Disclaimer: I don't own anything and I don't intend to make any profit with
this. CSI:Miami and its characters belong to the geniuses who created the
show. Would that were me, though. "Nothing in the World" belongs to Atomic
Kitten.
Rating: PG-13, just to be safe
Pairing: H/C
Spoilers: None
A/N: Part 3 is up! And some crime scene work along with it. I have no forensic knowledge whatsoever besides the stuff I gathered watching CSI and CSI:M, so if there are any mistakes, I apologize for them. By the way I have never been to Miami so all the descriptions are made up. Have fun reading and please send reviews! Oh, and if someone could tell me how to insert bold print, I would be forever grateful.
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b"And it seems the little things get in the way. We're so caught up in routine from day to day..."/b
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Calleigh arrived at the crime scene exactly twelve minutes and forty-seven seconds later.
The house the CSIs had been called to, was located in a fairly affluent neighborhood protected by gates. Bay Park Lane was a tree lined street with wide sidewalks and the houses, whose prices Calleigh figured, were somewhere in the half-million Dollar range, all had perfectly landscaped front yards. Each property was about an acre in size.
Except for three police cars and an ambulance there were no other vehicles present and Calleigh realized that she had beaten the rest of the team here.
She had just parked her car when two Hummers with the CSI crest rounded the corner and pulled up next to her.
Eric and Tim had driven here together, but Calleigh was relieved to see that Horatio was alone. Yelina was nowhere in sight. She took a deep breath and walked over to her colleagues. They all exchanged a short good-morning, then Horatio walked across the street towards the two police officers gurading the crime scene. Calleigh, Tim and Eric got their field kits and followed him to the house.
"Horatio Caine, CSI", he introduced himself to the officers. "What do we have?"
"Neighbor heard gunshots about an hour ago and called 911", one of them answered. "Two patrol cars and the ambulance got here at the same time. We secured the property, found two bodies inside. Paramedics couldn't do anything. We checked, but there was no one else in the house or on the property. We were waiting for you guys to get here."
"Thanks! Is Detective Salas here yet?", Horatio aksed.
"She's out back Lieutenant."
Calleigh tried not to cringe visibly at the mention of Yelina's name and forced herself to focus on the case instead. She could not allow herself to be preoccupied with her own problems at this moment. The victims deserved that she gave her best. They deserved justice.
Horatio's voice brought her back to reality.
"Let's find out what happened!", he said and entered the house without any further comment.
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When Calleigh stepped inside, it took her a moment to adjust to the darkness inside the entryway. The blinds had been drawn shut, so only a small amount of light filled the room. A narrow hallway ran down the length of the house and finally gave way to a large living room with an adjacent kitchen. The living room was filled with bright sunlight and for a second Calleigh was blinded by the sharp contrast to the dark hallway. The sliding glas door that led out to the patio was open, the white curtains blowig in the wind.
So far, it seemed that nothing had been disturbed, there was no visible evidence of forced entry or a fight.
The first body they discovered was sitting upright in a chair in the formal dining room next to the kitchen, the head resting on the solid oak table and blood dropping down from a wound to the back of the head
The second victim lay face down behind one of the kitchen counters, a pool of blood forming underneath the body. Again, there seemed to be no evidence of stuggle.
"Chris and Jamie Martin, the residents of the house. A couple without kids", one of the officers stated when Horatio asked if they knew who the victims were.
Without touching the body at the table, Calleigh checked the head wound, noticing that it was the entrance wound of a bullet. She did not hear Alexx arrive, but only turned around when she heard Horatio speak again.
"Speed, Eric. Check out the house for any kind of trace evidence. I want every single fiber, hair and all fingerprints that do not belong here!"
He turned around to face Calleigh and then continued.
"Calleigh, see if you can find a gun, casings or stray bullets. Then you're going back to CSI with Alexx. I want all the details about the bullets, tajectory and cause of death."
Calleigh nodded. She had not expected a different assignment. Ballistics was her field of expertise. If there was anything about the bullets that would lead them to the answer of the crime, she'd find it. Again, she banned all other thoughts from her head and started to analyze the crime scene.
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Back at CSI, Calleigh left the guns she had found in the garage of the house in the ballistic lab and went to the morgue to see if Alexx had anything on the bullets.
When she entered the autopsy lab, Alexx just snapped her gloves off and handed Calleigh two trays, each containing a bullett.
"Here, Calleigh. Both were still in the bodies. Did you find anything at the scene?"
"Two handguns, but no casings and no stray bullets." Calleigh answered. "I'll see if those match one of the guns I found. Anything else?"
"They were both shot at close range. Definitely not a double suicide. The killer intended maximum damage and they probaly knew who he was. They were dead in seconds."
"Thanks Alexx. We'll find whoever did this!", she replied and left the room quickly.
Alexx turned to look after her. There was something wrong with Calleigh, but Alexx couldn't quite determine what it was exactly that weighed on the mind of young woman. Even if she did ask Calleigh, she probably wouldn't talk about it.
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Three hours later Calleigh had determined without a doubt that the bullets did not match either one of the guns she had found in the Martin residence. She recorded her findings in the file and left the ballistics lab to find Horatio, to tell him.
When she got to his office, he was talking on the phone, but he motioned for her to come in and sit down.
"Yes. I will be there. As soon as I get all the information. I will see you there."
He put down the phone and looked up at Calleigh, smiling.
"What do you have?", he asked her.
She told him what she had found out about the bullets and what Alexx had told her earlier.
After a pause she added: "Horatio, there is something else I wanted to talk to you about."
"Sure, Calleigh. Why don't you stop by before you leave tonight. I need to talk to Speed and Eric still and I am meeting Yelina to talk to the some of the neighbors."
He got up and put on his jacket. Slowly, Calleigh also rose to her feet. Again she had been hit by emotions she was barely able to control. She had wanted to talk to Horatio now, to finally get it over with, but instead she smiled at him and said:
"Fine. I'll be here around five. See you then"
Together they left his office, but walked down the hallway in different directions.
Rating: PG-13, just to be safe
Pairing: H/C
Spoilers: None
A/N: Part 3 is up! And some crime scene work along with it. I have no forensic knowledge whatsoever besides the stuff I gathered watching CSI and CSI:M, so if there are any mistakes, I apologize for them. By the way I have never been to Miami so all the descriptions are made up. Have fun reading and please send reviews! Oh, and if someone could tell me how to insert bold print, I would be forever grateful.
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b"And it seems the little things get in the way. We're so caught up in routine from day to day..."/b
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Calleigh arrived at the crime scene exactly twelve minutes and forty-seven seconds later.
The house the CSIs had been called to, was located in a fairly affluent neighborhood protected by gates. Bay Park Lane was a tree lined street with wide sidewalks and the houses, whose prices Calleigh figured, were somewhere in the half-million Dollar range, all had perfectly landscaped front yards. Each property was about an acre in size.
Except for three police cars and an ambulance there were no other vehicles present and Calleigh realized that she had beaten the rest of the team here.
She had just parked her car when two Hummers with the CSI crest rounded the corner and pulled up next to her.
Eric and Tim had driven here together, but Calleigh was relieved to see that Horatio was alone. Yelina was nowhere in sight. She took a deep breath and walked over to her colleagues. They all exchanged a short good-morning, then Horatio walked across the street towards the two police officers gurading the crime scene. Calleigh, Tim and Eric got their field kits and followed him to the house.
"Horatio Caine, CSI", he introduced himself to the officers. "What do we have?"
"Neighbor heard gunshots about an hour ago and called 911", one of them answered. "Two patrol cars and the ambulance got here at the same time. We secured the property, found two bodies inside. Paramedics couldn't do anything. We checked, but there was no one else in the house or on the property. We were waiting for you guys to get here."
"Thanks! Is Detective Salas here yet?", Horatio aksed.
"She's out back Lieutenant."
Calleigh tried not to cringe visibly at the mention of Yelina's name and forced herself to focus on the case instead. She could not allow herself to be preoccupied with her own problems at this moment. The victims deserved that she gave her best. They deserved justice.
Horatio's voice brought her back to reality.
"Let's find out what happened!", he said and entered the house without any further comment.
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When Calleigh stepped inside, it took her a moment to adjust to the darkness inside the entryway. The blinds had been drawn shut, so only a small amount of light filled the room. A narrow hallway ran down the length of the house and finally gave way to a large living room with an adjacent kitchen. The living room was filled with bright sunlight and for a second Calleigh was blinded by the sharp contrast to the dark hallway. The sliding glas door that led out to the patio was open, the white curtains blowig in the wind.
So far, it seemed that nothing had been disturbed, there was no visible evidence of forced entry or a fight.
The first body they discovered was sitting upright in a chair in the formal dining room next to the kitchen, the head resting on the solid oak table and blood dropping down from a wound to the back of the head
The second victim lay face down behind one of the kitchen counters, a pool of blood forming underneath the body. Again, there seemed to be no evidence of stuggle.
"Chris and Jamie Martin, the residents of the house. A couple without kids", one of the officers stated when Horatio asked if they knew who the victims were.
Without touching the body at the table, Calleigh checked the head wound, noticing that it was the entrance wound of a bullet. She did not hear Alexx arrive, but only turned around when she heard Horatio speak again.
"Speed, Eric. Check out the house for any kind of trace evidence. I want every single fiber, hair and all fingerprints that do not belong here!"
He turned around to face Calleigh and then continued.
"Calleigh, see if you can find a gun, casings or stray bullets. Then you're going back to CSI with Alexx. I want all the details about the bullets, tajectory and cause of death."
Calleigh nodded. She had not expected a different assignment. Ballistics was her field of expertise. If there was anything about the bullets that would lead them to the answer of the crime, she'd find it. Again, she banned all other thoughts from her head and started to analyze the crime scene.
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Back at CSI, Calleigh left the guns she had found in the garage of the house in the ballistic lab and went to the morgue to see if Alexx had anything on the bullets.
When she entered the autopsy lab, Alexx just snapped her gloves off and handed Calleigh two trays, each containing a bullett.
"Here, Calleigh. Both were still in the bodies. Did you find anything at the scene?"
"Two handguns, but no casings and no stray bullets." Calleigh answered. "I'll see if those match one of the guns I found. Anything else?"
"They were both shot at close range. Definitely not a double suicide. The killer intended maximum damage and they probaly knew who he was. They were dead in seconds."
"Thanks Alexx. We'll find whoever did this!", she replied and left the room quickly.
Alexx turned to look after her. There was something wrong with Calleigh, but Alexx couldn't quite determine what it was exactly that weighed on the mind of young woman. Even if she did ask Calleigh, she probably wouldn't talk about it.
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Three hours later Calleigh had determined without a doubt that the bullets did not match either one of the guns she had found in the Martin residence. She recorded her findings in the file and left the ballistics lab to find Horatio, to tell him.
When she got to his office, he was talking on the phone, but he motioned for her to come in and sit down.
"Yes. I will be there. As soon as I get all the information. I will see you there."
He put down the phone and looked up at Calleigh, smiling.
"What do you have?", he asked her.
She told him what she had found out about the bullets and what Alexx had told her earlier.
After a pause she added: "Horatio, there is something else I wanted to talk to you about."
"Sure, Calleigh. Why don't you stop by before you leave tonight. I need to talk to Speed and Eric still and I am meeting Yelina to talk to the some of the neighbors."
He got up and put on his jacket. Slowly, Calleigh also rose to her feet. Again she had been hit by emotions she was barely able to control. She had wanted to talk to Horatio now, to finally get it over with, but instead she smiled at him and said:
"Fine. I'll be here around five. See you then"
Together they left his office, but walked down the hallway in different directions.