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Chapter 21

It was a few days later and little Emma was alone in Firearms when Paulo came in and said: "You ever fired a gun."

"Nah. Are you crazy? Mum says I'm too young," she said with a sigh.

"Well she's not here, wanna try it out?" he asked curiously.

"Uhm... dunno, guns are not toys, it can be dangerous," she said as her mother had told her so.

"You're sucha mummy's girl," he teased her.

"Am not, I can use every gun in there," she said walked over to the gun vault, picked one and matching bullets, she knew as she had been watching her mother do so for as long as she could remember.

"Can I have one to?" he asked hopefully.

"No, my mother's lab, my guns, so what you want me to shoot then," she said as it was no way any boy was getting away with calling her a mummy's girl.

"Uhm... dunno, can you shoot the door on this distance?"

"The exit door?"

"Uh-huh,"

"Sure" she said, got out in the hallway, aimed and shot it, toppling over by the force of the gun. As she got up again, they were looking at a bullet in the door. That she probably shouldn't have done, though, as Calleigh was coming inside at that very moment, and it was just luck that did she wasn't hit.

"Emma! What on earth are you doing?" said Calleigh shocked.

"Uhm... Paulo, he said- Never mind, just wanted to try it," she said looking down feeling badly about it.

"You're both too young, I will teach you when I think you are ready, OK? Until then leave my guns alone, is that understood?" she said in a warning tone, but couldn't help smiling at seeing what her three-year-old had just done.

"Yeah," said Emma feeling badly about what she had just done.

"Mummy's girl," Paulo whispered.

"I heard that, young Stetler, I'll be talking to your fathers."

"Oh no, not again."

"Do you have any idea what would have happened if someone got shoot"

"Uhm... they would end in the morgue."

"Not funny."

"I was not the one with the gun."

"No, but you just put her up to it and I am talking to your fathers."

"Not fair," he said and headed for the storage room, to get comfort from his big brother, that also was hiding out there at the moment.

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"You very mad, mummy?" little Emma asked hiding over her gun once they were in Firearms.

"Just a bit disappointed."

"I'm really sorry."

"I know you are, sweetie."

"I'll never touch one again."

"Hmm... you're a good shot."

"Are you gonna tell Mommy?"

"Not sure yet..."

"Please don't, she's still pretty pissed off 'cause of the incident the other day."

"I can't say I blame her, breaking her favourite mug because you were upset was not really nice of you," said Calleigh in a reproaching tone.

"It was just a mug, can't have been that important," said the little girl that didn't understand the big deal about it.

"It was very special to her, to us, how would you like it if we broke something you cared really much about, like your teddy bear?" said Calleigh and picked if up from the floor.

"No, no, don't hurt wolf boy!" Emma begged as it was a stuffed wolf.

"Then do you get my point?"

"Uh-huh, now may I have him back?" she asked politely.

"Yes, now would you go and play as I need to work?" said Calleigh that finally had some peace as Julia had the triplets with her just this day.

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In the much used supply room Kyle and Paulo were sitting on the floor. Kyle was reading a book, while Paulo was looking at a cartoon. They, as everyone else on the lab, hid away there every so often. In fact everyone used the room so much that it had been talked about turning it into another break room. But then was the issue of where to put the supply...

"I don't like Calleigh," Paulo suddenly spoke.

"Oh really and why is that?"

"'Cause she always tells dad if I do something wrong, and I don't like that very much."

"Then wouldn't it be easier if you didn't do anything wrong?"

"That's not fun!"

"You're hopeless, you know that, little bro."

"Not as hopeless as you, did I tell you what Emma did the other day?"

"No... what?"

"She gave me a peck on the check, that was real nice of her."

"Awww that's cute," said Kyle and let out a chuckle.

"Mhm, she said it was to make me feel better as I was sick."

"That's nice of her, she's a sweet girl."

"KYLE, PAULO!" they heard Horatio yell from outside, but they just ignored it.

"She is, and real cute," said Paulo and returned to his comic book while Kyle just shook his head over his younger brother and continued to read too.

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That night after putting the triplets and Emma to bed Calleigh and Julia were tending to some of their needs by cuddling a little when there was a knock on the door. They both knew it was Emma as she had started knocking not wanting to walk in on them anymore.

"Come in," Calleigh said as she and Julia sat up in their bed.

"You got a minute?" she said looking down afraid to interrupt.

"Sure, angel, come here," said Julia and patted on the bed.

The little girl jumped up on the bed and came close to them before Calleigh asked: "What's wrong?"

"I've been thinking," she said sounding like Julia.

"Oh really, have you now?"

"Yeah."

"About?" Calleigh asked curiously.

"About how I broke your mug the other day, which I'm so sorry about, anyways I thought you might like wolf boy as a replacement," said Emma and handed her wolf over to Julia.

"And why is that?" asked Julia a tad confused looking at the wolf without taking it yet.

"'Cause the mug was special to you and this wolf is special to me, so thought you might like him, plus he'll keep you safe," said the little girl looking at her mother with her sapphire eyes.

"But what about you then, you love him so much. I couldn't take him."

"Maybe you could borrow him so he could like comfort you when you're sad."

"That sounds good."

"Here," she said and handed him over before she gave them both a hug and left.

"Can you believe that?" said Julia surprised holding the stuffed wolf.

"I can, as she's the sweetest little thing that is and it shows she's trying to make it up doing that."

"Yeah, it's a nice gesture considering how much she loves this wolf."

"Mhhmm, so where were we?"

"I think right about here," said Julia, put the wolf aside and started to kiss her wife again.

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