A/N: waring this story will contain SLASH and FEMSLASH if you dont like it don't read it!
Eric looks over at Christi wide eyed.
"No way in hell you're a Marine!" he says.
Christi rolls her eyes and lifts the side of her shirt to reveal her left side showing the same tattoo that Speed has on his forearm.
"Shit man. Remind me to never piss you off. If you could do all that to a guy in a matter of minutes I don't want to see you beyond pissed."
Christi giggles and puts her shirt back into place.
Out of the corner of her eye Christi sees something coming at her head and whips around and catches the wad of paper thrown at her head.
"What the hell Timothy!" she asks.
Tim signs something to her and rolls his eyes.
"AGAIN!" she exclaims.
They start signing back and forth with each other.
She rolls her eyes and shakes her head.
"Great we have a witness who can't hear a damn thing!" Eric groans.
"Hey asshole. My brother lost his hearing protecting me and potentially saving my life! So save your fucking snide comments for later and I don't care if you're a fucking cop or not I will kick your ass in the matter of seconds and I can do a lot of internal damage it's not even funny now back the hell off." She growls as Speed comes over and claps his hand over her mouth before she says something stupid. He had gotten really good at reading lips and he could tell that she was beyond aggravated now.
Eric goes wide eyed.
"Can we get your names?" Horatio asks.
Christi moves Speed's hand and says, "Christina and Timothy Speedle. But we prefer Christi and Speed."
"Ah! You two are our new Trace and Fingerprint Analysis experts."
"Yes, sir."
"Aw shit I just pissed off the girl who's in the same lab with me!" Eric says looking over at Calleigh.
"Serves you right," Calleigh said.
"Alright Speed, Christi, you two head home and get some rest and come in tomorrow. You won't be able to work this specific case but you can work others," Horatio instructed.
They both nod as Tripp says, "Just leave us your contact information in case we need to speak with you."
"Sure thing," Christi says then Speed taps her shoulder and signs something.
She nods and turns to the team.
"Speed lost his hearing aids in the scuffle with the guy he took down and he needs them so will you look for them please?" she asks.
"Sure, as soon as we find them they'll go through evidence but I'll sign and release them as soon as we find them and I'll personally bring them over to you two," Horatio informed them.
"Thank you very much, sir."
"Call me Horatio or h and quickly from left to right is Eric Delko, Calleigh Duquesne, Ryan Wolfe, Natalia Boa Vista and our CSI in training Dacia Luck and our homicide Detective Frank Tripp."
"Hey," Christi says and Speed just waves.
"He can read lips by the way."
"So he basically he read my lips of what I said?" Eric asks.
"Basically," she said as Speed started signing something at her.
"What is he saying?" Calleigh asks.
"Speed said that just because he can't hear doesn't mean that he can't be a reliable witness and a damn good CSI. Which is true. After Speed lost his hearing we both went to our old CO and got trained to enhance our senses. I wore earmuffs, the ones you wear on the gun range, to make it fair so with or without hearing we're lethal," Christi said.
"Hey a little help over here! That little bitch assaulted me!" one of the would be robbers who Christi took down complains.
"Shut up!" Tripp says
Christi giggles and she and Speed head out and they put their helmets on then they slide onto her bike and she starts it up. She revs the engine a bit to warm it up then she takes off after Speed gets a good grip on her waist since he doesn't have his hearing aids and can't hear he can't drive his bike she would have to bring him back to get his bike.
"How many speeding laws do you think they've broken?" Tripp asks no one in particular.
"Who knows. But I'm going to go and place a few calls. Get to work everyone," Horatio said. XXXX
Arriving back at the lab Horatio heads to his office and he goes and places a call to the Speedle's twins old CO. As Speed had been a Captain and Christi was a First Lieutenant. They had been the leadership in the unit where the accident happened. Speed was the company commander, a good friend of theirs who lost his life the day of the accident was the First Sergeant and Christi was the Executive Officer or better known as the XO.
He sits in his office and talks to him.
"Captain Monroe, the Speedle twins?"
"Are good soldiers. They were the best I've ever seen. They work well together. Watch each other's and the peoples around them backs. Keeping each other safe. The day they were in that accident that took Speed's hearing was a shame. He saved his sisters life. They were excavating a small village and a mother and her young son fell behind. Christi and Andrew were helping them. Andrew was helping the woman and Christi was helping the little boy. Just as they were getting to the Black Hawks Andrew was shot in the back. The woman made a run for the Hawk. Christi picked up the boy and made a run for it. She was 100 feet from the Hawk when a live grenade was thrown in front of them. Speed knew that they were going to be killed if he didn't do anything. So he bolted and threw himself in-between the grenade and Christi potentially saving her and that boys life. They both earned the Purple Heart for their actions that day but Speed also earned the Medal of Honor. He could have stayed at the Hawk and done nothing but he risked his life to save his sister and that boy."
"Are they trouble magnets?"
"Like you wouldn't believe! But Speed is the worst of them." He laughs then thanks for all the information you've given me. I'll get in touch with you if I have any more questions, bye for now," Horatio said hanging up the phone. XXXX
It's now the next day and the team has found Speed's hearing aids and they were returned to him when he and Christi reported to work that morning.
"Speed, Christi, can I talk to both of you for a moment before we handout cases?" Horatio requested poking his head into the break room. The two people in question rose to their feet and followed the lieutenant to his office. XXXX
"What is it, H?" Speed wondered.
"I talked to your captain yesterday and he told me a few things and I have some questions."
"What kind of questions?" Christi demanded. She had a pretty good feeling they involved her brother and she didn't like it.
"Easy, Chris, let him ask them," Speed soothed placing a hand on her arm.
"It's quite alright, I know you're both incredibly protective of each other," Horatio assured the duo.
"Yes we are," Speed acknowledged.
"The captain said you had a difficult past especially you, Speed. Care to elaborate on that?" the redhead asked.
"Well in a nut shell, we were kicked out of our parents house at the age of 16. I came out to them and let's just say they didn't take it well. We got into a huge fight and they disowned us."
"I stuck up for him and they didn't like that," Christi interjected.
"The young man I was involved with, Andrew was in the service like Chris and I. He was killed in the accident that wounded Christi and took my hearing," Speed concluded.
"I'm sorry for your loss, and I can say with complete certainty that sexual orientation doesn't matter in this lab. I know of at least one same sex couple and no one has a problem with it," Horatio said.
"Who?" Christi wondered out of curiosity.
"Calleigh and Natalia. I don't think they'd mind me telling you. They keep it out of the office, but neither of them has made it a secret that they're involved with each other," Horatio replied.
"Well, that's nice," Christi agreed.
"Yes it is, well that's all for now. Let's go meet up with the rest of the team and get started on cases," Horatio said standing up. Nodding Christi and Speed followed his lead and headed out of the office ready to start their new jobs with a team of people they were both beginning to slowly trust.
TBC?