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Chapter 7:

"Mommy?"

"Ohmygod. Natalia? Whoa. Take it easy." Natalia had reentered the corridor that Jem and Ryan occupied and had collapsed. This is just too much. I feel like I have all these secrets. I'm just sick and tired of it all. She had a semi-grey complexion and was having trouble breathing. "Ohgodohgodohgod. What do I do? Jem watch her, I'll go get help." Ryan was completely panicking and his walkie-talkie and cellphone had died from Jem playing with them so much. You know, this is why children shouldn't play with my stuff! In complete dread, he raced down the hall to find someone, anyone, who could help.

"Ryan?" The voice came from ahead of him. It was Maxine Valera. "Are you okay? You look a little white."

"Yeah, yeah…of course." The look on his face betrayed his inner turmoil. "I just need to find-ERIC!" The half Cuban, half Russian man, on the way to the morgue, froze in stride. He was holding a white T-shirt.

"Having troubles, Wolfe?" Eric loved to tease Ryan on his obsessive compulsive nature.

"You and Horatio go to Lamaze classes, right? For Marisol?"

"What? Yeah…why?" Why would Ryan need to know that? Could this day get any randomer?

"So, you know about breathing and all, right?" Ryan himself wasn't breathing very well.

"Ryan, RYAN! What's going on?" He better not be panicking because someone borrowed his pen or something.

"It's Natalia. She's not breathing. Well, she is, but---"

What? "Where is she, Ryan? RYAN!"

"She's down that hallway---"

"Give this to Ella…She's the little girl in the morgue." Eric quickly answered the question in Ryan's eyes. "Valera, can you go with him and get Alexx to come here." With that, he ran down to where Natalia was.

With the shirt in his hand, Ryan grumbled, "Who made me baby sitter of the week?" He received a small smile from Valera.

"C'mon Wolfie, let's go. We have to make sure you make it to the morgue alive. And she's a doctor, she'll know what to do."

"Yeah…" Hey, what is this? I don't appreciate being called Wolfie!

"Natalia?"

"Eric?" Natalia was in a sitting up position. She rolled her eyes. "I'm fine."

"What happened?"

"I got dizzy. I think Ryan freaked out more than I did." She smiled dimly.

"These past few weeks…months… you've been acting kind of strange. Are you sure---"

"Eric, I'm fine. Really. Just stuff happened. And today's just been a crazy day."

"Yeah, tell me about it." Natalia looked at him strangely. "Never mind." Then her eyes widened.

"Oh no. Jeremy?" The small boy came out of the shadows from the opposite wall.

"Mommy? Are you okay?" Jem was afraid. "Don't say 'of course, I'm fine' because I've seen the movies and whenever the mommy says that, they die like the next day."

Eric and Natalia tried their hardest to stifle their laughter. They both shared the same thought, Children are just so adorable!

"I don't plan on dying anytime soon. Don't worry about that."

Eric looked at the child. "You're Jeremy, as in Jem? Do you know an Ella?"

Jem looked at the man. Daddy, what'd you hit your head? "Daddy, duh." With one glance from Natalia, he quickly took back the 'duh.' "She's my sister. I heard you make her. When I walked in, you tried to give me some dumb speech about the stork… and happy adults. I watched the Discovery Channel…I'm eight, not stupid."

Eric and Natalia temperatures rose as their faces tinted red. They couldn't look each other in the eye. There thoughts were incoherent and jumbled, as was their speech.

"S-She's in the morgue." Eric managed to get out. This is just too insane What is going on? How can he say something that hasn't happened? That WON'T happen? And what eight-year old kid watches the Discovery Channel?

"Really?" Jem's expression changed. "Cool. I'm gonna go there!" And exact my revenge! JoJo WILL go down. I don't know what's going on…but I so bet it's Ella's fault…it always is.

As Jem bounded off and before Eric and Natalia could speak about what had just happened, Alexx entered. "Eric, Natalia. Is everything okay? What's wrong?"

Natalia's stomach, which had been bothering her since the morning and for a few months now, finally gave up the fight and released her breakfast all over the cool tile floor. Eric jumped up from his crouching position by Natalia's side and moved away, as quickly as he could, from the pool of mushy Honey Nut Cheerios and green-gray concoction that was once milk.

Alexx turned to Eric. "Honey, why don't you get some lunch for yourself and those kids." Eric knew that she was trying to get rid of him, but, nonetheless, he nodded and complied. I really need to ask Natalia what's going on with her. She looks like she has the flu or something, but it's not that. She's been acting strange lately, and it's not because everyone found out she was the F.B.I.'s mole; it started before that.

"Are you sure you two don't need anything at all?" The whole mole thing had been semi-blown out of proportion and people had distrusted Natalia. While she strongly believed that everyone hated her, Eric didn't. He was just hurt that she didn't trust him enough to tell him the truth. Am I domineering? Do I provoke fear? I just don't get why she felt that she couldn't trust me with such a burden.

"Actually. Could you get a bottle of water?"

"Of course," Eric nodded, "anything you need." He went through the open door of the break room across from the area they were occupying.

Once Eric was gone, Alexx took a stab at what she believed was going on. "How come you never told anyone you were pregnant, sweetie?"

In shock, Natalia choked from the burning sensation the bile had left on her throat. She decided it was best to be honest. Someone has to know or I'm going to collapse. Okay, so technically I already did, but that's not the point. "Um…"

"When did you find out, sugar?"

"Um…like five months ago." OK…that's an understatement. This is really embarrassing.

Eric came back with the water bottle and gave it to Natalia because he figured that she was probably the one who needed it. Natalia instantly stopped talking and, once again, turned beet red. Alexx looked at Eric and he put up his hands in mock defeat.

"Alright, I'm leaving. I'm getting lunch. I hope those two rug rats aren't allergic to anything." He smiled reassuringly to Natalia as if to tell her, 'everything is going to be okay.' With that, he left the building to grab something at the nearest deli within walking distance. Natalia took a long drink of cool refreshing water.

"Is he the---?" Alexx began as Natalia cut her off.

"Yeah, I mean I haven't slept with anyone else, but I haven't told him."

"Are you planning---?" This poor child. She's been through all this for five months and hasn't told anybody…not even the baby's father.

"I don't know." He hates me. And he was relieved that there was no kid. It's better this way. I shouldn't have lied though. He's going to hate me even more.

"You should tell him."

"I'm scared. I don't want to force him into something he's not ready for or anything."

"Baby, if he's not ready to deal with the consequences of both of your actions…then he's not worth it, but I think we both know Eric better than that."

"Yeah. You're probably right, but I don't know. I mean after the whole FBI mole-"

"Sweetie, we all know why you did it. And if I know Eric, and trust me honey I've known him for a long time now, he won't brush you off. Tell him in your own time, but tell him before he finds out in another way."

"Yeah, I know. This day has just been…overwhelming." Alexx grinned.

"Here, let's get you on your feet."

"I'm okay…I'm only in the middle of my second trimester…I'm still just trying to get used to the morning sickness…" And I just found out that the man I hate and fear with every fiber of my being, is out of jail.

"Alright, sugar, let's get you to the break room. I'll make you some chamomile tea. It helped me my first couple months when I was pregnant with Janie."

Natalia smiled. She was glad some people were being kind to her despite her previous mistakes. "Thanks Alexx, it means a lot to me that you're doing all of this."

"Honey, don't worry about it, I more worried about those children and that little one." She pointed a finger to Natalia's stomach.

As Alexx was making sure that Natalia didn't topple over as she stood up to go to the break room, a spiky blond hair man darted out of that same room. He turned the corner and went out of sight of the two women. It was Dan Cooper. He hadn't meant to eavesdrop, but it just happened. He had been exiting with his peanut butter and fluff sandwich when he heard the two of them mention 'Eric' and 'pregnancy.' He decided to stick around and hear what they were talking about. Ever since he found out that Natalia was the mole, he disliked her. It was because of this whole mole problem that Ryan suspected and attacked me and I blame her. I mean I didn't deserve to be pushed into the wall like that after just a couple of drinks and spilling some information. It wasn't anything BIG. I want revenge. But who do I tell? Ryan's no fun… maybe one of the technicians? Someone…this is too big.

A/N: I know… RANDOM lololol… I just had to mention the peanut butter and fluff sandwich because those are REALLY yummy…seriously… XD …Hope you all like it though… reviews are nice! XD