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Chapter 12: I Love You Too Much

Learning that Calleigh was pregnant with his child felt like a dream to him, it felt amazing. He was certainly the happiest man now-he has a girlfriend that he loves and now he will soon have a child that we would love, not like he doesn't already.

I'm pregnant. Oh My God, I'm pregnant! How though? Well not how, but..how? We used protection that night, but did the condom break? Teaches me to make sure to take my birth control. I'm pregnant. Is he really happy or is he just saying that to make me feel better? What happens if I turn into my mother?

"Are you really happy?" Calleigh asked Horatio as they drove back to his home, "Because if you're not, then I don't have to have this baby"

What Calleigh was telling him made Horatio pull over to the side of the road; he didn't want her talking like that, never. He parked the car, turned off the ignition and sat there. Yes, he was mad that his girlfriend was talking about aborting their baby, but who wouldn't be mad? She was going to kill a life, one that they created together.

Looking to his right, he saw Calleigh looking at him with fear. She knew that he was mad and she could see it when he looked at her. She was in the process of taking off her seatbelt when Horatio was leaning forward with his hands stretched out. Calleigh, who was taking his actions in a different direction, was scared as to what he was going to do so she flinched and moved away, ducking her head in her arms.

"I'm Sorry..I'm Sorry" Calleigh chanted, "I'm Sorry. Please don't" she started to cry now in fear of getting abused, "Pl-Please D-Don't"

"Calleigh, Sweetheart, I'm not going to hit you" Horatio quietly told his girlfriend, "Never will I hit you"

"No, No, No, No No. That is what they-what they all say-and-and-and they do"

Fearing that Calleigh was building a wall around her, he managed to exit his car and walk around to the passenger side where he then opened the door to his still crying girlfriend. He took her hands away from her head so that he could cradle her head in his hands. Making her look at him, she kissed her passionately. He wanted her to know that he loved her and that he would never never never lay a hand on her.

"Listen to me ok" he asked her "I want you to know that I will never lay a hand on you. I love you too much to do that to you"

"Yeah, but-but that is what-what the others would tell me-me before they did it" Calleigh cried to Horatio

"Well, I promise that I never will. I will never hurt you; I would never put you through all that..Ever" he tried to console Calleigh but she kept crying.

Moving her body so that she was still sitting in the passenger seat, but so that her legs were on either side of his and her head was on his chest, Horatio wrapped his arms around her back and pressed her to him. He could feel every tremor that went through her body and he couldn't help but wonder what made his girlfriend so scared to stand up to a man? He knew about Andrew, but were there others that were ruthless that they decided to pick on a woman that he knew was too sweet.

Wrapping her arms around her boyfriend's waist, Calleigh cried like her life depended on it. Never was she able to cry openly to another man like she could with Horatio. Never. She remembered the first day after Andrew got his divorce finalized that he came in, in a sour mood and the first person that he came after was her.

She had just gotten into her office when she was pushed against the wall and the folders that she had in her hand went all over the floor. She cried out when her hair was pulled, but then it went away. She had dropped to the floor, looking at the pair of boots that were in her sight. Following those up, she came to face her boss- Andrew.

She had tears forming in her eyes, ones that she would be shedding in a few seconds, but Andrew didn't like when she cried, no never, he hated it. Grabbing Calleigh by her arm, he hauled her off the floor and twisted her arm behind her back, making her cry out and pleading to be let go. He could hear the breakage in her voice and knew that she is crying. Twisting her arm once more, he heard her cry out in pain before he heard a cracking sound and once more Calleigh crying out in definite pain.

Her wrist had just been broken.

He shoved her into the wall of the room before walking to the door and stepping out into the hallway like nothing happened.

When he had pushed her into the wall, she braced herself for the impact with her good hand. She turned around so that he back was to the wall before she slid down and onto the floor in so much pain that she thought that she was going to die. That was how she stayed until she knew that it was safe to come out. She didn't go to the hospital, because she knew that she would be treated like and abuse victim-which she didn't want, but in the years to come, she was one.

Instead, she put a splint on her wrist, wrapped it up and called it a day. In the months to follow, her wrist had become inflamed that she was unable to work. When she came back to work with a cast on her wrist from the hospital, Andrew was there to question her and beat her. During her time at the NOPD, not once did Calleigh fight Andrew back, knowing that if she did, she was dead either way.

She was pulled out of her thoughts when she felt a hand on her right cheek. It was Horatio, wiping away a lone tear that had slipped down to her cheek. Looking up, she came to see the loving face of her boyfriend. She smiled as she put her face into the crook of his neck.

"I Love you" she whispered, "I Love you, I love you"

"I love you too Sweetheart" he told her back, "Love you too"

Moving away from her body so that he was able to see her face, he gently held her face with both of his hands and looked her in the eyes.

"Now, tell me the truth on this Ok" he asked and as he saw her nod her head, he continued, "Why are you scared?"

"I-I'm scared because we have only been dating three months and we're already pregnant" she truthfully answered his question, "Don't get me wrong, I love that I am going to have your baby, but are we ready to have a child and..and what happens if IAB finds out?" she asked

"I could care less if IAB finds out, if I have to I will talk to the chief, but other then that I think that we are fully capable of raising a child, all that matters is that it a healthy baby and that both of you are ok at the end"

Shaking her head in understanding, she moved swiftly and before Horatio knew what was happening, Calleigh was kissing him senseless. Tongue's dueled, hands roamed, nothing mattered but the two of them.


Arriving at Horatio's home, they entered and as Horatio was setting his keys onto the table located by the door, his four-year-old cat-Lily- came walking towards them. He watched as Calleigh bent down and picked her up, rubbing her behind the ear all the while talking to her. She looked up and found him watching her before she ducked her head back down. Was she blushing? Yep, she sure is. He had to smile, never had he seen Calleigh blush before. No, wait; take that back, yes he had. It was the first night that they had made love.

"No, don't hide from me Sweetheart" Horatio told Calleigh as he lightly kissed her forehead, "I want to see you"

He gently moved her arms from her chest so that they lay beside her head on the bed, then he moved to her legs, which were bent at the knee by her stomach and crossed at the ankle on the bed. He gently uncrossed her ankles so that she lay open to him.

"You are beautiful" he complimented her, "Very Beautiful"

That was the night that Calleigh had lost her virginity, she was no longer a girl anymore that was for sure. The following morning after their lovemaking, he remembered, was that Calleigh was sore. She was able to walk but it was hard for her to bend over since her muscles were not accustomed to the change yet.

"So, what do you want to eat?" Calleigh asked him as she set down Lily, "Handsome?" she asked once more, waving her hand in front of his face so as to get his attention.

"Oh, Sorry Sweetheart" he apologized

"Penny for your thoughts?" she asked him, "I could see the wheels turning in your head"

"I was thinking about our first night together is all."

"Please don't remind me of that. I was scared out of my mind" confessed Calleigh

"Yet, you let me in"

"Durh, I told you that I was ready and I was, it doesn't mean that I wasn't scared," she told him

"Well either way, you were great that night"

"Sure I was" she replied. Letting him know that she was being sarcastic in her reply, "So again, what would you want to eat, it's almost five and I for one am hungry"

"It's because your eating for two now"

"Still, I'm hungry, so you better make up your mind quick before I literally eat you out of your own home, which reminds me that I need to go back to my apartment tomorrow"

"Why?"

"I need to get my mail, get more clothes and water my plants, so what do you want to eat?"

"What is with you and eating woman?" he joked

"I'm hungry!"

"Lets order out"

"Ok!" exclaimed an overly excited Calleigh, "I want Chinese!"

"Chinese it is.."

"Finally"

An hour later, the couple was sitting on the couch, eating food and watching TV. Lily was lying on Calleigh's legs, asleep as can be. So far life was perfect for them, but happiness comes at a price, one that would change their lives and turn it upside down.


TBC..