Jen screamed. A bullet penetrated her leg as a bullet from the SWAT team went through Richard's chest killing him instantly. Jen stared at him bewildered as she started scooting away the best she could.

"Jennifer," a calm voice came a few seconds later. She looked up and saw Horatio walking towards her. "That looks pretty bad. I think we need to get you to the hospital." All Jen could do was cry and hold on to Horatio.

AT THE HOSPITAL

"How's Christi doin'," Jen asked when Horatio walked into her room after finishing the scene.

"She's hanging in there," he told her not wanting to alarm her with the fact that she had almost died on them.

"The doctors won't let me see her no matter how much I beg."

"Christi isn't really up for any visitors right now." Horatio flashed her one of his looks that he gave (she had never been able to describe this one) from the chair he was sitting in beside the bed

Jen's face fell. "And I was wanting to see her too," she mumbled looking down at her hands.

Alexx walked in right then. "How are you feeling, baby?"

Jennifer just shrugged. She didn't know what to say or do. All she wanted right then was to see Christi and talk to her. Her eyes started tearing up with a few drops falling down her cheek. "I wanna see her NOW," she whined/demanded.

"You can't right now, honey," Alexx reminded gently as she sat on the edge of the bed.

"Where's Speed? I want to see Speed." By this point, Jen was almost yelling.

"He's on his way over," Alexx replied gently.

Jen scrunched up her nose, sniffed, and got an irritated look on her face. Nobody was letting her do anything. It felt like everyone was treating her like a baby and that she couldn't handle things herself. Fortunately for her, Speed came in right then.

"What's up," he asked.

"Speed," exclaimed Jen as she jumped out of the bed like a frog to hug him, forgetting about her leg, and caused Alexx to jump back to get out of her way. Once landing, arms around Speed's neck, she cringed in pain.

"What are you trying to do, get us killed," Speed retorted with a snort as he got his balance back with his back against the wall. That got him a one of her puppy looks that could make a guy's heart melt if they weren't careful. "Let's get you back into the bed."

"Can you tell us what Richard did to you before we came in," pushed Horatio as Jen kept a hold of Speed who was by this time lying on the edge with his arm around her.

Jen hesitated for a moment before starting.

FLASHBACK

She could feel the car finally come to a stop. Who knew how long he had been driving? Richard came around, opened the trunk, and dragged her out of it and into a building. Before she even knew what was going on, he dropped her on the ground and started to rape her. Her screaming wasn't doing her much good seeing as there wasn't anyone around to hear her. After a few minutes he stopped and started to beat her. For what felt like eternity, it was just that. Rape then beaten, rape then beaten. Richard probably would have kept going for a while longer if Horatio hadn't shown up with SWAT.

FLASHBACK OVER

When she had finished explaining the painful memories, she looked up at Horatio with sad eyes, tears about ready to fall over, and buried herself more into Speed.

"Ok," Horatio whispered as he looked down.

"They haven't done a rape kit on you, have they," questioned Speed. Jen shook her head in response.

Horatio got up and left the room. A nurse came in a few minutes later with everything needed for a rape kit and asked Alexx and Speed to leave.

"B-b-but I–I w-w-want Speed to stay," Jen contradicted, gripping him tighter. She was too afraid to be left alone with the nurse, no matter how nice and trusting she was. Not after what happened with Mr. McGee. The nurse and Speed stared at each other for a moment.

"You sure about that ma'am," probed the nurse, a concerned look shadowing her face. Jen nodded fervently. There was no way she was going to be alone like that again. To her comfort, her request was granted, but not without a comment from Speed about how discomforting the request was to him.

"How come I haven't seen Eric yet," Christi questioned/whined when a nurse came in 5 hours after the last one left with the promise to try and get him in.

"You haven't been aloud to have visitors for the past 5 hours. We've called him just a few minutes ago, and he's on his way now," the nurse informed her politely. "How are you feeling?"

Christi just shrugged a little. How was she supposed to feel? "Is Jen anywhere in the hospital?"

"She's just a few rooms down, right outside ICU."

"I wanna see her too." Christi's eyes were begging.

"I'll bring her over in a minute or two." Another nurse came in right then and started mumbling about "doing better" and "bringing Jennifer in". The nurse that had just come in left the room and came back a few minutes later with Jen and Speed.

"What were you doing a few doors down," questioned Christi.

"Mr. McGee," came Jen's response.

"What's he doing in the hospital?"

"Not him. Me. He's dead."

"What did he do to you?!?!"

"I'll tell you when you're not so prone to flat lining, Christi."

Christi rolled her eyes. "Not you too…"

"What?"

"Everyone is treating me like a baby." Christi's face went sour as she said it.

"I know how you feel." They fell silent for a few moments not knowing what to say. That's when they heard a tap on the window and saw Horatio motion for Speed to come out to meet him in the hall.

"We need a DNA sample," Horatio told him when Speed made it out.

"Why? It's not like I had anything to do with this," Speed question with a bit of his rough side showing.

"Jen's pregnant."

That got Speeds attention. "I can assure you it's not mine." She's big about not having sex before marriage. Trust me."

"I know. But just to rule it out. Ok?" Horatio looked at him a bit concerned. Speed had been affected by all of this just as much as anybody else seeing as he was going out with her. He was bound to hate this as much as the next person, if not a little more than most.

"Fine." The tone in his voice said that he thought it was a big waste of time.