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"Horatio." Calleigh started, knocking on the door of his office quietly. Horatio looked up at his beloved team, congregated at the door.
"Hello….Is there something you want to talk to me about?" Horatio asked, looking directly at each team member as they filed into his office.
"Boss," Horatio's brother in law started. "We know that you ran the girl's DNA through CODIS, and got a match. But Valera wouldn't tell us who he was."
The door of the office swung open; and stood there, dressed in a pair of skinny jeans, canvas shoes and a t-shirt which said 'It's a girl's world… Boys just live in it' was the very girl they had been talking about. "I'm all packed…..Horatio." She said, pausing mid sentence when she saw they had company. Then raised her eyebrows at the congregation gathered in her father's office. "Am I interrupting something?" She asked, suddenly flustered about her lack of manners.
Her father just smiled his muted grin at her. "No, actually, you're just in time. Beila," He paused, pointing to Eric. "This is my brother in law, Eric, and my team and good friends, Natalia, Calleigh, and Ryan." He pointed to each person as he introduced them.
"Ah," The girl paused, bowing her head. "I was beginning to think you were all fictional!" She laughed.
"They actually came here to ask you who your father was….." Horatio paused. There was a visible smirk on the girl's face as she opened her mouth.
"Well, Uncle Eric." She paused, taking great delight in the confusion on her uncle's face. She then burst into very adolescent giggles. "Dad……I can't… take this…..It's so funny!" She managed in between giggles.
"Well…..there is your answer." Horatio sat back in his chair, fingers linked lazily on his lap. Eric was the first on to regain the power of speech. He was across the room in a heartbeat, as he took the small girl into a hug and looked poignantly at his boss.
"I'm an uncle!!" He laughed, stroking the girl's hair as he rocked her from side to side. He pulled her out of the hug and viewed her at an arms length. "So….Do you like to swim? Cause we got a lot of areas around here where I can teach you to dive……If you don't know already, that is." He added with renewed enthusiasm.
"You didn't tell us you had a daughter, Horatio!" Calleigh scolded in her southern drawl, grin on her face as always.
"He didn't know." Beila answered. "Mum didn't tell him." She finished sadly, noticing the atmosphere in the room had skydived like a lead balloon without a parachute. "So Dad," She started with a cheeky grin. "Is there anyone else? Because you said that your team was fairly large: and I know that men are prone to exaggeration, but this is a little extreme!"
Horatio threw a reprimanding look at his teenage daughter, with a grin fixed on his face, a real smile, like he would smile with Marisol. "There's your aunt: Yelina, who we work with occasionally, and Sergeant Tripp, who you will probably meet soon, and Alexx, our ME." He finished.
"So, do you like to shop, 'cause me and Natalia can go and get you a whole new wardrobe!" Calleigh smiled, finally over the shock that Horatio now had two children. Beila feigned a look of shock, but failed through the laughter at the calculating look on the woman's face.
"I'll have you know that this is fashionable in Britain!" She said with a grin.
"Yeah, but you're part of Miami now!" Natalia grinned like the Cheshire cat.
"Yeah, and one cannot be away from one's fashion!" Ryan quipped in the worst British accent that Beila thought she'd ever heard.
"That was awful!" Beila exclaimed.