Blue Stick
My writer's block finally cleared! For a chapter, anyway!
Their friends had yet to say anything to confirm it both Eric and Calleigh knew Natalia Boa Vista was now pregnant with Ryan Wolfe's baby. Natalia was pretty pale all day, not eating much and when she was it was plain, bland food like chicken noodle soup and toast. Very unlike Natalia's taste.
When she was sure that they were alone in the trace with no nosy ears nearby Calleigh bluntly asked her friend "you take the test, yet?"
Natalia smiled. "Yeah. It's positive. So was the one I took with Alexx when I came in this morning. Unfortunately though I won't get my blood test results till later this afternoon."
Calleigh knew her friends was hoping for a positive result and had her fingers crossed for them. Her own child was now sixteen months old. She couldn't disagree with people who said either Neavah was getting cuter by the day or she was looking more like her daddy every day. Even though it had been it had only a little over a year since she and Eric had become parents, she couldn't remember what they had done without her in their lives. Somehow, they guessed it was because they wanted her for very long, they felt but they had known Nevaeh for much longer than twenty-five months, the nine months she was in Calleigh's belly and the sixteen months she had been on this earth.
Ryan was so excited about his girlfriend possibly being pregnant he blurted out the news in the hummer while he and Eric were driving back the take-out place picking up the lab's lunch order. Eric had been guessing this since all Natalia ordered for lunch was a plain turkey sandwich, with no mayo and soup. Very unlike her. But he didn't say anything.
"Wow. That's awesome, man."
Although he himself hadn't experienced that anticipation of waiting on a pregnancy test. Eric could just imagine how Ryan must be feeling wanting fatherhood so badly. Eric did remember how he felt when told him those two little words "I'm pregnant."
He was on top of the world.
The only time that feeling were surpassed was when he saw his daughter for the first time. Eric was a puddle of tears who was sobbing so hard he could barely speak.
And he wasn't a bit ashamed to say it.
Natalia's test results were back.
She was pregnant.
When her lunch break arrived, the time that nurse said she hoped to call, Natalia sat in her car and waited. As usual she and Ryan had taken separate cars to work not sure if both would leave the lab at the same time. She called Ryan and asked to meet her in her car before he went into the building.
"That was Nat," Ryan said to Eric hanging up his phone. "She wants me to meet her in her car."
"Good luck, man," Eric said, parking the hummer. As nosy as he felt, he gave the couple their privacy. Soon enough anyway, after Natalia told her boyfriend her Eric would know. Either by an excited Ryan or because after telling Ryan, Natalia would then call Calleigh who he knew would promptly call him.
Eric's wife had finished her early shift moments ago and was on her way home.
"So?" Ryan said, smiling, getting in the passenger seat and closing the door.
Natalia replied by kissing him passionately.
"I'm pregnant," she whispered.
"Oh babe! That's great!" Ryan grinned, kissing her back.
The doctor guessed Natalia were about six weeks pregnant. She was seeing the doctor again in two days to get a closer estimate.
Eric was in the break room enjoying his Cuban sandwich and fries when Alexx entered and commented "how wonderful" the lunch was for the young man's arteries.
"You know I'm not a salad guy, Alexx," Eric replied. "And I do hit the gym."
His phone rang then. He looked at the caller id.
Calleigh.
It was less than ten minutes since he saw Ryan entering Natalia's car. Eric hadn't seen either CSI so he figured they might headed in to talk to Horatio.
"Yes, dear," he answered the phone.
"Natalia's pregnant," was the first thing he heard.
Eric was right. It only took him moments to find out the news of the latest CSI baby in the making. He was also right that Ryan and Natalia had gone to see Horatio so Natalia could be put on lab duty only immediately. Eric and Calleigh couldn't see giving their daughter a sibling yet. They were enjoying her babyhood too much. Maybe when Nevaeh was three.
"Congratulations, guys," Eric said when the two eventually entered the breakroom.
"Calleigh called you?" Ryan asked smiling.
"'Course. You know how not very long that woman can keep a secret like that."
"You're gonna have a new cousin, you know that, sweetpea?" Calleigh said to her daughter that afternoon, tickling her. "But there's no way he or she could be as adorable as you."
Call her selfish but the southern woman was a little bias.
