I named Horatio's and Aimee's baby daughter Rachel because it sounds nice. It has nothing to do with the Rachel Turner character Horatio dated in the episode 'Under Suspicion.'Also if part of the story sounds familiar, in my little CSI: Miami world, Marisol didn't exist. (That eliminates her marrying H and getting murdered.)
Mason Shaw has Through the prison gossip-chain, he had learned that Horatio Caine was now the father of a baby and was engaged to be married. They were the ones he was after. The moment he had heard escaped a Georgia prison and will stop at nothing to get revenge at the Lieutenant who put him away for life. Wanting the lieutenant dead was too simple, too quick, not enough suffering involved. of Shaw's escape Horatio knew what the convicted rapist was after—his family, fiancée Aimee and their baby Rachel. Unfortunately by the time Horatio heard of the escape Shaw was already in Miami and had his eyes on Aimee and Rachel.
Chapter One: Laying Low
Several weeks before Shaw's escape...
Horatio Caine thought his life couldn't get any more perfect. Or maybe it would get just a tad more perfect when he and Aimee exchanged wedding vows. They hadn't set a date for that yet. He always knew there would be so much joy in being a father but he hasn't anticipated that Rachel Lynn Roslind Caine's birth would cause him to feel such unconditional love. He hadn't thought that the cherubic face of a one-month-old could make him smile at three-thirty in the morning. Baby Rachel had a full head of chestnut brown hair that looked to have a hint of red and blue eyes. Horatio's eyes. Even he couldn't deny that.
Like all first-time parents, Horatio had been happy but frightened at the thought of raising a child. But as everyone who knew him predicted, Horatio was a natural father. It had baffled him that the moment he held his daughter he wasn't afraid that he would be bad father anymore. For the first time in his whole career Horatio Caine took personal time off. Leaving Calleigh temporarily in charge of the lab, he took a whole month off to spend time with his fiancée and new baby. Under normal circumstances, in any other crime lab the day shift supervisor taking a month off for any reason some employees would complain. However knowing how Horatio hadn't ever taken any time off—voluntarily, at least, Horatio's team was glad he was taking time off to focus on his family.
The Caine Family Home
"She's so beautiful," Aimee whispered.
Rachel lay sleeping in her cradle in the couple's bedroom. Aimee had just laid the baby down and the two stood there for a brief moment watching their month-old baby sleep. Everyone said her name suited her perfectly. She "looked like a Rachel." Lynn was Aimee's middle name and Roslind was Horatio's late mother's name, Rachel's grandmother.
"And so are you," Horatio said to her, kissing her brow. "C'mon. We should let our little princess sleep. She knows how to call mommy and daddy when she wakes up."
Horatio led Aimee to the couch where he propped up her legs and began to massage her feet. Aimee smiled.
"I thought this treatment was supposed to end a month ago."
"And where did you hear that?" Horatio asked.
"Nowhere. I just assumed that this pampering would slow down once there was the three of us, instead of the two of us."
"Well, you're quite wrong there. If anything, I should pamper you more for giving us such a precious lil' girl."
The two were exhausted but were too happy to feel it just yet. Baby Rachel wasn't a crier, only making noise when she was hungry or needed a new diaper. She was already an expert "snuggle bunny" who loved to cuddle into the chest of whoever was holding her. Sometimes she would cry just to be picked up. Rachel loved to cuddle with her dad. She would place her head directly over his heart and get as close to him as she possibly could.
Feeling so settled for the first time since he was 17-years-old the last thing on Horatio Caine's mind was one of the convicts he helped put away three years ago.
Mason Shaw. Mason Shaw had been convicted of raping a college co-ed named Peg Donavan and had been serving a 15 year prison sentence in a private prison in Georgia. Peg had testified at Shaw's first parole hearing and parole was denied. Before his second hearing three years later, Peg was found nearly beaten to death in a vacant condo in Miami. She had been called in as a dead body but she was in fact still alive. Police and the C.S.I. team decided to keep with the story that Ms. Donavan was deceased until they had enough evidence to arrest Shaw for conspiracy. Horatio arrested Shaw on the charge of conspiracy in the attempted murder of a witness just before his parole hearing began. Along with having to serve out the remaining eight years of his rape sentence Mason was sentenced to seventy-five years imprisonment with no chance of parole on the conspiracy charge.
The cardinal rule in law enforcement is to never let a prisoner know anything about your life. Just how Mason Shaw found out about Horatio Caine's family would never be known but it wpuld take nearly a year to end his rein of terror on the family.
