diamond bracelet on her wrist. He had bought it a month ago especially for the day their child was going to be born.
The nurse handed him the tiny baby, wrapped in a pink blanket. He knew the instant he held her that he had everything he could ever ask for. The baby's soft cries woke Sara.
"She has your eyes honey," he said noting the deep brown eyes. He gently laid their baby down in Sara's arms and sat down beside her, wiping a joyful tear from her check and squeezing her shoulder.
"She's so beautiful," Sara whispered, her voice full of emotion.
Grissom got out of his chair, kissed Sara's forehead then the baby's and said, "I'm going to get everyone, you ready for all the commotion?"
She answered him with a nod and a bright smile. He went out into the waiting room to find Catherine and Warrick sleeping, leaned against each other, Nick shuffling cards and Greg and Brass reading old magazines.
Brass was the first to notice his presence in the room. "Did she have the baby?"
"Yeh, you guys can come in now but try to be quiet. And Greg, wake those two up," he said and followed Brass back into Sara's room. Everybody else walking in shortly after them and circling around the bed.
"If some one had told me two years ago that Sara and Grissom would have a gorgeous baby girl – I would have sent them to a mental ward. You guys really did it," Catherine said, starring at the small baby in Sara's arms.
"Uh…thanks?" Sara said.
"So, do you have a name yet?" Greg asked.
"Not exactly," Grissom responded.
"Well, you could just call her Baby G," Greg suggested.
Sara couldn't tell if he was kidding or if he was serious. "You know what I like even more than that? Olivia," Sara said looking up to Grissom.
"I don't know, I was kind of liking Baby G," Grissom joked. "If a name shapes personality I would hate to know what somebody with that name would be like. I really like Olivia, in all seriousness."
"Can I hold her?" Nick asked.
"Yeh, be careful," Sara said and handed Olivia to him. As her arm went up she noticed something smooth and warm slide down her wrist. "Where'd that come from?" she asked to nobody in particular as she admired a beautiful sparkling diamond bracelet that she swore wasn't there before.
Everybody crowded around Nick and took turns holding and talking to Olivia.
Grissom sat down once again and kissed Sara, silently admitting to her that he had placed it on her wrist.
"You are just full of tricks," she said. "I love you."
"I love you too," he said and kissed her again. They sat holding hands looking at their baby girl with big smiles.
Olivia started crying and Warrick handed her back to Sara. Holding Olivia in her arms seemed to melt away all the pain she had ever felt and filled her heart with warmth. She almost couldn't believe it was real, that herself and Gil could have created something so precious and fragile.
Holding Olivia close she kissed her forehead and silently promised her daughter that she would have a better childhood thanshe had and would always have two parents that loved her unconditionally. 'And probably a few other people too,' she mused as she lookedup at everybody crowded around.
"So," Brass spoke up. "That was an interesting baby shower."
Everybody chuckled and Sara said, "Yeh and it ended with the best present."
Grissom looked down at their baby girl peacefully resting in his wife's arms and knew that he was truly blessed; this was exactly what his life should be.
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