Still_RIP_Speed
Police Officer
This is my first attempt for a while....you can be honest (ie if its rubbish you can say!!!) here we go....*nervously finds file *
(btw I'll say here thanks Geni and Wyoming for moral support!)
It had been 6 months to the day when Calleigh started having the visions/mirages/signs; whatever-she couldn’t think of a word for them….but whatever they were she was haunted by them. Her mind would just for a sec, just to think of that day, of it, of him and there he would be-in her minds eye…with his baggy shirt and stone wash jeans-starting to smile that….
“Calleigh, CALLEIGH!!” Eric raised his voice
“Oh…. Sorry”
“You were doing it again”
“Doing what??”
“That daydreaming-you’re just not with it Calleigh…it’s been for months now-I’m worried about you”
Her tone harden, “Its nothing, I’m fine-got to get back to work” She strutted out the break room. Eric’s eyes follow her as she walks away, shes not right he thought to himself-not right at all….As Calleigh walks out-she knocks Ryan’s shoulder.
“She ‘gone back to work’ again?” Ryan enquires
“Yeah….yeah she has”
“Where’s her smile gone Delko? When I first arrived she was ok…but now-its like a cloud”
“She’s not been right for a while….ever since….”Eric’s own sentence has led his thoughts; he prances out the room and always runs to ballistics. He paces through the door to stand next to Calleigh-he places his right arm around her shoulder so he’s impossible to miss. “What?”
“How did you feel about Speedle?”
She shuts her eyes, thinking of a desperate answer but hiding the truth she held for so long… “What d’ya mean? What did I feel?? He was my colleague, a good CSI, a friend…”
“Come on Calleigh” Eric’s voice softens and he gently places his hand…
“Really?” She knew she couldn’t hide it anymore; her tears just began to flow.
After crying for seemed like forever to her, she raised her eyes to see Delko’s reassuring grin, “Isn’t it amazing” she began, “that you don’t realise you’re true feelings for someone until you can’t have them anymore??” she tried to raise a tear stained grin.
“Calleigh,” although he stopped, his voice sounded like he would continue
“What is it Delko?”
“Did you ever think that Tim….”
“No, no I didn’t even realise till months after he’d gone….oh no, he never” She looked up to see Eric, “Eric? Did He?”
“No, well never directly-no I always knew if I ever I wanted, to-not that I ever have you understand”, they both look down and let out an embarrasses giggle, “you two were tight”
Calleigh raised an eyebrow, he continued, “I’m telling you…”
There was a knock on the metal door frame.
“Am I interrupting anything?” Hortino enquired
“Not at all” Calleigh pulled herself to raise a smile.
“Can you both please come into my office?”
“I’ve just got to finish…” Calleigh tried to explain
H tilted his head, “It’s important”.
When they were both seated, Hortino half sat half leaned on his desk. Alexx enters through the other side door,
“Sorry I’m late”
H nods to acknowledge the apology.
“I need to bring something to your attention. Now you’ll know that there are some circumstances in police work, and our work that can only be explained after the event and even then may not have been the kindest or most suitable course of action…”
“H? What are you trying to say?” Eric voiced the thoughts of all presence
“Well, I think the only way I can explain properly is to show you-Ladies and Gentlemen an old friend” H lifted his arm and ushered to the door, all presence turned and...
“Here I go again” Calleigh thought another image. But this image was talking and moving towards them. Eric was on his feet at this point-Alexx had tears streaming down her face. Calleigh remained glued to the spot.
“How?….When?….why?” Eric angry outburst subsided into a huge hug for his resurrection best friend.
“My boy!!!” Alexx embraced Timmy (As she called him)
Calleigh eventually raised her head-this was no dream. With all these emotions all she can do is run. She seems to fly, she just has to get away, away from this-her world turned back upside down again in a matter of moments. She flees to the outside staircase-the rain is lashing down, but she doesn’t care-she just had to get out. She sits and steps and begins to weep…”Just as I was beginning to accept it, just as I, why? Why now? Why today?” So many questions swirled around her head. Then just as these thoughts continued to tornado through her thoughts
“Calleigh?” It was the voice she’d long to hear speak her name for so long and yet it was the very last thing she wanted to hear. She wiped the tears from her cheeks. She forced her wide smile and in that twangs
“Hi Tim, welcome back” and hugs him.
“Calleigh, can we talk?” “Sure, shall we go inside?” she begins to walk away, “so many people will be dying to speak to you” He grabs her arm,
“I want to speak to you, please Calleigh?” She slowly turns to see his face; even now it doesn’t seem real.
“While I had to hide, I did a lot of thinking, and I realised a lot of stuff about myself and my life”
“That’s good to know," she turns to walk away again
“Would you stop? Look I’ve realised something”
“Realised what Tim?” her manner seems almost harsh
“I’ve realised you need to say stuff at the time, whats point in putting it off, you may not get another chance”
“That’s cool” She turns and walks down a few steps,
“Calleigh….I…I...” He stutters over his words-realising the confession he’s about to make.
Her frustration, fears, worries and anxieties all collide in her mind then her voice,
“WHAT TIM??WHAT IS IT?” She turns again to walk further down the steps into the building
“I LOVE YOU…” she turns, with her face tinted lower, “I…I love you Calleigh” He breaths a deep sign of relief and frustration at the fact it’s all out now…he can’t take the words back. Calleigh is shock-could it be? Could all those tears, all those emotions? Could this be real? The world seems to come to a halt. She knows she’s got to respond but doesn’t know how…she turned so slow to now see Tim standing there-soaking from the rain.
“Why now?”
“I’m sorry?”
“Why tell me now, you left me, you left me to deal with this, you…” her voice trails off, she can’t hold it back any longer. Throwing her face into her hands she begins tears of the joy that can’t be expressed.
Speedle walks down the steps and reaches out his hand, “Calleigh?” He places his hand underneath her chin, raising her eye level to his although it was hard to distinguish the tears from the lashing rain; it was obvious she’d been crying.
“Tim…It’s just, I never thought, is this real?” Tim lets off a little smirk and smile
“Is this?” and with that he gently places a kiss on her forehead, just above her eyes. She raises her head a little further
“I love you too Tim” and placing her hand on the side of his rough yet hansome face pulls him in for a passionate yet intimate embrace, the one which neither of them believed yet both dreamed would take place. They both pulled away at the same instance and putting her foreheads together-the world seemed prefect, no rain, no tomorrow….
“So what happens now?”
(not sure of the ending...thinking it might be suspense or I could make chapters-let me know what you think!!)
(btw I'll say here thanks Geni and Wyoming for moral support!)
It had been 6 months to the day when Calleigh started having the visions/mirages/signs; whatever-she couldn’t think of a word for them….but whatever they were she was haunted by them. Her mind would just for a sec, just to think of that day, of it, of him and there he would be-in her minds eye…with his baggy shirt and stone wash jeans-starting to smile that….
“Calleigh, CALLEIGH!!” Eric raised his voice
“Oh…. Sorry”
“You were doing it again”
“Doing what??”
“That daydreaming-you’re just not with it Calleigh…it’s been for months now-I’m worried about you”
Her tone harden, “Its nothing, I’m fine-got to get back to work” She strutted out the break room. Eric’s eyes follow her as she walks away, shes not right he thought to himself-not right at all….As Calleigh walks out-she knocks Ryan’s shoulder.
“She ‘gone back to work’ again?” Ryan enquires
“Yeah….yeah she has”
“Where’s her smile gone Delko? When I first arrived she was ok…but now-its like a cloud”
“She’s not been right for a while….ever since….”Eric’s own sentence has led his thoughts; he prances out the room and always runs to ballistics. He paces through the door to stand next to Calleigh-he places his right arm around her shoulder so he’s impossible to miss. “What?”
“How did you feel about Speedle?”
She shuts her eyes, thinking of a desperate answer but hiding the truth she held for so long… “What d’ya mean? What did I feel?? He was my colleague, a good CSI, a friend…”
“Come on Calleigh” Eric’s voice softens and he gently places his hand…
“Really?” She knew she couldn’t hide it anymore; her tears just began to flow.
After crying for seemed like forever to her, she raised her eyes to see Delko’s reassuring grin, “Isn’t it amazing” she began, “that you don’t realise you’re true feelings for someone until you can’t have them anymore??” she tried to raise a tear stained grin.
“Calleigh,” although he stopped, his voice sounded like he would continue
“What is it Delko?”
“Did you ever think that Tim….”
“No, no I didn’t even realise till months after he’d gone….oh no, he never” She looked up to see Eric, “Eric? Did He?”
“No, well never directly-no I always knew if I ever I wanted, to-not that I ever have you understand”, they both look down and let out an embarrasses giggle, “you two were tight”
Calleigh raised an eyebrow, he continued, “I’m telling you…”
There was a knock on the metal door frame.
“Am I interrupting anything?” Hortino enquired
“Not at all” Calleigh pulled herself to raise a smile.
“Can you both please come into my office?”
“I’ve just got to finish…” Calleigh tried to explain
H tilted his head, “It’s important”.
When they were both seated, Hortino half sat half leaned on his desk. Alexx enters through the other side door,
“Sorry I’m late”
H nods to acknowledge the apology.
“I need to bring something to your attention. Now you’ll know that there are some circumstances in police work, and our work that can only be explained after the event and even then may not have been the kindest or most suitable course of action…”
“H? What are you trying to say?” Eric voiced the thoughts of all presence
“Well, I think the only way I can explain properly is to show you-Ladies and Gentlemen an old friend” H lifted his arm and ushered to the door, all presence turned and...
“Here I go again” Calleigh thought another image. But this image was talking and moving towards them. Eric was on his feet at this point-Alexx had tears streaming down her face. Calleigh remained glued to the spot.
“How?….When?….why?” Eric angry outburst subsided into a huge hug for his resurrection best friend.
“My boy!!!” Alexx embraced Timmy (As she called him)
Calleigh eventually raised her head-this was no dream. With all these emotions all she can do is run. She seems to fly, she just has to get away, away from this-her world turned back upside down again in a matter of moments. She flees to the outside staircase-the rain is lashing down, but she doesn’t care-she just had to get out. She sits and steps and begins to weep…”Just as I was beginning to accept it, just as I, why? Why now? Why today?” So many questions swirled around her head. Then just as these thoughts continued to tornado through her thoughts
“Calleigh?” It was the voice she’d long to hear speak her name for so long and yet it was the very last thing she wanted to hear. She wiped the tears from her cheeks. She forced her wide smile and in that twangs
“Hi Tim, welcome back” and hugs him.
“Calleigh, can we talk?” “Sure, shall we go inside?” she begins to walk away, “so many people will be dying to speak to you” He grabs her arm,
“I want to speak to you, please Calleigh?” She slowly turns to see his face; even now it doesn’t seem real.
“While I had to hide, I did a lot of thinking, and I realised a lot of stuff about myself and my life”
“That’s good to know," she turns to walk away again
“Would you stop? Look I’ve realised something”
“Realised what Tim?” her manner seems almost harsh
“I’ve realised you need to say stuff at the time, whats point in putting it off, you may not get another chance”
“That’s cool” She turns and walks down a few steps,
“Calleigh….I…I...” He stutters over his words-realising the confession he’s about to make.
Her frustration, fears, worries and anxieties all collide in her mind then her voice,
“WHAT TIM??WHAT IS IT?” She turns again to walk further down the steps into the building
“I LOVE YOU…” she turns, with her face tinted lower, “I…I love you Calleigh” He breaths a deep sign of relief and frustration at the fact it’s all out now…he can’t take the words back. Calleigh is shock-could it be? Could all those tears, all those emotions? Could this be real? The world seems to come to a halt. She knows she’s got to respond but doesn’t know how…she turned so slow to now see Tim standing there-soaking from the rain.
“Why now?”
“I’m sorry?”
“Why tell me now, you left me, you left me to deal with this, you…” her voice trails off, she can’t hold it back any longer. Throwing her face into her hands she begins tears of the joy that can’t be expressed.
Speedle walks down the steps and reaches out his hand, “Calleigh?” He places his hand underneath her chin, raising her eye level to his although it was hard to distinguish the tears from the lashing rain; it was obvious she’d been crying.
“Tim…It’s just, I never thought, is this real?” Tim lets off a little smirk and smile
“Is this?” and with that he gently places a kiss on her forehead, just above her eyes. She raises her head a little further
“I love you too Tim” and placing her hand on the side of his rough yet hansome face pulls him in for a passionate yet intimate embrace, the one which neither of them believed yet both dreamed would take place. They both pulled away at the same instance and putting her foreheads together-the world seemed prefect, no rain, no tomorrow….
“So what happens now?”
(not sure of the ending...thinking it might be suspense or I could make chapters-let me know what you think!!)
