Changes

Calleigh sighed. She wasn't quite nine weeks into his pregnancy and some of her clothes starting to feel tight. She knew to expect this. She refused to weigh herself to see if she had gained any weight, she'd save that for the doctor's office. She took one last look at herself in the mirror after brushing her hair and headed to the kitchen for breakfast with Eric and Chloe. Jake's trial had wrapped up the previous day. Jack McCoy had told them that unfortunately he couldn't read whether the jury was on their side and would vote to convict or whether some jurors had bought Jake's 'tear-fulled' performance on the stand; Jake begging Calleigh to forgive him, he was just so upset about losing her. He didn't mean to kill her, he didn't know what he had intended.

Jack warned the Delkos to expect lengthy deliberations. He knew Calleigh was expecting so he hated to tell her this knowing it would naturally put undue stress on her and he wasn't wrong. Calleigh's stomach didn't feel good this morning and she was sure it had little to do with being pregnant.

Calleigh went in to the living room and kissed her daughter's head before going to the kitchen.

Turning to face her mother, she said, "morning, mama. Want some?" offering Calleigh a spoonful of soggy fruit loops.

"No, thank you, honey," she said, smiling at her child's generosity "I'm going to go have breakfast with daddy."

Calleigh shook her head when Eric asked what she wanted for breakfast.

Food didn't sound like a great idea to her as she poured herself a cup of herbal tea. Still Calleigh knew her husband would make her eat something. He had been there when the doctor told her not to skip meals, especially breakfast. Chloe was eating her breakfast in front of television, watching her favorite movie Cinderella. Their daughter watched this movie so often that her parents were glad they had a few back-up copies of this DVD, even if they were 'burned' copies, technically illegal ones. The girl was still in her pajamas, her daycare was closed for the week because of the widespread of chickenpox the kids had been getting. Chloe had yet to go through that and nana was coming over to babysit like she had yesterday. Eric put his daughter in front of the tv because he knew he was going to have to struggle with his wife to eat breakfast.

"You have to eat something, Cal. Or I'll tell my mom and you know how bad she is," he smiled.

Calleigh nodded, Chlorinda Delko could be thousand times worse than her son when it came to her eating now that she were pregnant. She ended up settling on dry cereal and two slices of toast. The herbal tea helped her stomach some and now she didn't feel like she was going to throw up any second. Both her parents smiled at Chloe's innocence when she came into the kitchen and asked them could get a mouse for her next birthday.

"A mouse? Why do you want a mouse, honey?" Eric asked.

Chloe gave him a look that said "don't you adults know anything?'

"'Ause, you put it in da yard and it turns into a horse!" Chloe said, putting her arms out to her sides dramatically.

Calleigh nearly choked on her herbal tea. Both her and Eric laughed out-loud. Chloe could make them smile anytime.