This is a long post guys..
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Mac and Stella stepped out of the elevator hand in hand.
‘Mac will you go get me some water from the break room while I go and start on the evidence, please?’ Stella still wasn’t feeling so good, she pouted as Mac nodded.
‘Thank you, Mwah’ Stella blew a kiss for Mac and when she turned around to walk away he grabbed her hand and pulled her in close.
‘You call that a kiss, Miss Bonasera? Mac asked cheekily.
‘Mmmmaaacc, we’re in the lab!’
‘So’ Mac lent down and kissed Stella intensely which made her knees buckle. Just as they pulled apart they heard an Italian detective whistle.
‘Oh shut it Messer,’ Stella shouted down the corridor, ‘what do you think some of those lab techs would do if they new about you and Lindsay?’ There was the sound of glass breaking as many people dropped the test tubes that they were holding. ‘Oops, I guess there’s your answer Danny boy.’ Stella giggled as Danny turned slightly pink, ‘I’ll see you in five Mac.’
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Stella and Mac had been working in the lab in silence for about thirty minutes when Mac spoke, ‘So Stel what do you want to do for your birthday next week?’
‘I don’t know, I don’t even know if I’m working or not come to think of it!’
‘Oh you’re not working and neither am I . So if you don’t know what you want to do, I’ll just have to surprise you!’
‘Mac you know I hate surprises. Can’t you just tell me?’
‘I don’t know, maybe,’ Mac smiled as Stella’s annoyed expression when Mac’s pager went off.
‘Autopsy,’ he informed Stella, ‘Do you want to finish up here and I’ll go and talk to Sid?’
‘Yeh that’s fine’ Mac took off his lab coat and gave Stella a quick kiss before leaving the lab.
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Mac walked in to the morgue, ‘So Sid what happened to our Vic?’
‘Well he didn’t die from his injuries’
‘What?’ Mac asked a little confused.
‘From what I can tell these wounds caused by the car were post-mortem! But he died minutes before’
‘What are you on about?’ Mac asked as Sid began to laugh, ‘Flack said that the witnesses saw this man walking across the road!’
‘They probably did, Mac this man suffered a heart attack just before he was hit!’
‘A heart attack?’
‘Yes’
‘So you’re telling me, he wasn’t killed by the driver when he hit him?’
‘Nope but from what I can tell the driver did in some way kill him.’
‘Ok?’ Mac asked now a little more confused, more confused than when Sid goes off into his own little world. ‘Now I just don’t get it at all!’
‘The driver was the cause of death, I mean, the man suffered a heart attack because he saw the car and knew it was about to hit him’
‘So if I catch this guy I can still put him away for the hit and run?’
‘Probably, yes’
‘Ok, well I better go and catch him then, oh and Sid thanks for confusing me!’
‘Anytime Mac,’ Mac began to walk out when Sid shouted him back, ‘by the way you look happy!’
‘Happy is an understatement Sid! I hate to admit it but feel better now than I did with Claire.’
Sid heard the disappointment in his voice, ‘Mac, I new Claire, she’d want you to be happy, in fact I think she’d have come back and given you a good kick up the backside if you had kept your feelings for Stella hidden for any longer!’
‘I suppose you’re right but I sometimes I feel like I’m betraying her in someway.’
‘Mac, Claire will always be apart of you and you‘ll never be able to get rid of that. She’ll be glad it’s Stella who took her place. Don’t worry about it Mac! I think she’ll be with you when you decide it’s time to get married again.’
Sid looked at his friend and a smile spread across his face and Mac shuffled on the spot, ‘You have already haven’t you?’
‘Err, sort of yeh,’ Mac answered as he felt his ears begin to burn with embarrassment.
‘Well there’s nothing stopping you! When are you thinking of asking her?’
‘It’s her birthday next week I thought then would be a good time! Anyway I better dash and tell Stella the news about the Vic’
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Hawkes was walking past the ladies when he could have sworn he could hear someone throwing up. He went into the lab opposite and began to start working when he saw Stella exit the bathroom and head to her office. Not long after he caught her running back. Something was up and Hawkes had a little inkling what it could be.
He waited for her to appear again and then shouted her in to the lab where he was, ‘What do you want Doc?’
Hawkes laughed, ‘I think you are in need of one Stel!’
‘Sheldon I’m fine, I just think I must have eaten something that didn’t agree with me a couple of days ago.’
‘What do you mean a couple of days ago?’
‘I have been sick a few times in the past week, mostly in the morning but I haven’t told Mac’ Stella told him, ‘so don’t you even think about!’
‘I won’t don’t worry, do you want to go and get some coffee?’ Hawkes questioned.
‘No thanks the smell of it’s making me want to revisit the bathroom!’
‘Stel I think you should go to the doctor’
‘Why I’ll be fine in a few days.’
Hawkes felt a little uneasy talking to Stella about this, ‘Er no I..’
‘What is it Sheldon, spit it out I need to get back to work!’
‘Well, I think you could be pregnant!’
‘What?’ Stella asked a little deflated, ‘I…’
‘Come on Stel I’m the doctor here, think about it, you said you have been sick from time to time the past couple of days. You are put off by the strong smell of coffee which you usually love! And I don’t want to say that I’ve been looking because I haven’t but your breasts seem to have grown!’
Stella just looked at him. She had missed her latest period but she had just thought that it was to do with the stress of the kidnapping and those meds that the doctor had put her on. ‘Erm Sheldon do you mind packing away may evidence I think I might need to go to the pharmacy.’
‘That’s fine Stel, erm, I’ll talk to you when you get back.’ Hawkes smiled at her as they both walked off in to opposite directions.
It was a little late when I posted, I had to do a quick spot of editing 
