AN: Hopefully a couple more chapters…

BECAUSE OF YOU – Chapter 13

"Horatio I just got the list from the techs."

"Great I want you to match it to the list of property that Juliana and John own see if anything matches."

"We have a match. It's an abandoned warehouse two hours from here. It belonged to Craig and Juliana's parents and was passed to Juliana when they passed."

"Frank get a team ready we have an address."

Without another word the team grabbed their kits and weapons. Eric taking several pills as they walked out the lab.

The drive was excruciatingly long. The local police were called and waiting for them when they arrived.

"What do we have?" Horatio looked over the floor plans the local officers had provided.

"The warehouse has three floors, 24 rooms in total, three exits and four fire escapes." The officer responded.

"Let's get every exit covered I want at least two officers on every door." Officer sprang to action.

"Horatio, thermal imaging should be up in 5." Frank spoke nearing the team.

"Eric." Horatio began as they all adjusted their ear pieces, put on their bullet proof vests and made their way to the main entrance.

"No, Horatio I'm not staying back I need to be in there." Eric interrupted. There was no way he was going to sit this out. The sooner they got Calleigh back the sooner they could all get some well needed rest. He just hoped she was still alive. He shook the thought from his head.

*********************Inside the Warehouse***********************

"Damn it Juliana I told you to disable the GPS. You've led them straight to us." Craig was pissed. He was not going to go back to prison there was no way he would allow it.

"I did disable it Craig." She raised her voice.

"Well clearly you didn't early enough. How else do you explain them finding our address?" he countered.

"It doesn't matter, we need to get out of here, turn off the chip, we need to go." He continued.

"What about her, I want her dead."

This was not how he'd planned this. He would kill her but it was suppose to be on his time with his sister there. After all this was all done for her.

"I'll take care of her. Turn off the chip and projector and meet me at the usual place." With a nod she hurried off.

She left for the last room on the main floor. The room was filled with monitors. She stared at the figure in the corner of the room. Her hatred returned oh how she wished she could finish her off herself, but she knew her brother would do it faster and they could both get out without getting caught.

The longer she looked at the monitor the harder it became to fight the urge to go down and kill her. She took a glance at all the monitors.

Her brother hadn't made his way to her yet. She turned off the chip along with the projector. She couldn't let him have all the fun she was hers.

Turning to leave she glanced at the screens one last time. Her breath caught at the scene before her.

"Mr. Jacobs put the gun down." The team of officers ordered. Horatio saw the gleam in the man's eyes. The man was on his third strike, he knew if he went to jail he would never get out.

"I'm not going back." He raised his gun preparing to shoot. Without a second thought Horatio fired his weapon hitting the man in the head.

She couldn't breathe. She would not let them get away with this. She took the back stairs to the basement.

She opened the door to the room holding Calleigh. With a scowl she moved further into the room. She reached behind her pulling out her gun.

"You're gonna pay for everything. You will never again cause anyone the pain you've caused me." She reached over and grabbed a handful of Calleigh's hair, forcing her to look up.

She was dazed, she hadn't heard a word. Still rocking she was trying to block out all sound.

"DON'T YOU DARE IGNORE ME!!!" She screamed.

"DO YOU KNOW HOW MUCH PAIN YOU CAUSED ME. WE WERE GOING TO WORK THINGS OUT… BUT YOU JUST HAD TO GET IN THE WAY." Tears were now running down her face. Calleigh finally registered her situation but didn't bother responding, she used all her energy to get away.

Using thermal imaging the officers spoke into the earpieces notifying the MDPD that there were two stationary heat signatures inside one of the basement rooms. Reaching the basement they followed the shouting getting to the room just in time.

"Juliana, put the gun down you don't want to do this." Horatio spoke softly hoping to calm her.

"NO! LEAVE US!" She took the weapons safety off. Finger moved to the trigger as she pointed the gun to Calleigh's head. Three shots rang out. Juliana fell to the floor soon followed by Calleigh.

Ryan, Horatio and Frank all lowered their weapons. Eric and Natalia did the same standing right outside the room.

Entering the room Eric took a deep breath. The room smelt foul, no doubt as to why. They'd kept her here for days and he was pretty sure they hadn't let her use the facilities. The corner to the right of the door smelt the worst. He shook his head, he didn't care. He was within ten feet from Calleigh, he just wanted to go to her.

Frank called the coroner while Horatio check Juliana's pulse. He found none. It'd seemed that all three bullets had hit her. Eric walked up to Calleigh slowly the rest of the group remained back when they saw her back away.

"Calleigh?" Eric reached out a hesitant hand to her only to have her push it away and back away from him.

"Calleigh please look at me."

"No! Just leave me… please, I can't… I can't do this anymore. Please…" she pleaded moving further from his grasp.

"Please" she whispered, his heart broke when he saw the tears running down her face.

"Let me help you." He begged reaching for her once more only to have her push his hand away again.

AN: And back to the beginning. Hope you enjoyed it… been in a writing frenzy lately… haven't decided yet on the process after the rescue… so it's up in the air.