A Life Cut Short

Chapter 3

"If she was never missing then please explain to me how she wound up dead in the bushes." Nick said trying very hard not to lose his temper.

He and Sara were sitting next to each other in the interrogation room at the crime lab and Debbie Hobbs was sitting across from them and true to form she was emotionless.

"I did it." She said sounding as if she confessed to taking the last brownie at a family gathering instead of just admitting to killing her daughter.

"You did what?" Nick asked, leaning back in his chair with his arms crossed.

"I killed her." She said simply.

"How?" Nick demanded.

"She was asleep on the couch, and I put the pillow over her face and held it there until she could no longer breathe." Not one single tear slid down the woman's face.

It took every ounce of strength both CSI'S had to not reach over the table and cold cock the woman.

"Why, why would any mother do that to their innocent child?" Sara asked her, Sara's voice showed much more emotion then the child's own mother's did.

"Did you see my house? The neighborhood I live in, I work two jobs, and I still struggle to put food on the table, I can't afford two children, hell I can barely afford to support myself."

"So you thought the best option was to kill your own child?" Nick asked, he was almost in shock.

"What other option did I have?" Debbie asked Nick angrily.

"Um, how about adoption, foster care, send her to a relative who could love and care for her, you could have dropped her off at the hospital or a firehouse and walked away with no questions asked, anything would have been better then what you did, and I don't care what lame reasons you give us, there is absolutely no excuse for what you did."

Debbie shrugged "I didn't think about those options I guess." She said coldly.

Nick and Sara looked at each other in shock, they have dealt with some sick and cruel people during their career but this woman had to be one of the worst they had ever seen, she very well might even top the list.

"Why did you kill your daughter and not your son?" Sara asked.

"Well I didn't want to be all alone so I wanted to keep one." She said flatly.

"How did you choose which one to kill?" Nick asked squinting at her coldly.

"I flipped a coin, Elise lost." She stated as if that was the most natural thing in the world.

Nick felt like he was going to vomit, he could no longer stand to be in the same room with this monster. He got up and left the room without so much as one last glance towards Debbie.

Sara sighed as she watched her friend leave the room, she knew this had been a hard case for Nick and she didn't blame him because it had been hard on her as well.

"One last thing, why did you put Elise in the bushes?" Sara asked. If looks could kill Debbie would have dropped dead right there from the icy glare Sara gave her.

"I figured if I could hide her well enough I might get away with it. I guess I didn't do a good enough job."

That was Sara's breaking point, she stood up "get her out of here." She told the officer in the corner of the room.

Sara watched as the officer led her away in handcuffs.

Sara then went to the locker room, she found Nick sitting on the bench staring blankly at his locker.

"Nick, you ok?" She asked going over and sitting next to him.

"Sara, sometimes I hate this job." Nick told her without looking at her.

"Me too." Sara said.

"Listen Nick, why don't we go out for a beer, my treat, it'll help both of us blow off some steam." She said.

"No thanks, I just want to go home, take a shower and go to sleep. But rein check alright?" He said.

She smiled at him "Sure."

Nick smiled at her as he left the locker room.

He went home, took a nice hot shower and fell into a much needed deep sleep.

The End!