Alright, so I know I said I was done with this story but I decided I wanted to post this chapter. This is an alternative ending to this story that I thought of while I was working on it. I really liked this idea and I actually couldn't decide between the two endings I had written, but alas I decided on the happy ending, mostly because I knew where I was going with that one. This chapter didn't really have a good ending that I could work with.

This chapter takes place during Chapter 15, when the team goes to the abandon school to find Flynn Plamerton.

Always Right

Horatio continued to hide behind the wooden crate. He couldn't hear anyone moving. He looked out and saw every man lying on the ground, presumably dead. He stood and ran from the room and down the hall towards the room where he had lost Jessica.

"Jessica!" he yelled, ducking his head in and out of different rooms, "Jessie Bug!"

"Daddy?" a small voice whispered from the next room.

Horatio walked into the room to find Jessica curled up on her side, her arms clamped across her abdomen, and a massive pool of blood beneath her. "Oh god no!" Horatio cried out as he ran to her, "Jessie Bug no!"

"Daddy," Jessica whispered again. Horatio scooped her into his arms and cradled her like a child. "Daddy it hurts," she managed to whisper.

"Where did they hit you, Bug?" Horatio inquired.

Jessica slowly moved her arms and Horatio saw the bullet hole directly in the center of her abdomen. More blood gushed from the wound and Horatio quickly pressed his handkerchief over the hole.

He looked down at her pale face. Her eyes were darkening and her lips turning blue. "Just hang in there, Bug," Horatio said as he tried to stand, "I'll get you to the hospital."

"You won't make it," Jessica whispered as a trickle of blood ran from the corner of her mouth, "I won't make it."

"Don't think like that Jessica," Horatio said. He pulled out his phone and dialed the number he needed. "This is Lieutenant Horatio Caine; I need an ambulance on scene now! We have a wounded officer!"

"Daddy I'm not going to leave this place alive," Jessica gasped.

"Jessie Bug stop thinking like that," Horatio ordered as his eyes began to water.

"You know it's true," she whispered, "Look at me, I've lost almost every ounce of blood in my body."

"Just hold on a little longer Bug, we can get you fixed."

"I'm not a doll, Daddy. I'm a human. You can't fix something like this." Jessica's weak hand raised and Horatio helped guide it to his cheek. "Just let me go now," she whispered, "Just tell me you're going to be alright without me and let me go. You don't need me anymore."

"But I do need you Jessica," Horatio said as the tears became heavier, "I can't live without you."

"You have Arianna and Calleigh Anne and Elise," Jessica whispered, "You have Kyle and Ryan and Evan, too. Just let me move on. Let me be with Momma. Tell Ryan that I love him and I'll miss him so much. Tell my son my story and don't let him forget me. Tell Kyle I love him. Tell Arianna I love her and she was the best mother I ever had. Please Daddy, just let me go."

Horatio looked down at his dying daughter. He leaned down and kissed her forehead. "Good-bye my little Jessie Bug, I love you."

Jessica gave him a weak smile and her eyes seemed to become brighter. "I love you, too, Daddy H." Her head tilted into Horatio's chest and her arm slowly went limp. Horatio felt her fingers slip through his hand as he listened for the breath that never came. Her body was empty and her soul was gone.

The tears finally fell as Horatio held Jessica's lifeless body. He held her close against his chest and sobbed loudly. He didn't hear him enter the room and didn't even notice him until Eric was kneeling across from him. He looked into Horatio's grief stricken eyes and then into Jessica's lifeless blue eyes. He gently stroked her cheek before he carefully closed her eyes forever.

Ryan sat alone in his living room, his son in his arms. His whole body seemed to shake and he felt so cold. Tears began to stream down his face as he thought of his life that he now had to spend alone. She was gone, gone forever.

He heard the door to his condo click and didn't bother to turn around. He knew who it was already.

Horatio silently sat next to Ryan on the couch. Though Ryan didn't look at him, he knew Horatio was also crying.

Horatio gently touched Ryan's shoulder and Ryan looked at him with his red rimmed eyes. Horatio held out his hands and looked down at the small Evan. "May I?" he whispered. Ryan nodded his head and handed his son to Horatio. Horatio held his young grandchild and gently stroked his blonde curls.

"Why did she have to leave me?" Ryan quietly asked, "Why did she have to leave me here alone?"

"She couldn't take you with her," Horatio whispered, "She couldn't leave Evan alone."

"Why didn't she fight?" Ryan asked, pain filling his voice.

"I tried to convince her to fight but she wouldn't," Horatio quietly explained. "She lost so much blood and was so weak. She begged me to let her go. She was in so much pain and she just wanted it all to end."

"She left me," Ryan's voice cracked, "She left me just like all the others."

"But she's not really gone," Horatio said.

Ryan looked at him, the pain evident in his eyes. "She's gone, H. She's stuffed in a hole in the ground decaying and I'm up here alone, expected to care for our son all by myself. She left me here alone. She gave up."

Horatio reached out and placed Evan in Ryan's arms. "She didn't leave you here alone. She left you your son. She knew she could leave because you have Evan now. She knew the both of you would be alright. She knew you would take care of each other. She knew you didn't need her anymore."

Ryan began to cry harder and his whole body shook with his sobs. He held his son close to his chest and felt his tiny heartbeat.

"Da-Da," Evan whispered in his small voice. He reached around and patted Ryan on the back gently. Ryan kissed the side of his son's head and cried loudly. Horatio wrapped his arms around Ryan and held his son and grandson tightly.

"Everything's going to be ok Ryan," he whispered, "We're going to make it through this."

"How do you know?" Ryan quietly asked.

"Because I'm the Dad," Horatio whispered, "And the father is always right."

I wrote this chapter before I thought of the idea of Ryan killing his father. So I guess not killing Jessica off helped move the story along. And the reason Jessica doesn't mention Dominic while she's dying is because this is before Horatio and Arianna adopted him.

Honestly I think part of the reason I decided against this ending is because I couldn't bring myself to truly kill off Jessica. I feel like Horatio and Ryan have gone through so much that loosing her would just be too much for them.

Anyways, I hope everyone enjoyed the story. It was great fun writing it! :D