DISCALIMER: I don't own CSI Miami and i don't make any money from it, but I do own Dave, Nick, and Adam, Ralph and Meredith.
Yong Caine
It was early morning in the Caine house and young Horatio was playing with a couple of toy cars, they were racing each other while it was still quiet in the house.
He tried to be as quiet as he could as he knew it was no good idea to wake up his parents from their sleep before they had to get up, that only left a whole lot of trouble.
"Can I play with the cars too?" he heard his younger brother Raymond ask from the door.
"No" Horatio said annoyed.
"Please H" the little boy asked.
"Well ok, but you gotto be real quiet and you are not wrecking my cars" the seven year old said in a firm tone.
"Ok, oh can I have the cop car?" the three years old asked, he loved that one.
"Here" his big brother said and handed it over to him.
"Thanks" he said happily and started to drive it quietly around.
Horatio smiled at him, he really loved his brother even though he would never admit to it as he drove his red and blue race car around.
It was then he heard a swearing from the next room and froze, he also heard a female voice trying to calm down the male voice and knew his parents were up.
A moment later Meredith Caine came into the room and said: You two gotto get dressed, Ray come on I'll help you, can you handle it your self?
"Uh-huh, cause I'm a real big guy" said the little redhead proudly smiling at hid mother.
"Yes you are handsome" she said and smiled back at his son as she took Raymond and left the room.
Horatio was just done getting dressed and was headed for the bathroom to wash his face when he crashed into hid father.
"You useless little boy would you watch where you are going" Ralph yelled at his son.
"I'm sorry" said Horatio and looked down in the ground, not that it would matter as he knew what would happen next.
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That day at school Horatio was in pain or rather his back was after his father's belt, he hated him, he didn't understand why he had to do that to him, or why parents hit their children for that matter, wasn't they suppose to love them he wondered.
He looked at his class mate Rick, he knew he was having trouble at home as well, but at least he wasn't beaten.
Rick smiled at him and Horatio smiled back, they had been friends for as long as they could remember, but Rick's parents were much richer than Horatio's so they didn't live in the same neighbourhood, yet the boys were good friends.
Horatio walked over to join him at his table, Rick was drawing a beautiful painting of a house and threes, the redhead wish he could draw like that to.
"He hit you again?" the brown haired boy said.
"Uh-huh, did your dad yell at you?" he replied.
"Yeah, I never do anything right like Cassie and Jonathan, they are like perfect" said Rick.
"Not cool" said Horatio sympathetic.
"I'm ok, does it hurt really badly?" said Rick concerned.
"Just a little, but it will be ok" said Horatio with a sigh.
"You wanna come over to my house after school?" Rick asked.
"Nah promised to go right home and gotto pick up Ray" said Horatio.
"You gotto come over real soon as I got a new pony, he's so cool" said Rick excitedly.
"Cool" said Horatio as he continued to draw, knowing that pony probably had its price.
When the two young boys came home they heard their parents quarrel as usual, Horatio looked down at his younger brother, he looked really sad, he didn't like it at all, neither did the redhead, but he knew he was to young to do anything yet.
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It was three years later, a ten year old redhead stood with his hands in his sides down by the docks, he felt all alone in the world after Rick had moved with his family to Miami a couple of years back, they two young boys hadn't like the separation at all and now they were loosing contact more and more, long distance relationships can do that.
The young boy hid out by the docs quite a lot looking at the sea, it made him feel calm, take his rage away. Yes the young was in rage quite a lot, he hated his father so much for what he did to his mother and to him, Ray he usually let alone for some reason. The little prince, it was not fair at all, what had he done wrong.
He knew what the fault was though at least according to his father, he was to sensitive, not a though guy and it was probably because he looked like his mother with his read hair and piercing blue eyes.
His mother, Horatio loved her dearly, she was what a parent should be like, kind and caring, trying to protect her children from their father, not always resulting in anything good, but at least she tried.
You could never see it on her though that she was hit or anything, his father was clever that way, she was hurting in silence and Horatio could hear her cried when she was alone and her father was away.
The young boy bent down and picked up a stone and threw as hard as he could into the ocean with a huff when he heard someone say: Be careful about where you hit, you might hit someone.
"Does it look like I even care" said Horatio with another huff and turned to face a boy that went to his school, he had blue eyes like him self and brown hair and answered to the name Mac after what he knew.
"Not really, why are you so upset anyway, you always seem so angry and low?" asked Mac curiously.
"Why should I tell you" said Horatio a tad annoyed by Mac not leaving him alone.
"Couldn't hurt right" said Mac in a calm tone.
"It's my parents, they fight and dad is not nice" said the redhead.
"Not cool, anything I can do to help?" the other boy offered.
"Hardly think so" said Horatio honest.
"Well if there is anything ever, you know where to find me, I hang around here a lot to" said Mac and shook his hand.
"Thanks I better get back, its dinner soon" said Horatio knowing what would happen if he was late so he ran of.
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When Horatio came home he knew at once knew dinner would be late as his mother was helping Raymond with his homework, and that she had lost track of time.
"Mum" Horatio said looking at the clock on the wall, knowing his dad would be home really soon.
Meredith Caine sighed as she put her long red hair up in a knot and said: Will you help your brother Horatio.
"Yes" he said looking worried against the door as his mother started on the dinner.
"Horatio I don't get this" said Raymond looking at the side in his book trying to puzzle the letters together so he could read the words.
Horatio sat down next to him and started to explain to him as he heard the front door open and his father coming into the kitchen and say: Why isn't dinner ready?
"I was helping Ray and lost track of time" said Meredith not apologizing for it at all, she wasn't afraid of him, not all that much anyway as she was used to him.
"Again, that boy is just stupid, not worth the waist" said Ralph with a snort.
"Don't go talking about him like that, he is smart, one day he will be something really great" she argued as she knew that even if Raymond was a bit slower to learn than Horatio was his age, he never gave up and he was trying really hard to get it right.
"Don't make me laugh, we should never had him in the first place" said Ralph ignoring Ray's sad eyes as usual.
"Ralph" said Meredith in a warning tone which he choose to ignore as he went closer towards her.
"I'm just saying it as it is, one trouble maker would have been enough, but you had to get one more didn't you" he snarled at her.
"Oh, don't you go blame this one on me you know it takes two" she replied annoyed.
"You should have been more careful" he said.
"Yeah, yeah, would you quit bugging me so I can get the dinner ready" she replied turning his back on him which resulting in him grabbing her shoulder hardly to turn her back so she faced him. She let out a gasp in more pain than surprised as Horatio managed to get Ray out of the room before he looked at his father and say: What a man you are hitting you wife.
"You just shut up you stupid boy" he snarled and let her go to go after him instead.
"I'm not stupid" Horatio argued as his father grabbed his arm hardly.
Horatio of course fought back, but his father was to strong so the battle was soon left and the badly beat little redhead crawled to his room for cover as his father went for his mother.
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Later that night Horatio woke up by Ray sneaking into his room and into his bed whispering: Can I sleep with you, scared.
"Of course" said Horatio and wrapped his arm around his little brother.
"Will they ever change" Ray asked.
"I don't know, I hope so" said Horatio.
"I don't like it very much" said Raymond.
"I know, me neither" said Horatio.
"You know what I wanna be when I grow up?" Raymond asked a bit more enthusiastically.
"No what?" Horatio asked curiously.
"A big strong cop so I can help others that are in the situations like this" he said proudly.
"That sounds like a plan, maybe I should be one to so I always can keep an eye out for you" said Horatio with a yawn.
"Yeah, that way we can work together, that will be real fun" said Raymond with a yawn.
"You better get some sleep" said Horatio.
"Uh-huh, good night Horatio" said Raymond with a sigh as he drifted up while Horatio started thinking about how things could be if he in fact did become a cop someday.
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It was an early morning in the end of February and a fourteen year old Horatio was looking out over the water down by the docks. He had been sleeping down there, he had done that a lot lately to get away from the battles at home that had become worse and while he hid down by the docks Ray either hid at friends or someplace at home where his father couldn't get to him, he was quiet clever that way.
This day was to the young Caine the same as every other day, or at least so he would think as Mac joined him with a coop of fresh coffee from Starbucks and the two boys started talking. Not long after Rick joined them as his parents had moved back a year earlier and he and Horatio had managed to get the contact back. Now the three young men was competing at everything, more for the fun of it than anything else.
Just this morning Rick was giving his two friends some news, he told them that he would be moving to Miami with his folks in about a year or so.
This news upset the redhead quite a bit as he had just gotten his friend back, but they decided to make the best of the year that come, whether it was school or personal and they also decided that that night they were going to steal some bottles of beer and come down to the docks and drink it, to celebrate life, now they may get hung-over, but at least it was better than what was at home at least for Horatio and Rick that was, Mac had the nicest parents and they seemed to care for the two other boys as well.
Now what the three young men didn't know yet or would know for quite many years yet was that this day an event that would change their lives later on would happen. This event was the birth of a little baby girl with bright green eyes, her parents was in a bad place to, but as a new born she of course didn't know this yet.
The irony was that as the three boys walked to school Rick said: You know Horatio you should get a girl.
"You mean like you, nah I don't want just any girl" said the redhead.
"Oh really, so the girls around here isn't good enough for you, is that it" said Rick as spite his age had dated quite a lot.
"Yes that is it, I want a really special one, on that can take my breath away and save me when needed, one that understands me in every way" said Horatio with a sigh.
"Oh, come on Caine, that kinda girl don't exist" said Rick with a slight laugh.
"Well maybe not yet, but I'm pretty sure one day there will" said Horatio and punched him playfully in the side.
"Will you two knock it of or we will be late" said Mac and shook his head.
"Yeah like you care anyway" said Rick as they caught up to him.
"Well I may not, but he does" said Mac and hinted at Horatio and pretty soon the three were chasing each other on the way to school and all about that perfect girl was forgotten.
Rick was right though that girl didn't exist at least not that moment as she was born an hour after the three boys sat down to have their first period. Horatio was right to though one day he would meet her, one day all three of the would, but that day would have to wait as right now the three was rolling their eyes at their teacher that was trying to teach them math.
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About a little over one year later right after Rick had moved another event that would change Horatio's life happened. He had just turned fifteen an was now a very handsome young man that all the girls at school wanted to be with him, but he for some reason weren't to interested in them. Maybe it was because he was afraid that if he got a relationship it would be much like his parents and he didn't want that or maybe it was simply because he put school first and a girl would be a big distraction.
He did however have a lot of close female friends as well as male who in which he still competed with. He needed just that get better of everything someone pushing him.
Life was going ok for him these days, his parents hadn't fought much lately either, they simply just didn't talk all too much, but he figured that was better than fighting as it also meant leaving him and Ray alone.
Horatio was wrong though, that his parents were quiet was not a good thing, rather the opposite as war was about to break out, it was just a matter of time.
The young redhead had stayed behind at school that day as he and his friends Mary and Lucy had stayed behind to work on a presentation, but he could tell at once he opened the door at home that something was wrong as it was death silence, not a sound, no TV, no Radio, no nothing which was scary.
As he walked into the living room a shiver ran down his spine, he had never before been scared like this as he carefully looked inside and gasped.
There on the floor lay his mother in a pile of blood, his father standing over her.
"What did you do" the redhead asked, ran over to him and sank down next to his mothers body.
"Nothing it was an accident" said Ralph not caring too much.
"You, you killed her, how could you" the redhead was holding his tears back.
"She was nagging and complaining I was just getting her to be quiet" he said calmly.
"How can you be so cold" said Horatio as he got up.
"It's really easy, I better get rid of her" he replied.
"No, you are not, she's having a proper burial" the redhead insisted.
"I'm not wasting another penny on her" he snarled.
Before Horatio knew exactly what was going on the two of them was arguing over a gun Ralph was holding only for him self to win and fire a shoot. Just like that his father was dead on the ground next to his wife.
The young Caine shivered as he fell to the ground crying over his dead mother.
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That night the redhead refused to go with social service, he locked him self up in his room and cried so hard that he was shivering, he wanted his mother to hold him and comfort him.
He didn't even let Raymond in, but he could hear him crying outside his door.
What was going to happen to them now, were they going to be placed under foster care possibly apart, he hoped not as he knew Ray would need him more than ever now.
"Damn you" he let out, it was meant for his father, not that it would matter.
In one day he had lost both his parents, it was just too much, he closed his eyes to try to shut it out, but the images came back over and over driving him crazy.
He didn't know exactly why he said it, but for some reason he let out "I need you so much right now sweetheart".
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In a house in another state three young big brothers were trying to teach their little sister to speak, she should have learned so by now they though.
From the doorway their parents were watching a bit amused as Dave said: You should have learned to talk now you know.
The little blond girl giggled happily when suddenly her face looked really serious.
"Calleigh is anything wrong?" Adam asked concerned as he had never seen her like that.
She didn't say anything just looks thoughtfully out in the ear as she was trying to hear something they couldn't see before saying: I'm right here handsome.
Her brothers looked shocked at her and so did her parents as Kenwall said: What did she just say?
"I'm right here handsome" Nick repeated.
"Who is she talking about, and how did she learn that for that matter" said Macy as shocked as her husband.
"No idea, Babygirl, who's handsome?" asked Dave.
"H" she said as that would make perfectly good sense to them.
"Who is H?" Adam was the one asking now as they all looked confused at her.
"H is handsome" she said thoughtfully not getting why they didn't understand her.
"OK boys I don't think we are going to get this and it's about time you go to sleep" said Kenwall and took her from Dave to take her upstairs and put her to bed.
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