1
Ryan made his
way down the hall way. His mind was blank and it had been lazy for a
few weeks. He knew that it was inhuman of him to think about this,
but when no homicide is reported his job is pretty boring. He had
been told to come in to work early by Horatio for what reason, he did
not know. He lifted his head as he turned the corner and walked by
Horatio's office, catching a glimpse of some one moving in the
office. Not taking to much thought about it he kept on walking. Then
he stopped, realizing what he had seen. Ryan turned and walked back
towards the office. He looked in the glass door to see a teenaged
girl. He reached for the door knob to find it locked. Ryan then
tilted his head and tapped on the glass. The girl's head shot up
revealing large, bright blue eyes. Her face was slim and lightly
tanned. She had long brown hair that flowed over her shoulders
whenever she turned her head. When she stood up Ryan cold see that
she had a slim waist, fairly small hips and long legs. As soon as she
started walking towards the door her foot got stuck under the leather
chair behind Horatio's desk and she fell to the floor. She got up
quickly and brushed her self off. She continued to the door and
unlocked it, stepping out of the office.
"Hi" she said. Her
voice was high.
"Um... hi" Ryan said but before he had time
to ask her what she was doing in Horatio's office, someone called
from behind them.
"Abby?" Ryan turned to see to see another
girl. This girl looked a little bit taller than the one standing in
front of him. She had shorter, lighter brown hair and blue-green
eyes. But other than that the girls looked a lot alike.
The girl
in front of Ryan looked at him again and smiled, then walked to the
other girl.
"What where you doing? I was looking all over for
you." the taller one said.
"I was just looking around" Abby
replied.
"Well don't because I know soon enough you are going
to do something that is probably going to get someone killed then I
will have to try and get you out of it and then we will both be
kicked out of this place and never get out of high school and never
get jobs and live in small boxes on the side of the road!" the girl
exclaimed in a very fast panicky matter.
"Stop being such a
mom." the Abby stated.
The other girl rolled her eyes and they
started walking down the hall together.
Ryan tried to take in all
that the girl had just said. It did not make much sense. He did not
believe that one girl could say so much in one sentence. His head was
spinning just thinking about her exclamation.
Calleigh walked up
behind him. "Hey" she said.
Ryan turned "Hi."
"Horatio
is waiting for you in the break room." she told him
2
Ryan made his way in to the break room. He stopped at the
door, surprised to see the two girls sitting next to the table. The
one that had been in Horatio's office stood up when she saw him.
She walked over to him with a grin on her face. "Hi, I'm Abby."
"Hi... umm what's going on here?" Ryan asked.
"These
two are here for a school project." Horatio said ,walking in from
the door behind Ryan. "You see these two signed up for a program
this summer so they'll come here every day for the summer and help
us. They learn things and get marked on how well they do and in
return we receive some helping hands."
"So they're going to
be here all summer?" Ryan asked curiously.
"Yes, and from now
on Abby will be partnered up with you and..." he explained this as
Eric walk through the door "Mindy will be with you" he said
talking to Eric.
"Hmm? Ok? What's going on?" Eric asked.
"Ryan will fill you in" Horatio said and left the room.
"Wait, what are we supposed to do with them?" Ryan called
after his boss.
"Just take them with you and teach them things
about your job" Horatio told him.
"God I hate this job"
Ryan said turning around to see the girl named Abby standing in front
of him.
3
Two days later.
Abby was sitting next to
Mindy in the lab while Calleigh was explaining to them how to look
process evidences without leaving your DNA on it. Abby liked getting
to see how all of the things in the lab worked. They had been
spending a lot of time in the lad learning about things in the past 2
days. Some of the stuff was boring to Abby but for the most part she
was happy to be able to understand.
Mindy had her note book out
and was writing notes about what Calleigh was saying down onto her
paper.
Abby had known Mindy for a long time and she was almost
never with out her notebook. Mindy and Abby had been best friends
ever since kindergarten when Abby had decided to go on an adventure
to find "Teddy Bear Hill". You see one day the teacher was
reading a book to the class about Teddy Bear Hill and well Abby had
thought it would be cool to go and live on Teddy Bear Hill so when
every one was napping she had taken all of her things and got ready
to leave the school. But Mindy, who was a lot more fearless back
then, had asked her if she could go too. So Abby said yes and they
left. The teachers found them sitting out side a McDonalds 20 minutes
later but still, if it had not been for that day they would not have
been friends now.
Just as call Calleigh was about to tell them
who to bag the evidence, Ryan came walking into the room.
"A
body's been found." Ryan said.
4
Abby looked around
the lake. A body was found lying on the dock. It was a girl with
blond hair, it was short and kind of curly. Her face was round so was
the rest of her body. Mindy was standing over top of the body,
writing in her note book. Abby walked over to her.
"What are
you writing about? She asked.
"I'm just taking notes."
Mindy replied.
"About what? She's dead." Abby said.
"Just
because she can't talk doesn't mean that she's not saying
something." stated Alexx, walking up behind Abby.
"Well then
what is she saying?" Abby asked her.
"Well for one, she was
shot." Alexx said pointing to a large bloody spot on the girl's
stomach. "And from the looks of it she was trying to fight who ever
did this to her. You see the bruises? I don't think she was killed
here. By the looks of it she was in the water. And the ropes around
her hands have been cut, so I think someone was here before we were."
There where several large bruises along the girls arms. "But I can
find out a lot more when we get her back to post."
"What's
that?" Mindy said pouting to a small plastic card sticking out of
the girls pocket.
"It's a business card." Alexx said "for
a car dealer ship."
5
Horatio sat a cross the table
from Mr. Lonmaro when they had found out that the car dealership was
his and called him in.
"Do you know this girl." Horatio
questioned, pushing a photo of the girl that they found at the lake
towards him.
The man looked at the photo then looked away and put
his head in his hands. After minute he looked up and spoke.
"Yes
that's my oldest daughter... Marisa."
"She was found by a
lake this morning." Horatio said.
"What about Stephanie?"
the man asked "did you find her too?"
"You mean both of
then where missing?"
"Yes, Marisa was first, then yesterday
Stephanie left and never came back."
"Do you know of any
people the might have been with either of your girls in the past two
days?"
"Um Stephanie's friend Carly. That's who Stephanie
was with before she went missing."
Later that day
"Hi
Carly." Horatio said as he walked in and sat at the table
"Hi."
she said "look, if this is about Stephanie, I don't know where
she is."
"Where you with her last night?"
She looked
away.
"Carly, we found a body today, the body of Stephanie's
sister and now your friend is missing so if you know anything about
where she might be or what happened, you could be staving her life."
"Last night Stephanie called my house and said some wearied
things she told me that I was a good friend to her and that she was
sorry for anything she had ever done wrong to me. Then she asked me
to walk up to the lakes. After that she just said good bye and hung
up the phone. So I went to the lakes and I saw Marisa's body
there."
"You where the anonymous caller." Horatio stated.
"Ya."
"So... when Stephanie called you, she was talking
like something was going to happen to her. Right?"
"Yes but I
know that it was not Stephanie that killed Marisa. She would never do
that."
"No I don't think that Stephanie killed any one. I
think that Stephanie found out that someone killed Marisa and then
she found out where her body was so she went down and got her body.
Then you called so that she would know that some one found the body."
"But why would she not just call in the body her self?"
"Perhaps... she thought that who every killed her sister, would
find out and kill her."
"Or maybe she was just trying to get
away from that physco boy friend."
"Boy friend?" Horatio
asked.
"Ya. Stephanie was going out with this guy. He goes to
another school, I think... I don't even know. And he is a lot older
then Stephanie. I only saw him once but after they started going out
I barely saw Stephanie, ever."
"Do you know what his name
is?"
"Ya I think it 's J.T or something I don't know hi
last name."
6
Ryan stepped out of his Hummer to the
muddy pathway and walked along side of the lake shore. Abby jumped
out of the passenger door and ran up next to him.
"So what are
we doing here?" she asked.
"Trying to find a body." Ryan
said.
"Ok... but didn't we already find the body?"
"Ya,
we found a body. Now we are looking for another one."
"But
why."
"Because the body that we found has a missing younger
sister that was going out with the suspect that we think killed the
older sister. So we have to look for another body and well, this is
the best place to look for it."
"But I thought that the
suspect was like and old man. And why would he kill his girl friend
and her sister."
"I think that the older sister found out
that the younger one was going out with the boy and she threatened to
tell so the boyfriend killed her."
"But then why would he
kill the girlfriend too?"
"I don't know. Maybe she still
wanted to leave him after that. It's hard to tell"
"So,
what are we going to do in the water? Look for a body?" Abby asked
as they stepped on to the dock.
"You are." Eric was in the
water next to them. "Ryan here is too scared to look for dead
bodies in the water."
Abby smiled.
"No. Its ok. I will
leave the swimming in mucky water to you." Ryan said.
"Abby
these some suits in the back of the Hummer, I think Mindy was back
there. She can show you where they are." Eric told Abby who turned
and ran towards the big Hummer.
It was not to long before Abby
and Mindy walked back out on to the dock. They both had tight black
scuba long sleeved shirts on. Mindy had pink and yellow swimming
shorts on and Abby had blue ones on. They had picked them out the
night before when Ryan had first told them that they would be going
into the lake.
"Do you think that it is safe for us to be doing
this? I mean we have never gone looking for bodies before in a lake?"
Mindy said looking down at her shirt.
"Stop being a baby."
Abby told her.
"Well are you coming?" Eric asked.
Mindy
looked in to the water then sighed and nodded.
"Ok so just stay
close to the dock and don't go too far in o and stay together."
Eric told the girls then turned and dived in to the water.
Abby
dived in right after Eric then Mindy took one last look and the water
and jumped in.
7
20 minutes later.
Eric pulled
himself out of the water onto the dock. Mindy was sitting cross
legged with a book in her hands just near the edge of the dock. Ryan
was looking around in some shrubs next to the path way.
"Did
you find any thing?" Mindy asked looking up form her book
"No…"
he said still looking around. "Where's Abby?"
Mindy looked
down in to the water. "I thought she was with you" she said.
"What? No. Why would she be with me? I told you two not to go
far in." Eric explained.
"I saw her come up for air over
there so I just thought that she was with you." Mindy said in a
panicky voice.
"What's going on?" Ryan asked, walking up to
them just as Eric jumped into the water.
Abby knew that she
should have stayed by the dock like Eric had said but she had no one
to tell that she had seen something. It was some kind of blue light
coming from this direction. Her lugs felt like they where going to
burst but she knew if she had gone up for air now that some one would
see her and tell her to go back.
She looked forward and that's
when she saw it. The blue light was coming from behind a large kind
of plant thing. Abby reached into the plant and felt her hand hit
something hard. She held her breath (like she had a choice) and
pulled out…a flash light. She sighed in her head knowing that now
she was going to have to explain why she was all the way in the
middle of the lake and did not find any thing but a flash light.
Maybe I could bring the flash light back, Abby thought as she saw
that the handle on the flash light was wrapped to something on the
other side of the plant. Using the flash light as her only way to see
in the dark water Abby pulled the large plant back and out of the
way. She flashed the light to where it looked like it was cloudy. She
felt her heart sink when she saw that the handle of the flash light
was tied up to a rope that was tied to several large bricks. Abby
flashed the light up towards the top of the rope. She felt sick when
he saw them. At least 6 bodies all just floating there. One of the
bodies was just in front of her. She started to panic and began to
swim up wards as fast as she could. But she came to a halt when she
felt her foot get tangled in one of the ropes holding down the
bodies. She tried pulling her foot out but the light began to dim and
then went out leaving her in complete darkness expect for the light
coming from above. Abby was trying untangle her foot and soon she
felt the rope snap. She swam for her life to the top of the water.
She gasped for air when her head broke the surface. She could hear
someone yelling and then she saw Eric swimming towards her. He
stopped when he came about a meter close to her. He was not looking
at Abby but at some thing be hind her. She turned slowly to see a
pale wrinkly head right in front of her face. One of the bodies had
floated up with her when the rope had come undone. She was about to
start screaming but she stop when she saw the face of the body. For
some reason the girl had what looked like a smile on her face. Just
then Eric grabbed her arm.
"Can you swim back?" he asked her.
She nodded taking one last look at the body. Then began swimming
toward the dock where Ryan and Mindy where standing. When she got to
the dock Ryan held a hand out a hand to her she took it and he pulled
her out of the water.
"Oh My God Abby. Are you ok? I'm so
sorry. I should have stayed with you, I just thought that you went
with Eric. Oh My God... Where is Eric? Did he drown trying to save
you? You see! I told you something was going to happen and now look,
I was right. Oh My God your mom is going to put you in military
school or something I just know it! And then my mom is going to think
that that is a good idea and put me in it too…"Mindy was talking
very fast again just like she did when she was scared out of her
nerves .
"What where you doing out there? You could have gotten
your self hurt or worse. Didn't Eric tell you to stay over by the
dock." Ryan asked. "And where is Eric?"
"I found bodies."
Abby said standing up.
"Bodies? As in more then one?" Ryan
asked her.
Abby nodded.
1 hour later
Eric had pulled
out all of the bodies and they where all laying side by side on the
ground in black body bags. The lake had gotten way more crowded than
it had been an hour ago. People where now taking the bodies one by
one into Alexx's Van headed to the morgue.
Abby was sitting on
the dock with a towel around her shoulders. Beside her was body bag
that was holding the girl that had floated up with her. When Eric had
taken the girl's body out of the water, Abby had gotten a better
look at the girl. She look about Abby and Mindy's age, maybe even
younger. Abby did not know what it was about the girl that made her
feel sorry for her. Perhaps the fact she was murdered she thought.
Two people came and zipped up the bag then took hold of the handles
on the side of the bag and toke it toward the white van. Horatio came
and bent down next to her.
"Eric tells me you found the bodies
today." he said.
"Ya" Abby said.
"Good work"
Horatio said "but next time I'd like it if maybe you leave it to
the specialist."
Abby smiled and then nodded
8
"So they where all killed the same way" Ryan said to
Alexx "someone shot them."
They were in the morgue, all of
the bodies where lied out on steel tables all around the room.
"That's what I thought too, until I saw this." Alexx said
pulling up the sleeve of one of the girls' shirts revealing a slit
on both wrists. "Now why would a killer shoot all of these girls
then turn to slitting wrists?" she asked, walking over to the table
next to the girl. She picked up a small knife. "I found this in her
pocket. It's the knife that killed her."
"You're saying
who ever killed her put the murder weapon in her pocket. But why?"
Ryan asked.
"Now, what I am say is that she killed herself. And
put the knife in her pocket along with this." She handed Ryan a
small piece of paper. "She must have known something ,so killing
herself was the only way to get someone to listen to what she had to
say."
"Smart girl." Ryan said "I am going to go try and
find out what this paper says."
9
Abby was sitting on
the floor of the lab with a small bouncy ball. She was bouncing the
ball on the wall next to the table Ryan was working on .
"Abby."
Ryan said softly, trying to keep his temper down.
She did not
respond.
"Abby. "he said again, still softly.
She still
did not look back. Then finally he couldn't take it any more.
"Hey, Abby!" he yelled. It made Abby jump and drop the ball.
"What?" she asked.
"Can you stop throwing that ball?"
he said.
"Fine." she said standing up and putting the ball in
her book bag next to the door.
"Thank you."
Abby walked
over and stood a cross the table from Ryan. He looked up to see Abby
staring back at him. She smiled.
"Don't you have something
you could be doing?" Ryan asked.
"Nope." she said "I can
help you."
Ryan sighed then said "Not unless you can tell me
what this is." Ryan was looking down at piece of paper. It had
several small markings that looked like numbers on it but Abby could
not tell what they were.
"What is it supposed to be?" Abby
asked.
"It's a piece of paper Alexx found in the Jane Doe's
pocket." Ryan told her. "It's a bit smudged up but I think it
might be a phone number or and address but there's not enough
numbers for either of them so I can't tell."
Abby took a pair
of white gloves from the side table and put them on. Then she slide
the paper towards herself.
"It's a text message number."
she said after a few minutes of looking at the paper
"What?"
Ryan asked.
"A text. You know... For a cell phone. God you
really are old."
"I know what a text message is." Ryan said
slowly looking at the paper. "I just didn't think of that. Good
work."
"Thank you "Abby said grinning.
"Now we just
have to find out what the numbers are and then it can lead us to the
owner." Ryan said taking the paper.
"Well that kind of looks
like it could be the number 7."She said pointing to one of the
smudged numbers.
"Ya." Ryan said looking away from the paper.
"Did any one find a cell phone near the lake?"
"I don't
think so. Hey, but what if she left it at home that night be for she
left." Abby suggested.
"Call her parents and ask if she left
her cell phone and if she did ask if there was someone named J.T on
it."
10 minutes later
Abby ran back into the
examination room.
"J.T was the first one on her list." she
said handing Ryan a piece of paper.
10 minutes later
"Why
would the killer be at a school in the summer time?" Abby asked
Ryan as they walked towards Mindy and Eric standing in front of a
building that read T.T.Y.L HIGH SCHOOL.
"He's here for summer
school. And we don't know if he is the killer so stop calling him
killer, ok?" Ryan told her.
"But he could be the killer,
right?" Abby said
"Yes he could be and by calling him kill
you could be intriguing him."
"So you're telling me by
calling this guy killer I …"Ryan interrupted her before she could
end her sentence .
"Abby I am not taking you in there if you
are going to be like this." he said
"Fine, I won't say
another thing ."She smiled at him. He rolled his eyes then they
continued in to the school with Mindy and Eric. The hallways where
deserted but there was a small buzz of voices coming from one of the
classrooms. Eric looked at a small piece of paper .
"He's in
room 309."Eric said.
"That's the one" Mindy said pointing
at a door that had the numbers 309 above the window. Eric tapped on
the door and a large woman with gray hair opened the door.
"Can
I help you." she asked, looking at Eric from head to toe smiling .
"Um... yes we're looking for a boy named J.T Verdana." Ryan
said.
"J.T? Ya he's here." the lady said, turning back in
to the room and yelling "J.T!" then pointing at the door.
A
tall boy with blonde hair and green eyes walk to the door.
"Are
you J.T Verdana?" Ryan asked.
"Ya" he said in a rude
manner.
"We have a warrant for your arrest." Eric said,
showing him the warrant.
"For what?" J.T asked.
"The
murder of 7 teen aged girls." Eric said.
"You can't prove
that." J.T said, not acting a bit worried
"Yes we can."
Abby said. Ryan and Eric both turned their heads and looked at her.
Mindy hit her arm. "Sorry" she said.
"And yes we can prove
that you did in fact kill those girls" Eric said
"Well you
see the thing is I'm only 18 and I have a lot more of my life to
live and well... it's not going to be in jail so…"J.T reached
in to his jacket and pulled out a small gun. It happened very fast he
pulled out his gun before neither Eric or Ryan had time to pull out
there own. There was one loud gun shot and Mindy was soon on the
ground wide eyed, blood running from her body. Abby was on the ground
next to her, tears falling from her eyes. Still pointing his gun at
the group, J.T said, "You see now I can do any thing I want. I'm
already going to jail, right?"
He turned and ran down the hall
way in the direction that they had come in from. Ryan and Eric both
turned and kneeled down beside Mindy.
"Mindy?" Abby said as a
puddle of blood appeared around Mindy's head coming from her
shoulder where the bullet had entered her body.
Eric looked at
Ryan with worried eyes. "Come on, we have to take her to the
hospital."
11
"Abby go get into the car, ok." Ryan
told Abby as he pulled her to the car.
"No I have to stay with
Mindy." she told him
"The best place for you right now is out
of the way." Ryan told her, opening the door,
"But she's my
best friend." Abby said, her eyes filling with tears. "Ryan is
she going to die?"
"I don't know. Just stay here, ok." he
said closing, the door
Abby looked out the window. Paramedics
where putting Mindy's body onto an ambulance gurney and rolling her
in to the ambulance. Ryan and Eric where talking nearby, they both
looked worried. Abby looked away as the ambulance drove away with
Mindy in it. Then she saw something moving in the bushes across the
road from where she was. It looked like a person but Abby could only
see the back of the person's head because who ever it was, was
looking in the other direction. Then the person turned his head and
looked right at Abby. It was J.T! He looked at her and smiled. Then
he got up and ran away. Before Abby thought about what she was doing
she pushed the door opened and run out.
"Um Mr. Wolfe?" an
officer said from behind Ryan who turned to look at him.
"Yes."
he said.
"I don't know if you know this but the other girl
you were with just ran across the street and over there." the
officer said.
"What?" Ryan asked "why didn't you stop
her. I just thought I told her …" but before he could finish
there was another gun shot from the direction Abby had ran. He and
Eric both took off running in that direction.
Abby made her way
running in to the trees where she had seen J.T go. She could hear him
running in front of her. The forest seemed small when she had been on
the road but now that she was init it seem a lot bigger. Abby did not
think that J.T knew that she was following him yet and she hoped it
stay that way for now. She had no idea what she was going to do but
she could not just let him get away after he shot Mindy like that.
Just then her foot got stuck under a root sticking out of the ground
and she fell to the ground letting out a small scream. She lay there
for a minute as she heard J.T's foot steps stop and then change
directions towards her.
She tried not to move as she saw two feet
in front of her face.
"Well hello there." J.T said. "Stand
up."
Abby did as she was told, happy to be off of the ground.
J.T had his gun out but it was pointed to the ground.
"How's
your friend?" Abby moved towards him but stopped when she felt a
hand around her arm she looked up to see Horatio standing behind her
with his gun drawn. He pushed Abby behind him.
"Hello J.T"
Horatio said.
"Who are you?" J.T asked, moving his gun
upwards.
"I'm the one that is going to put you in jail."
Horatio answered.
"For what? All of those girls that I killed
either asked me to kill them or they just dissevered it." J.T said.
"What about the girl you shot in the school?" Horatio asked.
"She was in my way; it was the only way I could get out." J.T
said. He had a small smile on his face. "Look, I'm sorry about
the little girl and whatever else but I have places to be so …"
before he could finish Horatio shot him in the right hand so the he
dropped his gun and fell to the ground holding his arm.
"You
shot my hand!" J.T yelled.
"Yes I did .You catch on fast."
Horatio said walking over to him and picking his gun up form the
ground.
Soon Ryan and Eric ran in to view. Along with 5 officers.
"Are you ok?" Ryan asked Abby.
"Ya," she told him.
The officers handcuffed J.T and took him away.
12
1
day later
Abby had her legs in front of her and she was hugging
her knees. Her eyes where red and her face was pale. She was looking
at her best friend, lying in a hospital bed. Mindy's eyes were
closed and she was a lot paler then Abby. She had been like this for
the past day. Abby had not left the hospital the whole time. Mindy
had been shot right above her heart. The doctors had mostly stopped
the bleeding but they did not know how long they could keep her
breathing.
Ryan walked in to the room.
"Hey." he said.
"Hi" Abby answered.
"Eric and I are going out to eat.
You want to come?" he asked.
Abby looked at him.
"Come on
if something happens someone will call you."
Abby sighed and
looked at Mindy but to her surprise Mindy did not have her eyes
closed
"Hi..." Mindy said in a low kind of hollow voice.
"Hi" Abby said with smile forming on her face.
"What
happened? Mindy asked
"You got shot." Abby said, sitting down
beside Mindy on the bed.
"I did?" Mindy asked, surprised.
"Ya." Abby said.
The doctor came in and told Mindy that
she was going to be ok but she was still going to have to stay in the
hospital for a bit longer.
Abby and Mindy both continued working
with Eric and Ryan for the rest of the summer and both got A's and
J.T was sentenced to a life time in prison for the murder of 7 girls
and the attempted murder of another.
