Chapter 4

Announcements

Later that same day after Sara had finished feeding Bella and had put her down for her nap. Sara and Nick were lying down in their bed with Sara's head on Nick's chest.

"Sara would you like to come to Texas with me for Christmas?" Nick asked as he looked over to see Sara's expression.

"Of course Nick, I would love to go to Texas with you, we can tell your family about us and Isabella."

"That's great Sara, I cannot wait, but I will not tell my family that I am bringing any one, we will surprise them."

"Ok if that's what you want."

"Sara, is it ok that we drive, it would be a bit difficult to fly with Bella."

"That was what I was thinking as well."

"Nicky,"

"Yah, Sara?"

"When I said that I want to keep us getting married and you adopting Bella quite I did not me from our friends, I just meant from the rest of the lab."

"Sar, I knew that is what you meant when you said that."

"Ok, just wanted to double cheek."

"So are we going to tell them tonight at work?"

"If you want to darling."

"I want to and plus we will need to ask Gris for time off for Christmas."

"Ok then tonight it is."

"We will have to bring Bella in again because the only reason I brought her in last night was because her baby sitter was sick with the flu."

"I do not mind, I will love to have her with us at the lab."

"Sara you do know that the lab does have a day care for children whose parents work the night shift, we can always keep her there and we can always cheek up on her when we want and we will know that she is safe and close by."

"That is a good idea Nick. I really was having a hard time last night about leaving her, but then the baby sitter called and said that she was sick, and I was kind of glad."

Nick just smiled at her and kissed her and they both went to sleep.

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Nick and Sara arrived at the lab later that evening. Nick got out of the car and went to open the passenger side door and unclipped Bella's car seat from its base as Sara got the baby bag and through it over her shoulder. Nick grabbed Sara's hand and they walked in to the lab.

They made their way into the break room where the rest of the team was waiting until shift started. As Nick and Sara walked into the break room everyone's head looked up. Nick placed the car seat on the floor and carefully took out Bella as not to wake her.

"Hey guys."

"Hey Sara, Hey Nick."

"Guys Nick and I have a couple of announcements to make." At that everyone's attention was diverted toward Nick and Sara who were standing in front of them.

Sara looked over at Nick who just gave her the go head.

"Well the first thing is, Nick is adopting Bella and we are going to switch her last name to Stokes and the second thing is that Nick and I are getting married, he proposed last night and I said yes."

"Before any of you say anything, we are doing this because we love each other. The night the Bella was conceived I was going to tell Nick how I felt for him, then everything happened and I had to postpone it because I was worried that he would not want anything to do with another man's child considering how she was conceived. I asked Nick to be her father and a few minutes later he asked me to marry him."

The rest of the team just looked at her in shook. Catherine was the first one to speak.