A Hidden Side

A/N: Somehow this story got deleted so I'm rewriting it. Sorry if it's not the same as how it used to be. I don't have anything from it; I only remember bits and pieces. Thanks. Oh and I don't own any of the characters or anything.

Calleigh lay asleep in Horatio's guest bedroom clad in a pair of his boxers and one of his shirts, curled up in a tight ball. He sat in the corner of the room, watching her sleep as he pondered the happenings of the night.

"Horatio, you can't tell anyone about this at work okay?" She asked him after he had finished.

"Calleigh, you know I have to make a case."

"I don't want anyone's pity. I'm not a victim."

"That's where you're wrong. You are the victim on this one." He replied.

She turned her back to him and hugged herself tightly. She didn't want pity. She didn't want to be treated the same way she had treated other people when they had been the victim.

"Fine, I won't tell the others. But I'm still making this a case." Horatio had said after a moment.

"Horatio? Can I ask you something?" Calleigh had asked again.

He nodded in response, telling her to go on.

"Can I stay with you? I don't want to go back to that place."

"I wouldn't want you anywhere else." He answered, stating the truth.

Calleigh had been violated in the worst possible way. She had been raped. His Calleigh had been raped.

'Since when is she my anything?' He asked himself. 'Since you fell in love with her.'

As Horatio reveled in his thoughts, nightmares began to plague Calleigh's dreams. In her sleep, she curled into a tighter ball and clenched her eyes as close as possible. Soon after, she started screaming.

Horatio was at her side faster than the speed of light, trying to wake her from her terror.

"Calleigh wake up." He called to her gently as he stroked her hair.

Responding without waking up, she started to thrash against him, hitting his chest with blows supposed for defense. Doing the only thing he could, Horatio grabbed her wrists and pulled her against his chest, back to him.

"Horatio?" She called, waking from her nightmare.

"I'm right here honey, you're okay." He soothed as the tears started to pour and sobs racked her body.

Calleigh turned and buried her face in his chest for the second time that night and let him hold and rock her.

"I can't escape him Horatio." She gasped between sobs. "He's everywhere."

"Don't worry baby, I won't let him touch you ever again."

Soon she was asleep again, this time a peaceful one, with Horatio holding her. He too fell asleep before long.