;) this chapter is a bit long and mostly has Calleigh and Ryan friendship not to mention the gun scene and a bit Eric\Natalia friendship at the end, I'm saving the RaiN to the end of the story
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Day 3 Part 4
"Diego pleased" said Calleigh trying to sound as calm as possible "you don't have to do this"
"Just answer me damn it!" yelled Diego struggling to stay calm his hands were shaking
Ryan was watching helplessly, that exactly that he was afraid of
"I know you're not her friend so don't lie to me!"
"Tell him that he's right" said Ryan
"What?" asked Calleigh out loud
"Stop messing with me" yelled Diego thinking that she was talking to him "and put your hands where I can see them!"
"Alright" said Calleigh raising her hands
Behind her back Anna tightened her grip on her sun
"Mommy I'm scared" whispered the boy looking at his mother, fear reflected in the child's eyes
"Its ok baby" whispered Anna to her son "everything is going to be alright, you know I will never let anyone hurt you right?"
The boy nodded
Calleigh looked at Ryan, she felt like this child's life are in her hands and he knew it, her eye were screaming 'tell me what to do'
"Just tell him that he's right, tell him who you are" said Ryan watching the nervous Diego
Calleigh looked at him her eyes asking 'why?'
"He's a smart kid I can see" explained Ryan "arguing with him will only make angrier so… tell him the truth"
Calleigh looked at her friend she had only two options, to trust Ryan and do as he says or trust her own instincts and decide what to do next
After a minute of thinking she said "You are right Diego I'm not Anna's friend, I'm from the police" Ryan sighed with relief
"Why did you have to come here" said Diego, he was almost crying
"He doesn't want to hurt you Calleigh" said Ryan "tell him that he doesn't have to"
"You don't have to hurt anybody Diego" said Calleigh "I'm not here to arrest you or Anna I just want to help"
"Tell him that you can help him" said Ryan, he concentrated as much as he could, he tried to read Diego, that was the only way he could help Calleigh "if someone can reach to him it's you, convince him that you can save whoever they threatened to hurt"
"You can't help me, and if won't do what they want…"
"They will hurt somebody you love…." Completed Calleigh "am I right?"
"How do you know that?" asked Diego with a broken voice
"Because I know who they are and how they work and that's why I can help you…"
"How? They are watching them! They are watching me!" yelled Diego hysterically
"Ask him who they got" said Ryan "it will help"
"Who they got? Who are they threating to hurt?" asked Calleigh
"My mother and my sister" mumbled Diego , Ryan noticed that he lowered his gun
"You are making progress Calleigh, keep going" he encouraged
"They got my friend…my close friend… my closest friend…my…" Calleigh looked at Ryan
"Don't do this to yourself Cal…you just need to get out of this alive" he told her
"They threating you because they don't have anybody of their own Diego, they are two criminals that run off from jail and have nobody to help them so they use the only weapon they got which is threats"
"Tell him you can beat them" said Ryan watching Diego lowering his gun again
"We can beat them…Me and the people I work with are good at beating them" said Calleigh with confidence
"She is right" said Anna from behind Calleigh's back "Sergey trust them to help us, and you know he doesn't trust anybody"
"And if I will fail to help you, I won't get what I want, we all won't get what we want so I have no reason to fail on helping you and your family Diego" she said looking at Ryan "you have to believe me"
"You can help me?" asked Diego his eye searching for the final confirmation
"Tell him again" said Ryan "he needs you to confirm that he can trust you, just tell him"
"Yes Diego, I'll do anything I can to help you"
"Ok then" said Diego "I have a choice here, and I choose to believe you"
"That's good" said Calleigh and looked at Ryan behind her Anna sighed with great relief "you have to give me your family's address and we have to get out of here, all of us"
"Give her some time to pack her things" said Ryan referring to Anna
"You don't have time for bag packing Ryan" said Calleigh nervously
"Just let her" said Ryan calmly "there's something that I need to tell you"
"Here's the address" said Diego handing Calleigh a note his hands a lot more stable than before "what now"
"Now…take her to pack" said Calleigh "you have fifteen minutes, and then we'll go"
"Try to hurry" urged Calleigh after Diego Anna and the boy disappeared in one of the rooms "what is it Ryan?"
"First of all you did a great job"
"We did a great job" corrected Calleigh "I would've been helpless without you telling me what to do"
"I'm sure that it's not true" smiled Ryan "but if you say so…I owe you an apology"
"For?" asked Calleigh confused "I thought I said that we did it together"
"Not that, I'm sorry that I disappointed you"
"Ryan what are you talking about?"
"When I gambled I really disappointed you, when I was new here you tried more than anybody to be my friend and at some point you were practically my sister, and I know that when you realized that I'm not the person you thing I'm… I can see that why you stopped trusting me"
"G'd Ryan" sighed Calleigh "usually you right but that's not the case, I didn't stop trusting you, I stopped trusting my ability to help you and after you got close to Natalia I figured…you don't need me anymore, sorry"
"It's alright" smiled Ryan "at least we made that clear I just hope that I will live long enough for us to have a clean start"
"When I'll find you the first thing I'm going to do is to hurt you really bad" smiled Calleigh
"Well you are the easiest part, Natalia…there's a part of me that wants to be dead just because I'm afraid to deal with her"
"Are you serious Wolfe? Hurry up already!" she yelled then added "it's easy to me, you date the woman"
"This is not someone I've met in the bar yesterday, it's Natalia I… I love her too much to screw this up"
"Ryan it's you… I know you, you have a lot to give, I have a feeling that it won't be so bad" she smiled
"That's not what I expected to hear from you, especially after happened between you and…Delko"
"You are not him and I'm not Natalia" she smiled
"Thanks Cal, let's make a deal if I…"
"When you…" she corrected him
"When I'll make it, if I'll give a chance to dating my best friend and my colleague will you do the same?"
"You want to date me Ryan? Sorry babe you're not my type"
"Calleigh"
"I gave him a chance already… more than once"
"Third time is the charm" Calleigh raised an eyebrow "you know Cal I'm dying at this moment"
"Fine" gave up Calleigh "have it your way Mr. Guilt giver"
"Deal then" smiled Ryan shaking her hand after a moment Calleigh froze
She looked at their hands then at him "Ryan… your hand… I feel it"
"I feel your too" he said in shock "I can't believe it"
"Incredible…" she whispered
"If this will work I'll be praying a lot more often"
"We are ready" said Anna and Calleigh jumped "are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine I just didn't see you" said Calleigh and looked at Ryan "so we can go"
"Yes but where are we going?" asked Diego "and what happens next?"
"I'll tell you on the way" said Calleigh "just let's go already"
When she started the car she looked at Ryan if this is real he'll make it, because it can't be all for nothing
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Natalia closed her eyes, she wanted to feel it again, this feeling of Ryan…but he wasn't there, she opened her eyes in disappointment
"Nat?" came Eric's voice from behind her
"Yeah"
"Are you alright? You've been standing outside the lab for two hours" he asked with concern
"I just trying to feel" said Natalia
"What?"
"Anything"
"You know Nat, Calleigh is on her way, it's just a matter of time and we are going to bring him home"
Natalia didn't say anything she just whipped the single tear that rolled down her cheek
"I know I'm not your favorite person at the moment but I'm worried about you"
"I might've overreacted" sighed Natalia "it's between you and Ryan"
"No, he deserves someone to protect him when he can't, especially from me"
"You are not that bad, I'm the one who is stupid" said Natalia "I've been asleep for six years"
"What do you mean?"
"I've reached such high point of desperation that I don't even mind telling you" she smiled sadly "when you realized that you love Calleigh? At which point?"
Eric concentrated for a moment "looking back I think that I loved her from the begining I just tried to hide it unitl at some point it exploaded"
"So you're just as stupid as I am" said Natalia
"You have feelings for Wolfe?" asked Eirc
"Feelings" said Natalia with a small smirk "I'm inloved with him, it's how you described it now I know that I loved him six damn years, my best friend is the love of my life that's sounds ridiculus right?"
Eric shrugged "that's why we live in denile, so what was your explosion point?"
"You men, when you get drunk you're telling the truth, right?" asked Natalia
Eric smiled "nothing but the truth, what did he tell you?"
"That he loves me and he…he just kissed me and… I just…."
"What?"
"I lived, I was merried, I had relationship and I never, never felt like this, Eric it's scary"
"I know" said Eric "it's like living a cliché, you turn from an adult to a teenagre"
"The next day I tried to talk to him and I but he run away, I thought that he don't want me but now I know that he had other things on his mind"
"Did you talked about since then?"
"No" said Natalia "it turned into a huge elephant"
"Well he'll be back today" said Eric wrapping an arm around her shoulders "it's time we all throw our elephants out of the room"
"I don't give a damn about the elephant" said Natalia "I just want him back"
"Me too" sighed Eric "me too"
The sound of the parking car woke them up
"It's Calleigh" said Natalia and started to run towards Calleigh's car
"That's them?" she asked looking at Diego, Anna and the boy
"Yes, Natalia go to meet your friend in jail" said Calleigh "I'll tell him what to say to him on the way"
"I'll go with her" said Eric "just in case"
"Yes go" agreed Calleigh
"Where's my family?" asked Diego
"They are at the police station" answered Eric "Tripp brough them about twenty minutes ago'
"They're alright?" asked Diego
"Perfectly, unlike Ryan" hissed Eric
"Thanks a lot" said Ryan
"Eric stop it" said Calleigh "it's almost over"
"I'm starting to think that maybe I won't die today" said Ryan and looked at the sky
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Just one more chapter or maybe two, it depends
I don't want to end this story…. But I have to :(
R&R please
Maria:)