"Timothy." Alexx said as she and Eric bustled into the Emergency Room.

"Hey Alexx, Eric." Speed smiled.

"How's Calleigh?" Eric asked.

"They won't tell us anything. Horatio's trying to talk them into it now." Speed replied.

"I'll go and see if I can get some information from them." Alexx said.

"How did she really look?" Eric asked sitting down next to Speed. "She didn't sound good on the phone."

"Her leg looked pretty badly broken, and her shoulder was definitely dislocated. She was mumbling."

"She had a concussion; I was having a hard time keeping her talking." Eric admitted. "What happened?"

"Educated guess she pressed a button which opened a hidden trap door in the floor to a drug kitchen. She must have stepped back to see what it did and have fallen down the hole ten feet. She was crumpled at the bottom of the ladder."

"This was Calleigh's bullet swallower's house?" Eric questioned.

"What from all outward appearances appeared to be a mild mannered man who kept himself to himself, and died of heart attack wasn't. Apart from swallowing the bullets of cocaine, he had a dead woman in his kitchen stuffed under the table, a freezer full of cocaine parcels in his garage, an S&M den in his loft space and a cocaine kitchen in his cellar."

"Must have been one hell of a party." Eric commented.

"We were only half way processing the place when Calleigh screamed. Adelle has the PD securing the place until we can go back and finish up."

"H is going to want to stay with Calleigh; I'll come and help you as soon as we know she's going to be okay."

"We're in no hurry." Speed replied.

"So you think she'll be okay?" Eric asked.

"I hope so."

"Horatio." Alexx said as she joined him at the desk where he was trying to get information.

"Alexx." Horatio gave her a week smile.

"Is there a problem here?" Alexx asked.

"I'm trying to get some information on Calleigh but they won't tell me anything. As I'm not family."

"Lieutenant, we have other people to see, if you'd step aside." The woman behind the desk said.

"Excuse me, I'm Doctor Alexx Woods. So do you want to give us the information on Detective Duquesne or do I have to go and find out for myself?" Alexx said.

"I'm going to need to see some identification to confirm that." Alexx handed over her ID badge. "This says you're a pathologist."

"Still means I went through medical school just like everyone else here." Alexx said. "Horatio wait here I'm going to find out what's going on."

"I'm not going anywhere."

"Excuse me." The woman said as Alexx took a look at the board and headed off to find Calleigh.

"How is she H?" Eric asked as Horatio walked over to them.

"They wouldn't tell me anything." Horatio replied.

"Where did Alexx go?" Speed asked.

"To find out what is happening with Calleigh. I don't think the woman at reception was too happy about it."

"Go Alexx." Eric smiled. "Speed was telling me about the house."

"We need to finish processing it, find out if there is anyone else who has been there that we need to bring in for questioning."

"You can't charge a dead man." Eric said.

"But we need to find out if he had any accomplices and who the dead woman was."

"Eric and I will go back and finish process when we found out how Calleigh is." Speed informed him.

"We thought you might want to stay here." Eric added. Speed shot him a glare. "She'll need a friendly face around and… you know what I mean."

"I do." Horatio smiled.

TBC