"Good morning Alexx. I heard you called for a CSI?" Calleigh said as she walked into autopsy.

"Calleigh." Alexx looked up from where she was finishing stapling the man she had just autopsied back together. "How did dinner with Horatio go last night?"

"Not as I planned, actually the whole day didn't go as planned."

"What happened?" Alexx inquired.

"I went shopping and ended up getting involved in arresting some bank robbers, then having to process the bank."

"Sounds like an interesting way to spend your day off. But tell about dinner."

"We didn't get to eat it."

"Oh really." Alexx said raising her eyebrows.

"We had to go and pick my Dad up from a bar. He was drunk." Calleigh explained.

"Oh."

"Horatio was actually great about the whole thing. He helped me get him home and into bed."

"That's our Horatio for you."

"But after that we got take out since dinner was ruined and we talked." Calleigh said.

"How did that go?" Alexx asked.

"We're going to take things slowly and see where it goes." Calleigh replied.

"Then I say my work here is done." Alexx smiled.

"You didn't call me over here to interrogate me did you?" Calleigh questioned.

"As much fun as this has been no. This is Travis Makepeace; he died of a heart attack while visiting a friend at Jackson Memorial."

"A heart attack is natural causes, why do you want CSI involved?" Calleigh asked.

"Because I found these in his stomach." Alexx held up a glass beaker.

"Those are bullets Alexx." Calleigh said taking the glass from her.

"Six of them." Alexx confirmed.

"They haven't been fired Alexx." Calleigh said examining one.

"That's more your area than mine Calleigh." Alexx said.

"He swallowed six albeit small calibre bullets? Why would anyone do that on purpose?"

"I don't know that's why I thought CSI should be involved. Unfortunately he can't give us answers can you sweetheart?"

"And it was definitely a heart attack that killed him?" Calleigh questioned.

"Yes. But the knowledge you have six bullets in your stomach would be enough to induce a heart attack in most people. I sent a sample of his blood to toxicology I'll let you when I get the results back."

"Thanks Alexx." Calleigh said.

"Can you tell me who Mr Makepeace was visiting?" Calleigh asked over the phone.

"I'm afraid we can't give out that information." The nurse on the other end replied. "But I can tell you they signed out against medical advice soon after Mr Makepeace died."

"Okay thank you." Calleigh hung up with a sigh.

"Calleigh." Adele said walking into the room.

"Did we get the warrant?" Calleigh asked.

"The judge said there wasn't enough cause, the guy died of a heart attack. Searching his house just he had six bullets in his stomach is overkill. His words not mine."

"Okay thanks for trying Adele." Calleigh said.

"Call me if you think of anything else." Adele said.

"I will." Calleigh smiled.

Calleigh poured herself some coffee and sank down into a chair and flipped through a forensics journal trying to figure out if there was anything else she could do.

"Hey Cal." Eric said as he walked in and poured himself some coffee. "How's it going?"

"Let me ask you a question."

"Is this going to be a hypothetical question or one of those questions women ask where you can't be right whatever you answer?" Eric asked.

"It's about a case."

"Okay shoot." Eric pulled up a chair and sat down.

"Shoot is a good phrase to use since it involves bullets."

"Bullets are your area of expertise Cal."

"It's not that kind of question."

"Okay." Eric looked at her slightly confused.

"Alexx has a 43 year old who died of a heart attack while visiting a friend at a hospital in autopsy."

"What's that got to do with bullets?" Eric asked.

"He had six small calibre bullets in his stomach."

"He shot himself in six times and then had a heart attack."

"The bullets hadn't been fired. He'd just swallowed them."

"That's a strange thing to do." Eric said.

"What's a strange thing to do?" Speed asked walking in.

"Swallowing six bullets." Eric replied.

"Who swallowed six bullets?" Speed questioned.

"A guy Alexx has in autopsy." Eric explained.

"But he died of a heart attack."

"That is strange." Speed agreed. "Do you want some help investigating?"

"The hospital won't tell me who he was visiting other than the fact that they checked out AMA straight after he died. He has no living family and was a freelance illustrator and the judge says we can't get a warrant to search his house because he died of natural causes and his house has no direct neighbours. So I'm at an impasse."

"Sometimes you have to let cases like this go and know you'll never solve them." Speed said.

"Doesn't anyone have any work to be doing?" Horatio asked walking in.

"We were helping Calleigh out with her impasse." Eric replied.

"What kind of impasse?" Horatio inquired.

"Alexx has a 43 male who died of a heart attack, but had six unfired bullets in his stomach. There is no one to talk to and we can't get a warrant to search his house." Calleigh explained.

"Sometimes those questions are unanswerable." Horatio said.

TBC