A/N: Hey everyone! I'm back! Finally! Yes I know I've been away for so long and I am terribly sorry. Please, just don't hurt me! ;D Anyways, I've been so busy with all the schoolwork going on, and most importantly, I've been really really lazy. I had the whole plot planned from the very beginning of thestory, but was just too lazy to actually write it. So, I'm back with another chapter, buthonestly I think it's a piece of crap, and I'm thinking about rewriting the whole story later when I get enough time. But don't worry! I will finish this one for sure, before starting to rewrite. Anyways, enough of this small talk, and let's get to the story!:D

Chapter 6: Yes, I Tried to Kill Him

The bullets didn't match. Calleigh sighed as she took her eyes off the microscope, frowning, when Natalia came in.

"What's wrong?" Natalia asked. Calleigh sighed.

"There were three bullets in Ryan, right? Two of them matched to the gun we found at the scene, which is Ryan's. But the other one…" She looked down at her hand. "no match with the other two."

"So this guy shot Ryan with two different guns?" Natalia asked, confused.

"Or there were two shooters." Calleigh said quietly. Natalia's face morphed into an expression of realization and slowly nodded in understanding.

"Two shooters, huh?" Eric asked as he walked down the hospital corridor.

"Well there may have been one shooter who used two guns, but I think it's more likely that there were two shooters," Calleigh said next to him.

Eric and Calleigh were heading to the room which Ryan was in. Every one of the team took turns and stayed by Ryan's side all the time. Sometimes, the whole team was there together, just staring at the beeping heart monitor or the intubated body, hoping for their teammate to wake up soon.

It was Eric and Calleigh's turn, and they were heading to Ryan's room. When they opened the door to Ryan's room, the sight that greeted them was a stranger dressed in black from head to toe with a syringe in one hand. The stranger was wearing a cap and a hood over it, with a mask on his face. He was injecting something into the IV bag that was connected to Ryan. When the door opened, the stranger turned sharply to face Eric and Calleigh.

"Hey!"

Eric's eyes widened and stood there for a few short moments before he lunged at the stranger and grabbed him/her by the wrist. Calleigh pointed her gun at the stranger. Although the stranger fought back, Eric managed to smack the syringe out of his/her gloved hand. The syringe fell on the floor, which Calleigh managed to snatch up. But it was already empty, and she looked at Ryan's lying form and the iv line. The content had already been mixed with the medicine. Panic rose within her as she turned her head to look at the IV bag.

By the looks of it, it wasn't really clear that there was anything wrong with the clear, transparent liquid in there, yet Calleigh felt like she could see a hideous color of whatever chemical that was in the syringe flowing through the narrow tube and approaching Ryan's body. She looked at the two people fighting but occasionally turned her eyes to Ryan, to see if he was in showing any kind of extraordinary condition.

After a few moment, Eric was able to hold the stranger by the neck with one arm, and took the cap and mask off of him. Calleigh's eyes widened a bit for a short moment but straightened herself as she glared at the person.

"Max Lukas." She muttered, loud enough for Eric to hear. Max glared back, cursing under his breath.

Calleigh got closer to Max with her gun still pointing at him, while Eric called Horatio.

"H, I need some back up here at Dade Memorial. We got a suspect here-"

That moment, the heart monitor started to beep dangerously. Calleigh and Eric's eyes all turned towards their unconscious teammate. Calleigh rushed over to Ryan while Eric hung up his phone call with Horatio and secured his grip on Max Lukas, while his other hand took out his gun.

"Ryan! Ryan!"

Calleigh cried his name several times in horror. Ryan was now going through some kind of convulsion, too. Calleigh looked from the needle in Ryan's arm all the way to the IV bag hanging on the pole. She then ferociously took the needle out of Ryan's arm, before heading out to get a doctor. Eric just stood there, holding Max Lukas, but his eyes were fixed on Ryan's body. Seconds later, Calleigh came back with a doctor and some nurses, and backed away so they could do their job.

"It was cyanide," Calleigh said to Horatio. "They said he's stabilized, for now."

As always, Horatio's expression itself was calm, but his eyes were burning with fury.

"And Max Lukas is the one who did it?" Horatio asked quietly. Calleigh and Eric nodded silently.

"H, shouldn't we have some officers guard Ryan's room or something? Clearly he's exposed to any kind of danger." Eric said.

"But first, let's talk to this guy, shall we?" Horatio said as he turned around to get into the Interrogation room, where Max Lukas was sitting.

"Why did you shoot him, Mr. Lukas?" Horatio asked the first question. He was standing by the window, but his eyes were fixed on the suspect in front of him.

"…."

Max didn't answer. He just looked down at his hands.

"Mr. Lukas," Calleigh called quietly. Max looked at Calleigh in the eyes, then leaned forward.

"It wasn't me," Max answered quietly. "I'm not the one who shot Wolfe."

"Then who did?" Calleigh asked.

"I don't know. Sure, I heard there was a total idiot who tried and failed to kill a cop, but hell, how should I know who that was?" Max answered slowly with a smirk.

"Apparently, you're an idiot, too. Trying to poison a cop." Calleigh said as she returned the smirk to him. "Why did you poison Ryan?"

"Um… Because I wanted to?" Max answered with a joking tone.

"Really? You tried to kill a guy you've been working with for years just because you wanted to?"

"Is that really that important? Yes, I tried to kill him, and you got me. Hurray. Shouldn't you be throwing a party or something?" Max said in a monotone with very unexciting kind of gestures.

Calleigh glared at the man in front of her before pushing the photo of a black hoodie toward Max.

"You recognize this?"

"No. Am I supposed to?"

"You better. This was used in a homicide, as you may know, and belongs to Brian McKlein, who insisted that you borrowed this from him." Calleigh explained.

"Oh, yeah, I remember. But I returned it to him. A day later from when I borrowed it."

"And when was it?"

"I don't know. Maybe the day before yesterday or the day before that, I think." Max answered with distaste. "Look. I know where this is going, and I admit that I attempted a murder, but I didn't actually commit murder. Yet."

"We'll see about that, Mr. Lukas. We will see." Horatio said quietly. He then nodded at the officers that were standing outside the interrogation room, who came in and took Max Lukas away.

I know it's a bit too short, but I promise that I will come back with more very, very soon. In the meantime, please review! :D