15:20
Dennis had left the room after tying Eric together by his hands and feet. Eric was unconscious.
Joseph sighed and then heard a small whimper; he looked at Eric, but realized that it wasn't coming from Eric.
Instead, he saw two adventurous and happy puppies walking down the stairs.
Waldo and Rascall had gone looking for Eric, and now they had found this super-cool place with both Eric and Joseph! Heaven for two puppies.
"It's about time you two learn to go home when your master ain't around." Joseph sighed and watched Waldo and Rascall play with each other and run around in the basement.
"And Horatio and Eric should teach you to find MDPD too."
Joseph suspected that Eric had bent sent home to go out with the dogs, and therefore it would take a while before anyone realized he was missing.
-I- 15:30
"I love when criminals are stupid." Cooper grinned as he showed the team the tape from the surveillance cameras, from the last robber. The robber took off his mask before leaving the bank.
"Do you know who it is?" Frank asked.
"Not yet, but his face should soon be all over the news." Cooper grinned.
"You don't look very happy H." Ryan said.
"Well, this is very good Cooper. It's just that I don't think that this new guy has anything to do with our other robber." Horatio said, "I think he's only a wanna-be."
"So even if we catch him, he won't be able to help us." Calleigh sighed.
Horatio nodded, "But I could be wrong, and I hope I am."
However, everybody knew that Horatio was never wrong. Nobody could remember if he had been wrong ever before.
"Natalia, what did you find out?" Horatio asked.
"Well, it seems as if nobody told the media about the rapes, or who he shot first." Natalia sighed, "My contacts didn't even now about it."
"So how did the new guy know about everything that the other robber does?" Ryan asked, "What about the witnesses?"
"Nope. No one told anyone." Natalia sighed, "That only means one thing."
"We have a mole." Horatio growled.
-I- 15:40
Eric groaned and sat up. He noticed that he had ropes around his wrists and ankles.
"How are you feeling?" Joseph asked.
"Fine."
"Don't lie to me."
"I'm not lying dad." Eric snapped, "Sorry."
"It's alright. Waldo and Rascall are here."
Joseph pointed at two sleeping dogs in a corner. Eric sighed.
"I have to teach them to go home in situations like these." He said.
"I agree."
Eric sat next to his father. His throat was dry and he was starting to get hungry.
"How's the food around here?" He asked.
"There is none." Joseph sighed, "So far anyway."
Eric growled. In less then 12 hours is father would be killed, and Eric didn't expect that the robber would keep him alive any longer then 12 hours either. There was no way for them to be found, so he had to escape somehow. He knew exactly where he and Joseph were, the only problem was to get the ropes off, go up the stairs and actually run out of the house without the robber noticing.
"His name is Dennis." Joseph said.
"Did he tell you anything else?"
"That this is his mother's cottage." Joseph said.
"Honestly?"
"Yes, why would I lie?"
"Then his mother's name is Lucy Milton." Eric said, "She lives here during the summer. I've met her a couple of times."
"Did she ever mention a son?"
Eric shook his head. Joseph sighed.
"Dad, you have to help get the ropes off." Eric said.
"Eric he'll catch you!"
"Dad, we can't sit here and just let him kill us."
"Horatio and the team will find us."
"Dad, we have no leads. We don't know where to look." Eric said, "Now help me first and then I'll help you."
"Leave me here." Joseph said.
"No."
"Eric, I'm shot in the leg. Leave me here; I will only slow you down."
"We can talk more about it once the ropes are gone." Eric said.
Joseph started pulling on the ropes. It wasn't easy, but he wouldn't stop trying. Eric tried kicking off the ropes around his ankles.
-I- 16:00
Horatio, Calleigh, Ryan and Frank were standing at the lab entrance. Watching everybody work as they were trying to figure out how to start questioning everybody. Horatio had told the chief, who had told him that Stetler would help them. No one was looking forward to that. Stetler had been gone for almost a year. He had worked at a different police department, a small one. But now he was back and once again ready to bother the lab.
"Ryan, we should make a new competition. Instead of fighting against each other, we should do pranks on Stetler." Frank said.
"Why? Afraid you're going to loose against me?" Ryan asked.
"Ryan, we've been over this before. I won't loose."
"Guys, please continue your war some other day, when someone from our family is NOT missing." Calleigh sighed.
The elevator doors opened and IAB Stetler walked out with a grin on his face.
"Another mole in the lab, huh Caine?" He asked.
"Yeah, or just someone with a big mouth." Frank growled.
"Someone with a big mouth is a mole." Stetler said.
"So you're a mole then too?" Ryan asked.
"I don't have a big mouth." Stetler said.
"Yes, you do." Ryan grinned, "And I mean literally a big mouth."
The team left Stetler alone as he felt with his hands over his mouth to see if he really did have a big mouth. Horatio walked towards Valera's lab. He didn't suspect her to be the mole, but maybe she could help them find the mole.
"Valera." Horatio greeted, "We need your help."
"Horatio you can't ask a lab rat to help us." Stetler said, "She could be the mole."
Valera glared at Stetler and walked towards him. She grabbed his collar and pushed him up against the wall.
"Stetler, did you know that a pregnant woman is dangerous?" She asked, "And did you just call me a mole?"
Stetler gulped and shook his head.
"I didn't think so." Valera smirked and released her grip of Stetler's collar.
"Can she really do that?" Ryan whispered to Calleigh.
"No but you do you want to be the one to tell her that?" Calleigh grinned.
"Now what can I do for you?" Valera asked.
"There is a mole in the lab." Frank said, "And we want you to help us find him or her."
"How do you know there is a mole in the lab?"
"Our new robber knew exactly what the other robber had done during his robberies, but he didn't find out by the media. And the witnesses didn't tell anyone." Horatio said, "And only we CSIs and you lab techs knew everything about the case."
"Say no more." Valera said, "I will find the bastard."
"Um Valera, no violence." Horatio grinned.
"What is she going to do?" Stetler asked, "It's your job to find the mole, not hers."
"Yes, but you see, whoever the mole is, he or she won't suspect that Valera is trying to have them arrested." Horatio smiled, "She knows how to fool a mole."
"And you don't?" Stetler asked.
"Rick, if I start talking with all the lab techs about someone possibly being a mole, and trying to make them think that I want to work with them, they'll know that I'm only fooling them." Horatio said, "They won't trust me."
-I- 16:20
To everybody's relief it wasn't a lab tech or even a CSI that was sitting in the interrogation room, suspected of being the mole. It was the janitor, Michael Lewis. He had worked in the lab for three months, and probably heard a lot of stuff.
"So Mike, you like your job?" Frank asked.
Mike shrugged.
"Is your job as a mole better?" Frank asked.
"Mole?"
"Yeah, you see, we know that you're the one who leaked information about our robber, to whoever robbed the new bank a while ago." Eric said.
"I don't know what you're talking about." Mike said.
"So the tape that Maxine Valera had with her, that recorder your conversation, that's a fake?" Frank asked, "We have on tape that you offered her to join you in your big mole operation."
"I was just messing around." Mike smirked, "I always do."
"Sure you were." Eric snorted.
Outside the interrogation room, Horatio and Calleigh were listening.
"He doesn't seem too bothered by all of this." Calleigh said.
"Someone is protecting him." Horatio sighed.
"We are." Said a male voice from behind them.
Horatio and Calleigh turned around and saw a man with an FBI badge.
"I'm Agent Monroe." He said, "And Mike Lewis is a guy planted here by us."
"Don't you guys ever give up?" Calleigh asked, "What is it with you trying to bring us down?"
"We're not after you." Monroe said, "We're after Rick Stetler."
"Stetler?!" Calleigh exclaimed, "Why?"
"We believe that he's working with a man named Rocco Santana." Monroe said, "Santana is a former drug dealer who just switched to women and guns."
"And Mike Lewis was supposed to be listening for dirt on Stetler." Horatio said, "Rick Stetler worked at a smaller police department for a whole year."
"We found out about that an hour ago." Monroe said, "Lewis should have told us sooner."
"Mike Lewis is a criminal isn't he?" Calleigh asked.
"He is a former drug addict."
"Well aren't you very clever to use him." Calleigh snorted, "He just told a man everything about another man who had kidnapped Joseph Delko."
"I know." Monroe said, "Is there somewhere more private where we can talk?"
"Sure, my office." Horatio said and led the way.
-I- 16:30
"It's no working." Joseph sighed. He had been trying for almost an hour to get the ropes off Eric's wrists, but it was not working. Eric couldn't get the ropes off his ankles either.
"Let's rest for a minute." Eric said.
They heard someone walking down the stairs and soon a very nervous Dennis paced around in the basement.
"Who are you working for?" Eric asked.
Dennis growled and hit him in the face with the gun, "Shut up!"
"You're mother's name was Lucy Milton." Joseph said.
Dennis looked shocked at him.
"How did you know that?" He asked and grabbed Joseph by the collar, the pointed the gun at his head.
"Tell me now or I'll kill you."
"I told him." Eric said, "I met your mother a couple of times."
"Did she tell you about me?"
"No."
"Good, no worries then." Dennis grinned and let Joseph go.
"Why is that good?" Joseph asked.
Dennis told him to shut up and then pointed the gun at Eric's left leg.
"You should have similar wounds, don't ya think?" He grinned and pulled the trigger.
TBC...
AN: Please review! By the way, school has started, so I have homework, but I will try to update once a week, at the very least.
