It had been 3 weeks and it seemed to Calleigh like she had never left the hospital she had stopped in to see Tim before work one day and the doctor had come up to her.

"Excuse me Mrs. Speedle."

"Oh, he's um...he's not my husband.' Calleigh stated regreatfully.

"Oh i'm sorry. Um...Tim hasn't shown any improvment over the past 3 weeks and i'm afraid that if he doesnt show any change within the next three day were going to have to take him off the resperator." said the Doctor.

"But if you take him off it...he'll die. He can't breath on his own if you take it off he'll die." said Calleigh frantically.

"Look Ms..."

"Duquesne." said Calleigh tears coming to her eyes.

"Ms. Duquesne I understand what your going through..but Mr. Speedle isnt showing any signs of change and its basically pointless to keep on it. He was shot in that heart. He's lucky he didn't die instantly. I'm sorry." said the doctor and excused himself from the room.

Calleigh turned to Tim. "Honey listen to me." she said as she grabbed his hand and held it tightly. "Listen if you can hear me you have got to..to you've to squeeze my hand. Ok. Look I...the girls need you...Horatio and Eric and Alexx needs you..but most importantly...I need you." said Calleigh as she started to cry. "Listen to me they want you to take you off life support unless you show a change so just tell me why it is that you wont come out of this huh? What is it?" Calleigh said as she stroked his cheek softly.

She starred longly at his unshaven face. She would give anything right now for him to just open his eyes right now. Calleigh hated what was going on around her. Her daughters wouldn't talk to her. The lab was a mess, she was a mess. She just wanted him to wake up so she could tell him that she...that she loved him. Calleigh let go of his hand and kissed his forehead. "I love you." Calleigh said and kissed his forehead one last time and left the room.

Calleigh couldn't see it but after she turned around and left the room Tim's right hand moved not much but just slightly.

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Calleigh walked into the break room to the find Eric flipping through the channels Horatio reading his newspaper on the couch, Alexx was reading a book in a chair and the new guy Ryan was doing some paper work at the table.

"Hi guys." said Calleigh cheerfully.

"Hey Cal." said Eric. "Any change?"

"No..the uh..the doctor said that if he doesn't show any change within the next three days then there gonna...there gonna." Calleigh studdard. "Take him off the life suport." Calleigh s tarted crying uncontrollably. Alexx who was the closest rushed to her side and hugged her tightly.

"Its gonna be ok sugar. Timmy's a fighter he'll make it ok. Don't you worry."

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Calleigh was sitting in ballistics starring at a gun. For the first time in her life Calleigh didn't know what to do with it. For the first time in her life she hated guns. She didn't want anything to do with it. She was distracted from her thoughts when Horatio walked in.

"How you doin?" he asked carefully.

"Just takin in ine day at a time..like you told me." Horatio gave her a sympathetic smile. "Horatio what do you do when each day that goes by it just makes it harder, instead of easier. I don't know what i'll do if he doesnt come out of it. My girls wont talk to me as is. They'll never talk to me again if he actually dies." said Calleigh tears filling her eyes.

Horatio went to say something but he was cut off by his cell phone ringing. "Caine...yes this is him...ok..thank you..thank you doctor." Calleigh's eyes darted from the floor to Horatio's face. "Ok i'll be right there. Thank you."

"What, what is it?" asked Calleigh. "Horatio please whats going on?"

"It's Tim. We need to get to the hospital."

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"Doctor Cameron what's going on?" asked Calleigh as she walked into the ICU section.

"Well whatever you said to him must have helped him."

"What?" asked Calleigh.

"He's out of his coma." said the doctor plainly. "You can go in and see him if you want." said the doctor and then he left the room. Calleigh turned to Horatio. "Go see him." said Horatio.

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Calleigh walked into his room and his eyes were closed. Calleigh thought he had gone back onto acoma but when Tim heard footsteps his eyes flickered open.

"Hey you." said Calleigh sitting down in the chair next to his bed.

"Hi." Tim said horesly.

"You really scared the girl you know that." Calleigh meant to say you really scared me but it just came out the girls and she mentally smacked herself for not being able to tell him how she felt. It was like as long as he was in acoma she could just spill her guts, but now that he was awake she was scared out of her mind.

"How are the girls?" Tim asked.

"There ok. I made them go back to school this week. They wont talk to me. They say its my fault. Well atleast Emma wont talk to me."

"Well its not your fault its mine."

"Tim why wont you clean your gun. I mean is it that hard for you to take 20 minutes of your day and clean it."

"Calleigh come on I don't want to fight with you about this. "

"Well I think we need to talk about it Tim. I don't want to put the girls through this again."

"Just the girls or do you not want to put yourself through this again?" Tim asked.

"Tim don't change the subject...why didn't you clean your gun?"

"Why should you care." Tim stated hatefully.

"Oh here we go again...you and your stubborness."

"Oh my stubborness. You know what why don't you just leave me alone and get out of here." said Tim hatefully.

Calleigh eyes filled up with tears. "Fine i'm gone!" said Calleigh frantically and left the room.

TBC...