A/N: I hope everyone who reads this story enjoys it. pleas read and review, it always makes me go warm and fussy on the inside! Reviews make my day!
Disclaimer: I am not the owner of CSI: Miami. (Although I sometimes wish I was…)
4
Yenna knocked before she opened the door. When she stepped inside, she was surprised to find Calleigh there, bend over the pictures of their crime scene, instead of Eric.
'Ow, Hi, Calleigh! I was looking for Eric. Thought I might find him here.'
'He left about ten minutes ago; Alexx wanted to talk to him about the autopsy results: she said she'd found something interesting whilst doing the Y-incision.'
'Well, I'll hand this over to you then! The DNA results from the blood found at the crime scene. I was amazed when I finished processing the blood, actually: when I ran them through to see to whom the blood belonged, the first two samples were consistent with your victim. The last sample, however, is from an as of yet unknown source. The man has never been arrested before.'
'It is a beginning…' Calleigh said. 'Perhaps questioning the boyfriend later this afternoon will reveal something more.'
Turning her attention back to the picture in front of her, Calleigh sighed. 'Yenna, could you come here for a second? I need your help with this…'
'Of course! What can I do?' Yenna asked, approaching the table.
'You say the last sample of blood belonged to an unknown source, right?' Yenna nodded. 'But that sample was taken here.' Calleigh pointed towards the blood nearest the tree in the picture.
'And what do you mean by that?' Yenna asked. She wasn't exactly sure where this was going, and she didn't want to screw things up. So she waited patiently for Calleigh to fill her in.
'It's impossible! The most logical place where blood of the perpetrator would be found, was on or near the body! How can that blood be so far away from her? If he hurt himself whilst killing her, there is no reason for the blood to be that far away. It would be in close proximity to her, and his blood would have been found on her as well. And his blood is the end of the trail of blood leading from the tree to our victim, which is about two hundredth meters!' Calleigh finished.
Yenna thought about it for a second. All kinds of thing went through her mind. And suddenly she spoke.
'Can you show me pictures of that blood trail?' She asked Calleigh.
'Sure I can! But why?' Calleigh asked, surprised.
Yenna did not speak, but as soon as Calleigh had handed her the pictures, she bent low over the table. When Yenna looked up a few minutes later, she was certain that she had just solved Calleigh's problem.
'Calleigh, when you look at the pictures of the blood trail, do you notice anything strange about the drops?'
Calleigh was a bit taken aback by that question. She cocked an eyebrow, and stared at the pictures spread out in front of her.
'Look closely, around the edges. Can you see the bulbs there?'
'Yes, I can. But what about them?'
'Which way are they pointing?' prompted Yenna.
'They are pointing, as far as I can see, away from the three… But I'm still not getting it, if I'm being honest. Care to explain?'
'She must have lost the blood whilst getting to the place we found her in, right? And by looking at the bulbs on the sides of the blood drops, we can say in which direction she was going while she was loosing the blood. In this case, away from our three.'
'So that means that she was killed in front of our three. And that the perpetrator hurt himself there. Before he moved her dead body away from the three, he took a handkerchief or something, and stopped the bleeding! That leaves us nowhere, though. We haven't found a handkerchief on the scene.' Calleigh said.
'But we can now divide the crime scene in two parts: the first one hundredth meters are the first half of it, and the second part is the part where we found her. In the first part, we are most likely to find evidence that will lead us towards the perpetrator. It narrows down the scene a little, and maybe it will help us to find out who did this sooner…'
'Yenna, you are amazing! I would never have thought about that myself! I'm going to run down to the morgue and find Eric, and we'll be searching the first one hundredth meters later today!'
Calleigh was happy they'd found something, even if it might not be exactly what they needed. Anything to help them in their search, however little, was greatly apreciated.
'I'm glad I could help! I just hope you guys will find something that will lead us to that killer! Because I don't like the idea he is still out there…' Yenna finished in a whisper.
'Don't worry, Yenna! The whole team's on the case! We will find him, Yenna! Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow. But in time, he'll be where he belongs: behind bars.'
'Thanks, Calleigh! You made me feel a lot better! I guess it all got to me somewhat: she was so young, her whole life was still ahead of her!'
'That is what affects me the most, too. But you have to know when to move passed it, because you can't do this job when you break down; it doesn't help the victims either.' Calleigh spoke, touching Yenna's arm lightly.
'Come on, let's get some coffee. I think we both deserved it!'
Calleigh agreed, and in companionable silence both women walked towards the break room. What awaited Yenna there, was a big surprise. But is was a good one: Horatio was sitting at the table, with Jason on his lab.
'Hello, munchkin! How are you?' Yenna said, and bend down to ruffle his hair and peck Horatio on the cheek.
'I'm fine, really! I just wanted to see you… I missed you a lot today, and I asked uncle Horatio to drive me here…'
'Ow, munchkin… come here…'
Yenna hugged the boy tightly. Jason buried his face in her hair, and clung to her desperately. From behind her, Horatio softly said:
'I was worried about him, Yenna, especially since he never acted like this before when you left him with me: he was just staring into nothingness, didn't speak, eat or drink. The only thing he said was he wanted to see you. So I picked him up and drove here. I hope that's alright with you.'
'It sure is, Horatio. Could you do me a favor and get the rest of the team in here as well? I think I owe Calleigh some explanation, but since I believe Jason will be needing me in the future as well, I believe the rest of the team deserves the explanation, too.'
'Very well. I'll go and get them.' He said, and left the room.