Chapter 4

When Nick and Warrick reached the hospital, Nick quickly parked the Denali and jumped out. Warrick followed closely behind him.

Nick walked into the front door and up to the emergency room check in desk, "Can I help you?" The blonde headed woman asked from behind the desk.

"My girlfriend checked in to the emergency room and I need to know what room she is in." Nick said still out of breath from where he ran into the hospital.

"What is her name?" The blonde asked.

"Sara Sidle" Nick responded

"Ah, yes Sara Sidle she is in room 4, just go into these double door and her room will be the 2nd door on your left."

"Thanks" Nick said as he turned around, "Come on Warrick."

They both entered the double doors and walked down the hall to the 2nd door on the left. When they entered the room they found Sara lying on the bed crying hysterically, with Catherine at her side holding her hand.

Nick quickly rushed to the other side of Sara and sat down, "Hey baby everything is going to be alright, and baby I'm sorry for acting like a jerk earlier." He told her as he placed his hand on her hair and began rubbing her forehead with his thumb.

"Nick I just want the baby to be okay." Sara said still crying.

"I know baby" Nick said as he took Sara's free hand in his and kiss it. That's when he felt a tear run down his cheek.

Seeing the sight of their two best friends crying made Catherine and Warrick began to get teary eyed also.

Before anyone could say anything else, they heard a knock on the door.

"Miss Sidle?" A man in a white coat asked.

"Hi, I'm Doctor Mitchell." He told them as he shook Sara's hand. "Okay Miss Sidle we are going to do and ultrasound on you to see what's going on okay?"

Sara agreed.

"They technician will be in a minute to get you okay?"

"Okay" Sara responded.

A few minutes after leaving the room, the technician arrived with a wheel chair. "Miss Sidle are you ready?" The technician asked.

"Yeah." Sara said as she sat up in the bed, that's when she felt really weak. "Nick you're going to have to help me, I feel really weak for some reason." Nick and Warrick both helped Sara out of the bed and into the wheelchair.

"Can I go with her?" Nick asked the technician.

"Of course" The responded.

Catherine and Warrick watched as the technician, along with Nick and Sara, walked down the hallway and into another set of double doors.

When they reached the ultrasound room, the technician asked Sara to get onto the table to be examined. Nick helped her up and onto the table.

The technician turned on the ultrasound machine and pulled Sara's shirt up to underneath her breasts to expose her still flat stomach. The technician than squirted the gel onto her stomach.

When the technician placed the probe on her stomach, Sara turned her head and grabbed Nick's hand.

"Are you okay?" Nick asked her as he rubbed her hand with his thumb.

"I can't look at it Nick." She said as she closed her eyes.

Nick glanced back up at the screen; he was completely obtuse about what he was looking at. That's when he seen a tiny object on the screen, that's when Nick realized that was his child in there, that looked like a peanut with arms and legs; the tiny object was waving it's arm around, like it was trying to wave at its mommy and daddy.

"160" The technician said quietly as she was saying it to herself.

"What does that mean?" Nick asked.

"That's what its heart rate is."

"You mean it is okay?" Sara asked as she turned her head around to look at the screen.

"Yes, everything looks good except for a little spot around the placenta; it looks like it is trying to pull away from your uterus wall."

"Is that a bad thing?" Nick asked a little concerned.

"Sometimes, it will clear on its on, but in some cases the placenta will pull completely away from the uterus causing the nutrients to be cut off." The technician explained. "I'm not sure what the doctor will do about this." The technician finished as she printed out a report to give to the doctor, and turned off the ultrasound machine.

"Are we ready to go?" Nick asked.

"Yes." The technician responded.

Sara wiped some of the gel off her stomach and sat up in the bed. This time, without any help from Nick, she got back into the wheel chair by herself.

"Are you feeling better now?" Nick asked his girlfriend.

"Yeah, I think my nerves were getting the best of me." Sara said as she smiled up at Nick.

Meanwhile, back in the room Catherine and Warrick were growing impatient waiting on Sara and Nick to return. Catherine sat in the chair staring at the floor. "Are you okay?" Warrick asked after he heard Catherine sigh heavily.

"Yeah, I'm just worried about Sara." Catherine said as she looked at Warrick.

"What happened after you guys left the restaurant, I mean how did Sara find out this was happening?" Warrick asked as he rubbed Catherine's back with his hand.

"Well after we left the restaurant, we went back to our house for a few minutes. We were just sitting there talking about Nick, and the baby, that's when Sara said she felt a warm substance leak out, and she went to the bathroom and when she came back out she told me she was bleeding like her period was on, that's when she and I decided to rush over here."

"Oh" was all Warrick said.

"Do you think this could have to do with stress?" Catherine asked.

"I don't know honey."

"She was extremely stressed out after what Nick said to her."

Before Warrick could respond Nick and Sara came back into the room with smiles on their faces. "Is everything okay?" Catherine asked looking up and the two of them.

"Well the baby is okay, but the placenta is trying to detach itself from the uterus." The technician spoke up.

Catherine hugged Sara with relief. "I was so worried about you. Remember you and I have to have our babies at the same time" Catherine said with a smile.

Sara sat back down on the bed, followed by Nick who sat beside her.

A few minutes after the technician left the doctor came in.

"Well Miss Sidle, everything with the baby looks fine, but the placenta is a little torn, so what I am going to do is place you at a high risk pregnancy, until you reach your 24th week, this includes going to your doctor every week and being on bed rest until then, that means no work, and no lifting anything over 5 pounds okay?"

As much as Sara hated to she agreed. The doctor then gave Sara a note to give to her boss, that explains what's happening and why she needs the off for 18 weeks.

"Doctor Mitchell?" Nick began.

"Yes sir?"

"Why does she have to be on bed rest and off work only until she is 24 weeks pregnant, Why not through the entire pregnancy?"

"Well you can safely deliver at 24 weeks and I know that no one will stay on bed rest of 7 and half months," the doctor said with a laugh. "And I think that the placenta should be clearly healed by then.

After leaving the hospital Nick helped Sara into the Denali and closed the door behind her.

"I'll call you tomorrow Catherine." Sara said to Catherine after rolling down the window.

"Okay, bye" Catherine said as she and Warrick began walking towards their Denali.

"Bye, you two." Warrick responded as he walked off.

On the way home the silence was over the car for Nick and Sara.

"Sara, I am really sorry for what I said earlier. I'm very happy that we are having a baby."

"Nick I know you didn't really mean it, it just took you by surprise, it did me too. I wasn't excepting to get pregnant especially since I was on birth control." Sara said with a chuckle.

Nick just smiled and raised their entwined hands and kissed hers gently. When they arrived home Sara started to get out of the vehicle. "Wait" Nick said.

"What?" Sara said raising an eyebrow at him.

"I know this isn't a romantic time, but I have something I want to ask you, I was going to ask you earlier but you surprised me with your news first." Nick said with a smile, "Anyways, Sara Sidle will you marry me?" Nick said taking out a small box from his pocket and letting Sara look at it.

"Oh my gosh, Nick of course I'll marry you!" Sara said as she reached over the console of the Denali and hugged Nick.

Nick took the ring out of the box and lifted Sara's left hand up to place it on the ring finger. Sara felt tears form in her eyes as he did so.

When the two of them walked into the house, Sara turned to Nick and began kissing him passionately. As they kissed Nick rubbed his hands up her shirt feeling her soft skin. Sara played his Nick's hair as he placed open mouth kisses down her neck.

Sara moaned a little when he began breathing in her ear. Nick took his shirt off and tossed it to the floor, just as Sara began to undo his belt, he pushed her hands away. "Sara as much as it hurts me to say this, maybe she should make love, we don't want to jeopardize the baby's health. Let's just wait until the doctor says its okay."

"You're right, Nick." Sara said as she gave him a peck on the cheek.

Nick lay down on the couch and began watching TV, Sara then lay on top of him and began examining the engagement that was lying on her finger. "Nick it is beautiful." Sara said as she continued to stare at her finger.

"I'm glad you like it baby." Nick said as he lifted his head up and kissed Sara's cheek.

Just then they heard the phone ring, "I'll get it." Sara said as she got up off Nick and rushed towards the phone.

"Hello?" She answered.

"Hey Sara, guess what!?!" said a very excited Catherine.

"What?" asked Sara.

"Warrick asked me to marry him." Catherine said.

"Are you serious? Oh my gosh, this is awesome, because Nick just asked me to marry him too!!" Sara told Catherine.

…………………TBC…………………….PLEASE REVIEW (I know this is a weird place to end it, but the next chapter will be up soon!!)