The cool morning breeze was blowing toward her face as she stared out toward the ocean, she loved the way she could smell the ocean. But she knew that she couldn't stay like this forever; sitting there staring at the ocean hoping that it would help solve all of her problems. First things first, she had to get up and get ready for work no matter how bad she just wanted to stay home and crawl under her sheets and never get out of bed. Things had been pretty well at work; Eric, Ryan, Walter, Horatio, and Calleigh all were doing well and today was a new day. But in the back of her mind she wondered if everything was going to work out, she wanted everything to work out.
So Natalia Boa Vista got up and began her morning routine; she showered, got dressed, put a little of her make-up on, grabbed her gun, purse, and car keys, and then headed out the door to the café down the street to a café to get some coffee. She really needed the coffee, she was barely sleeping at night and her mind always seemed to work overtime at night. Once she pulled up to the café she got out and headed inside. What she didn't notice was a man who stopped his car behind hers; he sat in his car carefully watching Natalia as she ordered her coffee and paid. He watched her receive her coffee and then get back into her car and as she drove away he pulled out to follow.
Once Natalia arrived at work she headed to the DNA lab to see if there was any evidence that needed to be processed. She noticed that Calleigh was in the ballistics lab getting prepared to fire one of the evidence guns, she then got to work on her own evidence pile. When Calleigh finished processing the gun, she loaded one round to shoot at the target; she finished that and took the bullet from the target to see if it matched the bullet taken from a victim. She found out that the bullets matched and headed to Horatio's office to tell him the news.
Natalia, who had put a new set of gloves on, looked up and watched Calleigh walk from the ballistics lab to Horatio's office. She watched Calleigh smile and stick her head into Horatio's office and was speaking with him, it make her smile to think that something good was going to happen. One person was going to get justice and it was because of the team working hard to solve the crimes; she knew sometimes that they didn't always end so happy. Natalia shook her head to get rid of the thoughts of unhappy endings and got back to work on the DNA evidence in front of her.
"The weapon was a match, H." Calleigh said as she and Horatio began to walk to the elevators, "Plus the prints match the gun owner. Eric checked."
"Good work Calleigh. I'll go interrogate the suspect with Frank. Why don't you go help Natalia in the DNA lab. I hear she's overloaded with evidence." Horatio said as he got onto the elevator.
"Sure H."
Calleigh then turned from the elevator and made her way down the hall to the DNA lab; she smiled as she thought she and Natalia were going to have some time to catch up. She and Natalia had been working so hard and long that she realized that they hadn't been able to go out for dinner like they had before. She missed being able to go out for a night with her best friend and was extremely excited to go help Natalia in the lab.
"Hey Natalia." Calleigh said as she entered the DNA lab.
"Hi Calleigh, what's up?" Natalia said as she finished putting a sample into the machine to get the results.
"H said that you've been overloaded with DNA evidence, so he asked me to help in any way that I could. So what do you need me to do?"
"Well you could help prep the evidence if you want. I'm used to doing it myself, but if you want to help your more than welcome."
"Sure. I'll get right on that."
Calleigh put on some gloves and began to prep some of the evidence in the pile, Natalia turned back to the printer to take some of the results out.
Soon they were almost done with most of the evidence pile and were on the last few, so they'd be caught up for tomorrow.
"Thank you Calleigh." Natalia said as she took out more results.
"No problem. I missed spending time with you." Calleigh said changing her gloves.
"I missed that too."
"Hey Natalia you've received some flowers. They're at the desk." Ryan said as he entered the lab.
"Really? I wonder who they're from." Natalia said as she finished updating the evidence tag.
"Don't know. The desk said that they were dropped off by some guy." Ryan said as he left the DNA lab.
"Okay. But I'm not dating anyone."
"Well maybe they just want to date you and looked you up." Calleigh said knowing how great and beautiful Natalia was.
"I'll be right back I'm going to check to see who they're from." Natalia said as she took off her gloves and headed to the front desk.
"Okay."
Calleigh watched as Natalia walked over to the front desk, she watched as Natalia took an envelope from next to the flowers. Natalia's face suddenly paled and she dropped the envelope, Calleigh took that as a sign that something was wrong. She stopped what she was doing, took off her gloves, and walked out and over to Natalia.
"Natalia what's wrong?" Calleigh said putting a hand on Natalia's lower back and looking her in the eyes.
"In the envelope…there's a picture of me sleeping." Natalia nearly whispered; she still looked pale.
"What? Do you mind if I look?"
"No."
"All right darling."
Calleigh took the envelope from Natalia after putting on a pair of gloves; inside the envelope was a note and a picture. The picture was on Natalia sleeping and the note said, 'You are so beautiful when you sleep.'
"Okay. I'm going to tell Horatio about this and get Eric to print this." Calleigh said as she looked at Natalia.
"I…I…" Natalia tried to find something to say, she was still in shock.
"Natalia it's going to be okay. We're not going to let anything happen to you."
"Hey what's going on?" Ryan said as he and Walter came over seeing Natalia was pale and looked like she was a little scared; plus Calleigh had gloves on holding the envelope, note, and photo.
"Walter can you please take this to Eric and get him to get prints off this. I need to go talk to Horatio, Ryan why don't you stay with Natalia." Calleigh said as she handed him the photo, note, and envelope after he put gloves on.
"You got it." Walter said taking the items and then heading off to find Eric.
"Natalia why don't we go get some coffee." Ryan said leading Natalia to the break room. Calleigh turned and headed to Horatio.
"Hey H, can I talk to you?" Calleigh said as she stepped into Horatio's office.
"Sure, what's going on?" Horatio said as he motioned for Calleigh to sit which Calleigh did.
"Natalia just received some flowers from someone unknown."
"Okay, so what's the problem?"
"In the envelope that was with the flowers was a note and photo. The photo was of Natalia sleeping and the note said, 'You are so beautiful when you sleep.' It really freaked Natalia out."
"Are you getting Eric to print the envelope, note, and photo? Where is Natalia? How is she doing?"
"Walter took it all to Eric. Ryan took Natalia to the break room to get coffee and Natalia is in shock. I don't want her to be alone at any point."
"I agree."
In the break room, Ryan poured Natalia a cup of coffee while Natalia sat on the couch. "So what's going on Natalia? Is everything okay?" Ryan said as he handed her the cup.
"I don't know. I opened an envelope that came with the flowers and it had a note and photo inside." Natalia said still trying to process the information.
"Okay, but why did Calleigh want the prints on it? What did it say?"
"It said, 'You look so beautiful when you sleep' and had a photo of me sleeping in my house."
"Oh. You know we won't let anything happen to you."
"Yeah I know. I just I don't know what to do."
"I'm sure H is going to make sure you're never alone and we're going to catch this guy before anything happens."
"Thanks Ryan."
"Hey guys, we received a case." Walter said as he came into the break room.
"Okay." Natalia and Ryan said as they got up.
"H says were all needed. There're at least three victims."
"Let's go grab our gear. Why don't you ride with me." Ryan said as he led Natalia out of the break room followed by Walter.
At the crime scene Horatio and Calleigh were looking over two bodies, while Eric and Natalia were looking at another body and Walter and Ryan were looking over the whole crime scene around outside and inside for evidence.
"Hi Horatio, Calleigh, the first victim is Jacob Organsite. It looks like he was stabbed twice directly in the heart by the looks of it. Probably around midnight from the body temp." said Dr. Tom Loman the ME.
"All right and what about victim number two?" Horatio asked as Calleigh continued to take photos.
"As for victim number two she is Mary Organsite and she also was stabbed, but more than Mr. Organsite. From the looks of it a lot of the stab wounds were postmortem, but I'll be able to tell you more when I do a full autopsy on them."
"Thanks, Tom."
"No problem. I'll go check the third victim and then get them to the morgue."
"Okay."
Tom then stood grabbed his case and headed in to a different room to check the third victim, while Calleigh began to collect evidence around the scene.
Natalia was taking pictures of the victim when Tom entered the room; Eric was going through the victim's desk.
"Hey Tom." Natalia said as Tom knelt down to check out the victim.
"Hello Natalia. Your victim is Rebekah Organsite, daughter of Jacob and Mary, it looks like she was stabbed and perhaps sexually assaulted. I'll run the test when I get them back to the morgue. It appears she died around 1 to 2 AM, which is a little after her parents." Tom said as he got to work checking out the victim.
"Do you think she was conscious for the murder? It doesn't look like there are any defensive wounds."
"Not sure, I'll check her with ultraviolet light when I get back. Maybe there's deep bruising."
"Okay."
Walter and Ryan walked in with several evidence bags in his hand; Eric and Natalia kept to looking for evidence. "So I found where the suspect broke in. It was the guest room window. It's next to the parents' room. So I think he killed the parents first, since the parents were the closest to the guest room." Walter said as he watched Eric collect the lab top and phone for when they headed back to the lab.
"It would agree with suggesting that this victim was the main target." Natalia said as she continued to take photos.
"I agree." Tom said as he stood up. "I'll have the guys come in and remove the body."
"Thanks Tom." Eric said.
Soon they all headed back to the lab, where Eric and Walter began printing all the evidence; Calleigh and Ryan went to look through the lap top and cells phones; while Natalia went to the DNA lab to start processing all the samples from the crime scene.
After an hour of everyone processing the evidence, a letter was delivered to Natalia in the DNA lab by one of the other lab techs. Calleigh and Ryan were walking toward Horatio's office when they heard a scream come from the DNA lab, which made both of them turn and run to the DNA lab.