Jessica was watching TV and happened to come across a show about women in labor. Jessica was already worried about the pain she would be in and watching other women scream as they gave birth didn't make her any less worried. Jessica couldn't take her eyes away though and her mouth was hanging open as she watched a woman scream as she pushed her baby out. The woman had been in labor for ten hours. Jessica couldn't imagine being in labor for so long and she admired the strength of the woman on the TV.

"Come on almost there!" The doctor said.

Jessica gasped as a little baby come out and the woman and her husband started crying of joy. Jessica knew she would definitely cry and it wouldn't surprise her if Horatio did as well. The show switched to another woman still waiting for her contractions to come closer, she was walking around and her husband was close by.

"I'm glad I don't have to give birth in front of cameras." Jessica muttered.

When the show switched to a third woman the narrator told the viewers that the woman was ten days past her due date. Jessica almost choked on her lunch when she heard that and gaped at the screen. She hoped she wouldn't be that much past her date or too early.

The forth woman on the show was giving birth to twins and Jessica winced as she heard the screams coming from the woman. She was in a lot of pain and her epidural wasn't working any longer. She had been pushing for two hours.

Jessica put her food away and forced herself to turn off the TV. She was now 38 weeks pregnant and was the calmest of the two parents-to-be. Horatio was so worried about all that could go wrong and that Jessica would be in pain that the poor man was barely able to sleep at night. He would sit up during the night and watch as Jessica slept, just to make sure she was alright. Jessica was barely able to go around the house while he was at home.

Horatio was working and would be until Jessica went in to labor. Jessica thought it was good for him to work so he could focus on other things that to almost worry himself to death.

-I-

Walter and Calleigh chuckled as their boss searched through his pockets for his ringing phone. He always worried that the caller would be Jessica and that she would tell him that their baby was coming. No matter how much he was waiting for the baby to finally be born, he also worried about all the things that could go wrong. He had such a wild imagination and had already asked Alexx about all sorts of different scenarios that could happen and what he should do if something did happen.

"Poor man, I don't think he's getting much sleep." Walter said.

"Jessica said he isn't." Calleigh said, "It's kind of fun to see him so unfocused and a little giddy though."

Walter chuckled in agreement. Horatio was a man that was always in control, until now. The whole week at the lab he had worried so much that he forgot his sunglasses and cell phone in the office several times, he forgot to eat lunch and constantly wondered if Jessica was alright at home. He used to call home several times during the shift, but Jessica and Alexx had finally forbid him to. Horatio needed to calm down and focus on his job when he was working. As long as Jessica didn't call she was fine.

"You got anything for me?" Horatio asked Cal and Walter.

"Trace." Walter said and explained how some trace evidence could be used to nail a suspect to a murder case.

"Cal?" Horatio asked.

"I got the trace on the bullet." Calleigh said and explained her findings.

Horatio nodded and took Walter with him to interrogate and nail their suspect. Horatio managed to surprise himself by completely putting Jessica and the baby aside during the interrogation. Once the case was finished he met Frank for lunch in the break room.

"You know when my ex-wife gave birth to our second child, she was in labor for 11 hours." Frank said and managed to contain himself from smirking at Horatio's gasp of surprise.

"Frank..." Horatio groaned.

"She was!" Frank smiled, "She hit me in the head too, so just to be safe you might want to wear a helmet."

"This isn't true is it?"

"It sure is." Frank smirked, "And my sister, when she gave birth to her son she had to do an emergency c-section."

"What?! Why?"

"Don't remember. But it was bleeding a lot." Frank smirked.

Horatio looked like he had seen a ghost. He usually wasn't spooked so easily, but it was Jessica and the baby he was worried about. Alexx had been listening from the doorway to the break room and she went inside and smacked Frank on the head.

"Don't scare him!" She growled, "You should support him not scare him."

Frank chuckled and patted Horatio's shoulder.

"Look, Horatio, would it feel better if I told you that neither my ex-wife nor my sister remember much of what had happened and everything worked out fine?" Frank asked.

"Not if you're only saying that because you think it's what I want to hear."

"It's not. It's true." Frank smiled.

"Horatio sweetie, Jessica will do just fine." Alexx smiled, "And you'll be there every step of the way."

Horatio nodded and gave Alexx a smile. Alexx remembered how scared her husband had been during their first child's birth. He had just been staring at her through the labor and been completely stunned when their baby boy had been placed on her chest.

"And don't pretend like you were a tough man when you're wife was pregnant, Frank. I remember how worried you were." Alexx grinned.

"I was a little scared yes." Frank said.

Alexx and Horatio raised their eyebrows at him and Frank blushed.

"Alright, I was scared beyond belief!" Frank confessed, "She wasn't though."

"You're ex-wife is scared of nothing." Jesse said as he entered the break room.

"She's scared of snakes." Frank said, "I found that out the painful way."

Frank rubbed the side of his head as the remembered the day he had scared his ex-wife so much that she had picked up the closest thing she had to beat the snake to death with and it happened to be a baseball bat and after she realized the snake was plastic, she had hit Frank in the head. He had been fine though and not even got a concussion.

"You learned a valuable lesson that day." Jesse grinned, "You were in pain from being hit by her, the rest of us were in pain from laughing so hard!"

Frank growled and shot Jesse a glare.

-I-

Jessica sat on a kitchen chair as Horatio was cooking dinner. He had just got home from work and to his horror found Jessica in the kitchen making dinner. Kyle wasn't home from school yet. He seemed to be the only one who wasn't worried about Jessica, instead he just thought about the baby and how little time it was left before he would finally be able to hold his little brother or sister.

The only thing left to do in the house was to finish the nursery, Horatio and Kyle had planned to do to it the coming week and is was possible that Eric would help too. Since they didn't know the gender of the baby they would paint the room in a color that would fit both genders.

"Don't forget we have an ultrasound tomorrow." Jessica smiled and rubbed her belly.

"I would never forget that." Horatio grinned and placed the food on the table.

The front door opened and Kyle soon joined the two adults in the kitchen. He smiled as he saw the baby kick every now and then.

"I bought something for you." He grinned and gave Jessica a bag.

Jessica put several baby books on the table and grinned.

"Aw, Kyle!" She smiled widely, "Thank you!"

"Anytime, I'm not sure how much the baby will enjoy bedtime stories as a newborn but I was thinking the older he or she gets the more the baby can enjoy it." Kyle smiled.

"Thank you, son." Horatio grinned, "I still can't believe you've been able to keep the gender a secret for so long."

"Well, soon you two are the only ones who don't know what it is." Kyle said, "Alexx, Frank, Natalia, Calleigh, Walter and Valera knows. As well as mom and some of my friends."

"So Eric, Ryan and Jesse are sticking to not wanting to know?" Horatio grinned, "And of course Irene, Clark and Henry."

"No, Henry knows." Jessica said.

"Yep." Kyle nodded.

After dinner and Jessica and Horatio sat in front of the TV and came across a show that Jessica recognized. It was the same show she had seen earlier, only now it was a new episode.

"Oh my god." She groaned.

"You've watched this?" Horatio asked.

"Yes earlier today I saw another episode. One woman had been in labor for ten hours."

Horatio winced and watched as a little baby girl was born. He smiled and nodded towards the screen.

"Look at that, isn't that amazing?" He asked.

"Yes, but these women has got to be scared of giving birth again after so many hours of labor."

"Not all women are in labor for so long." Horatio said, "Alexx had two children. And your mom, not to mention Frank's ex-wife."

Jessica shuddered. She was probably just freaked out about giving birth because it was so close and it was her first child. She definitely wanted more children even if it meant going through pain.

"I'll be with the whole time." Horatio smiled.

"I'll probably yell at you or hit you." Jessica said.

"That's okay, I think I can understand why you will do it." Horatio grinned and kissed Jessica's cheek.

"Just don't get scared that I'll die." Jessica said.

"Sweetheart, it's impossible for me not to worry." Horatio smiled.

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