Chapter 11: Late
"More and more I start to realize
I can reach my tomorrow
I can hold my head up high
And it's all because you're by my side"
Stella curls up on the couch, her knees pulled to her chest, deep in thought.
"What's going on in your head?" Mac sits beside her.
"A lot."
"Like?"
"Maybe we should take a walk."
He studies her, "Big news?"
"Kind of. Well, it's a little something with a big impact."
"How bad is it?"
"It's… good right now… but it could turn bad."
He takes her hand. "Let's go for a walk then. We'll work through it."
Once they get to the park, she decides she had better start explaining. "Mac… I… I'm a week late."
"Late for what?" he casually puts an arm around her as they saunter down the path.
"Late. You know… for that time."
"Oh…" Realization hits him. "You're pregnant?"
"I think so."
"That's wonderful," he pulls her into his arms. "Right?"
"I could still lose… the baby. We don't know what will happen. For all we know I might not even be pregnant; it may be some… weird side effect or mistake."
"Did you set up a doctor's appointment?"
"Tomorrow morning."
"I don't care what you say; I'm going with you."
"Good because I want you to be there."
Here
"How come Mac hasn't given you a case?" Lindsay enters Stella's office.
"You can't tell the guys."
"They won't hear anything from me."
"I'm… pregnant."
"Congratulations. I guess you won't need me anymore."
"It's only been a couple weeks. There's still plenty of time for me to lose the baby," Stella places a hand on her stomach.
"So who's the father?"
"Uh… Mac."
"What?!"
"Mac is the father."
"Are you two dating or was it just a one time thing?"
"We've been dating for about six months, shortly after I was shot."
"And you didn't tell me?"
"We wanted to wait and see how things went first. Besides what we do in our personal time is none of your business."
"I'd want to know if my boss was sleeping with my colleague."
"It obviously doesn't affect our work; you didn't know, and I doubt the guys do."
"So you're not working in the field for a while I guess."
"Mac has banned me to my office. He's being a little too protective of the baby."
"He's just keeping the baby safe and trying to keep anything from causing the delivery to go wrong and harm you."
"It's been less than a day, and I'm already sick of it," she rolls her eyes. "So how are thing with Danny?"
"Okay. We just got out of a fight."
"Does he know you offered to surrogate for me?"
"No, I never told him. He might not even know you can't kids."
"You should tell him so it's not a big surprise later if I do lose the baby and decide to use you."
"I'm sure he won't mind."
A/N: So she is pregnant... will she lose the baby? I think you find out next chapter. I'm not sure... Anyway, there's only four more chapters left so... I decided to spend my weekend listening to the songs I have under the genre of instrumental on my iPod. Exciting... Harry Potter times five, National Treasure, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Batman, Pirates, Sleepy Hollow... yeah, that pretty much it. Oh, Narnia too. Then there's some from Apollo 13 and Glory and Cinderella Man and Superman and... X-men. Yeah, I'm a band geek. I'm on about 215 of 336, and I'm dreading the sixteen minute song from the second Batman. I've also been trying to write... The songs I chose have too many stanzas... I'm about half way through the first chapter... I still haven't decided what the third song will be. I chose to just make it all one story. Okay, while I'm going to try to continue with this story... Please review... Lately you guys haven't been... maybe because I'm updating more frequently. I could wait until next Sunday to tell you if she's able to keep the baby or not... which I'm sure you won't be happy about.