I do not own CSI Miami, but I do own Nathan, Victoria and Kathryn.
Horatio and his team stopped at the entrance way into their new crime scene. The call was from a janitor from a high school. From what Horatio could see was a girl on the three-meter diving board, another in the lifeguard chair.
Horatio stepped forward and turned to his team, "Okay people you know what to do. Kathryn, Nathan, Victoria, you will stick with me today." With that he lead the interns around the pool. This would just be their first test on the real thing.
Calleigh looked over the blonde girl; she lay face down against the board, her hair spilling over the end. A bullet wound was in her back and in her shoulder. Calleigh looked around and noticed dark red fibre on the chain hanging around the girl's neck. She carefully placed it in a small plastic back, labelled it and put it in her back. Hour after hour Calleigh worked diligently.
Horatio, and the three younger ones walked around the outside, not disturbing anything. He turned to the group and stared at them for a moment and his lips pressed into a scowl.
Victoria tilted her head to the side and looked around.
"Can anyone of you tell me where else there is going to be evidence?" asked Horatio, placing his hand on his black pants clad hips.
Before anyone could answer, Kathryn was already talking, "Two places, in the pool and the locker room. Most likely the killer was in there with the victim."
Horatio nodded his head, and turned his head so he did not see the look pass between Kathryn and Victoria. The continued to glare at one another and moved along with Horatio. Horatio had the three collect evidence under his watchful eye and he was proud at the work they were doing. He hoped that this would continue, and went to check on the other members off his team.
Eric swam carefully under the water. He could see something shimmering under the light a few feet away. He carefully went closer to the ground not wanting his flippers to get caught on the drain. He carefully kneeled down and picked up the object and examined it. It was a sliver bullet and only bullet girl would be able to figure it out.
Alexx surveyed the man in the lifeguard chair. He appeared in his late twenties and had the looks of a movie star. Blonde hair with a shaggy look, green eyes that stared into space, and of course a string of bruises around his chin and throat. She took her hand and closed his eyelids. Her thoughts drifted and her movements became mechanical. She only became aware of what was happening when Horatio was calling her name softly.
"Sorry Hun, I was thinking. What did you need?" asked Alexx, shaking her head to clear the cobwebs.
"Are you okay Alexx, you spaced on me there. I was asking if you can give me a rough estimate on time of death?" asked Horatio glancing up at the natural beauty.
"Sorry I was thinking. I would say from the liver temp. they have been here about 2 hours. Not long. Anything else Horatio?" asked Alexx, climbing down the ladder to land next to her mentor. They stood beside each other, looking at the scene with detailed eyes, capturing every aspect.
Victoria kneeled by the edge of the ladder coming out of the pool. With detailed eyes, she took the tweezers and reached down to the top footstep. Bringing it to eye level, the piece of black cloth was tiny. She smirked victoriously, knowing she one step ahead of the other two interns and nothing could stop her now.
Nathan stood in the locker room, snapping pictures of everything; evidence or not. He bent down to look underneath the bench that was low to the ground, and seeing a small transparent package, took a photo of it; labelled it and put it in the bag. Kathryn was just on the other side of lockers fingerprinting every lock she came upon, and labelling the number prints. She looked at the number on the locker '191'. She turned her gaze towards the lockers that stretched to the other side of the locker room. She smacked her head against her latex covered hand.
"There's got to be at least 400 more lockers here," she said to herself. She took the soft brush and lightly swirled it around in the non-magnetic finger print powder. She returned to her never-ending job.
"Hey Nat, are you almost finished on your side?" she asked, her voice drifting over the lockers.
"Yeah, give me five more minutes. What do you need anyway?" he questioned back. His fingers were placing a marker down by a gold chain near a drain.
"Well, I need some help with the lockers. And then possibly a good shot of something and a good night of clubbing. That or some strong dark coffee," she replied back laughing. Nathan joined in with her, but what came as a surprise was the deep chuckle that came from the entrance of the showers.
Kathryn arched her neck backwards, almost falling over to see who stood in the doorway. Horatio stood leaning against the tiled wall, hands crossed over his chest; smirk on his tanned face.
"I don't think I can get you a shot of something; but I am relatively sure that I can get you a large coffee from the coffee shop across the street once you are done. My treat. Your welcome to come to Nathan," offered Horatio, pushing himself away from the wall and walking gingerly through the locker room, making sure that he didn't disturb anything. He also looked around, his memory going full throttle to take in every detail.
He was extremely pleased to see that the two interns on their own were doing an outstanding job. Horatio had decided to come check up on them, only to hear Kathryn and Nathan laughing about going clubbing. He had checked his watch and he was stunned that no one from his team had gone back to head quarters, except for Alexx. He had requested full autopsy reports on both victims.
Waiting for another ten minutes, Horatio noted that they were only a fraction done the lockers. Hopping to speed up the process, he pulled on a pair of latex gloves and set to work colleting prints. In no time at all the three of them had finished the row of lockers and were making there way to the stands along the one side of the pool. He could see Eric and Calleigh waiting for him; he looked around the pool, trying to find the last part of his little intern round up.
"Hey H, Victoria left about 3 mins ago. Said something about meeting up with an old friend," called Eric lying down on one of the benches, made of solid wood. Calleigh let out a yawn and closed her eyes, letting her head drop down towards her chest. She jerked up and shook her head.
"I'm up," Calleigh mumbled before closing her eye's again.
Nathan started to snicker, when Calleigh spoke up from her position against the wall, "Nat, I may be half asleep but I can still pull a gun faster than you could any day."
Horatio, Eric and Kathryn all snorted and Horatio spoke up, "Come on bullet girl, I see a large chai tea with a good helping of Honey dust in your not so distant future."
This caused Calleigh to perk up and get everyone else roused up, wanting that large Chai tea. They exited the high school, dropping off all their evidence with the police officer, telling him direct instructions on how to handle the evidence, they watched to make sure that the officer got out of the parking lot first before continuing their expedition to the fine place that was called Second Cup.
The door chimed as Horatio held it open for the rest of his friends. They looked around the modern coffee house. It was decorated with a handful of leather chairs, three or four leather loveseats and bar stools all along the outer edge of the shop. In the middle on a raised platform was the coffee bar.
Horatio turned to face the others, "What are you guys ordering, it will be my treat," he asked taking in the orders from the interns, he already knew what Eric and Calleigh wanted. He should at least know, how long he worked with them, he could not even remember.
"I'll take a large frozen hot chocolate with whipped cream and Nathan will take a regular mocha. Do you need any help carrying it or are you fine on your own?" asked Kathryn stepping to the side of Horatio.
"I should be fine. Go and sit with the others, I'll be there in a few," and with that Horatio ordered the drinks while Kathryn and Nathan went to sit with the others.
Calleigh had found an area with 3 chairs and one couch. She, and Eric had grabbed the plush leather chairs, which stood beside the fake fireplace. Nathan, reaching the area before Kathryn, hopped into the chair, instantly feeling the pressure off his feet.
By the time Kathryn reached the area, Horatio right behind her with the drinks, the only place left was the couch. Giving Horatio a hand pacing the drinks out, they finally sat down into a comfortable silence. Eric broke that silence.
"So for your first day on the job, how did it go?" he asked the interns.
"It was good. Not the most exciting thing to do in the world, but I like it. How about you Kat?" Nathan replied looking over to the sleeping blonde. He only started to snicker at the sight. Kathryn; drink forgotten, had her head against the back of the couch, mouth slightly parted and eyes closed.
"Well that gives us our answer. We seem to be too boring," chuckled Horatio, even though he felt the same way. He looked up from his drink to catch Calleigh staring at him with a look of interest on her face. She simply gave him a soft smile and went back to her drink.
They sat around for about another 45 mins, before the headed back to headquarters. Horatio leaned over and shook the blondes shoulders. Her head snapped up and her eyes went wide.
"I didn't do it," she said quickly, not remembering where she was. This caused the others to laugh.
"Didn't do what?" asked Eric from his position, standing behind the couch.
Kathryn gave him a 'what the hell are you talking about look' before realising that she had fallen asleep. Before anyone could continue the making fun of the blonde intern, a beeping sound came from the side of the hips.
"It's mine," said Horatio looking down at his beeper. "Someone just walked into the station confessing the crime."
"Well, lets not keep them waiting," smirked Calleigh as she walked towards the Hummer in the parking lot. The others followed.
Hope you guys enjoyed this chapter. I'll try to update more often. K