A Very Morgan Christmas-Ch 8
Over the next several weeks the team was called out on case after case and sometimes they would be on their way home and would be called on another case. Penelope would talk to Derek every night on the phone and sometimes they would skype but it wasn't the same and besides that, she missed him.
She missed his touches, his kisses, the sounds he made as they made love, she missed all of it, she was pulled from her thoughts when a wave of nausea rolled over her. She stood up and ran toward the trashcan in her lair.
After she emptied the contents of her stomach she said, "must be a stomach virus", a few minutes later she was looking through her calendar and saw that she was a little late. She bit down on her lip and smiled, wondering and hoping that maybe just maybe she was pregnant.
Since Derek was away she would stop on the way home from work and buy a test and she wouldn't tell anybody anything, just in case it was indeed just a stomach bug. By the time she was walking through her front door a few hours later she was exhausted.
She was staying tired a lot and even the smell of coffee, a smell that she normally loved, even that made her sick at her stomach now. As she slipped her jacket from her arms she winced and said, "man why are my boobs so sore and come to think of it they have been sore for a while".
Penelope blew out a deep breath and reached into the bag and pulled out the pregnancy test and headed upstairs to her bathroom. Once inside she followed the directions on the back of the box and was now sitting patiently, she had to wait 3 minutes and then if it was positive, then and only then would she get it confirmed with her doctor.
Time seemed to ebb on, it seemed like several hours had passed and she still hadn't heard the timer on her cell go off, she shook her head and said, "calm down Garcie, calm down, everything is going to be okay, you either are or you aren't, it'll be okay either way".
Her hand slid down to her stomach and sighed, it was then that she heard the alarm on her cell beeping, it was letting her know that it was time to check the test. She got up and slowly walked through her bedroom and into the bathroom.
She walked over to the counter and picked up the stick, she closed her eyes and said, "alright, you can do this, you can do this". As she picked up the box in the other hand she read, "if you are pregnant you will see a plus sign and a negative if you are not".
Penelope then bit down on her lip and her heart started racing as she looked down at the stick that was currently in the palm of her hand.