Chapter 2

"Horatio!" Horatio turned around to see Eric come hurrying towards him.
"I took a sample of the blood on the knife, and I found DNA from two people. One of them was our vic, but the other was from an unknown male."
"Well done, Eric."

"Calleigh. Got a match on the fingerprint yet?"
"Yes, it came back to a Greg Winston."
"Let's bring him in." Horatio said, as he left the room.

"Mr Winston, do you know this woman?" Calleigh asked. She sat on a chair opposite Greg Winston, and Horatio was standing beside her with his back to both of them.
Mr Winston looked at the picture.
"Wished I did, she looks good."
"She's dead."
"Too bad. As I said, she was good-looking."
"So you have never seen this woman before?"
"Nope, you've got the wrong man."
"Why then, did we find your fingerprint on her door?" Horatio asked and turned around.
Greg went pale.
"Well, then… there's something wrong with your computers."
"No, there's not. It's time to start talk Mr Winston." Horatio looked down at the man's hands.
"Mr. Winston, please hold out your hands."
He did as he was told to.

"Excuse us." said Horatio and , motioning to Calleigh, the pair left the room.
"What is it?" Calleigh asked when they had closed the door.
"Eric found blood from an unknown male on the murderer weapon. The murderer cut himself."

She nodded thoughtfully.
"Mr. Winston didn't have a cut on either of his hands… He didn't do it."
"No he didn't. Greg Winston isn't our killer."

They went into the room again and Calleigh sat back down. Horatio however, preferred to stand.
"We want your DNA." said Calleigh.
"Why? You guys already think I killed that woman!"
"Did you?" Asked Horatio.
"No, of course not!"
"Well then Mr. Winston, this is your opportunity to eliminate yourself as a suspect."
"Okay then… You can have my damn DNA if that makes me innocent!"
"If you are innocent. But still it doesn't explain why your fingerprint was on Ms. Jackson's door." Horatio said, giving the man a searching look.
"I can't say that. He'll kill my wife if I tell you."
"Don't play with me, Mr Winston. I know you don't have a wife."
Greg Winston sighed.
"Okay, okay… He promised me 5000 dollars if I spied on her and told him the details about the house."
"Tell us the whole story, from the beginning."
He sighed again and started to talk.
"I was at work when I got that e-mail, where he asked me if I wanted to make some money."
"He just asked you like that?" Calleigh asked in surprise.
"Yeah, strange guy, but he had an anonymous e-mail and we had talked before on the internet, so I guess he didn't have anything to lose…"
"Keep going." Horatio told him.
"After that mail, he wanted my cell-phone number so he could call me and send me messages whenever he needed to."
"We're going to need that cell-phone."
Greg pulled his cell-phone out of his pocket and gave it to Calleigh.
Horatio again instructed him to continue and Greg started to talk again.
"I never met him in person, we just talked on the phone, and I told him the details of the house."
"How long did you spy on Jackson's family?"
"Two... Maybe three weeks."
"Then you learned the family's schedule."
"Yes, pretty well."
"Did you tell him their schedule?"
"Yes."
"Did you know the boy was going to sleep at his friend's house last night?"
"Yes, I heard Malin and his friend's mother talk to each other outside the house."
Horatio nodded and quickly left the room. Calleigh quickly thanked Mr Winston for his time and followed Horatio out.

"Where's the boy?" Horatio asked .
"I think he's with Yelina… Why? Do you think the man is after him?"
"Yes, but not for killing him."
Calleigh looked questioningly at him.
"If our murderer wanted to kill the whole family he wouldn't go to their house when the boy wasn't at home. I think we are looking for somebody who wants the boy alive."
"So you mean that he killed Malin and her sister…" Suddenly Calleigh understood what Horatio meant. "…To make sure there was nobody who could take care of him. I'll go and check that he's ok and make sure he's under protection all the time."
"No, let me do that. You take Greg's DNA sample to the lab."
"Okay, I'm already on my way." Calleigh smiled and started to walk toward the lab.
"I'll be on my cell." Horatio called after her.

"Yelina?"
"Horatio."
"How's he feeling?"
"Says he feels empty."
Horatio sighed and looked sadly at Yelina.

"Excuse me." he said and walked towards Tim who sat alone in a sofa a few meters away.
"Hi." Horatio smiled.
"You came back." the boy said and gave Horatio a small smile.
"You're okay?" He asked and sat down in the sofa, beside the boy.
"I don't know. I feel like… I can't describe it, it's just like... Too much to take in."
"I know what you mean."
"You do?"
"Yeah, I do."
"You've found my mom's killer yet?"
"No, but I've got a lead and my team is on it."
"So you're going to find him?"
"I promised I would, didn't I?"
"Yes you did, but I wasn't sure if you really meant it. My friends often promise things, but they never keep their promises."
"I always keep what I promise, and that includes this time."
This time Tim smiled for real.

"I knew you wouldn't promise something you didn't plan to keep."
"Listen Tim, I have to go now, but Yelina, the woman over there, is going to stay with you. Okay?"
Tim nodded.

Horatio opened the door to the autopsy and met Alexx who was on her way out.
"Horatio, I was just going to send out the search party for you!"
"You've got something from the autopsy for me?"
"Yes. As I said at the crime-scene she was stabbed seven times in her stomach, and I'm sure it was a man who did it. A woman isn't strong enough, the stab wounds was pretty deep."
"Well, that's not a surprise… Something else?"
"No, there was nothing special with this woman; she was in good health - except from the fact that she's now dead."
"Thank-you Alexx."