Saturday July 24th 2010; Miami Florida

Eric/Penelope

She was hurt. The more she thought about it- the more it hurt. She tried not to watch them working together but she couldn't help it. They were right across the hallway, and from Pen's seat she could see them perfectly. Why did I ever let myself think he really cared? Pen thought as she ran lists of names.

Eric Delko was sitting across the room working on the newest evidence that Horatio had brought back from the crime scene the night before. They had been working all night long and still nothing. It was like this unsub had completely erased every bit of his life. His birth. Military records everything.

Pen glanced back towards Calleigh and Derek who were talking and laughing as they finished putting the bomb together.

"Your jealous too huh?" Eric asked her.

Pen looked at him. "What makes you think I am?"

She didn't want to admit that she was jealous of Calleigh. She wasn't the jealous type.

"Every ten seconds you look out the door to where Derek and Calleigh are."

"You said 'your jealous too'. What does that mean?"

When he didn't answer Pen back right immediately she said:

"You like Calleigh don't you?"

"We've went on a couple of dates. What about you and Derek?"

"Just a movie night here and there. Nothing too big and important. I thought he liked me."

She stole a look back in the room across the hall and this time Derek had his arm over the back of Calleigh's chair. His eyes met hers for a second.

Eric walked over to where she was sitting and pulled a chair up.

"All right enough of Calleigh and Derek." Eric said. "Let's get this case solved way before they do."

Pen looked at him and smiled. "Good idea."

"So what do we know about this killer from the profile."

"He's more than likely in the Military. We're thinking the marines because the way he leaves the bodies are often the way Marines are told to stand."

Eric nodded. "Ok so the military. Most people come to Florida when they retire to live. That doesn't give us much to go with."

"He also more than likely has something physically wrong with him which is what is attracting him to small petite women. He won't have to worry about fighting them off."

"Right right. So you can check hospital records over the past few years with Marines coming in for physical therapy and I'll go over the crime scene photos and see if there's any way we can tell what physical effect he has."

"How will you do that?" Pen asked.

"I'll see if the blood looked splattered a certain way-he could walk with a limp. CSI stuff."

Pen laughed. "Yeah CSI stuff for sure."

Calleigh/Derek

They had been working on resembling that bomb all night long and finally Calleigh placed the last fragment of it completing the bomb.

"Finally! I thought we would never finish!"

"Tell me about it." Derek said, and sneakily put his arm on the back of her chair.

She made no move to make him move his arm, but she didn't lean back either.

"So now that we got this bomb together do you see a signature?" Derek said.

"The only different thing I see is that he tilts all the inner fragments a little to the right more than normal. Meaning he is more than likely left handed. Which is kind of hazardous in bomb making. The wires are almost always on the right."

"Wait a second Calleigh. I don't think he's naturally left handed."

"What?"

"Look at his bomb and then look at ours. His hand slipped numerous times. Meaning that he isn't comfortable with using it."

"So he recently hurt his right arm or hand within the last six months." Calleigh sumed up.

"Exactly."

"I'll call Horatio and let him know we're on to something. Derek, will you go ask the tech girl to run this into her computers?"

Derek stood up and as he turned towards the door he saw Pen looking at him. Her eyes were full of hurt and as soon as she got caught looking at him, she dropped her eyes back to her laptop.

He knew he had hurt her. In all this time he hadn't thought of Pen once. He knew that he had probably blew any chance he ever had to win her heart now. Tamara Barnes and now Calleigh.

Horatio burst into the room right then with Rossi and Reid at his heels.

"We have a possible suspect. Round up the others. Calleigh, you and Penelope are to stay here and work on getting the evidence together. Walter, Eric, Derek, Rossi, and Reid, follow me." Horatio said.

The men followed him out and that left Penelope and Calleigh behind.

Oh great. Pen thought as she gathered up the paperwork on the table.

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