Chapter 8

Grissom started to get up. "I think I'll let you handle that one."

Sara grabbed his arm and pulled him back down. "Not so fast, mister."

Grissom visibly swallowed. "You know, Kace…"

"I'm a big girl, Daddy." She said as she put her little hand in his.

"I know, Bunny Bear. It's just that I wasn't expecting this for a few years." He said as he pulled her onto his lap.

"Well…" She said impatiently after a few minutes.

Sara had to giggle at that. "Yeah, Daddy….well…"

"You're not helping, Sara." He said as he tried to form words. "Mommy and Daddy love each other very much, Kacee. When two people love each other that much sometimes that love creates a baby. Like when Daddy and Mommy created you and Ryan. You remember when Ryan was in Mommy's tummy?"

She nodded and looked over at Ryan in Sara's arms. "Then you had to go to the hospital to get him out."

"That's right." Sara said as she rubbed Kacee's curls.

"Cool." She bounded off Grissom's lap and out into the yard to play with her rope swing.

"That was easier than I thought it was going to be." Grissom said as he pulled Sara closer to him and wrapped his arm around her.

Just then Kacee bounded back up the steps. "Tell me again what Daddy said when you told him I was in your tummy."

Sara smiled down at her daughter.

FLASHBACK

Sara looked down at the stick in her hand in amazement. She hadn't known that something so little could change her life so much. The two lines were enough to make her want to cry with joy and tremble with fear. "What will he say?"

"What will who say?" Grissom said walking into the bathroom with her.

She hid the stick behind her back. "I've got something to tell you." She took a deep breath. "You may want to sit down."

He looked at her worried. "Are you okay?"

"Yeah, I think so." She said as she took her hand from behind her back and handed it to him. "Just look."

He looked down at the stick and stood there motionless. "What is this?"

"You know what it is." She said softly, nearly in tears.

"Are you? Are we?" His usually calm mind was anything but. "Sara?"

"Yes," she whispered.

"My baby is having my baby." He picked her and spun her around. Then when he came back to his senses, swiftly put her back down again. "Did I hurt it?"

"It isn't an it, Griss. It is a he or a she." She said as she cupped his cheek and brought his mouth down to hers. "And now you didn't. We are both fine."

END FLASHBACK

Kacee squealed for joy. This caused Ryan to wake with a start from his nap. He started wailing.

Her little face fell. "I'm sorry, Mommy."

Sara tweaked her nose. "It's okay, Fidget."

She soothed Ryan by placing him on her shoulder and rubbing his back. She began to sing a little song to him. Kacee and Grissom joined in then. They sure looked a sight to passersby.

TBC…