Jessica was on a girls-weekend in Seattle with some former high-school classmates and therefore Horatio had taken the weekend off to spend with Sophia. Kyle was with some friends of his own on a boys-weekend in Tallahassee. However, the weekend didn't quite go as Horatio had expected it. On Saturday morning he got a call from his boss telling him to get his butt to the lab to work on a double homicide where one of the victims was the mayor's daughter.

Horatio had argued with his boss for over twenty minutes about the fact that he was on vacation and that his daughter needed him at home. His boss had said that he would spare two team members to take care of Sophia while Horatio did what he "was supposed to do". Enraged Horatio had called Walter and Ryan and asked them to babysit Sophia for a few hours. Horatio promised that he would only be gone for maximum three hours. The boys happily agreed to babysit Sophia. They also knew that Horatio's boss would experience a tongue-lashing for Horatio about dragging him away from his daughter.

Sophia was now 8 months old and had recently started becoming very anxious when mommy or daddy left her alone with somebody else. Even though she knew everyone on the team as family, she cried out loud when Ryan held her and daddy was about to walk out the door.

"Oh baby girl, it's okay. Daddy will be back soon." Ryan said and tried to comfort her.

"She'll calm down after a while. Bye Sophia, daddy loves you!" Horatio smiled and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

Sophia was absolutely not about to calm down! Fifteen minutes after Horatio had left she was still crying. Walter tried to entertain her with her own toys, but it wasn't working.

"Isn't there a manual on how to calm a baby down?" Ryan asked.

Both men were beginning to freak out about the fact that Sophia had yet to calm down. Walter went to the computer to see if he could find some good tips on the internet and sighed when he saw that he needed a password.

"Quick, password." He said.

"I don't know. Try Jessica."

Walter typed it in but it was wrong.

"Something else." He said.

"Kyle or Sophia.

"Nope"

"Miami?"

"No."

Ryan sighed and scratched his head. He was walking around with Sophia like he had seen Jessica do many times. When he gave her the pacifier she calmed down some and both Ryan and Walter sighed in relief.

"Do you think she might be hungry?" Walter asked.

"We could always try and see if she wants food." Ryan shrugged.

While Walter made food for all three of them. Ryan tickled Sophia and chuckled as she laughed. When the food was ready, he sat her down in her chair. Sophia was learning to grab food by herself and even though it went slow she did get some food in her mouth all by herself. Ryan also spoon fed her to help. Walter and Ryan had been warned that Sophia enjoyed dragging her plate off the table, and they had to stop her from doing that several times during the meal.

"She really a mischievous little kid." Walter smiled.

While Ryan was about to do the dishes, Walter lifted Sophia out of her chair and just when he did Sophia grabbed her plate and dragged it off the table down on the floor.

"I should have seen that coming." Walter said and put Sophia on the floor while he cleaned the mess up.

Sophia just sat and watched as Walter cleaned up the mess on the floor and Ryan did the dishes. When both men were done they went to the nursery to play with Sophia. However, Sophia thought it was more fun to throw her toys at Ryan then it was to play with them on the floor.

"Jessica and H must have their hands full with her." Ryan said.

"You should be lucky she's throwing toys at you and not food." Walter smirked.

It didn't take long before it was time for a diaper change and at the same time Sophia got tired and cranky. She did not like to change the diaper and Ryan hurried as much as he could.

"Okay, now we're done!" Ryan smiled and gave Sophia a kiss on the cheek, "Uncle Ryan and Uncle Walter are now going to put you in the bed."

Sophia giggled and didn't complain as Ryan laid her down in the crib. Both men left her alone and went to the living room. They slumped down on the couch and sighed heavily. They were about to close their eyes for a second when they heard Sophia whimper. Walter stood up and went to the nursery. Sophia had managed to pull herself up to a standing position while holding on to the crib.

"Hey little one, you're supposed to sleep." Walter smiled and laid her down again.

He waited for a second and smiled as Sophia looked around the room. Her eyes soon landed on him and she giggled.

"Sweet dreams." Walter smiled and left the room.

He just managed to sit down on the couch again when Sophia whimpered again, this time louder than before. Ryan glanced at him and this time both men went to the nursery. Once again Sophia was standing in the crib and she looked at them with the same look Horatio sometimes has.

"Should we pick her up?" Ryan asked.

Walter shrugged. The men tried to leave, but Sophia cried out softly and Ryan decided to pick her up. Once she was out of the crib, Sophia was happy and very "talkative." Ryan and Walter watched as she rolled around on the floor and stood up by supporting herself against different furniture. Every now and then she grabbed a toy and tossed it at Ryan.

-I-

Horatio had been at the crime scene and the lab to process evidence. Calleigh and Natalia had been called in as well and none of them were happy that their boss had called them for a case that the weekend-shift normally would take. High priority or not, they deserved to have a free weekend since it had been almost two months since they had last had it. Horatio was now waiting to talk to his boss.

"Lt. Caine you can go in now." The secretary Lucy smiled.

Horatio nodded and opened the door to his boss's office. His boss, Chief Gary Smith, knew he had acted wrong when he had called in Horatio and his team. He had given the whole team the weekend off and especially Horatio had told him that he didn't want to be called in at all since he had to take care of his child.

"Lt. Caine, I know I was wrong to call you and your team. I apologize for that." Gary sighed, "I just wanted the best people for this case."

"The weekend-team is not bad at their job. They can solve this case just as much as my team and I can." Horatio said.

"I know. I won't happen again." Gary said, "I apologize."

"Apology accepted." Horatio said, "I'm going home now because I promised Ryan and Walter I'd only be gone three hours. I'm sticking to that."

"No problem. Have a nice weekend." Gary smiled.

"You too, sir."

Horatio left and was surprised that it had gone so well. He had expected Gary to argue that he had been right to call him. The drive home was quick and when Horatio opened the front door he was met by silence.

He went to the nursery first and smiled down at his sleeping little angel. Then he followed the snores to the living room and found both Ryan and Walter asleep on the couch.

"Gentlemen." Horatio smirked.

Ryan and Walter stirred and opened their eyes. They lazily said greeted their boss and then stood up to stretch their backs.

"We had our hands full with her. She fell asleep fifteen minutes ago." Ryan said.

"We tried to put her to sleep before that, but she insisted on playing with her toys and especially throwing her toys at Ryan." Walter smiled.

"Yeah, that's typical Sophia." Horatio smiled fondly, "Thank you very much for looking after her. Even though it was your free weekend."

"Anytime H. We'll be happy to do this again." Ryan yawned.

"You sure about that?" Walter chuckled and then yawned as well.

"Absolutely! Sophia is always fun to be around." Ryan grinned, "See on Monday H."

"Yeah, bye." Horatio said and watched the younger men leave.

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