Author's Note: I believe this will be the last chapter to this fic. I may be wrong, let's just see where this one takes us.
Anni: Just to be nice, I'm giving you another hankie warning. lol.
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Calleigh's eyes followed Tim as he walked across the room and over to the small table. "Oh my god." Calleigh stood up quickly. Tim held out his hand. "DON'T MOVE!"
Calleigh nodded and stayed put. "Tim?" she asked in a quivering voice.
"It's a bomb."
Calleigh closed her eyes. "Oh my god."
Tim shook his head, "It's alright, it hasn't been triggered yet. He's probably controlling it from somewhere else, his home maybe, I'm not sure. Let's just call bomb squad and get the hell out of this room before he detinates it."
Calleigh nodded, just then Tim's phone began to ring. Tim looked down at it and hesitated before answering. "Speedle."
"So, I see your at the crime scene?"
"Look, you've got me all right. Just...just tell me where to meet you and I will."
The man laughed loudly, causing Tim to take the cell phone away from his ear slightly. "We're not meeting anywhere Speedle."
"All right, look you sick son of a bitch!-"
The man stopped laughing, "That was a mistake, Speedle." Tim looked down at the bomb and saw as the little box that displayed the numbers turned on. "You have apporximatley 20 minutes." he said before he hung up.
"Tim!" asked Calleigh as her heart rate began to rise.
"Cal, I want you to get on your phone and call Horatio, tell him to call bomb squad.
Calleigh shook her head slightly, "Tim..."
"Calleigh, baby its ok. Just call Horatio."
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Eric Delko walked into the documents lab with Horatio, letter in hand. He opened it up and looked inside. "Its shredded."
Horatio nodded in his all to familiar pose. "And its addressed to the crime lab?" Eric nodded. "Ok, he normally." Horatio paused for a minute. "He normally sends the shredded letters to, Speed."
"You think he's deciding to change his M.O.?"
Horatio shook his head. "No, he trying to stall. Eric put that letter together as fast as you can, its a message." Eric nodded and began to work. Eric looked up as Horatio's cell phone began to ring. "Caine...ok, Cal-...Calleigh slow down. What happend?"
"We're at the crime scene you told us to come to-"
"OK, Calleigh, I never sent you and Speed to a crime scene."
Calleigh looked up in Tim's direction, his back was still turned to her. "So, this is all a set up?"
Horatio nodded. "Ok, alright, where's Speed?"
"He's standing by the bomb, he found it covered up by a cloth in the corner."
"OK, Calleigh this is what I want you to do, alright, I want you to stay calm, ok. I'm going to get bomb squad over there."
"No, Horatio. There isn't going to be enough time."
"What do you mean?"
"We only have 16 minutes left."
Eric had turned back to the letter and had the first few pieces put together. 'This will be his final hour. Its a shame about the wife. But if your lucky, and play your cards right.'
"Calleigh, listen to me. Alright, listen I don't want you two to panic alright, your going to be fine. I'm on my way. OK. I'm on my way!" Horatio looked at Eric and snapped his phone shut. "Eric...I have to go." Eric nodded and went back to the letter.
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Tim kept looking down at bomb and heared as Calleigh snapped her phone shut. "How you doin back there?"
Calleigh looked over at Tim. "I'm ok. You?"
Tim sighed. "I've been better." he paused for a second still looking at the bomb. "I can find its off switch. I can't figure out how to turn it off. I'm sorry."
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Eric stared at the little stripes of paper. This guy was good at what he did, not a fingerprint, made sure only the detinator of the bomb was left, not a hair, fiber, anything. Eric sighed and began to put more stripes together, casting them to the side when they didn't match.
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Horatio stepped out of his Hummer quickly and walked over to Mitchell Rogers, Captain of bomb squad. "Mitch.."
Mitch nodded in Horatio's direction. "Lt. Caine, two of your guys are in there?"
Horatio nodded. "Yes, husband and wife. There my two best CSI'S Mitch, I can't lose them."
Mitch nodded in understanding. "We'll do our best. So this is the crazed bomber's work?"
Horatio nodded as he glanced up at the office building. "Yes, he's out to get my CSI." Mitch nodded. "You get everybody out of the building?"
"Yes, we pulled the alarm, evacuated, the only people in there are your CSI'S."
Horatio nodded. "Alright, Mitch. Suit me up were going in."
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Calleigh shook her head, "Honey I'm going to tell you this one last time. This is NOT your fault."
"I love you."
Calleigh closed her eyes. "I love you to."
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Eric squinted at the words for now the writting was smaller, much smaller. "If...I..." Eric sighed and shook his head as Valera walked in.
"Hey, you got the envelope for me?"
Eric nodded and handed it to her without looking up. "Page me."
Valera nodded and left the room.
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Mitch checked Horatio's armor. "Alright your all set. Look, Lt. I know those are your guys in there. I know you want them safe. But let bomb squad make the calls alright?"
Horatio nodded. "Let's go in, Mitch."
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Eric sighed and brought his face closer to the letter the words were in cursive and he couldn't read the sloppy handwritting. Somehow Eric thought that this was the whole point. "It's a st...stall tactic. The...bomb will...go off...then boom!" Eric starred at the letter not quite understanding.
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Tim nodded and backed away from the bomb slowly and turned around. "We have to find out where that ticking noise came from. It didn't come from the bomb, the bomb wasn't activated until I made him angry."
Calleigh nodded. "I don't see a clock...I.." Calleigh's eyes drifted around the room to the side of the desk were a recorder was taped. "There."
Tim's eyes landed on the recorder. "He wanted to get my attention."
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Horatio looked up at the building as his cell rang. "Talk to me, Eric."
"Its a stall tactic, H."
"What are saying?"
"I'm saying the bomb that's in the room, Speedle and Calleigh are in is not the main bomb, there's another one in the building somewhere, but i'm not sure where."
"Ok, Eric that doesn't make since. If he wants to get rid of Speed why create another bomb, the one in the room would kill him."
Eric sighed. "I don't know, H. It doesn't make since to me either. But that's what the letter said."
"Ok, thank you, Eric." Horatio snapped his phone shut and looked away from the building. "Mitch...we have a problem."
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Tim walked slowly over to the other side of the desk and pulled the duct tape off of the recorder. He looked at it. "It's just a recorder." Calleigh nodded. "Does any of this add up to you?"
Calleigh shook her head. "No, something's not right."
Tim nodded and pressed stop on the recorder.
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Horatio and the bomb squad fell back onto the ground as a bomb went off in the building. Horatio looked up to see the glass from the window's fall to the ground. He put his hands to his ears to stop the ringing.
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Calleigh groaned and sat up slowly. She moved a piece of debris from her foot and looked around the dust covered room for Tim. "Tim...honey?"
Tim gasped slightly from the back of the room. "Ca...cal."
Calleigh walked over to the other side of the room and saw Tim with part of the ceiling on the lower half of his body. "TIM! Oh my god, honey!" Calleigh squatted down next to him and lifted the debris off of his lower half. Her eyes landed on his blood stained stomach. "Oh, sweetie..."
"Is it bad?" asked Tim as he tried to lift himself up to look at his wound.
Calleigh shook her head. "No, sweetie. No its not bad." Calleigh looked around the room and saw that the window's were busted out. Which wasn't unusal for a bomb scene, but some of the debris must have gotten sucked in back in from the pressure and went into Tim's stomach.
TBC...Dun dun dun. Ok I lied, this won't be the last chapter.