Are you all right?
It was a busy day for Horatio. He had gone from the scene of an armed robbery to the scene of a break-in at a local residence.
Horatio had to hold back a chuckle. At the house next door the patrol officer had heard a woman screaming. He went to the house to see what the commotion was and found the woman was pregnant and just moments away from giving birth. The officer had to deliver the child. An ambulance had arrived and taken the mother and child to the hospital by the time Horatio showed up. He was amused at the normally tanned officer's pale complexion. He stifled a laugh walking up to the man.
"You all right, Nelson?" he asked.
The poor guy still looked as if he was going to faint.
"I don't know, lieutenant," he mumbled.
Horatio couldn't help but laugh this time.
"You'll get over it in a few days. It's not that bad," Horatio said.
"You ever deliver a baby, lieutenant?"
Horatio nodded. "Twice," he said.
He didn't mention that one of these babies was his own daughter.