I Do Not Own CSI

"No." Was all Gil said as he reached for one of the babies.

"I could hear them crying as soon as I walked in the door, Gil."

"I guess I was just more tired than I thought," Gil said, reading her lips.

"That's not it and you know it. Don't think I haven't seen you reading lips on and off for the past week. You're watching me talk right now," Sara said somewhat angrily.

"Sara-"

"Why didn't you say something, Gil? I'm your wife, mother of your two children. You need to be able to come to me with a problem, especially if it concerns your hearing."

"I'm scared, Sara."

"Oh, honey," Sara said, embracing him, the babies sandwiched in the middle.

"I just thought that if I ignored it, it would go away. I never thought that I wouldn't hear them cry. It's never cut out for that long before," Gil said.

"Can you hear me now," Sara asked as the two were still embraced.

"Yes."

"Good," Sara mumbled, kissing his neck and then pulling away.

"We're making you a doctor's appointment."

"I made one," Gil said softly.

"When is it?"

"In a couple days."

"What are the options here, Gil? Is this a waiting game till you go deaf or is there something that can fix this."

"There's a surgery that can fix my hearing now. If it is osteosclerosis they can do a stapedectomy. Majority of the time the surgery is a success."

"Majority?"

"90 out of 100 patients end up with great hearing."

"And the other 10?"

"It can be worse, that's kind of what I'm scared of here, Sara. Right now my hearing is ok, but I don't think I can deal with not being able to hear you voice, or my sons' cries. I feel bad enough right now that they were crying and I didn't hear a sound they made."

"They're ok, Gil, I was just worried."

"Sorry," Gil muttered as he got up, holding Samuel in his arms.

"Where are you going?"

"I need a drink, my throat is sore. Did you bring home any ginger ale," Gil said, seeing the one shopping bag sitting at the front door.

"Oh god, Gil, wait before you look…," Sara said, remembering that she had a pregnancy test in there.

"What," Gil said, holding the box with a smile. "Are you…,"

"I don't know."

"But you think?"

"Yeah," Sara sighed.

"Honey, this is a good thing."

"I know. It's just these two are so small yet. They're only going on five months. I just thought we'd have a little more time in between."

"You realize my mom's going to flip her lid if this comes back positive right?"

"She's going to flip her lid, I'm going to flip my lid, Gil!"

"Are you ok about this?"

"I don't have a choice do I."

"I guess not, but you don't seem very excited about this."

"Three babies in diapers Gil, three," Sara said, holding up three fingers.

"Unless it's twins again."

"Don't, Catherine said the same thing."

"Catherine, she knew before I did?"

"Yes, but to be fair she found me in the store as I was picking it out. I had no idea which test to get," Sara said as she put Garrett back into his swing.

"At least we have a bunch of baby stuff already," Gil said, looking at the flipside.

"Fair enough, but we're still going to need another crib, and a triple stroller."

"More diapers," Gil said as a sob ebbed up in Sara's throat coming out.

"Oh honey, we'll get through this, I promise, well get through this. We have my mom, James and Jeremy, Maddie, and the guys are just a phone call away, so is Catherine."

"Catherine is in her own predicament at the moment," Sara mumbled.

"What?"

"Nothing."

"What's wrong with Catherine?"

"Nothing's wrong pre say, just something unexpected. Look it's not my place to say," Sara said as Gil put Samuel in his swing as he came to sit by his wife who needed support at the moment.

"Gil, three babies?"

"Let's not jump ahead of ourselves, you haven't even taken the test yet. How late are you? I mean, is it just a day, maybe stress…"

"I'm a week late, Gil. I've never been that late in my life until I was pregnant with these two."

"So this test is just…"

"A verification, yeah," Sara sighed.

"Well, come on," Gil said, pulling Sara up.

"Go into the bathroom and verify it. It looks like we're both making doctors appointments."

TBC

So what do you think,is the test going to be positive

thanks for all the reviews, and you get two chapters at once today so be sure to leave those reviews, i am almost at the 800 mark!

Katie