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Burn Out

Chapter One: Processing the Living

Horatio felt the heat and pressure on the sliver blanket lessen and he took this as a sign that the flames were dying down. He waited another five minutes for the heat on the blanket to fade before throwing back the cover sheet to find the area they had been working on was pretty much desecrated.

All they had now was the body and the girl that Horatio gently helped to stand. He'd had his sunglasses on so his eyes were stinging but he could see. From the look of pain on her face he could see his charge hadn't been so lucky.

Five minutes later the area was surrounded with medics. Horatio checked his charge over and got some solution out of his kit and said, "Sweetheart look up for me." She did as she was told grasping his arm so hard it was beginning to sting but he said nothing. She needed the reassurance.

He dropped solution into her eyes and she blinked and then she smiled at him. "Thank-you." She mouthed. He smiled. "You're quite welcome." He looked around and found that Alexx had reached their crime scene and was looking over the body preparing to take it back to the lab.

The girls eyes were wide and weren't leaving her sister's body. Horatio was sure what was the relationship between the two now and he was determined to get to the bottom of what had happened out here for both girls the living and the dead.

Horatio led her over to where Alexx was seeing to Speed and Alexx was applying the solution to clear Speed's eyes. "Hell that stung. Couldn't see a thing for the dust. Pain in the arse."

Horatio smiled and hunkered down beside Speed and said, "Speed you all right to continue?" Speed nodded and said, "I was just about to shout you. "I've found Ids." "Really?" Horatio said. "Two drivers licences. A Emily King and her twin Michelle King." "There are also two student cards both for the Miami University.

Horatio looked at the girl and took the drivers licences in his gloved hands. "Sweetheart can you point to which one is you?" They looked identical in the pictures.

The girl looked at the pictures and then pointed at Michelle and then pointed at herself. "You're Michelle?" Tim asked gently. Michelle nodded and then looked down at her sister and started to cry silent sobs. She pointed at Emily's picture and then at the body.

Horatio looked at her and saw her mouth "Emily." "That's your twin Emily?" Michelle nodded trying to stem the tears but it wasn't happening. "My sister." She almost said before breaking down completely.

"Oh the poor baby." Alexx said getting up. She opened her arms and Michelle hesitated looking at Horatio before he nodded and smiled. "Alexx won't hurt you Michelle I promise."

Michelle then let herself be hugged before pulling away quickly and grasping Horatio's arm again. Alexx saw this and smiled gently. She would have to talk to Horatio later. She didn't know if he knew how important he had become to Michelle King in a matter of half an hour.

Just then medics made their way over to Horatio and tried to usher Michelle into the ambulance but when they touched her she hit the roof. The poor thing was terrified.

"Gentlemen be gentle this young lady has been through an ordeal I'd appreciate it if you didn't man handle her." The paramedics argued and said they'd just tired to help her which was true but Horatio knew she was about to bolt at any moment and he had promised to keep her safe.

He made sure she could see his hands and then grasped her hand and said, "It's ok Michelle these guys are here to help you."

Tim came over and said H we've nearly finished processing the Crime Scene but someone gonna need to process Michelle I'll send Calleigh over." Horatio nodded and then said, "I'm gonna go with Michelle to the hospital." Tim nodded if Horatio hadn't suggested it he would have gone himself.

"Keep me posted on your findings Speed." Tim nodded and watched as the ambulance pulled away and then helped Alexx load the body of Emily king into her van and followed her back to the crime lab.

Speed ran the little evidence they had from the crime scene but there wasn't much they hadn't had time to process the scene properly before it had blew up in their faces. Definitely not something that you want to happen at a crime scene. So he had to hope that Alexx had found something they could use.

"Alexx please tell me we have something." Alexx looks forlorn as she looks at the body of Emily King. "She went through hell before she died Timmy. I took a rape kit the results came back positive for seamen and it was definitely violent." She moved to the arms. "There are definite signs of restraint. Bruising round the wrists indicate a struggle and I've pulled what I think are skin cells from under her fingernails." She looked down at Emily and caressed her hair.

"She put up one hell of a fight she wanted to survive. My guess is that she was protecting her sister." Tim nodded. "I'll run the skin cells through CODIS to see if I can get a match.

"I'll page you if I get any other results." Tim nodded and left.

At the hospital Horatio was stood outside Michelle's room and Calliegh was inside conducting the process of collecting evidence from her. Horatio had explained that he would have to leave and the pure panic that had graced her features hen he said he was leaving had been heartbreaking.

"Calliegh will be here I'll call in you later all right?" Michelle had clutched at his hand and shook her head. Then she signed something. But she was silently mouthing the words as she did so. "Don't leave me."

Suddenly everything made sense. She was deaf! She had been lip reading and her responses were sluggish because she was in shock. He made a note to himself to get a translator to the hospital and then stepped went to leave. The hand clutched at sleeve.

"Michelle, sweetheart," Horatio said gently. "I'll just be out in the hall. I'm gonna make a few calls." She let him go and he made sure that although his back was turned she could see him throughout the entire medical exam.

Just then his cell phone rang. "Caine." "Hey H it's me." Speed's voice echoed over the line. "I ran the seamen samples there were four different donors H. Emily was gang raped. Horatio felt cold anger inside him. "Have any DNA matches come up in CODIS?"

Horatio knew the answer before Speed answered. "No, none." "Okay then let's get back to the clothes look for fibres anything that can help us nail these guys." "Sure thing H." Speed said. "Right then keep me posted." "Just before you go I got the twins' next of kin shall I ring them?" "No I'll do it give me the details." Speed did do and then they disconnected.

Apparently their next of kin was a sister listed to be living in Las Vegas. A Louise King. He looked up the number and then rang it six rings and then someone picked up. "King." A female voice answered.

"Hello," Horatio said gently "am I speaking to Louise King?" "You are who is this?" Louise asked. "This is Lieutenant Horatio Caine from the Miami-Dade crime lab." Louise's response was instantly business. "What can I do for you Lieutenant Caine?" "I'm calling about Michelle and Emily King they are your sisters they had you listed as their next of kin." "Yes they're my sisters are they ok?"

Something told Horatio that she knew what his next sentence was going to be. "I'm sorry to have to tell you this over the phone but we found Emily's body out in the Everglades this morning." There was a sharp gasp and a choke. She sounded as if she was fighting back tears and why shouldn't she? Horatio had just given her some mind numbing news.

"What about Michelle?" Louise asked after a few moments. Her voice sounded choked with tears but it was steady. "Does she know? Is she ok?" "Both girls appear to have been in an attack Michelle survived it. She's alive and is in hospital at this present moment. I'm calling from the hospital." "Is she ok?" Louise asked she sounded frantic now.

"She's alive." Was Horatio's sad admission. "Oh my god! Oh my god!" Louise gasped a few times and then said, "Which hospital is Michelle in? I'm catching the next flight out of Vegas."

Horatio gave the details and disconnected. He hated having to give information like that over the phone but when relatives lived so far away there was little else he could do.

Calliegh came out the room with the rape kit her face was hard but grave. "She's one brave girl Horatio." Calleigh said gently. "She wanted to live she found to live and I think she's scared someone pretty badly her nails were bloody and broken but I found a huge hunk of skin under there.

Something in Horatio's chest heaved when he heard Calleigh speaking. Something close to hell and worse had happened to these two girls and he wanted to know what it was.

"Calliegh I want everything you've got on this case. I want everything checking twice and I want regular updates I'm going to stay with Michelle at least until her sister gets here. Hopefully by then the interrupter will have turned up and we can see if Michelle can give us any answers."

"I'm sure it won't be for lack of trying." Calliegh said quietly. She left shortly afterwards promising to get both the rape kits to Ryan, the new CSI one and Speed in Trace with a rush on the results.

Horatio stayed with Michelle all afternoon. It was clear from her demeanour that she was not holding up well. "Hey sweetheart." He said after she had stopped communicating for nearly forty minutes.

He was shocked when she turned her head. She'd been facing away from him unable to see his lips so surely that meant she could hear? But why then the sign language? Horatio felt sure he was missing a vital piece of the puzzle. "How you holding up?"

Michelle smiled wanely and shrugged as if to say? How the hell do you think? At that moment there was a knock on the door and a girl about five six with curly blonde hair to her shoulders walked in.

She looked at Michelle and Michelle looked back before the new comer said, "Oh my god Michelle!" Michelle's face lit up and she mouthed what Horatio was sure was the name Louise. Louise hurried to the bed and looked like she was about to hug her sister when Michelle flinched and pulled away.

Louise frowned. "Shelley? What's the matter sweetheart?" A bout of rapid fire sign language followed and Horatio wasn't sure what was being said but Michelle didn't looked like she liked it at all.

"What did they do to you?" She whispered. Her eyes were blazing now. Horatio decided to step in. "Miss King?" Louise looked up and recollection flashed through her eyes. "Lieutenant Caine. Thank-you for keeping my sister company until I got here."

"You sister has been through an ordeal and hasn't spoken since we found her this morning. We assumed since she was signing that she was deaf, I've managed to communicate with her so far but we thought an interrupter would be better." Louise frowned.

"She hasn't spoken at all?" She looked at her sister. And her sister looked down almost guiltily. "You have nothing to be ashamed of." Louise said squeezing Michelle's hand after painstakingly showing her it before it invaded her personal space.

"Michelle's hearing is as good as yours or mine Lieutenant Its- was," Louise took a breath before continuing. "Emily that was deaf. Michelle and I as well as most of our friends can sign it makes it easier. Michelle and Em always seemed so in tune anyway."

Just then the nurse came in and asked them to leave the look of pure panic on Michelle's face was heartbreaking. "I'll stand by the window Michelle okay?" Horatio said gently. "I won't go anywhere until you want me too." Michelle relaxed but eyed the nurse with suspicion.

"I'll be back in a minute okay?" Louise said quietly. Michelle squeezed her sister's hand almost painfully before reluctantly letting go.

Louise followed Horatio outside and one look from her demanded answers. "What the hell happened in the Everglades Lieutenant?" "It's still too early to tell." Was Horatio's answer. He didn't want to scare Louise, she'd just gotten here and she needed to be strong for her sister.

Louise however seemed to be perfectly aware of what he was doing and didn't appreiacate it. "Those sorts of comments are reserved for relatives who have no idea what you do Lieutenant." She said grimly. "I'm a CSI level one under Gil Grissom I know what happens in a case like this."

That information had certainly shocked Horatio. She didn't seem much older than Michelle and Emily but that was not for him to judge.

"Michelle and Emily have had it hard from the beginning." Louise said shaking her head. "Some friends of my parents, and I say friends in the loosest sense of the word, money does not often include such terms, where fostering Michelle and Emily who were then known as Michelle and Emily Doe. They were my best friends so it was hard not to notice that bruises where appearing even more frequently than they should. And even though Emily couldn't speak in our sense of the word the things she DIDN'T say more than weighed up for what she did."

"Michelle tired to protect them both and protect the face of their foster parents but when I did find out I went insane I screamed blue murder and then explained that although they were pushed about a bit it was better than some of the foster homes they'd been in."

Louise shook her head. "I should have guessed sooner but society explains that families such as mine are not capable of such things. I told my parents and they took care of the matter adopting Emily and Michelle quietly explaining that I would have the sisters I could never have otherwise. It solved the problem while keeping face in the high class world of my parents."

Horatio nodded suddenly understanding how the girls where so similar in age. Because they were. Louise turned her head and looked at her sister in the bed who was as stiff as anything while the nurse checked her wounds and bandaged them again.

"Have you finished processing the scene?" She asked. Horatio nodded grimly. "I'm afraid to say that the murder and attacks were thought through. The Everglades are a trap of fire at this time of year it destroyed most of the evidence we had."

Louise closed her eyes. When she opened them Horatio was crouched in front of her. "I don't want you to worry about that though. Because I will find them. Calleigh one of my CSIs has processed Michelle already and Emily will help in anyway she can. Your biggest concern right now is your sister okay?"

Louise nodded losing her battle with her tears. She swiped them away. "I won't let Michelle see me cry that is not what she needs right now." "I agree." Horatio said gently as his phone began to vibrate. "Excuse me." He added.

"Caine."

"Horatio." Calleigh's tone was grave. "Tell me what you have Calliegh." "I'm looking at the results of both rape kits." She took a breath. "Horatio it's not good."

"What did you find?" Horatio asked almost dreading the answer. "multiple donors." Calliegh said quietly. "As many as four. Something horrible happened out there Horatio."

"Okay." Horatio said quietly thinking fast. "Have you run the results against what Speed found on Emily?" "No. Not yet." "Okay let's do that and I'll speak to Michelle again. Keep me posted."

"Will do." Horatio snapped his phone shut.

"I need to speak to Michelle can you act as her interrupter?" Louise nodded. "That doesn't look like it was a very pleasant phone call." "It wasn't." Horatio said. "Look Louise I wouldn't be asking you to do this but Michelle isn't taking kindly to strangers at the moment and I need her to tell me what happened just be prepared to not like the answers she comes up with okay?"

Louise nodded but didn't ask. She didn't think she really wanted to know until it was absolutely necessary.

Back at the lab Speed looked up as Calliegh came in. "I have the results of the DNA comparison I was bringing it through before Eric and I head out on another case."

"Thanks Calliegh." Speed said as he took the results and his face became grim as he read that the four donors from Michelle were at a match to the three found on Emily.

"Bastards." He muttered under his breath.

At that moment Eric came in and said, "Calliegh we have a call out." Calliegh nodded and Eric looked at Speed's face. "Is this about the girls found in the Everglades?" Speed nodded. "Results aren't good. All comparisons are a match excluding one but none of them are in CODIS."

"I don't think they've been run yet." Calleigh indicated the sheet she'd just brought in. Speed got up. "I'm gonna go run this. See you guys later." With that he left the lab and Calliegh and Eric left to process their own crime scene.

Speed was waiting impatiently for the results to run when Ryan came in. "Speed you need to see this." He said. He then turned back and left the room Speed was torn for a moment before following Ryan out to investigate.

He opened the glass door and found Ryan peering at the clothes from both twins. "What is it Ryan?" Speed asked.

"I found traces of carpet fibres on the clothes and Alexx sent over trace from the wound. From what I can see it looks like the Everglades was the dumpsite."

"So we have another crime scene?" Speed asked.

Ryan nodded. "Your crime scene just expanded."