Chapter 4

The team had solved the case and found that indeed the wife was the killer, Calleigh's case was still on-going. The team had collected all the evidence from Calleigh's house. But it still haunted them to think that their much loved colleague had passed away. No-one could understand why Calleigh would do such a thing; it was not in her personality to take the easy way out. The team had found that Calleigh had a boyfriend. Horatio received a call asking whether he or the team knew if Calleigh had a boyfriend. Horatio asked around and no-one knew. Horatio's team now getting wound up, thinking that it was the boyfriend, because Calleigh surely couldn't have done something like that to herself.

"She wouldn't have done that! It has to be the boyfriend! Are they bringing him in?" Eric questioned frustrated as he ran both fists over his head.

"They're trying to find out who he is first. They've got DNA, but there hasn't been a match but there hasn't been a match in any known records. Don't worry, they'll find him." Horatio said looking at the floor trying to piece things together in his brilliant mind.

"If I get my hands on him I'll–" Eric began but Horatio cut him off.

"Eric, calm down, we don't know if he's got anything to do with this yet." Horatio said with a hand on Eric's shoulder while his other rested on his waist. Eric took a deep breath and then nodded as he calmed himself down.

A few hours passed and Horatio received another call.

"We've got the boyfriend, he says he has nothing to do with it." One of the other CSI's who was taking care of the case announced to Horatio.

"Well, we'll let the evidence be the judge of that." Horatio answered with venom in his tone. "I'll let you know if we find anything else out." Horatio said before they hung up. Horatio then received another call – it was from the M.E who had found that Calleigh had an unseen bruise on her cheek. They sent the pictures to Horatio who stormed out of his office and down into the interrogation room where Jay, Calleigh's former boyfriend was being held. He excused the current interrogator, once they left Horatio threw the picture of the bruise on Calleigh's cheek on the desk in front of Jay.

"Explain!" Horatio said with anger building up as he placed two tense hands on his waist.

"I…I had nothing to do with that! I didn't kill her!" Jay answered as he looked up at Horatio with raised eyebrows.

"Well then, how on Earth did she get this bruise then? She didn't do it herself! She was hit while she was alive! You better start talking!" Horatio said whilst leaning over the table to get closer to his face, trying to intimidate the boyfriend.

"Woah man, calm down!" Jay said leaning back and folded his arms as he shook his head.

"You know, for someone who's just lost their partner, you don't seem pretty cut up. Why's that?" Horatio said as he leaned in closer before Jay pushed his chair back slightly to move away from Horatio's intense glare.

"I didn't kill her!" Jay said.

"So you keep saying! I'm finding that very hard to believe right now!" Horatio argued.

"So what am I supposed to do then?!" Jay snapped.

"Tell the truth! When was the last time you saw her?" Horatio said through gritted teeth.

"I saw her last night." Jay said lowering his eyebrows.

"Funny that, that's when she died!" Horatio snapped ferociously.

"When I left she was alive, okay!" Jay said.

"Why did you leave? Did you have an argument, did you hit her? DID YOU KILL HER?!" Horatio began to grow angrier.

"For the last time, I didn't kill her! We had a small argument." Jay sighed and exhaled.

"Did you hit her?" Horatio exhaled violently.

"No." Jay said still sitting back.

"DID you hit her?" Horatio asked forcefully, trying to keep a lid on.

"Yes, I did. I hit her once she then threw me out, I walked out and slammed the door behind me. That's the last time I saw her." Jay said leaning forward and met Horatio's intense eyes.

"You hit her then you killed her, didn't you!" Horatio took a breath and leaned back trying to keep his cool, he knew he was losing it.

"I didn't kill her, I swear! I just hit her." Jay said as he put his hands up in submission.

"Just? You JUST hit her? You know that's battery, don't you? You disgust me; you should be thrown in jail and the key thrown away." Horatio said with venom.

"I didn't kill her." Jay responded.

"We'll see about that, take him away." Horatio said through gritted teeth. Horatio took out his phone and made a phone call.

"I need a rush on the prints and DNA on the gun." He put the phone down. A few hours later Horatio received another call.

"The prints on the gun are a match"

"A match to who?" Horatio asked impatiently.