WOOT! Here I am. Once I start I can't stop haha! LOL I figured Horatio's end of the day smile would get a reaction. But hey, he usually has that look on his face at the end of an episode.

"Um…" Ryan stammered. He shifted his weight and looked at the ground. He looked up at Amy and said, "Amy, go inside."

She started to protest, but figured it wasn't the time. She awkwardly walked between the two and went in the apartment, quietly shutting the door.

Ryan sighed and looked at Cindy. In a small voice he said, "What are you doing here?"

She sighed as well and said, "Ryan… I…."

"You what?"

"I don't even know where to start." She looked at the ground and back up at her nephew, but he wasn't going to respond. "I was going to try and get a hold of you later in the day. I would probably be more prepared." She said with a nervous smile.

"You haven't answered my question." He said, not returning one.

"I just…wanted to see you."

"Why?"

"I just…thought it was time."

"I didn't wait 30 years to see Amy."

She looked at the ground again and he almost felt sorry for her. But it quickly faded away.

"Ryan…I don't even know how to begin to…."

"How about that I didn't even know you existed until a few weeks ago."

Her eyes got big. "What?"

"But you've known about me for a while…"

"Look, I know this can't possibly cover it, but I'm sorry, Ryan. I really am."

"Then why did you never contact me until now? Because I killed your sister?" He didn't care how insensitive he was. He was good at making people feel bad.

A tear came to her eye and she said, "You didn't…kill her…"

"Then why would you never even let me know you exist? Why would you let me live with someone that beat me practically everyday until I ran away at 16?!" He yelled at her.

"I know…I just…"

"No! You don't know! You just go crying and find someone to blame because your freaking sister died! Well guess what? Worse things have happened!"

He almost went inside and slammed the door in her face, but he figured he should let her have one last word.

"There was…no excuse for it…" She sighed. "But you're right. I found the first person to blame and it was so stupid…My other sister went along with it and we just…held a grudge for a few years…"

"Am I supposed to feel bad for you or something?"

"No. Look, I'll leave now. I just wanted to let you know I'm sorry. And if you ever want to find it in your heart to forgive me, I'm here. But I won't blame you if you don't." She turned to leave, but Ryan stopped her.

"And your other sister?"

"She doesn't really…see things the way I do." She turned again, and went to her rental car.

Ryan opened his door and caught Amy by the arm as she was flying low up the stairs. "I was…getting water from the kitchen! I swear!! I didn't hear anything!!" She yelled, fear in her eyes.

He laughed at her expression, despite what had happened. "Chill out." He let go of her arm and she looked at the stairs, tempted to flee again.

"Did you hear all of it?"

Her eyes were all over the place as she said, "I….NO!"

"You lie worse than I do…"

"I couldn't help it! You were kinda loud…."

His smile faded and he said, "Well…."

"I don't really blame you but…I think you should give her a chance…"

"She's had a while to get that chance."

"Better now than when you're 50."

"It would have been nice to have more than one family member I could count on growing up."

"I know, but…Just think about it."

"Have you kept in contact with the other one?"

"Only when she calls me…"

"Why would you keep this whole thing a secret from me?"

She looked at her feet. "I just…didn't want you to feel bad that they talked to my dad, but not you."

Her dad. Ryan hadn't told her exactly what happened at the jail. "Amy…sit down for a second." He looked at her face and rolled his eyes. "You're not in trouble."

She sat at the kitchen table and he took the seat across from her. "You know how I told you that Sarris guy died today?"

"Oh my gosh, he's still alive!?"

"Wha…no, no, he's… dead. There's just something you need to know about it…"

"What's that?"

"Well, your dad was the one that…."

"Killed him?"

"….yeah…."

"What?"

"Sarris tried to attack him and your dad used self-defense." It was a lie, but she didn't need to know that.

"Is he going to get in trouble?'

"Probably not. Horatio saw the whole thing, so he can be a witness. But…I'm afraid he's going to be in jail for a while…"

"Like how long?"

A few clicks were heard at the door and they both looked at it. A moment later, the door opened and Ron stood up saying, "Heh…still got it…"

"So you break into people's houses now?" Ryan said, standing up.

"Just yours." Ron smiled, but it went away quickly. "You'll never guess who I saw driving out of here."

"I bet I can…"

"Did she talk to you?"

Kyle sat at home staring at the wall. He wondered if he should text Amy, but he didn't know if it would look to desperate. "Son?" Horatio came in his room.

"What's up?"

"What are you doing?"

"I don't know…"

"Thinking about Amy?" Horatio had a funny grin on his face.

How did his father have a sixth sense about everything? "Maybe…."

Horatio had to resist from laughing. It was just too cute. His thoughts were interrupted by his cell phone. After a few minutes, he hung up; his expression much different than the one before.

"What's wrong, dad?"

"The DA thinks that John Wolfe set out to kill Ron Sarris. They're going to charge him with murder…."

"How can they do that? Didn't you see the whole thing?"

Horatio sighed and looked at the ground. "Um…"

"Did you…lie about it? Just to protect your CSI?"

"It's much more complicated than that, son."

"This is so stupid! Why do you get to bend the rules all the time?"

"Not this time, Kyle."

Amy and Ashley walked into Mr. Collins' class early and Amy grimaced. She wasn't looking forward to explaining everything to her teacher, but she had to, so she approached his desk. Ryan argued with her over and over that morning about not going, but she felt useless sitting at home doing nothing.

"Mr…?" She stopped. He was staring at a rather unflattering picture of the principle. He looked up slowly and flinched.

"Amy! What are you doing here? Weren't you kidnapped or something?"

"Kinda….how would you know about that?"

"I saw it all on the news last night. That Erica Sykes girl is a great reporter…."

"It was on the news?!"

"Yep. She said that some CSI has a dysfunctional family and he's been putting you in danger. I was eating spaghetti, I wasn't really paying attention."

"That's not nice!" Ashley chimed in.

"That's not even true! He took me in after…"

"Amy, why are you here so early?"

"To explain why I had to leave class the other day."

"Well, that's odd. Some guy with red hair came in and threatened that if I don't let you pass, he'll find something I did in a past life and tell my girlfriend. He looks sorta like that Kyle kid that sits on the other side of the classroom."

"Well….ok then…." The girls walked back out into the hallway

"I guess he's too obsessed with his girlfriend to care! This is like Nickelodeon!" Ashley laughed.

"How did that news chick he was talking about find out about everything?"

"I don't know, I don't watch the news…Hey I have an idea! Let's skip school again and go to the news station!!" But the look on Amy's face suggested that wasn't the greatest plan.

"Heyyy…" An awkward voice came from behind them. The girls turned around and saw a nervous Kyle. But his shoulders lowered a bit when Amy gave him a warm smile.

"What are you doing here so early?" She asked.

"I should ask you the same thing."

"I had to talk to Collins about our little…escapade the other day. What about you?"

"My dad had to drop me off early. He has a bunch of important stuff to do, I don't know."

"Who are you again?" Ashley asked.

"This is the kid whose dad threatened Mr. Collins."

"That was your dad?"

"He threatened him? Weird. Kinda cool, but weird."

Ryan sat in the chair and waited for the guards to bring his brother out. They almost denied Ryan's request to visit him, but he flashed his badge and the guards let him through. Ryan didn't know why he was scared; but the thought of his brother being a murderer wasn't a pleasant thought. Ryan dealt with murderers everyday and it never bothered him. But today was different.

He picked up the phone and slowly put it to his ear when the guard led John to the chair. The two brothers stared at each other for a minute until John finally spoke.

"Um…So I guess you heard what happened…"

"Yeah…"

"They don't believe me."

"I know."

"What am I going to do? They're going to give me the chair with all the other charges I have against me!"

"They uh…they don't do the electric chair anymore…" It wasn't very comforting, but it was the first thing that came to his mind.

"Regardless…"

"Look, you don't know how the trial is going to go."

"Yes I do."

"Just because the DA wants to charge you, that doesn't mean you can't convince them it wasn't self-defense. There wasn't a camera in that closet, was there?"

"No…"

"And Horatio will say he saw the whole thing."

"Isn't that lying?"

Ryan sighed. "We don't have any other choice."

"Does Amy know?"

"She only knows what we've been telling everyone else."

John sighed. "Good."

"I don't think we should tell her the whole thing."

"Does she ever…say anything about me?"

"Sometimes."

"Like what?"

"Not much. I can't get her to talk about anything she doesn't want to talk about. She's worse than some of the suspects I interrogate." He said with a half-smile.

"You think she'll ever call or visit or anything?"

"I don't know. If she does it will be a long time…"

"Why?"

"Do you remember anything that happened?"

"I just want to apologize…I don't blame her if she doesn't forgive me, I just want to see her."

Where had Ryan heard that before? He felt a twinge of guilt remembering how awful he was to his aunt. "Well…I'll talk to her…" He knew she would try and make him talk to his aunt if he did that.

"Will you…tell her I'm sorry?"

"Yeah…yeah I will."

"I don't want to be like dad..."

Well this was a little longer than expected! Sorry it wasn't totally action packed! But whatever. We're getting closer to the end! cries

BUT, I have officially decided: A sequel is in the works!! p.s. for those at TalkCSI, I got the age messed up according to that episode! LOL! And I'm sure you noticed the lock picking thing! :) I just had to...