Here's another bunny that's been bothering me. Sorry all of you Stetler fans(i love him too) but i thought this would make an interesting story.
Criminal Minds Crossover (with my Libby again, but not too much of her)
Disclaimer: I do not own CSI Miami or Criminal minds. I am just borrowing them and will return them in close to mint condition.
Was it Murder? Or suicide?
Clue?
Chapter 1
Horatio and Eric watched with smug grins on their faces as a spiteful criminal was led away to booking. It had been a long and trying case but the evidence eventually was able to put him away.
They walked back to the break room to relax and eat a quick lunch. Calleigh joined them and talked about the successful case. Ryan popped his head in a few minutes later.
"Hey guys, Alexx wants all of us to come down to the morgue." Ryan told them.
"What for?" Eric asked. Ryan shrugged.
"Don't know, but I need to go find Natalia and Valera." Ryan said. The CSIs glanced at each other and followed Ryan down to the morgue with Natalia and Valera. Alexx was waiting next to her table with a body covered by a white sheet. She waited until everyone was standing so they could see the body.
"What I'm about to show you may be a shock," Alexx said with her voice cracking. "The night shift brought him in." Alexx said and slowly pulled back the sheet. Collective gasps echoed through the glass morgue and the girls covered their faces in horror.
"Damn," Ryan swore and ran his fingers through his short brown hair.
Rick Stetler's cold body was lying on the metal table. Horatio didn't show too much emotion since shock hadn't really set in. Calleigh and Eric shook their heads and Eric muttered 'what a shame'.
"He committed suicide early this morning. The neighbors heard a gunshot and his dog was in cahoots," Alexx explained. She turned Rick's head and showed them the entrance wound on his temple.
"Why did he do this Alexx?" Horatio asked. Alexx sighed.
"All I know is he had been fighting prostate cancer for six months." She shrugged. "This shouldn't have happened Horatio. And I want to know why it happened." Alexx said.
"I will do everything I can Alexx." Horatio promised, wanting answers as well.
"And there's one more thing. Eric, help me turn Rick over," Alexx said. Eric hesitated a moment before touching him. "He's dead he won't bite," Alexx said and they rolled Rick onto his side. "Look at this, I can't find records as to what it is from." She pointed to a long, thick scar that ran from Rick's right shoulder to his right hip.
"Holy shit," Eric said and shook his head.
"We need to find his family, maybe they have answers." Horatio said.
"I'll get to work on that," Calleigh offered.
"And I'll go look at the scene," Eric said.
"I'll go with you," Ryan said.
"Let's get to work then, Natalia and Valera work on the DNA collected please," Horatio told them and they nodded goodbye to Alexx and went to their separate jobs.
Arriving at Rick's house, Eric and Ryan were astonished at its size and beauty. Crime scene tape already cordoned off the yard and a few night shift guys were still there. The CSIs relieved a few of them and began to examine the house. The foyer was high ceilinged and peaked with white walls. The kitchen was furnished with marble and mahogany. Rick's living room was large with a few couches and a plasma screen TV. A full horse skeleton hung from the ceiling frozen in a trotting standstill. The living room led out onto a patio and pool inside a fenced in yard. The rest of the first floor had a laundry room, small bar and a large round bathtub that was more like a hot tub. The second floor had four rooms, Rick's bedroom, a smaller bathroom and two small guest bedrooms. Rick had supposedly committed suicide in his bedroom. High velocity spatter covered some of the wall behind his head board and fell onto the carpet and desk, suggesting he shot at an angle. A large blood stain covered the one pillow and sheets, showing where he fell. Eric and Ryan took a few pictures and walked around the room. It looked like a legit suicide.
They looked around the house more carefully. Eric looked into the laundry room and examined the window, still treating this as a murder. The window had been closed but Eric opened it gently and looked on the outside. It had clearly been jimmied. He called Horatio.
"H, this might be a murder robbery, the window was jimmied." Eric told his boss.
"Then search the house for any voids in shelves or medicine cabinets. Stetler was a cancer patient he had a prescription for THC, see if you can find it." Horatio said.
"Will do H," Eric said and they hung up. Eric took pictures of the window and dusted for prints and lifted a few. He searched the large bathroom for any sign of tampering but found none. The bar was also intact as far as he could see, the wine rack was full. Eric couldn't locate any safes. He checked Stetler's medicine cabinet in the smaller bathroom and couldn't find any THC. He took fingerprints and pictures of the cabinet then went back into the bedroom. A very large picture covering the wall caught his attention. It was one of a beautiful blue roan stallion galloping through a field. L. Winston was the signature on the original painting. Eric tried to pry the sides of the painting but it was screwed onto the wall.
He gave up and joined Ryan down in the kitchen.
"Anything?" Ryan asked.
"The window was jimmied and Stetler's prescription is missing, what about you?" Eric reported.
"Nothing here," Ryan sighed and they started back to the lab.
"So how are things with you and Calleigh?" Eric asked carefully.
"Oh, everything's fine," Ryan answered quickly. Eric sighed and decided not to push the issue.
So what do you think? I can has reviews?
