Calleigh pulled the Hummer up outside The Whiskey Stop and got out.
"Calleigh..." Yelina greeted.
"Where's my father?" she asked.
"Over there."
Calleigh walked over to an ambulance and saw a EMT was cleaning up a cut on her father's head.
"Calleigh!" he smiled. She didn't return the smile though. Kenwall's smile faded slightly. "Its not what it looks like."
"Well from what I hear you may have started this." she hissed. The EMT finished and Calleigh pulled her father towards the Hummer.
"No! No that's not right." he said.
"Yeah, yeah I think it is." Calleigh muttered, rubbing her forehead. "Right now we have no evidence. I'm taking you home. But believe me you'll be getting called down to the station."
"Can't you work something out?"
"I'm not lying about evidence."
Kenwall nodded and got into the passenger side of the SUV. Calleigh leaned against the car for a second and walked over to Alexx.
S/C-------
Tim and Eric walked stealthily towards the large house, SWAT flanking them. They quickly got up to the front door and Tim broke away from the group, going towards the back of the house.
S/C------
"Poor baby was just barely over the legal age." Alexx sighed. Calleigh closed her eyes and could play out the scene before her. "Calleigh, are you going to be okay?"
"Yeah. I... somehow I saw this coming." she muttered. "So COD was stabbing with a liquor bottle?"
Alexx nodded, pointing towards the counter. Calleigh gently placed the broken bottle in evidence bag and labeled it.
"Sugar you should leave." Alexx advised. "You don't need this stress. Its not good for you."
"I'm not letting anyone else do this. They could overlook evidence..." Calleigh trailed off and started bagging more things. "I need to go drop him off at home."
"You sure they'll let you do that?"
"They can't hold him. They don't have anything against him."
S/C------
"Sp..." Eric stopped when he saw Tim had wandered away. He quickly, yet quietly walked around the back of the house and saw his best friend leaning against the back wall of the house. "Speed!"
Tim beckoned him over.
"He's not here."
S/C-----
"Calleigh, I didn't hurt anyone."
"Dad somehow I don't believe that." she said quietly. Her head was resting against the window, her hands gripping the steering wheel tightly. "Because in someway you always do. Believe me. I know."
"Calleigh not all fathers are perfect. Look at Tim for an instance."
"Don't you even bring him up!" she yelled. "Because you know what Dad?"
"What?"
"He wouldn't lay a hand on Sammy, unlike you would did to me! He doesn't get drunk every night of the week and take it out on Sammy! He actually cares about her! And in my opinion Tim is the perfect father. But that's just me."
That silenced the older Duquesne for the rest of the ride to his apartment and left Calleigh in tears. Finally, after what seemed like forever, Calleigh pulled up in front of her father's apartment complex.
"I'll most likely talk to you later." she said.
"Calleigh, I'm sorry. I really am."
"I have to get back to the crime scene." she said, ignoring his comment. "Bye Dad."
He sighed but got out of the SUV and went into the apartment complex. Calleigh shed a few more tears and then wiped them away. She was about to pull away when her cell phone went off.
"Calleigh Speedle."
"Calleigh, its me."
"What's up Horatio?"
"Can you get back to the lab?"
"I'm on my way to a crime scene."
"I know but can you please come?"
"Yeah I'll be there soon."
