1"I can't believe this!" Calleigh exclaimed. "How long is this going to take?"
"Calleigh, we're CSIs. We've done this everyday. You know how long it takes." Eric said.
"Eric someone broke into my house!"
"Wow. You've quickly gotten into the wife role."
"Eric, this isn't funny."
Charlie gave a bark.
"Charlie!" Tim warned, giving him a glare. He let out a whimper and laid his head down on the ground, his paws over his eyes. "Look just dust the door and get the prints!"
"Did you guys check to see if anything was missing?" Horatio asked.
"Well I don't know." Calleigh shrugged.
"Nothing's gone. He did this so he could get easy access." Tim replied.
"I don't want you guys staying here anymore." Horatio said. "Stay at Calleigh's place for now. I'm going to have an unmarked car over there now."
"Make sure its not Hagen."
"Why? What's wrong with Hagen?"
"He walked in on them." Eric smirked.
"We weren't doing anything. He thought Calleigh was Webster and got in through the patio. That's the only reason why I knew the door was unlocked. I nearly shot him in the process."
"Okay. Get what you'll need for a few days and get over to Calleigh's." Horatio said.
S/C----
Calleigh rolled over and wrapped her arm around Tim.
"Will you stop fidgeting?"
"I can't help it!"
"Yes you can. Stop moving. You need to get to sleep." Tim pressed his lips lightly against Calleigh's hair.
"Tim, how do we know he won't come here?"
"Because Calleigh he looks up our last name. Speedle. He sees that we live at 214 Ocean Ave. He won't look up Calleigh Duquesne because he doesn't know that's your maiden name. He doesn't know where to go from there."
"Horatio said it wouldn't go this far."
"I know but we got to deal with it. Calleigh I promise I won't let anything happen to you."
"What if he's following us? He knows everything about his victim's. He'll look up your name and see that you work with the police. My name will be right next to yours and he'll put two and two together. Then he'll look up Duquesne and find us here. He'll really kill us when he realizes that we're CSIs and we screwed him over big time. He doesn't want the truth coming out."
"You have way too much free time on your hands." Tim said, fully awake now. "He's smart, but he's not that smart. Besides Charlie is out in the living room and he'll start barking if someone tries to get in. If he gets past Charlie, then he'll have to get past me because there is no way that I'm going to let him hurt you. You also forget that we have an unmarked car outside."
"I know but... it just freaks me out. I really didn't think it'd come to this that he'd start stalking us." Calleigh said quietly. Tim rubbed her arm affectionately.
"Its going to be fine."
"I hope so."
S/C----
Hagen glanced into the locker room the next day and saw Tim going through his locker.
"Speedle."
He glanced up and shut his locker.
"What's up Hagen?" he asked, buttoning up his shirt.
"I um... just wanted to say sorry about Friday night." he replied. "And um... Calleigh's lucky to have a guy like you."
"Thanks. Don't worry about Friday. Its okay." Tim said. "Do you have any news on Webster's whereabouts?"
"Not yet. Delko's working on it."
Tim nodded and the two walked down the hallway, separating at Ballistics. Tim knocked gently on the door, bringing his wife out of her daze.
"Hey." she smiled. "I'm so glad to be home."
"I could tell." Tim grinned. "You got anything?"
"Not yet. But Horatio has assigned us a case. We can't work the serial anymore since we're primary targets." Calleigh said. Tim nodded.
"I'll meet you out at the Hummer."
"Okay."
A few minutes later Tim was pulling out of the CSI parking lot.
"You're quiet." he commented.
"I'm just thinking." Calleigh muttered, staring out the window. She looked at Tim and gave him a smile. "Really."
"Well what are you thinking about?"
"Everything I guess. The case, us..."
"Calleigh, don't worry about the case. Horatio and Eric have got that covered. As for us..."
"I... what are we going to tell everyone? What are we going to tell our parents?" she asked.
"That we got married." Tim said simply. "Calleigh, do you um... not like the idea of us together?"
"No I love being married to you but everything happened so fast and what is everyone going to say?"
"I don't care what everyone is going to say. I only care about what we say." Tim said. He reached over and took Calleigh's hand in his. "If you're not okay with it..."
"I am Tim. I've never been so happy before and I know you think that I'm not thrilled but I am. Really, I am. I just... I'm so freaked out over Webster and it is like it is taking over me or something."
"You don't need to make excuses." he said, stopping at a red light. "Cal, if you felt we went into this too quickly we don't need to be married right now."
"I know you think that but I would not have said yes to your one hour proposal." she smiled. Tim smiled slightly and turned to look at her.
"Listen. I love you. I love you more than anything and I don't really see the point in waiting two or three years to ask you to marry me. We're already best friends. We already act the way we always act around each other. I know everything about you and you know everything about me. I have my pet peeves about you and you have yours about me. The only thing keeping up apart was not saying how we felt. We know how we feel about each other now. What was the point in waiting?"
"I know and Tim I love you so much. Its just you know how I get when something bad goes wrong."
"I know I just wanted to make sure you knew all of that." he said.
"Once this is all over I'll be back to my normal self and we can get on with the rest of our life." Calleigh said. "Let's just worry about our case right now."
Tim nodded and leaned over the arm rest, kissing her cheek.
