So, like I promised, updating very soon. Thanks to all of you who have reivewed, I always enjoy reading your comments. Much thanks to Just Thinking, she knows all about having kids and stuff, so I can keep this as realistic as possible. And I can't forget thegreatbluespoon, whoda thunk we're long lost twins born 5 1/2 years apart. I like to doodle too, but I draw on paper, not peoples faces. Ok, new chapter, the arrival of the geek baby.
Teens & Tribulations
Chapter 18
Grissom sat on the couch comforting Sara as her contractions came and went. He was uptight at first and phoned Catherine to make sure that they were doing what they were supposed to be doing. She assured them that until the contractions get really close, or her water breaks that he should just stay calm and comfort her.
He thought she was just being conservative, but went along with the information. So, he laid back on the couch and Sara leaned into him. They slept during the down time, and when a contraction came, he rubbed her back until it passed. The excitement and anxiety came each time with a contraction, Grissom was anticipating the birth of his child.
Jason and Kassie came bounding down the stairs going through their morning rituals. Grissom checked his watch, it read seven thirty. He had gotten home around eleven, by his calculations Sara had been in labor for over eight hours.
"Morning." Kassie ran over and gave Sara a hug and kiss on the cheek. Then she moved to Grissom. Once she noticed both of their hands on Sara's belly her eyes lit up. "Is the baby coming?"
"Yes, the baby is coming." Sara told her.
Kassie turned and ran to the kitchen. "Jason, the baby's coming!"
She returned shortly with Jason in tow. " Really? Is it true?"
Grissom looked up at him. "Yes, it's true."
"Cool. Do we get to skip school today?"
"Fat chance."
"Oh, come on. School's almost out. We only have a few days left." Jason protested. "It's not like we're learning anything new."
"Hey, just go to school. Chances are that you will be out before the baby is born." Grissom told him. "Can you guys walk to the bus so I can stay here with Sara?"
"Sure." Jason said disappointed. "Come on squirt."
"No, I want to stay with the baby." Kassie began to protest.
Sara took her arm. "Kassie, if you go to school and do your work, you can come see the baby when you're done."
Kassie smiled and nodded as Sara placed a kiss in her hair. She then ran to join Jason at the door chanting 'I'm going to be a big sister' repeatedly.
Grissom watched them go as he felt Sara tense in his embrace. He slowly moved his hands up and down her arms.
"Oh God, it hurts."
"Just breathe you're doing good honey."
Within the hour her contractions had become within ten minutes and were getting more intense.
"Sara, we need to think about getting you to the hospital. Cause I have no idea what I'm doing."
"Okay." She hated hospitals, everyone knew it, but under theses circumstances she wasn't going to protest.
He helped her sit up and went into the bed room to get her bag together. Grissom returned to her in a matter of minutes.
"This is really it. We're going to have a baby." She smiled at him as he helped her up and out to the Denali.
Just as he had shut the passenger door, Catherine rolled up behind them.
"Hey. Off to the hospital?"
"Yeah, her contractions are under ten minutes."
"I'll follow you."
Grissom stayed with Sara as the nurses took her through the paces. He helped her change into a hospital gown, and practically laughed at the look she gave him.
"OW!" She exclaimed and doubled over, her water braking in the process.
Grissom caught her before she fell to the ground. The nurses helped him move her into a bed, and in a short time the contraction passed. Her doctor came in and examined her.
"I want an epidural." Sara demanded.
Her doctor shook her head. "No time. You're fully dilated and need to push on the next contraction."
Sara let her head fall back against the pillow. Grissom stood beside her taking up her hand in his, confused, he had no idea what to do.
"Ok, Dad. Ready?" the doctor asked him.
His only response was a blank stare.
"You're ready."
After the most painful thirty minutes of Sara's life, she squeezed Grissom's hand as their baby was born.
"It's a girl." the doctor exclaimed as she placed the newborn on Sara's lap and began to towel her off. Sara was crying as she looked at her daughter who was beginning to cry with her first breaths. Grissom watched on in amazement, there she was. A perfect little person that he and Sara created.
After a few moments of holding her, a nurse came up and took the newborn from Sara. Grissom's eyes followed every move that was made and done to his new baby girl. There it was again, that sudden instinct to protect. Only this time it was much stronger.
"Hey" Sara tugged on his arm. "Don't try to over analyze this."
He smiled back at her. "I'm sorry. I just don't know what to do with all of these sudden feelings I'm getting." He leaned over and gently kissed Sara. "You did great by the way." He told her before letting his eyes find their baby amongst the nurses.
A nurse brought over the infant. "Would you like to hold her?"
Grissom didn't answer, his brain vapor locked. The questions began forming in his head so fast he couldn't process them all. He just stood dumbfounded.
"Of course he would love to." Sara answered for him.
Grissom held out his arms as the nurse placed her in his embrace while instructing him on how to hold her. He swallowed the lump that had formed in his throat at the soft weight of her curled into his arms. Grissom looked from her to Sara, the smile on his face told her that at that moment, Gil Grissom was at a loss for words and drowning in happiness.
He passed their baby to Sara. Her maternal instincts took over as she gently cradled the infant in her arms. "She's perfect."
Grissom just smiled acknowledging her observation. He was so overcome with excitement and happiness, that he found himself content just to watch his newborn daughter rest peacefully in her mother's arms.
A few hours later Grissom sleepily sat in the rocking chair watching Sara nurse the infant. He smiled and listened to Sara quietly talk to her. Amazingly she wasn't as tired as he was. He felt as if his body would just shut down, but he fought it, as he continued to watch Sara.
"Go to sleep."
"What?"
"Sleep. You're exhausted and can barely keep your eyes open. We're fine. Catherine's on her way with Jason and Kassie."
"I'm fine."
Sara just smiled at him. "Close your eyes."
"Why?"
"Just do it."
Grissom was only intending to humor her, but when his eyelids closed, he instantly fell asleep. As his body relaxed he snored lightly. Sara smiled as she had never heard him snore before. She knew he was tired.
"Daddy's exhausted. You kept him up all night, and I have no idea what's keeping me awake."
A nurse entered and as Sara pointed towards Grissom, the nurse kept her voice down. "I need to take her to the nursery to give her a bath and check her temp again. I'll bring her back in an hour or so."
Sara placed a gentle kiss to the baby's head before passing her to the nurse.
"Have you slept yet Sara?" the nurse asked.
"No. I suppose I should."
"I would recommend it."
Sara looked back over to Grissom before shutting her eyes and falling asleep her self.
Catherine escorted Jason and Kassie to Sara's room. She peeked in before they entered and saw that they were both asleep, but the baby wasn't there.
"Come on, let's go see the baby in the nursery. Mom and Dad are asleep."
She led them down the hall farther until they came upon the large window.
"Where is he?" Kassie asked.
Catherine's eyes looked over the line up of infants until she found the bed marked 'Grissom' with a pink card.
"Where is she? You have a baby sister. See that bed that says Grissom on it."
Kassie was standing on the bench that sat out side the window trying to see in. "I can't see." She exclaimed.
A nurse working inside saw them and moved over to where Catherine was pointing. She gently lifted out the baby and moved to the window so Kassie and Jason could see her.
"I wanted a baby brother." Jason commented.
Catherine looked at him. "By the time he's ten, you'll be in college. And I somehow I don't think they are going to stop with her."
Jason smiled. "I still want a baby brother. And I'm going to make sure they know it."
"She's tiny." Kassie said drawing the attention back to her.
"Yes, she is. On her card it says she was eight pounds, fourteen ounces. And she is twenty one inches long." Catherine read out loud.
They awed over their new sibling for a few minutes more. Then Catherine took them back to Sara's room. "You have to be quiet."
"I'll be quiet." Kassie said with confidence.
Catherine opened the door and watched Kassie quickly make her way over to Sara's bed. She struggled at first but quickly climbed into bed and curled up next to Sara. Jason moved to sit in the other chair that was next to Grissom.
Sara opened her eyes and put her arm around Kassie.
"I saw the baby." She said in a hushed tone.
"You did?"
"Yeah. She's in the other room with a bunch of other babies." Kassie said pointing through the wall.
Catheirne and Sara began to talk as quiet as possible until the nurse returned with the baby. Jason stood and moved over next to Sara as she took her newborn.
"What's her name?" Jason inquired.
Sara looked back at him. "We haven't named her yet."
Kassie stretched out her hand and took a hold of the baby's hand. "I'm Kassie, your big sister. We're going to have lots of fun when we get home."
"That's the understatement of the year." Catherine gawked. "I'm off to pick up Lindsey, see you guys later."
Jason made a motion like he was going to say something, but stopped. Sara caught it and grinned before turning her attention back to Kassie and the baby.
The first week with the new baby in the house was hectic. Kassie wanted to help so much that Sara snapped at her, and she went crying to Grissom. And he was trying to help out as much as he could but, it seemed the criminals of Las Vegas had ESP, pulling every heinous crime out of the book. Night or day, Grissom's cell phone never stopped ringing.
Sara was losing her cool with the lab and Grissom. But, as she thought about confronting him with it, Sydney would cry out, demanding her attention.
But once things calmed, Grissom and Sara were brought to the sudden realization, that they were neglecting Jason and Kassie.
"So, I'm going to go over to Lindsey's tonight for a few hours."
"You have to be home by ten. At least until you're fourteen." Sara enforced.
"I am fourteen."
Grissom looked up across the table. "Since when?"
"Since last week. My birthday was Wednesday."
Sara looked just as shocked as Grissom did.
"It's okay. I understand that you guys forgot, with Sydney and all the stuff happening at the lab." He stood and headed for the door. "I'll be back later."
Grissom nor Sara spoke as he left. Kassie quietly finished her food.
"May I be excused?" She asked.
"Yeah." Grissom said at a loss for words and watched her head up the stairs.
Only after they heard her bedroom door close did either speak.
"Gil, we've forgot about them. I've been so busy with Sydney, and you have been working..."
Grissom opened his mouth but no words came out.
"We need to fix this. I snapped at Kassie, we forgot Jason's birthday. What kind of parents are we?"
"The new kind."
"I'm going to go talk with Kassie. Will you listen for Sydney?"
"Sure." He replied then after watching Sara leave the table, he decided to clean up.
After he had done the dishes Grissom heard the cry for attention. He went into the bed room and retrieved a very awake Sydney. So, he sat on the couch and began to read to her out of the latest forensic journal.
Sara came down the stairs with Kassie only minutes later.
"Ok, sit over here." Sara pointed and Kassie leapt into the recliner. She then moved over to take Sydney from Grissom. "Make your arms like I showed you."
Grissom watched as Kassie formed her arms waiting to cradle the baby, as Sara gently placed her in Kassie's arms.
"Hi, Sydney. I'm your big sister, remember?" Kassie said as she proudly looked up at Grissom. "I'm holding the baby."
"Yes you are." He praised.
After a few moments Sara took Sydney back and Kassie put up a small protest, but only when she was assured that it wouldn't be the last time to hold her, she thanked Sara with a kiss and ran back upstairs in a much better mood.
Sara sat in the recliner and opened her shirt to nurse. Grissom watched from the couch.
She looked up at his gaze. "What?"
He gave a slight shake of his head. "Nothing."
"It's something."
"I'm jealous."
Sara let out a healthy laugh.
"What? Well it's true. She's almost two weeks old. How much longer do I have to wait?"
"You. Think about me. Compare the size of her head and the size of...you." She couldn't help but smile at her own analogy.
Grissom pursed his lips and grinned. Many times did he comment during their lovemaking on how she felt.
"You will have to wait for that. But..." She drew out knowing he would catch on.
And catch on he did. Only the opening of the front door stopped him. Jason and Lindsey walked in hand in hand and sat down. Grissom smiled. "Why are you guys here?"
"Mom had to work tonight..." She never got the chance to finish.
"Shit!" Grissom exclaimed as he climbed up from the couch and quickly retrieved his things. With a quick kiss to Sara he said his goodbye's and headed out.
Sara giggled as did Jason and Lindsey. After an awkward moment of them watching Sara nurse Sydney did Jason speak.
"Want to watch a movie?"
"Sure." Lindsey replied and stood with him to pick one out of the selection.
Sara finished with the baby and after putting her down went to bed herself.
Lindsey and Jason sat on the couch as close as possible watching the movie until well after midnight. She placed her hand on his thigh, and he tried to swallow the lump in his throat as his body reacted to her touch. She then leaned over to kiss his cheek but Jason turned his head and their lips met. Neither pulled away for the first moment. Their eyes shut and at first it was just lips on lips, but soon Lindsey opened her mouth more and Jason followed suit. Both of their bodies were crying out in ways they hadn't felt before. Unsure of where this was going, Jason knew his ass would be grassed if he was caught.
"Lets go downstairs." He huffed as they pulled apart.
Lindsey smiled and rose pulling him to his feet. Jason led her to the only locked door in the house, and he just happened to have the key.
Ahhhh, young love. But now the question is did he hit a home run, or just make it to third base??? Hmmm, I wonder. You'll just have to review and stay tuned for the answer.
TDCSI