By the Grave side
This series came out of my own poundering...please let me know what you think-should I continue with other characters etc.
I don't own any of the CSI miami stuff, characters etc-gutted!!
This first one is H...set directly after the cameras stop rolling for 'Bang Bang Your Debt'...
He watched his young colleague walk away-he knew he was dejected-and who could blame him-believing that your best friend was somehow no longer dead and there-alive in front of his face
When he was sure Eric was gone, he crouched down so that the tombstone was at eye level. He took time to look around again and the dropped his head and let a long laboured sigh. He began to slowly shake his head,
"Oh Speed" Hortio slowly drew and let out another long breath. His mind ran over the years that had gone by since that day. He closed his eyes-but when he did that, he saw it again; the pool of blood, the helpless twitching and struggling of the young apprentice beneath him, the blood…Horatio forced his eyes open again. His breath was still laboured as he thought over everything that happened since that day…it seemed to be the start of everything, Marisol, Yelina, Raymond round 2, everything. Before, it was so simple, the team was together-focused-worked the cases, helped and supported one another-loved each other even, it was all so clear but it seemed that since that day-the momentum of this downward spiral began.
He lifted his head and looked directly at the engraving of that name-Timothy Speedle. What he said to Eric had been correct, he did see Tim everyday but not always as Eric did. He saw him in the sarcastic comment that now occasionally littered Eric's conversation and in Eric's increased interest to trace. He saw it in the attention to detail that Calleigh paid to her work. He saw him in the pain behind Alexx's eyes whenever a male gun shoot victim came in. He saw Speed in the spaces that now existed in each of their lives…He closed his eyes one more time and as he opened his eyes one last time, he looked straight at the name and barely even whispering,
"I don't blame you for all this, I don't blame you Speed. I blame myself"…
