Catherine was sitting in the passenger seat of Steve's truck as he was driving them to downtown Honolulu.
Steve had been quiet the entire car ride and she could tell that he had something on his mind that he either did not want or did not know how to tell her. She decided to ask him nonetheless, in case he did want to get it off his chest.
"Everything okay, Sailor?" she smiled as she reached out to softly place a hand on his shoulder. Steve snapped out of his thoughts at her touched and looked at her with a confused face "mh?" he asked, not having heard a thing she just said. Catherine chuckled at how he still managed to get so caught up in his thoughts that she could've told a whole story right then, and he wouldn't have heard a word. She thought about making a joke about his disability to listen to her but decided against it, since his face told her that it might not be the right time to joke "I asked if everything's okay with you. You've been pretty quiet since we left"
"Can't get anything past you, hu?" he smiled "Central Intellegince Agent at your service, Commander" she winked at him. "So, what's up?" "Nothing, really. I'm nervous" he chuckled "and I don't really get nervous."
Catherine smiled at this new version of Steve that was able to talk about his feelings now "Why are you nervous?" "Well...first off, I've never been to an OBGYN before" he chuckled "and I like to go in prepared. And second, I just really want to know that everything's going good, you know?"
"Yeah" she replied after a while, nodding in agreement. "You're gonna hate the OBGYN" she stated plainly and let out a laugh that, oddly enough, made Steve feel a little more at ease. "Figured that much" he agreed, as he pulled in the parking spot in front of the doctor's office.
After five minutes in the waiting room and another ten minutes anxiously waiting in the examining room, the doctor finally opened the door to greet them.
"Lieutenant Rollins, Commander McGarrett - I'm Doctor Fisher, nice to meet you both. I hear we're looking at baby today?" the doctor greeted with a big smile as she pushed the ultrasound device next to where Catherine was laying.
"Alright. Since this is your first appointment we're gonna take your blood, do a couple of tests and have a look at your baby, see how far along you are and then we're gonna go from there" she smiled as she began working with the ultrasound.
When the screen plopped up and the Doctor showed them their child for the very first time, Steve couldn't help but cry tears of joy.
He was never one to cry easily or in front of people, if he did, it was by himself – so this reaction of him was fairly not at all what Catherine had expected. One look at him and just how happy he was immediately made her cry as well.
The Doctor gave them a sympathetic smile "First baby, mh?" "Yeah" they answered at the same time between laughs and tears rolling down their cheeks now.
Doctor Fisher continued to explain everything to them, measured the baby and told them what the next steps were going to be, for Catherine in particular – what she could still do and eat and drink, and things she better do without for a while.
"The measurements tell me you're at about four weeks and two days along here" she smiled "this means your due date is February 14th, 2021 right now" she continued as she put down notes on Catherine's chart.
"Wait… four weeks and two days?" Catherine asked in shock, just as she finished doing the math. "That means…" she looked at Steve "our second night in L.A." he finished for her as he realized as well what this meant. He gave her a peck on the lips and no further words needed to be spoken right then, when he put his head against hers and they both laid like that, smiling in disbelief, as if there was no one else in the world right now except those two.
It was as if faith, or destiny or some higher power somehow managed to get them back together, in the same time zone, on the same plane and ultimately the same hotel room, for them to "accidently" get pregnant the moment they finally were back together for good.
About an hour later they were back home and Catherine immediately went to the couch, feet propped up on the coffee table and Eddie right beside her. Eddie scooted over to her on the couch to be closer to her and to be able to put his head in her lap, as he wiggled his tail once he got to Catherine's belly.
She smiled at him as she gently petted his head "So he's told you as well?" Catherine joked at him, well aware of the fact that Steve could hear her.
Steve rolled his eyes at her as he made his way over to where she was sitting in an attempt to sit next to her, right where Eddie was laying. "Up!" he commanded and the dog did not move an inch.
"Eddie! You have your couch over there buddy, let's go"
Catherine laughed at how demanding Steve was and how Eddie was not having any of it. "Boy it's a good thing you're cute Eddie, things are about to get reeeeaaal crazy over here for you in about eight more months" Steve said as he decided to let this one go and take a seat on the recliner next to the sofa.
Catherine took a minute to look at him and thought about the recent events in their life and how literally everything was going to change in about eight more month.
Steve could feel her looking at him and looked up from the ultrasound picture the Doctor had given them.
„Isn't it crazy how far we've come?" she stated after a while, tears slowly bubbling up in the corner of her eyes. "I wish I could go back and tell my 22 year old self that everything will be alright" she chuckled between sniffing and trying to hold back her tears.
"What do you mean?" he asked sincerely, wondering what she was thinking about.
"You know… today… with you and our baby in that exam room, it felt so surreal. It felt like everything I have ever dreamed of… with you. You know that time you and I broke up right before you shipped out with the SEALS?" Steve nodded "I was so mad at you" she chuckled before she continued "My heart was broken in a million pieces then, the last thing I wanted to do was to break up with you but I was too proud to show it and I thought I was fine before you, I was gonna uhm… be fine after you" she let out a quiet laugh before facing him again.
"I was listening to Chicago over and over and over again, " she smiled with teary eyes.
"I had this one song played on repeat for hours"
Steve gave her a warm smile as he tried not to think about the day he broke up with her "Chicago always made everything better mh?" he asked.
"Do you wanna listen to it?" she suggested as she got up from her spot and pulled out her phone "the song I used to remind myself that you were an idiot and that I would most likely never stop loving you…ever?" she smirked and sat down on his lap, interlocking her fingers behind his neck.
"Sure, why not" he chuckled as he pulled her closer to him and Catherine pressed the play button on her phone and the Chicago song started playing:
Thought it wouldn't matter
If we didn't stay together,
And if it was over,
Maybe it was for the better.
I was thinking I'd be alright,
'til I thought it all through.
Now I know that I ain't really living
If I have to live without you.
I don't want to live without your love,
I don't want to face the night alone.
I could never make it through my life
If I had to make it on my own.
I don't want to love nobody else,
I don't want to find somebody new.
I don't want to live without your love,
I just want to live my life with you.
Guess I had to go away,
So much I had to go through.
Guess I had to lose you
To realize how much I love you.
Can we make the fire burn again,
Burn a little stronger?
'cause I've been alone, and baby,
I can't be alone now any longer.
…
"Man, I wish I could've told your 22 old self back then how much I loved you." He said after a while before placing a soft kiss on her forehead.