Chapter 7

Warrick and Nick were sitting in the break room, waiting on the arrival of their fiancés.

"I wonder where they are." Nick asked as he looked at his watch and noticing in was 10:30. Nick was growing a little worried Catherine and Sara was never tardy, he was starting to think something happened.

"They may have just ran into some traffic or something." Warrick said trying to calm his friend and also to convince himself everything was alright.

Just then Brass came barging through the door with a look of worry on his face, "Guys, there has been an accident on Springdale Hwy, and the paramedics just confirmed it was Sara and Catherine, they have been taken to Desert Palm hospital."

Nick and Warrick could not believe what they were hearing, "Oh my gosh, are they okay?" Nick asked standing up from his seat.

"Well they were both unconscious but they are still alive." Brass told him.

Nick and Warrick rushed out of the break room, and ran down the hallway out into the parking lot. They both quickly jumped into Warrick's Denali and hurried into the direction of the hospital. They were both silent the whole trip, both worried about the condition of their fiancés and their unborn children.

Warrick quickly parked the Denali and the two men jumped out. When the reached the emergency room, and they walked up to the nurse behind the desk, "Yes, we are here about Sara Sidle and Catherine Willows, they were in a car wreck, and we want to know how they are doing." Warrick told the black-headed nurse.

"One moment." The nurse told them before looking on her computer.

"Yes…we have them in here, and as soon as the doctors get finished I'll tell them you are here, just have a seat over there." The nurse told the two men.

That answer wasn't good enough for Nick and Warrick, they wanted to know how their fiancés were doing, but they knew the only thing they could now was wait.

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Nick and Warrick had been waiting for over an hour, they were growing impatient. "Have you guys heard anything?" They heard a familiar voice say from behind them.

They turned around to see Grissom walking up to them followed by Brass and Greg.

"No Griss we haven't heard anything yet." Nick said as Grissom, Brass and Greg walked around and took a seat in front of the two men.

After waiting another thirty minutes the doctor walked into the waiting room, "Are you guys the family of Sara Sidle?" the older doctor asked the group of men.

"I am sir; I am her fiancé Nick Stokes." Nick said standing up and shaking the doctor's hand.

"Mr. Stokes I'm Doctor Thomas."

"How's Sara?"

"She's pretty banged up, but she is doing well, she suffered a concussion and she has a large laceration across her forehead, she also broke her wrist." The doctor stated.

"What about the baby? Is it okay?" Nick asked afraid of what the answer to that question was going to be. He was relieved that Sara was okay but he also wanted the baby to be okay.

"The baby is fine, we placed her on a fetal monitor and it seems the baby is doing very well, heart rate is good and the movement of the baby is good also." The doctor pointed out.

Nick breathed a heavy sigh of relief before asking, "Can I see her?"

"The nurse is checking her vitals again right now, but as soon as she is done I'll have her come out here and get you okay?"

"Okay thanks." Nick said before rubbing his hand through his hair.

The doctor began to walk off but was stopped by Warrick, "Doctor Thomas, have you heard anything about my fiancé?"

"What is her name?"

"Catherine….Catherine Willows."

The doctor looked through the charts he had in his hands, "Um…she is been taking into surgery."

"What?!" Warrick asked.

Everybody looked over at Warrick and the doctor after hearing this.

"What surgery?"

"Her spleen had been punctured in the accident and we have to remove it."

"What about our baby?" Warrick asked concerned.

"Well the baby is doing good, but we found that her water broke, so we had no choice but to take it while we were removing her spleen. But your little girl is on a respirator to help her breathe."

"Can I see my little girl?"

"As soon as they get her stabilized I'll let you see her."

"Thanks."

At that the doctor walked out of the waiting room, not long after leaving the nurse came in. "Mr. Stokes?"

"Yes that's me." Nick looked over at the blonde nurse who had called his name.

"The doctor said you may see Miss Sidle now."

Nick followed the nurse into the room where is fiancé laid in the hospital bed. After showing him what room it was, the nurse gently closed the door in order to give the couple some privacy.

Nick quietly walked over to the bed, and looked down at his fiancé who appeared to be asleep. He looked her up and down starting with her head. Her head was bandaged with a 3 by 5 gauze on her forehead, she had a bruise on her right cheek; he looked down her arm and noticed her right wrist wrapped up in a cast. He smiled a little because he remembered when he was younger and he broke his arm and everyone wanted to sign his cast. He then glanced her stomach at her large bump, and the fetal monitor that was on it.

Nick took a seat in the chair beside the bed, and grabbed Sara's hand. She began to stir.

"Nick?" she asked as she opened her eyes.

"Hey baby." He said in a whisper. "How are you feeling?"

"My head and wrist hurts a little." She said as she rested her head back on the pillow.

Nick smiled at his fiancés remark.

"Did the doctors tell you anything about the baby?" Sara asked rubbing her bump with her broken wrist.

"Yeah they said everything was fine."

"Good." She said as she continued to rub her bump.

"Have you heard anything about Cath?" Sara asked taking Nick's hand back in hers.

"Sara, honey don't get upset but they had to take her into surgery."

Sara's jaw dropped as she started at Nick, "Why?"

"They said her spleen was punctured in the accident, so they have to do surgery to remove it, and they had to take the baby because Cath's water broke."

"Oh my…is the baby okay?" Sara asked with tears forming in her eyes.

"She is on a respirator, and they are trying to get her stabilized."

"Oh my gosh Nicky…this is all my fault." Sara said as she began to cry.

"Sara, you're talking crazy, how do you think it is your fault?"

"Because if she would have stayed on the strip like she was going too, we wouldn't have been in that accident, I talked her into going down Springdale Hwy to avoid the traffic."

"Sara this is not your fault and it's not Catherine's fault, things happen." Nick said trying to comfort Sara who was now sobbing uncontrollably.

Mean while, Warrick was finally allowed to see his daughter; he walked into the NICU and the nurse showed him his daughter who was in an incubator with tubes everywhere. He placed a hand on the incubator as he looked down at his daughter, that's when he noticed the card on the side of the bed that read, 'Baby Willows, 5 lbs 3 oz', he then said silently to his daughter, as if she could hear him, "Hey little one, I guess me and mommy are going to have to decide on a name huh?" He continued looking at his daughter for a few minutes, she had light brown skin and she had some black hair that could be seen sticking out of the cap she was wearing. Even though she looked small she still had a little bit of fat on her body.

"Mr. Brown, your wife is out of surgery if you would like to see her." A nurse said behind him.

"Oh okay thanks." Warrick said, before turning back at looking at his daughter for a moment. "Bye little one, I'll see you in a bit."

Warrick went downstairs looking for recovery room 5, that the nurse had told him. When he entered he saw Catherine lying in bed with her eyes, closed but Warrick knew she wasn't asleep because he could hear her crying.

"Hey babe" He said as he walked over to the bed and took her hand.

"Warrick is our baby okay?" she said as she wiped a tear away with her spare hand.

"Yeah she is fine; the doctors are taking care of her."

"It was a girl?"

"Yeah, 5 lbs and 3 oz. Are you feeling okay, though?"

"Yeah, I'm just tired but I can't sleep because I keep thinking about our baby.

"She'll be okay, but you need your rest." Warrick said as he ran his hand through her hair.

"I guess we should decide on her name." Catherine told Warrick

"Yeah"

"What about Kayla Marie?" Catherine asked.

"How about Kayla Fae?" Warrick responded.

"That sounds good, Kayla Fae." Catherine said as she closed her eyes. "How's Sara?" Catherine asked as she opened her eyes and looked over at Warrick.

"She's fine she just suffered some minor injuries."

"And the baby?"

"Its fine, they placed her on a fetal monitor and they said everything looked great."

"That's good." Catherine said as she placed her head on the pillow.

After a few minutes of fighting it Catherine finally gave into sleep. Warrick continued rubbing her hand as she slept.

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Back in the room where Sara and Nick were, Nick was trying to get Sara to rest but she refused too.

"I can't rest Nick."

"Why not?"

"Because I'm not feeling well."

"What is the matter?"

"I don't know…oh gosh…I'm having a contraction…" Just as she got this out of her mouth she felt a gush of fluid come out of her.

"Nick…I think my water just broke…"

……………….TBC…………………….PLEASE REVIEW!!! I hope you enjoyed this chapter! Is Sara in labor? If she is what will she have, boy or girl?