Harsh Love

CSI:NY

Chapter 1

Flack looked around but no-one else was there and in truth he didn't blame them. 4am on a Sunday morning was enough to make anyone wince, but he was surprised that the CSI's hadn't shown up yet. The call he had gotten telling him to get down to Central Park had came in at 3am but by the time he had gotten ready and then got here he had figured someone would already be processing the scene. It seems not.

Flack looked across the crime scene tape he had already put up. The vic was one Kirsty Dulhurst, 16 years old and out of place in Central Park.

The baggy jeans, clumpy boots and jumper that had to be at least 2 sizes to big made Flack think of Lindsay. It was just the image the vic gave him.

But Lindsay had gotten a chance to get away from her country girl background and now this girl never would.

The splash Danny's foot made as it went into a puddle snapped Flack right out of his reverie. Shaking his foot dry with a look of disgust on his face Danny turned to Flack.

"What we got here Don?" Stella walked up from behind Danny and stopped in front of Flack.

"Our vic's 16 and her name is Kirsty Dulhurst. Don't know where she lives or where her parents are but she looks to young to be living in New York on her own. Stella shook her head in the affirmative.

"Looks a bit out of place Flack, what do you think. Kidnapping gone wrong??"

"At this point Stella, I'm really not sure." With that Flack turned and walked away.

"Whoever she was she was not stupid." Danny announced from where he was hovering over the vic. Stella looked at him in surprise "What do you mean Danny?"

Danny stood up still looking at the body below him. "I don't know the cause of death for sure Stella, but I think she knew she was going to die. There's bruising on her neck that implicates that she was strangled and it was the old fashioned way, with hands."

Stella didn't understand how this all meant she was smart.

Danny continued to talk this time pointing at the vic. "There 's no chance that she didn't know what was about to happen, her death must have been slow and laborious it took this guy a while to kill her."

"But look at her face she doesn't look surprised or even scared. I think she knew what was coming a long time before it happened."

Stella looked at the young girl lying before her and although there was no evidence to prove Danny's theory true, she felt a sudden rush of love for this girl who had known what was coming and hadn't been able to do anything to stop it.