SARA'S SECRETS
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A/N: thank you for all those who have taken the time to review and those of you who have stuck with this story. I am sorry for not updating this sooner.
CHAPTER NINE
A few weeks later
Sara got out of bed sick to her stomach and headed to the bathroom and threw up. Nick heard her and got up to see what was going on.
He went into the bathroom and saw Sara throwing up and held her hair back for her and when she was done he got her a cool washcloth.
"Thanks, Nicky." Sara weakly said.
"No problem Sara, I think you need to call the doctor's office and see what's going on, why you're throwing up. This is the second day you've done this and I am worried. You never get sick."
"No I don't alright I will call the doctor's just to put your mind at rest." Sara got up and went into the living room to get her address book and got the number for the doctor. She called her and told the receptionist what was going on. They had a cancellation and there was an opening in one hour. She took the appointment, told Nick to tell Grissom she would be in later if she could, depending on what the doctor said and went to get ready.
She kissed Nick good-bye and told him she would see him later, she was going to try to go to work after the doctor's if she was able to or she would see him later at her apartment. It was their turn to be at her place. They hadn't slept apart since they got together.
A few hours later
As she sat on her couch staring at nothing, she was in shock. She was pregnant. How could this have happened? She was on birth control for God's sakes. The test they did told the story though. She was pregnant with Nick's baby. How was he going to react? Would he be mad? Would he be happy? Only time would tell. She had been ignoring her phone but knew she better answer the next time it rang or Nick or Grissom would be coming to her door to check on her, to make sure she was okay.
Her phone rang and she knew by the ring that it was Nick. "Hello."
"Sara, where have you been? Grissom and I have been calling you for the last hour and a half."
"I needed time to think, that's all."
Nick had been scared that something happened to her and was ready to leave his crime scene to find out. Now he was worried. "Are you coming to work?"
"No."
Now he was really worried. "Sara, did something happen at the doctor's?"
"Don't worry Nick, the doctor gave me a clean bill of health. I'm fine."
"Then why are you not coming to work?" Nick wondered what was going on with Sara.
"I need today to myself, I need some time to think, that's all. I'm not sick, Nick. I promise I am okay. I just need a few hours to myself. I will see you after shift, okay?" Sara couldn't tell Nick she was pregnant over the phone.
"Okay, Sara I'm with Grissom and I will let him know you're not coming in." Nick was confused. If nothing was wrong why wasn't she coming to work?
"See you after work at my place. I love you Nick."
"I love you too Sara." Nick hung up the phone, he had a crime scene to process.
After she hung up she continued to think about what the doctor had told her. She was going to be a mother again. She couldn't wait. She just hoped Nick would be happy about this. She hoped he wouldn't be mad. She would soon find out,
After shift
A worried Nick headed for Sara's apartment. He knew something was up, he just didn't know what. The drive to Sara's seemed to take forever, when it only took ten minutes. He parked his vehicle and headed inside. He found Sara on the couch still staring into space and thinking about the baby.
"Sara, honey what's wrong?" Nick was worried that she was sick although she said she was fine. He knew something was up.
"Nicky, come sit down. I have some news." Nick came over and sat next to Sara.
"Okay tell me what's wrong." Nick said.
"Nothing is wrong. I just hope you'll be happy at my news." Sara takes a deep breath before she tells him. "Nick, I'm pregnant with your baby."
Nick couldn't believe it, she was pregnant with his baby. He had always wanted to be a father and now Sara was pregnant with his baby. He was so happy and Sara who had begun to worry stopped worrying when Nick began to smile. She breathed a sigh of relief, he wasn't mad.
"You're pregnant that's great. I'm going to be a father." Nick was ecstatic.
"Thank God you're happy about this." She said relieved.
"What you didn't think I would be?" Nick asked curious.
"I didn't know, we had never talked about children of our own. I didn't know if you would want me to be pregnant this soon in our relationship." She said.
"Yes I am happy and yes I want children of our own. I love you and this is just a symbol of our love that we were able to make a baby out of that love. This is great."
"Nick, I have to get a bigger place and there is so much to do now. I have to tell Grissom and the team."
"I have a better idea, I've been carrying something around in my truck for a while now let me go get it." Nick jumped up and was out the door before Sara could ask what it was.
Soon Nick came racing back into the apartment. "I've had this for a couple weeks and I just didn't know how to give it to you or if you would accept it and me."
Sara could tell Nick was nervous and wondered what was going on. "What is it Nick?"
Nick took a Tiffany box out of his jacket pocket and opened it and Sara saw the most beautiful ring she had ever seen. She knew it was an engagement ring even though it didn't have a diamond in it. Sara hated diamonds which Nick knew but she loved sapphires and there was 3 small sapphires surrounding black hills gold leaves. It was perfect not too big which she would have hated and Nick knew that.
"Sara, I love you and I want to marry you, the baby is just a bonus. So will you marry me?"
"Yes, Nick I will. I love you." Sara is crying happy tears.
Nick puts the ring on Sara's finger and he asks. "When do you want to get married?"
"Soon, as soon as we can arrange a small wedding. I don't want anything huge. That's not me. I would like a simple small wedding. I don't want to plan a wedding for months."
"Okay, I would like my family to be here, my mom and dad and my brother and sisters. My grandmother."
"How many sisters do you have?"
"Five and all of them are married and have kids and so is my brother, and he has kids also."
"Wow, so much for a small wedding. Okay we will just have a little bigger wedding than I thought."
"Is that okay, Sara?"
"Yes, Nick its fine. I want your family to be here. Let's call and find out when they can be here and then we will know when we can get married."
"Okay." Nick pulled out his phone and dialed his parent's ranch.
"Hello." A feminine voice answered.
"Hey, Mom, I have some news."
"Please tell me you're getting married." Jillian joked.
"Actually yes that is exactly it. I am getting married." She stopped laughing and motioned to Bill to come over.
"You're getting married for real?"
Nick can hear his father in the background say "What?"
"Yes I am. Her name is Sara Sidle and we are getting married which is why I called. We need to know when you and dad and Austin, Jackie, Brenda, Laura, Connie, and Stacy can come out to see the wedding. So we can set a date and we want it to be soon."
"How soon?"
"Real soon."
"Is she pregnant?"
"Yes Mom but that is not why I am marrying her. I love her, I bought the ring before we found out she's pregnant. I am not marrying her for that reason. We love each other and want to spend our lives together."
"She loves you. That's good and I am going to be a grandmother again and you're finally settling down. I want to come out this weekend to meet her and I will talk to your brother and sisters and we will talk about when we can all come out. I will let you know when I get there when we can be there."
"Thank you, Mom."
In the background you can hear Bill say he wants to talk to Nick and his Mom tells him "Your Dad wants to talk to you."
"Are you happy, Poncho?"
"Yes Dad very happy, I love Sara and she loves me just as much as I love her."
"Okay we will be out this weekend, can we stay with you or do we need to arrange a hotel room?"
"No, you can stay at the house."
"Okay, talk to you soon."
"Bye Dad."
"Bye."
Nick hangs up the phone and turns to Sara and kisses her. 'I love you Sara. My parents will be out this weekend, they want to meet you."
"Oh." Sara said worried that they won't like her.
"What is it?"
"What if they don't like me?"
"They will, I know they will. But even if they didn't which is not going to happen, nothing will change how I feel about you. I love you Sara and that is not going to change, so stop worrying."
"Okay, I'm tired Nick let's go to bed."
"Are you really tired?" He asked wanting to make love to her.
"No I'm not that tired. Race you." And Sara got up from the couch and took off running with Nick right behind her.
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