Ryan's POV

"Val, you paged me?"

"Yea, I found that the blood belongs to a Josh Sherman. And I also found chloroform"

"If he used that, then how did she put up a fight?"

"She bit him, i'm guessing. Hey we'll find her"

"Yea I hope so"

"Oh wait here's the address...uh its, 85 Brookville lane"

"Thanks Val."

"Sure, uh, you think, I could, uh, come with you guys?"

"Sure let's go"

Calleigh's POV

I started to hear sirens. 'No, no, please god no. go away. Don't find me. Please.'

"Looks like he's here" he said to me

"Can I just ask what your name is?"

"Josh Sherman" he answered

I saw them get out of the hummers, and I turned to look, and he was gone. He was in the wooden beams of the roof. As soon as I saw Ryan, I had to make the hardest decision of my life.

"Ryan! No! GO Back! Please! Just Leave!" I started to scream. He just looked at me. He didn't know what I was saying. He looked at me with his delicious brown eyes, with such confusion that I started to sob. That's when I saw it. Josh had jumped down behind him. Ryan turned to look and had his gun knocked out of his hands.

"NO!" I screamed, then I heard a gun shot, followed by two more. Then there was a deafening silence. Eric looked at me, then he ran to me, took the baby from my arms, and started telling me things, that resembled, I think, "go, cal, go"

I got up and I ran to Ryan. He was lying there, coughing and choking on his own blood, and there was such fear in his eyes. Seeing that I started to sob.

"Oh, God, n-no. i-i n-need y-you, p-please, d-dont g-go!"

I heard the ambulance coming, and I turned to see Val crying, and trying to pull me away. I understood that the paramedics had to get to him, but as soon as I let go of his hand, he grabbed my wrist, in what felt like a death grip. I never knew that he was so strong.

"D-dont, g-go, p-please" he whispered, painfully. I felt a tug at my heartstrings.

"I won't" I said

And I didn't. I stayed with him through everything. I was with him when they retrieved the bullet, and I was there when he flat-lined. Thank god they brought him back though.

Ryan's POV

'Ahh, god, I have such a bad headache'

"Ryan? Oh my god, Ryan? Baby?" I knew it was Alexx

"Alexx?" I mumbled.

"Yea it's me baby."

"What happened?" I asked her

"What do you remember?"

"Going to find Calleigh. Then I heard a thump, and everything else is fuzzy" I said, I tried to sit up, but I fell back against the sheets when I felt a sharp pain in my chest.

"Baby, you were shot. Calleigh being kidnapped was a trap to get to you."

"Where is she?"

"She's in her own room."

"Why?"

"She almost followed your lead when you flat lined. She's very emotionally drained. As soon as the doctors think she's ready, they will bring her in."

"I want to see her."

"Baby, there's nothing I can d-"

"Now" I usually don't cut anyone off, let alone Alexx, but I want to see my Calleigh, and I want to see her now.

"Ok baby"

A few minutes later, she was walked in.

"Oh Ryan!" she ran over to me and collapsed onto me. I only noticed Horatio, Eric, Val, DC, and Alexx when they left.

three weeks later

"I've got to be the luckiest guy in the world" I say

"Why?" Calleigh looks up at me in confusion

"I just survived a gun shot wound, i've got a beautiful girlfriend, and i've got all my friends in one room!" I say, to everyone's amusement

I looked around...

I was on the bed with Calleigh, lying on top of me, flipping through the TV stations

In chairs were Greg, Erin, Deardra, Amy, Zack, and Maddy.

Standing was Alexx, Eric, Val, horatio, Frank, Erin's sister Kelsey, Mayra, and Dc

Yea, I had it good, and then a thought occurred to me, out of nowhere

"I have a confession, for the team."

"Ok", Calleigh looked up "shoot"

"When I was living in New York, and Zack will remember this, he was with me; I used to work in a record store, called Empire Records. And there was this kid, his name was Lucas Bishop. Now his cousin lived here in Miami, and he came up to visit a lot, especially when Lucas would screw something up, and we became friends..."

"What does this have to with us?" Eric piped up

"Well, their fathers where twins, so they looked a lot alike. His cousin's name was Tim Speedle"

Everyone just looked at me

"You knew speed?" Alexx said

"Yea and I would like you to meet his cousin, Lucas"

Lucas walked in. he looked almost exactly like Tim did.

"Oh, my god, he does look like Tim"

"Yea."

"That I do, half the time, Tim would walk in the store, and everyone would go, 'Hey look it's the Screw –up…DAMN THE MAN!'"

"I don't get it."

"Well Lucas, looks like we got some explaining to do" I say

Lucas and I proceeded to tell everyone the story of 'Rex Manning Day'

I felt a lot better after telling the team about Speed and I. I think everyone else did too. Now that i'm out of the hospital, i'm planning on continuing my life with Calleigh, and who knows, maybe we'll go further.

End