|Chapter 10|

She didn´t know how long she just lay there, crying and hoping for Eric to come; How long she felt the pain getting worse in her abdomen, and feeling the pain all over her body. She didn´t know how long it needed until she finally managed to calm herself down. She was broken by now, that was sure. Never she was in a situation like that, never she felt defenseless, helpless, fragile and dirty like that. She wanted do something, wanted to hide her body..anything, but with her hands still bound together behind her back there wasn´t much she could. She knew this was wrong, just waiting for Steve, to wait for his next move. Maybe killing her, after he had a little fun with her like he called it. But it actually didn´t bother her by now.

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Eric just tracked Max car and was now to head for the door. "Eric," He stopped in the doorway, turned around and saw Horatio standing near the chair he had sitting in, a few minutes ago. He hadn´t noticed Horatio standing there but he hadn´t much time to wonder about Horatio, he was caught off his thoughts when he spoke again. "Eric," he repeated and turned himself to face Eric. "-where are you going?" he asked and placed his hands on his hips.

Eric wasn´t in the mood for joking right now. Wasn´t it obviously that he tried to find Calleigh, wasn´t it obviously that he had got a location. If he had watched Eric the whole time then why was he asking this questions? He tried to ignore the wave of anger that hit him in this moment, right in front of him stood Horatio, his friend, mentor and boss for a long time. It wasn´t the right time at all to fight with him. "I´ve got a location," he started and took a step towards him, "- I wanted to check this out." He said but slowly his patience faded, "What´s the problem?" he suddenly spat out.

Horatio did understand Eric just to well, "Eric, calm down..-"

He was cut off mid sentence by Eric who seemed totally angry by now, "Why am I suppose to calm down?" he stared at Horatio in disbelieve, "Calleigh is missing, is kidnapped by a man who hurt her," he closed his eyes for a second, "- who hurt her Horatio! ..-who hurt Calleigh," he didn´t know what to say. He was desperate, "-Please Horatio.." he started once again, "-I won´t let anyone hurt her. I need to find her." He almost pleaded at him with his voice and stared in desperate at him.

It hurt Horatio so much to hear these words, he knew that. They had found blood in her bed, and in her whole house, he had seen how beaten up Eric was, how hurt he was deep inside that he wasn´t able to protect her. It hurt him to see his team, his friends like that. He carried about Calleigh as well, she was his right hand in the lab and she was like a daughter for him. "Eric, please calm down." He tried once again, "We will find her, I promise." Horatio swallowed hard and looked once again up at Eric, "-but..but this location which you have tracked is his house. We have searched every inch of his house already." He finally brought out. Watching his team member, his friend; Eric totally break down.

He let himself drop in a chair, next he brought his hands up to his face and clutching it pretty hard. "No,..no.." he mumbled. That couldn´t be right. It was all his fault, it was his fault that she was missing. He wasn´t even able to protect the girl who he loved, the girl with whom he wanted to spend the rest of his life. He stared at the floor through his hands, he remembered the times Calleigh at he were there in this lab, standing right there, laughing and talking about a case or about some people and suddenly he found himself lost in his thoughts, unable to find his right girl. He closed his eyes and just sat there for several minutes until a voice, Horatio´s voice caught him off of his thoughts and in the reality. In the world where he had to find her, and he would to everything to find her.

"We will find her Eric," he said and walked pass by him and through the door, still repeating his words over and over again, "-we´ll find her Eric. I promise." He just could understand until he disappeared in the hallway.

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She calmed herself down, tried to ignore the surroundings, tried to ignore the continuous pain, tried to ignore everything what had happened to her but as soon as she felt a wave of pain shock through her body again, everything was over. A soft cry escaped her lips. That was too much, she knew she wouldn´t make it much longer. She felt so damn weak, so exhausted and hurt; She just wanted to close her eyes. Her entire body ached, her face, her chest, her stomach, her abdomen, her arms and her legs. She had fought back so much, had tried to get him off of her but it was no use. He was so strong; Every time she pleaded to him for stop, screaming, crying or trying to fight him off he just grinned and got rougher.

She wanted to forget, she wanted that all go away. She wanted rather die instead lying on this cold floor, feeling awful, feeling embarrassed, feeling like a..victim. She knew there were just a little hope that Eric would find her and she didn´t want to stay there any longer. Actually there was no chance. Eric didn´t know Max and he didn´t even know Steve, he didn't know this case and there was no chance to know where she was, she didn´t even know it by herself.

She pulled herself together as much as she could and took a deep breath. She stopped crying and stopped think about him, stopped think about Eric, stopped think about the pain..about everything. She tried to move her hands, tried to get them free somehow. She needed to do something, she wouldn´t just sat there, helpless and waiting for Steve to come back. She felt much stronger in that moment but she didn´t know what caused it. Forgetting the pain, trying to ignore everything what was uncomfortable right now, and thank god it worked. She slowly sat up, not wanting to hurt herself anymore but of course it hurt bad. She moaned lightly as a wave of pain went through her body and then everything hit her again. Tears filled her eyes once more as she realized how bad it looked for her right now, and she had to think about everything what happened in the last few hours, in the last few days, -and it wasn´t that good.

She was caught off her thoughts as she heard a noise. And the next thing she knew was the door burst wide open. She watched as Steve stepped in with something in his hands, she instantly looked away. She didn´t need to look at him, it caused just more pain to her physically and mentally. It was embarrassed that he saw her like this, she just wanted to die in this moment. She didn´t want to feel his gaze on her body. From the corner of her eye she could see he was coming closer and; The next thing she knew was that he had thrown something in her direction. She instantly turned around and looked at the things which landed a few feet away from her. She looked wondering at him and just watched as he burst out in a nasty laugher.

She felt totally terrible in this moment and instantly turned her head away from him, still saying no word. But his next words let her turn around once again. "Get dressed we will go on a little trip," he yelled at her. He came closer to her with another thing in his hands, and first as he was a few inches away from her anymore she could recognize that it was a knife. He knelt down and brought the knife to her throat, held her in place. He bent down in her face, his face was just inches away from her which let Calleigh shudder because she could feel his breath against her skin.

But the next thing he did was much worse than anything before….

A/N: OMG, I´m soo sorry; Please don´t hate me for the long wait. Everything have been so difficult and then my computer broke and everything was gone and then school was so stressful. But no I finally managed to upload my 10. Chapter. I hope you liked it.

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