Disclaimer: Don't own anything you do not recognize.
Pairings: speed/calleigh kind of!
When she Comes
Spoilers: Lost son
Deicated: To all the people who lose loved ones in there life and then find out that they never knew them at all.
"Oh god if i get one more casing i swear i'm going to go crazy!" said Calleigh entering the break room to the Miami Crime Lab.
"I thought you liked guns?" asked Eric
"I do, but you know there are times when you got to say enough is enough."
"Well listen i would love to see you rant on this subject some more but H needs me to go in the water."
"Alright scuba boy have fun." said Calleigh with a smile
"Oh i will." said Eric leaving Calleigh all alone in the break room. Calleigh poured herself some coffee.
"Excuse me." said a girl probably no more than 13 years old.
"Yes can i help u?" asked Calleigh
"Um, maybe i'm looking for a Lt. Caine, i was told i could find him here."
"Well he's out on a case right now can i help you?"
"Maybe i'm um... looking for my father."
"Oh is he a detective?" asked Calleigh
"Yeah, he's also a CSI.'
"Well maybe if you tell me his name i can tell u what dept. he's in and then we can go from there."
"Tim Speedle." Said the shy little girl. Calleigh stared at the little girl for a few seconds wide eyed. So many questions came to Calleigh's mind. 'Who is this girl?' 'Is she really Tim's daughter?', 'Why doesnt she know her father is dead?', 'Did Tim even know he was a father?'
"Um... why don't you sit down on the coach."
They girl sat. "What's your name?"
"Chrissy."
"Chrissy, that's a pretty name." "So um.. Chrissy i never heard Tim talk about you before don't think i'm rude by asking this but did he even know that he had a daughter?"
"Yeah he knew but uh we never met, him and my mom got together when they were sophmores in high school, and had me, my mom got scared and thought that my father wouldn't want me in his life so she ran away to Georgia, and then one day she told him that he had a daughter, we talked on the phone but we never met, and we just moved to Miami a week ago and my mom told me one day that he worked as a CSI in Miami, so i wound up her, but you kept refering to him in past tense. Has something happend to my dad?" asked Chrissy with a scared look on her face.
"I'm so sorry, Chrissy."
"When, where did it happen?" said Chrissy tearfully.
"In a jewelery store shooting about 10 months ago. I'm so sorry."
"It's ok, you can't love some one you never knew right? Or lose them." Calleigh nodded slightly 'I never even got to know what he looked like." stated Chrissy
"Well i think i can help you with that." said Calleigh reaching into her purse and taking out her wallet and a picture.
"This is a picture of your dad and I and some of our other co-workers at a christmas party."
"That's my dad?"
"MMHMM.."
"He's just like my mom said he would be...scruffy." Calleigh smiled and laughed a little. That was the Tim Speedle she remembered.
"Would you like me to take you to him?" asked Calleigh. Chrissy nodded.
SPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED
"Horatio, hey Chrissy could wait for me over there for just a sec?" Chrissy nodded.
"Whats up Calleigh?" asked Horatio
"Listen i need to take some time off for the day."
"What's a matter?" asked Horatio with conceren.
"Um.. nothing just some uh... personal business.
"Calleigh?" said Horatio, And this time Cal knew she had to say something.
"Ok you see that girl over there." Calleigh pointed over to Chrissy in the waiting room. H nodded.
"She's beautiful." said Horatio
"Yeah she is. Horatio she's uh. She's Tim's daughter." said Calleigh looking at Horatio's blue eyes.
"What?" asked Horatio putting his hands on his hips
"Yeah she told me that her mom got together with Tim in High School and her mother freaked and ran away to Georgia with the baby, she said her father knew about her, she just never met him before. They recently moved to Miami."
"Does she know?"
"Yeah i just told her, poor girl wants to know who her daddy is, and just when she finds him, she loses him. Listen i uh.. i was going to take her to see him, let her say goodbye."
"Ok um.. you go do that.' said Horatio his voice breaking
"Ok." said Calleigh but before she left she put her hands on her gun and holister.
"Here take these, as of right now i'm not a cop, i'm just a friend, and can you have the night shift ballistics expert take over my case. I think after this i'm going to need the rest of the day off."
"Yeah ok. No problem."
"Just put that in my locker for me?"
"Of course." said horatio. "You going to be ok?"
"Yeah.
SPEED SPEED SPEED SPEED
Calleigh walked with Chrissy along the rows of graves until they got to the one they wanted.
"Here he is." said Calleigh crouching down in front of Speed's grave.
"Hey Timmy, i brought someone with me, I want you to met your dauther, Chrissy." said Calleigh as Chrissy crouched down in front of Speed's grave next to Calleigh.
"Hey Daddy, i'm sorry i never got to meet you. I wanted to i really did, but you know mom she was stubborn. I'm really sorry for what happend to you, nobody deserves to get shot." Chrissy started to cry and Calleigh wrapped an arm around her.
"I'm so sorry, hey, hey, your dad wouldn't want you to cry alright so you just wipe those away." said Calleigh motherly
"I'm sorry."
"It's alright, i cried to. I still do from time to time."
"You loved him didn't you?"
"I guess you could say that, how did you know that?"
"Well for one you had a picture of him in your wallet and for another he talked about you all the time.' said Chrissy with her southern drawl.
"Did he now, i hope they were all good things, Timothy." said Calleigh looking at Speed's grave.
"Come on why don't i get you home?" said Calleigh as her and Chrissy stood.
TBC...