A/N: Please believe me I have nothing against Rick. I do believe he's a good guy and does care about the group but there is a reason behind his death and I hope people will still continue to read.

A/N again: If anyone is wondering why the fast updates, it's because my classes start Thursday and I want to get as much of this story done. Once classes start, updates tend to go down and I don't like that.

"I just can't believe this happened," Calleigh said, covering her eyes from the scene for a minute. She had gotten the call from Horatio and thought he was just joking, but when she arrived at the scene and saw Rick Stetler's body chopped in half, she knew they were in for a long day. She looked over and saw Eric's face white as a ghost and Speed just standing there, not moving or blinking. For someone who they hated, it was sure hard to do their job.

"You guys going to be okay?" Frank asked, a little concern for the group. He wasn't to fond of Rick either but sometimes you just have to put your hate aside and see them as human beings as well.

"I think we can do it," Speed said, speeking up. "Where's Wolfe?"

"Inside with Horatio. They're seeing if it was a break in or if Rick knew the person," Frank said. "Ex-wife came over to talk to him about a court date but he never answered the door. She then went around back to see if he was outside and found him like this on the walkway."

"Well, lets get started," Calleigh said, taking a deep breath and set her kit on the ground next to the pool of blood that gathered around the body. "Well, I'm no Alexx but I think COD is decapitation, or somewhat decapitation. I don't know, does chopping someone in half count as decapitation?"

"I don't think it does," Eric said, kneeling next to a shoe print in the mud. "Got a shoe print here." He snapped a shot and looked around. "I wonder where the murder weapon is."

"Killer might have taken it," Speed said, spotting a cigarett butt in the grass a little ways from show print. He picked it up and looked it over. "Well, someone was here and they smoked."

"We'll get Valear on that one," Calleigh said. She looked up when she heard a gasp and saw Alexx slowly walk towards them. "Hi Alexx."

"What the hell happened here?" She took in the blood and the half body of Rick before kneeling next to him. "I was told it was Rick but no one told me it was this bad."

"Horatio didn't tell us either," Calleigh replied. "Why don't we look around the lawn some more and see if we find anything." She stood up and stared at Rick's tool shed in the far back of the yard. "Where there's a tool shed, there's sharp weapons to play with." She walked over to the shed and opened it up to see tools hanging up on the wall and on a small work bench. Picking each up she looked for blood, or a possible weapon to chop someone in half. The tool she really needed was an ax, but she never saw one.

"Find anything?" Speed asked, walking behind her.

"No. These tools can't be the murder weapon. Some are too small and others couldn't chop a human in half." Before she could leave, Speed grabbed her arm and told her everything Eric had told him this morning. She had the right to know what was going on and to be prepard for anything. When he was done, she nodded in understanding and walked back outside. She saw Eric walking along the fence and decided to join him for awhile. Anything to keep her away from the body. "Find anything?"

"Nothing yet but there has to be a weapon here somewhere." He lifted his head up when Alexx called them over to see something, just as Horatio and Ryan walked out of the house. "What is it Alexx?"

"There is an indent here in the blood," Alexx said, pointing to a spot on the walkway that was clear of blood while everything around it was covered in blood. "Was there something sitting here when you guys showed up?"

"I didn't see anything," Calleigh said. Eric and Speed nodded in agreement. "So that means someone took something that is rather big, either square or rectangle, and maybe the reason why Rick was killed."

"Whatever it is, we need to find out." Speed took a shot of the new evidence and looked at Horatio and Ryan. "Was it a break in?"

"No. Whoever it was, Rick must have known them since there are two glasses of water sitting on the table, and no windows or door broken," Horatio said. "Alexx, do we have a time of death?"

"Well, the blood is still a little fresh, so I would say between eleven and one in the moring."

"Okay. What about weapon?"

"Not yet," Eric said. He looked at Ryan and could see the young man look away. What does one do when they know who killed Rick? He shook his head and went back to work. It couldn't be Ryan. Jack didn't really say it was Ryan, or Jason, or whoever. Someone else could've done this and Ryan is in the clear. Just because Ryan was probably being possessed by a WWII soldier like Jack was, didn't mean he could go around and pointing fingers. Besides, Ryan doesn't smoke and they found a cigarett. He walked around to the side of the house and felt a cool breeze go past him and the bushes to his right moved a little. He stopped when he saw something in the bushes and pushed some leaves aside to see none other than an ax. A bloody ax to be in fact. "Hey guys, I found it," he yelled.

"Found what?" Speed asked, running over to Eric. He looked inside the bush and saw their murder weapon. "How did you know it was there."

"A little help from the wind."

"Wind?" Speed looked at Eric like he was crazy. There was no wind, or that he felt, but the look Eric was giving him made him think twice about that and then it clicked. "So now they're trying to be CSI's. Great."

"I'm not complaning." Eric took Speeds camera, took the picture, and then reached in to pull it out. "This could chop someone in half, take a few swings or less." He walked to the backyard to show Horatio their finding.

"Good work guys," Horatio said. He looked around the yard and saw everyone still working but he knew in truth there was nothing they could do. "It seems that whoever did this was a pro and knew what to do and not to do. Lets just hope there are prints on the glasses and the ax."

"We'll get these to the lab right now," Speed said. He picked his kit up and waited for Calleigh and Eric to join him. "You coming Wolfe?"

"I think I'll stay here and keep Alexx company if you don't mind," Ryan said, staring at Rick's body.

"Okay. See you at the lab," Calleigh said.

"Please say we got a hit on the cigarett," Calleigh said, walking into DNA.

"Waiting for the result now," Valera said. "Hey, did you hear about Ryan?"

Calleigh was a little confused at the sudden question and shook her head. "No. What's wrong with Ryan?"

"Well, I heard that Rick was writing up a report on Ryan after he went off on him the other day and was going to have Ryan suspended for two weeks."

"I knew about him going off on Rick but I didn't know about the suspension." She made a mental note to talk to Ryan when he got back. She looked at the computer screne when it beeped and Valera smiling. "Got a hit."

"Yep. And our lucky winner is...Randy Woods, not a single arrest."

"He's clean?" Calleigh looked at the computer and saw there was no arrest or warents out for him. Then why was he in the system? Her eyes flew to the bottom and saw what his last job was. Retired IAB.

"Well, now we know why he's in the system," Valera said.

"Yeah. Now we need to know why he was at Rick's house." Calleigh thanked Valera and walked out, calling Horatio up as she went.

An hour later Calleigh sat in one of the chairs in the interrogating room, staring at an older gentleman. "Good afternoon Mr. Woods."

"Please, call me Randy," he said with a smile.

"Do you know why the police had brought in?"

"Something about asking a few questions to a murder this moring. I can say I never killed anyone in my life. I have a clean record."

"We know Randy. Tell me, do you know Rick Stetler?"

"Rick Stetler? Of course I know him. Good friends we are. I met him here and once I retired from IAB I still kept in touch with him. Went out for a few drinks. Why do you ask?"

"I'm sorry to inform you but he was murdered this morning."

"Murdered?"

"Yes. We found this at the scene," she said, pushing a picture of the cigarett butt. "DNA says it belongs to you."

"Yeah, that's mine. I went over to his house last night to catch up on old times."

"What time was that?"

"I think around nine. I went out back to smoke before I left."

"What time did you leave?"

"Around eleven I think."

"Did you see anyone enter the house or Rick inviting anyone inside?"

"No. But there was a parked car sitting in front of his house with someone in it."

"Did you get a good look at the person?"

"No. My eyes don't see in the dark like they used to. Before you ask, I didn't get the license plate either."

Calleigh nodded and stood up. "Well, thank you for the information Randy. If you remember anything or something comes to mind please give us a call." She watched him go and sat back down. This was not going good for them. Eric was still looking for finger prints off the ax and Valera will be doing DNA on the ax when he's done. All they can do now, was wait.