Friday 23rd March. 2008. 15:05

Valera groaned and screamed as she got another contraction. Now she understood why her parents never gave her any brothers or sisters. Jason winced as she crushed his right hand.

"I'm going to kill you Jason." Valera growled.

Jason gave Valera a kiss on the cheek, which resulted in that she slapped him across the face. He was shocked, but gave her a smile. Jason knew she didn't mean to be evil against him.

"Alright, Valera, almost there now." Nadia said.

Valera nodded and took a deep breath, before pushing once again.

"I can see the head!" Nadia said.

Valera felt tears roll down her cheeks, both from the pain and the happiness. She panted, and then pushed again. She and Jason both stared at each other, as they heard the cries of their first baby! They had waited for almost nine months for this moment, and now they were here. And their first child had just been born!

"It's a boy!" Nadia smiled.

"It's Caleb." Jason smiled at Valera.

Valera started laughing and nodded. She had a little Caleb, together with the best man on earth! She then groaned as she got yet another contraction. She had almost forgotten that she had two more babies. Jason had wanted to cut the umbilical cord, but Nadia had already given Caleb to two nurses to he could get cleaned up. Things were a little hectic, since there were still two more babies to push out.

"Alright, Valera, start pushing." Nadia said.

"Jason, you know I… argh! Love you, but… I'm never having sex with you again." Valera groaned, and screamed as she pushed.

"I love you too honey." Jason smiled.

He sure knew how to get Valera to have sex with him again. He had his little tricks.

"Argh!" Valera groaned.

"Good job, Valera, one more time." Nadia said.

Valera panted, and waited for another contraction. She was so tired now, and wanted to sleep. Jason gently caressed her cheek. Valera was sweating and panting.

"Once more, Valera." Nadia said.

Valera nodded weakly, and screamed as she got another contraction. Baby cries once again filled the room.

"Another boy!" Nadia grinned.

"And that would be Callum." Jason chuckled and gave Valera a kiss.

Caleb and Callum were both screaming like crazy.

"Okay, daddy, do you want to cut the umbilical cord on your last baby?" Nadia asked.

Jason nodded, it was all he could do at the moment. He looked towards the nurses, who were tending to his sons. His sons! He was a father of two, soon three! But the best part, was just the father part! He didn't care how many kids he had or what gender they had. As long as he could call himself a father, he was happy!

"I can't do it." Valera panted, "I'm too tired."

Jason gave Valera another kiss. He wished he could have switched places with her, at least for the last baby. He saw the pain that she was in, and how tired she was. Valera was crying. She wanted to get out of the situation she was in and just take a look at her babies.

"Only one baby left, Valera." Nadia said softly, "You can do it."

Valera shook her head. She couldn't. As much as she would love to hold all three babies, she wasn't sure if she had the strength to push again.

"I will push, only if I get a long vacation after this." Valera panted.

"Of course you will!" Jason smiled.

Valera nodded, and prepared herself to push again. Another contraction came, and she screamed and pushed as much as she could. It seemed to do the trick, because a third baby cry filled the room.

"A little girl!" Nadia smiled.

It was with tears rolling down his cheeks, that Jason cut the umbilical cord, and first laid eyes on his daughter.

"Hi, Jan." He smiled.

The baby stopped crying and looked at her father with big eyes. She was then given to the nurses to be cleaned up. Jason sat down by his tired fiancé. Valera looked at him, as she panted.

"Two boys and a girl." Jason grinned, "Caleb, Callum and Jan."

"Wonderful." Valera smiled, weakly.

The nurses soon brought the three babies to the mother and father. They were beautiful!

"Hey, there little guys." Valera grinned and cried.

This time it was all happy tears.

"And hi there my little girl." She said to her daughter.

"They are so small." Jason smiled.

"Well, they are three weeks too early, and it's not unusual that the babies are quite small when it's two or more." Nadia smiled.

The boys started crying, but their sisters stayed quite as she laid in the father's arms. Then the babies were once again taken away by the nurses, so that they could find out their weight and height.

"Call the team, and our parents." Valera smiled, then yawned.

"I will, and in the mean time, sleep honey." Jason grinned.

It was with shaky legs that he walked out in the hallway and sat down. A big grin on his all the time. He picked up his phone and called everyone he could think of. And the never got tired of the happy voices on the other end, and everyone saying congratulations.

-I-

16:30

The whole team were in the morgue, looking down at the latest victim. Everybody were happy that their big family, had just got bigger with three babies. Horatio didn't know it yet, but he would be asked to be the triplets godfather, and Calleigh the godmother. Everyone had big smiles on their faces, even though they did have a dead woman right in front of them. Horatio and Ryan though, tried to contain their laughter as Frank walked in. He thought they laughed at the prank with the flour and syrup. Because he still hadn't discovered the hole in his trousers.

"Alright." Alexx said, looking confused at Horatio and Ryan, "Ms. Hill had red fibers in her hair." She said and handed a plastic bag with four red fibers to Calleigh.

"And I dusted the coffin for prints, and got one fingerprint." Eric said, "And it matches Jill Myers."

"The funeral director?" Natalia asked.

Eric nodded. Jill Meyers, was probably the biggest and only quite famous funeral director in Miami. Why? Nobody knew, they just knew about her. She had her own church, and a team of four guys who built coffins. And well, she was the director of it all.

"Well…" Horatio said, giggling, "We'll have to talk to her… then."

Everybody, except Ryan, raised their eyebrows in confusion at Horatio. Ryan was red in his face, and tears rolled down his cheeks. Horatio patted his shoulder.

"Oh come on! It's not funny anymore." Frank sighed.

"What is?" Calleigh asked.

"They poured syrup and flour in my mouth and then put a balloon with whip cream in it in my locker. It exploded in my face." Frank said.

Horatio and Ryan burst out laughing first, but were soon joined by the others. Only Frank stood there, quite.

"Alright, alright. Stop laughing." Frank growled.

"That's not what we're thinking off." Ryan giggled, "We're thinking of our third prank on you today."

Horatio nodded in agreement. Frank looked confused.

"Anyway, Ryan can you please start looking too see if there is any chance that you can find information about roasting someone to death on the internet." Horatio grinned, "Calleigh have you found any big companies who has sold big amounts of Metal?"

"Nope, not in Florida." Calleigh sighed.

"Alright, check the whole US, maybe see if you can find out where the metal was sent too." Horatio said, "Eric and Natalia find a connection between Ms. Hill and Mr. Murdock."

"I will talk to Ms. Hill's family." Frank said and turned around to leave the morgue.

That's when everybody saw his underwear and the hole in his trousers. Everyone burst out laughing. Frank turned around and glared at them.

"What is it?" He asked.

Natalia, felt that she had to save her boyfriend from any further humiliation. She pointed at his trousers.

"The back." She laughed.

Frank felt with his hands on his butt, and gasped as he felt hole. He knew it could only had been made a hole there when he was in the shower. Which meant he had been walking around like a fool in the PD, showing his underwear to everyone! Frank glared at Horatio and Ryan.

"Run!" Ryan said and ran out of the morgue with Horatio close behind.

"That's evil of you!" Frank yelled, "No more mister nice."

Everybody calmed down, "Alright, Frank go home and change your clothes." Natalia said.

"And then I will have my revenge." Frank said, "Stupid red-head." He muttered and left.

-I-

18:15

Eric sighed and entered Horatio's office. He and Horatio were about to go home and have some dinner, then visit Valera at the hospital. Horatio looked up at Eric and grinned.

"I know, dinner and then baby visit." Horatio smiled and stood up to leave.

"Exactly." Eric smiled.

Together the two men left the office and walked towards the reception area. They noticed the big crowd standing in front of the receptionist desk. And they all started giggling when Horatio and Eric arrived.

"What?" Horatio asked, as they all looked at him.

"Frank got his revenge." Cooper grinned.

Horatio paled and walked to the receptionist desk. He gaped at the picture in front of him. It was of him, with chicken pox! Everybody laughed at his reaction. Horatio knew that Eric had given Frank a picture of him with chicken pox, and Frank had obviously made a huge copy of the picture and put it in the lab. For everybody to see!

Eric giggled and dragged Horatio towards the elevator. Horatio was still gaping. Before the entered the elevator, Horatio ran back to the desk and picked the picture up. He was not going to let the more people see the picture. It was enough that all his CSI's and lab techs already had.

Once in the elevator, with the picture. Horatio tried hard, at hiding it. Once they started walking towards the parking lot, officers became very curious as to why their Lt. was hiding a picture, of a red-head.

"Drive." Horatio said, once he and Eric were inside the hummer.

The drive home was quiet. Horatio ad trying to come up with his revenge. And he didn't really have any ideas. He had to call Ryan later.

-I-

20:00

Horatio looked down at the boy in his arms. One of his godchildren. He was honored to be the godfather of the triplets. Callum was asleep, he had closed his eyes as soon as he had been put in Horatio's arms. Eric was holding Jan, and Valera was holding Caleb.

"They are cute." Horatio said, "And they will be a handful, I'm sure."

"Ugh, don't remind me of what I will have to deal with for several years." Valera grinned.

Horatio chuckled. Eric looked over the red-head. He sometimes wondered if Horatio wouldn't miss the chance to have babies. Though, it was probably Horatio who was more worried that Eric would leave him for a woman, to have babies. Horatio would be such a great dad. And so would Eric. And Eric really wanted to have a child. But it would have to be a child together with Horatio. He wouldn't want to leave him, just to have a child. He couldn't do that.

"By the way, we are planning our wedding. Or trying to get the time to plan it anyway." Horatio smiled.

"Aww, Am I invited?" Valera asked.

Horatio seemed to think for a second. That's when Eric really saw the relationship between Valera and Horatio. She was like an uncle to her, of course, Horatio was either like a father or an uncle to a lot of people. But Valera and Horatio shared a close bond with each other. A bond that Eric hadn't really seen before. Valera was in a way, Horatio's little girl. He had once called her that. Calleigh was Horatio's big girl, and Natalia his middle one. He always called them his three girls, and Alexx, was one of his best friends, and everybody's mother hen.

"Of course you are." Horatio grinned after a while.

Valera smiled, "I knew it."

Horatio chuckled. Callum woke up and demanded his mother's attention. Valera and Horatio switched babies.

"Hello, Caleb." Horatio smiled, as he was handed Caleb.

"CJC." Eric said. Thinking about the babie's first letters in their names.

"Yeah, though actually CCJ." Jason smiled.

Horatio and Eric stayed for another thirty minutes, before driving home. They weren't even home, before Eric started kissing Horatio's neck. Horatio moaned and almost forgot that he was driving.

"I've always wanted to tease you when you drive." Eric grinned, and rubbed Horatio's growing arousal with his hand.

He knew he was driving the red-head nuts, but Horatio's couldn't do a thing, since he was driving.

"Oh, Eric." Horatio moaned.

Eric undid Horatio's belt buckle and pulled the zipper down.

"Stay on the road H." Eric grinned.

Horatio chuckled. Eric started sucking on Horatio's arousal. Horatio moaned and barely managed to keep his eyes on the road ahead.

"Holy shit." He moaned.

Horatio cursed as his phone rang. He answered it, panting.

"Caine." He said, "What?… No, I'm fine. Running? Um, yes, exactly." Horatio said, barely being able to concentrate on the conversation he was having, "What? Say that again please." Horatio tapped Eric on his shoulder, and have him a serious look, "Dead? Where?… okay, not bring him, why? Paul, he is a…"

Horatio growled as he closed his phone. Paul Its had just hung up on him. The man was even worse than Stetler.

"What?" Eric asked.

"That was IAB Paul Its. Apparently, another jury member had been found dead." Horatio sighed.

"And?"

"And, you're not allowed to come with me."

"What? Why?" Eric asked, becoming angry.

"Because the jury member who is dead, is a life long friend of yours." Horatio said, sadly, "Michelle Epps."

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The babies!

Caleb Trevor Valera.

Born: 23rd March, 15:06

W: 7 pounds.

H: 19 inches.

Callum Leroy Valera.

Born: 23rd March, 15:08

W: 7 pounds.

H: 20 inches.

Jan Patricia Valera.

Born: 23rd March, 15:11

W: 6.5 pounds.

H: 19 inches.

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TBC…

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