What I Should Have Said Chapter 10
Disclaimer: Still don't own them. Still want George though.
AN: This is it, the final chapter. Of many things actually, of this story and of Buffy. I am so depressed right now. I just know that tonight at 7pm, AZ time, I will be crying and yelling at the TV simultaneously. Thank you so much for everyone who read this story and who reviewed. You made me want to continue. Thank you for everything. I already have my next story in mind. It will be a humor/romance of the Nick and Sara variety.
Also, I based Sara's family off of what CBS official CSI site stated. I have come to recently find out that Sara in fact has (had) a brother. I know nothing about this, so ergo, not mentioning it.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I am honestly going to try my best to make sure this chapter doesn't suck. I would like to get it posted tonight so that I can work on another story and keep my mind off the incredibly depressing Buffy episode, to which I am still crying over. If there are any Buffy fans out there reading this, please drop me a line letting me know how you feel about the series finale. My heart is breaking over it. I'm such a dork. My head is telling me that it's only a T.V., but tell that to my heart. Anyways, I plan on doing my best because I seriously need the diversion. Please review.
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The 6 months after the wedding prior to the birth of their child were quite hectic for Nick and Sara. Between work and family constantly wanting to come and visit, they didn't feel like there were enough hours in the day. Sara began her maternity leave about 5 weeks prior to her scheduled due date. She didn't want to, hell she wanted to work until she delivered, but Grissom forced her to take it and Nick was also pretty persuasive. She spent the weeks approaching her due date getting everything ready for the baby. She and Nick had decided early on that they didn't want to know the sex of the baby; they wanted it to be a surprise. So the nursery was decorated in the very neutral Winnie the Pooh. Since her due date was around Christmas the entire family, his and hers, decided to spend it in Las Vegas. Sara was actually quite happy when the family arrived around the 17th of December. She was quickly getting bored in the house by herself, at night when Nick was at work, and during the day when he slept.
With the entire family present her due date actually came and went. Two days after her due date, Sara was already impatient.
"I swear to god, this baby is as stubborn as I am" Sara stated one after while out to lunch with her mother, Nick's mother, Cailean, Landry, Hannah, Amanda, Whitney and Kathleen.
The women laughed.
"My poor baby, just wants to see her baby" Sara's mom Alice stated
"Your right mom, I want to see my baby, plus I really would like these annoying pains in my back to go away"
The women stopped talking and stared at Sara
"What did you just say?" Cailean asked "I have annoying pains in my back, why?" Sara replied slightly confused.
Suddenly the women jumped up and started screaming.
"Sara, your in labor. Those pains are just really mild contractions." Cailean replied
"WHAT!!!" Before Sara could say anything else a pain ripped through her abdomen and she screamed.
"Come on girls, let's get Sara to the hospital" Nick's mother, Rosemary, who took charge, stated. "Hannah, call your brother, both of them this time" Rosemary warned sternly. "Amanda, go get the car. Landry call your father"
Hannah pulled out her cell phone and dialed Nick's cell number while walking with Sara, Alice and her mother to the entrance of the restaurant.
"Stokes" Nick answered
"Nicky, it's Hannah"
"Han, what's up?"
"Nicky, Sara's in labor, were taking her to the hospital right now."
"Oh god, is she okay? Tell her I love her and I'll see her at the hospital"
"I will Nicky, see you there"
Hannah ended the call and turned to Sara "Nick's on his way to the hospital and he says he loves you."
Sara smiled at what Hannah told her. Amanda pulled up with Sara's Tahoe and the women all piled in heading for the hospital.
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"Nick, what's up" Warrick asked when Nick hung up the call
"Sara's in labor, I gotta go"
"Congratulations man, you get out of here, I'll tell Grissom and Catherine" Warrick replied
"Thanks" Nick said while quickly running out of the building
Just as he left Grissom and Catherine walked into the break room "Where's Nick off to in such a hurry?" Grissom asked
"Sara's in labor"
"Oh my god, really?" Catherine replied
"Yeah"
"Come on Grissom, we should be there" Catherine stated
"Catherine, labor can last hours, sometimes even days." Grissom replied
"Gil, it's Sara and Nick. We have to be there."
Grissom looked at Catherine and Warrick, both had pleading looks in their eyes. He sighed, he actually did want to be there but didn't want to admit it, but he also knew there was no point in arguing with Catherine.
"Fine, I'll call people in from day shift to finish up our cases."
"Thanks Grissom, meet you in the car" Catherine said running out of the room with Warrick hot on her trail.
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Las Vegas Memorial Hospital
Nick parked his Tahoe and ran into the hospital, stopping quickly to find out what room Sara was in. He waited impatiently for the elevator and was crawling out of his skin having to go up to the 7th floor and the elevator, of course, stopping on every floor before it. Nick stepped out of the elevator and ran down the hallway. He entered Sara's huge delivery room and found his sisters and the two mothers talking and coaching Sara.
"Sara, sweetie"
"Nick?"
Nick walked over to Sara and sat down next to her on the bed and hugged her.
"How you doing?"
"Fine, I guess. Doctor Williams is on her way."
"That's good"
Before Sara could answer the rest of the family walked in, Parker, Frank, Thomas, Chris, Mark and the two fathers.
"Sara, baby." Her father said
"Daddy"
William Sidle walked over to his daughter and gave her a hug.
"I love you baby and I'm so proud of you."
"Thanks daddy"
"Wow, we've got a huge crowd in here." Doctor Williams stated
"Doctor Williams, good to see you again." Nick said "Could you guys give Sara and I a moment with the doctor" he finished.
The group responded with yeses and stated they would go down to the cafeteria to get some food and coffee. Once the group left, Doctor Williams shut the door behind them to give the three of them some privacy.
"How you doing Sara?"
"Good, I guess. Ready to have my baby"
Doctor Williams chuckled "I can only imagine." She put on some gloves and started to pull the blankets up and off Sara. "I'm going to check and see how dilated you are"
"Okay"
Sara felt the doctor's gloved hand poke and prod her body for a few seconds.
"Okay Sara, your actually quite far along, you've probably been contracting all day long and just not noticed the pain. Your about 7 centimeters dilated, so another 3 to go. Since you seem to be progressing pretty quickly I'll come back and check you in an hour. If you ever feel the distinct urge to push, hold it and immediately get a nurse in here. Understand?"
Sara and Nick nodded at the command.
Doctor Williams took off her gloves and threw them in the wastebasket. "I'll see you both in an hour"
Doctor Williams left the room leaving Sara and Nick alone for a while before the family came back.
"Sara"
"Yeah"
"Were going to have a baby today" Nick whispered taking her hands into his
She smiled and replied, "I know, but we have a problem"
Nick rose his eyebrows at her "what's that?"
"Nick, we haven't agreed on a single name yet." Sara said perplexed at the situation.
"Oh yeah."
Sara pushed her body up more in the bed and looked at Nick. "We need to decide something"
"Okay, let's just go back and forth with names that we both like and maybe we'll agree on something"
"Boy's or girls names first?"
"Let's start with" Nick thought for a moment "Boy"
"Okay, for a boy. I like the name Jonah"
Nick made a face "Christopher"
"No, how bout Jason"
"No, Caleb" Nick replied
Sara paused and thought about the name Caleb. "Caleb Stokes, that actually has a nice sound to it. I really like that name Nick. Caleb" Sara smiled.
"Okay, so we have finally agreed on a boy's name, that's half the battle."
They were about to start on a girls name when there was a knock on the door and Rosemary peeked her head inside.
"Okay for us to come in?" she asked
"Sure mom"
The entire family came pouring back into the room.
"So, what'd the doctor say?" Rosemary asked
"I'm about 7 centimeters dilated. She's going to come back in check me in a hour because I seem to be progressing pretty quickly."
"Sara, I love you, but you suck" Cailean suddenly blurted out
"Excuse me" Sara said laughing and surprised at the same time
"I mean it's your first baby. I was in labor with Cooper for 18 hours." Cailean finished her ranting and sat down in the chair looking somewhat dejected. Sara silently chuckled at her sister-in-laws distress.
Sara noticed that the room had like ten different conversations going on. Everyone was talking, although not loudly. Sara found the entire situation amusing. She never expected herself to ever get married, let alone have a child of her own, and now here she was almost ready to give birth to Nick's child.
'I'm having Nick's child' she thought to herself. She looked to her husband who was sitting on the bed next to her. She smiled at his animated conversation he was having with Parker and her father.
'He is so adorable'
Before she knew it she had dozed off, tuning everyone in the room out.
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Catherine, Warrick and Grissom slowly walked into the elevator. It had taken them longer than expected to get there. They waited until the people covering their cases showed up so that they could fill them in. The people covering were more than willing to fill in; they had met Sara and Nick and knew how especially close the night shift was. Once the elevator reached 7 the three stepped out and headed towards Sara's room. When they reached the room they saw that Sara was asleep and Nick was sitting next to her just holding her hand. "Nick" Catherine said
"Hey guys, thank you so much for coming"
"So how's she doing?" Warrick asked
"Fine, Doctor Williams came in around 2:15 and told us that she was about 8- 9 centimeters, so not long now. She thinks Sara will have delivered by 5 pm"
Sara woke up to see Catherine, Grissom and Warrick sitting in the room talking to Nick.
"Hey guys"
"Hey Sara, how you holding up?" Catherine asked
"I'm ready to see my baby"
"I felt the same way with Lindsey. I just wanted to hold my baby."
The five of them chatted for a while longer before Warrick, Catherine and Grissom decided to go get some coffee, leaving Nick and Sara alone for awhile.
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3:42 pm Las Vegas Memorial Hospital
"Come on Sara, you can do it" Doctor Williams encouraged the young woman in the bed pushing with all her might.
Nick was sitting next to Sara, rubbing her back and whispering encouraging words to her. Her mother was on her other side being the actual coach and counting. Sara had been pushing for about 25 minutes now; the baby was slowly coming down.
"Okay, Sara I can see the head, on your next contraction give me a really big push so we can get the head out"
Sara took a deep breath, when her contraction hit she began pushing "Ahhhhh" she screamed.
"The heads out, the heads out. On the next contraction we need to get the shoulders out, now I don't need a big push for the shoulders okay" Doctor Williams said
"Okay"
On her next contraction Sara pushed and Doctor Williams pulled the baby out of Sara's body.
"It's a girl," she said holding up the now screaming infant.
Tears started to free-fall down Nick and Sara's cheeks. Nick leaned in and kissed his wife telling her she did wonderful and telling her how much he loved her.
"Is she okay?" Sara asked
"She's perfect, 10 fingers and 10 toes."
Doctor Williams laid the newborn on Sara's chest, while the nurse went to get the scissors to cut the umbilical cord.
"Would you like to cut the cord?" the nurse asked Nick
"Sure" Nick took the scissors from her and cut where she told him.
"Okay, were going to weigh her quickly and clean her up. Do you want the family to come in?"
"Maybe in a couple of minutes. Alice, why don't you go out to the waiting room and tell them that the baby is here and that Sara did beautifully." Nick stated
Alice nodded and headed out towards the waiting room where more than a dozen people were waiting for any kind of news.
During the intervening time, Sara's legs were removed from the stirrups and a blanket was covering her body.
"Okay" the nurse, said, "your baby is perfectly healthy, she received an apgar of 8 out of 10 which is perfectly normal. She weighed in at 7 pounds 5 ounces."
The nurse handed the baby to Sara.
"Oh my god, she's perfect Nick" Sara whispered
"I know"
The nurse was about to leave when Nick suddenly stopped her, "would you mind doing me a huge favor?"
"Sure"
"Could you tell the family they can come in now, we would like to introduce them to the baby"
"Sure thing" the nurse smiled and left the room.
After a few moments the entire Stokes and Sidle families piled into the tiny hospital room. All "oohing" and "ahhing" the baby.
Nick and Sara had finally managed to agree on a girls name during the intervening time of waiting to deliver, they were excited to finally share it with the family.
Sara turned her daughter around so that she was facing the entire family and nodded to Nick for him to tell everyone her name.
"Everyone, I would like you to meet Anikah Grace Stokes, Anikah this is your family"
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5 Years later
"Anikah Grace, if I have to tell you one more time to stop running around this house, your gonna have a time out" Sara said to her eldest child.
"Sorry mommy" Anikah said
"It's okay sweetie, I know you're excited for daddy to come home"
Sara couldn't believe how blessed she was. Anikah had been the perfect baby, very easy going. But as a toddler she had been a terror on two feet, getting into everything and anything. Sara chuckled at the memory of her daughter into everything.
Sara heard the garage door open and Nick's car pull into it. After a couple moments she heard Nick walk in through the garage.
"Hello" Nick called out.
"In here sweetie" Sara called from the family room
"Daddy, daddy, daddy" Anikah called as she ran to her father. Anikah was the biggest daddies girl. She had Nick wrapped around her 5-year-old finger.
"How's daddy's girl doing?" Nick asked as he picked her up.
"Me good" she replied
Nick carried his daughter into the family room and sat down on the couch with Sara.
"And how's my little man doing today?" Nick asked about the child that Sara was breastfeeding.
"Caleb, tell daddy that you were a good boy today" Sara said, " I think he's a little busy right now eating" Sara smirked
Nick leaned back into the couch, with Anikah still in his lap, and put his arm around Sara. He couldn't imagine his life becoming anymore complete than it already was. He had a beautiful daughter and son and an amazing, gorgeous wife that he loved more and more each passing day. Yeah, life couldn't get any better than this.
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AN: That's it, this is the end. Thank you so much everyone for the amazing encouragement I have received. I can't believe I just started this piece only 12 days ago. Thank you all so much. Please read my next story. It will be titled "A Dating Story: CSI Style". Love to all. Brianna
Disclaimer: Still don't own them. Still want George though.
AN: This is it, the final chapter. Of many things actually, of this story and of Buffy. I am so depressed right now. I just know that tonight at 7pm, AZ time, I will be crying and yelling at the TV simultaneously. Thank you so much for everyone who read this story and who reviewed. You made me want to continue. Thank you for everything. I already have my next story in mind. It will be a humor/romance of the Nick and Sara variety.
Also, I based Sara's family off of what CBS official CSI site stated. I have come to recently find out that Sara in fact has (had) a brother. I know nothing about this, so ergo, not mentioning it.
IMPORTANT NOTE: I am honestly going to try my best to make sure this chapter doesn't suck. I would like to get it posted tonight so that I can work on another story and keep my mind off the incredibly depressing Buffy episode, to which I am still crying over. If there are any Buffy fans out there reading this, please drop me a line letting me know how you feel about the series finale. My heart is breaking over it. I'm such a dork. My head is telling me that it's only a T.V., but tell that to my heart. Anyways, I plan on doing my best because I seriously need the diversion. Please review.
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The 6 months after the wedding prior to the birth of their child were quite hectic for Nick and Sara. Between work and family constantly wanting to come and visit, they didn't feel like there were enough hours in the day. Sara began her maternity leave about 5 weeks prior to her scheduled due date. She didn't want to, hell she wanted to work until she delivered, but Grissom forced her to take it and Nick was also pretty persuasive. She spent the weeks approaching her due date getting everything ready for the baby. She and Nick had decided early on that they didn't want to know the sex of the baby; they wanted it to be a surprise. So the nursery was decorated in the very neutral Winnie the Pooh. Since her due date was around Christmas the entire family, his and hers, decided to spend it in Las Vegas. Sara was actually quite happy when the family arrived around the 17th of December. She was quickly getting bored in the house by herself, at night when Nick was at work, and during the day when he slept.
With the entire family present her due date actually came and went. Two days after her due date, Sara was already impatient.
"I swear to god, this baby is as stubborn as I am" Sara stated one after while out to lunch with her mother, Nick's mother, Cailean, Landry, Hannah, Amanda, Whitney and Kathleen.
The women laughed.
"My poor baby, just wants to see her baby" Sara's mom Alice stated
"Your right mom, I want to see my baby, plus I really would like these annoying pains in my back to go away"
The women stopped talking and stared at Sara
"What did you just say?" Cailean asked "I have annoying pains in my back, why?" Sara replied slightly confused.
Suddenly the women jumped up and started screaming.
"Sara, your in labor. Those pains are just really mild contractions." Cailean replied
"WHAT!!!" Before Sara could say anything else a pain ripped through her abdomen and she screamed.
"Come on girls, let's get Sara to the hospital" Nick's mother, Rosemary, who took charge, stated. "Hannah, call your brother, both of them this time" Rosemary warned sternly. "Amanda, go get the car. Landry call your father"
Hannah pulled out her cell phone and dialed Nick's cell number while walking with Sara, Alice and her mother to the entrance of the restaurant.
"Stokes" Nick answered
"Nicky, it's Hannah"
"Han, what's up?"
"Nicky, Sara's in labor, were taking her to the hospital right now."
"Oh god, is she okay? Tell her I love her and I'll see her at the hospital"
"I will Nicky, see you there"
Hannah ended the call and turned to Sara "Nick's on his way to the hospital and he says he loves you."
Sara smiled at what Hannah told her. Amanda pulled up with Sara's Tahoe and the women all piled in heading for the hospital.
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"Nick, what's up" Warrick asked when Nick hung up the call
"Sara's in labor, I gotta go"
"Congratulations man, you get out of here, I'll tell Grissom and Catherine" Warrick replied
"Thanks" Nick said while quickly running out of the building
Just as he left Grissom and Catherine walked into the break room "Where's Nick off to in such a hurry?" Grissom asked
"Sara's in labor"
"Oh my god, really?" Catherine replied
"Yeah"
"Come on Grissom, we should be there" Catherine stated
"Catherine, labor can last hours, sometimes even days." Grissom replied
"Gil, it's Sara and Nick. We have to be there."
Grissom looked at Catherine and Warrick, both had pleading looks in their eyes. He sighed, he actually did want to be there but didn't want to admit it, but he also knew there was no point in arguing with Catherine.
"Fine, I'll call people in from day shift to finish up our cases."
"Thanks Grissom, meet you in the car" Catherine said running out of the room with Warrick hot on her trail.
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Las Vegas Memorial Hospital
Nick parked his Tahoe and ran into the hospital, stopping quickly to find out what room Sara was in. He waited impatiently for the elevator and was crawling out of his skin having to go up to the 7th floor and the elevator, of course, stopping on every floor before it. Nick stepped out of the elevator and ran down the hallway. He entered Sara's huge delivery room and found his sisters and the two mothers talking and coaching Sara.
"Sara, sweetie"
"Nick?"
Nick walked over to Sara and sat down next to her on the bed and hugged her.
"How you doing?"
"Fine, I guess. Doctor Williams is on her way."
"That's good"
Before Sara could answer the rest of the family walked in, Parker, Frank, Thomas, Chris, Mark and the two fathers.
"Sara, baby." Her father said
"Daddy"
William Sidle walked over to his daughter and gave her a hug.
"I love you baby and I'm so proud of you."
"Thanks daddy"
"Wow, we've got a huge crowd in here." Doctor Williams stated
"Doctor Williams, good to see you again." Nick said "Could you guys give Sara and I a moment with the doctor" he finished.
The group responded with yeses and stated they would go down to the cafeteria to get some food and coffee. Once the group left, Doctor Williams shut the door behind them to give the three of them some privacy.
"How you doing Sara?"
"Good, I guess. Ready to have my baby"
Doctor Williams chuckled "I can only imagine." She put on some gloves and started to pull the blankets up and off Sara. "I'm going to check and see how dilated you are"
"Okay"
Sara felt the doctor's gloved hand poke and prod her body for a few seconds.
"Okay Sara, your actually quite far along, you've probably been contracting all day long and just not noticed the pain. Your about 7 centimeters dilated, so another 3 to go. Since you seem to be progressing pretty quickly I'll come back and check you in an hour. If you ever feel the distinct urge to push, hold it and immediately get a nurse in here. Understand?"
Sara and Nick nodded at the command.
Doctor Williams took off her gloves and threw them in the wastebasket. "I'll see you both in an hour"
Doctor Williams left the room leaving Sara and Nick alone for a while before the family came back.
"Sara"
"Yeah"
"Were going to have a baby today" Nick whispered taking her hands into his
She smiled and replied, "I know, but we have a problem"
Nick rose his eyebrows at her "what's that?"
"Nick, we haven't agreed on a single name yet." Sara said perplexed at the situation.
"Oh yeah."
Sara pushed her body up more in the bed and looked at Nick. "We need to decide something"
"Okay, let's just go back and forth with names that we both like and maybe we'll agree on something"
"Boy's or girls names first?"
"Let's start with" Nick thought for a moment "Boy"
"Okay, for a boy. I like the name Jonah"
Nick made a face "Christopher"
"No, how bout Jason"
"No, Caleb" Nick replied
Sara paused and thought about the name Caleb. "Caleb Stokes, that actually has a nice sound to it. I really like that name Nick. Caleb" Sara smiled.
"Okay, so we have finally agreed on a boy's name, that's half the battle."
They were about to start on a girls name when there was a knock on the door and Rosemary peeked her head inside.
"Okay for us to come in?" she asked
"Sure mom"
The entire family came pouring back into the room.
"So, what'd the doctor say?" Rosemary asked
"I'm about 7 centimeters dilated. She's going to come back in check me in a hour because I seem to be progressing pretty quickly."
"Sara, I love you, but you suck" Cailean suddenly blurted out
"Excuse me" Sara said laughing and surprised at the same time
"I mean it's your first baby. I was in labor with Cooper for 18 hours." Cailean finished her ranting and sat down in the chair looking somewhat dejected. Sara silently chuckled at her sister-in-laws distress.
Sara noticed that the room had like ten different conversations going on. Everyone was talking, although not loudly. Sara found the entire situation amusing. She never expected herself to ever get married, let alone have a child of her own, and now here she was almost ready to give birth to Nick's child.
'I'm having Nick's child' she thought to herself. She looked to her husband who was sitting on the bed next to her. She smiled at his animated conversation he was having with Parker and her father.
'He is so adorable'
Before she knew it she had dozed off, tuning everyone in the room out.
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Catherine, Warrick and Grissom slowly walked into the elevator. It had taken them longer than expected to get there. They waited until the people covering their cases showed up so that they could fill them in. The people covering were more than willing to fill in; they had met Sara and Nick and knew how especially close the night shift was. Once the elevator reached 7 the three stepped out and headed towards Sara's room. When they reached the room they saw that Sara was asleep and Nick was sitting next to her just holding her hand. "Nick" Catherine said
"Hey guys, thank you so much for coming"
"So how's she doing?" Warrick asked
"Fine, Doctor Williams came in around 2:15 and told us that she was about 8- 9 centimeters, so not long now. She thinks Sara will have delivered by 5 pm"
Sara woke up to see Catherine, Grissom and Warrick sitting in the room talking to Nick.
"Hey guys"
"Hey Sara, how you holding up?" Catherine asked
"I'm ready to see my baby"
"I felt the same way with Lindsey. I just wanted to hold my baby."
The five of them chatted for a while longer before Warrick, Catherine and Grissom decided to go get some coffee, leaving Nick and Sara alone for awhile.
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3:42 pm Las Vegas Memorial Hospital
"Come on Sara, you can do it" Doctor Williams encouraged the young woman in the bed pushing with all her might.
Nick was sitting next to Sara, rubbing her back and whispering encouraging words to her. Her mother was on her other side being the actual coach and counting. Sara had been pushing for about 25 minutes now; the baby was slowly coming down.
"Okay, Sara I can see the head, on your next contraction give me a really big push so we can get the head out"
Sara took a deep breath, when her contraction hit she began pushing "Ahhhhh" she screamed.
"The heads out, the heads out. On the next contraction we need to get the shoulders out, now I don't need a big push for the shoulders okay" Doctor Williams said
"Okay"
On her next contraction Sara pushed and Doctor Williams pulled the baby out of Sara's body.
"It's a girl," she said holding up the now screaming infant.
Tears started to free-fall down Nick and Sara's cheeks. Nick leaned in and kissed his wife telling her she did wonderful and telling her how much he loved her.
"Is she okay?" Sara asked
"She's perfect, 10 fingers and 10 toes."
Doctor Williams laid the newborn on Sara's chest, while the nurse went to get the scissors to cut the umbilical cord.
"Would you like to cut the cord?" the nurse asked Nick
"Sure" Nick took the scissors from her and cut where she told him.
"Okay, were going to weigh her quickly and clean her up. Do you want the family to come in?"
"Maybe in a couple of minutes. Alice, why don't you go out to the waiting room and tell them that the baby is here and that Sara did beautifully." Nick stated
Alice nodded and headed out towards the waiting room where more than a dozen people were waiting for any kind of news.
During the intervening time, Sara's legs were removed from the stirrups and a blanket was covering her body.
"Okay" the nurse, said, "your baby is perfectly healthy, she received an apgar of 8 out of 10 which is perfectly normal. She weighed in at 7 pounds 5 ounces."
The nurse handed the baby to Sara.
"Oh my god, she's perfect Nick" Sara whispered
"I know"
The nurse was about to leave when Nick suddenly stopped her, "would you mind doing me a huge favor?"
"Sure"
"Could you tell the family they can come in now, we would like to introduce them to the baby"
"Sure thing" the nurse smiled and left the room.
After a few moments the entire Stokes and Sidle families piled into the tiny hospital room. All "oohing" and "ahhing" the baby.
Nick and Sara had finally managed to agree on a girls name during the intervening time of waiting to deliver, they were excited to finally share it with the family.
Sara turned her daughter around so that she was facing the entire family and nodded to Nick for him to tell everyone her name.
"Everyone, I would like you to meet Anikah Grace Stokes, Anikah this is your family"
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5 Years later
"Anikah Grace, if I have to tell you one more time to stop running around this house, your gonna have a time out" Sara said to her eldest child.
"Sorry mommy" Anikah said
"It's okay sweetie, I know you're excited for daddy to come home"
Sara couldn't believe how blessed she was. Anikah had been the perfect baby, very easy going. But as a toddler she had been a terror on two feet, getting into everything and anything. Sara chuckled at the memory of her daughter into everything.
Sara heard the garage door open and Nick's car pull into it. After a couple moments she heard Nick walk in through the garage.
"Hello" Nick called out.
"In here sweetie" Sara called from the family room
"Daddy, daddy, daddy" Anikah called as she ran to her father. Anikah was the biggest daddies girl. She had Nick wrapped around her 5-year-old finger.
"How's daddy's girl doing?" Nick asked as he picked her up.
"Me good" she replied
Nick carried his daughter into the family room and sat down on the couch with Sara.
"And how's my little man doing today?" Nick asked about the child that Sara was breastfeeding.
"Caleb, tell daddy that you were a good boy today" Sara said, " I think he's a little busy right now eating" Sara smirked
Nick leaned back into the couch, with Anikah still in his lap, and put his arm around Sara. He couldn't imagine his life becoming anymore complete than it already was. He had a beautiful daughter and son and an amazing, gorgeous wife that he loved more and more each passing day. Yeah, life couldn't get any better than this.
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AN: That's it, this is the end. Thank you so much everyone for the amazing encouragement I have received. I can't believe I just started this piece only 12 days ago. Thank you all so much. Please read my next story. It will be titled "A Dating Story: CSI Style". Love to all. Brianna