A/N: No reviews on the last chapter, but i'll still update. Thanks to all of you who has been helping me with the chapter. Please notice that i've started school now, and that you shouldn't expect update more often than once a week. And still i can't promise there'll be an update a week, but i'll try. Read and please review. As usual.

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At around 2 p.m the next day the girls were woken up by Suzie

"Girls, it's two pm and it's a wonderful day. It's Stephanie's last day here and you should really do something together and not sleep all day!"

The girls were awake at once; Stephanie was leaving in three hours! So they went down to the kitchen and ate breakfast or rather lunch fast and decided what to do during the last hours of Stephanie's stay in Miami. After eating, they called Ray and Olivia, and decided that they should meet up in half an hour. So the girls washed and got dressed, and then made their way to Ray's. When the door was opened they weren't met by a smiling couple, but just Ray – without a trace of smile on his face.

"Where's Olivia?" Stephanie asked when he let them in.

"I don't know. I told her to go and buy a cake that we could eat. She was just going to the bank around the corner to get some cash and then buy us a cake. I'm scared something's happened."

"But she'll probably be back any minute," Madison answered, thinking that Ray was over reacting a little.

"She's been away for twenty-five minutes! It shouldn't take more than ten. If there are a lot of people then maybe fifteen. But it's a small bank, and there are never many people. And she isn't answering her cell-phone! The line is dead."

Madison could see why he was worried, but still she didn't think it had to be that big a deal anything. It could happen that there were many people in the bank. "But Ray, I'm sure-"

"Stop it! I can feel there's something wrong! She always has her phone on, and she always answers! And I know she took it with her before she left!" Ray sounded hysterical now.

"Ray you have to calm-" Stephanie started, but stopped when the phone started to ring. Ray went out to the kitchen, with the others close behind. He put the phone to his ear, and answered. During the call, Ray went paler and paler, and when he ended the call, he was white as if he had seen a ghost.

"We're… we're coming," he said. A few seconds later he hung up.

"Who was that? What is it?" The girls asked, now worried.

"Olivia…" He took a deep breath.

"It was Horatio… There's been a robbery at the bank. Olivia's been shot."

It wasn't long before the three of them were in the car on the way to the hospital. No one spoke, and ten minutes later, they went through the entrance and into the reception. Horatio, Yelina and Suzie were already there.

"How is she?" Ray asked at once – before any of them could speak.

"We don't know. She's in the surgery right now."

"Where was she shot? Do you think she'll be okay?"

Horatio hesitated a few seconds before answering. "I, uh… As I said we don't know…"

"Horatio, you know where she was shot and her odds. Is she going to be okay?"

"Ray, I don't know, but it looked bad. When we approached the scene she had lost a lot of blood. She was shot in her stomach. But the paramedics are doing their best, and they'll come and speak to us when the surgery is over."

The words had the same effect as if someone had hit Ray hard in the stomach. He sank down in one of the chairs. Madison and Stephanie hugged each other, and stood there for a long time before they sat down in one of the sofas, waiting eagerly to hear any news of how Olivia was doing. Olivia's parents and her two sisters soon came in, and Horatio told them what had happened. It took almost half an hour before anyone moved or said anything. Eric, Calleigh and Ryan dropped by, telling them all how sorry they were, but after talking to Horatio, they went back to work deciding that the best they could do was to catch the guys who did this. They waited for another half an hour before anyone talked to them, but finally a man approached them.

"Are you the family of Olivia McWilliams?

"Yes." All of them rose, and stood in a circle around the doctor.

"I… I'm very sorry to be the one who tells you this, but she's gone. We lost her."

For the first time that day, Ray lost control. Yelling out his grief, he cried and fell back down in the sofa.

"We've tried to make her come back, but she's gone. I'm very sorry for your loss."

Olivia's mother cried against her husband's chest, and Yelina tried to comfort Ray, while tears were rolling down her own cheeks. Madison and Stephanie cried, and all they could do was to stand there, feeling the big emptiness inside. Horatio hugged Suzie, and then Yelina.

Ray was out of control. He wouldn't listen, he wouldn't move, he just lay on a sofa, crying like they never had seen him cry before.

"Ray, come here," Horatio said. But Ray didn't move, he just kept crying.

"Ray, come here, I want to talk to you." Forcing the eighteen year old to stand, he dragged him away from the others and sat down in a sofa in the corner of the room. There he sat down beside Ray and talked to him. None of the others could hear what he said, but they didn't try to either. They knew that Horatio was the one who – if anyone – could comfort Ray. Horatio was the only one who had been through similar things and they understood that he wanted to make Ray understand that life goes on, and that he would feel better.

But at that moment, none of them could think 'it will get better', this day was a day of grief. This was a sad day in Miami.

Stephanie didn't catch her flight to New York. She had gotten permission to stay in Miami, because she refused to leave without taking proper leave of Olivia. So she stayed, and Monday afternoon they went to the funeral. Horatio, Calleigh, Eric, Ryan, Alexx, Molly, Suzie, Yelina, Ray, Stephanie, Madison and Olivia's whole family, all of them dressed in black.

Even though Madison, Stephanie and Olivia's family were grieving and crying through the whole funeral, it was nothing comparing to Ray. He didn't cry like the others, but they all knew that he was the one that had taken Olivia's dead the hardest. And they all knew why.
Ray was blaming himself for her death. He thought that if he hadn't sent her to buy that cake and take out some money at the bank, none of this would've happened. Of course no one blamed him; the only ones that could be blamed for her death were those who robbed the bank. The whole team was working on this case and they had been working round the clock to get the men who did this.

Olivia's death had hit them all hard, but worst of all Ray. He had changed, he was like another person. When someone spoke to him it was like if his body was there, but his mind somewhere else. Madison, Michael, Joachim and Ray's family were all starting to get really worried. It was like he was drowning in sorrow, and they had to pull him back up to the surface soon – or else he would drown, and not come back. Stephanie was also really worried, even though she now was back in New York. Every night she called, and all she wanted to talk about was Ray. They all were discussing what to do, but no one seemed to have a good answer to this question. Several times they had tried to make him talk or go to Molly's together with Madison and the twins, but he just answered that he was busy and shut the door in their faces. All Ray really did was to go to school and stay at the apartment. The only thing he seemed to care about anymore was school passing his tests. He buried himself within his books, and stayed in his apartment during the weekends.

About three weeks after Olivia's death, Michael, Joachim and Madison had enough, and decided that they had to go and talk to him.

"Ray, please open the door!" Michael said, knocking on the door to Ray's apartment.

"We want to see you! We miss you!" Madison called, and knocked again.

After one more minute of yelling and knocking at the door, Ray finally opened. "What is it? I'm studying."

"Ray, it can't go on like this. I know that Olivia's death has hit you hard, it hit us all, but you have to understand that we are going through this together! None of us should be forced to go through such thing alone!"

"You have no idea what I'm going through," he said coldly.

"Yes Ray, I do! And if not, please tell us, because we want to be there for you. We are here to listen and help you. We have to help each other with this – or else we can't make it!"

He didn't answer, just looked at her with a face of stone.

"Ray please… Please, let us in, or come with us. We need to talk. We need to spend time with each other! Please…"

"I… Leave me alone Madison… Please… Just leave me alone." And he shut the door.

Madison looked at the twins, in a last hope for help. Carro, a suggestion here, I think you should substitute the high-lighted bit here for 'things were getting desperate now,' it's just that your phrase doesn't quite flow.

"I think we have to talk to Horatio… He is the only one who can talk to Ray," Michael said after a while.

And that evening Michael, Joachim, Yelina and Horatio were invited for dinner at Suzie's place.

"Horatio, we tried to talk to Ray today…"

"And?"

"Well, he still won't talk to us. I think you should talk to him. You're the only one who has… uh…"

"Been through similar things," Horatio said and nodded.

"So will you talk to him?" Joachim asked.

"I've been planning to pay him a visit the day after tomorrow, because he's always home during the weekends."

"What do you think we should do? I mean, what if he refuses to talk to you?"

"I… I don't know. I just hope he'll let me in."

Feeling a little better, Madison continued eating. She was starting to get really worried about her half-brother. She had also taken Olivia's death very hard, but she had become better in dealing with the sorrow. But she was afraid of how Ray had reacted. Now when he was at the beginning of his education to become a CSI, it was very important his tests went all right. And all she could do right now was to wish that the case would be solved, because she suspected that could be the only thing that would bring Ray back. The only thing that would bring her half-brother back.

I'm sorry... At first i didn't plan to kill her. But i did anyway...