Ok - here it is the final part of this episode
Chapter 2 will be up shortly - maybe even tomorrow so let me know what you
think!
I hope you had as much fun reading this story as I had writing it!
LOVE Black Raven
Disclaimer - don't own them, don't know who does.. Only Jamie Sullivan is mine and you're free to steal her anytime (just let me know)
Part 6
"So Craig Donovan works for the cable company, his getting old can't do his job anymore but he isn't eligible for pension just yet..." Speed started summing everything up
"So he asks someone to help him with the work, someone he knows, a family member" Erik continued
"A nephew to be exact" Calleigh interjected as she entered the room waving a file. She opened it and started reading "Jeremy Donovan, age 32, unemployed. Last place of employment - Woodberrow Chemicals Pesticide company"
"that's where he got the arsenic" Speed interjected
"Two priors for assault and battery" Calleigh continued "Noticeable characteristics: Pigment deficiency syndrome!"
"We got our guy!" Horatio declared to the other four team members in the room "Lets' go"
34 MAPLE STREET - AN HOUR LATER
The members of the CSI team stood quietly outside the building as the SWAT team stormed the residence. When they gave the signal for the all clear Horatio walked in slowly, moving through the apartment until he got to the back room.
The room was white, sterile, and single iron bad standing in the middle covered in white sheets and perfectly made - hospital corners included. There were no pictures on the walls, in fact there was nothing else in the room but books, standing on shelves in perfect order, organized by size. No television, no phone, not even a desk - Horatio noted to himself before he turned his attention to the man in the room.
He was sitting perfectly still on the edge of the bad, unfazed - as if he didn't noticed the 4 man around him aiming automatic weapons at his head. His head was shaved, but the pale almost see through skin, and the clear blue eyes were unmistakable - both natural characteristics of the genetic disease Horatio knew he suffered from.
"Jeremy Donovan?" Horatio inquired when the man nodded he continued "You know why we're here?"
The man's lips turned upward in a slight smile "You are her about those people, the filthy ones. I cleaned them up - it was best for them" he said with perfect ease, his tone calm and monotone.
"You killed them Jeremy" Horatio replied "And it wasn't best for anybody"
The man didn't respond in any way, he continued sitting there, the smile still o his face. Horatio held his gaze for a few more seconds before turning to one of the detectives and nodding. Two police officers then moved forward and tried to get Jeremy to his feet and arrest him. That was what finally triggered a reaction from the man.
"Don't touch me! I don't like to be touched!" He screamed trying to avoid the officer's hands "I have to stay clean, I can't be touched, I have to stay away from the bacteria!" He turned to Horatio "I have to stay here, I have to stay where it's clean!"
"You're going to jail Jeremy" Horatio said coldly "but I'm sure they'll clean up your cell especially for you!" he finished sarcastically, putting his sunglasses back on he walked out and joined his team - the five of them watching together as Jeremy Donovan was led out side, still struggling to brake free for the officer's "Dirty" grasp.
AFTERMATH
"I'm glad this case is over" Calleigh stated "I swear I'm never cleaning my apartment again"
The four of them - Erik, Speed, Jamie and her - were sitting around the large table, each one completing his final report for the Donovan file. It was routine - every team member that worked the case had to fill a report of the events and the evidence, the reports along with the box of tagged and marked evidence went to the DA, to be used in the trial.
"I'll never understand what makes a guy get like this" Erik shook his head, biting at his pencil.
"I took a look at his complete file" Jamie shrugged "I heard of these things before. Apparently his mother kept telling him that his condition made it more likely for him to catch a disease, always yelled at him to be clean cause his health depended on it. He grew up thinking dirt can kill him"
"I don't know" Erik shook his head "I mean, yeah I know parents can mess up their kids, but do you really think it was his mother's fault the things he did?"
"Probably not" Calleigh shrugged "She thought she was teaching her son to be clean, she had no idea what it would do to him. Her intentions were good"
"The best of intentions..." Speed said
As they all continued to go over their reports, Jamie lifted her head and saw Horatio going up the stairs and into his office on the upper level. She got up and went after him, entering his office and closing the door behind her.
"good case" She stated as she sat down in front of him
"you did good work" He nodded, leaning back in his chair
"I couldn't help but notice that you'd be a little short staffed when I leave"
"Jamie, this is local, you're over there with the big boys, the elite. You worked hard to get there and this, this would be a step down for you. I can't ask you to stay" he sighed
"You're not asking me - I'm asking you. H, I love my job, you know I do, but I hate working for a boss that I don't even respect, working with men twice my age who think they're better than me and have half my brain. I hate not being in the same place for more than a week at a time and not having a day off for the last two and a half years. I need something different, something more stable." She paused for a second, giving him the chance to contemplate on her words "Can I work for you?"
He looked at her a smiled "Welcome to the team!"
LOVE Black Raven
Disclaimer - don't own them, don't know who does.. Only Jamie Sullivan is mine and you're free to steal her anytime (just let me know)
Part 6
"So Craig Donovan works for the cable company, his getting old can't do his job anymore but he isn't eligible for pension just yet..." Speed started summing everything up
"So he asks someone to help him with the work, someone he knows, a family member" Erik continued
"A nephew to be exact" Calleigh interjected as she entered the room waving a file. She opened it and started reading "Jeremy Donovan, age 32, unemployed. Last place of employment - Woodberrow Chemicals Pesticide company"
"that's where he got the arsenic" Speed interjected
"Two priors for assault and battery" Calleigh continued "Noticeable characteristics: Pigment deficiency syndrome!"
"We got our guy!" Horatio declared to the other four team members in the room "Lets' go"
34 MAPLE STREET - AN HOUR LATER
The members of the CSI team stood quietly outside the building as the SWAT team stormed the residence. When they gave the signal for the all clear Horatio walked in slowly, moving through the apartment until he got to the back room.
The room was white, sterile, and single iron bad standing in the middle covered in white sheets and perfectly made - hospital corners included. There were no pictures on the walls, in fact there was nothing else in the room but books, standing on shelves in perfect order, organized by size. No television, no phone, not even a desk - Horatio noted to himself before he turned his attention to the man in the room.
He was sitting perfectly still on the edge of the bad, unfazed - as if he didn't noticed the 4 man around him aiming automatic weapons at his head. His head was shaved, but the pale almost see through skin, and the clear blue eyes were unmistakable - both natural characteristics of the genetic disease Horatio knew he suffered from.
"Jeremy Donovan?" Horatio inquired when the man nodded he continued "You know why we're here?"
The man's lips turned upward in a slight smile "You are her about those people, the filthy ones. I cleaned them up - it was best for them" he said with perfect ease, his tone calm and monotone.
"You killed them Jeremy" Horatio replied "And it wasn't best for anybody"
The man didn't respond in any way, he continued sitting there, the smile still o his face. Horatio held his gaze for a few more seconds before turning to one of the detectives and nodding. Two police officers then moved forward and tried to get Jeremy to his feet and arrest him. That was what finally triggered a reaction from the man.
"Don't touch me! I don't like to be touched!" He screamed trying to avoid the officer's hands "I have to stay clean, I can't be touched, I have to stay away from the bacteria!" He turned to Horatio "I have to stay here, I have to stay where it's clean!"
"You're going to jail Jeremy" Horatio said coldly "but I'm sure they'll clean up your cell especially for you!" he finished sarcastically, putting his sunglasses back on he walked out and joined his team - the five of them watching together as Jeremy Donovan was led out side, still struggling to brake free for the officer's "Dirty" grasp.
AFTERMATH
"I'm glad this case is over" Calleigh stated "I swear I'm never cleaning my apartment again"
The four of them - Erik, Speed, Jamie and her - were sitting around the large table, each one completing his final report for the Donovan file. It was routine - every team member that worked the case had to fill a report of the events and the evidence, the reports along with the box of tagged and marked evidence went to the DA, to be used in the trial.
"I'll never understand what makes a guy get like this" Erik shook his head, biting at his pencil.
"I took a look at his complete file" Jamie shrugged "I heard of these things before. Apparently his mother kept telling him that his condition made it more likely for him to catch a disease, always yelled at him to be clean cause his health depended on it. He grew up thinking dirt can kill him"
"I don't know" Erik shook his head "I mean, yeah I know parents can mess up their kids, but do you really think it was his mother's fault the things he did?"
"Probably not" Calleigh shrugged "She thought she was teaching her son to be clean, she had no idea what it would do to him. Her intentions were good"
"The best of intentions..." Speed said
As they all continued to go over their reports, Jamie lifted her head and saw Horatio going up the stairs and into his office on the upper level. She got up and went after him, entering his office and closing the door behind her.
"good case" She stated as she sat down in front of him
"you did good work" He nodded, leaning back in his chair
"I couldn't help but notice that you'd be a little short staffed when I leave"
"Jamie, this is local, you're over there with the big boys, the elite. You worked hard to get there and this, this would be a step down for you. I can't ask you to stay" he sighed
"You're not asking me - I'm asking you. H, I love my job, you know I do, but I hate working for a boss that I don't even respect, working with men twice my age who think they're better than me and have half my brain. I hate not being in the same place for more than a week at a time and not having a day off for the last two and a half years. I need something different, something more stable." She paused for a second, giving him the chance to contemplate on her words "Can I work for you?"
He looked at her a smiled "Welcome to the team!"
