Nate looked around a bit self-conscious. All around him there were young pregnant women. Some were very pregnant, like I'm just about to give birth pregnant. He didn't really went with Maggie to her ob-gyn appointments when she had been expecting Sam. Most of the time he had been in Europe. He did have to go to pre-birth lessons thought, Maggie didn't really give him any choice. But he did promise Sophie that he was going to be there with her, so there he was.

Sophie took the seat next to him. "So , we have to fill this form."

"What alias are you going to use?" Nate asked taking a peak at the form.

"Nate, this is my regular ob-gyn. She knows me as Sophie" she remarked giving him a Seriously? look.

"Ah, what do you need to know?"

"Well, I know you name, place and date of birth…. " she wrote down.

"Wait, how do you know my social security number?"

"Please!" she shrugged. "Nope, I think I already know everything"

"Geez, and I don't even know you're real name" he whispered hoping that she couldn't hear him

"I know that you can't remember that night, Nate" she remarked without looking up. "and it's going to be a long time before I think you've earned the right for me to tell you again"

"Can I use the pregnancy card?"

Sophie just lifted her eyes from the form and glared at him.

"Sophie Devereaux?" a nurse called. "The doctor is ready for you"

Nate and Sophie both got up and followed her down a corridor and then entered through second door on the right.

"Sophie!" A middle age red haired woman greeted them. "How are you doing?"

"Hi, Elizabeth" Sophie smiled at her and shook her hand. She has always liked the friendly doctor. "I didn't think I was going to see you so soon" she joked.

"Yeah, from your form I read you suspect your pregnant?" she read the chart putting her glasses on. "You took a home pregnancy test?"

"Yeah, it came back positive and I'm more than a week late, so here I am"

"And I gathered that you're the maybe future father" doctor Elizabeth Stone eyed Nate.

"Nathan Ford, pleased to meet you." Nate smiled nervously and shook her hand.

"Well Sophie, you've got yourself a very nice man here" she winked at the grifter. "Let's see if there's a baby then and how it's doing. First of all Sophie, I need you to get changed and put that gown. You know where the changing room and bathroom are. Then a nurse will come and take a blood sample, after that we can finally have a look with an ultrasound."

Sophie nodded and started gathering her things. "Are you sure you want to stay here?" she asked Nate who was still nervously jumping on his feet.

"Yeah, no problem. I'll just wait here." He sat down on a chair but his leg kept moving nervously up and down.

"Nate" Sophie put a hand on his back "Relax" and she kissed his cheek.

Fifteen minutes later Sophie was laying on the exam table while Nate was sitting on a chair next to her.

"Okay, let's have a look" doctor Stone squirted some gel on Sophie's naked abdominal.

Sophie gasped at the cold feeling and Nate promptly took her hand in his. "You're okay?"

She just nodded as the doctor ran the probe over her.

After a couple of minutes she confirmed their suspicions "Yep, here is the fetus" she pointed at the screen. "I'll say it's between 5 and 6 weeks along."

Sophie smiled at the image in front of her. She couldn't real see anything but just the knowledge that there was a little person growing inside of her made her happy and she started crying.

"Soph?" Nate asked worriedly.

"I'm just happy Nate, it's…" she couldn't contain her emotions. "… it's a fantastic feeling"

Nate smiled and bought her hand to his lips. "I think you're already going hormonal on me" he grinned.

She chuckled. "Oh stop it!" she lightly hit him with her other hand.

"Well, congratulations you two! I will prescribe pre-natal vitamin pills for you and schedule your next appointment. I would like to do an amnio test too, just to be on the safe side. The desk will call you this evening with the blood results."

Sophie got herself cleaned and went to get back dressed in the changing room.

Nate remained in the room dump fooled. He was going to be a father again. He didn't know how he could feel happy and scared at the same time.

"First child?" Elizabeth Stone interrupted his thoughts.

"Hmm? Oh no, I…" why did she have to ask him that? " I had a child in my previous marriage, but…" he looked down uncomfortably.

The woman soon understood and realized her mistake. "Oh, sorry… how did it happen, if I may ask? I'm just wondering for any genetic…"

"Cancer" he retorted back. "He got ill when he was eight"

Stone just slowly nodded and Sophie returned in the room. She soon noticed the gloomy atmosphere and Nate sad and lost look.

"Everything okay?" She asked uncertain putting a hand on his arm.

Nate just put a fake smile on. "Sure"

"Okay Sophie, the desk will tell you everything. If there aren't any problems I will see you back in a month."

They said their goodbyes and Nate and Sophie took the lift going back towards the hospital hall.

Nate's silence and absent gaze were scaring Sophie. "Nate, is everything okay? Did you change your mind about…?"

"No, no. It's just…" he sighed not knowing what to say. " She asked me if this was my first child so then I had to talk about…"

"…Sam." She understood. "You want to talk about it?"

"Not really. I'm just not ready yet" He wondered if he's ever going to ready to talk about his son without falling apart. "I'm happy about the baby, Sophie. I really am" He reassured her.

Sophie nodded and smiled at him. She gave him a quick kiss before the lift's door opened.

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As soon as they entered Nate's apartment they were ambushed by Parker who jumped in front of them. "Where were you?" she asked with a small tone of accusation.

Sophie gasped. "Parker! Do you really have to scare me to death?"

"So, where were you guys?" Hardison repeated the question from where he was standing beside the monitors.

"Can't we have a bit of privacy?" Nate complained. "It's not really any of your business"

"I told them that" Eliot pointed out from his post behind the kitchen counter.

"Since you two got together, you have like this secret life" Parker frowned.

"It's called doing things as a couple, Parker. We're not trying to shut you out. If you really want to know we went out for brunch" Sophie lied to her.

"Yeah," Hardison exclaimed. "Because the hospital is very famous for their cafeteria's brunches" he joked.

"Hardison," Nate shouted "Did you track our phones down? I thought we established that you can do it only in case of emergency."

"It was an emergency!" Parker intervened. "We didn't know where you were."

"I'd like to point out that I told them it was a bad idea. That you guys needed privacy. It was all them" Eliot tried to get out of trouble.

"So, who's sick?" Hardison asked not really feeling guilty about invading their privacy.

"I'm surprised that you didn't hack into the hospital files" Sophie sighed frustrated. She sat down on the kitchen chair trying to figure out how to get out of this mess.

"Well, even I wouldn't go that far!"

"So…" Parker insisted.

Nate and Sophie exchanged a look. "Might as well tell them already. It's not like we can hide it"

"The hospital appointment was for me" Sophie began. "I'm pregnant" she finally told them.

Parker squeaked with happiness. "Cool, we're going to have a baby thief!" She jumped.

Hardison was still shocked with his mouth opened. "Wow, that's…" he stammered. "You're guys are nasty! But hey, if you're happy, I'm happy!" He went to give Sophie a big hug.

"Thank you Hardison. We are happy." Sophie returned his hug.

"Congrats, bro!" He tried to give Nate a hug, but the mastermind stepped back.

"Let's just have a friendly hand shake." They shook hands but Hardison managed to sneak a semi hug.

Eliot stood behind the counter watching the scene. He hadn't said anything yet.

"Eliot?" Sophie wondered.

He put on a false smile and went to give Sophie a hug. "Congratulations, Sophie!" he whispered in her ear. But Sophie wasn't fooled. Has soon as they separated she gave him a look to say: I'll talk to you later.

Eliot then gave a firm hand shake to Nate. "Congratulation." His voice tense.

"Thank you" Nate replied wondering what was wrong with his hitter.

"So, tell us, when did you guys found out? When will the baby be here? And when can I teach it how to pick a lock?" Parker asked without breathing.

"Wow, slow down Parker" Sophie giggled. "We got the confirmation this morning, but we have had our suspicions for a couple days. I'm nearly six weeks pregnant, so there's still a long way to go. And we'll see about the pick locking."

"Oh, come on" Hardison whined. "Like our team mascot won't know how to pick lock or hack!"

"Team mascot? That's my kid you're talking about" Nate replied firmly.

"Oh, how cute!" Parker commented "Nate is already going all papa bear on us!"

Sophie smiled. "It is adorable, isn't it?"

"Hey," Nate frowned. "I don't do cute nor adorable"

Sophie gave him a quick kiss. "Sure you don't, love"

"Hey, you two stop it. Didn't we agree not to have PDA in front of innocent eyes?"

"Hardison, shut up!" Nate gave Sophie another kiss both to annoy the hacker and because her lips were so inviting.

"Why don't we all go out for lunch?" Sophie suggested. "I'm a bit famish."

"Well, you are eating for two now." Hardison noted.

"I'm in" Parker skipped to the door. "Nate's paying!" Hardison right behind her.

"Wait? What?" Nate took Sophie's hand and together they went to the door.

"Eliot, you're coming?" the grifter turned around since she noticed he wasn't following them.

"Hmmm… sure"