this story has been rated an 'M' due to the violent crime scene and the state of mind of the killer.

FVwL Chapter 1

Horatio and Calleigh stepped out of the elevator to start back at work. They had just had a week off in London for the christening of Chloe-May McBreadle. Alexx was the first to greet them.

"Well hello you two love-birds, how did the christening go?"

Calleigh handed Alexx an envelope with photo's in it, "see for yourself."

Alexx opened the envelope, "aww isn't she adorable. She's got her daddy's eyes that's for sure. She's very small for five months old."

"It's not surprising considering Chloe was six weeks early. Hugh told me that they weren't sure if the christening would go ahead," Horatio put his shades around his neck, "he also told me that Anna wasn't well either. She had to have an emergency caesarian section because her blood pressure was sky high again and it was distressing Chloe."

"Are Anna and Chloe okay now?"

"They're fine now. They're both still under observation just as a precaution but they both seem fine."

"That's good to hear," Alexx looked at the photos again, "Calleigh? How come you're stood with all of the family and Horatio isn't?"

Calleigh smiled, "well, Anna had fallen out with one of the godmothers because of an argument between this godmother and one of the godfathers. So, she asked me to take her place at the last minute. I felt a bit awkward because I haven't known the McBreadle's that long but I couldn't turn her down."

"Well congratulations Calleigh. Right, I'd better get off. I'm off to the uni."

"I didn't know you were back at uni Alexx?" Calleigh teased.

"Well I got a day pass which involves a dead student," Alexx chuckled as she handed back the photos, "excuse me and I'll see you both later."

Horatio and Calleigh were on their way to the staff room when Frank approached them.

"Horatio, Calleigh, great to see you back," Frank turned his attention to Horatio, "I'm afraid you've been thrown straight into the deep end Horatio."

"Why is that Frank?"

"You've got a couple of visitors from Vegas sat in your office waiting to see you. They say it's urgent."

"Thank you Frank. Can you and Calleigh accompany Alexx at the uni please? I'll send Boa Vista over as well."

"Sure thing."

Calleigh and Frank left for the uni.

When Horatio arrived at his office, there was a bearded man sat in a chair and another younger man stood up looking at the certificates on the walls.

"Can I help you both?"

The bearded man stood up and put his hand out to Horatio, "hello, I'm Dr Gil Grissom of Las Vegas crime lab and this is one of my C.S.I's Nick Stokes."
Horatio shook Grissom's hand and then shook Nick's hand.

"I'm Lieutenant Horatio Caine, what brings you to Miami?"
Horatio sat down in his chair and Grissom sat in his whilst Nick stood next to his boss.

"I believe you have a couple of unsolved murders which fits the M.O of our victim in Vegas."

"So why come all the way over to Miami to tell me this?" Horatio seemed a bit confused by this. Surely they could have phoned him to let him know.

Nick finally sat down on the chair next to Grissom, "we have reason to believe that our suspect has come back to Miami to stay with his parents to get away from us."

It finally made sense to Horatio why they had travelled all of the way over to Miami for this, "I will get the case boxes out of lock-up for you to have a look at for a start. Do you have a name for your suspect?"

"Jamie Smithers."

Horatio typed the suspects name into his computer. A file came up on the screen. He had quite a rap sheet including burglary, assault and rape. The most recent arrest was the one in Las Vegas a week ago for murder but he was bailed.

Horatio looked at Grissom, "his last known address is in Vegas."

Grissom sat back in his chair, "we know. When our homicide officer went to go find him to see why he'd skipped bail, his flat mate told him that he'd gone to Miami to stay with his parents for a while. So we decided to follow him."

"Do you know his parents names?"

"From what his flat mate told us his mother is Jayne Smithers and his father is Callum Smithers. He didn't have an address for us."

Horatio picked up his phone receiver and pressed a speed dial button, "Eric, its Horatio. Can you do me a favour? See if you can track down a Callum and Jayne Smithers. Thanks, keep me posted." He put down the receiver and turned to Grissom, "we'll soon find out. Have you got the report from your homicide to compare with our cold cases?"

Nick handed Horatio a file and Horatio read it. He recognized the similarities with a couple of his old cases from last year.

"I know exactly which ones you're talking about. I'll take you both to look at the evidence we have."

All three men stood up and left the office.

On the uni campus, Alexx was processing a young girl's body in a public toilet cubicle, "baby girls got a broken neck Calleigh."

Calleigh looked at the young girl slumped in the corner of the cubicle. She noticed the injuries to her eyes, "what could have caused those?" she pointed to her eyes.
Alexx took a closer look. Her eyelids were a mess; the skin was blistered and seemed to be melted shut. Alexx took out a scalpel to see if she could open them but she got the shock of her life. As she opened it, the eye ball was missing and so was the other one. It was just full of blood.

"She was alive when this happened. The killer must have scorched her eyelids shut. I'll let you know more when I get her back to the lab."

Calleigh was shocked, "that's nasty. Do you have an I.D for her?"

Alexx handed Calleigh the victim's purse, "I found this next to her body. Her name is Rose Camwood. She's only 20 years old and a second year art student here; her dorm key is in there as well."

Natalia walked in to find Calleigh and Alexx in the cubicle.

"That looks brutal."

Calleigh turned to look at Natalia, "oh Natalia, can you go to her dorm room to see if you can find anything?" she handed Natalia the key.

"Sure. Are you going to process in here?"

Calleigh nodded, "as soon as Alexx has finished."

Natalia found the dorm room and started to look through Rose's personal belongings to see if she can find anything. She found a diary belonging to Rose. Frank poked his head round the door, "interesting read Natalia?"

Natalia looked up from the diary, "just her diary. By the looks of it she wrote everything down. Her thoughts and feelings about people she knew, when and where she had to be. She was very organized. Did you find anything out from the principle?"

Frank entered the room, "yeah, this room was supposed to have someone else moving in with our vic tomorrow. She has had three room mates since the first semester. From what I've been told she didn't get along with people very well. She was a very solitary person."

"Do you have any names of the three ex-room mates?"

"Yeah, Jackie Holmes, Sarah Cregg and Bernice Jackson. They all lodged complaints against the vic for her violent temper and they also reported that some of their stuff was stolen. They all accused the vic of the theft but as they couldn't prove it, nothing was done about it."

"I think you've just found our first three suspects, they all have motive to kill her."

"I'll bring them in for questioning."

"Okay Frank, I'll finish processing her room then I'll come back to the lab for the questioning."

"Sure thing." Frank left the room to find these three girls.

Natalia bagged the diary so she could have a closer look at it at the lab. She carried on searching the room and noticed that there was blood spatter on the bottom drawer of the chest of drawers. She got out the luminol and sprayed the whole of the chest of drawers. It looked like that there was smeared blood all over it as though the killer had tried to cover his tracks. She sprayed the rest of the room and found blood all over the computer table next to the drawers and on the carpet. The killer had tried to clear up. Natalia took swabs from the carpet and the furniture then photographed it all.