Christmas Dreams Ch 2
A couple of hours later Derek called her from the police station to let her know that they had captured the unsub and would be wheels up just as soon as they finished the paperwork at the station. She told him to be careful and to please let her know when they were wheels up so maybe they could face time, she really missed him and they usually face timed every night he was away so face timing on the jet would be good too.
After the call ended she shut her babies down, grabbed her things and headed out the door, their was a pharmacy up the street, it wouldn't take long for her to pop in, grab a few and then drive home, she would do them in the privacy of her own apartment that way she didn't have to worry about somebody walking in on her.
Penelope sighed happily as she walked into her apartment about half an hour later, she toed off her shoes, locked her front door and then made her way across the living room and through the beaded curtain that led to her bedroom and bathroom. She pulled the four tests out of the bag and opened their boxes, she then did what she was suppose to do and then walked back into her bedroom and sat down on her bed for 5 minutes while the tests did their thing.
Time passed by so slow, it seemed like that 5 minutes took a year but soon the timer was going off, she blew out a deep breath and stood up to walk across to the bathroom, once she was inside her heart started racing. As she got to the counter she picked up the 4 tests and then said, "you can do this Garcie" before looking down at the tests in her hand.
Her eyes got big because there in front of her were 4 positive tests, meaning that her and her hotstuff were going to have a baby then she got to thinking, what if they are all false positives. she then grabbed her cell and dialed up her family doctor. After a few rings she heard, "hello Penelope, what's up, I haven't talked to you in a while?", Penelope said, "Patience, I have a question for you", the doctor said, "sure, shoot".
Penelope said, "if a person takes 4 pregnancy tests and they are all positive, what are the chances of a false positive?", Patience said, "well it does happen, not often but it occasionally happens, why who took the tests?", Penelope bit down on her bottom lip and said, "me, it's me", causing Patience to grin and say, "are you off work now?", Penelope said, "yeah, just got home and did the tests", Patience said, "why don't you come down here to my office now, we'd be alone and I can do some blood work, it won't take long to get the results",
She took a deep breath and said, "I'll be there in a few minutes and thanks Patience", the doctor smiled and said, "no problem, after all, what are friends for?", Penelope said, "thanks for talking me down off the ledge so to speak". Patience said, "let's get you down here and get that blood work done because the sooner we do that the sooner we can get those results and know without a shadow of a doubt if you are indeed pregnant or not".
Penelope said, "I'll see you in a few minutes", after the call ended she slid a hand down to her stomach and said, "if I am pregnant, is it wrong of me to be this happy, I am finally getting the life that I've always wanted but, but is it wrong, what if I'm not pregnant, what if I" and then she shrugged it off and said, "you're not gonna know if you don't get you butt down there so she can check you out", she then nodded her head and said, "true dat, true dat" as she grabbed her things and headed out the front door.
It didn't take long and soon she was sitting on an exam table while Patience drew her blood, after putting it into the machine to spin the blood Patience said, "after it spins I can get the results in about 15 minutes, so it won't be long". While the two women were waiting on the results Patience said, "soooo why don't you tell me about your baby daddy", Penelope said, "if I am pregnant then the baby will be Derek's".
Patience held up a hand and said, "wait, Derek, as in your best friend Derek Morgan, that Derek?", Penelope laughed and said, "yep, the one and only", the two women sat laughing and talking as Penelope filled her friend in on what had happened to change their relationship from being only friends to a couple in such a short amount of time.
When the timer went off Penelope's test results popped out of the printer, Patience looked at the results and said, "when was your last period Penelope?", Penelope said, "the first week of November" causing Patience to nod her head yes as her attention then turned back to the results in her hand.
She then looked up at Penelope and said, "congratulations Penelope you're pregnant, around 3 weeks along", Penelope said, "sooo that means that it happened at Thanksgiving?", Patience said, "if that's when you had sex then yes". Penelope said, "what do I do now?", Patience then started telling her that she would need to get an OB as soon as possible and before Penelope left she handed her a prescription for prenatal vitamins.
Penelope couldn't help but smile as she hugged her friend, she said, "thank you, thank you, thank you", Patience said, "you're welcome, you're welcome, you're welcome", the two girls laughed for a couple of minutes before Penelope hugged her again and turned around and headed out of the office, she had some thinking to do about when she was going to tell Derek about the baby, maybe she should tell Derek tonight, go ahead and get it over".
Christmas is only 3 days away, I'll surprise him and the others with an announcement then", she smiled as she climbed into her car and shut the door, yes that's what she would do, she would wrap up the blood work results and let Derek see for himself that she was pregnant and that they were going to be parents to a perfect little angel that would be part him and part her causing her smile to get only wider as she pulled out of the parking lot and turned onto the main road.
