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"Elvis, piss off!" Horatio growled.

He was once again bent over the toilet throwing up his breakfast and he was getting sick of it. For a week this had been going on and it caused him to eat less (since it only came back up anyway) and get more agitated at work. He snapped at everyone, even his lover. What made him more pissed was that everyone was nagging him to see the doctor. Horatio hated going to the doctor, he just couldn't do it.

Obviously something was wrong, but it was just morning sickness! Okay, morning sickness that lasted all the way to the evening, then it stopped and he just felt nauseous, but didn't throw up. But it was probably just the stomach flu, Horatio was quite sure of it.

Elvis rubbed against Horatio's leg and Horatio growled. The cat just didn't understand that his master wasn't in the mood to cuddle with him. Or maybe he was trying to make him feel better.

"Elvis!" Horatio exclaimed.

But the cat continued rubbing against his leg and purred. Horatio sighed and flushed the toilet before standing up. He had to be at work soon. He looked at himself in the mirror and winced. He looked almost ten years older and liked he was a zombie. He knew that the women on the team would be ganging up on him today and once again beg him to go see the doctor.

He got dressed in his suit and scratched Elvis a second or two before going out the door for work. He felt so tired; probably because he wasn't eating properly. But who felt like eating when you had to run to the bathroom all the time? Even if he skipped eating he was still bent over the toilet, emptying whatever was or wasn't in his stomach.

"You look like hell." Was the first thing Frank said when he met the redhead in the elevator.

"You are such a nice man, Frank." Horatio rolled his eyes.

"Seriously H, you need to get checked up."

Horatio sighed. He had always hated going to the doctor. Maybe it was because he had spent so much time in the hospital as a kid due to his father's abuse or because he just didn't like being examined by some stranger.

"You're worrying all of us, H." Frank said.

"I know." Horatio sighed.

The two men stepped out of the elevator and walked to the lab break room. Usually Frank would be at the homicide department but since he was working a case with Eric he decided to just start his day at the lab. The team was family after all and what better way to begin the day then to have breakfast coffee with them?

Ryan and Eric were already in the room as the two older men entered and they glanced at each other as they saw Horatio's haggard appearance. They were really worried about him. As far as they knew Horatio had never been sick a day in his life and now it seemed as if he wasn't getting past his stomach flu; if it even was the flue and not something else.

After some coffee Horatio cheered up a bit and asked Ryan if he had found anything new in the case that they were working on with Calleigh. It was clear that Horatio was all about business and not willing to discuss his current health problems.

-I-

"Love, I know you can take care of yourself." Mac sighed as Horatio once again defended himself with one of his "I-can-take-care-of-myself-thank-you"- speeches. Mac had been listening to it every day since his lover had gotten sick.

He knew Horatio was on edge and he wasn't making it any better by constantly asking him see a doctor, but he was worried. What kind of a lover would he be if he didn't worry about the man he loved when he was obviously sick?

"Mac, I just… I can't go to a doctor. You know that." Horatio sighed.

"I know." Mac said.

He knew about the redhead's violent childhood and his fear of doctors and hospitals. How he hated it because he felt weak if he was a patient.

"I'm only asking you to get examined because I'm worried and I love you." Mac said, "I can fly down and be with you if you want."

"Will your boss let you?"

Mac bit the inside of his cheek. Sinclair was not happy that Mac always flew out of town once a month and therefore couldn't be available if he needed it. And since Mac wasn't supposed to fly down until next weekend and Sinclair was being an asshole and not letting him take any more extra days, he really couldn't fly down to Miami. Unless it was an emergency.

"I guess he won't, huh?" Horatio said, taking Mac's silence as a no.

"He's being an ass." Mac growled.

"Have Stella give him a tongue-lashing."

Mac chuckled, "She wouldn't. She'd just shot him and hide the body."

"I could have Alexx call him."

Now that caused Mac to laugh out loud; the image of Alexx Woods, someone Sinclair had no idea who it was, calling him and telling him to give Mac some extra days off would be hilarious.

"I'm afraid he'll have my head on a plate if I let her do that." Mac said.

"I'll save you." Horatio smiled.

"I know, love." Mac said and then turned serious again, "Will you please call a doctor and make an appointment? I'm sure someone from the team can go with you if you need the support."

"I'm a grown man I should be able to do it by myself." Horatio growled, but not because he was angry at Mac. He was angry at himself for still being afraid of hospitals.

After spending his childhood in them so many times and having to lie to the doctors about where he got the bruises and the broken bones from, he just couldn't go there without feeling as if he was a scared child again, with his father's eyes burning into him as the doctor asked how he got his bruises, how he broke his ribs, his arm or something else. He just couldn't do it without being afraid.

"Sometimes even grown men need support." Mac said, "Please love?"

Horatio sighed in defeat and Mac knew he had finally won the week-long argument.

"Okay. I will call a doctor." Horatio said, "But I'm only doing it because you want me to and because I love you too."

"Thank you." Mac said.

A few minutes later Horatio had to hang up and go back to work. Mac was still on lunch and his lab was running slow because they had no new cases, which was a nice break for a change.

"Busy?" Sheldon asked as he stood in the doorway.

He had seen Mac on the phone earlier and had decided to wait.

"Yeah, come on in." Mac said.

Sheldon nodded and walked over to Mac's desk. He handed him a file on a cold case that he had run some test for trace on.

"You found a piece of evidence we could use." Mac said, "Good work Sheldon."

"Yeah, when this murder occurred they didn't have all the nice machines we got today." Sheldon said, "I think we might be a step closer to finding the killer."

Mac nodded. He liked being able to close cold cases. It was a rewarding feeling to know that a victim of a crime could finally get some peace of mind and that their families finally got closure.

Sheldon smiled and turned to leave.

"Sheldon." Mac said and Sheldon stopped and turned to face his boss.

"Yeah?"

"If someone is throwing up from early morning to late afternoon or early evening every day, what could it be caused by?" Mac asked.

Sheldon took a deep breath and sat down on the chair across Mac's desk.

"A virus like the stomach flu or some other virus, a bacteria. Almost anything." Sheldon said, "How long has this person been throwing up?"

Sheldon didn't have to be told that the person Mac was talking about was probably Horatio. Mac had been on edge about something the whole week and it most likely had something to do with his lover.

"Every day for a week now." Mac said.

"Okay, if it's the stomach flu he'd be throwing up all the time. So it could be some sort of virus or bacteria. Although, he still should be vomiting all day, not just until the evening."

"He?"

"I'm guessing that we're talking about Horatio."

Mac smiled, Sheldon was a CSI of course and he should have known it wouldn't be too hard to figure out who Mac was talking about.

"Yes."

"He's been doing this for a whole week?" Sheldon asked to be sure.

"Yeah."

"Well, he better get checked up then. It could be a virus, but I doubt it. The most probable cause I can think of would be pregnancy, but he'd probably know if he was able to get pregnant and so he should have already thought of that." Sheldon said.

Mac was stunned by the word pregnant. Male pregnancy was nothing unusual, but was Horatio one of those men that could get pregnant? If he was, did he know it?

"But if he hasn't mentioned it then it's probably not that." Sheldon said.

"Thanks, Sheldon." Mac said still shocked.

Sheldon smiled and left. Mac left alone with his thoughts. Could Horatio really be pregnant?

-I-

"He finally called the doctor?" Calleigh asked surprised.

Everyone except Alexx, Frank and Horatio were in the break room having some coffee after their shift. The others had gone home already.

"Yeah, that's what he said just as Alexx was about to give him another tongue-lashing for being so stubborn and refusing to get examined." Ryan said, "It's about time he called."

"So when is his appointment?" Calleigh asked.

"Tomorrow." Ryan said.

He and Horatio had been working on their case when Alexx had entered the trace lab and Horatio had told her about his doctor's appointment. So naturally Ryan had heard it since he had been in the same room.

"I'm glad he's finally going. I think maybe Mac got through to him." Eric said.

"Me too." Calleigh said, "I hope it's not something serious though."

"It's probably just a severe case of the stomach flu." Eric shrugged.

"Delko, if you have the flu your throw up constantly. It doesn't stop in the evenings." Ryan said.

"Okay Doctor Wolfe." Eric teased, "So what do you think it is?"

"A virus. Something other than the flu virus." Ryan shrugged.

"Maybe he picked something up in New York last weekend." Calleigh suggested.

"He was born and raised there Cal, shouldn't he have been sick by whatever bacteria he picked up way earlier then?" Ryan asked.

"Bacteria can travel far, Ryan." Calleigh pointed out, "It could be something from another country that he ended up getting in New York."

"Okay, good point." Ryan said.

"Any other theories Doctor Wolfe?" Eric asked and smirked when Ryan rolled his eyes.

"Yes, as a matter of fact Delko, he could be pregnant."

Calleigh and Eric looked at him as if he had suggested something impossible.

"He could be." Eric said after a while, "My cousin Enrique got pregnant two years ago with his boyfriend."

"Really? Did he have the same signs as Horatio?" Calleigh asked.

"No, but that's the way it is with both male and female pregnancies sometimes right? Some have all the signs, others have none." Eric said.

"True. Wow, can you imagine Horatio with a baby bump?"

Ryan and Eric paused and then burst out laughing. Calleigh looked confused at them. Seeing pregnant men were common so why would it be so funny to see Horatio pregnant?

"What?" She asked confused, "Would that be funny?"

"It's not that. I was just thinking about the hormones that come with a pregnancy." Eric chuckled, "Can you imagine H with mood swings and cravings?"

"And poor Mac will be the one who gets to take all the mood swings." Ryan smiled, "It would be so funny to see how the tough New Yorker handles that."

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves here." Calleigh said, "The pregnancy theory fits, but it doesn't mean that's what it is."

"Yeah, I mean H would have told us if he was able to get pregnant." Eric said.

"Yeah, of course he would have." Ryan agreed.

"Unless he doesn't know." Calleigh shrugged.

"Horatio knows everything." The men pointed out.

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