14:50
Eric was asleep in the lab. His head on the table, with the computer beeping next to him. When Mario got booked, Eric had tape lifted him, and found a red hair. And some small droplets of blood on his ring. The blood had been sent to Valera. Eric had matched the hair to Horatio, which placed Mario in his house. But since Eric and the rest of the team had worked for more then 24 hours already, he had fallen asleep. Snoring loudly. And he wasn't the only one. Natalia was also asleep in the break room, and Valera was sleeping in her lab. Ryan stood in the door, watching Eric. He chuckled, shook his head and walked towards him. That's when he saw the computer and grinned widely. Mario was now in deep trouble.
"Stupid of Mario not to change his shirt." Ryan muttered to himself. He knew that Valera was working with the blood, and the hoped that it would match Kenwall, since Horatio hadn't left any blood on his attackers.
Ryan gently shook Eric, who stirred slightly and muttered something incoherent.
"Eric." Ryan said, "Rise and shine Diving-Boy!"
Eric slowly opened his eyes and glanced at Ryan. He yawned and stretched out his arms.
"What time is it?" He asked.
"Almost three."
"Anybody been here to see Mario yet?"
"Nope, but we're still waiting for someone to come and bail him out." Ryan said, "The hair is a match to H."
Eric looked at the computer and sighed in relief.
"We got Mario, this places him in H's house." Eric smiled, "Thank God for that."
"Yeah, no we only have to find his friends." Ryan said, "I hope Valera got a match on the DNA."
"For being such an ass and being a gang leader, Mario is stupid."
"No arguments there." Ryan smirked, "He should have changed his shirt and ring."
"He shouldn't have left a message the Kenwall's answering machine." Eric said, "Anyway, let's go see Valera."
Ryan and Eric walked towards Valera's lab and chuckled when they saw her asleep.
"Guess I wasn't the only one tired here today." Eric grinned.
"We're all tired." Ryan said, "But we aren't stopping until we nail every SOB that had something to do with this case."
Eric nodded in agreement and then gently shook Valera. Valera stirred, opened her eyes and groaned when she saw Eric and Ryan smiling at her.
"What do you want?" She asked.
"The DNA from the blood." Eric smiled.
Valera sat up straight and immediately started checking for a match. She shrieked of joy when the computer told her that the blood belonged to Kenwall Duquesne.
"Yes! We got him!" She said, "We got Mario!"
"Now we just have to make him talk." Ryan smiled, "Get Frank here, he's going to break Mario."
-I-
15:00
Calleigh opened her eyes and looked around in the room. She was more awake now, then the last time she had woken up. She tried sitting up, but groaned in pain. A tear ran down her cheek as she remembered that she had been stabbed. The door to the room opened and an old man walked inside with a tray of food.
"Who the hell are you?" Calleigh asked.
She knew something was wrong and she didn't feel safe. She missed Horatio and her boys. Why weren't they with her? The man in front of her sat down on the bed and looked at Calleigh with kind eyes. He was not a doctor, he didn't have the right clothes, and Cal was certainly not in a hospital.
"Where am I?" Calleigh asked, "And who are you?"
"I am Jake's uncle, Bob." Bob smiled, "And this is a cottage that Jake rented."
"What?! I should be at a hospital." Cal exclaimed.
"But Jake took you here to be safe, he told you that." Bob said.
"What? No, I had no idea about this. I've been in stabbed. I don't remember coming here."
Bob looked confused at Calleigh. Jake had told him that Calleigh was aware of the circumstances and that she had agreed to be hidden for a while. Bob looked down ashamed, that's when he noticed the ring on her finger. She was engaged or married, but certainly not to Jake.
"Are you married?" Bob asked.
"Engaged. My fiancé must be going crazy at home right now! He thinks I'm dead for Christ sake! You have to take me back to Dade Memorial."
"I can't drive you there. I don't own a vehicle." Bob said, "And Jake has been gone for quite a while now."
"Then call someone dammit!" Calleigh snapped.
Bob nodded. Ashamed of himself. He had trusted his nephew blindly, and hadn't thought of Calleigh at all. He had been fooled by Jake.
"Calm down lady. Don't get yourself worked up, it will only hurt you." Bob said, "I will call the police."
"Thank you." Calleigh said, more angry then she had intended to.
Bob nodded again and left the room. Calleigh sighed, she shouldn't be mad at Bob. He was after all the one who had kept her wounds clean for several hours, or maybe even days. Calleigh wasn't sure what day it was. Jake was the asshole, who once again wanted to play hero for her. And as usual his hero stuff didn't work out the right way. After a while Bob came back and sat down again on the bed.
"What day is it?" Cal asked.
"Tuesday, June the 8th, and it's three o'clock." Bob said, "You've been here for several hours."
"I'm sorry for snapping at you Bob, this isn't your fault." Calleigh said.
"Don't worry about it. Now go back to sleep, the cops are on their way." Bob smiled.
Calleigh nodded and suddenly realized how tired she was. She fell asleep in seconds, happy. Because soon she'd be reunited with her babies and her fiancé.
-I-
15:10
Horatio was known to have a great deal of patience and a glare that could turn even the most dangerous and toughest criminals into little chickens. Frank was known to have a great deal of patience too. That's why he just stood in the interrogation room with Mario sitting in front of him, not saying anything. He had only been standing there for about fifteen minutes and Mario was already on the verge of going crazy. Frank simply looked down at the ground, waiting for Mario to finally snap and start talking. Mario glanced at Frank every now and then, and every time he did he sighed. An officer was with them in the room, he tried to contain his laughter as Mario just got more and more angry, and Frank simply hummed to himself.
"Oh for heaven's sake!" Mario growled, "What do you want?"
Frank smirked and looked at Mario.
"I want you to know that hair from your clothes matches Lt. Caine, that means you were there when someone tried to drown him. And blood from your ring matches Kenwall Duquesne. Which means you were there when he died." Frank said, "You even helped killing him."
"I killed him all by myself." Mario sighed. He didn't want his sister to be brought into trouble. Mario was screwed no matter what he said. He'd be in jail a long time for trying to kill an officer, and participating in a man's death. He might as well take the whole blame. And if his sister was of the hook, she could continue running the gang.
"Really?" Frank asked.
What Mario didn't know was that for the last ten minutes, the team had found out a lot more about Mario's sister then he thought. It turned out that Mario had been in a car accident with his sister, when he was twelve. Both his, their father and his sister's names were in the news paper article. Her name was Stephanie Santoya, and the father's name was Benito Santoya.
"Yeah, I beat the fucker to death." Mario said.
"I find that interesting because we found an article about your family long ago. When you were twelve you were in a car accident with you sister and father." Frank smiled.
"So?"
"And it turns out that you broke your wrists so badly that you can hardly use them anymore." Frank said, "That's why you're taking pain killers right now, because your hands are hurting after beating Kenwall Duquesne to death."
"See! I told ya I killed him." Mario said.
"Yeah, well he was also stabbed. After beating him, you wouldn't have been able to pick up a knife and stab him." Frank smirked as Mario's face went white.
"We also found out that the accident, happened after a competition. A knife competition which your sister Stephanie won." Frank said, "She knows how to handle knives."
Mario looked down at his shoes. Frank knew that he had won. The officer handcuffed Mario as Frank nodded to him. Mario didn't look anywhere else but at his shoes as he was lead back to his holding cell.
Frank smirked and left interrogation. Eric and Ryan waited for him outside. They smiled at each other, but their smiled faded, and everything went quite when a woman walked towards Frank. With officer Lid in front her, holding a gun to his head.
TBC…
AN: Please review!