Distress

The blind automatic driving led Horatio Caine to drive to the Ever Glades, when he stopped over in Hell's bay he shook his head and cleared his thoughts, this was where he saved that little boy from the sharks, and it was also the same day that he lost Speed.

Walking into the Jewelry store, Speed and Horatio looked around and saw the manager walk up, after striking up a conversation with the manager did Speed notice something off and he walked off to the side pulling his gun out of his holster and walking a safe distance away.

"Speed?" Horatio looked to the manager and told him to stay put while pulling out his own gun and taking up his position just as someone popped up and started to fire their gun, Speed pulled his trigger and nothing happened, pulling his gun up he looked at the gun and saw that it was jammed, his last thoughts pulled up on his face as he heard Horatio yell out again.

"SPEED!" Horatio ducked down and opened fire, the exchange of gun fire allowed for Horatio to take down a man but not before the other took off and everyone else in the store was left screaming and ducking down on the ground as Horatio went to Speed's side.

Looking at Speed blink a few times he pulled out his handkerchief and looked him in the eyes as he heard Speed spit out some words.

"It… it hurts, I ..can't ..move"

"Speed, it's going to be ok, it'll be ok just hang in there" Horatio had called in for help as he put a hand on Speed's wound.

"Look at me Speed, stay with me. Stay with me" Speed looked at Horatio with tears in his eyes, he fought as much as he could but his lungs started to fill with his blood, he coughed out blood onto Horatio's face as fought to stay, but it wasn't enough he couldn't breath, shaking and trying to breath he drowned in his own blood as the rest poured out of the hole in his back leaving him to bleed out.

"Speed! Speed!" Horatio dropped his head to Speed's chest to see if he could hear a heartbeat, but after hearing nothing he pulled back with his hands on either side of Speed's chest, looking at Speed's face he saw the bit of peace settle on his face, but there was still traces of the apology that Speed was able to mouth before he died.

Horatio kneeled there with is head down as he heard sirens closing in, and heard the first bit of tires screeching to a halt then foot steps running in then stopping, he never looked up as he couldn't face anyone, in his grief he just sat there a mourning look on his face. Feeling the blood dry on his face and ear he felt someone's hand on his back rubbing it, without really knowing he turned his head, his eyes had glazed over but as they cleared he saw Alexx in the haze telling him to let her take him, she reassured him that Speed was in good hands, another set of foot steps ran in but stopped as a sharp intake of breath of heard.

Standing Horatio turned his head as his vision cleared it was Calliegh, bending down he picked up Speed's gun and pulled his gun from his holster and walked over to her, he walked over to her and told her about the situation.

"This is my gun, umm and this is Speed's"

"Is there I should know about the shooting?"

"I… I think Speed had to look at his gun" Watching Calliegh look to Speed's body then to Horatio she closed her eyes to keep the tears at bay, she nodded and turned to leave.

"I'm going back to the lab… I'll let you know my findings later" Nodding Horatio turned and placed his hands on his hips as he heard another person walk in.

"Horatio…" Turning his head Horatio saw the biggest pain in his ass, IAB Agent Sergeant Rick Stetler.

"Rick"

"Officer involved shooting, you know I have to work it. Speed died, either he missed his shot or his gun jammed. And we remember the last time he was shot, anyways where is his gun?"

"See Calliegh"

"Your gun…"

"See. Calliegh" Horatio went from grief to anger in a few short moments and all it took was for Rick to pick a few wounds, controlling whatever anger he had he looked at Speed then took off outside where Yelina was standing. Now if there was every a problem or anything wrong that woman was there for him, she took one look at him and pulled his mind away from the dead body inside.

"Suspect isn't talking, claims to speak only Bulgarian we're waiting on a translator." Horatio's mind pulled back to the case at hand, his face set as he walked over to the car where the store manager was standing at.

"I'm not waiting"

Yelina caught up with Horatio looking around to make sure he didn't do anything stupid as the media was out there waiting and watching for something to happen.

Once Horatio got there, his face wasn't all that hard to read and the manager turned in time to see the severally short leashed Lieutenant push him into the car.

"Horatio…" Horatio looked to Yelina as she nodded her head to the media and he remembered himself a bit, "I'm going to put you into the car, understood?"

"yes" Once the suspect was in the car Horatio had his head on the inside of the car and questioned the suspect. Horatio was able to get nothing out of the suspect and he finally had his head in the game, he had a case to solve he could grieve later.

Blinking a few times he looked around let out a deep breath as he moved to the small peer that was there, sitting down at the edge he looked into the water and saw the sharks moving in and hunting for food he remembered walking in there and getting the little boy out. Looking into the water he removed his badge and set it to the side, then followed his shades lastly he pulled his gun from his holster and stared at it.

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On her way to the lab Catherine pulled her cell and put in a call to the Lab, after obtaining Horatio's cell number from one of his CSI's she gave Horatio's number a ring, but after five times of not picking up and just getting voice mail did she grow a bit concerned and she phoned the lab again while she sat at a red light.

"Hey is there a way of tracking your boss, he's not answering my calls"

"Let me check," in the background the sounds of a keyboard being used as Catherine watched the light turn green, driving down the street she heard Eric yell out that his Hummer was in Hell's Bay after receiving directions and some other words on how to set it up she hung up..

Catherine looked to the built in GPS that she had, when she looked up into her rearview mirror she saw the black Honda as picked up speed and came along side her the passenger side window of the Honda lowering before the flash of a gun muzzle showed itself. All Catherine could do was stare at it before she pulled her own gun from her side before shots rang out.

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"Hey do you think that Catherine will be able to get through to Horatio?" Eric looked to Calliegh who walked in, the blond gun master of the lab looked afraid for their boss, Eric moved over and pulled her in to a hug and looked back to the case he was suppose to be working on.

"Yeah, if I know anything is that Catherine, like Horatio are stubborn and if I know Catherine she doesn't back down from nothing. Natalia walked in with a few folders in hand and was followed by Ryan who held a box in hand.

"Any word?" Ryan asked as he set down his box on an clear space, the layout lab was big and it was private enough that the team could talk.

"No, but Catherine is in town and on her way to see H, his hummer is in Hell's Bay, why I don't know but I don't think he's done anything stupid, just out for a walk" Eric didn't know who he was trying to convince but it was all they had at the moment.

"Oh did Alexx talk to you guys yet?" Everyone's eyes turned to Natalia as she set her folder's down. "I'll take that as a no, Alexx is leaving I don't know if she's retiring but she said that she would be leaving next month once she found a replacement.

"Did she say why?" Ryan asked. Natalia shook her head, it was clear that she knew but she didn't want to say anything till Alexx came up and told them her self, that much she knew.

"Well let's just get to work and wait for Catherine to call us again, or Horatio for that matter"

"Yeah"

((AN: Come one people review, normally I know that I write longer chapter and that the first two where not all that long but seriously. This will start getting longer and better and filled with more cliffies then my head could think of… I need to lay off the sugar))