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Crockett's POV:

"About the baby" Jim says, I feel my heart racing and I'm getting light headed, "I'm so sorry Crockett, she didn't make it. The knife pierced her chest, so she never would have made it". "Sh- she?" I ask trembling. "Yeah, didn't you know? It was a girl" he answers. 

I seem to be in total disbelief. My breathing speeds up, and my heart won't stop racing, I can feel it pounding in my head. "Natalie is in the ICU, you can see her in about half an hour." Jim finally says, and walks away. I give him a slight nod and a 'thanks', as I turn around trying to find my chair. The world around me starts spinning, and my vision gets blurry. I feel the arms of the chair behind me, trying to grab one of them. As I lose balance, I see Maggie and Will trying to catch me, as if they were in slow-motion, until everything goes black. 

I slowly open my eyes, and I notice that I'm in a bed. I can barely recall what happened, or how I ended up here, until on sentence shoots into my head 'she didn't make it'. I sit up quickly, because I want to go and see Natalie, be there for her when she wakes up, when she has to hear the terrible, terrible news. 

Once I'm sitting up, and I open my eyes entirely, I see, to my surprise, Natalie sitting next to me. "Hey, you're awake, how are you feeling?" she asks with a soft voice. I turn my head, but as I want to speak, a bad pain goes through my head, and I grab it. "Yeah, you have quite the concussion. The guy hit you pretty hard, and then you slammed into your car, it was- it was awful" she says with a concerned look. I rub my eyes, and look around again, still astonished and very confused by what's happening. I mutter something, trying to make sense of anything, really, but Natalie helps me out.

"It's ok, you're ok, we're ok" she says as she puts her hand on her stomach. "You got knocked out, while we were getting mugged, remember?" she asks. "I- uh, but you, you were stabbed, we-" I start to get tears in my eyes "we lost the baby, you were bleeding, so much" I say. She looks at me with a somewhat pitiful look "no, no, I'm fine, I got inside on time, I got people to help you, Jay already came by, took a statement, they have a description. Everything is taken care of, it's ok honey" she says, taking my hand and squeezing it. 

I rub my eyes "I'm, I'm sorry, I must have dreamt it all, it just felt so, lifelike. It was just, really frightening, and the idea of- of losing-" but Natalie cuts me off. "I know, but I'll keep telling you if you want, we're fine" she says, as she lays down on my bed next to me, putting her head in the crook of my neck. 

I let out a deep breath, take Natalie's hand again, and kiss it gently. "I'm so glad you're ok" I say, when I feel both her and myself drift off to sleep.

The next day

Natalie's POV:

The doors open to the ED, and I can smell the hand sanitizer coming from every room. It's a quite strong, but comforting smell. I walk past the treatment room where Crockett was treated yesterday, and I can just see him laying there, unresponsive. The thought hurts me, but luckily Maggie pulls me out of it. "Heyy, how are you feeling? Got some sleep?" she asks as she comes up to me. "Yeah, I actually slept really well" I say smiling. "Good. Your boo not yet in?" she asks whispering, letting out a giggle. I make a face of 'don't say that here' and answer her "no, not today, I told him to take a day off, you know, just rest a bit, let everything sink in. I mean he had a really disturbing dream, and he doesn't seem to have fully processed it yet". Maggie makes a pitiful face "I'm so sorry to hear that. Now on to the positive stuff! You told me to plan your baby shower, but if I have to pick a date, you guys have to be free, I'll force the rest, but when would that be, madam?" she asks with a big smile on her face.

I sigh "Oh, God, I don't know, I'm not sure, why don't you give me a date, and I'll see if I'm free?" I say a bit embarassed. She sighs and gives me a bit of an accusing look, but then chuckles. "Alrighttt, let's see, what about two weeks from now?" Maggie asks. "I guess so" I say, not actually knowing if I'm free. "When will you guys actually reveal that you're together?" she asks intriguing. I realise that I never even thought about that, I guess I just thought that somehow everybody knew or something like that. So I just shrug my shoulders, and walk off mysteriously as I hear Maggie chuckling behind me.

Two weeks later

Maggie's POV:

I've been planning this baby shower for weeks, and I can't wait for everyone to get there. I remember that no one knows about Nat and Crockett, and that Nat and I planned on telling the ED today. I giggle silently, as I think about the fact that Natalie has already had quite some relationships, yet she's still incredibly nervous to tell everyone. They decided to tell the staff now, because Nat is already a few months along, and her bump is starting to show, which she can barely cover up anymore. By the thought of those two having a baby, I start smiling, and April sees it. She raises her eyebrow, "What are you smiling about?" she says in a teasing-kind of way. I look at her firmly "nothing!" I say, but I can't hold in my laughter, and she giggles.

A few hours later, Nat comes over to me, nods, and then sighs. I giggle, and put my arm around her "it'll be alright," I say,"everyone, listen up, there is something important these two have to tell you" I shout at the ED, nodding at Nat and Crockett. Everyone gathers around, and I look at Natalie. She nods, and turns to the staff 

"Alright, uhm, how do I start," she says with a chuckle and pauses for a second "ok, Crockett and I have some big news to share" she says, andCrockett wraps her arm around her, "we are going to have a baby.". "we have been together for quite a while now, and to our luck, a little one is on the way, and we'reexpecting it in a few months" she says with a big smile.