Calleigh and Eric arrived at the
lab, Calleigh pulled a cheeky grin when she felt Eric's hand slide
over her bum in the elevator.
"Eric, I don't want to make
this public yet."
"Haha, don't worry last time I checked
there were no cameras in the lift."
"Smart ass" Calleigh
pecked him on the cheek as she said it.
Horatio welcomed them, and also
thanked them for coming in on such short notice. Luckily with Eric's
expensive vodka Calleigh did not have a hangover at all.
"So
what's going on H?" Eric asked.
"There have been a few
leads, we had a hit on a traced call and we have an address, Ryan has
already been there with the SQUAT, but I needed both him and Natalia
at another location, Caldo has upgraded to a large scale gang.
Anyways, I was wondering if you guys could go right through the place
and get anything you can."
"No worries H we will grab our kits and head off" Calleigh said
it with a convincing smile.
"Thank you guys; let's hope we
can catch these fools before they kill someone else." Horatio was
disappointed that it was taking longer than usual to find the gang.
Calleigh and Eric turned up to the
address, it was an old construction building, obviously a big company
that started building but ran out of money, it was often seen in the
area.
"Looks like someone dug their heels in too deep huh; this
place has been her forever!" Eric chuckled.
"They should
really look into things like that before starting to build
apartments. So....what are we actually looking for?" Calleigh
kicked some fibro to clear the door way.
"Like H said
everything and anything! Some DNA would be great; maybe we can
identify one of the barstards! " Eric flicked on his torch as they
entered inside the dark building, Calleigh did the same.
"Oh
God, it's so stuffy in here." Calleigh coughed.
"I'm
going to go up to the roof ok, you right to stay down here?"
"Yeah
I fine thanks Eric, let me know if you find anything" she smiled at
him; Eric smiled back and stared to climb the half collapsed stairs.
Calleigh was checking around the
room, she had already done two but had found nothing. They must have
been good, cleaned up after themselves wiped off prints, but there
had to be something that they left behind. Calleigh's face then
beamed with a smile, she spotted a beer bottle under the dusty sofa,
as she went to grab the bottle she felt and gloved hand go over her
mouth, and a sharp yank that threw her into a tight grip. Calleigh
screamed, as a natural reaction, but it was silenced by the gloved
hand. She reached for her gun, but there were more hands stopping her
from doing anything.
"Shhh beautiful, don't wanna make your
lovely partner come down here do we?" a low husky voice whispered
into her ear.
Calleigh threw her head back hitting the other man
in the face; her throat was swollen from where the man's arm was
squeezes against it, so screaming was not an option. She ran for the
stairs, but again another body grab her, the man's force was to
strong and he plummeted Calleigh's toned but tiny frame into a
concrete pole. Her right side slammed against it, Calleigh heard the
crack that came from her waist when the man's weight pushed against
her, and then her head slammed against the spiky concrete. Calleigh
could feel her face burning, and then it went black.
Meanwhile,
Eric was on the rooftop, he heard the shouting coming from the
doorway. He lent over the edge and saw two big built men, and then he
saw the sight that made his stomach turn and bile flood to his
throat. Calleigh, limp and lifeless was being carried by the taller
man, her beautiful blonde hair was painted with her fresh blood, and
she was white as a ghost.
"STOP POLICE!" Eric's voice
thundered down to the men.
The man not carrying Calleigh pointed
up a gun and started to shoot, Eric dodge the tiny little speck of
bullet coming towards him and fired back, but they were all ready at
the black van. Eric stumbled down the collapsed side of the building
and ran; his heart was pounding, tears in his eyes. All he could see
was the van escaping.
"CALLEIGHH!!! NOOOOOO!!!" Eric
screamed.
Eric jumped into the hummer. Horatio's number already dialled, he
screamed down the phone to him all the details, he was too busy
driving. The car was scooping up into the gears, revving hard. He was
catching up to the van, his heart stopped when he saw it race through
a four way intersection, it just escaped. Though Eric was not as
lucky, he looked to his left and saw a sedan skidding towards him,
and the car thrashed into the side of the hummer Eric felt the bang
of the airbags into his face it felt like his failure was slapping
him. He regrouped himself and what had just happened, he got out and
checked the man in the other car, it wasn't a high speed impact,
the damage wasn't too bad. The man was ok as well. Eric got
straight back on the phone.
"Horatio, I need you hear NOW."
Eric was shaking.
"We lost him!"
Calleigh could
hear the man's voice again. She moaned and opened her eyes. A scary
looking man was staring at her.
"Wow, you really do have
beautiful eyes." The man stroked the side of Calleigh's face as
he said it.
Groggily Calleigh threw a punch at him, but failed.
He grabbed her forearm and threw her against the side of the van, she
screamed at the pain, the whole right side of her body felt like a
car was parked on it. She couldn't breathe and she could feel blood
making its way up her throat.
"OI! CUT IT OUT!!! Just give her
the injection" the driver protested.
Calleigh was now starting
to lose consciousness again, she felt a tight grip on her and then
the sting of a needle. The man held her head in his hands.
"There
you go lovely, something to calm you down a little, don't ever try
that with me again!" the man's voice was deep and cruel.
Calleigh's eyes rolled into the
back of her head, and all was black.
All she wanted was Eric.
