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A Dream Realized

A life with Emily and raising a family was all Ryan Wolfe ever wanted. He had stayed the night with his family at the hospital and the three walked through the door of their just before noon the next day. It felt like a dream for both parents. They knew there was a road ahead of them to adjust to parenthood but it was exciting. The new father had even changed some of her daughter's diapers while at the hospital and found out it was the "horror" that some men painted it out to be, or not yet anyway. Bella had just finished her first bottle at home when the team arrived. Alexx insisted they wait a few days but Ryan and Emily insisted harder that they visit. They were anxious to show off their daughter. If his friends thought Ryan's grin was wide on his birthday it was even bigger today. As long as they as known him Ryan had kept to himself how much he wanted a family of his own. They didn't even know for sure if Ryan liked children.

Now they had a definite answer.

"We're not disturbing her, are we?" Horatio asked.

"Not at all. She's wide awake. She just finished eating," Ryan answered.

"Oh my! She's gorgeous!" Calleigh exclaimed.

Emily smiled. Frank got to hold Bella first.

"You're a such a pretty girl," he said to the baby. "You must take after your mom."

"Nana Alexx" got to hold her next.

"You're so beautiful," she said to the baby. "Was she worth the wait?" She asked the new parents.

"For sure," they said.

Shortly after Alexx got the chance to ask Emily how she was feeling and how the delivery was. Emily was honest, saying she felt very good. She had some aches but minimal post delivery and she didn't have any stitches. She was very cautious in describing the delivery in the presence of Calleigh. She would be blunt with details and the level of pain with Alexx later. But there was one thing that wouldn't change; how wonderful, loving and strong Ryan had been. Deep down she knew he wouldn't crack under the pressure of the situation and seeing her in so much pain but as a first-time father his confidence had surprised her some, if he was faking it for her sake, he had done a great job.

"You didn't want an Epidural?" Calleigh asked.

"No," was all Emily said.

By the time Emily's resolve break and she wanted an Epidural, it was too late. That was when Emily started to wanted to knocked out cold. But Calleigh didn't need to hear that and be freaked out for the remainder of her pregnancy. The group didn't stay long and afterward Ryan laid a now sleeping Bella down in her bassinet.

"Sleep well, my darling," he whispered to her.

Emily was already half-asleep on their bed, wearing one of his t-shirts as a night-shirt. He smiled when she hugged into him immediately when he got into bed. Despite a full night sleep at the hospital the previous night, he knew she still had to be exhausted. He was so proud of her, the strength she had shown was beyond him. It dumbfounded him that even with the pain she had been in, pain that he had a part in causing, she told countless times during her labor how much she loved him.

All she did was eat, sleep, cry and mess her diapers but to her parents two-day-old Bella Wolfe was the most amazing human being in the world. Her thick brown hair was curly and if Emily wanted to, she could have already put it in bows.

"I think you're a nosy baby," Ryan said, talking to Bella as she lay in her bassinet in the center of the living room where they kept it during the day. "You don't wanna go to sleep 'cause you might miss something. You need a nap, you know."

Bella stared at her father, her fingers in her mouth.

Emily shook her head listening to Ryan talk to their daughter, trying to convince her to go for a nap. Leave it to him to try and negotiate with a newborn.

"What's next?" his wife said when she entered the living room shortly after. Ryan picked up the baby again, perhaps realizing the newborn wasn't capable to putting herself to sleep yet. "Bribery or threats?"

"I'm going with hugs," Ryan smiled.