"Charlie, you assaulted a cop! Do you have any clue as to what that means?"
The biggest smile came across her face and she let out a little laugh.
"Yeah, I know exactly what it means. It means I'm going to jail for a really long time, even longer than normal because he carries a badge. It also means that I lose my job and I won't be able to get a job at any lab in the United States."
Horatio shook his head in disbelief. She was in serious trouble and she was laughing. What was going on inside her mind?
"You think this is funny?"
"Yeah, it rocked my world!"
"You're going to jail, yet you're laughing. Are you high?"
"Nope, going to jail doesn't bother me. What I did is well worth going to jail for. I have no regrets."
One thought lay on his mind. She better have a good reason for what she did.
"Could you at least tell me what happened, why you did it?"
She looked at her bloody hands and moved them so the blood would flow freely.
"Sure, I saw Sergeant Stetler hit Detective Salas pretty hard, so I beat the living daylights out of him."
She leaned over the table and looked directly into his eyes.
"You better be glad I wasn't in the lab at the time. I wouldn't have thought twice about taking a sword off the wall and slicing him into a million pieces.
As she sat back down she watched Horatio's reaction to everything she had said.
"You weren't doing anything about it so I did. You always said that a person should take care of my family. The lab is my family."
Horatio wanted to bite his tongue at the moment.
"I'm glad I did it. I might not have made to the best choice of action, but I wasn't going to wait around."
She stood up and allowed the cops to cuff her. As she was led from the room she made an immortal statement.
"It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to than I have ever known."
Horatio smiled. Only Charlie could come up with a hopeful Charles Dickens quote at a time like this. She was going to be ok no matter what happened.