A/N Hey Friends!! Thank you all for the reviews and alerts. I'm glad to see such a good response to the story; it makes my muse work better. I decided to put Stella's pregnancy into the shows after her attack. It is her thoughts during the cases while she is pregnant. I've decided to only go to 'Charge of this post' with the shows because by the third season she would be showing. So some of the chapters may not have anything to do with the cases in the show but they may be mentioned. I haven't decided how far after the baby is born I will go. Let me know what you think.

I only have four chapters of this story written so I am going to spread the chapters out until I get more written.

There are direct quotes from this episode.

Stealing Home

Chapter 2

Stella stood there staring at the man with the bullet in his face. All she could see was Frankie falling with the bullets she put in his chest.

"Stella, how are you holding up?" Mac asked, looking up from the vic concerned.

"I'm ok," she said, genuinely. She was for that moment.

Hawkes came up and began telling them about how the vic, Mark Jefferies, seemed to be a upstanding citizen. She smirked when he said he was going to check to see if he was a Boy Scout. That was when she saw a tall red haired woman push her way through the crowd and ran up the stairs towards them screaming that was her husband. Both Mac and Hawkes tried to stop her but she pushed through. Stella quickly grabbed the woman by the shoulders but not before the woman saw her husband and began to panic more, which was expected.

"Calm down, take a deep breath," Stella told the woman, soothingly.

Stella heard Mac tell Hawkes that it was hard to see something like that, before a petite brunette ran up screaming that was her husband. They stood there in shock watching the women comfort each other.

Stella knew this was going to be an interesting case when she heard Mac say.

"I think that answers the Boy Scout question."

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Stella walked in to the crime lab early the next morning to look over the case file when a wave of nausea hit her. She barely made it to the bathroom. She finished emptying her stomach contents then made her way to the sink to wash her hands. After washing her hands she made a cup with her hands to rinse out her mouth. She hoped to find a mint or piece of gum in her purse to mask the odor of her breath. She wiped the beads of sweat off her fore head and face with a wet paper towel. She had just finished touching up her make up when a lab tech walked into the bathroom. She smiled at the other woman then left the bathroom. She had just picked up the case file when Mac walked into her office.

"Our lovely three some didn't start that way Mark Jefferies was legally married to Elle Jefferies three years ago Laura was an add on" he said, reading from an open file in his hand.

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Stella sat down to test Laura Jefferies hands when Laura spoke.

"He would've killed me… my ex-boyfriend if I didn't shoot him he would have killed me."

"I believe you" Stella said, sincerely.

"No you don't. It's alright I don't expect you to understand," Laura said, rolling her eyes.

"Laura trust me. I know what people you love are capable of doing," Stella said, seriously.

She did know what people she loved were capable of doing. She had a little person growing inside of her to prove that. She had loved Frankie. She really thought that he was the one that was going to sweep her off her feet. She would have loved to have been able to raise this child with him. Until he made that website and tried to kill her in her own home. Now she was going to have to raise this child by herself. Right now she had to focus on her job.

She continued to test Laura's hands when a swab came up as positive.

"You're wasting your time detective," Laura said.

"No Laura I don't think I'm wasting my time. You just tested positive for gunshot residue" Stella said, holding up the swab.

Stella wondered if Mac was right was it easier this time for Laura to shoot her husband? Stella wondered if it would be just as easy for her if she had to shoot someone again. She didn't need to think about this right now she needed to stay focus on this case. She wasn't anything like Laura Jefferies.

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Stella explained the odd GSR pattern on Laura's hands to Mac and he sent her down to reconstruction to figure it out. Now there she was standing there in the shooting range with her hands shaking like crazy. Finally she took a deep breath picked up the gun and fired. She then tested her hands and did not get the same results. This was going to be a long process.

Stella had to admit she was a little relieved when Mac's shirt didn't test positive GSR and they found out that Laura has gotten the GSR transfer from the police car. For some reason Stella just had a feeling that Laura Jefferies was not the killer.

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Stella just couldn't believe why some people just killed others out of anger. Elle Jefferies could have walked away, like Mac said. But Elle chose to kill her husband. What kind of world was she going to bring her baby into?

She was wondering this question as she headed down the hall to get on the elevator to go home. She saw Mac in his office he seemed to be deep in thought as he stared at the pictures hung on the glass window.

"Mac," she said, as she opened the door.

"Stella what are you still doing here?" he asked, as he turned to look at her.

"I was finishing up some paper work. I was going to ask you the same thing" she said, as she sat on his couch.

"I was talking to Lindsay and I told her that there were some cases that still haunted me and this is one of them," he said, gesturing towards the photos.

"The DJ Pratt case," she said, softly.

She knew even though Lindsay was a great addition to the team Mac hated having to fire Aiden.

"Yeah I promised Aiden that we would catch this guy and I hate waiting around for him to make a mistake or rape another woman," he said, gruffly.

She reached out and touched his arm.

"We'll find some evidence on this guy Mac even though we may have to wait for him to make a mistake but when he does we'll be ready to get him," she said, determinedly.

"Yeah we will. Now go home you look tired," he said, with a small smile.

"What about you? When are you going home?" she asked, glaring at him as she crossed her arms.

She knew Mac would stay there the whole night trying to find something from those photos.

"Adam is bringing me other rape cases that may fit Pratts's profile. I'm just going to flip though those tonight and take a better look tomorrow. Ok?" he asked, with a smirk.

"Ok. You want me to stay and help you look though the case files?" she asked.

"No, I won't be long. You go on home I'll see you in the morning," he said, as he turned back to the photos.

"Good night, Mac," she said, as she stood up then walked over and gave him a hug.

"Good night," he said, returning the hug.

She walked out of Mac's office and gave a friendly smile to Adam she continued to make her way to the elevators.

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She saw him leaning against her door when she got to her hotel room.

"Hey," he greeted and then bent down to pick up a bag of takeout he had beside him.

"Hey," she said, as she unlocked the door.

"I want to hear about the house of trimonogy that I heard Hawkes talking about briefly," Don said, grinning as he sat the food on the counter.

"It didn't work out so don't get any ideas," she laughed, as she dished out the food.

They sat there talking about their cases half the night.