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"Talking"

"Parseltongue"

'Thinking'

'Goblin talking'

A New Life

Chapter 4

As soon as the words orphanages were muttered, Damian tensed and clung to Ryan even tighter. He didn't want to leave Ryan any time soon. He really liked Ryan. Horatio didn't like the way Damian reacted to the words. Now he was really concerned for the boy. Damian looked at Ryan and whimpered. He really wasn't moving now. He didn't want to leave Ryan. He liked Ryan. Ryan was nicer to him than anyone he had ever met before.

"Ryan let me see him." Horatio said softly.

Ryan got up and placed Damian in Horatio's arms. Damian was at first stiff but then he calmed down. He relaxed against Horatio and finally looked up at him.

"Damian, I'm not going to hurt you. I just want to do what's best for you. I would love to get to know you and help you in any way I can. I have a nephew and a daughter around your age. I think you would like them."

Damian sat there quietly listening to Horatio talk to him and when he got to the part of the other children, he looked up in excitement. He had never had a friend before and wanted one really badly. He wanted someone he could trust. He knew he could trust these three but they were grown up's. They weren't anywhere near his age.

"I just want to stay with Ryan or you. Please??" Damian said to Horatio.

"I'll try my best to see that it does happen but it's not my decision. I can only try." Horatio said softly. "I'm sorry." Horatio hated to tell him that as Damian was only just starting to like him. But it was the truth. Only one person could decide where to go with him and that was the service worker on Damian's case.

"Otay." Damian said. He was sad. He liked Ryan and Horatio. They were nice. Horatio especially, now that he had gotten to actually talk to him.

Horatio gave him a hug and let him cling to Ryan for a little bit as he decided what he wanted to do. He decided he would take a little blood from Damian first and then he would contact the Social Services to tell them about Damian. He looked at Alexx and asked her to go get a needle to take blood. He then looked at Damian and asked him to look at him.

"Damian, look at me." Horatio waited until he did. "I'm going to have Alexx take some blood from you and then I'm going to contact social services. You can hold my hand or Ryan's while she is taking blood. It'll only take a minute. I promise."

Damian looked frightened at first but he brightened a little bit when Horatio said he could hold hands with himself or Ryan. He wanted to hold both so he wouldn't be so frightened.

Ryan could only stare as he had never seen Horatio act like this before. It was new to him. Ryan hadn't been with the crime lab for very long. Just over a year actually. Speed hadn't died, he actually was just wounded. But he could never work the field again so he mainly helped out in trace. When Speed had finally gotten out of the Hospital, he had helped Ryan get used to working in the lab. Speed had liked Ryan right off the bat but the rest of the team was reserved at first. But then they learned that Ryan and Speed had been friends for years. They had met in College and had been friends ever since. Eric had finally started to act friendly toward Ryan after Speed had gotten out of the hospital to tell them that Ryan was the one he was training in his free time cause he knew Ryan would make a good CSI and he wanted Ryan to meet his friends that he talked about so much. Even though Ryan was treated better, he still didn't open up because he never would forget how they treated him in the beginning.

Ryan had never told anyone besides Speed that he had a dog let alone that he actually had 2 kids. His kids were 4 years old and were twins. He knew that he could take Damian as he knew how to raise kids having to raise his own. So he decided that he would talk to the social worker and try to gain custody. He looked at Damian and hugged him. He was already attached to this kid. He was so loveable and you could tell he just wanted to be loved.

Horatio watch the emotion that went across Ryan's face as he was off in la la land. He was curious what Ryan was thinking about.

Alexx came back with the rest of the team in tow. They had been curious about what was happening, as they had seen Ryan and Alexx come off the elevator with a kid. Speed looked at Ryan when they got to the office and immediately knew he wanted the child. He gave Ryan a look and Ryan looked back and gave him one of his own. Speed wanted Ryan to tell the team about himself but Ryan kept holding back. He still didn't trust the team 100%.

"Let's do this quickly. It won't take long." Alexx said. She prepped the needle and looked toward Damian. Damian turned toward Ryan and Horatio and asked softly, "Can I hold both your hands?" Ryan smiled and said yes. Horatio looked at the boy and smiled and also said yes. So with Damian holding Ryan and Horatio's hands, he closed his eyes waiting for it to be over with. He felt the prick and he immediately squeezed their hands. They smiled and squeezed his hands back.

It was over in 30 seconds. Alexx capped the needle and gave it to Natalia to take to DNA to find if he was in the system or any of his relatives were. Ryan and Horatio let Damian's hand go and looked at each other. They shared the same thought and Ryan took Damian out of the office to go get him something to eat as a reward for being so good.