Chapter 19: Telling the Family
"Sara…Sara, where are you?" Grissom asked when he opened the door and walked into the apartment.
"I'm in the bedroom." Her voice carried from down the hall.
Grissom motioned for the team to come in and sit down in the living room.
"Hey baby, how are you?" Sara said walking down the hallway stopping in front of him and kissing him tenderly.
She heard someone cough and looked around to find the whole gang sitting in her living room.
"Hello, Sara." Nick said looking at her and Grissom smiling.
Everyone was wearing a matching smile. Sara grinned and blushed.
"Hello, what are you all doing here?" Sara asked sitting down on the arm of the couch.
"Grissom invited us over…he said you would have to tell us what was wrong with him this morning." Catherine said from Warick's lap where she had taken up residence for the moment.
Sara looked at Grissom and the nodded.
"I'm going to have a baby." Sara said not giving the piece of information that had obviously been the focus of this visit.
"And…" Catherine said reading her mind.
"I'm going to die having this baby."
The room was so quite you could have heard the softest pillow hit the floor. Nick and Warick just stared; Catherine and Brass looked at her in shock; and Dr. Robins got up and walked toward her.
"Sara…oh, lord Sara, I can't believe it." He said giving her a hug and looking at Grissom who had moved over to the window and was looking wastefully outside.
"I know Doc." She said hugging him back and looking at the others in the room with her.
"Are they sure?" Catherine asked looking at her and then letting her eyes bounce to Grissom who still hadn't turned around.
"They are ninety-nine percent sure. The cancer makes it all that more complicated plus my body was already rejecting the chemo and radiation anyway." Sara gave Grissom a quick glance.
There were a few small things she had forgotten to tell him this morning when she had asked him about becoming a father.
"Oh my God Sara." Catherine said and began to cry openly as she got up and hugged the younger woman who had became like a daughter to her in the past six years.
"I don't want this…I don't want you guys crying over me and treating me like I'm incapable of doing anything. I'm strong as I've already proved and I'm going to do my damnedest to live up to that every minute for the rest of my life no matter how long that may be." Sara felt tears build in her eyes and then felt them begin to roll down her cheeks as she looked at the people in the room.
She turned on her heels and ran down the hallway toward her and Grissom's room.
"Oh God, Gil I fell so sorry for you two." Catherine sobbed as she stepped toward Grissom who had turned around when Sara had begun her speech about living.
"Sara doesn't want the petty Cath…neither do I." Grissom said walking down the hall to find Sara lying on the bed looking up at the ceiling a pained look on her face.
"Sara, honey, are you ok?" Grissom asked stepping closer and noticing how truly pained she looked.
"No, I think I'm having a miscarriage." Sara hissed through gritted teeth pushing her hands into the sheets of the bed and letting out a groan of pain.
"Grissom…What's going on in there?" Catherine's voice same from the living room as he walked the distance to the bed and picked Sara up from it.
"I've got to take her to the hospital. She's in pain." Grissom said as he ran past the team sitting in his and Sara's living room and out the door as they all got up and fallowed.
Nick turned and closed the door.
"Come on Nick, you can ride with me and Catherine." Warick said as he and Catherine jumped into the marked Denali.
Nick took off in a sprit to the car and jumped in just as Warick hit the gas and began to fallow Grissom and Sara to the hospital. Brass and Doctor Robins bring up the rear.
TBC………