Chapter 12: Losses
"When you look me in the eyes
And tell me that you love me
Everything's alright
When you're right here by my side"
"Are you feeling alright, Stella? You look a little pale," Mac rests a concerned hand on her arm.
"Yeah, I'm fine. It's probably just the morning sickness."
He nods, "Don't strain yourself."
"Doing what? I sit behind a desk and read all day."
"You know what I mean. I just don't want anything to happen to you," he kisses her lips sweetly, "or him."
"Him? How do you know it's a boy?"
"I'm just guessing. It could be a girl… but I don't think so," he teases.
"Bye, Mac," she shakes her head and walks back to her office.
Half an hour later he is in the layout room, going over the evidence. The door opens, and he doesn't bother looking up. "What do you need?"
"I… I think something's wrong, Mac."
He looks up to find Stella clutching her stomach, obviously in pain. "What happened?"
"I was just sitting there when I got this sharp pain in my stomach. I… I think I'm bleeding."
"We have to get you to the hospital," he tries to hide his panic, grabbing her arm and rushing down the hall.
"What's going to happen?"
"I don't know, Stel. But I'll be right there with you."
Here
Mac squeezes her hand, and she squeezes back. Minutes later her normally bright emerald eyes open. "Hey," he whispers.
"Hey," she rubs her eyes with her free hand. "What happened?"
"You were bleeding and lost consciousness on the way here."
She hesitates, "I lost the baby, didn't I?"
He looks away from her. "It wasn't your fault."
"I'm sorry, Mac."
"We can have other kids."
"I should've known this would've happened and just had surgery to prevent it."
"Stel, not even the doctors could tell if the baby would survive or not."
"Are the others here?"
"No, they're coming after shift."
"Can you tell them to wait until tomorrow? I'd kind of like to be alone right now."
"Sure." He makes the call, then sits back down beside her.
"Mac, I'm not exactly alone if you're here."
"I can't leave you, Stel. I… I was going to ask you later at dinner, but you obviously can't go now. I think this would have been better for the baby, and this incident doesn't change my feelings," Mac pulls out a small box and hands it to her.
She glances at him before opening it. "What… what's this for?"
"I love you with all of my heart, Stella. Will you marry me?"
"I… yes."
He smiles, leaning over to kiss her. "I, uh, figured you'd have to take it off when you worked in the lab so I bought this for you to be able to wear it all the time and not lose it," he pulls out a necklace chain. Pulling the ring out of the box, he puts it on the chain and then clips it around her neck.
"Thank you, Mac," she takes his hand again.
Silently they sit together until he asks, "Do you still want to be alone?"
"I do need some time to think. Why don't you take fifteen minutes and get me something to eat?"
"Sure." He stands and heads to the door.
"Mac?"
He turns back to her, "Yeah, Stel?"
"I love you too," she smiles for the first time since losing the baby.
A/N: So... I supposed you're all mad at me now... But I did tell you it wouldn't be like on Housewives where Gabby couldn't get pregnant but five years later she magically has two kids... But I you shouldn't be mad since I didn't make you wait until Sunday... I got lots of reviews about that comment. And you guys not wanting her baby to die. I'm just so evil... The story does have a happy ending though... which you all should like. So... what else... I'm still listening to my iPod. Ten more songs to go... I really don't feel like doing my math homework... but I need to. Oh, I have to tell you guys about driving to school yesterday... in the snow. And it wasn't even exciting because it was snowy... the roads were fine. I saw an accident... I think it involved a salt truck... then I get most of the way up the big hill which the school is like on top of and I have to stop... there's a police car sitting there and here comes a firetruck which pulls up by the police car and I'm like 'why's it stopping already?' So I looked over at the building it was in front of and it's on fire. I still didn't figure out what that building was... Oddly enough I was just thinking that I probably need to go a different way to school so I avoid the big hill when it's icy. Anyway... I thought it was exciting. No excitement today though... my mom made me take the bus because there was snow on the road... but the main roads were fine. Well, I need to go shower or do my math homework or something before dancing is on. I'm mad at Maks because he cut his hair... please review and maybe I'll update Thursday or Friday.