The terror within

Calleigh knew as soon as the phone dropped out of her husband's hand that something was very wrong. Very wrong indeed. It was seldom she saw him scared, but as soon as his face turned with she knew he was.

"Handsome, who was that?" she asked him, her voice sounded really worried.

"Stuart Otis, he has our little one and them," said Horatio, his voice was shivering.

"I thought he was in jail, wouldn't they notified you if he wasn't, are you sure," Calleigh's face started to turn pale as well.

"Excuse me, but who is Stuart Otis?" Natalia asked, as she had not heard that name before. Ryan looked as lost as she.

"Back in the day he used to harm then kill small girls, the one of six was his favorites, but I doubt that will matter when it comes to Marie. Handsome, we have to find him somehow," said Calleigh, realizing her worst fear was coming true.

"How, we have no clues on where he is or how to find him or them for that matter. Before we get that he will most likely have... just for the fun of it," he snapped at her.

Before she could even think it through, Calleigh did something that made both Ryan and Natalia gasp, she slapped him and hard. As a hand went through his cheek she said, "Don't you there talk like that, she is out daughter, the dearest I have and we are finding him. If he has even lain a hand on her I'll kill him myself. But until then you better not talk like that as i can't take it, you hear."

With that, she walked over to the AV lab where she knew for a fact Eric and Walter was working on something.

"Wow you sure knows how to piss of your wife," said Ryan still shocked.

"Even if he is like that, you shouldn't have said that," Natalia pointed out.

"It is what I fear he will, my poor little angel," he said.

"Will you snap out of it, that way me able to find him," said Natalia, before heading after Calleigh to see what was in her mind.

"Eric, you need to do me a huge favor," said Calleigh as soon as she entered the AV lab.

"Sure, what do you need?" he asked, and turned his head to look at her.

"The children, Stuart Otis has them, and I need to know in any surveillance here or around captured it, it would be the last couple of hours. Can you do that?" she asked, looking at him with pleading eyes.

"Oh my God, that is horrible. Walter, see if you can get people in the nearest stores and so and mail their tapes or recordings over at once, I'll get into what is on this building," he said.

"How fast can you get it done?" she asked him.

"Give me an hour, maybe a little less, that's the best we can do. If we are done before I'll call on you, okay," he said.

"Okay," she said with a heavy sigh and turned towards the door, as he said, "And Calleigh?"

"Yes," she said and turned to face them again.

"We'll find them, and alive," he said, managing a little smile.

"I hope so Eric, I really hope so," she said, before she left them. She needed to be alone, she needed to think, so she hurried towards the ladies room.

Once inside she locked the door from the inside after making sure there was no one there. Then she hurried into one of the stalls and threw up big time. When she was finally done she sank down on the floor next to the toilet, shivering, crying. She remembered all too well what Stuart used to do to the young girls.

Wondering how long he had been out and why they had not been notified so she could have keep and extra eye on their little girl. Not to mention Natalia's young ones that had more had been going through enough as it was.

The middle-aged woman couldn't take anything happening to her young one, and in worst finding her head, not after loosing a child already. It wasn't fair, none of it was.

She startled when her phone went off and Eric's number popped up. She got up and rinsed her mouth, before she went out of the bathroom as calmly as she could, and back to the AV lab saying, "That was fast, what do you have."

"I found out how he lured the children," said Eric with a deep sigh.

"He's smart, I'll give him that," Walter added.

"Let me see it," Calleigh said.

"Are you sure?" Walter said, looking at the blonde, he could smell that she had just thrown up from her breath.

"Just give it to me," said Calleigh as she felt what could only be Horatio's arm around arms around her slender waist, he was leaning his head against her shoulder whispering so only she could hear, "We're in this together, we'll catch him."

"We're sure," her hands gripping around the ones that held round her waist. They watched the three children that were eating ice on the grass outside the lab when a man with a dog walked by. Isabel ran down wanting to pet the do, the other two had followed. They had walked with Stuart until they were out of view taking, still petting it. Although Marie seemed to turn towards the came for a sec. The next footage would show the children by a wan on a nearby parking lot, Isabel got in to pet the dog when Marie sensed danger, she was the first to be doped then the others before the car drove away.

Calleigh had started shivering as she whispered, "They were right here, if I only had gone with them or checked."

"He most likely would have just done it some other time," said Horatio with a sigh.

"Find what you can on that wan, I need to clear my head," said Calleigh, everyone knowing she would go to the range.

"H, are you okay?" Eric asked his boss and ex-brother-in-law.

"No, not at all, I just hope she is okay, that they all are, he said with a heavy sigh, walking towards his office, while Eric and Walter tried to figure out more about the wan.

Calleigh were firing one shoot after another until she ran out of bullets, then she sank down on the floor, again blaming herself for not having gone with the children to get ice cream. Then she thought about Horatio's words that he would have done it some other time. She was feeling so extremely worried and frustrated and soon again her tears would start to fall.

Horatio was in his office. He had called the jail where Stuart Otis had been and yelled at them for not giving him the news. Now it was too late. He feared for his little girl's life and those of the two other children. What condition would they find them in if they did and when. He looked at a picture of Calleigh and Marie on his desk feeling lost and frustrated.

"I'll find you little one, I promise," he whispered before his tears would start to fall.

In DNA Ryan was holding Natalia that also was crying, worried about more bad things happening to their children, worried she wouldn't find them in time. Why hadn't she gone out to check for them just one more time, then maybe she would have held them now instead of crying. She decided that if they were so lucky as to find them safe and alive she would never let them out of sight ever again.

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