Precious Tears

They both cried at the image before them. Natalia had her first ultrasound.

Ryan laughed when Eric told him "you're gonna cry!" shortly before the two left for the appointment. Eric admitted to Ryan he had when he had seen every ultrasoundof Nevaeh. It was too early for the couple to find out but they were going to try to wait till the birth to find out the gender of their baby. Natalia was considering having a natural birth with a midwife at a birth center, saying if woman had done it for years she could handle the pain of childbirth. Ryan told her what she wanted he would support, his body wasn't going through this after all. Calleigh were a bit surprised to hear this though. Calleigh thought she was tough when it came to pain and maybe, just, maybe would be able to have natural birth. But more than likely she thought would be getting an Epidural, that was why she choose a hospital to give birth. Though she had wanted it, Calleigh wasn't disappointed in herself when she couldn't cope with natural birth, she was happy just to not have a c-section or any stitches. She told Natalia if she could handle it "more power to her."


Ryan too had heard that the father who had murdered his son that every noise his son made was "annoying" and couldn't understand it. Maybe it was since his "niece" had been born or the fact he was expecting a baby himself, but except for their crying, it was hard to see a baby upset, he found every sound and coo a baby made adorable.

A 16-month-old's "talking" was precious.

The murdered baby boy's mother was very detached. She was married to another man and had three older children with him. Hayes, the murdered boy, was the product of an affair with the father who murdered him. The mother wanted to get back with her husband but he said that if she wanted to live with him and their children, she had to leave Hayes behind. It had been over a month since the mother had seen Hayes. She told Eric that she thought the boy was all right with the nanny his father had hired. The murder had occurred on the nanny's day off and the father was alone with him.

Of all the people connected to the boy, the nanny named Gina seemed the most affected. She was devastated. Victims' Services was in charge of burying the baby when his mother declined to arrange the funeral. She stated, even to the press she "just wanted to forget" Hayes. His conception had revealed her affair and ruined the marriage which she "just got back." She said the person who killed Hayes deserved punishment but this message was delivered like a bystander who had just heard it, not of the child's mother. Hearing the county was in charge of the memorial, the boy's nanny, Gina, asked to be involved. Being she seemed to be the only person who loved and cared for the boy and knew him best, this request was fast agreed upon.

Eric hadn't attended the funeral for a child, let alone a baby. A baby near the same age as his own. He, Ryan, Horatio and Frank attended the service. Seeing the small coffin that could be carried by one person and the photos of a smiling baby Hayes, Eric had a hard time holding back his tears on the cloudy day. Neither Calleigh or Natalia attended the funeral and Eric couldn't blame them.

It was torture.

He prayed that they would be able to bring justice to the boy gone too soon.

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