Je Ne Sais Quoi

by Frost Deejn

The body of an unknown man and two unconscious women are found after a fire at a posh beach house. Horatio and his team try to figure out what happened, and how it involved a former CSI named Sara Sidle.

1. The Scene

Je Ne Sais Quoi

Disclaimer: I did not create and do not own CSI: Miami.

Chapter 1: The Scene

Smoke, ash, and steam billowed up from the remains of a beach front house.

Lieutenant Horatio Caine stepped out of his hummer and surveyed the scene. There were firemen dousing the smoldering ruins, an ambulance ambling in the driveway, paramedics and uniformed officers swarming the ground.

Horatio moved calmly through this chaos, like the eye of a hurricane.

"What do we know so far?" he asked Detective Frank Tripp, who arrived at the scene a minute or so earlier.

"Not much. A bunch of 911 calls started coming in a few minutes ago; dispatch is still trying to sort them out."

Horatio looked around at the nearby hotels and bars already busy in the early afternoon. "In this neighborhood, not much would go unseen. We're going to have witnesses."

"We've got survivors. Two women found unconscious behind the house. No ID on either. The firefighters say there's a dead man inside. Horatio, something went down here."

He looked over at the two women, both blood-soaked and motionless, being loaded onto the ambulance, then put on his sunglasses as he replied. "And I'm going to find out what."