Chapter 15

When he made it to the correct address, he gets out of his vehicle and walks toward the warehouse while he takes the gun out of his holster.

Once he walked into the building he saw Calleigh in the middle of the room tied to a chair while she was sobbing lightly with Jake holding a gun to the side of her head.

"Alright I'm here, now let her go."

Jake smiled as he looked at the redhead, but keeping the gun where it was pointed. "And let her miss out on the fun I'm about to have, I don't think so." Horatio raised the gun to him and clicked the safety down, which Jake does it too. "Do you really want to test fate?" Horatio hesitated and brought the gun down as he clicked the safety back into place while Jake said. "Now toss it."

He did a second later, then Jake looked to his left, where his two companions was standing and tilted his head toward Horatio while Calleigh was telling him to stop this. They nodded their heads as they started walking up toward him, and Horatio clinched his fists ready to fight, knowing there wasn't any chance he'll be able to fight them both, but he wasn't going to leave either, not when Calleigh was in danger.

After a few swings from Horatio, which caused little damage, the bald headed man punched him in the gut, causing him to fall on the ground with a groan while Calleigh kept sobbing, then Jake smiled and chuckled as he moved the gun from her head and placed it in the back of his pants before walking up to Horatio and the guys.

As he got closer to them, the two companions picked Horatio up and had a hold of his arms, then Jake stopped in front of him, smiled and said. "I was thinking about just shooting you and getting this over with, but I've been waiting to do this for a long time now."

Before Horatio could insult him, Jake punched him in the same spot he just got hit in as Calleigh shouted. "No!" While trying to get her hands out of the rope.

He chuckled and after one more punch, and while Horatio was trying to catch his breath, Jake speaks again. "Before I continue, I want to confess something because I know what I say won't be heard by anybody else." He paused before he continued. "Those pictures were all fake, I edited every single one of them." Calleigh gasped as Horatio looked up at him completely broken. Jake smiled a little bigger. "Everything that happened, from the pictures to day that I showed up at Calleigh's place it was because of me, you guys were suffering because that's how I wanted it."

Calleigh glared at him and asked. "How could you do that, why?" Before this whole thing with him, Calleigh could have never imagined he could be like this.

He walked away from Horatio and stood behind the chair on where Calleigh still sat so he could still have a view of Horatio and spoke with a hard tone. "For revenge. I can't count on how many women I would come across that had crushes on me, or I had little flings with, but there was only one woman I truly loved, and what does she do? She replaces me with an older man."

As a few tears fell down her cheek, she replied, while looking toward Horatio, meaning every word despite how far they've become in the last few weeks. "And he is more of man than you'll ever be."

Jake gets mad again, but he doesn't take it out of her, instead he walks up to Horatio and replied. "You think so, we'll see about that now." Before he starts punching him again while Calleigh breaking into a sob telling him to stop.

After a few more minutes he turns his back to a downed Horatio and snickered. "So this is really the guy you chose over me? This weak, pathetic, old man? Who's going to be your knight in shining armor now?"

Before Jake turned back around to cause more damage to Horatio, Horatio had used whatever strength he had left and started to stand up, but before the two guys could get a get hold of him, Horatio elbowed the shorter one in the gut to make him stumble enough so he could take the gun from his side before he used it without thinking about his actions, shooting the two men at his side.

Jake turned around the moment he heard the shots while grabbing his gun from the back of his pants, then a second later their guns were pointed at one another with their safeties off and ready to shoot.

Horatio painfully takes a breath before speaking. "One of us isn't going to make it out of here."

Jake snickered. "I know, Goodbye Lieutenant."

But just as Jake put his thumb on the trigger, Calleigh, who had realized that she had loosened the ropes during her struggles, got free and shouted as she got up off the chair, which made Horatio pause, then she ran into Jake's arm and made his shot miss the indented target, but he recovered fast and took another shot, this time hitting somebody but it wasn't the person he was aiming for because Calleigh run in his line of sight in order to protect the the man she love.

They all watched the scene wide-eyed as Horatio shouted. "No!" and before Jake could even think of running away, the swat team, Frank leading the MDPD along with CSI's, Eric and Ryan, rushed into the warehouse and started shooting a Jake, killing him instantly.

Horatio caught Calleigh before she stumbled down, but the momentum took them both down on the ground. He then gets them in a position where he was cradling her so he could look into her eyes while he had one hand pressing on the wound and the other one cupping her cheek. They both have tears in their eyes as she slowly cups his cheek, then a second later she whispers. "I love you, always." Before she closes her eyes, losing consciousness.

"No,no,no,no...Calleigh...please wake up sweetheart" Horatio shakes his head as tears were streaming down his face while cradling to her and repeating over and over how sorry he was for everything that happened. "I'm sorry... I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I'm so sorry", "Sweetheart, pls. wake up... please", "Calleigh... I love you, always..."