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Chapter 17.
It was only a couple of hours later, and Julia was gently rocking her newborn baby girl. In meantime, Calleigh had finally fallen asleep of exhaustion, when the little one started to scream and waked up her mother.
Calleigh looked tiredly at her and stated: "She's hungry."
Julia walked over to the hospital bed and handed Emma over to Calleigh, who pushed up her nightgown and led her to her breast, on which her daughter started to suckle at once. Julia smiled at her, this was the first time Calleigh fed her and it felt a bit weird.
The older blonde's eyes were filled with tenderness watching her girl feeding their daughter. "Hey, stop looking at my breasts like that," Calleigh joked, looking down at them herself as they had gotten a load bigger during her pregnancy.
"I wasn't-"
"I know," Calleigh replied. "That was a joke... So, who do you think we should ask for godmother and godfather for our little one? We haven't really talked about that yet."
"I've been thinking about that as well, while you were asleep. And maybe we could ask Horatio as godfather. He would make a great one, I'm sure."
"I agree," Calleigh nodded. "And I should probably apologize for being the way I was when-"
"Yeah... And I really need to thank him for taking care of my girls until I arrived."
"Yeah... I've given him a pretty rough time... What do you think about Natalia as godmother? She's been so supportive of us all the way."
"I agree."
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Horatio was sitting in the waiting room at the hospital waiting to hear the latest news on Calleigh and the baby, when he suddenly heard the sound of Julia's heels came clicking towards him. He turned himself around.
"Julia, is she- Is everything OK with Calleigh and the baby?"
"Yeah... The baby's been fed and asleep at the moment. I actually wanted to thank you for bringing her here and for staying with her until I arrived, although I know Calleigh hasn't actually made it all too easy for you."
"You're welcome. She wasn't all that hard really," he lied as he gave her a wage smile.
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Julia and Calleigh looked at Horatio, who was looking at the little Duquesne with a smile on his lips. Calleigh was the first one to speak and said: "I'm really sorry, Horatio. I didn't mean to hit you and such."
"It's OK," Horatio smiled, still looking at little Emma gently sleeping in her crib.
"No, it's not. I should have been thankful for you being there for me instead of yelling at you. I realize that now... I couldn't have done it without you. Whose hand should I have crushed instead?"
"Apology accepted," Horatio said, looking up at the new parents now. "So what did you girls want to discuss with me?"
Calleigh briefly looked up at Julia, who said: "We would really like you to be the baby's God father."
"You really want me to be her God father?" he exclaimed.
"We do," said Calleigh just smiling broadly at him.
Julia walked over to Emma's hospital crib, gently pushed the tiny covers aside, to lift her up and carefully handed her to Horatio. "Emma, this is going to be your God father."
The little one stretched a bit and made some little noises when she noticed someone else than her mother or Julia holding her. Horatio was a little afraid to hold her, like most men are when holding a newborn baby. So fragile. Afraid to hurt it.
"Oh, so this is how you would look like with a baby," said Calleigh with a giggle. "You and Rick should get one, too."
"I think I'll pass," he said, and wrinkled his nose as Emma needed changing.
"Your first task as the little one's godfather," said Julia, only barely being able to prevent herself from falling in a fit of giggles. She knew that if she turned to her lover now, both of them wouldn't be able to hold it any longer. So, she didn't.
"I'm so not doing that," he said, when she immediately interrupted: "Oh, yes. You are."
He rolled his eyes, letting out a huff as he and Emma left the room in dismay, to take care of the task. Julia smiled at Calleigh, who smiled back at her lover broadly, before both of them fell into giggles. "He so didn't like that..."
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It was early the next morning and Natalia said: "Ryan, would you please hurry up. If we really want to drop by Calleigh before work-"
"I would if you hadn't gotten me to drag all these bags with stuff for them! Why couldn't you get your boyfriend to do that instead," he said a tad annoyed.
"He's busy."
"Speaking of which- When are you ever going to introduce him to us?"
"When I feel like it."
"Which is what- In the next century maybe?"
"Stop teasing me about it," she said in a firm tone and pushed the elevator button to the fifth floor.
"Can't wait to get there," he complained as the doors opened and they started to walk towards the room.
Natalia knocked and they entered just in time to see Calleigh feeding her little girl.
"Aww, how cute is she!" Natalia exclaimed, immediately running over to the hospital bed.
"Natalia! Ryan! It's so great to see you. Oh My-" said Calleigh, pointing at the huge amount of bags that Ryan was carrying and trying to place at the bed end without tripping over or dropping anything.
"For you from me and my girl-" Natalie turned in a dark shade of red, then quickly adding dude before anyone noticed, "And some from Ryan. Oh, and Eric would drop by later today," said Natalia, just as Julia walked in and asked: "Did we order the whole baby shop?"
Calleigh smiled. "Now Emma, will you be a good girl and be with auntie Nat while I open these?" said Calleigh and handed her over, sitting upright to get to the presents.
"Thank you so much, guys," Calleigh whispered. "You really got to thank your dude as well," said Calleigh and winked at Natalia turning even more red at this point.
"She's pretty cute, wouldn't you like to have a millions like her one day, Natalia" said Ryan.
"Yeah... I would want more than millions of these," she said and smiled at him.
"Hey, Natalia. We were actually wondering if you would like to be Emma's Godmother," said Julia.
"Of course I will," said Natalia happily. "Yeah, you're the cutest!" she exclaimed turning back to the baby.
"And Ryan, you could always be the nanny," said Calleigh with a giggle.
"Of course," he joked and saluted her which made them all burst out into laughter. He was secretly falling in love with the little Emma.
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It was a couple of days later and Calleigh, Julia, Kyle and Horatio were at the Winston-Duquesne residence, when they heard angry screams coming from the cradle in the living room.
The redhead walked over, taking up his role as a godfather, picked her up and rocked her gently while he said: "And why are we so angry, little Emma?"
She twinched her eyes a little before she opened them for the first time and looked at him with confusion trying to focus.
"She's looking at me," he exclaimed.
The three others ran over and Kyle said: "Hi, Emma! I'm your big bro." Julia smiled at Calleigh briefly.
"She's got beautiful ocean blue eyes," said Calleigh and smiled right back at her fiancé.
"She truly looks like the father she could have had," said Julia and gave Horatio a gentle peck on the check, the similarity in the eyes and the redish hair already undeniable with her (God)father.
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