Leave My Family Alone!
Eric was infuriated. Calleigh had called him, crying. She had the day off and received a phone call from her mother. Megan was at the airport, getting ready to board a plane to Miami. She was demanding that Calleigh and Eric sign a legal document stating they agreed to let Megan have their child in Louisiana for a week every three weeks. She was insisting that the first visit be when the child was just three weeks old, and the child come to Louisiana alone even then. Megan thought that the parent and child "bond thing" was 'over-rated' and this "nurturing" was 'bullshit.' She wanted this visit with Calleigh and Eric's daughter every month. Megan stated she was "going to make sure" that Calleigh didn't "coddle" "it," by (in her opinion) by breast-feeding the baby (the baby would be bottle-feed with formula when mom wasn't there), staying home with her for the first year and only returning to work part-time afterwards, all of which Calleigh planned. First Calleigh could only guess that her mother had heard of her pregnancy through someone living in Florida who knew both her and her mother, because she, her husband or in-laws hadn't told her. But how she knew these very intimate details of her life Calleigh soon realized that in her excitement about her pregnancy she had blurted to a former neighbor of hers from childhood that she was planning to take a year off and then only return to work part-time. She had asked his woman's advice on the topic of breast-feeding because she was a retired nurse. This person was one of the very few people Calleigh still spoke to from Baton Rouge. The woman knew Calleigh's relationship with Megan was 'rocky' but she didn't know details and she didn't know Megan's true character, either, only the image Megan put on.
That bitch isn't getting her hands on my daughter, Eric thought.
Horatio was there to hear the call between the couple. He knew Megan knew where Calleigh lived with Eric. But she didn't know where he lived. He told Eric to go home. For him and Calleigh to pack several bags and they could stay at his house till this issue was resolved and Megan had gone back where she came from. Horatio would stay at their place, run Calleigh's mother out of Miami and make sure she never contacted the couple again. It wasn't up for discussion. Considering just how upset his wife was and knowing his priority was with her, Eric didn't argue. He would go home, help Calleigh pack, pack for himself and go to his friend's house. Horatio would be the person that Megan Duquesne would meet when she opened the Delkos' apartment door. He was going to make sure this woman left Calleigh alone.
Eric welcomed H "laying down the law" with Megan Duquesne. If there was one person in the world whom even total strangers knew not to mess with the second they met him, it was Horatio Caine. Although it was his family that was intruded on and some said he should have confronted Megan, right now Calleigh needed Eric to come and be with her more. She wanted him to hold her, tell her it was all going to be all right and not let go.
