Big Mouths

In her cell, Julia was seething with anger from day one.

Her rage only got worse when she heard three weeks in when she realized Horatio Caine was not only alive, but he hadn't injured seriously.

Unfortunately her big mouth would be her undoing. Her cellmate was a woman in jail for multiple theft convictions She was two weeks out from maxing out her sentence and being released. Julia told her cellmate that Horatio's wife was almost killed months ago. She laughed hysterically saying when the pregnant woman fell to the ground a ceramic guardian angel key chain, that had been neatly inscribed in gold paint lettering with the words "To Mommy, Love Kyle" had shattered to pieces.

This tiny detail was never publicly released. This was a detail only the attacker, and his conspirator knew. Jack had told "Bree" this, breaking down in guilt. Seeing the words "to mommy" shook him. She laughed loudly at this replying mockingly "I guess Kyle's gift didn't protect his mommy."

The cellmate informed the warden immediately and it was decided she was promptly released to serve the rest of her sentence. Fifty-three year-old Helen Stone may have been a petty thief but she was also a mother and grandmother. The thought of someone wanting to harm a pregnant mother made her speechless. And regardless of her criminal history, Helen had no reason to lie. Before being put in a cell with her, Helen had never heard of Julia Albery. And when she told the warden what she heard, she wasn't trying to be released any earlier; she believed that she should all her sentence. The prison and district attorney decided to move her to serve out the remainder of her sentence for her own safety. The decision of a halfway house was made because she was a non-violent offender.

When Calleigh first heard of this not only was she enraged but she couldn't believe Julia would be that stupid.

A woman like that had to know in prison even the walls had ears.

"Of course, she's getting bigger, you idiot!" Alexx told Frank. "The woman's in her third trimester," hitting him with a file folder. "I hope you have the sense to never say that a pregnant woman."

Frank wasn't trying to insult his friend's wife; the first thing he had said she had looked great, then he added the "bigger" comment. Which was he realized a "stupid man" comment the moment the words left his mouth. Wanting to get out of the house Aimee had gone out to do the grocery shopping that evening. She had ran into Frank doing the same. She knew their family friend most likely thought her belly was huge, but no doubt everyone in the store thought the same.

Herself included.

Kyle Caine loved getting to feel his baby sibling move. Tonight while mom did the grocery shopping after dinner, he was peppering his dad with questions.

Was the baby a boy or a girl?

What color hair would the baby have?

What color would the baby's eyes be?

How big would the baby be when it was born?

How long would it take for the baby to be born when mommy and daddy did go to the hospital?

Would he get to meet the baby at the hospital or when the baby was brought home?

Horatio always thought that any time his son asked a question he should answer it or at least try to.

They didn't know if the baby was a boy or girl. The doctor could tell them but they wanted to wait till the baby came to know that. The baby's hair and eye color no one would know till the baby came, either. But all babies were different sizes when they were born, Horatio told his son.

"You were over seven pounds," he told Kyle.

Horatio explained he didn't know how it would take for the baby to be born once they went to the hospital.

But I hope it doesn't take long, he thought. For Aimee's sake.

Kyle would get to come to the hospital and see the baby before they came home, his dad told him.

Aimee couldn't stop laughing at Horatio talk about how he felt like he was being attacked by a SWAT team with all of Kyle's questions that evening.

"You know he thinks his daddy knows all the answers," she said. "You should be flattered."