After The Dust Settles 2

Calleigh sighed as she closed the door to the girls' room and leaned up against it. She always knew that she would have to tell them one day about how they lost their father, but it didn't mean she was ready for it, she would never be ready for it. Calleigh forced herself to walk down to their bedroom, into the closet grabbing one of Tim's work shirts and slipping it on before getting into bed herself.

FLASHBACK---An hour earlier

Calleigh sighed as she sat down on Olivia's bed, Sandra had followed her and snuggled up next to her. "I want to talk to you girls about your daddy." Sandra had tighten her grip on her mother and Olivia had looked up at her waiting for an explanation. Calleigh sighed and wrapped one arm around Sandra and one arm around Olivia. "Your daddy...was a very good man. And he loved you two very much."

"Then why did he leave us?" asked Olivia softly.

"Well, baby. Your daddy didn't really have a choice. There was a very bad man trying to hurt us, when you two were just little babies, and your daddy choose his own life over ours. Does that make since?" Sandra and Olivia nodded. "But don't you two think for one second that your daddy didn't love you two with everything that he was, because he did." Calleigh smiled slightly and kissed the top of Sandra's curly locks. "Sometimes I think he loved you guys more then he did me. I swear you two were practically attatched to his hip."

END FLASHBACK----

Calleigh ran a hand over her face and then looked at her scar in the palm of her hand from when she picked up the glass that had broken when Tim's temper had gotten out of control. She sighed and looked to her left seeing his side of the bed, perfectly made. "It shouldn't look like that." Calleigh said softly. "You should be lying next to me." she felt tears come to her eyes. "You should be here, Tim. With me and our little girls." Calleigh took a deep breath and undid Tim's side of the bed then pulling his pillows down so that they were flat on the bed, she needed some since of fimilarity, that he wasn't completley gone from their lives. And if this is what it took then she was going to do everyday for the rest of her life if she had to.

Calleigh didin't know how long she had been sleeping, but knowing her routine for the past five years not very long. She reached over to Tim's nightstand and grabbed the ringing phone. "Hello." she asked through a yawn.

"Hel-"

Calleigh sat up slowly in bed, listening to the person on the other end take in a few ragged breath's. "Hello, is someone there?"

"You...you have to help me."

"Who is this?"

"Cal," the voice stopped and Calleigh thought they had hung up when they began coughing. "Please.."

"Tell me who you are and where you are and i'll come help you, but I can't until you do." The person on the phone groaned loudly and then the line went dead. "Hello...hello." Calleigh hung up the phone and starred at it. Whoever that was on the phone was hurting or dying.

Calleigh woke up again about four hours later to a slight banging noise on the door. She grabbed her robe from the door and put it on, she walked into the kitchen and grabbed her gun from the lock box she then walked to the front door and unlocked it slowly. "Who's there."

"Please, Cal..."

"Are you the person on the phone?" Calleigh asked as she trained her ears to listen to the person's faint voice.

"Please...open the door."

Calleigh took a deep breath and opend it slowly, she had to drop her gun from the man's heavy weight when he suddenly fell on her. Calleigh's knee's buckled from the suprise, she didn't have time to brace herself and her and the man had fallen to the floor. Calleigh sat up slowly turning the man over. "Oh my god!"

"Please help me, Cal." the man said weakly, breathing was becoming more and more difficult.

Calleigh had to look past the blood that was covering every inch of his beaten face, his chest was covered in blood, Calleigh pulled back his shirt slightly and saw that he had been shot in the stomach, her eyes then shifted to his right arm that appeared to be broken. "Timmy?" her voice asked quievering.

He nodded slightly. "I'm..." it was hard to make out what he was saying. Calleigh thought this was because he might have taken a few good punches to his jaw. "Sorry."

Calleigh shook her head not believing it, "Shhh, you have nothing to be sorry for. I just have to go get some towels and water to clean you up. I'll be right back."

Tim shook his head and used his left hand to grab her arm, preventing her from leaving, "Don't leave me."

Calleigh ran her hand threw his hair, "Baby I have to go call and ambulance."

"No." Tim paused to catch his breath. "To dangerous."

"Then baby I have to call, Alexx. We can trust her."

Tim nodded and let Calleigh walk down the hall to get what she needed. She came back a few minutes later and placed the towels and water on the coffee table, she then quickly called Alexx and sat the phone down on the table, she rushed back over to Tim's side and helped him up and over to the couch where he laid down rather quickly. "Alright, let's have a look at that wound, huh?" Tim groaned in pain as Calleigh pressed a towel against it. "Sorry." she tried to keep her attention on the wound but she kept looking at him. She saw the building explode she saw it. How could this be possible. Calleigh took his good hand and rested it on his wound. "Here, keep your hand there. Help stop the bleeding"

She then took a hand towel and dipped it into the warm water and began wiping his face very carefully, Tim groaned in pain again. "Who did this to you?"

Tim shook his head, "Where are the girls?"

"Don't worry, there fine, they're upstairs sleeping."

Tim nodded, "Five."

Calleigh nodded. "They turned five last week."

Tim let out something that sounded like a sob, "Sorry...sorry I wasn't there."

Calleigh shook her head and continued to wipe the blood from his face. "It's ok, baby. You're here now and that's all that matters ok?"

"Love you." said Tim so quietly that Calleigh had to think carefully of what he said.

"I love you to, but listen to me Alexx will be here in a second, ok. You gotta stay awake. Tim...you hear me stay awake. Tim! Tim!"

TBC...whistles and walks away slowly before the mob attacks me