Chapter 9

The next morning Sara woke before Gil did, she lay for just a little while smiling. Sara was thinking how lucky she was to have him in her life. She was sure Gil did not know just how important he was to her.

Sara wiggled her way free of him and picked up the clothing they had taken off each other the night before. Seeing them tossed all over the floor brought back warm feelings from last nights love making. Then she slipped on a robe and grabbed the dirty laundry. After tossing the laundry into the washer, Sara started coffee. She decided to make some blueberry muffins, well her and Betty Crocker. Sara's cooking was improving but she still was not a 'scratch' baker.

By time they were done Gil was up and had walked into the kitchen. She poured coffee, put the muffins on a plate and grabbed some fruit. "Hello lover," he said wrapping his arms around her and kissing her neck.

"MMM Hi! Breakfast is ready." They sat and ate. When they had finished Gil cleared the table while Sara tossed the clothing from the washer to the dryer.

"Last night was fantastic," Gil told her. "Yes," Sara said getting warm feelings again.

"I was thinking," Sara said. "About?" Gil asked. "Children. I really want to have your baby," she said, "I just hope it dosen't take to long to happen."

Sara was still unaware of what was going on inside her body.

"Love," Gil said, "It will happen when it happens."

Two weeks had passed and Sara was late but she didn't want to get her hopes up either.

After shift Ecklie called Sara into his office. He was chewing her out again for something she did that he did not agree with. Sara stood up.

"I am not finished!" Ecklie yelled at her.

"I'm really not feeling well," Sara said. Just as she finished talking she got sick, all over his desk, with some of it splashing on him too.

"Oh my god!" Ecklie yelled jumping up from the desk and banging his knees on it. "OUCH! Get the hell out of here," he screamed reaching for his phone.

Sara's stomach was still churning, she ran into the bathroom, it happened again.

Gil went to Ecklie's office looking for Sara, he got near the door when he heard Ecklie cussing about what happened.

Someone told Gil they seen Sara running to the ladies room, he went and stood out side the door waiting for her.

"Hon, what's wrong?" Gil asked when Sara came out.

"I think Greg gave me his stomach flu, "Sara said, not wanting to say anything about her being late.

Then she told him about what happened in Ecklie's office. "It was very satisfying," Sara said, "I almost wish I could have done it on propose."

In the car on their way home she asked Gil to stop at the store. He sat in the car while she ran in and picked up a few things, at the house she went into the bathroom.

Shortly after they were lying in the bed. "How's your stomach?" Gil asked.

"Fine," Sara said. Her EPT was positive, but she wanted to confirm it before saying anything to Gil.

"When do we see the doctor?" Gil asked.

"What are you talking about?" Sara asked him.

"My darling," Gil said, "I know your cycles as well as you do. I also know you are over a week late and you're getting sick. So when do we go?"

She looked at him and smiled, "I have to make the appointment. You know me to well."

He pulled her close to him, they cuddled then fell asleep.

The next morning she made an appointment for next week. "I don't want to say anything to anyone until we are sure," Sara told Gil. He agreed with her.

The week flew by, Sara was still getting sick but crackers and ginger ale helped settle her stomach. They were sitting in the waiting room filing out papers. To her surprise they were called back exactly at her scheduled time. The nurse came in and took her blood pressure, drew some blood then got some more information. She handed Sara a gown and told her to strip. Sara sat on the exam table shivering.

"You cold?" Gil asked. "No. Just nervous," Sara replied.

A little latter the doctor came in. "Hi Dr. Webb," she said. "Hello Sara. This must be your husband." They shook hands.

"She talks about you all the time," Webb said. "Your paper work says you are almost 2 weeks late and you have been getting sick a lot," he said reading what the nurse wrote.

"I took an EPT last week," Sara said, "it was positive. But we got a false positive once before."

"So let's see if we have a little Grissom in there," Dr. Webb said as he started the exam.

After the exam he looked over the blood work then he said to Sara, "It is not a false positive this time. Congratulations."

She squeezed Gil's hand.

"Everything seems fine," Webb said, "Reschedule for two months and we will take a look again."

At the reception desk Sara made her next appointment and got some victims and pamphlets. The nurse told her to make sure she called if she had any questions. "No matter how dumb they may seem to you, nurse told them.

In the car Sara was doing some figuring in her head. "Dr. Webb said I was just 3 weeks. Full term is 40 weeks, so .... that means Little Grissom was conceived the first part of this month, which is Feb. So I should have him ... " she started to laugh. "The first part of Oct. Right around my birthday."

When Sara looked at her appointment she started to giggle again. "My next appointment is April 1st."

At the lab Sara went into Ecklie's office to give him the papers from the doctor.

"Back off! "he said. "I had to have that suit dry cleaned twice and had to toss out the tie." Sara could not contain the giggles, she sat the papers down on a stand near his door way. "You will need to read these," Sara told Ecklie snickering as she left.

The team was in the break room waiting for their assignments. Catherine was sitting next to Warrick. As Grissom walked in, Catherine looked at Warrick and he nodded his head.

"You are all invited to a wedding in 2 weeks," Catherine said. "Who is getting married?" Nick asked. "They are silly," Sara said. "Congratulations," everyone said. Grissom stood behind Sara, he placed his hands on her shoulders. "Well we have some news of our own," Gil said. "We are expecting," Sara said. "Expecting what?" Nick asked. Catherine picked up a newspaper, rolled it and hit him, "A baby. You are so clueless today." Once more congratulations were passed around. "Sorry," Nick said, "I didn't get much sleep last night."

"You were off," Warrick said, "You should have slept great." Sara smiled, "Oh Nicky - shame on you." He blushed. "Nick had another date last night with Sophia," Sara said.

Everyone looked at him. "Now we know why he did not get much sleep," Warrick said.

"We are both adults and have been dating for a while now," Nick said, "if we decided to take it to the next level, it's our business."

Grissom stood smiling, "All right. We have some bad guys to catch."