Annie and Auggie got home from the airport around dinner time on Thursday. For Auggie it had just been a few days, but with Tokyo tacked on Annie had been gone well over a week.
"Home sweet home," she smiled as she went to the kitchen for some water.
"How you feeling?" he asked as he listened to her gulp down the water.
"Good actually," she assured.
"Can we have sex?" Auggie asked out of the blue.
"Of course, maybe not near the end of the pregnancy, but of course we can have sex," Annie shook her head and refilled her water glass.
"Oh yeah, that's good to know, but I actually meant right now," he was suddenly behind her, his lips finding their way to her neck.
"Oh, sure," she stuttered the last word as Auggie grazed her collar bone with his teeth.
"Yeah?" he asked hopefully as she turned in his arms kissing him deeply in reply.
"Come on," she encouraged his hand to her elbow and led him around the strewn luggage up the stairs to their bedroom.
His enthusiasm was catchy and by the time they got to the bed Annie could barely wait.
"Now, please," she pushed him to a seated position on the end of the bed.
"So polite," he smiled as she unbuttoned his shirt and he fussed with the button on her jeans.
"Stupid buttons," she murmured as her hands shook and she heard him laugh in return, a deep rumble of laughter that drove her mad.
She pushed them back on the bed now, clothes barely moved aside , skin finding skin wherever it was exposed, just giving them enough room to maneuver.
"Which way?" he asked as he tried to roll them, their limbs and clothes tangled.
"Here. This… Now," Annie ground out the words as she pushed him flat on his back and managed to free one of her legs from her jeans to straddle his waist.
Auggie knew this was not going to last long, but from the litany coming from Annie that might be OK. If she called out for God one more time Auggie feared the deity might show himself.
"Annie…." He warned.
"S'okay," she assured and managed to move even faster.
When she finally collapsed on top of him she wanted desperately to kiss him, to convey all the passion she felt for him with a kiss, but she couldn't quite catch her breath.
"Sorry," he chuckled as he pulled her close and kissed the side of her head.
"Yeah, no, um, yeah," was all she managed to get out before rolling off of him and trying to breathe again.
"We'll do that better later," he promised.
"Better? Than that?" she laughed.
"Different," he compromised and scrubbed a hand over his face and into his sweaty hair.
"I'm not sure if we should take our clothes off or put them back on," she surveyed them and they were both still mostly dressed.
"One of us needs to go downstairs and order a pizza and wait for it to arrive because I am about to start gnawing on my arm," he laughed and rolled towards her his teeth finding her shoulder, "or yours."
"Mmmmm pizza," was all Annie said.
"Thank you," he said his mood suddenly less playful.
"For what?" she turned on her side, rested her head in her hand and examined him.
"For knowing what I need, for taking care of me," he reached out and found her bare hip, trailed his fingers along it.
"I told you once that having someone take care of you wouldn't be the worst thing," she reminded him.
He just nodded.
"Now go order me a pizza," she smiled and kissed him quickly before hopping up and out of the one leg of her jeans she still had on and heading to the shower.
***555***
Auggie heard the muted shush of terry cloth as Annie donned her robe, her bare feet tapping lightly against the hard wood floors.
"I didn't think to ask if you were craving anything odd, I ordered the usual," he admitted.
"Pizza is pizza," she smiled.
"It'll be here soon," he informed as he pulled her close and inhaled her freshly washed hair.
"I need to see the doctor," she mentioned.
"Of course, when?"
"The office is closed now, so I will call in the morning. We need to tell Joan too. And I'd like to tell Danielle, beyond that everyone else can wait awhile," she stood in his arms and with her feet bare her head landed right on his chest, he still smelled deliciously of sex.
The doorbell rang just in time, as Annie was about ready to abandon dinner to drag Auggie back to bed, but they hadn't eaten since breakfast at his mother's house and both needed the meal.
***555***
"Hey Auggie," Barber said quietly as Auggie returned to his desk Friday morning.
"Hi Eric," Auggie smiled, "thanks for the flowers, my mom and Annie said they were beautiful."
"You're welcome, I knew we couldn't do a big thing from the crew at work without arousing too much suspicion, but wanted you to know we were thinking about you," he shrugged modestly.
"I appreciate that," Auggie smiled again, luckily work had hardly come up during his stay in Glencoe, the death of his father and the pregnancy had done a good job of deflecting from work stuff.
"She can see us in 20," Annie announced as she swung by Tech Ops.
"OK," Auggie nodded.
"Hi Eric," Annie waved.
"Annie, welcome back," he said as he moved back to his mini office in the back.
"I promised her we would be quick, seems her day is pretty packed."
"Did you make a doctor's appointment too?" Auggie asked as he had left Annie at her desk to call her doctor and Joan.
"Monday morning 8:00 am."
"Can I go with you?" he asked realizing he assumed that but didn't actually know.
"Of course, they let men in to the gynecologist office," she laughed at the slightly pained look on his face at the word gynecologist.
"We should start reading that book you bought," he mentioned.
"I might have read it all on the flights to and from Tokyo," she admitted.
"Then interactive presentations should be forthcoming," he chuckled.
"Yes, I will get on that tonight. The first chapter is on conception," she mentioned.
"We already managed that part," he stated.
"We should probably go back and have a thorough review of the salient details," she reached for his tie and tugged him slightly closer, not nearly as close as she wanted.
"Are you coming on to me in my office? Not that I am objecting at all, but I do know this is like the least private space in all of the CIA."
"It's OK, we're married now," she teased and kissed him quickly.
***555***
"Welcome back," Joan greeted as Annie and Auggie settled into chairs in her office.
"Thanks and thank you for sending Annie to Glencoe," Auggie said sincerely.
"You were not in your right mind Auggie, I just did what I thought you needed and what Annie would want," Joan shrugged and Annie just nodded approvingly.
"We both appreciate it," Annie added.
"Well luckily, pissing off Steve Barr is a particular hobby of mine, so it was fine, but I don't imagine you came here just to chat about my chess match with State."
"No, although we are very grateful for that, we are here on another matter," Auggie said formally.
"Should I assume I know what this matter is?" Joan turned to Annie for confirmation.
"I am unofficially pregnant," Annie said with a huge smile on her face.
"Unofficially?"
"Only evidenced by a plastic stick and the amount of time I have spent hanging over a toilet bowl," Annie grimaced.
"We hope to be able to give you official on Monday after a doctor's visit," Auggie clarified.
"Well let me unofficially congratulate you then," Joan smiled softly and Annie could see the pain on the woman's face.
Arthur had said they had had trouble having a baby, but no details on what kind. Could they not conceive, had they conceived and lost pregnancies? Annie wasn't lying to Auggie about reading the whole pregnancy book and it was a miracle the planet was as overpopulated as it was with the number of things that can go wrong.
"Thank you," Annie said sincerely, "we wanted to let you know in case you were planning my next assignment post-Tokyo."
"I appreciate that, there will be some juggling of the duty roster and we really need to get someone back in charge of the DPD so I am not doing all of this," Joan laughed.
"It's been well over a year," Auggie pointed out.
"I know and Auggie you know that I want it to be you with every fiber of my being, but after the stunt you two pulled with Rossabi, faking your deaths, getting you cleared by everyone that would need to clear you still isn't going to happen."
"I know," Auggie said firmly, "and I don't for a second regret what we did. I'll work in Tech Ops for the rest of my career if I have to."
Annie found his hand and laced their fingers together, she knew what Auggie was sacrificing running off with her back then, but seeing his confused family and the professional evidence of his sacrifice brought it all home to her.
"I haven't given up completely, obviously we rolled up all of Henry's goons and you two have been model employees since you came back. I'm not saying it is impossible, but it is Annie we really need to focus on right now. I will review the case logs and see what I have for you. If your pregnancy is normal risk we will have more options, but after your appointment let me know if there are any extenuating circumstances," Joan asked.
"Of course," Annie said hoping they were not looking at complications, but knowing there could be plenty after reading that damn book.
TBC…