Hey everyone! First I want to thank you for at least putting in the effort of reading my new story! The last time I post on here was about five/six years ago so I am a little rusty. HOWEVER, I (thankfully) have gotten a lot better at writing since… well… I'm no longer an 8th grader trying to write stories haha. Anyways here goes nothing! I don't know if you guys say this anymore lol but this is a "hiphuggers" fanfic and I really hope you like it! Please review and give me advice or what you want to see more of! LOVE YOU ALL 3
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It had been three days since Eric had gone missing. The team was starting to grow grim as they had analyzed all of the evidence and cellular data more times than they could count and still had found nothing to help lead them to one of their best agents. The lab had grown soundless on the third day as nobody knew what else could be done at this point. New cases were coming in and this was the teams final day to use the labs resources to find Eric until they needed to hand it over to a different team.
"H?" Ryan gently knocked on Horatio's door. The door pushed open as he knocked to reveal the back of Horatio's office chair facing the window. This is how he had been almost all day. He has hardly said a single word to the team that day as he knew they were depending on him to come up with one of his world famous plans. He had nothing. Ryan took a few steps in to his office and sat down in one of the larger chair adjacent to his desk. Horatio didn't move at all. "Today is the last day and the team is getting worried, what are we going to do?" It was then that Horatio turned around in his chair and removed his sunglasses revealing his visibly tired eyes.
"We send in one of our own" he said simply. Ryan just stared unaware of what he meant or how that would work but he trusted the man in front of him.
"I'll tell the team to meet in the break room" Ryan stated plainly as he rose from his seat and started to walk towards the door. Once he was almost out of the room Horatio said the first convincing thing that Ryan had heard that day.
"We will find him." And with that Ryan turned back around and headed to the various different areas of the building to gather their team.
~Three Days Earlier~
"This place smells terrible" Calleigh huffed with a scrunched up nose, "Why anyone would pick this as a place to meet up is beyond me." She finished. Eric smirked and continued searching the area for some type of indication of a crime. The team had been called out to a location where a murder had occurred. The body had already been analyzed and removed but oddly enough, nothing suggested foul play, or even that the body had been killed in this location.
Calleigh was right though, the place did reek. They were currently under a large over pass in the heart of Miami. The ground was mostly mud with the occasional peak of grass. Graffiti covered the cement pillars holding up the bridge above them. Far towards the end of their crime scene was an opening that lead out to what looked to be a swamp type area. The source of the stench.
"Maybe if you spent more time collecting evidence we wouldn't have to spend as much time smelling it" Eric mumbled under his breath with the same smirk lurking across his face. Calleigh placed her hands on her hips and looked at him with mock hurt. She was a sight to see. Previously she had been wearing a black, fitted, pant suit with a fuchsia silk camisole underneath. Not to mention, in typical Calleigh fashion, five inch stilettos with her usual golden locks falling wavy over her shoulders. Now the small figure before him was wearing her camisole tucked into her rolled up pants with sneakers she kept in the back of her hummer with her gym clothes. He laughed again under his breath as he recalled her trying to walk through the moist ground in her heels. It didn't last very long. Still through all of this she looked absolutely beautiful, even with her hair pulled into a sloppy pony tail.
"How about both of you shut it so we can ALL get out of here sooner!" Natalia yelled from far off taking a picture of a pillar with graffiti on it. The small portion of the team all laughed and got back to collecting evidence. A little while later Horatio and Ryan pulled up in a matching Hummer and joined the team. Horatio stepped away and took a phone call back inside his Hummer as the sound of the rushing cars above made it difficult to hear. After about 20 minutes of continuous searching and evidence collecting the team started heading back to the two Hummers parked in the gravelish area far off from the over pass as not to disturb and evidence.
"Oh wait! I left one of my evidence numbering cards towards the bridge!" Natalia whined. She, much like Calleigh was stuck wearing sneakers and was also not enjoying the humid weather mixed with the terrible smell of swamp water. She started to head off towards the bridge. "I can go grab it for you!" Calleigh smiled "I wanted to ask our graffiti expert here a question about one of the postings I saw anyways!" She finished while nudging Ryan. Ryan had recently exposed his knowledge of graffiti and gang symbols a few cases ago after having been undercover for a month.
"Well in that case, I'm riding back with Horatio!" Natalia said as she hoped into the passenger seat of Horatio's Hummer. He looked at her and finally hung up his phone as they drove back to the lab.
The three of them (Eric, Ryan, and Calleigh) walked back towards the end of the over pass together. "Alright so where is this graffiti Ms. Duquense?" Ryan joked and Calleigh rolled her eyes with a smirk as she started walked towards one of the back walls where she had seen what she though was a gang symbol, scooping up Natalia's evidence numbering card along the way. Eric stood watching the two waiting for them to finish as he was now obligated to stay since they only had one Hummer. They were talking back and forth about a Hispanic gang Eric felt he was oddly familiar with. He joined the two as they discussed this gang and Eric realized where he had known them from.. his father. He was about to make a statement about his when he saw a shadow move out of the corner of his eye from the outside of the underpass. "I'll be right back, just gonna go take a look outside" Eric stated plainly as he motioned to the outside.
"That's not part of the crime scene Delko" Ryan yelled so that he was audible to Eric over the racing cars above. Eric just waved a hand behind them and walked towards the outside. Calleigh rolled her eyes and smiled. Eric never really was one to listen. They continued to talk about this gang when suddenly they heard a gunshot. As if on cue, Ryan and Calleigh both drew their weapons and darted off towards the sound, where Eric had just gone. Calleighs' heart dropped. An odd feeling. Probably just because it was her team mate, she cared about all of her team mates. They made it to the opening where they saw the last glimpse of a man with a black bag over his head being shoved into the back of an unlicensed van. The van immediately sped off a few yards until it was onto a local road and quickly it was gone. Calleigh shot off multiple rounds at the van long after it was out of view. Ryan forcibly lowered her arms and took the gun away and she screamed. He pulled her into a hug even though she resisted at first. She bunched the fabric of Ryan's shirt into her small fists. Ryan knew she was crying but he wouldn't acknowledge it, Calleigh didn't cry. He comforted her with one arm and called Horatio with the other.
"H, they got Eric… The Muerte Trae…" With that he hung up his phone and walked Calleigh back to the Hummer and waited for Horatio to arrive along with backup. It was too late. Now they had a double crime scene.
Okay guys so that was chapter one! I really hope you guys like it! Also "Muerta Trae" roughly translates to The Death Bringer in Spanish. I couldn't think of a better gang name haha. Please review!
