26. Be my Valentine (part 1)

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"She'll love it." He said to Burk as they were walking towards the tents they had been living in for the past months. "I hope so." He heard the nervousness in his voice. He glanced at him and saw he was feeling nervous. He felt somewhat lucky that Kara had spared him from the jitters Burk was obviously going through right now.

"She loves you, you love her." He tried to reassure him and patted him briefly at the back of his shoulder. Seeing that Burk nodded to his comment, he continued on to his and Kara's tent. He entered the tent and saw her sitting on the sleeping space as she was sewing. Chuckling a little to see her so domestic. What was she doing?

"Do I want to know?" He looked at her seeing that she was doing something with her uniform.

"I'm adding some extra clothing to the sides. The uniform isn't big enough." He heard her explain and he noticed she felt uncomfortable of talking about the subject. Her growing belly was no secret anymore. "Where did you get the extra fabric then?" He looked at the uniform and noticed that she had most definitely clipped her pants which now made the uniform reach her knees. No way Slattery or Chandler would allow her to go around in that. Despite it being February, the temperature was still on the warmer side.

"It's hot wearing the overall in this heat, plus I'm suddenly feeling very warm." She met his eyes.

He sat beside her on their bed and kissed her as he felt she was probably becoming irritated because of his questions. It's the hormones, he thought. She had been a little on edge lately and the slightest small error in his actions would turn her over to red. Just like the other day when he had undressed and left his clothes on the floor, because he had been too tired to clean after him and because the clothes needed washing. So the next morning when she got up and saw the mess on the floor, she had woke him up and started to boss him around before he even had had his cup of coffee, that tasted just faintly the real thing.

"Leave that and follow me." He smiled at her. Feeling happy that he was going to show her something that she would hopefully be happy about. Tomorrow was Valentine's Day and he wanted to surprise her.

As he had guided her to one of the supply rooms located on the main house, they were welcomed by Maria. Javier's sister who had been appointed to ration and keep order at the place. It was rather amazing that Commander Slattery had really thought about everything, although he had a suspicion that ideas for Slattery's preparedness had really come from his wife, Christine.

So in the room they were in, they had clothes for both children and adults. Some items necessary to every day to day routines. He gave a look to Maria and she knew what they were after. Kara seemed to look rather puzzled because she obviously didn't know about the place.

"Here." Maria gave Kara a few shirts and pants that seemed to be maternity clothes.

"This way you don't have to clip your uniform." He smiled at her and he saw she was a little overwhelmed by all of it.

"And when it comes to that, they have also clothes for the baby." He said and looked at her as she began smiling even more and the tears were coming down.

"It's all normal." Maria reassured her.

"I'm not usually like this." She chuckled and wiped her eyes a bit.

"Thank you." She said to him as they were walking back to their tent.

"I think you should thank Slattery for all of it." He smiled.

"I know I've been a little difficult lately.." She stopped and gave a kiss on his cheek.

"Well I have gotten to know the things that might trigger you so.." He chuckled. He had become an expert on reading her now. Especially since she sometimes didn't tell him what was it that was wrong.

"Not easy being you." She laughed and he couldn't honestly remember the last time he really had heard her laughter. There had been too much going on lately. Dr. Scott suffering from exhaustion. There was no breakthroughs in creating a vaccine and everyone was just trying to keep their spirits up.