THE NEXT DAY

Garcia woke up feeling nauseous, a mix of both the nerves of Kevin coming round later and the morning sickness. Rolling over she sighed, hoping it would pass. Garcia had also been feeling extremely tired over the last few weeks. Eventually, getting up she got herself a few saltine crackers and ate them slowly and drank a cup of lemon and ginger tea.

Opening up her laptop she signed up to so she could find out more about Pregnancy and talk to other people about it, also so she could find out about looking after a baby. She knew how to spoil her colleagues children with endless gifts but she had no idea how to actually care for a baby of her own and it was silly to spend a ton of money on all those baby books when you have a world of free information online.

Looking around online for a while she switched off the laptop and layed down for a bit sighing. Going off into a dream about the baby she was expecting she was suddenly snapped out of it by the sound of her door bell. Getting up to answer it she smiled to see Kevin trying to hide the nerves over telling him.

"Hey Pen." He greeted, hugging her then kissing her gently.

"Hey Kev." She replied hugging his warm and cuddly body back. "I suggest you sit down... I need to tell you something." She said.

"Is everything ok? Are you alright?" Kevin asked, suddenly becoming worried and sat down on her sofa.

"Yes Kevin, everything's fine.." She reassure him, sitting next to him. "I'm pregnant." She said.

"Wow Pen! Is it mine?" He asked.

"Of course it's yours Kev! Who else?" She replied laughing.

"I don't know." He replied feeling slightly awkward. "Just checking." He said smiling. "Wait does this mean I can marry you now?" He asked.

"Here's the thing Kev. I'm not ready for marriage... not right now anyway... maybe after the baby... but not right now." She told him, hoping he would understand. "We could always compromise... you could move in..." She suggested before he had a chance to reply.

"Really? You'd want me to move in?" He asked, shocked last time he checked he was sure she had no interest in living with him despite the fact that they practically lived together anyway.

"Yes, I want you to move in." She clarified smiling.

"Wow Pen! This will be great." He replied hugging her, he was happy they would be having a baby together, despite the fact that they wearn't trying to get pregnant. "How far along?" He asked.

"Probably about 8 weeks." She replied smiling. "I have an appointment at lunch tomorrow to fully confirm that." She said.

"Ok good, I am so excited about this Pen." He replied smiling. Ever since meeting Garcia he knew she was the one to start a family with.

At the Blake house Clara came down into the kitchen and made a black coffee, resting on the side feeling tired.

"Morning Clara." Alex greeted. "Are you alright?" She asked, noticing how pale she looked.

"I'm just tired." She replied, pouring her coffee into a cup.

"You should eat something." Alex replied, looking at her sadly. She also felt guilty, how did she not know about this.

"I'm not hungry." Clara replied.

"Ok... well you should still eat something." Alex persisted.

"Mom I'm not hungry ok!" Clara shouted trying to hold back tears and went up to her room with the coffee, crying once she was away from her mother. She didn't want to continue this but then again she didn't want to stop, she was scared about what would happen if she was to stop binging and purging. She was scared of what was to happen if she actually allowed herself to eat properly and then binged aswell.

Alex sighed, she new it would be best not to force anything on her as that could just make things worse, she couldn't bare to see her daughter like this. God how did she not know! She felt so guilty. She should have known... She was a profiler yet she didn't know about her own daughters eating disorder until two days ago. Pacing around her house she sighed. What was she going to do about this?

A few hours passed when Alex heard a loud bang coming from what sounded like the upstairs bathroom. Running upstairs she had to stop herself going into full scale panic attack upon finding her daughter passed out on the tiled floor. Kneeling down my Clara she quickly dialed 911, checking her daughters pulse at the same time, it was there but it was not very strong and seemed irregular.

"Clara, please... please don't die on me." She said repeatedly, crying until the ambulance arrived.

Waiting around, pacing in the hospital she called James to tell him what had happened, still incredibly worried over the event which had just happened. "Clara's in hospital." She said when he picked up the phone.

"Why. Is she ok?" James asked, suddenly becoming worried.

"I don't know... She has Bulimia..." Alex replied a twinge of sadness in her voice.

"Clara!" James exclaimed, shocked at how his daughter had an eating disorder, he definitely did not see it coming.

"Yes... She passed out on the bathroom floor. My guess is she was purging and then felt so weak that when she stood up she passed out."

James was shocked. "I'll be over on the next available flight ok." He told her.

"Ok. You don't have too though." Alex replied.

"I know I don't have to, I want to." He reassured her.

Coming off the phone she paced around a bit more until finally the doctor allowed her to see her daughter, who had now woken up. "How are you feeling?" Alex asked softly, entering the room.

"Not too bad." She replied. "What happened?" She asked, noticing she was in a hospital with an IV drip and having her heart rate monitored.

"You passed out..." Alex replied. "Your dangerously deficient in quite a few micro nutrients."

"Oh..." Clara replied. "that's why I have this attached to me then. I'm sorry..." She apologized.

"Sorry for what?" Alex asked not sure what her daughter had to be sorry for.

"Being horrible to you, passing out..." She replied.

"It's OK... you have to need to apologize."

"Thanks mom, please can you not send me away." She begged, worried that she may be sent to an inpatient facility to recover.

"Why would I send you away?" Alex asked.

"I don't know... it just seems like something you would do to help me."

"I won't send you anywhere Clara, not unless it seems absolutely necessary." She promised, gently hugging her daughter. "I love you."

"I love you too mom." Clara replied. "How long do I have to stay here?" She asked.

"Overnight." Alex responded.

"You'll stay right?" She asked.

"Of course I'll stay if you want me to." Alex replied, even if they got called onto a case right now; she couldn't leave her daughter like this.

"Thanks." Clara replied, closing her eyes as she was still pretty tired.

Alex sat there, looking at her; thinking. She hoped this had served as a wake up call to her daughter.

A/N: So Garcia and Kevin made a compromise so that's alright. There will be another little shock for Garcia soon though XD.

I guess the fact that even a profiler didn't know her daughter was Bulimic until the school phoned shows how manipulative and hidden eating disorders can be. With Bulimia You'd think family would soon pick up on it but the thing is most of the time you don't lose visible weight and yes you get puffy cheeks and things but people with eating disorders become really sneaky and lie a lot. (Trust me I know. I used get a wheatabix, put some in a bowl, splash some milk, swirl it around and out it in the washing up bowl so it looked like I'd eaten, the remaining wheatabix went in the bin.)