Tim shifted slighty and felt a weight on his chest. He opened his eyes and saw Calleigh sleeping peacefully on his chest with the blanket drapped over both of them. Tim smiled at the memory of last night. Tim was about to go back to sleep when his cell phone went off. Tim groaned and leaned over to reach for his cell on the coffee table. He tried to grab it without waking Calleigh but it wasn't working. Callegih shifted and sat up. Tim smiled and grabbed his phone.

"Speedle."

"Hey Speed its Valera. You told me to page you ASAP."

"Yeah, Val...what's up?"

"The hair you pulled of Mr. Duquesne's jacket."

"Yeah what about it?"

"I got a match through CODIS."

"And?"

"It came back with a match to Lewis Carter. He was in for rape. Released 4 days ago."

"Alright...thanks Val."

"Sure."

Tim sighed and hung up the phone. He sat it back down on the table and turned to Calleigh. "Hi."

"Hi."

Tim smiled and tucked Calleigh's hair behind her ear. "Last night was great."

Calleigh blushed. "I...I thought we broke the couch." Calleigh muttered sheepishly.

Tim laughed and kissed her lightly. "I have to go back to the lab. Will you be ok here?"

Calleigh nodded. "I will be now."

Tim smiled and grabbed his clothes from the floor. Calleigh watched as he got dressed and memories of the night before raced through her mind. Calleigh was snapped from her thoughts when she felt two strong arms go around her from behind the couch. Calleigh giggled as Tim attacked her neck.

"Tim..." said Calleigh through laughs.

"What?"

Calleigh turned and found a smiling Speed. Which was very rare. "You better go."

Tim stopped kissing Calleigh's neck and rested his head in between her shoulder and neck. "I'll find out who did this Calleigh."

Calleigh sighed. "Is it wrong that I wish he did kill him. So i wouldn't have to deal with him anymore?"

Tim shook his head. "No...i'll be back ok. I'll call you."

Calleigh nodded and sunk back onto the couch. Tim looked back from the door and walked back over to Calleigh. "It'll be ok."

Calleigh smiled and kissed him lightly. "Go."

Tim nodded and walked out of the house.

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"Valera..." said Tim as he pushed his way through the doors of Dna.

"Tim...hey."

"You got the file on Lewis?"

Valera nodded. "This doens't make since. The man is a rapist and yet he kills a man?"

"There's more." said Valera as she gestured to the file.

Tim looked down. "He has a cocaine obsession?"

Valera nodded. "Thank Val. Your a lifesaver."

Valera watched a smiling Tim. "Tim...smiling...he must have gotten lucky."

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Tim burst through the doors to the morgue. "Alexx."

"Whoa Timmy...were's the fire?"

"Did you ever get a sample of Lucas Billington to Tox?"

Alexx cocked her head. "I gave it to Foster...he never sent it up there?"

Tim shook his head. "They never got it."

Alexx expression changed quickly. "I'm going to hurt that kid."

Tim sighed and followed Alexx out of the room.

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"FOSTER!"

Foster turned around slowly. "Dr. Woods what can I do for you?"

"Don't you Dr. Woods me...were is it?"

"Where's what?"

Alexx raised a brow. "The blood from Lucas Billington, Foster." said Tim his voice rising. "This is a very important case...were is it?"

Foster looked from Alexx to Tim and the over to the conter. "I..."

TIm followed his gaze. "Its been sitting there for a day and you never realized you never took it up to tox?"

"I'm sorry. I'll do it right now."

"No!" said Tim angrily. "I"ll take it myself." Tim glared at Foster one last time and walked out of the morgue break room.

Alexx shook her head at Foster. "It was an accident."

"Yeah Foster. But that "accident" may have caused a innocent man his life."

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Tim sighed as he ran into Tox. Rory Procter Miami's best toxicology expert laughed as he saw Speed out of breath.

"You know you should think of going back to the gym Speedle."

"Just analize this will you?"

Rory smirked and took the container from Speedle. He did his magic and within 20 minutes the machine spit out the results. "Well it looks like your theory was right?"

Tim took the paper. "Now I just got to prove it."

""Were you going?"

"Back to the crime scene."

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Tim looked around the crime scene until he found what he wanted. He walked over to the mound of dirt and found a bag of cocaine. He picked it up and as he placed in into the evidence bag he heared a noise that made his eyes go wide. Tim turned around slowly not to make any sudden movement causing him to come face to face with an aligator.

Tim closed his eyes and when he opened them the aligator was getting closer and closer by the second. He took his gun out from his holster and aimed it at the animal. The aligator stopped as if knowing what was going to happen to him if he advanced and changed direction. Tim sighed and re holistered his gun. He picked up his kit and the cocaine bag and left the crime scene. He didn't know how Delko could swim next to those things.

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"You want to tell me what I'm doing here?"

Tim looked at Lewis. "You killed a man?"

"What...are you crazy?"

"No."

"I could never kill a person."

"No but you could rape a 13 year old girl right."

Lewis shifted in his seat. "I already went to jail for that."

"Yeah but now I'm going to put you away for murder."

Lewis laughed. "What are you talking about?"

Tim pulled an autospy photo from a case file. "Do you recognize him?"

"No."

"Your a liar."

"I am?"

"Yeah...Lucas here was your partner. He held down Ruthie Mcnamara while you raped her and then killed her with this .45. You know its not a smart idea to leave a murder weapon at the scene let alone...use the same weapon twice."

"That punk ass..."

"Go on...I already know you did it. I just want a confession."

Lewis sighed. "He was supposed to bring me cocaine...instead he brought me...I paid for cocaine...not sugar."

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Tim looked up when heared the door from trace open. He smiled seeing as it was Calleigh.

Calleigh held up her hands. "No hands...I promise."

Tim smiled and put the what was supposed to be cocaine sample into the mass spec. "You should be at home."

"How's the case going?"

"Alexx gave me the autopsy report, Calleigh...Lucas Billington was dead before your dad ran him over."

Calleigh let out a realeved sigh. "So its over?"

Tim turned to the mass spec as it printed out the results. " It's over for your father. Not for Lewis. Looks like he's going back to jail."

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"This is idiotic!" yelled Lewis as Frank slapped the cuffs of on him.

"No its not Lewis. Lucas may have tried to give you sugar as cocaine. But you still killed a man. And your going away for that. And this time...you won't be getting out because i'm adding vandalism to your charges."

"What?"

"You not only killed Lucas Billington but you tried to hijack a car to get away."

Lewis sighed and stopped struggling. Frank looked at Tim who nodded and took him away.

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Calleigh sat on the concrete steps in front of CSI looking at the stars. "Lambchop."

"Daddy..."

"I feel like I just got a get out of jail free card."

"Its not free this time Dad."

Kenwall dropped his head. "I dissapointed you again didn't I?"

Calleigh noddded. "Daddy...you have no idea what's been going through my mind the past couple of days."

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Tim knocked on Horatio's office door. "Come in."

"Hey."

"Speed...have a seat. What can I do for you?"

"Mr. Duquesne didn't kill Lucas. I just thought you'd like to know."

Horatio nodded. "You handled it well."

Tim nodded. "There's something else I wanted to talk to you about."

"Calleigh?"

Tim nodded. "Yeah...I think for the first time in my life...i'm in love."

Horatio smiled. "Does Calleigh feel the same way?"

Tim smiled. "I think so yeah."

"Well then I all I can say is about time."

Tim looked at Horatio. "What do you mean?"

"Speed...your a good friend, good trace anaylist, and you can find the littlest evidence at any crime scene. But when something's right under your nose your blind. Me, Delko, and Alexx have been wondering how long it take you to."

Tim smiled. "Its nice to know my friends have my back." Horatio smiled. "So your ok with having to CSI'S being together."

Horatio nodded. "Just as long as I get an invitation to the wedding."

Tim's eyes went wide. "We've been dating for 24 hours H, slow down."

Horatio laughed. "Go on...she needs you."

Tim nodded and walked to the door. "H?"

"Yeah?"

"Thanks."

Horatio nodded and Tim left the room.

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"Calleigh...I know i've screwed up ever since you were a baby and I'm sorry."

"Sorry doesn't cut it daddy...you hurt me...you beat your own children. How do you live with that?"

Kenwall sighed. "I can't make up for what I did."

"No you can't. And you getting drunk...dad you were driving while intoxicated. You could have been in an accident and hit a car or a pedistrian and actually killed them."

"I know."

"Then why do you do it daddy. You say you don't want to see me hurt anymore. But that is exactly waht you are doing everytime you bring that glass to your lips."

Tim stopped at the door as he saw Calleigh talking with her father.

"I'm a horrilbe father. Always have been. Always will be."

Calleigh sighed. Her father did always know how to make her feel guilty. "We'll talk about this later. I called you a cab." said Calleigh as she gestured towards the taxi. Kenwall nodded and walked over to the cab and opened the door.

"I love you Lambchop."

Calleigh turned around wiping the tears from her eyes. "We'll talk later Daddy."

Kenwall nodded and Calleigh watched as the cab took off. Calleigh felt Tim's strong arms wrap around her. "So I guess you just think you can do it all. Wrestling aligators?"

"Who told you?"

"Officer London."

Tim sighed. "And they say having patrol at a scene with you is a good thing. I just drew my weapon out Cal. I didn't wrestle anything."

"So the rumor's aren't true." said Calleigh as she put on a fake smile.

Tim carresed her cheek. "You don't have to put on an act for me. I know your hurting."

Calleigh sighed and rested her head on Tim's shoulder. "It's never going to be over is it?"

Tim rubbed Calleigh's back lightly. "I don't know. But what I do know is that i'm here for you."

Calleigh pulled away from Tim and smiled. Tim beant down and kissed her lightly.

"Come on...I'll take you home."

Calleigh nodded and smiled as Tim grabbed her hand. She felt safe when she was with him. When she looked at him she saw her future. A future that she couldn't wait to have. But if it was one thing she learned in the past couple of days about Tim Speedle it was just how sweet and caring he really was. Un like the sarcastic s.o.b everyone else thought he was. Calleigh smiled as Tim opened her car door for her.

"Would you mind if we took the Ducati instead?"

"You really aren't like most girls are you?"

Calleigh shook her head. "You just know figuring that out Speedle?"

Tim smirked. "Come on Duquesne." Calleigh smiled and watched Tim as he mounted his bike. Calleigh quickly got on behind him wrapping her arms around his waist tightly.

"Take me home." whispered Callegih into Tim's ear. Tim noticed the tone to her voice and turned on the engine quickly.

TBC...Okie dokie the epilogue is next.