Sloth Chapter 4

"Horatio," said Frank, looking at his cell phone. "We have another victim. Shes a female who was found stabbed to death in the kictchen by her brother. Nothing strange yet, but I haven't visited the crime scene yet."

"Well, lets head over there," said Horatio. "Maybe we will find a connection between both of these murders."

When they got to the house they entered the kitchen and noticed that their victim was stabbed many times and blood covered the floor. It almost seemed like a massacre. It was obvious that the woman had bled to death."

"Tom, how many stab wounds?" Horatio asked as he carefully bent over the body.

"If I were to take a guess, I'd say about 40," said Tom. "I don't think I need to tell you how this girl died."

"I guess not," said Horatio looking around the room. There were empty cake boxes, boxes of chocolate, and several gallons of milk. It looked as if the young woman was having some kind of party at the time of her death. Yet there was no one else around.

"There is something strange about this, Horatio," said Tom. "This girl was not only covered in blood, but she is also covered in chocolate. A lot of chocolate."

"Chocolate?" Horatio asked. "That might explain all of these containers, but I can't imagine this young girl eating all of this by herself."

"I'll say, but there was nobody else here, and this girl is covered with chocolate from head to toe," said Tom.

"Thanks you, Tom," said Horatio. He watched him walk out the door and then back to the scene.

"H," came a voice behind him. He turned around and Ryan was in the doorway. "I don't think Jesse should be working today."

"Why do you say that?" Horatio asked.

"Calleigh noticed that Jesse seemed to tired to drive so she offered, but he slept the whole way here," said Ryan. "And Calleigh is trying to wake him up now, but he doesn't seem with it. He almost seems too tired to do anything."

"Where are they?" Horatio asked, not even trying to hide the worry in his eyes. The hummer was parked out front and he could see Calleigh trying to shake Jesse awake. However he barely seemed to respond to her. Horatio walked over to the passenger side door.

"Jesse?" Horatio said when he got to the hummer. Jesse barely opened his eyes and looked up at Horatio. "I think it would be best if you took the day off."

"What about the case?" He asked sleepily closing his eyes again.

"You don't need to worry about that, I'll have Calleigh take you home and you can come back in tomorrow when you've rested," Horatio replied.

"Alright," he said yawning and falling back asleep.

"Calleigh, go ahead and take him home," said Horatio. "Me and Ryan will process the scene."

"Okay," she said giving Horatio a worried glance as she climbed back into the hummer. Horatio turned around and stared at the outside of their murdered womans house, trying not to think about the similarities between his first victim and one of his CSI's.