Song that I used was "It Won't Be Like This for Long" by Darius Rucker and I hope that you like!!!!
Title: It Won't Be Like This for Long
Rating: G
Author: emily-brat
He didn't have to wake up
He'd been up all night
Layin' there in bed listenin'
To his new born baby cry
Last night was the worst night of his life, he continued to hear his baby girl cry in the next room. He wanted to so badly get up out of his bed and go pick her up and comfort her, but knew that he couldn't. He would have to wake up his wife if he did so. Her cries dies down later on that night after she finally had her final cry.
Now he wonder if he is fit to be a father and if he was doing the right thing when he didn't go into his daughters room. He hoped that when she got older, she would know how hard it was for him not to enter her domain and pick her up, hold her tight and rock her back to sleep.
He makes a pot of coffee
He splashes water on his face
His wife gives him a kiss and says
It gonna be OK
He walks out of their bedroom, passing his sleeping daughters room on his way to the kitchen. He needed some coffee and he knew that his wife needed some too. She was finally able to drink some coffee, but not much, and he knew how much she would be craving it after so many months without it.
Upon entering the kitchen, he grabs two mugs from the cabinet and places them on the counter top before moving to the coffee maker and pressing 'brew' and waits for the machine to work its magic.
As he is waiting, he walks over to the sink and turns the faucet on. He was still sleepy and needed to be thrown awake somehow. Placing both his hands together in the form of a bowl, he places them under the running water before returning it to his face. Water drips from his face as he turns the faucet off. Grabbing a towel, he wipes himself off as a kiss lands on his cheek.
Turning to the person next to him, he can't help but pull her into a hug. His beautiful wife of three years is now in his arms and he is amazed that they got this far. He looks down to the blond and watches as she too looks up at him. She smiles up at him, before once again leaning up to give him a peck on the lips.
"You know that it's going to be OK, right"
"How do you know Sweetheart?"
All his wife could do was give him another smile and cuddled into his arms once again. She then started to talk to him.
It won't be like this for long
One day soon we'll look back laughin'
At the week we brought her home
This phase is gonna fly by
So baby just hold on
'Cause it won't be like this for long
"Just think about the week we brought her home, remember how nervous we were?"
"I remember Sweetheart, we thought that she was too fragile and that we were going to break her"
"Yes, we did, but that was just a phase and pretty soon this one will too and we would look back at this and laugh"
He wraps his arms around his wife harder and kisses her hair. He hopes that this is just a phase and that it would soon pass.
"I hope so Sweetheart, I hope so"
"Just hold on Horatio, she is only two months old, so just hold on.." she looks up at him again, "..you know that it won't be like this for long"
Four years later 'bout 4:30
She's crawling in their bed
Horatio and Calleigh were both asleep when suddenly the bed dipped. Calleigh was the first to wake up since she was closest to the movement. Her four year old daughter had just climbed into their bed. Getting up into a sitting position, Calleigh took her daughter by the hand and sat her next to her.
"What's wrong Sweet pea?"
"Momma, I no wanna go to scwool tomorrow" her little angel cries into her arms
"Aw, Sweet pea, it's going to be OK, you will love it"
"No, momma! No wanna!"
"You are surely your fathers daughter" she softly speaks
"Now, I do resent that" speaks a voice
Looking to her left, she sees her husband turn to look at them from his position on the bed. looking at the clock, he sees that it is not even four-thirty in the morning yet. He then too gets into a sitting position before turning on his side lamp, the light that made the room glow. His beautiful wife and daughter sit next to him, but his daughter was also crying.
"What wrong?" he asks his wife
"Rach, she doesn't want to go to preschool tomorrow" she informs him as their daughter climbs into her husband's.
Looking down to his daughter piercing blue eyes, he can still see the lingering tears that threatened to fall yet again. He wrapped her into a hug and softly spoke to her, in a hushed tone that even Calleigh couldn't hear.
Around five-ten, the whole Caine family was asleep. Rachel tucked in-between her mother and her father.
And when he drops her off at preschool
She's clinging to his leg
Getting his daughter out of the car seat and placing her on the ground in front of where they were parked, he looks at Calleigh from his spot before turning and closing the door. He walks with Rachel to the school ground, and then to her teacher, who is waiting for them at the steps.
"You must be Mr. Caine"
"Yes, and you must be Ms. Angel"
"That would be right" Angel said as she looked down to the little girl clinging to his leg, "and this must be Rachel, your daughter"
"Yes, that would be her" he answered her as he too looked down to his daughter clinging to his leg, "Rachel, say hi to your teacher"
Instead, she continues to cling to him. They both could tell that she didn't want to leave her father, but when the bell rang, they knew that they had to get her off.
The teacher peels her off of him
He says what can I do
She says now don't you worry
This'll only last a week or two
Angel gently takes Rachel's hand and peels her off her father's leg. She then starts to cry, wanting to go back to her father. Horatio looks at his daughter, then to the teacher and sighs.
"What can I do to help her?"
"Nothing much, you don't have to worry though, this is only a phase, it should be only a week or two before it passes"
"I hope so" Horatio sighs
"Believe me, it will pass"
It won't be like this for long
One day soon you'll drop her off
And she won't even know you're gone
This phase is gonna fly by
If you can just hold on
It won't be like this for long
"I just hate seeing her like this"
"Just hold on for her, she will get over this real quick, pretty soon it will fly by and she wont even know youre gone"
"Thank you"
"No problem"
As he leaves, he can hear his daughter cry out for him, but he knows that he must ignore her and continue walking. Once back to the car where Calleigh was waiting for him, he walks to the driver's side and gets inside the car.
"Cal"
"Remember, this is only a phase Horatio, it will pass"
"What will happen when she is a teenager?"
So Horatio starts to wonder what will happen when she gets older to become a full grown teenager, will she hate him or not?
Someday soon she'll be a teenager
And at times he'll think she hates him
"No, Rachel, you cant go out with your friends tonight"
"Why!" she cries to her father
"It's a school night and I don't want you to stay out late like you usually do"
"Daddy! I'm going to the movies with them, please can I go?"
"Like I said before Rach, No"
She groans before running out of the room in tears, and he finally thinks that he has crushed his little girls heart and thinks that she will hate him for the rest of her life. He wonders about the future and what will become of his relationship with his daughter..
Then he'll walk her down the aisle
And he'll raise her veil
He watches as his little girl puts the final touches of her dress together, in less than ten minutes, she will no longer bare his last name, but a new one, the one of her soon to be husband, and he can't help but let a tear slip from his eye.
"Daddy, please don't cry" Rachel begs, "If you start to cry, then I will too"
"I just can't believe that my little baby is grown up"
"Daddy, I will always be your little baby, even if I'm no longer living with you or mom, don't forget, I will see you at work though" she sadly smiles
Rachel was now a CSI like her mother and father, all working on the same team too, so even though Rachel was getting married, she was right, she will be able to see her father and mother at work.
"It's time" Calleigh speaks as she enters the brides room
There he is, walking her down the aisle, the same aisle that he saw Calleigh walk down when they got married. At the end, he was the one to raise her veil and kiss her on the cheek.
"I love you Rachel"
"I love you too Daddy"
But right now she's up and cryin'
And the truth is that he don't mind
As he kisses her good night
And she says her prayers
He hears his daughter crying in the next room for him and wonders if he should get her. Looking at Calleigh, he can see her look at him and nod. Immediately he goes into his daughters room and lifts her from her bed.
"Hey, no crying, Daddy's here Sweet pea" he soothes his daughter.
"Da-ddy" she cries brokenly while grabbing his neck harder
"Did you have a bad dream?" he softly asks
"Mo-nster"
"It's alright, that monster won't hurt you while I'm here" he gives her a kiss on the temple and gently rocks her to sleep
He lays down there beside her
'Til her eyes are finally closed
And just watchin' her it breaks his heart
Cause he already knows
As he lays her down on her bed, he cant help but lay down beside her. Pretty soon, Calleigh is walking into the room and looks at the moment that is being created by her husband and daughter. She watches as Horatio lays their daughter to bed before he too lays down beside her.
She can see that it is breaking his heart as he watches their only baby sleep and wonders what he is thinking.
"Penny for your thoughts?" she asks in a whisper
Knowing that his wife had entered the room when he had placed Rachel to bed, Horatio answered her but not once did he turn his eyes away from his sleeping daughter.
"I know"
"You know what Handsome?"
It won't be like this for long
One day soon that little girl is gonna be
All grown up and gone
"That it won't be like this for long" he replies
"Yeah, I know" Calleigh replies as well "I know too, well I knew when she was born that it wouldn't be like that for long"
"How did you deal?" he asks
"By thinking of the future"
"Me too, just think that she will be grown up one day and soon will be gone from this house" he tells Calleigh
"I know, but she will always be our little girl Horatio, don't forget"
"I won't"
Yeah, this phase is gonna fly by
So, he's tryin' to hold on
"Just try to hold on for her" was the last thing Calleigh said before she left Rachel's room and went to check the security of the house.
I'm holding on just for her he thinks as he looks to his slumbering daughter, "Just for you Rachel"
'Cause it won't be like this for long
i hope that y'all liked!!! I love the song and thought that it was the perfect one to write about. Topic of Poll: Of all the stories that i have written, which one do you LIKE the most??
I have also added another poll on my profile and I hope that you will go and VOTE!! The other poll i had is now closed and Horatio Caine won with 21 votes (55%), Eric came in second with 14 votes (37%) and Tim in third with 2 votes (5%). In total i had 33 people vote, i hope for more on this new one.
