Written on a request for Sallz and her friend Sarah. Set in mid season 4.

Warning: Pseudo-AU, mainly a friendship fic, but shades of romance on the other side of the pond will start blinking through. May not be suitable for readers under 13. *HAHAHAHAHAHA*

Fact: I am forgetful.

"Why is Boa Vista still on the team?" Ryan snarled as he slammed shut him locker. Natalia was found to be the mole, and no one of team of the team found it amusing to have a mole among them.

"Ryan, you wanted to date her! Don't be such a hypocrite." Calleigh snapped. "She was doing her job." Calleigh said, sighing. She wasn't too happy to know that her coworker was a mole, but she also knew that Natalia's work shielded the lab from attack by the IAB- even though the IAB was breathing down Natalia's neck, forcing her to work over time.

"I'm the hypocrite?" Ryan scoffed. "Thank you for telling me that Calleigh." Ryan snarled and left the locker room.

"Natalia, I'll need to ask you to run a few samples. We just stumbled upon an old serial killer case that looks a lot like our current one an-" Maxine said, as she walked into the lab, staring at her case files that were in her hand and not bothering to look around until she heard glass crunch under the sole of her boot. "Natalia?" Maxine asked, looking up. The DNA lab was a complete chaos, boxes of 5 year old evidence on the floor, their contents, broken beakers and test tubes were all over the floor. And Maxine had stepped on a broken test tube. Maxine couldn't exactly registered what was going on so she carefully left the lab and called Horatio.

"Horatio, we have a problem." Valera sighed, entering Horatio's office.

"Yes, Miss Valera?" Horatio asked, looking up at Maxine.

"You should check out the DNA lab. It's trashed, and I didn't find Natalia there." Maxine said, shifting her weight from one foot to another nervously. "Actually, I was afraid to enter the lab so I'm not sure if Natalia is there or not." Maxine said and Horatio got up, walking with Natalia to the DNA lab. Horatio looked inside the lab and pulled out his gun.

"Miss Valera, stay here for the moment." Horatio said, entering the lab. By now, half the lab's occupants had gathered around the DNA lab. The news spread faster than wild fire and in about 10 minutes, all of the lab's workers were crowded around the DNA lab.

"Horatio, I'll need to question Miss Boa Vista immediately." Stetler said, appearing out of the crowd.

"Stetler, this is my case." Horatio snapped, leading a crying and quite beat up Natalia out of the lab. Eric quickly looked inside, as two brown uniformed officers closed the entrance off with crime scene.

"Alexx, I'm okay." Natalia said through deep gasps of breath. Alexx was going over every bruise, cut, scrape on her body with the precision of a CSI.

"No, you're not baby girl." Alexx said.

"Alexx, I'm okay!" Natalia snapped, getting up before Alexx could inspect another cut.

"Miss Boa Vista-" Horatio began as he entered the room. "Who did this to you?" Horatio asked and it was evident that those words made Natalia stiffen.

"Horatio, I don't think it's really necessary to know." Natalia stuttered.

"I'll be deciding on that, Natalia." Horatio said.

"Nick." Natalia said, new tears coming down her cheeks.

"Who?" Alexx asked, furrowing her brow.

"My ex husband." Natalia said, before breaking down into tears.

Oh snap. Now someone, send me back to writing IOTY plz. TY.

Also, one a funny side note, my laptop automatically corrects Stetler to Stealer. *giggle*

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