She looked at him and her eyes got big. Then she composed herself. She looked at Horatio. "Really, Horatio, hiring someone to pretend to be Tim Speedle? Is that how you ran Delko out of the lab."

"I didn't run Delko out of the lab, Ms. Boa Vista," Horatio said as he laid a file down in front of her. "You did when you bribed his doctor to say he wasn't fit to resume active duty. He has been retested by doctors in New York. They found his recovery sufficient to return to the lab, but not the field. He is currently weighing his options."

"What we're here to talk to you about is your connection to two me impersonating US Marshalls," Frank said as he glared at her. "Two men who went under the aliases Ed Byrne and Chris Addison. Nice trick with those. No one here would have connected them with comedians in the UK. Too bad the NYPD has them in custody. They are currently spilling the beans on everything they know about what happened to Speedle."

"I want my life back," Speed said as he came over and leaned on the table. "I want to live my life in Miami. I can't do that until you start talking. Who are you working for? Why did you help arrange for me to join witness protection? Why was it so important to get me out of the lab?"

"Because you would have told Caine that we were trying to discredit the lab," she spat. "Stetler said you were the one to watch out for. So he arranged for these two to get you out of the picture. We thought threating Woods would keep you out of trouble. They took you to the other side of the country. You weren't supposed to have access to anything related to Miami."

"Yeah, well, I did," he said as he stood up. "I kept an eye on my friends and family. I decided to take my life back."

"Why would Stetler want to discredit the lab?" Frank asked.

She huffed. "Because he blamed Caine for everything that had gone wrong in his career. He blamed Caine for the fact that his relationship with Yelina not working out."

"And what do you blame me for, Ms. Boa Vista?" Horatio asked as he looked at her.

"I blame you for your arrogance," she said as she turned her glare towards him. "You think you're flawless. You think that you can't do any wrong. You haven't truly lead this lab in years. You should have let Megan Donner have the lab back."

"You did this because Megan didn't get the lab back?" Speed said surprised. "Megan came back too soon after her husband died as it is. She left again because she knew she wasn't ready to work."

"No, she left because he ran her out," she spat. "Horatio Caine ran her out of the lab and she drank herself to death."

"Megan's dead?" Speed asked as he looked at Horatio.

"I hadn't heard from her since she left," Horatio said as he looked at Calleigh. "Check that out please."

"Of course," she said as she walked out of the interrogation room.

Horatio sat down in front of Boa Vista. "Who were you talking to earlier?"

She sighed. "Stetler's lawyer. I was supposed to keep him in the loop. If we could discredit the lab enough, he could be released from prison. He never belonged there anyway. That bitch deserved to die."

"Have you compromised cases?"

"I had to," she huffed. "Your techs are too damned perfect. Even Tyler's work can't be questioned and he stole a dead man's identity. Well, not so dead anyway."

Horatio looked at Frank. "We'll have to retest every piece of evidence for every case she's worked since she's been in the lab."

"How many convictions are in question?"

"Too many," he said as he turned back to her. "You understand that this is just the start of the charges against you. We will be looking into if you helped Stetler kill Nevins or not. You are also being charged with impersonating a federal agent."

"I have one question," Speed said as he looked at her. "Why you? Why did Stetler send you in to do his dirty work?"

"Megan Donner was my friend," she said. "I watched what he did to her. I tried to help her but she wouldn't let me. I was determined to avenge her. I was willing to take down this lab and the almighty Horatio Caine. I was supposed to seduce him, but he wasn't falling for it. At first I thought it was because of Delko's sister. Then I realized he only married her to give a dying woman her last wish. He wasn't in love with her. He was in love with a man he thought was dead."

"Get her out of here, Frank," Horatio said as he looked at Speed.

"Come on," Frank said as he grabbed Boa Vista up and lead her out of the interrogation room. Speed looked at Horatio. "Is that true? You didn't really love Marisol?"

"Not here," Horatio said as he led Speed out of the interrogation room. They found Calleigh.

"She's right," Calleigh sighed. "Megan died of liver cirrhosis not long before Boa Vista joined the lab. She had moved to Tampa. It was never reported to the Chief so MDPD was never notified."

Horatio nodded and looked at Speed. "Go tell Alexx it's over. I'll meet you back at my house."

"H…"

"I'll see you in a couple of hours," Horatio said as he walked away.

Calleigh looked at her friend. "What happened after I left?"

Speed sighed. "She said she was supposed to seduce him. She said she couldn't because he was in love with someone else."

"Who?" she asked. "I know he didn't love Marisol… Oh, Tim."

"Yeah, it shook him up, so I doubt it's true," he shrugged. "Listen, I'm going to go talk to Alexx. I'll see you later."

She watched him leave then she went to find her boss. She found him on the firing range. When he was done shooting she went up to him. "Not bad," she said as his target came into view. "Not your best work either."

"I've been distracted," he said as he put down the protective glasses.

"Tim told me what Boa Vista said," she said as she touched his arm. "He thinks you sent him away because you were denying it. I know better. You have to tell him. We just got him back. You don't want to lose him because you can't tell him how you feel."

"What if he doesn't feel the same way?" Horatio asked.

"What did I tell you after his funeral?"

"You told me that we had both been stupid," he admitted. "You told me that we should have told each other how we felt. Hell, you told me that when he and Eric left for New York."

"You should really start listening to me," she said as she smiled at him. "Go home, H. Tell him the truth."

Horatio just nodded and left the firing range. He drove around for a while before he went back to his house. He found Speed sitting in the living room with his bag at his feet. "Where are you going?" he asked as he set his keys down on the table by the door.

"Alexx said I could stay with her until I get a place," Speed said as he stood up. "I'm going to start working at the hospital next week. They got my records from California and offered me a job as an attending in the trauma department. I think it helped that Alexx gave me her recommendation."

"You're not coming back to the lab?" Horatio asked surprised.

"I don't think I was ever coming back to the lab," Speed said. "I haven't been a CSI for six years. I lost my passion for it. I'm a doctor now and I love it. Besides, you don't need me there in your face."

He leaned down and picked up his bag. When he straightened back up, Horatio was in his face. "You're not going anywhere," he said as he looked into the younger man's eyes. "Not without me. Not ever again."

"H…" Speed started as Horatio grabbed his face and pulled him in for a kiss.

Six years' worth of pent up passion went into that kiss. Six years of thinking the man he loved more than life itself was dead. Six years of going through the motions of his life. Six years of kicking himself for not telling this man how much he loved him. When they parted, Horatio looked at him. "Upstairs, now."

Speed grinned. "I thought you'd never ask."

He dropped his bag and kissed Horatio, who gripped Speed's shirt. He pulled Speed towards the stairs and they barely made it to the bedroom before Horatio tore Speed's shirt off. The passion they had been hiding before Speed left added to six years of thinking they would never see each other again guided their actions.

Hours later, they lay in each other's arms and Horatio kissed the top of Speed's head before he spoke. "I could really use you back at the lab."

Speed laughed. "Nope. I'm going to work at the hospital and that's final."

"I thought you just said that because you thought Boa Vista lied," he said as Speed looked up at him.

"No, that was my plan since I got back from New York. I applied for the job and got it because I wanted it. I'm not going back to the lab. I'm sorry, H."

"No, it's okay," Horatio said as he smiled at his lover. "You can go to the hospital and work. I'm okay with that. The only thing I ask is that you come back here every night."

Speed grinned. "I think that can be arranged."

Three months later, Speed and Horatio went to the docks. They both had the day off and they were going scuba diving. "How did I let you talk me into this?" Speed said as he looked at his lover.

"We both decided we were going to support Eric in this new business," Horatio said as they got to the boat.

"I thought you meant moral support," Horatio said as Eric came up on deck.

Eric laughed as he looked at his friend's face. "Is he whining already?"

Calleigh came up on deck behind him. "That figures. He never did like diving."

Alexx came down the dock. "As Eric's first paying customers it's only right that we go diving, Timmy."

He just gave her a look that melted when she gave him her mother look. "Okay, let's get this show on the road."

"You mean boat in the water?" Eric teased. "Come on, you can help me cast off."

Horatio laughed as he watched Speed and Eric cast off. He thought back on the last three months of his life. They had been the best three months. He had found Speed. They had admitted how they felt about each other. They were in a committed relationship. Eric had started a business he loved. While he would have loved to have had Speed and Eric back at the lab, he understood their reasons for not returning.

His relationship with Speed and Eric's new relationship with Calleigh might have caused trouble and with the investigation into how much damage Boa Vista had done to the lab, they didn't need any more scrutiny. He was happy with the way his life with Speed was going. He was going to ask the younger man to marry him. And who knew, there could be children one day. The future was theirs and he had never been happier.