What Lies Beneath

Chapter 5

Sienna walked straight into DNA the next day and handed the handkerchief to Addison Delko. She had been the DNA tech for almost three years now and a good friend. Sienna trusted her.

" Addy, can I get you to run this?" Sienna asked as she put the handkerchief down.

" What is it?"

" A tissue. I found it at Simone's casket yesterday. Some strange things are happening and I wanted to at least know what they could possibly mean."

" You just started and already breaking the rules? I have some samples to run for a case, but I'll get to it. Hey, I'm sorry that I missed the funeral. Maxine needed some extra hands yesterday."

" It's okay, Addy. Give me a call on my cell when you get something," Sienna said as she walked out into the lab corridor. She turned to walk , bumping into Horatio.

" Sienna, how are you this morning?" Horatio asked as he glanced into the DNA lab. " You got something already and you haven't been out yet?"

" Huh? Oh yeah, I just thought I'd stop by to say hello to Addison. We went to school together."

" Really?" Horatio said. He wasn't buying it.

" Yep." Sienna said quickly. " So what do you have for me?"

" So ready to begin. Walk with me to the layout room," Horatio said as he strode to the double doors.

Sienna followed him to the room and she sucked in a breath as she entered. For so many years she saw the CSI lab from a civilian point of view, the awe of it's tremendous presence almost being too much for her young heart. But now as a trace tech, she was still floored at the importance of the work that was being done. She thought about the many times her father had brought both her and Simone to the lab, and seeing him in action, solidified for Sienna what her lot in life was to be.

" Eric, what do you have?" Horatio said as he settled at a seat. The evidence from the shoot out in Coconut Grove was laid out on the table.

" Well, H. We don't have much. What we do have is a bullet that Alexx got out of the vics head. Along with an unspent bullet that had a fingerprint on it. I ran it through CODIS an nothing. I tried all of the other databases , but didn't get a hit in any of them. Except one. Miami -Dade police files. It hit, but I was denied access for some reason." Eric explained.

Horatio instantly knew what that meant, but he didn't let it bother him. He would deal with that himself.

" We did find a biological on the vics suit. It looked like mucus, but I didn't know. I processed it when I got in this morning. It should be coming out o f the mass spec shortly," Wolfe chimed in.

" Good job, Eric. Mr. Wolfe I want the results to the mass spec when they come in," Horatio said as he stepped aside. " Eric, you know Sienna. She's starting today in trace. I want you to show her around the lab and Mr. Wolfe , she will be working alongside you in this case."

Sienna looked at Wolfe and noticed the terror in his eyes. She had heard from Addy that he was OCD and a loner. She made a mental note to stay at least ten feet away from him at all times. She didn't want him to freak out on her. She watched as Horatio left the room and ascended to his office that overlooked the entire lab.

" Sienna, are you ready?" Eric asked.

" As I ever will be," Sienna replied as she looked at her watch. She would give Addy two more hours before she asked about the results.

" What the hell were you two thinking? Do you want ten years of work to go down the drain?" Dennis Sackhiem yelled.

" It was our daughter's funeral, you ass," Tim spoke up. From day one he really didn't like him.

" I'm not talking about that. You managed to stay under the radar with that. I'm talking about Coconut Grove!"

" What about it? Calleigh was in trouble , she got herself out of it. Simple." Tim said lightly. He looked at Calleigh from across the room, noticing her as she stared off into the distance.

" By killing the number one gun runner in Miami? You couldn't have drawn more attention to yourself if you popped a undercover agent. Now that he is dead the big players are starting to get shaky."

" That's not my problem, Sackhiem. It's been ten years. Ten years and you haven't managed to get any of the information that you need. We've missed out on ten years of our daughter's lives!"

" Look Speedle, I'm sorry about your daughter, but if we go rough on this, all of it would've been for nothing. Just give it a few more days. ATF thinks that the big deal is going down within the next week."

" After next week, Dennis , we are through. Out."

" Mommy?" A small voice said walking into the room. " the noise woke me up."

Calleigh turned to the little girl and scooped her up into her arms. " Oh, Katie. I'm sorry."

" Dennis, can we talk about this later?" Tim asked as he watched his wife hold on dearly to his four year old daughter. After six years of being under, Calleigh found out she was pregnant and they stayed out west until the baby was born. She had until recently been staying with some of Calleigh's relatives in Arizona. Now as they faced the loss of one of their girls , the safety of the remaining two came into play. He hoped that they could finish this and their lives could return back to normal, or as normal as it could ever be.

Sienna picked up her cell phone on the first ring. She had been anxiously waiting for the results from Addy.

" Speedle," she said quickly.

" Sienna, do you know how much trouble I could get in? My dad just left here in a tizzy. He said something about a biological that turned out to need DNA analysis. I just tested it and it came back denied. So did your sample."

" Denied? Why?"

"I don't know, Sienna but I'm throwing my hands up at this. I don't want to be caught up in it. The report is here, if you want to come and get it."

"I am on my way, Addy. Thanks a lot ."

" You owe me one, Sienna." Addy said as she hung up. In seconds , she was at the DNA lab.

" Here you go, Sienna. I don't know what this is going to tell you. I was denied access. So was my dad."

" I have a way. Thanks, Addy," Sienna said as she left the lab. She walked up the stairs to Horatio's office and noticed that he wasn't there. Quickly, she closed the door and locked it. Then she closed the blinds before she settled into his chair behind his desk. She placed the reports down on the desk then typed in his password. Instantly , files popped up on the screen detailing a top secret investigation into gun running. She skimmed over the files then she keyed in the specs from the reports. She sucked in a harsh breath as her parents' photos stared at her from the screen. The DNA from the tissue was from her mother, and the biological from the scene matched her father's.

" It can't be," she said softly. " They are dead..."

A/N: Ooooh Sienna's gonna be in trouble if Horatio finds out what she's been up to. :)