CHAPTER FOUR

AN: hehe ik versta het zeker en vast Roos! Bedankt voor de aanmoediging (Thank you)

I know that under normal circumstances Eric could not be released yet but let's say it's

possible in the story 

Horatio needed some space and time to think about what had happened the last two days. He went to visit his brother's grave. He kneeled down and laid down the roses which he brought with him before the stone that said beloved husband, father and brother. He removed his sunglasses and wiped a tear away that was rolling down his cheek.

Yelina watched him from her car. At first she wanted to go and talk to him but she figured he'd want some time alone. She had seen him there many times before, always when he wasn't feeling well, mentally. She never interrupted him and always waited till he came over afterwards to talk. He never said he was at the cemetery but she just always knew. She could feel it, the way he talked, the way he looked at her and many other things. Again she decided not to disturb him and drove off to work.

"Where have you been? I've been looking all over for you." Stetler said worried since he didn't know where she was and more important with who she was. Yelina said she just drove around and did some thinking "Alone?" He raised his voice and the conversation seemed to turn into an interrogation which she didn't like at all.

"Excuse me?" Yelina smiled and shook her head. She wanted to leave, give Rick some time to cool down, because frankly she was getting sick and tired of having to explain herself to him. But he wouldn't let her leave yet. He looked around, took her by the arm and led her to a room where they would have some privacy.

"Let go of my arm, you're hurting me." Stetler immediately let go of her arm and apologized for his actions. "What is this about Rick?" She only had to look him in the eyes for 2 seconds before she realized that was yet again about her brother in law.

"I can't believe this. I'm not going over this again with you. Like I said before there's nothing going on between us. And don't give me that look." "What look? Yelina?"

Every argument they had, even the smallest and no matter how it started, no matter what it was about, it would just always end with Horatio. Mainly because of Rick's jealousy. He just couldn't stand how she always felt the need to run to Horatio whenever she had a problem or how she would always defend him, ask him for advice instead of coming to him.

"You know what. I can't deal with this anymore. I'm sorry Rick, but I just can't." She started to walk away, just as she reached the door Rick asked her what she meant. She walked back to him and simply said "it's over"

Back at the lab a highly concentrated Horatio was looking through the evidence, hoping he had missed something earlier that could tie Thomas to the murder of his wife and to Eric. " Ryan what is that in your hand?" The question took Ryan by surprise because there was no way H could have seen or heard him. "How did you know it was me?"

A smile appeared on Horatio's face, he looked up from his microscope at Ryan, then looked back in his microscope and said: "Because I asked you to come see me in 2 hours. " A puzzled Ryan looked at his watch , nodded and handed over the paper he had brought with him. "You were right, I found blood on one of Thomas Harrison's t shirts. The guy tried to hide it behind the closet in his garage. I just had the DNA results back and the blood does belong to the victim, his wife Kate. The bad news is I couldn't find anything in connection with Eric. No blood spats, no fibres nothing."

"That's okay, good work Ryan"

At the hospital Eric received some good news. He was going to be released in an hour, at least if he could find someone that would take good care of him…

The doctor told a just arrived Calleigh that he would get the paperwork done so they could go home. She looked rather puzzled because she had no idea what he was talking about and Eric's attempts for communication behind the doctor's back wasn't helping as well. She waited for him to leave before she asked what was going on.

"My only ticket out of here is if I have someone to take care of me. I said you'd baby- sit so I could go home. Of course you don't have too." "I don't?" He could hear the disappointment in her voice but he didn't want to rush anything. This was something he couldn't ask of her because of the very recent developments in their relationship.

She sat down on his bed, let her hand rest on his cheek, looked in his eyes and said "You'll stay with me" Eric wanted to say that she didn't have to do it but she put her finger on his mouth telling him to shut up. When she removed her finger, again he wanted to say she didn't have to. This time she shut him up by kissing him.

It was a long and passionate kiss giving both of them butterflies in their stomach. Calleigh was the first to end the kiss only to be followed by a second one…

In the mean time Horatio and Frank were on their way to arrest Thomas.