Disclaimer: Still don't own them

­"How's Yelina?" was the question on everyone's lips. Horatio had to tell everyone that she was fine as well as stopping himself from snapping at anyone.

"How are we going?" he asked Calleigh who was standing outside the interrogation room watching Frank.

"He just confessed," she said gleefully. "Without meaning to of course but still."

"Fantastic," Horatio said. "What exactly did he confess to?"

"Hitting her and rigging the kidnapping," Calleigh told him. "Everything that we've been trying to get him for." Horatio grinned and watched easily as Frank charged Rick. He walked out moments later, escorted by two uniforms.

"She's going down," he hissed. "And so is everyone that put me here."

"I doubt it Rick," Horatio answered calmly. "Because if you want to get to any of them you're going to have to go through me first."

"Ok enough talking buddy," one of the uniforms said as they pulled him down the hallway.

"You'd better watch out H," Calleigh warned. "He sounded serious."

"So was I Calleigh, so was I," Horatio said walking out of the lab.

He walked into the hospital minutes later and headed straight for Yelina's room. He walked straight in and she looked up at him.

"What's up Horatio?" she asked.

"Frank just officially charged Rick," he told her. "Now do you want to talk to me?" Yelina looked down.

"At least tell me if I'm right or wrong," he asked. "Did he hit you?" Yelina hesitated for a second then nodded slowly.

"He hit me for the littlest things," she whispered. "Things like letting Ray go to your place or serving up dinner a bit late."

"Why didn't you or Ray tell me about it?" Horatio asked softly.

"I'm pretty sure Ray doesn't know about it," she said. "And I was scared. Rick always said that he'd kill me if I told you."

"I would have taken care of you," he said. "You should know that."

"I know!" Yelina exclaimed. "But I didn't tell you because I knew that you'd over react! I couldn't risk Rick hurting you!" She was crying now. Horatio was stunned.

"You let him hurt you so I wouldn't get hurt?" he asked softly.

"YES!" Yelina yelled. "How can you be so blind?"

"Yelina…" Horatio started.

"Just go Horatio," she said tears still running down her cheeks. "Please just go." Horatio did so without a word. He leant against the door after he closed it.

'How could I do that to her?' he wondered. 'How could I hurt her like that?' And with those and many other questions running through his head Lieutenant Horatio Caine placed his sunglasses over his eyes to hide his emotions from the world and left the hospital, leaving the woman he loved crying her heart out over him on the other side of the door.

A/N: Ok so this chapter is dedicated to pusscat because without the message that I received this chapter still wouldn't be up. Also this will be the last chapter for this story. There may be a sequel but I'm not entirely sure yet.

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