Disclaimer: Nope I don't own any of anything from CSI: Miami, although I've begged often enough!
A/N: heyy there, well am back with a seventh chapter for ya, thank you so much for all of you who have reviewed…Am a newbie so, please be gentle… also u will notice that I refuse to kill off Speed for my stories…that is because I hail from a lil' place called denial land and am in denial about the fact that he's dead…therefore he lives…
Summary: A case from Speed's past comes back, endangering the lives of family member's, and causing problems for the CSI.
Chapter Four
"So, what? WHAT THE HELL HAPPENS NOW!" Alyssa was nearing the point of desperation. Calleigh looked at the ground and Tim was staring Horatio down.
"We wait for the bomb squad to make a move, and then we hope they cut the right wire" Speed stated before turning.
"How can you be so calm?" Alyssa shot at him. He turned back
"Calm? You think am calm?"
"Well, you're not exactly falling apart!"
"So just because am not breaking into tears, I don't care?"
"THIS IS YOUR DAUGHTER TIM!"
"I KNOW THAT!"
"It's not my fault she's locked in the car!"
"So, you do blame me" Speed turned and started walking away.
"TIM!" Alyssa shouted on him, tears now flowing from her eyes.
Speed kept walking and Alyssa collapsed into Calleigh's arms crying. Horatio stood torn between following Speed to the lab and staying in the parking lot. The decision was taken out of his hands when he saw Eric enter the lab after him.
"Speed!" Delko called to him. Tim slammed through the glass door of the break room. Delko followed him.
"I FIND THIS GUY AMA RIP HIM APART!" Speed shoved everything from the table onto the floor
"So…let's find him…" Eric said quietly. Speed's head shot up to look at him.
That wasn't what he'd been expecting. He had been waiting for Delko to pull the pyhsc 101 routine on him. Eric kept Speed's gaze and Speed caught what he wasn't saying out loud. He was saying exactly what H had told me was off limits. Eric raised an eyebrow and Tim was thrown into turmoil…he knew if he found this guy, he'd kill him. Then again he knew that he couldn't not find him.
"Speed, this guy locked Cruz into a car with explosives…"
"I know…but…Eric, I'll kill this guy if I get my hands on him…"
"Tim…all we're gonna do is find him…" Eric said, and again Tim caught what Eric wasn't saying. Tim didn't find him, Eric was gonna do it for him and all they had to do was find the guy.
Speed looked at Eric. Eric stared him down. In that one moment, Tim saw him in a new light. Up till now, Delko was following the rules, and here he was suggesting they go against direct orders and break every rule in the book.
"IF we find him before any one else then, we'll call the team, ok?"
"Guess it's a good job I've still got the file…"
Speed and Eric left the break room and went to trace. Speed pulled open the bottom drawer and then proceeded to pull out the file for Simon Lynch.
"You copied the file?"
"Yea…something about the guy…guess I was right huh?"
"Am sorry, man"
"Not as sorry as he's gonna be…" Speed trailed off, locking eyes with Eric.
Alyssa Diaz stood a few feet back from the crime scene tape watching the S.U.V that was holding her daughter captive. Alexx Woods stepped up beside her. The look on her face was breaking Alexx's heart.
"Hey, sweetie" She said gently
"Hi…"
"How are you holding up?"
"Am not…that's my baby in there, and I shouted at Tim"
"Sweetie, he knows you're upset, so don't worry"
"Alexx, it's his baby too…Cruz is his…and I love him, yet I keep blamin him for all this"
"You listen to me, Speed's a big boy. This has got him in turmoil too, and when that baby girl is placed back into his arms, he'll realise that you weren't blaming him. You guys are stressed, your tired, your parents…you can't do everything right, all of the time"
"I need him here Alexx…I can't do this without him, but I've hurt him, and I don't know where he is"
"Honey, Timmy'll be fine…and he's not mad at you, he loves you. Just give him a bit of time, kay?"
"I just wish I hadn't shouted at him, cos I really could use him here right about now"
"I know…"
"I know there's people here like you and Calleigh and Horatio, but…"
"We're not Tim; you don't have to explain to any one honey, especially not me"
Alexx gave Alyssa a small smile and squeezed her arm. Alyssa's gaze fixed back onto the car. Alexx turned and headed back towards the building, knowing that if anyone could talk sense into Tim, it would be her.
She found him in the trace lab.
"Timothy Speedle, what are you doing in here?" Alexx asked him, hands on hips.
"Because, it's clear am not wanted out there"
"That's crap and you know it!"
"No, Alexx, my baby is in that car and my fiancée is blaming me for her being there"
"No, she's not…she's upset, just like you are…and you know how it goes…you take it out on the one nearest you…"
"She doesn't want me there, Alexx and I don't wanna make it worse for her…"
"Timmy, she's falling apart because you're not there. She doesn't need any one besides you."
"Yea, and she's proved that…am just making it easier on her Alexx"
"Tim, I just spoke to your fiancée, and let me tell you…she's going crazy because not only can she not have her daughter, she can't have you, because she thinks she's hurt you by shouting at you, and she's terrified of losing you too, Now get your ass out to that parking lot and see her!"
"She said all that?" Speed looked at Alexx sideways.
"In so many words, yes. Tim, Cruz will be fine. You know Horatio; He'd go to hell before he let anything happen to her. But from one parent to another, you and Alyssa need each other right now, She's the only other person here who knows what you're going through and together you make Cruz's parents…" Alexx looked at Tim, seeing that her words were sinking in and creating an effect.
5…4…3…2…1… Alexx thought
"Your right, thanks Alexx, I owe you one"
…0… She smiled slightly as Speed got off his chair and headed towards the door, and without turning around, he said to Alexx
"Dunno where I'd be without you…" and with that he left.
But Alexx knew where he'd be. Injured, or dead. Not long after the disaster of Dispo day, Alexx had gone to him, and pleaded with him to clean his gun. He'd confessed he simply saw the gun as an "accessory", something he put on and took to work, taking off once he got home. Alexx had driven the point home of the good aspects of being a carrier of it in his line of work and the importance of why it had to be clean. It had taken her all of 3 hours but she'd finally managed to get through to him, and Tim had let him self trust Alexx and knew that no matter what was going on, she'd have his back. No matter the situation, she'd be there because she'd been there before…And Alexx's never ending parental knowledge was something that both Alyssa and Tim would never be without. Alexx shook her head, and left the Trace lab, on a hunt for Calleigh who, unknown to anyone else was 3 months pregnant.
"This guy has a lot to answer for…" Alexx thought as she walked through the halls of Miami-Dade crime lab.
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