He got what?

Eric couldn't believe what Horatio had just told him.

Jake Berkley had managed to get an five-day adjournment in his trial The judge gave him a week long "grieving period" and permission, under armed guard to attend a funeral. His aunt Alma, the one whose car he had used to try to kill Eric's wife and mother of his children. Eric wasn't the only one pissed off by this. During the initial investigation when Frank went to the nursing home the staff told him Jake Berkley hadn't been to see his ailing aunt in over a year then "and yet he's able to cry enough crocodile tears to get himself out of his trial for a week." This aggravated everybody but it was a sore spot for Frank because his mother lived in a nursing home. "Frankie" was a good son and visited his mother on a weekly basis.

Eric tried not to let this news throw a wrench into his day. He was looking forward to 1:15pm this afternoon. Calleigh's ultrasound. Horatio told him to "absolutely" take the hour and go. H thought the father-to-be should get to be there with his wife the first time she saw their baby. He knew how much Eric wanted to be there as well.

"Oh Eric. By the way, what did Peanut say when you told her about the baby?"

Eric had forgotten that uncle Horatio wanted how his 'peanut' had taken the news of the impending Delko baby.

When the couple sat their three-year-old down after dinner and told her they had a surprise for her she was excited. Chloe loved surprises. When she heard that mommy was pregnant and was going to have a baby, the first thing she said was "how many?" This was because one of the kids she often played with at daycare had triplet one-year-old siblings, two boys and a girl. It had amazed their daughter how someone could get three baby siblings at once. If they happened to get multiples Chloe's parents wouldn't be upset but they just thrilled to be having a baby, period.

"Some mommies have more than one baby, but mommy's only having one baby," Calleigh told her daughter.

"Oh," the girl said. "When is da baby going to be here?"

Eric smiled at his child's curiosity. She always wanted to know everything.

"The baby won't be here for a while, princesa. The baby needs time to grow, they're still really, really tiny."

Even if the baby was a girl Chloe was always going to be his "princesa." That nickname was hers alone. He'd think of another nickname for a second daughter.

"Is it a baby budder or siser?" Chloe asked.

It was Calleigh's turn to laugh.

"We don't know, yet, sweetpea. The baby's too small for the doctor to know yet. But mommy goes to the doctor in few days and I'll bring you back a picture she took."

"She tan do dat?" Chloe said with an amazed expression.

Both her parents laughed.

Any jealousy Chloe was going to have wasn't going to really show for months. Right now the baby wasn't competition for her, just something people talked about a lot.

Up next...Calleigh & Eric get their first look at their baby.