Disclaimer: I don't own anything C.S.I. Miami, it's all property of CBS and whatnot, so don't sue.
Scars and the Pain Behind them
Chapter 1: Scars across Pale Flesh
It was the end of another day for the dedicated C.S.I. team of Miami Dade County. Eric Delko was headed for the locker-room, all the while having a conversation with Calleigh and Alexx. Horatio was at the hospital with the young victim of the case they'd just solved, she had been beaten and almost hacked to pieces by her own mother as it turned out.
" I still can't believe thata womancould do something like that to her own child." Sighed Alexx.
" Yeah, it just blows my mind." Added Calleigh.
" I'm just glad I can only imagine what it must feel like for that girl." Said Eric as he and the two women walked into the locker-room.
All of them however, stopped dead in their tracks when their gazes fell on something the thought they'd never see again so soon.
" Oh my God." Whispered Alexx with wide eyes.
" Jesus Christ." Whispered Calleigh, her green eyes mirroring Alexx's.
Eric just gawked, and his mouth was slightly agap.
There, standing in front of his locker was a very startled Ryan Wolfe. He had been in the motions of changing into a fresh shirt when his three co-workers had walked in.
Eric, Calleigh, and Alexx got a full view of the young man's back, and the deep, jagged, ugly scars that marred it.
Ryan's eyes were wide and fearful but, he quickly gathered himself and hastily grabbed the button-up shirt from his locker and quickly buttoned it up. Once he was done, he swallowed visibly before slowly walking passed his stunned co-wokers.
" I'm sorry you all had to see that." He said suddenly before he continued to the door, but before he walked through them, he paused and turned to gaze back at the three pairs of disbelieving eyes staring at him.
" I wish I could only pretend whatit feels like too." He said softly, his big brown eyesconveying a brief glimpse into an inner agony beforeRyan walkedout the door.
Calleigh, Eric, and Alexx looked back at each other, still too stunned to speak. But there was one question playing acrossall of theirminds.
" Whatthe hell was going on?"