I'm Pregnant!

A month later Alexx found Calleigh in the ladies' room, tears in her eyes. She had just returned to the lab She said she had had an appointment.

"Calleigh! What's the matter? Sugar, what did the doctor tell you?" She said, putting her arms around her friend.

Calleigh and Eric had come out as a couple after spending the night together. Horatio had agreed to kept them both on the same shift as long as it didn't interfere with their work and they could keep things on professional level while at lab. The couple promised, knowing it was something they were certainly capable of doing. Everyone at the lab was happy for them, most telling them "it's about time!"

"I'm pregnant, Alexx," Calleigh said, swallowing a sob.

"Oh honey!" Alexx said, hugging her friend, "Are you all right about this?"

Calleigh nodded. Most of her was very happy with the idea. She and Eric were definitely planning for the future; in two weeks, when his apartment lease expired he was moving into Calleigh's Condo.

"But you're scared about what Eric will say?"

Calleigh nodded again.

"Calleigh, I'm sure he'll be thrilled. I know you're scared, sweetheart, but just talk to him. You'll see you have absolutely nothing to worry about."

Eric was at home with the flu that day, well, technically he was at his future home, Calleigh's place. Calleigh left the lab early to give him the news.

Eric had just woke up from a nap on the couch when Calleigh walked through the front door.

"Hey babe," he said. Eric then noticed his girlfriend's pale complexion and unusual silence. "Calleigh, honey, are you all right?" He rose and went to her.

Calleigh hadn't told Eric that she had a doctor's appointment that day.

Calleigh took Eric's hand and led him to the couch, telling him to sit down she had something to tell him. This worried Eric, if only for a moment, because Calleigh just came right out and said it.

"Eric, I'm pregnant," she said, waiting nervously for his reply.

Eric was stunned but he smiled "you mean, that night we—oh Cal!" his face breaking into a grin. He embraced her as tight as his arms would let him.

"Yes, Eric," Calleigh replied, smiling now, feeling like a huge weight had been lifted from her shoulders. "We're going to have a baby."

Telling everyone at the lab their baby news was easier than both thought. They thought for sure they would get comments on how fast they proceeded with their relationship but Horatio told them "you two have been in park for what, five years? You need to hit the gas pedal! Congratulations!"

Eric knew it was going to take a while for his parents to warm to the idea that he and Calleigh were expecting so soon, and because his mother was a devout catholic who was adamant about no sex before marriage, let alone a baby. She had done a good job for years putting herself in denial that her only son had had premarital sex with several women. His parents had known for five years that he was in love with his co-worker. They had met Calleigh a few times and liked her. They were very happy for Eric to hear Calleigh returned his love and they were now a couple. But they were less excited to hear that the two planned to move in together because they weren't married. This piece of information was going to make it harder for Chlorinda Delko to deny the sexual angle of Eric and Calleigh's relationship.

Telling her the baby news was going to make it impossible.

Eric decided to tell his parents the news over the phone because he and Calleigh already had two strikes against them with his parents even they liked her. The first being they were living together and the second was they had done so quickly.

"What is it, hijo? It sounds important. You sound excited," Eric's mother said.

No matter his mother's reaction or lecture on religion nothing she said was going to affect his excitement.

"Calleigh's pregnant, mama," he said. "We're going to have a baby."

Chlorinda didn't give much of a reply, to Eric's relief. Once she processed the news and "got over" the religion angle that he didn't want to hear she would be excited. Eric told her before she asked that at the moment there was no plans for a wedding.