Summary: Shaun unintentionally reveals the pregnancy to Lea's parents. Also, it's Shaun and Lea's first Christmas together as a married couple.

While Shaun was out shopping for last-minute items for dinner with Dr. Glassman, Lea sat on the couch scrolling through work emails on her laptop as she munched on plain potato chips.

The time on her laptop read 4:17 pm.

It was officially Christmas Day, and Lea was nine weeks into her pregnancy. Today was also her and Shaun's first Christmas together as a married couple and the first time Shaun ever had Christmas Day off, not on-call.

However, he had to spend Christmas Eve on call, and the same would happen tomorrow.

Before opening each other's presents, the couple spent the morning drinking hot chocolate, eating Christmas pancakes, and watching Elf. Their morning even included answering a "Merry Christmas" text from Lea's parents.

Lea and Shaun were going to be at Dr. Glassman's house tonight for dinner, and Morgan had decided to join them at the last minute. Dr. Glassman had been texting the three of them all day, asking if the food he would be cooking would be tolerable enough for Lea's prenatal food sensitivities and Morgan's TTC diet. Although he knew Shaun's food sensitivities very well, Lea's (when she was pregnant) was new to him.

So far, Lea's pregnancy was just like her last one. Headaches, morning sickness, fatigue, mood swings, needing to pee, and cramping.

Whenever Lea felt cramping in her lower abdomen, she raced to the bathroom to check for bleeding in her underwear. Every morning and evening, Shaun would check the fetal heart rate with the Doppler he purchased last week.

Lea's phone suddenly rang, displaying her mother on caller ID, telling her she wanted to FaceTime with her.

She sighed as she picked up her phone and pressed the green button, setting her laptop aside. She hoped morning sickness wouldn't kick up during the chat and make her parents suspicious.

"Hi, Mom. Hi, Dad."

"Hey, how are you doing?" Her father, enthusiastically, was the first person within the frame to speak.

"I'm okay."

"Where is Shaun?" Her mother asked, her eyes moving around as she tried to look for Shaun somewhere in the background. "Did he have to work on Christmas?"

"No. He is not on-call right now this year. At least not until 7:00 tomorrow," answered Lea. "He's out getting some refreshments for dinner at Dr. Glassman's tonight."

"Oh, how fun," chirped her mother. "Are you sure you and Shaun don't want to come to Hershey? At least for New Year's?"

"Shaun will be working on New Year's, so we can't come," said Lea, feeling a bubble of nausea, hoping that it would pass or her food would stay in her stomach until the call ended.

"Maybe we could come to San Jose," proposed her father. "We haven't seen Shaun in person since the wedding you canceled."

Since Pam worked from home and Mike was set to retire in six months, they had as many opportunities and privileges as they could to drop in whenever to see their daughter on the West Coast or their son an hour away in Scranton.

Please don't drop in right now, thought Lea, fighting the wave of nausea. She was not ready to tell her parents about the pregnancy just yet.

"I mean, I think it would be good for you both," suggested her mother. "Shaun says you've been pretty sad since you have to wait to have a baby. It's been a hard month for you."

"Really, please. It's not necessary," begged Lea, feeling the nausea worsen as she felt some vomit about to rise up in her esophagus, fighting its way out. "Excuse me for a minute."

Leaving her phone behind, Lea sprung up from the couch and ran to the bathroom to noisily empty the contents of her stomach into the toilet.

"Lea?"

She could hear her father's disembodied voice.

"Lea, are you okay?" Her mother's disembodied voice asked.

After finishing vomiting and trying to devise a plausible excuse, Lea wiped her mouth with toilet paper, flushed the toilet, and then walked back to her couch and phone to sit down.

"Honey, did you just throw up?" Pam asked with concern.

"Yeah, but I'm fine," sighed Lea, rubbing her eye. Thank goodness her belly wasn't obviously poking out just yet for them to notice briefly. "I ate some leftover sushi. It must have been going bad," she fibbed.

"Oh, no. On Christmas?" Mike gasped. "That sucks."

"Yeah, it does."

"Well, I hope you feel better tomorrow," wished Pam.

Right on cue, the door swung open, revealing Shaun with a couple of grocery bags, not realizing that Lea was talking to her parents.

"I bought the stuff for when we go to Dr. Glassman's house," announced Shaun, setting the bags down on the dining table before either Pam or Mike could greet Shaun, still unaware Lea was talking to her parents. "I also bought more saltines for you. I should also recheck your blood pressure and the fetal heart rate..."

"Shaun! Stop talking!" Lea interjected, putting her hand against the phone speaker to block out the sound from her parents and also holding up her phone to show Shaun that she was FaceTiming with her parents.

"Oh," mumbled Shaun, embarrassed, hoping Pam and Mike didn't hear the last part too well. "Hi, Pam. Hi, Mike," he greeted nervously.

"Hi, Shaun. How are you?" Pam asked, her voice sounding more shocked than happy.

"I'm...good," replied Shaun tensely, sitting beside Lea on the couch.

"What do you mean you need to check the fetal heart rate?" Mike asked, looking like he suspected something. "Why do you need to check Lea's blood pressure?"

Shaun and Lea were silent as Lea's parents looked stunned, now out of excuses since Pam and Mike overheard Shaun. The two just sat there, twiddling their hands together and looking upwards at the ceiling.

"Lea, are you pregnant?" Pam asked.

Lea sighed as she closed her eyes, hesitating to say yes as tears welled up in her eyes. She continued to say nothing, but her parents sensed the answer was yes.

After talking with Lea's parents and explaining everything (that this pregnancy was unplanned, high-risk, and not guaranteed to be full-term) and Lea breaking out a "Mommy, I'm scared" to Pam, the couple bid their goodbyes. Then Shaun apologized for revealing the pregnancy and then hugged his wife.

Despite the emotional turmoil of Lea's parents finding out and her arguing that they don't need to come to San Jose right now, she forgave him fast and decided she was surprisingly a little relieved they already knew.

Dinner with Morgan and Dr. Glassman went well, and Lea was able to make it through without puking her guts out.

After they got home from Dr. Glassman's house and returned to their apartment, Shaun and Lea immediately lit some candles and sat on the couch, remembering their very first Christmas together...as in their first Christmas when living together as roommates.

"Remember our first Christmas together?" Lea reminisced cheerily, leaning her head on Shaun's shoulder and allowing him to caress her thigh. "I mean, like, when we were just roomies?"

"Yes, I do," nodded Shaun, remembering excitedly when he cradled Viola's baby, which made him reconsider having children. "I performed a c-section without an attending for the first time."

"And by coincidence, I was talking with the husband," simpered Lea. "It's kind of sweet that they decided their son's middle name would be after you."

"Viola asked me what my first name was, and when I asked why, she told me that she and Clifton still hadn't settled on a middle name," recalled Shaun.

And now, by a funny coincidence, Lea and Shaun were having their own baby...hopefully.

Christmas 2018 indeed was an unforgettable Christmas for Shaun and Lea...and not just because of the quarantine that happened a year prior to COVID. That was also when Dr. Glassman thought his cancer returned (but fortunately didn't), the moment when the three of them spent their first fun time together, and it was also unfortunately when Lea unintentionally broke Shaun's heart two days later.

"It was also sad because two days later, I found out you were with Jake," lamented Shaun.

"Yeah, but," giggled Lea, snuggling herself closer into Shaun and giving him a kiss. "Jake is long gone out of our lives and now this apartment is just you and me."

"And maybe our baby," Shaun's smile slightly faded.

"Yeah, hopefully," sighed Lea, wanting to immediately take her mind off her pregnancy for a bit. "Do you want to watch Home Alone now?"

"Yes, I would like to," concurred Shaun.

Every Christmas since they started dating, they would watch the first two movies not only for nostalgia, but also because Shaun enjoyed diagnosing Harry and Marv's injuries during the climaxes.

"Merry Christmas, Shaun."

"Merry Christmas, Lea."

AN: I hope you all enjoyed. Also, I do have this head canon that Shaun has at least once diagnosed Harry and Marv's injuries while watching Home Alone, as many other doctors on YouTube have already done. Please review :)

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