My Dear Sweet Boy

Alexx remembered the sweet, green boy who first walked into her morgue. She had taken an instant liking to him. He was sweet and had a wonderful aura about him.

He was funny and sensitive and caring. He had a sweet honesty about him. No wonder everyone loved the guy.

"Tell me they did not lose the body," Alexx said to him.

"They lost the…" Speed replied.

"Timmy…"

She smiled at the memories. He could always make her smile, even if he wasn't talking directly to her.

Like In the case of his conversation with a former CSI, Carrie Delgado.

"Tim. 50 blood stains?"

"Sorry. Next time, I'll tell the victim to die in one spot." Speed replied.

He had a way with words. And with people.

Like one time with a coast guard officer.

"What kind of boat are you guys looking for?"

"The kind that has blood on it." Speed stoically replied.

She always laughed at his humor. His one liners especially. She could easily remember a lot of them off the top of her head.

"Why is it always the toilet?"

"So let me get this straight. Everybody gets together for sex then nobody has it?"

"I guess I'm gonna have to check out the dumpster now, aren't I?" This of course was said in the lovely, always slightly disgruntled tone he had.

The call had come out of the blue.

"I've got an officer down!" Alexx had heard Horatio over the radio.

Alexx took a deep breath in. She didn't want to breathe in hopes that it was nothing serious. But she knew different.

She saw Horatio holding Speedle in his arms as she walked into the jewelery store. Her heart stopped as she realized he was gone.

"Horatio, give him to me. He needs to come with me." She fought back tears as she began her job.

The autopsy was the hardest thing she had ever done. He looked so helpless on that silver slab. She fought back tears until her work was done. As she closed the drawer, she let the tears flow.

His funeral had been beautiful, as funerals go. She had been fine until the shots were fired. That's where she lost it.

Alexx looked at her watch and realized it was time for sun set. Speed's favorite time of day.

"Goodnight my sweet Speedle," she said as she shut off the lights in the morgue.