Eric Delko slowly made his way down the hallways of the third floor at Miami-Dade General. He did not know why he had been called by his friend, Alexx. But she had said it was urgent and that he needed to come quickly. He had been at home recovering from his surgery. He wasn't going to return to work for another week and he was going stir crazy. He needed to be in his lab, processing evidence, at a crime scene. Anything to keep his mind off what had happened in his life recently. Eric continued to walk through the halls until he reached the nurses station that Alexx asked him to go to. He smiled politely at the nurse sitting at the desk, "Hi. My name is Eric Delko. I am supposed to ask for Dr. Alexx Woods." Eric didn't mistake the lingering look the nurse gave him before she answered him, "Sure, just give me a minute Mr. Delko. I will page her." Eric said his thanks to the nurse and sat in a chair close to the station. He rolled his eyes as he remembered the nurses blatant perusal of his body. He still didn't feel quite up to himself and he really didn't like women looking at him like that.

"Eric?"

Eric looked up and watched as Alexx said goodbye to a fellow doctor and made her way to him. "Hi baby. How have you been since the surgery?"

"I'm going crazy at home Alexx. But I really wanted to take the extra time. I rushed myself through recovery last time and we know what happened. I want to go back, but I'm not sure if I should yet."

"Why don't we go down to the garden and talk? It's stuffy up here and I want to have some privacy."

Eric smiled at her, knowing she always thinks of him and wants best for him. Knowing that he doesn't like to discuss his medical issues around people he doesn't know. Even though this is the hospital that he had both of his serious brain surgeries in. He allowed her to lead him downstairs to the garden, but they stopped in the cafeteria first to grab something to drink. When Alexx went to pay for her water, he made sure he took care of both drinks. When they found a bench away from the rest of the families and patients in the garden, they sat and he contemplated what he should tell her.

"Eric, what's bothering you? You're offly quiet and second guessing yourself."

"Alexx, physically I feel fine. It's emotionally that I'm not. I feel like I let down so many people and I'm not sure if I can return to CSI. I've hurt my mom, Horatio and so many others. I honestly didn't know that there was going to be a shoot out when I went after my father. I just wanted to protect him. Everyone thinks that I don't know him and they don't understand why I would go protect him after he wanted to have me deported. But the thing is, is that he didn't let me get deported. He came and told the truth. I know he is a criminal, but he's still my real father. But let's stop talking about me. You called and said there was something important you needed to tell me. So, what's going on? What couldn't you tell me over the phone?"

Eric turned so he could give his full attention to the woman that has always been like a second mother to him. He watched her fiddle with the folder she has in her hands and take a deep breath. "How soon are you planning on going back to work, Eric?"

"I was thinking about going back next week. It depends on how I am feeling on Sunday."

"Have you spoken with anyone today?"

"No, just my parents and you. Alexx, what's going on?"

"You haven't watched the news or heard anything on the radio?"

"No, please Alexx. Tell me."

"A young man walked into PD earlier this afternoon and took hostages. He refused to speak with anyone but Horatio. He was upset due to something his wife was doing and her involvement with another man. He didn't harm anyone except accidentally shooting the receptionist in the foot. But he wouldn't allow anyone to leave Horatio's office. He made everyone sit by the window while he and Horatio discussed what was going on. One member of your immediate team was not feeling well and asked to be excused to the restroom. The young man refused. The member of the team was able to overcome the nausea but soon became weak and needed to get something in their stomach. Again, the young man refused to allow anyone to leave the room. Horatio offered to have a police officer bring something to the room for everyone to eat, but the young man only wanted to speak with Horatio. He stated he didn't care about anything or anyone else. Horatio attempted…"

"Alexx, what does that have to do with me? I would find out eventually. Why couldn't Horatio or someone else tell me this? Why are you telling me this?"

"Eric, please."

"No, tell me why you had to call me down to the hospital to tell me this."

"Eric, it was Calleigh."

Eric immediately tensed when he heard her name. His thoughts went back to the day he woke up in the hospital and the words that they had exchanged. He remembered her pale face, the look of hurt that crossed her face and stayed there when he told her that he didn't know what she meant to him anymore. He remembers her telling him she loves him for the first time and then him asking her to leave. He truthfully doesn't know what he feels anymore. He remembers her telling him before that she trusts him with every fibre of her being. "If you trusts me with every fibre of her being, why did she question me?"

Alexx looked up and saw the pain in his eyes. "Baby, I'm not sure. You need to ask her that."

"Why is this important? I'm sure she's fine. She probably just hadn't had her lunch yet. We know that she becomes weak if not eating."

Alexx sighed again. "Baby, there's more. As Horatio was talking to the young man, he noticed that there were police officers standing in front of the building and he freaked. He asked to have everyone move to the other side of the room. As Calleigh was standing to move, she collapsed. Natalia and Ryan tried to get her to wake up, but she wasn't moving. The young man demanded that Ryan pick her up and to carry her to the other side of the room. Horatio informed the young man of her condition and he let Ryan carry her out of the building. She was immediately brought here. She woke up soon after arriving, as I was still examining her. She informed me of something and I thought you had a right to know. I know she is going to be angry with me once she knows I told you, but you need to be here."

"Alexx. You know that we are not together anymore. I don't know why you called me here. I need to go."

"Please stay. This is important."

Eric stood to go and was almost to the exit when Alexx grabbed his arm. "Eric, she's pregnant. She began spotting earlier today and she is freaked out. She thinks she is going to lose the baby. Baby, put aside whatever differences the two of you have and go to her."

Eric stopped dead in his tracks when he heard Alexx. Pregnant? "How long has she known?"

"She found out the day you went missing. She wanted to tell.."

"Sure she did. She's had plenty of opportunities to tell me and she hasn't. I'm leaving."

"No, you're not leaving. You are going to go up there and talk to her. It's the least you can do after the way you treated her. She is carrying your child."

Eric turned around to see Ryan standing at the door. "Wolfe, get the hell out of here. This is none of your business."

"Delko, you're wrong. It is my business. When I see tough as nails Calleigh buckle down and cry and never smiling at work, it becomes my business. You treated her deplorably when you woke up. That woman sat at your bedside every day and every night waiting for you to wake up."

"How the hell do you even know if that baby is mine?" Eric asked as he turned to Alexx. Before she could stop herself, she slapped him across the face.

"How dare you Eric. You know as well as everyone that that baby is yours."

"How can you…?" Before Eric knew what was happening, Ryan had him by the shirt and up against the door.

"You have some nerve to try and ask that question twice. You know that baby is yours. Stop denying it to yourself and to Calleigh. You told her that you wanted children, once you found the right woman. The right woman is sitting in that hospital bed upstairs, terrified that she isn't strong enough to fight to keep this baby alive. She has lost all of the fight in her Eric. She holes herself up in her lab when she comes into work, she doesn't smile anymore and she barely talks. I thought I had seen broken Calleigh when you were in the hospital fighting for your life for a second time. But after she came back to work after you woke up, that's broken Calleigh."

Eric was seeing red and Ryan attacked him verbally. "You don't know what I'm feeling and you sure as hell don't know what happened. Get the hell out of my face Wolfe."

"I don't know what happened?"

"No, you don't. So back off."

"Bullshit Delko. I was at the scene when you fucking pulled out of there with your father in the passenger seat. I saw her stop shooting, I saw the terrified look on her face. You betrayed her, you betrayed our entire team. Do you know why she questioned you that day? She was trying to protect you. You have always been there for her and protected her from harm, she thought that she needed to protect you from your father."

When Eric refused to answer him, his grip tightened on Eric's shirt. "She loves you man. She can't lose you. If she loses you, we will lose her." Ryan sighed and let go of Eric's shirt. As he stepped back, he looked up at Eric and pleaded with him once more. "Eric, please go up there and see her. She needs you more than ever right now. She will explain everything to you. You have to believe that."

Eric turned and walked back into the hospital and slowly made his way to the parking lot. Little did the three of them know that Calleigh had gotten out of bed and watched the entire interaction from her hospital room window. She had no idea what was being said, but she could feel Eric's presence somewhere in the vacinity. The last thing she expected was to look outside into the garden and find Alexx and Ryan confronting him. When she had last fallen asleep, Ryan had been in the chair by her bed reading a book.