Chapter 13

However, Horatio's stare caught me in my tracks, although he didn't say a word. I sighed without looking at him and fell against the wall, then slowly slid down until I sat on the cold police station floor. Horatio surely tried to get a hold of me and keep me from doing so and going down, but my weak pregnant figure wasn't too easy to handle. Even H. wasn't capable of holding me up right and had to loosen his grip on me and let me pull myself up in a near fetal position on the floor. He sank down on one knee and looked at me with worried blue eyes, as he asked me ever so softly, "Are you okay?"

"Yeah," I nodded, sounding not all too convincing and trying my best to add a little smile. "It's just getting a little heavy on me," I stated, rubbing a particular spot on the right of my navel, feeling my baby boy's good pushes inside my immensely expanded womb.

"You already ate something today?" Horatio asked me. "I vaguely remember the hospital food being rather disgusting, except for the little puddings then..." I smiled. "And this pregnant lady was in such a hurry to get out of there and drag that felon in the interrogation room with her and Grissom I would be very surprised if she actually ate something at all..." he added, looking at me with meaningful blue eyes. I playfully rolled my greenish ones to him in reply, without answering in words.

"Come on, I'll take you out to a fancy restaurant in town that I remember from last time we were here in Las Vegas."

"Horatio."

"Do you want me to tell Koen?" he smiled. I simply sighed and smiled back at him, hands reaching out for him to take them and pull me upright without all too much effort, before letting him lead me out to the car put to our disposal. "Maybe you'll have more impact on him next time."

Out of the corner of my bluish green eyes, I saw Grissom through the glass panel of the interrogation room, pulling his papers and files together, before standing up and asking the police officer to take Raven away.

"I'm planning to interrogate Raven again tomorrow."

"Tomorrow morning?" Horatio asked, looking up at me with interesting eyes. I nodded, seeing him consequently mirror the gesture. "I'm sure you already realize that you could never predict what the night brings. Sometimes it brings them bright thoughts in jail." I nodded again, right as my cell phone started vibrating violently, nearly screaming out to be picked up. I neatly put my glass of water down and reached out for my mobile phone lying on the table, as I had already expected Koen to call me.

I briefly looked at the caller ID indicating my sweet husband's number before I picked up. "Hi, sweetheart..."

"Hey. How are the two of you doing there in Nevada?"

I smiled, surely having expected this first question. "We're fine. We got out of the hospital this afternoon, and now your little boy's happily kicking inside me." I saw Horatio flashing me one of his rare smiles over the table, as my cell indicated another phone call coming through. "Oh I'm sorry, but I'm having another call coming in from the crime lab back in Miami, and it can be important. I'll call you back from the hotel room tonight, okay?"

"That's alright," Koen answered. "Love you."

"Love you more," I chuckled, then hit a specific button on the phone to accept the other phone call.

"Hi, Lis," Becki's voice sounded. "I have got some results for you from the explosion of this morning... We'll be working all night through here to process the rest, but we already came up with two matching DNA profiles from as many different sexual fluids on the sheets."

I closed my greenish eyes for a brief second, rubbing my pale forehead with my other hand as I tried to think of what sheets Becki was talking about here, brain cracking... "Yeah?" I questioned, eventually.

"One male, and one female DNA profile came up from it. Raven Sampedro's, and... Monica Arandia's."