May 24, 10am
Calleigh had been at Miami Dade Hospital for almost two hours. She was having contractions every now and then. But she wasn't dilated enough.
So she was laying in bed, trying to breathe normal, and squeezing the crap out of Horatio's hand. Though, he wasn't complaining, he didn't want to upset Calleigh. She was already very frustrated and blaming Horatio for her condition.
"You better have a plan on how to pay me back for what you've done!" Calleigh growled.
Alexx was sistting next to Calleigh, across from H. She was having the time of her life as Calleigh growled at Horatio, and he looked scared like a puppy.
"It takes two Cal." Horatio smiled.
Calleigh glared at him.
"Don't you dare blame this on me!"
"Sorry honey."
"Can you feel your hand Horatio?" Alexx asked.
Horatio looked down at his hand.
"A little bit." He said.
"You are not taking your hand away!" Calleigh hissed, "It's mine."
"Okay sweety, don't worry." Horatio smiled.
"And get that smile off your freakin' face!"
"Calleigh, breathe alright. Take it easy." Alexx said.
"I'm breathing." Cal said, "Oh god..."
Calleigh started panting as she got another contraction.
"Breathe Cal." Horatio said.
"I'm breathing you moron!" Cal growled, "I'm never having sex with you again Horatio!"
"Okay, Calleigh, calm down." Calleigh's gynecologist Laura Mass said as she walked in to the room.
She checked Calleigh out.
"Please, tell me I can have the babies now." Cal panted.
"Nope, sorry. Still not dilated enough." Laura said.
"What about a C-section then?" Cal asked.
"Let's wait another hour or two and see if there is any change." Laura said, "I'll be right back."
"I hate men." Cal growled.
She released her grip of Horatio's hand. Horatio was pretty sure that she had broken something.
Calleigh got another small contraction and grabbed Horatio's hand again.
-I-
Eric, Ryan, Natalia, Frank and Molly were surveyeing their third crime scene. Another woman had been found.
"Should we call Alexx?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah, I hope she can get away for a while and just take a look at the body." Frank said, "Go ahead and call."
Ryan nodded and made a call to Alexx.
"Well, her throat has been cut." Molly said, "Any ID?"
"Yeah, here." Natalia said and picked up a wallet and ID, "Linda Seager, 21."
"She's got cut's in her stomach area." Eric said, "This is definetely our guy, or guys."
"Ms Seager is from Miami." Natalia said, "Have you told the media about the murders?"
"Yeah, but they won't air it until tonight." Frank said.
"This guy is escalating. He just killed Lisa O'Connor at 1am." Ryan said, "Alexx is on her way."
"How is Cal?" Eric asked.
"Not dilated enough. If nothing has changed in an hour or two, she'll have a C-section." Ryan said.
"Alright. Well, just like you said, it's only ten and he has already killed again." Eric said.
"We don't have TOD yet." Molly said.
"Still, she's definetely killed after Lisa O'Connor." Frank said, "This victim should have the third note inside her body."
"And I checked it up on the internet." Ryan said, "Cerberus guards the gluttons, forced to lie in a vile slush made by freezing rain, black snow, and hail. This symbolizes the garbage that the gluttons made of their lives on earth, slavering over food"
"Okay, I don't quite get it." Frank said.
"Me neither." Ryan said.
"Well, our killer does." Eric said.
"Blood spattern." Natalia said, "She was killed her."
"So why only dumb the first victim in someone's garden?" Molly asked.
"Maybe, they knew her." Eric said, "Maybe they killed her at their house and then dumbed her so that she would be found."
"Yeah, did Becky Williamson have any friends here?" Molly asked.
"Yeah, other prostitues." Frank said.
"Did they say anything about a male friend?" Natalia asked.
"No, nothing." Frank said, "I asked them twice. Nothing."
"What does the forth circle say?" Eric asked.
"Those whose concern for material goods deviated from the desired mean are punished in this circle. They include the avaricious or miserly, who hoarded possessions, and the prodigal, who squandered them." Ryan said.
"This just get's weirder." Frank said, "I mean Jack The Ripper and The Nine Circles Of Hell, that shouldn't have anything to do with each other."
"Which is why I think there might be two killers." Natalia said.
"Yeah, because it's two so very different things." Molly said, "One person can't be doing this."
"And how does the killers now who to kill?" Ryan asked, "I mean, how do they know that our third victim was slavering over food?"
They all just stood there. Looking at each other for answers that they didn't have.
Alexx arrived and ducked under the crime scene tape. She kneeled down next to the body.
"Hey there sweet girl." Alexx said, "This is not your day."
Molly looked confused at Frank.
"Oh didn't anyone tell ya?" Frank asked, "She sees the dead, you know, talks with them, has coffee with them."
Natalia slapped him on the head.
"She does not." She said, "Molly, Alexx cares alot about the victims. We all want to know what they have to tell us."
Molly nodded.
"Alright, I didn't think she was a freak or anything." She said, "I just never met anyone who has talked to a dead body before."
"You'll get used to it." Eric smiled.
"Well, her throat has been cut, and she has deep wounds at her stomach area. So just like the other victims, she is most likely missing her uterus." Alexx said.
"TOD?" Eric asked.
"Three hours ago." Alexx said.
"Who found her?" Molly asked.
"Anonymous caller." Frank said, "We got the recording of the call."
"Great, maybe it was one of our killers who called." Ryan said, "I'll get back to the lab and see what I can find on that recording."
"I'll take the body with me to the morgue." Alexx said, "I'll start the autopsy right away."
"Keep us posted." Eric said.
"Alwas do." Alexx smiled.
"Shoeprints." Natalia said.
"Yeah, dozens of them." Eric said.
"Yeah, but this one has the same pattern as the one from the other crime scenes." Natalia said.
"Alright, take it to the lab." Eric said.
-I-
10:45
"Hey Delko, you got a visitor." Mandy, the receptionist said as Eric arrived at the lab.
"Who is it?" He asked.
"A Dr Malcolm Jordan." Mandy said, "He is over there."
She pointed at a grey- haired man on a chair. Eric had never met Dr Jordan, but he knew that Dr Jordan was in charge of B.
"Dr Jordan?" Eric asked, "I'm Eric Delko, what can I do for you?"
Dr Jordan stod up and shook Eric's hand.
"You're in charge?" Dr Jordan asked, "Because I asked for the man in charge."
"I am today." Eric said, "Lt Caine is usually in charge of the crime lab, but his girlfriend is having a baby."
"Oh alright, I hope it works out okay." Dr Jordan smiled.
"I'm sure it will." Eric said, "So what can I do for you?"
"Well, I am in charge of B, do you know who that is?"
"Yes, I do." Eric said.
"Well, I have some very disturbing news actually."
"Okay, such as?"
"Well, she has escaped from the facility." Dr Jordan said.
"What?!"
"I don't know how. But I'm guessing it's an inside job." Dr Jordan said, "But she has developed an obsession of someone named the Goodnight Man."
Eric sighed.
"That has to be me." He said.
"You, why?"
"Because several months ago she tried to kill herself. We had arrested her and she got hurt. She ended up in the hospital, were she escaped and almost jumped off the roof." Eric said.
"Oh yes, I heard about that." Dr Jordan said.
"She said that only Alan said goodnight to her. I promised I would say goodnight to her too." Eric said and thought back to the day that B had almsost died.
"Alan tells me what to do." B cried.
"He's in your head?" Eric asked.
B nodded.
"He talks to me. He's the only one who says goodnight to me." B sobbed.
"What does Alan tell you to do know?" Eric asked.
"Jump."
"Don't jump B." Eric said.
"B, does Alan want you to die?" Eric asked.
B shook her head.
"He loves me. Alan was a nice man." B said.
"I know, I know." Eric said, "B, if you step away from the edge. I promise you that I will say goodnight to you today." Eric said.
B looked at him. Her eyes seemed haunted.
"Alan hates the police." B said.
"Do you hate the police?" Eric asked.
"I doesn't matter what I think. Alan tells me what to do." B said.
B then took another step forward, falling.
Everything seemed to happen on slow motion. The second that B took the step Eric threw himself forward and got a hold of one of her hands.
He almost went over the edge with her. But Frank and Ryan grabbed him and now B was hanging over the edge. Eric holding her hand.
"Don't hurt me." B said.
"I won't hurt you." Eric said.
Ryan grabbed B's other hand and together he and Eric pulled her back onto the roof.
Eric cuffed her and they all took the elevator down.
On the first floor, officers waited for them.
"Alan said I had to." B said to Eric as Ryan led her out of the elevator.
Eric nodded.
"I know."
B walked out of the hospital and placed inside a police car.
Eric was with her.
"I'm going back to the cell." B sobbed.
"Yes you are B." Eric said, "Good night B." He said and closed the door
"Well, she has become very attached to you. She has written Goodnight Man all over the walls in her room." Dr Jordan said.
"Could Lt Caine and Calleigh Duquesne be in danger?" Eric asked, "She and Alan Mason tried to kill them before."
"I know. But I don't think she has any interest in them. It's you she wants."
TBC...
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