"Um…" Calleigh stared at Sarah. "Sarah, but I'm not your mother, honey." Calleigh said.

"I know. But you're the best mommy I'd ever had." Sarah sighed, hugging her stuffed animal.

"Look, how about I go make us something to eat, and maybe then we could talk?" Calleigh asked BUT Sarah didn't answer, staring her white kitty. "You can watch some TV if you want." Calleigh smiled.

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"Oh of course." Ryan mumbled when he got back to the lab, looking for Travers. He had taken a five minute break to do something, leaving the trace in the search of Travers.

"You're apologizing for calling me annoying?" Maxine asked, with a laugh as she hauled something from the evidence locker onto a table.

"Yeah." Travers said, rifling through a white box full of evidence himself. "Look, something is or was bothering you today, and I'm sorry." Travers said, rifling through the box.

"Apology accepted. I'm still calling you a Mr. Smart Ass Brit if I'm really pissed off with you." Maxine said.

"Anyways, what's wrong with you today?" Mike asked.

"One of my cats got run over by a car." Maxine laughed bitterly. "I think I got a little attached to my cats." Maxine said.

"Oh. Well then I'm sincerely sorry. How about I buy you a drink today in the memory of your cat?" Mike asked.

"You really would not want to do that unless you want to see me drunk." Maxine smiled, standing next Travers.

"Travers, I need you to run me a sample." Ryan burst into the evidence locker, Maxine leaving with a slight huff. "Seriously, what just happened between you and Maxine just right now?" Ryan asked.

"She just told me that her cat got run over by a car." Travers said.

"So Tom found scarring in Kendra's stomach tissue, and I was wondering if you could find out what chemical she was poisoned with." Ryan said.

"Wolfe, that's nearly impossible. The scarring could theoretically hint on what strength the poison was but it's not going to tell me exactly what." Travers said.

"Yeah, well you go do that, but I need to interrogate the dad." Ryan said and disappeared into the abyss of the lab.

"So, James, do you know that Sarah wasn't your daughter?" Ryan asked, Natalia sitting next to him as they interrogated James.

"What are you guys even talking about?" James asked, looking outside.

"The parental DNA didn't match you. It matched Kendra but not you." Natalia explained.

"I bet it was just a computer mistake." James said, James's lawyer coming into the interrogation room.

"I'm here to assist my client." James's lawyer said sitting down next to James, facing a rather annoyed Ryan and Natalia.

"We're charging your client with murder, Mr. Haights." Ryan told the lawyer.

"No you're not." Haights shook his head. "You have no evidence to prove that he killed whoever." He said, glaring at the two CSIs.

"We have his DNA on the rope that was used to hang Kendra." Natalia snapped.

"You mean on the rope that Mrs. Williamson used to hang herself. The original county treated the case as a suicide. Which it was, Miss Boa Vista." Haights said.

"My wife used a rope that was in our shed. I probably used it before the suicide and that's why my skin was found on the rope. I would never kill me wife. That's plain stupid." James scoffed.

"You had a motive." Ryan countered.

"That she was apparently cheating on me. She wasn't." James said.

"How th- JAMES- SARAH ISN'T YOUR DAUGHTER. KENDRA WAS CHEATING ON YOU AND THAT'S WHY YOU KILLED HER. THAT'S ALSO WHY YOU ABUSED AND STARVED SARAH." Ryan raised his voice, James getting up to beat Ryan up.

"You're calling me a liar? A murderer? You better say it to my face you bastard!" James spat.

"That's enough." Haights said, getting up and leading James out of the interrogation room.

"Now what the hell was that?" Ryan snapped, staring at Natalia, hoping to get an explanation.

"He just got away with murder." Natalia sighed. "Oh god. He's probably coming after Sarah next." Natalia shot up from her chair and sped out of the interrogation room.

"Eric!" Horatio called out to the Cuban CSI as Eric passed Horatio's office. "Close the door, Eric, we don't want the IAB snooping around." The red haired lutienant said.

"What do you need, H?" Eric asked, closing the door behind him as he entered Horatio's office.

"You know that Sarah's father is no longer is custody, right?" Horatio asked. Eric nodded. "Well since Sarah is staying with Calleigh, I thought that they could use some extra protection." Horatio said.

"In the words of Calleigh herself-" Eric began but was interrupted by Horatio's blue eyed glare. "I'll get to it Horatio."

-0-

"Are you sure you don't want to watch some cartoons or something?" Calleigh asked Sarah that was still sitting on the couch.

"No." She answered in a small voice, as someone knocked on the door.

"Who is this ungodly hour?" Calleigh muttered, walking over to the front door and opening it.

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Cliffy? We could say that.