"Calleigh!" screamed Tim. Calleigh's eyes flickered open and she sat up slowly.

"Its ok, i'm fine. It's just my arm." said Calleigh as she looked down at her right arm that was gushing blood.

"I'll call an ambulance." said Horatio and quickly stepped out of the room.

"Here." said Tim as he took of his jacket and wrapped it around Calleigh's arm causing her to yell in pain.

"Why didn't you tell me it hurt to get shot."

"Well finally bullet girl knows how it feels. Welcome to the real world, how's it feel?"

"It sucks...can I go back?" asked Calleigh causing Tim to laugh.

All of a sudden Calleigh's head fell backward. "Whoa, Calleigh...Calleigh." said Tim as he smacked Calleigh's face lightly. "Cal come on don't do this to me wake up...Cal come on."

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"Mr. Speedle?" said a doctor.

"Yes thats me...is my wife ok?"

"She's going to be just fine." The whole room let out a sigh of relief.

"The bullet just missed an artery, a few inches up and she wouldn't have made it. You can go in and see her if you want." Tim nodded and followed the doctor out of the room.

"I can't believe this. First the kids, then Calleigh gets shot. I mean its not fair." said Alexx.

"I know Alexx." said Horatio.

"I'm sure Calleigh's happy Camden ruled it as a misfire. Because if someone had shot her, i'm sure Tim would be doing some jail time." said Alexx and Horatio and Eric snickered.

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"Hey you." said Calleigh as she felt Tim's hand grab hers.

"Hey yourself. You scared me."

"I think i scared myself." said Calleigh.

"Do you remember what happend?" asked Tim as he grasped Calleigh's hand tighter.

"I went into the lab, pissed off with Stetler so I took a few seconds to collect myself, I picked up the gun and fired and it just hit me. And i fell back and i guess when i fell i squeezed the trigger and it hit the door."

"Well if you hadn't squeezed the trigger again who knows how long you could have been lying there." Calleigh smiled weakly.

"Are the girls here?"

"Yeah, H, Eric and Alexx and Tyler's with them." said Tim. "I'm really glad your ok?"

"Me too. Because I couldn't imagine yu raising 3 girls by yourself." When Calleigh had said 3 girls Tim looked down at the ground and let go of Calleigh's hand.

"We'll find her Tim." said Calleigh.

"Yeah." said Tim and a tear rolled down his cheek and Calleigh brushed it away with her left hand. She used her hand to bring his head up.

"Hey you come here." Calleigh said and Tim and her lips met in a passionate kiss. And they only pulled away when there was knock on the door.

"Excuse me." said the doctor.

"Is something wrong?" asked Calleigh.

"Oh no." said the doctor and he laughed slightly and Tim just glared at him. 'How could he be laughing at a time like this.' Tim thought to himself. His daughter and godson were out there being put under god knows what kind of horrible things, and he just almost lost his wife. So if that was funny then i guess go ahead and have yourself a good laugh.

"No there's nothing wrong, I just have your release papers...unless you would like to stay over night?"

"No, i'd like to leave." said Calleigh.

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"You can stop watching me you know." said Calleigh as she felt Tim's hand stroke her cheek.

"I just want to make sure that your ok."

"I'm fine. Nothing pain killers won't fix." said Calleigh and she smiled brightly but then it faded when she didn't see Tim smile back. "That was supposed to be a joke." she stated.

"I know, it just wasn't that funny, Calleigh the idea of me losing you scares the crap out of me. I couldn't go through that. I just can't." Tim said his voice cracking slightly.

"Baby, listen to me. I love you and I am not going anywhere. Ok."

"You don't know that, you don't know what's going to happen in five minutes or tomorrow or five years from now."

"Your right I don't. But I love you so much Tim. I love our girls so much. And no mad man with a gun is going to take that away from me. I won't let that happen.

"I love you." said Tim as his face inched closer to Calleigh's.

"I love you to." she mumbled against his lips. And before they knew it they were in a serious liplock and it would have led to more if the phone didn't decided to ring at that moment.

"Hello?" said Tim.

"Hey Speed."

"H, whats going on?" asked Speed him and Calleigh both sitting up quickly.

"You guys better get to the lab."

"Ok well be there in 10."

"What's going on." asked Calleigh as Tim hung up the phone.

"I don't know H wants us at the lab."

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Tim and Calleigh walked into the break room and found Eric and Valera clutching Jason tightly.

Calleigh had a releaved look on her face. "Where's Lucy?" she asked over Maxine's sobs. Valera's cries muffled and both her and Eric looked at Horatio.

"H, were's our daughter?" Tim asked stepping closer to Horatio and he moved back slightly fearing that Speed would blow up in his face when heard what he was about to say.

"I'm so sorry." H managed to choke out.

"Horatio this isn't funny. Where's Lucy?" asked Calleigh, the room went into a lapse of silence and Calleigh walked over to Jason.

"Jason honey were's Lucy?" Calleigh asked knealing down in front of him.

"He..he killed her." Jason managed to choke out.

"No, No!" screamed Calleigh and Tim rushed to her side.

"Honey." said Tim.

"No! Don't touch me. Where is she? Horatio were is she?"

"She's with Alexx."

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Calleigh and Tim walked into the autopsy room quietly. "I'll just give you a minute." Alexx said and walked quitley out of the room.

Calleigh walked over to Lucy and used her left hand to stroke her cheek. "You were to good for this earth." Calleigh said right before she broke down in a fit of tears.

Tim stood there for a minute not knowing what to do. And then he came to his senses and walked over to Calleigh, not being able to look at Lucy he wrapped his arms around Calleigh's waist and pulled her to him.

"Let go of me." Calleigh said weakly. But Tim didn't let go as Calleigh struggled to get out of his grasp. After a few minutes of struggling Calleigh finally stopped and turned around in Tim's arms.

"I want her back Tim...how could someone do something like that to someone so beautiful...how?" said Calleigh through sobs.

"I don't know honey." said Tim. He knew what he said was lame. But thats all he could manage to say. And Tim finally forced himself to look at Lucy's limp body. Tim wasn't one to show his emotions but when he saw his little girl lying there he started to cry right along side with Calleigh. He pulled her closer to him and hugged her tightly careful not to hurt her arm.

TBC...