How Old Are You Again?

The couple were still laughing about Ryan on the way home.

"It would have been funny if she had blown a lawn all over him. Wolfe would probably scream like a girl and run away at the sight of A booger."

"Eric!" Calleigh said, slapping her husband's arm. "How old are you two? Twelve?"

"More like ten." Eric grinned.

Horatio had been in a meeting with the D.A. across town at the courthouse during their visit. He was going to be disappointed when he got back to find out he missed seeing his goddaughter.

"Calleigh and Eric's daughter is so cute! They were here a while ago," Claudia, the receptionist told Horatio when he came get to his message upon his return to the lab.

"I missed my girl! Oh man!" He said.

Mommy and Daddy didn't have a problem with Horatio calling Nevaeh that.

As much as he loved the baby girl, Horatio wanted to give the family their space. It had been two days since he had seen them. He called Eric when they got home.

"As your supervisor, I'm ordering you while you're on leave the next time you plan to bring the baby to the lab, that you call in advance, so that I can make sure I'm here," Horatio told Eric in the most authoritative tone he could muster. "Am I understood, officer Delko?"

"Yes, sir. Sorry, sir," Eric said when he answered the phone. "You have my word it won't happen again."

Calleigh looked at her husband inquisitively. She didn't know who he could be talking to like that.

Then Eric smiled.

"Since you're already feeling guilty, did you know Nevaeh was looking around for you when we got there. She was sad to see her uncle weren't there."

"She did not!" Calleigh know it was Horatio on the line now. She snatched the phone from Eric.

Horatio told Calleigh about the warning he had given Eric.

"And the same goes for you, Officer Duquesne."

"Yes sir," Calleigh said seriously and then breaking into a laugh. "You can come over this evening. Tripp gave her a pair of shades she wants to see."

"Okay," Horatio said with a smile.

The fact that his wife didn't change her last name on the job didn't bother Eric. He knew it made things simpler. They had many co-workers who had done the same. Outside the lab, his wife referred to herself as Calleigh Delko. Plus it helped during investigations that they not introduce themselves with the last name.