Fever and redheads
Chapter 1: weakness
Hortio's apartment
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep.
A sleepy head with read hair, looked grumpy at his beeper. Who dared to beep him at 5:30 in the morning. He grabbed his beeper and checked the number. Eric Delko, who else. Horatio Caine was in most situations a kind and gentle man, but If you dared to wake him up before 6 am you where in big trouble.
It wasn't that Horatio demanded to sleep in late, but he never seemed to get enough sleep these days. His job demanded him to work overtime 5 days a week. And by the time he got home and eaten dinner, he only had about 6 hours left to sleep. For the last couple days Horatio had started to feel tired. And he had a annoying headache tormenting his head.
Yawning, he walked into his bathroom and quickly washed and dressed. The person looking back in the mirror didn't look like the person he knew. He had big bags under his eyes, and he looked paler than normal.
After 20 he left his apartment and headed for the lab.
In the lab
Horatio's pov
"What can I do for you ", he said to Eric when he walked into the lab.
"Horatio! That's quick, I paged you 30 minutes ago. "
"Why did you page me?"
"I'm sorry about that, we got a murder in one of the hotels near the lab. Apparently a father killed his son, it's quite a bloodbath." Eric said, while grimacing.
"How do you know that Eric? You shift hasn't even started? "
Eric turned red at the question, and stammered: "my latest girlfriend kicked me out, I was staying at the hotel when the call came in. "
Horatio snickered, Eric seemed to loose his skills as a ladies man these days.
At the crime scene
"Oh sweety, you never saw it coming did you? " He heard Alexx say in the other room.
Alexx always treated him and his team as her children, and she always talked to the victims that ended up in her morgue.
The first time that he heard her talk to a dead body, he had found it rather creepy. But he had gotten used to it. And now he hardly noticed it.
When he walked in the room, he immediately smelled the blood, and took a few steppes back.
His stomach was turning, and suddenly he felt very nauseous.
"Horatio are you alright " Alexx asked with a concerned voice.
"Yeah I'm alright " What do whe've got, Alexx?
"honey are you sure that you're alright, you look very pale?
"I'm fine alexx, no need to worry "
" Alright, the victim is Rodney Johnson 9 years old, the cause of death appears to be blunt force trauma, the poor baby got hit on the head. Ill know more after the autopsy ."
"Ill see you at the lab Alexx"
after Alexx left, Horatio quickly grabbed a chair to steady himself. The stench of blood combined with the tiredness he had been feeling, was making him nauseous and light-headed. What was wrong with him, it had been years since a crime scene affected him in this way. Perhaps he was getting the flu.
He told Eric to finish up at the crime scene and headed back to the lab.