Authors Note: Just wanted to say thank y'all for the reviews they mean a lot to me.

Author's Note 2: I just wanted to let you know that I will be having a couple other fics up. They'll be song fics. So probably only 1 chapter each. I just wanted you to know that I haven't given up on this story, I just heared some songs recently and they got my plot bunnies a turnin.

After The Dust Settles 4

Calleigh tossed and turned in her sleep. She was having that all to familiar nightmare. The one that had imitated real life.

FLASHBACK/CALLEIGH'S DREAM

"I'm so cold."

Calleigh reached out and grabbed his hand, "I know you are baby. Everything's going to be ok."

Tim shook his head slightly, "I want you to get out of here."

Calleigh shook her head, "No, I'm not leaving without you."

"Cal-" he stopped to gain his breath back. But it was becoming harder and harder. "Calleigh, one of us has to be there to see our girls grow up. Now you can walk out of here, I can't. Go."

Calleigh shook her head and felt hot tears begin to pour down her cheek, "I can't leave you."

"Baby, you have to."

"Where's..where's rescue? Shouldn't they be up here by now?"

Calleigh kissed the top of his head. "I don't know, baby, maybe there was some blockage to the stairs."

Tim nodded slightly and looked over at his right when the bomb began to tick. "Cal..."

Calleigh laid Tim back down slowly, careful not to hurt him and walked over to the bomb. "He activated it."

Then all of a sudden it flashed to Calleigh and Horatio walking over to the ambulance and the building falling down around them. Horatio had pushed Calleigh to the ground. Calleigh broke away from Horatio's grasp and stood up. "TIM!" yelled Calleigh from the top of her lungs. "NOOO!"

Calleigh sat up in bed out of breath, "Tim!" she said breathesly. She looked to Tim's side of the bed and saw that it was empty. For a few minutes she thought she had been dreaming him coming to her doorstep covered in blood when she saw the pain pills Alexx had left for him on the nightstand. Calleigh took a deep breath and ran her hand through her hair, "Get a hold of yourself Calleigh. It's in the past. He's not really dead he's just...MIA." said Calleigh as she looked around the room. She grabbed her robe from the rocking chair in the corner and walked down the stairs. She had heared giggles coming from the living room and thought that the girls were awake. 'Great' Calleigh thought to herself how was she going to explain that their father was suddenly alive. Calleigh was about to call out the girls' name to leave Tim alone when Calleigh saw that it was the t.v.

Calleigh saw Tim sitting on the couch the remote in his hand and tears gently falling down his cheek. Her heart broke instantly, she always hated to see him cry. And was only when it concerened his family that he did so. Calleigh's eyes then drifted over to the t.v. and saw that Tim had put in one of the video's that Tyler had edited into a movie of the girls' five years of life. Calleigh smiled slightly at the screen remembering that day about 4 months ago.

"Ok, Sandra, the first thing you want to do is pick a spot on the other side of the pool, focus on it and just kick your legs as fast as you can."

Sandra shook her head, "Uncle Eric I can't do it. I can't swim."

Eric smiled slightly, "Of course you can sweetheart. I won't let go of your waist the whole time, ok?"

Sandra sighed heavily. "Fine, but if I suddenly drown and die a horrible horrible death i would love to see Aunt Valera's face when Unlce Horatio has to put you in jail."

Eric had to do everything in his power to not laugh as he looked over at Horatio, "H, would you really throw me in the slammer?"

"Well." said Horatio as he sat down in a chair next to Calleigh. "You hurt my god daughter and you just might."

"Oh, no H man. I'm shaking in my swimming trunks."

Tim had to laugh at the look Horatio had given Eric for calling him H man. He had always hated that. It was either Horatio, H, or Lt. Not H man.

Sandra made a whiny noise, "I can't do it. Mommy I can't do it."

"Sandra baby yes you can, Uncle Eric knows what he's doing. He taught Olivia."

"Yeah." said Olivia cheerfully. "I already know how to swim." she said as she placed her hands on her hips and stuck her nose in the air.

"Oh yeah!" said Sandra breaking away from Eric's grasp and climbing out of the pool. "Well..well what do you know anyway! You were always the daddy's girl!" said Sandra hatefully yet sadly as she grabbed her towel and ran into the house.

The camera then shifted to Calleigh who sighed and ran a hand over her face, "I'll be right back."

Calleigh leaned against the door frame of the living room and watched as Tim looked down at the ground. He then looked up when he heared talking again.

"Tyler Jensen get the camera out of my face." said Calleigh who was sitting on the couch with a whole bunch of tissue paper scattered around her.

"Aw come on Cal you wanted me to tape this, so I am."

Calleigh gave Tyler a pointed look and Tim could hear as Tyler took a deep breath, "Alright ok. So Maxine how are you doing today? Staying out of the lab? Have you had to much of DNA?"

"Tyler." said Valera as she shook her head, "Go bother somebody else with the camer will ya?"

Tyler sighed, "Does nobody appreciate the art that is recording?"

"NO!" said everyone, which consisted of Calleigh, Valera, Eric, Horatio, Yelina, Frank and his wife, and Alexx and her husband.

"Alright you say no now but years later Cal when you can't remember a 9 mil from a tech nine don't complain that I got your life on tape."

Calleigh rolled her eyes and stood up with the help of Alexx. Tim's eyes widened when he saw that Calleigh's belly was swollen.

"I may be pregnant stringbean but I'm still strong enough to kick your butt." said Calleigh as she walked over to him and tried to grab the camera from him. Tim heared some ruffling noises before the camera turned off. Tim turned the t.v. off and placed the remote on the table. If Calleigh was pregnant then...where was the baby?

Calleigh walked over to Tim and sat down next to him, "The cord got wrapped around his neck during birth, he didn't make it." said Calleigh as she looked at her hands. "Poor thing."

Tim cleared his throat and looked over at Calleigh, "I had no idea. I mean. Horatio, never. He never told. He never told me." said Tim quickly.

Calleigh shrugged, "Well he probably thought that if you knew you'd want to come back and it would be to dangerous."

Tim nodded and put his hand over hers, "I am so sorry."

Calleigh shrugged, "Its ok. I'm fine."

"Still." said Tim as he reached up and stroked her cheek. "I should have been there. But I wasn't, I was being a coward and I hid."

Calleigh shook her head, "No, you were protecting your family. There's a big difference."

Tim sighed and scooted closer to her and looked into her eyes. The eyes that he had missed so much. "I love you and those girls more then anything, you know that right?"

Calleigh nodded as she looked into his deep brown eyes, "I know that."

"And I wouldn't have done this if I didn't feel like it was necassary."

"I know." said Calleigh softly, her voice barely over a whisper.

Tim rand his hand through her hair and down her shoulder then down her arm and back up, causing goosebumps to erupt over Calleigh's skin. Calleigh closed her eyes at the sensation and then opened them back up to find Tim still looking at her. She looked down at the bandgage on his side, "We can't."

Tim used his hand to turn her chin up so that she was looking at him, "I don't care." Calleigh went to protest but all further protests were cut off by Tim's lips on Calleigh's. It took Calleigh a minute to register what was going on. I mean she was kissing her dead husband. Tim deepend the kiss slightly causing Calleigh to moan softly. Calleigh then gently ran her hands up his chest and around his neck. Tim then gently pushed her back onto the couch.

"I don't want to hurt you." Calleigh whispered as she ran her hands gently over his beaten face.

"The only way you'd be hurting me is by not loving me." said Tim as he looked down at her.

"I'll always love you."

Tim nodded and connected her lips with his passionatley.

Tbc...