A/N: Here is chapter ten with spoilers (if you can still call them that) or refrences to S6EpBang, Bang, Your Debt (majorly. In this chapter it takes actual dialouge from the ep. (dialogue I obviously don't own) but there is one part that's a lttle different. No actual Melinda here, she is refered to. Please enjoy.

Chapter Ten - Fraud

Eric Delko didn't know what to think. He could of sworn he saw Speed today. He had talked to Speed. Something weird was going on. Eric had gone to Speed's locker, a locker he nor anyone else had touched after Speed had been shot an killed. Eric remembered back to when Ryan had first started, when they hadn't known he was Speed's little step-brother. Ryan could have easily taken Speed's locker, but had taken the rickety busted locker instead, maybe they should have suspected something then. Eric didn't know why, but he did miss Ryan around the lab and hoped he'd be reinstated soon.

Eric let out a heavy sigh and opened Speed's locker for the first time in three years. Horatio had then come and asked him what he was doing. He revealed his concerns to Horatio that Tim's wallet was missing and that he'd seen him a talked to him. That Speed had solved the case Horatio had shown concern for him. Eric had asked Horatio if he thought it was possible if he could do what Melinda did. Horatio had told him that while two years ago he wouldn't have believed Eric that he didn't think that was the case. He had reminded Eric that Melinda Gordon had crossed Speed over and that Eric should get some help. None the less Horatio had checked into it and had discovered that Speed's credit card had been used for two weeks now and was currently active.

That was where Eric and Calleigh were heading now walking into the place. Calleigh said she was going check with the bartender for receipts and Eric had thought he'd seen Speed again, he walked up to the man calling out to him, only it was not Speed and Eric felt kind of silly came up to him a pointed at someone. They both went over to the table when the realized who it was, Eric wasn't happy at all. Calleigh was the first to speak. "Hey Coop."

"Hey what are you guys doing here?"

Eric couldn't speak he was still a little aghast. "I think we would like to ask you the same question," said Calleigh.

"Let me see your wallet," said Eric, finally being able to speak.

Dan looked uneasy. "Show him your wallet Dan," said Calleigh.

"I... I don't know what's going on," stuttered Dan.

Eric grabbed Dan's wallet out of his hand and opened up to find the credit card. "Your name's not Tim Speedle."

"Eric, listen to me, it's not what you think-"

"Your name's not Tim Speedle," reiterated Eric angrily, he threw the wallet onto the table Cooper was sitting at and left.

"You know what I'd ask you for an explanation but I just don't think I'd get one," said Calleigh clearly upset, after Eric had left.

"You know I want to be a CSI," started Dan. "You guys speak so highly of the guy and I just thought I'd check out Speedle's locker see what he was all about and, saw the credit card and it's not like he'd miss it."

"Why'd you use it?"

"There was two-hundred dollars credit on it," he said, Calleigh looked up at the ceiling, she couldn't believe it. "It was-"

"Dan," she tried to interrupt.

"It was free money."

"You've charged over twenty-three hundred dollars."

"I... I know, it got out of hand," he said as if it explained everything.

"It's fraud."

"It was a mistake. Calleigh it was a big mistake, it won't happen again."

"I know, it's over," she said.

"Wait, what are you saying the lab they gave Ryan another chance," he said looking for a good excuse a reason to justify things.

"Ryan broke protocol, you have broken the law," said Calleigh, she could believe Cooper would stoop to comparing his situation to Ryan's.

"Calleigh, Speedle's dead," he said. "I mean no one got hurt."

Those words hit her ears and she couldn't believe he had said them. "You don't think Eric got hurt, you don't think I'm hurt. What about the people Speedle gave his life for. Not to mention Ryan."

"What, what does Ryan have to do with this, he never even met Speedle either."

"No Dan that's not true, Speedle's Ryan's step-brother," she said and let it sink in. "You have until tomorrow morning to turn yourself in after that I'm going to put out warrant for your arrest."

She turned and left Dan to stoop in his stupidity. She got back in the Hummer still torn at the idea that a co-worker would do this. There was silence in the Hummer for about a minute. "What'd he say?" asked Eric.

"He wanted to know what Speed was like, he thought no one would get hurt," she told him, Eric scoffed. "We need to go tell Ryan."

"What?" asked Eric.

"Ryan needs to know about this. Speed was his brother, it wouldn't be right to leave him out of the loop."

"Yeah, you're right," said Eric, he started up the Hummer and they left the parking lot to head to Ryan's apartment.

Eric couldn't believe that Cooper thought no one would be hurt by this. I guess Cooper wasn't think of the living that were close to Speed. Yeah he and Speed were best friends and hurt to know this had happened, but Speed was Ryan's brother and it might hit the younger man hard, but it was better they go tell him now then for him to find out through the grapevine when he was reinstated.

Eric knew the news might wreck Ryan and make in spiral downward again. After Ryan had played bodyguard for Candace Walker he had run him to him when getting off work and asked if Ryan wanted to go out for drinks. He asked why Ryan had gotten himself into gambling in the first place. He thought he would be met with a change in conversation, but Ryan had actually explained what had happened and he had to admit he didn't know how'd he react to finding out you had an older half-brother that was kept from you.

They arrived at Ryan apartment and pulled into a visitors parking space. Ryan lived in a second story apartment and they made their way up one flight of stairs and down the hall, coming up on Ryan's door they knocked. "Just a minute," came Ryan's voice.

A moment later the door opened to reveal Ryan with wet hair, a lose fitting T-Shirt, and shorts, a towel was in his hand. "Hey guys, what are you doing here?" asked Ryan slinging the towel over his shoulder.

"Ryan can we come in there's something we need to tell you," said Calleigh.

"Yeah sure come on in," he said stepping aside, he let Eric and Calleigh in closing the door behind them. "Can I get you guys anything?"

"No, we won't be here for long," said Calleigh.

"I hope this is good news," said Ryan.

"Not, really Ryan."

Ryan's face fell. "I'm not being reinstated am I," said Ryan.

"No Ryan that's not it at all," said Calleigh.

"Look Ryan, Cal found one of Speed's credit cards in one of the Hummer's and we thought it was kind of weird. I checked Speedle's locker, but his wallet wasn't there. Things were just really weird so H looked into his records," said Delko.

"Hold up here, you guys, you don't think I did this. Tim was my brother, I may have a gambling problem, but that's one place I'd never go."

"We know that Ryan," said Calleigh.

"Cooper's been using Speed's credit card for the last two weeks."

Ryan's eyes widened in surprise and astonishment. "Cooper, Dan Cooper."

"Yeah, Ryan we're sorry. We thought we should tell you now so you wouldn't have to find out when you got back to the lab," said Calleigh.

"Thanks guys."

"You going to be alright man?" asked Eric.

"Sure."

"We should go, but you can call us if you want to talk Ryan," said Calleigh.

"I'll do that."

The two left and Ryan shut the door behind them. Resting his head against the door he thought of how is life kept taking turns mostly for the worst. Ryan let out a heavy sigh.

A/N: There it was chapter Ten, it's looking like two more chapters, still debating about doing a sequel. Please Review. ~StoryDreamer