"Five combinations up to five letters each?" Nikolai sighed and thought about what they could be. Libby sat with him at the crime lab and they brainstormed what the combinations could be so they wouldn't have to destroy the safe. Nik knew he would get the house.
"What was important to him besides you and your mother?" Reid asked. Nik shrugged.
"Our horses, Libby, I don't know what else." Nik said.
"Horses, what were his first five?" Reid asked.
"Oh um... The first one was named Blue I think, dad told me about him a few times. He delivered the foal and trained him himself." Nik said. Reid wrote it down on the glass board.
"The next?" Reid asked.
"Oh I don't know." Nik said.
"Borak, Rick talked about him and said he was a paint." Libby said.
"I'm glad you remember all of this," Nik chuckled.
"I remember horses. Now there was another name I liked, Cisco I think." Libby said. Reid wrote this one down as well.
"Eli and Giles," Nik said and they had all five names.
"Were those some of his first?" Libby asked.
"I don't know but they were some of his." Nik shrugged. Hotch and Horatio put the names in alphabetical order as they were told. Some of the names had blank spaces in them and the two men grinned triumphantly when the safe clicked and opened. The room beyond it was dark and Hotch flipped a light switch on his right. All of the people eagerly looking in gasped as stacks of gold bars and money were illuminated. A stuffed white tiger, a few old boxes with their contents concealed and some random framed documents were littered around the small storage space.
"We need to get all of this out of here," Hotch said.
"I agree before anything is stolen." Horatio said.
"Can some of your guys record the contents and move it to a bank vault?" Hotch asked.
"Sure they can," Horatio agreed. Hotch waited for his officers and CSIs to get organized and counted the bars and money himself. Twenty bars all weighing about a pound each and fifty thousand dollars in 1,000 dollar bundles. The senior profiler didn't trust a specific member of Horatio's team one bit.
Rick's will was to be read the next day. Frank Kocevar, a short bald man in his mid forties was Rick's lawyer. Horatio, Calliegh and Eric were included in the will. Calliegh was practically floating on air since Ryan had proposed to her the night before. A gold ring with emeralds glittering on it was on her finger.
Libby and Nik were also brought in for the will reading.
"This is the last will and testament of Richard Stetler." Kocevar began to read. "I appoint my biological son Nikolai Stetler with the responsibility to take care of my finances and any business deals.
I give Calliegh Duquesne, my sister in law ten percent of my fortune." They looked at their shocked ballistics expert.
"How am I related to him?" Calliegh asked the lawyer.
"You are his sister in law as he states. Richard Stetler was married to Rosalie Duquesne. Nikolai can tell you details later," Frank said. Calliegh nodded.
"Exactly how much money am I inheriting?" Calliegh asked.
"Approximately seven hundred thousand dollars ma'am." Frank said and Calliegh just shook her head in disbelief.
"I give my son Nikolai Stetler the remainder of my fortune," the lawyer continued. "I bequeath Horatio Caine with 5 bars of gold that will be found in my safe. I also bequeath Eric Delko with 5 bars of gold. I bequeath Calliegh Duquesne with the contents of my safe deposit box.
" I devise Nikolai Stetler to own my condo at 513 Palm Avenue in the Gables of Miami. I devise Libertad Winston to own my beach house at 14 Shore Street in the Keys. I give devise bequeath and appoint Nikolai Stetler to own Pesadilla Hermosa, my thoroughbred race horse. I give Constantino my Cleveland bay stallion to Libertad Winston. I give Xalbador my purebred quarter horse stallion to Nikolai Stetler. I give Smooth Jazz, my quarter horse mare to Calliegh Duquesne. I give Nikolai Stetler all of the objects in my house besides the items listed above.
"I express my wish to have a closed casket at my funeral which may be planned according to Nikolai Stetler. I wish to be buried beside my wife Rosalie Duquesne." The lawyer finished. "The will was signed by myself, Richard Stetler and Rebecca Nevins."
I tried with the will format and did my best to get it as accurate as possible ^^
