Seven Down, Two to Go
Aimee marked off another day on the calendar. According to the calendar count her baby girl was due in another two months. Rick Stetler still hasn't been to trial. Horatio had recovered from his ordeal well. He even had attended some sessions with a therapist, something he didn't believe he would have done in the past, before he had a family. He hadn't wanted the trauma from what happened to him to affect his ability to be a good father and husband. He also wanted to set the example for Rachel and Cheyenna that it was okay to talk about your feelings after something bad happened to you.
"You ever worry if you had to deliver the baby, lieutenant?" An A/V technician asked.
This poor man had just found his wife was pregnant for the first time. And the first thing one of his buddies said to him was "imagine if the kid is born fast and you got to deliver it."
Horatio smiled.
"Well, think about every so often but worry no. I could do it. About a year after I started patrol I had to. I was terrified; as was the poor mother. But I was able to act calm and make the mom believe I knew what I was doing and that I had done it before, which was a lie. It all went okay. It was a boy.
"When it comes to my own, the doctor gave me the opportunity to deliver Rachel and I jumped at it. Hopefully I get the same chance this time. It's really awesome."
"Aimee was all right with it?"
"Of course; she had to be. They asked her first, then gave me the option. And the doctor was still there so she didn't have to worry."
Though both bit their tongues both Andy and Trey thought it was gross that Horatio had wanted to deliver his baby over the doctor doing so since they were at the hospital. Andy couldn't hold back asking how Horatio wasn't made "uncomfortable" being "there" and how Horatio wasn't bothered by all the "blood and stuff."
Horatio laughed.
"Andy, to be blunt, Aimee may be your sister, but she's my wife. You have no idea what I've seen. As far as blood and fluids, have you forgotten I'm a CSI? So I'm used to that. And I never saw the blood or Aimee's body, I saw my daughter being born."