Fast Friends
Horatio smiled on his drive home. Everyone had teased him about how he should be really kissing up to Aimee for the next few months.
"Jesus, H. She must really love you," Frank joked.
Horatio had only smiled. He was just glad everything was all right.
The father-to-be squeezed her wife back when she hugged him.
"Hmm," he said, placing a soft kiss on the nape of her neck. "You still love me?"
"I suppose I do," she said, putting her head on his chest, "I have a feeling it wouldn't be easy to get rid of you," she winked.
"You got that right."
Aimee Caine and Lindsay Messer had been become fast friends since they met on the Messers' trip to Miami. The two e-mailed and called each other often and exchanged photos of the kids. Lindsay felt bad for her friend the night that Aimee called her after her doctor's appointment. Lindsay had also asked her friend to call. Earlier in the week the two had spoke and Aimee had told Lindsay about her concern about her extra weight.
"I'm sure you're all right," Lindsay tried to reassure her friend. She hoped she was right and her friend didn't have something like gestational diabetes.
Aimee called the Messers at 10:00 the night after her doctor's appointment. Danny answered and she needed talking to him for a few moments. Lindsay was putting Lydia to bed. Danny had asked about her appointment being he had felt concerned as well. Glad to know all was well with Aimee he said "you know, if ya promise to name the baby after me, I'll fly in to Miami and hold Horatio down while you beat him up. I'm not afraid of 'em I don't work for him."
Aimee laughed.
"I'll let you know about that."
You poor woman, Danny thought after he passed the phone to his wife. Baby Lydia weighed six pounds, five ounces at birth and he knew how bad that it had been for Lindsay.
Lindsay couldn't imagine what it was to be carrying such a large baby and have three months to go. She knew her friend and the baby would make out fine but cringed at the thought of what it might be like for Aimee giving birth.