Thanks for all of your reviews! Sorry this took so long, I've been so busy getting my stuff ready to go to university in a little over two weeks, I'm so excited! Anway, here you go…


Calleigh woke up, she'd had about an hour of sleep all night and that was only because she had been so emotionally exhausted from the previous day that she had had no choice but to fall asleep. The couch wasn't exactly comfy either, not that it really mattered, it had been the first night since they had been together that they hadn't spent the night together and without him next to her, she felt different, empty. Every time she thought about what he had been through, she just wanted to disappear, turn back the clock to a time when they had been happy. Suddenly she jumped up and ran to the bathroom, emptying her stomach contents into the toilet, since she had found out about the baby it was like she was in a permanent state of feeling sick, she was sure thinking about what had happened didn't help matters at all. She stood up, and cleaned her teeth before jumping in the shower, she had no idea how she was supposed to deal with this, it was too much, she wanted to help Eric, be there for him, understand him but she just…she didn't want to get it wrong, push him further into a depression, into denial, she wanted to help him deal with it.

Ten minutes later, she walked into their bedroom, Eric was lying there, still staring at the ceiling like he had been last night. He didn't look like he had slept, or moved.

"Hey," Calleigh said walking further into the room toward the bed, "how are you feeling?"

Eric nodded.

"The nurse said to change your dressing today, do you want me to do it now?"

"No."

"Ok, maybe later," Calleigh replied, "are you getting up?"

Eric shook his head.

"Do you want to talk? You can you know, I'll listen."

Eric shook his head again.

Calleigh stood up and walked over to the closet before pulling out some clothes and beginning to get dressed. Calleigh jumped when her phone started ringing.

"Hello," Calleigh answered, "Ok, I'll be there as soon as I can." Calleigh continued, listening to the person on the other end, "um, no, Eric's not feeling very well, I think he's getting the flu, I'm sorry." She paused again, before saying "ok, thanks, see you in a minute." She hung up and then turned to Eric.

"That was H, we've got a scene, I told him you were ill, I'm going to have to go, I'm sorry, I'll be back as soon as I can be, but with Natalia on holiday until tomorrow…"

Eric interrupted her, "it's ok, go," Calleigh smiled at him and turned to walk away, "and Calleigh…thanks."

"It's going to be ok, we can do this, I know we can, I'll be back soon."

Eric smiled weakly and Calleigh left the room, shutting the door gently behind her.

She jumped in her car and drove to the scene, she tried to clear her mind of Eric, she just needed to forget for a while, she felt guilty for needing this, but the thoughts of what had happened to him had driven her crazy all night, she just wanted to escape for a while, to think of something else. She pulled up at the scene which was in a park, and jumped out of her car before walking over to Horatio.

"What have we got?" she said smiling at him, the last thing she needed was everyone asking questions.

"Um, homicide, male victim, Alex is over there," he pointed behind him, "she'll be able to tell you more, Ryan is collecting evidence from the surrounding area."

"Ok, I'll see what Alex has got," Calleigh replied, walking behind Horatio and toward Alex. She saw the victim lying on the floor, he looked like he had been strangled, his shirt had been ripped open and his torso was covered in bruises, but what disturbed Calleigh the most was the fact that the mans pants were down below his knees along with his boxers.

"Hey Alex," Calleigh said kneeling down on the other side of the body, "what happened?"

"Hi, well, as far as I can tell cause of death is asphyxiation."

"He was strangled," Calleigh said.

"Yes, but it looks like he put up one hell of a fight, there's also a possibility he may have been raped, but I won't know until I get back to the lab."

"Oh," Calleigh didn't know what to say, too many possibilities whirling around her head, "um, I'll check the ground for footprints and any trace." Calleigh said standing up and walking further away from the body."

Calleigh started searching the ground, her mind felt like it was moving 1000 miles an hour, what if this was related to Eric's attack, what if that hadn't been a one off? She kept moving and eventually found a partial footprint on the ground between the body and the footpath; she took as cast of it and looked for any more evidence. When she didn't find anything, she walked back over to Horatio.

"You get anything?" Horatio asked her.

"A partial footprint but there was nothing else, Alex may find something else with the body, I'm going to go over and meet her for the post, if that's ok?"

"Yes, of course, let me know if she finds anything."

"Ok," Calleigh replied, walking over to her car and making her way back to the lab. Maybe it wouldn't be such a bad thing if this was related to Eric's attack, if they managed to catch the guy and put him away, he would be punished and Eric would never have to face the humiliation of everyone finding out what had happened, Calleigh knew that he couldn't deal with that now. It was bad enough that this had happened in the first place, but if everyone knew he'd break. She continued her thoughts as she made her way to the autopsy.


Ok, if you read this please review! It would make me very happy! I'm not entirely happy with it, but it's the second version I have written and I think it's the better of the two! It should hopefully get more exciting! Anyway, thanks for reading and please review!