Never Let Me Go Chapter 1: Prologue, a csi fanfic

~ Never Let Me Go ~

A CSI story by Dragodina

Rating: M

Main Character: Sofia Curtis

Introduction:
Hello to everyone who is giving this story a chance!
You're very welcome! I hope you enjoy reading this!
At first I have to make an important disclaimer: CSI, its characters, places, and situations are the property of Jerry Bruckheimer Television, Alliance Atlantis, and CBS Productions. This story was written for entertainment not monetary purposes. Original characters and this story are intellectual property of the author. Any similarities to existing characters, fictional or real, living or dead, are coincidental and no harm is intended. The only thing that is my property is the character Alexandra 'Alex' Jenson.

This is my very first attempt to write fanfiction in english and although my very first CSI fanfiction. My main language is german, but I have a wonderful beta-reader at my side. So all mistakes are his fault ^^!

Furthermore I want to point out that this story mainly contains femmeslash and focuses on romantic and sexual relationships between female fictional characters. So if you don't like this, then maybe you should not read it.

Due to the fact that music is a very important part of my life and passion, each chapter is going to start and end with song lyrics and at the end of every chapter the artist and song title will be revealed. The rights of those songs all belong entirely to the songwriters, producers and artists.

Memories and special thoughts will be written in italics.

At the end I really need to say a few "Thank you's": First of all I want to thank my friend John for his unlimited and loving effort, patience and support! Thank you Johnny Boy, you will always be my beloved 'big bros'! And second to a dear friend I found through our similar passion of writing at this site: Dani, thank you so much for your boundless and amazing writings! They made and keep me fleppicted ;)
Bear Knuddeltakk's to both of you!

~ Prologue ~

A falling star,

fell from your heart.

And landed in my eyes.

I screamed aloud,

as it tore through them.

And now it's left me blind.

The stars, the moon,

they have all been blown out.

You left me in the dark.

No dawn, no day.

I'm always in this twilight.

In the shadow of your heart.

The Great Basin Highway from Boulder City was unusually quiet that evening. The day had been brought to a premature end by a dense, unseasonal fog which was descending slowly throughout the county, now only the occasional car lights fought to shine through the cold, dark night. Raindrops were pounding heavily against the windscreen of the blue Mazda as it drove through the night, before being swept aside by the windscreen wipers in a steady rhythm only moments later. There were not many other vehicles on the road, until now there had been only three cars on their way to Boulder, the opposite direction to that which the brunette woman was going. She was alone, on her way to Las Vegas. The lack of traffic was to be expected, as the weather had drastically changed within just a few hours from a wonderful, bright morning, to a dull, cool darkness with a heavy storm developing and hitting the town full force. A major thunder storm had invaded Clark County, it raged for hours until it finally faded and lost its power, it rained continuously for the remainder of the day.

When she left the hospital around 9 a.m. at the end of her shift it was still raining. This was not the sort of day to go out unless absolutely necessary. Far better to stay at home, with your beloved ones, watching a movie, or reading a book. Until the stresses of a hard days work had faded out.

That was exactly what she intended to do. She was returning from work, back to her lover, to their six months old beloved puppy and to the house they shared together for the past ten months. They had not seen each other for all of nine days now. Nine stressful days in which they had only talked on the phone for many hours on a regular basis in the evening. Just hearing the voice of the other one gave them enough strength to go on until they would finally be together again.

She wanted nothing more than to call it a day, cuddle up with the woman she loved so much and finally enjoy a long week without thinking about work and just simply be with her, spending as much time with her as possible. It would be time to return to work for both of them soon enough. To be honest, much sooner than they both liked. She loved and enjoyed teaching the young medical students at the Boulder Hospital and the University and work at the same time as an emergency surgeon there, but it also meant being away from her love for far too long.

Her best friend and colleague at the hospital told her to leave as he saw her heading for yet another patient, knowing that she would easily pull another few hours of overtime unless he stopped her. He knew that the brunettes head was already thirty miles away in Vegas and he knew how happy and thrilled she would be to finally get back to her lover. He sent her away, wishing her a safe drive and winking at her with a knowing smile. He smirked, adding a "wonderful work free week with lots of heated body language" to his wish list.

Right at that moment, she would have loved to have wiped his smug grin from his face with her fists. But she let it slip, let him get away with it. Honestly, she had to admit that she silently thanked him and that she really was tired and exhausted, due to the last teaching classes and the double shift she took yesterday. Despite too little sleep and major hours of overtime at the hospital, the urge to finally get to her lover again pumped her full of adrenaline. She felt ready to accept the challenge of the long path of the Great Basin Highway and the difficult road conditions. She turned the radio a little bit louder, the song "Cosmic Love" from Florence & The Machine started to play on the speakers, her fingers slightly began tapping along the rhythm of the drums on the steering wheel.

In about forty five more minutes from the Boulder Hospital, she would finally be home. She was a confident driver, never had an accident in all those years since she owned her driving license. If the traffic stayed the same as it was, and the rain didn't get heavier again, she anticipated to be home in around half an hour.

The road ahead of her was wet and driving turned out to be a much harder challenge tonight that it would be under normal weather conditions. After her long day at work she really had to focus on the road.

The street turned out of a long left curve, ahead of a straight path for about 500 metres before another left turn came. In the distance she could just make out through the raindrops the shining taillights of a standing car at the roadside. She slowed down a bit, just to check, keeping half of her attention on the car, there was no other traffic to distract her. The vehicle seemed to be left, abandoned, she didn't see anyone around.

Then out of the blue, as she drew close to the other car, seemingly out of no where, a figure appeared right in front of her car. With no time left and unable to think straight she just jammed her feet on the brakes, hoping that these instinctive reactions alone would do the trick. With screeching tyres the Mazda slithered over the wet road until it finally came to a full stop after endless seconds that felt like an eternity. Another few seconds went by. Seconds in which she had to regain her thoughts, her mind seemingly empty had to realize what just happened, desperately she tried to catch her breath. Her hands clutched the steering wheel in a death grip, so much so her knuckles turned white.

Something came out of the bush. No, not something … someone! A person ran right in front of her car! As her brain finally caught up with the speed of her thoughts with the realization that she might have run over a human, she panicked. She was brought back to reality when suddenly the passenger door was violently ripped open. Just as she was about to jump out of the vehicle, the cold outside wind blew inside the car for a brief moment. As she turned her head in surprise to her right she came face to face with a gun barrel, pointing right between her ice-blue eyes.

Still in deep shock not understanding what was happening, she was unable to move, to think, even her breathing stopped for a tiny second. Until a rough venoumus voice shouted at her.

"Drive!".

But the shock still paralysed every part of her body, instead her gaze lingered on the figure before her, threatening her. A man maybe in his late fifties, wearing a dark and soaked worn out black sweater with the wet hood pulled over his head and an old blue pair of jeans. It seemed that he had been out in the rain for an eternity. After he pulled down the hoodie hastily, his short thin brown hair that already had a slight gleam of grey and his distinctive high but pale and wrinkled forehead became visible. His face was freshly deformed by many wounds and scars. But what most terrified her were his piercing dark shining grey eyes that showed his maniac expression with no mercy.

Suddenly a weird feeling nagged at her. She knew him. Somehow she had seen this face before. She just couldn't remember. Not even his defaced skin and the scars hid the fact that she knew this man, she had seen him before at some point. Thoughts were running through her head, she desperately tried to remember. But she wasn't able to put a finger on it …

His angry snarled instructions scared her terribly, and made her jump in her seat.

"Fucking drive!".

With shaking fingers and frantic heartbeat she slowly pulled the car back on the street, still the gun directed at her. Now aiming dangerously at her abdomen.

As the most touching part of the song played out of the speakers, her mind still fully caught by shock trailed absently along with the lyrics and trailed to her lover. She finally started to understand the whole extend of her situation.

She never made it home this time ...

And in the dark,

I can hear your heartbeat.

I try to find the sound.

But then it stopped.

And I was in the darkness.

So darkness I became.

I took the stars from our eyes,

and then I made a map.

And knew that somehow,

I could find my way back.

Then I heard your heart beating,

you were in the darkness too.

So I stayed in the darkness with you.