Note: To my readers, I apologize for the typographical error in the previous chapter, I wrote "Jesse" instead of "Jake". So my apologies. . . I already corrected my mistake. . .

Chapter 11

One week later

Horatio's behavior was just as equally confusing to Calleigh the next week, it seemed his nights were becoming longer and his days had started as early as he could make them, just so he couldn't talk to her. But she still stayed at his place most of that week just in case he would actually talk to her, which she tired but there was always an excuse for him to leave the room as soon as she was in it, she was really worried about him.

But this weekend she was hoping that whatever was going on, she would know what it is, which was why she was packing a bag so there was no excuses to cut her stay with him short, especially since she requested some time off and knew that Horatio had at least one day off.

She was checking her list when there was a knock on the door.

Confused on who it would be during this time of the afternoon since everybody she mostly knew was at work, she walked to the front door and opened it, and when she saw it was Jake, she was about to sigh but when she saw that he looked weary and a little sad she stopped herself. "Are you ok?"

He took a breath and asked. "Can I come in?" She looked back at the clock on her wall as he continued softly. "Please?"

She looked at him again and nodded as she moved to the side. "Yeah, but only for a bit." He nodded as he walked into her house.

After she shuts the door she turns around to look at him. "So what's going on? Having problems with the girl again?"

He sighed and asked. "Before we talk can I use your restroom?"

She gives him a little smile and nodded. "Yeah, but you'll have to use the master bathroom because the other one is broken until next week." He nodded again as he walked to her room and into the bathroom. While he was in there, she walked into the room to look at her list one more time, and she was happy when she mentally checked everything off.

She was zipping up her bag when the bathroom door opened, then as he was walking up behind her, he asked. "You going somewhere? It looks like it will be a long trip."

She shook her head as she moved the bag off to the right side of the bed, then turned around with a smile on her face as she spoke, noticing he was a little closer to her than she was expecting, but still enough distance to not feel threatened.

"I'm going over to Horatio's this weekend, we need to have a talk, sort some things out." As he kept staring at her, she cleared her throat and said. "But you didn't come here to talk about Horatio and I."

He shook his head and walked up closer to her. "No I didn't."

Then before she could move away or say anything, he had grabbed her and took her down on the bed.

She started to struggle and cried out. "Jake, no..." "Let me go!" "Jake...You don't want to do this!"

While he had her body pinned down, his right hand had a strong hold of her wrists and he had moved them above her head while his other hand went to the buttons of her blouse and spoke as he was looking into her eyes. "That's where you are wrong, you have no idea how much I do want to do this, how much I have wanted you since we've broken up." Then he leaned down and started putting his lips on hers.

(Not long after Jake had arrived at Calleigh's)

Horatio and Eric were working a crime scene when his phone starts to ring, so he pulls his phone from his phone clip before answering it. "Caine."

"Lt. Caine, Uhmm... I noticed there is a car in Calleigh's driveway and I've never seen it there before."

Horatio mentally sighed, it wasn't that he didn't like Calleigh's neighbor, in fact he liked her very much, especially because she does look after her, but sometimes he thinks she took looking after her neighbors a little too far.

"Mrs. Harrison, I'm sure that it is just a friend visiting."

Which it could have been true even though Calleigh never said anybody was coming to visit her, but then again he's hardly been in the same room with her for her to tell him anything that was going on outside of work lately.

"I thought of that too, but when I called her cell phone she didn't pick-up, I'm sure she could have stopped the visit for just a second or two, right? Especially if she knew it was me."

Horatio's heart started to speed up a little, just because things hadn't been going right, at least in his mind, didn't mean he stopped caring, so he cleared his throat and said. "Ok, I'll go check it out."

"Thank you, it would really make me feel a little better, bye Lieutenant."

"Bye, Mrs. Harrison."

After Horatio hung up, he looked at Eric and asked. "Can you finish up here?"

He smiled with a nod. "You got it H, Is everything ok?"

"I'm sure it is, but I want to be on the safe side."

Eric didn't know what that meant, but he just nodded with another smile, then after Horatio told him he shouldn't be long, he turned and walked away as he places his sunglasses back on.

When he got to Calleigh's house and parked his vehicle on the side of the street, he gets out and walks up to the house, noticing a vehicle in the driveway he didn't recognize. Once he got to her front door, he knocks, but when there was no answer, his worry became heightened a little, so he puts his hand on the doorknob, opens it up and walks into the house, pulling out his gun.

After he stepped into the house, he thought he heard something from the bedroom so he walked to the doorway of it, but stopped dead in his tracks when he saw that Jake was shirtless and on top of Calleigh with her blouse wide open, kissing her passionately.

And with all the evidence that he had and what he had seen between them, he couldn't help but think that what he was seeing was consensual, not realizing Calleigh was trying to get free but couldn't, and he was furious, so furious he almost used his gun on him. But he shook his head, puts his gun back in place as he walked up to the bed, then tore Jake off of Calleigh, which with the strength that he used because of the anger rushing through him made Jake's momentum take him to the wall.

When Horatio looked at Calleigh in the eyes, she was even scared of him at the moment, and that's a feeling she never would have ossicated with him before the day. Before she could say anything, Horatio turned back around and Jake was coming up to him, angry that he had ruined what was happening, but before he could take a swing at the older man, Horatio had already gotten his cheek. Jake wasn't giving up though, he shook of the strike and went after him, but missing him, and after another blow to his face, he was down on the floor and a second later he felt the older man's knee hit his abdomen, taking the breath out of him, but before he could even attempt to catch his breath, Horatio gets him standing on his feet, and after grabbing the younger man's shirt, he takes him by the neck, walks him through the house and tosses him out on the yard, telling him to get out of here.

Horatio walks back into the house, slamming the door behind him, his anger not going away as he walked back into her bedroom, which now Calleigh's shirt had been buttoned halfway and she was crying on her bed. He looked at her for a second before turning toward her wall and hitting the wall hard with his already red hand, before turning toward her again and he leaned on the wall, sliding down until he was sitting on the floor with his forearms on his knees and asking in an almost pleading tone and a tear fall from his eyes.

"Why? Why Calleigh? Why did you have to hurt me this way, you promised me that nothing was going on between you two. Do you have any idea how much I love you, how much my heart was in this?"

Calleigh replied with emotion. "What you saw, isn't what you think."

Horatio was trying so hard not to cry in front of Calleigh

"It isn't?" He shook his head as he stood up and walked up to the bed, then replied as he pulled the latest pictures he had gotten out of the inside of his jacket and asked. "Then what are these!? You tell me now that it isn't what I think." Calleigh looked at the pictures, she even picked them up and looked through them, but she couldn't believe what she was seeing, she was completely shocked, and not only from the pictures, she was still shocked what just happened here.

Finally she looked up at him and said. "I don't know." He just stood there looking at her with a pained face, not saying anything, so she reached to touch his hand as a little sob came through her. "Please Horatio, believe me, I don't know anything about these."

But before her hand could touch his, he stepped back and said. "Well here is what I do know, we are over." Then he turned and started walking away, afraid that if he looked at her, he would forgive and forget because in spite of everything, he still loved her.

As he walked out of her room, she tossed the picture on the bed and followed him, pleading. "Horatio Please, let me..."

He cuts her off as he stops in front of the door. "I don't need to hear the excuses, I've heard them all before."

The excuses he was referring to didn't involve him directly, but he's heard enough from the criminals he's locked up for their crimes.

Calleigh hugs him from behind, still pleading with him and cryng. "Horatio please, don't - don't leave me, Please, I love you, I love you so much."

He opens the door while shrugging off her arms before walking out of the house, leaving a crying and distraught Calleigh behind as she sank to the floor crying, while hearts were broken in two.