Hey everyone - well, this is the next part and I hope you like it but first I have to say something that I just feel like saying...
Well, I don't know if anyone else noticed it but writing this fiction I've been watching the episode "Body count" over and over again - and I just noticed something that I really liked and didn't notice before - have you noticed that at the end of the episode, which was the last episode of the season, there was a montage of all the characters and how they kind if unwind after the big case finally ended (Erik jogging, Calleigh shooting and so on...) - it was just like at the end of the first episode where they had a montage just like that (with Speed on the motorcycle, Erik washing the car and so on...).
So it was like closing a circle of some sorts...
I don't know! I just kind of liked it!
Part 4
Alexx placed the receiver down in it's cradle and covered her face with her hands. She was still finishing up examining the bodies left by Kerner all over town. In fact she just now finished going over Janet Maderno's body and preparing it to be released to her family.
FLASHBACK
"Hey Alexx?" It was late at night, they had just finished working a specially gruesome rape case and the two of them had snuck up to the roof of the building with two bottles of beer, needing some female company, and only female company.
"What is it Call'?" Alexx asked back lazily, tilting her head back to get a better look at the night sky.
"How come you always talk to the victims? The bodies I mean?"
The question threw Alexx a bit. She and Calleigh had been close from the second they laid eyes on each other. When the young blond arrived almost three month ago Alexx fell immediately in-love with her bright attitude and her cynical sense of humor, and Calleigh couldn't help by be touched with the older woman's tenderness and caring nature.
"I don't know" Alexx started slowly "I guess it makes me feel a little like I'm still dealing with live people. A lot of coroners start get worn out quickly - they start treating their victims like pieces of dead meat. I guess I just don't want to ever forget that they used to be people..."
After a moment of silence Alexx let out a question of her own "How come you like guns so much?"
"My dad." Calleigh smiled at her, even in the semi-darkness she could see those pearly white teeth shining when the blond smiled. "He loved guns, and he wasn't much of a conservationist, it gave me some connection to him, something that made him think I was special - it's kind of amazing if you think about it - such a small thing able to create so much devastation... when you're a young girl, hiding from her drunk father - that thought can somehow be comforting..."
They never talked about it again after that night, never even mentioned it.
PRESENT DAY
The sound of her beeper brought her back to reality, she checked the screen and saw John Hagen's number - good or bad he must have had some news
She couldn't help but play Calleigh's words over and over in her mind "Such a small thing able to create so much devastation..."
She left the room and headed for the telephone, something on the television caught her attention on the way there.
*
John Hagen waited outside while the doctor talked to Calleigh and ran a few testes. He paced in front of the window trying to not to be noticed as he peaked in the room repeatedly. His phone range and with one look over his shoulder to make sure the uniformed policeman was still there he went a little further down the hall to the nurses station to answer it.
"John Hagen here"
"Hagen, It's Alexx" He recognized the coroner's voice on the other end of the line
"Hey Alexx, did you get my message about Calleigh waking up?"
"I was just on my over" Alexx replied, her voice sounding a little more on edge then he expected "John, You better turn on a TV, channel three"
He looked around and saw a small television set on the shelf in the nurses station, covering the mouth piece he asked the young woman behind the counter to turn up the volume and put on the right channel.
"One of the escaped convicts from today's jail breaking is still on the loose here in downtown Miami. Police is not handing out much information at this point but unofficial sources tell us that the body count here in Miami is starting to rise - putting the number of fatalities at 4 right now, with another victim - a Miami Dade crime lab analyst - still in the hospital, her condition not released at this point..."
Hagen turned away from the television in disgust. "Damn it" he mumbled into the phone
"How did they get it? I thought there was a media blackout on this thing!?" Alexx said in frustration
"I don't know! Those vultures can get anything these days" Hagen mumbled
"John, he knows where she is!" Alexx's voice sounded more panicked
"Look I'm going to beef up security here in the hospital, don't worry, he won't come anywhere near her" Hagen assured her, already going over the steps needed to be taken in his mind "Tell the others that she's awake will you?"
"I will"
Hagen finished the conversation and headed back towards Calleigh's room, the doctor was already gone when he pushed the door open and entered, wondering how to break the news to Calleigh.
She lifted her eyes when she saw him come in, the small smile on her lips fading when she saw the grim look on his face.
"What happened?"
*
Horatio clicked the phone shut and sighed in relief "She's awake" he replied to Speed's unasked question and the young man let out a similar sigh of his own.
They followed Kerner's trail to another doctor, unfortunately, this doctor didn't have the sense to refuse the convict's request for treatment, and received an ironic reward for his efforts.
The doctor was lying face down in a pool of his own blood next to the bloody table where he must have been treating Kerner not long ago. The surgical equipment he used was still covered with blood and the bullet he pulled from Kerner's body was still in the small basin.
Speed was kneeling next to the body, examining the wound "Single gun shot to the head, close range, there's gun powder residue on the temple. This guy is consistent"
Speed looked up at Horatio to notice that his boss was not entirely paying attention to him. "H? you with me?"
Horatio looked around the room, knowing what he was looking for but not wanting to let the others know about it yet. At the far end of the room he noticed a TV set and he went over and pushed the button, waiting to see what channel it would be on when he turned it on.
"I'm Katy Parkinson and you're watching channel three news..."
Horatio clicked the TV shut again, looking back at Speed and Erik who were looking at him quizzically "They just reported Calleigh in the channel three news, he knows she's alive"
"He's not dumb enough to go after her again is he?" Speed asked, his tone sounding more hopeful then certain.
"I think he just might..." Erik said ominously, pulling up a piece of paper from the doctor's desk.
Horatio came over and read the note out load "I'm coming for you blondy!"
"H, I got some blood on the phone here" Erik continued, trying not to show how shaken he was with the death threat on his close friend.
Horatio nodded at him and he swabbed the phone with a q-tip, taking a sample for analysis. Then he picked up the phone and pushed the redial button
"Hospital information how can I help you?"
The cheerful voice on the other end of the line made Erik want to vomit.
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(footnote continued)
Well, I don't know if anyone else noticed it but writing this fiction I've been watching the episode "Body count" over and over again - and I just noticed something that I really liked and didn't notice before - have you noticed that at the end of the episode, which was the last episode of the season, there was a montage of all the characters and how they kind if unwind after the big case finally ended (Erik jogging, Calleigh shooting and so on...) - it was just like at the end of the first episode where they had a montage just like that (with Speed on the motorcycle, Erik washing the car and so on...).
So it was like closing a circle of some sorts...
I don't know! I just kind of liked it!
Part 4
Alexx placed the receiver down in it's cradle and covered her face with her hands. She was still finishing up examining the bodies left by Kerner all over town. In fact she just now finished going over Janet Maderno's body and preparing it to be released to her family.
FLASHBACK
"Hey Alexx?" It was late at night, they had just finished working a specially gruesome rape case and the two of them had snuck up to the roof of the building with two bottles of beer, needing some female company, and only female company.
"What is it Call'?" Alexx asked back lazily, tilting her head back to get a better look at the night sky.
"How come you always talk to the victims? The bodies I mean?"
The question threw Alexx a bit. She and Calleigh had been close from the second they laid eyes on each other. When the young blond arrived almost three month ago Alexx fell immediately in-love with her bright attitude and her cynical sense of humor, and Calleigh couldn't help by be touched with the older woman's tenderness and caring nature.
"I don't know" Alexx started slowly "I guess it makes me feel a little like I'm still dealing with live people. A lot of coroners start get worn out quickly - they start treating their victims like pieces of dead meat. I guess I just don't want to ever forget that they used to be people..."
After a moment of silence Alexx let out a question of her own "How come you like guns so much?"
"My dad." Calleigh smiled at her, even in the semi-darkness she could see those pearly white teeth shining when the blond smiled. "He loved guns, and he wasn't much of a conservationist, it gave me some connection to him, something that made him think I was special - it's kind of amazing if you think about it - such a small thing able to create so much devastation... when you're a young girl, hiding from her drunk father - that thought can somehow be comforting..."
They never talked about it again after that night, never even mentioned it.
PRESENT DAY
The sound of her beeper brought her back to reality, she checked the screen and saw John Hagen's number - good or bad he must have had some news
She couldn't help but play Calleigh's words over and over in her mind "Such a small thing able to create so much devastation..."
She left the room and headed for the telephone, something on the television caught her attention on the way there.
*
John Hagen waited outside while the doctor talked to Calleigh and ran a few testes. He paced in front of the window trying to not to be noticed as he peaked in the room repeatedly. His phone range and with one look over his shoulder to make sure the uniformed policeman was still there he went a little further down the hall to the nurses station to answer it.
"John Hagen here"
"Hagen, It's Alexx" He recognized the coroner's voice on the other end of the line
"Hey Alexx, did you get my message about Calleigh waking up?"
"I was just on my over" Alexx replied, her voice sounding a little more on edge then he expected "John, You better turn on a TV, channel three"
He looked around and saw a small television set on the shelf in the nurses station, covering the mouth piece he asked the young woman behind the counter to turn up the volume and put on the right channel.
"One of the escaped convicts from today's jail breaking is still on the loose here in downtown Miami. Police is not handing out much information at this point but unofficial sources tell us that the body count here in Miami is starting to rise - putting the number of fatalities at 4 right now, with another victim - a Miami Dade crime lab analyst - still in the hospital, her condition not released at this point..."
Hagen turned away from the television in disgust. "Damn it" he mumbled into the phone
"How did they get it? I thought there was a media blackout on this thing!?" Alexx said in frustration
"I don't know! Those vultures can get anything these days" Hagen mumbled
"John, he knows where she is!" Alexx's voice sounded more panicked
"Look I'm going to beef up security here in the hospital, don't worry, he won't come anywhere near her" Hagen assured her, already going over the steps needed to be taken in his mind "Tell the others that she's awake will you?"
"I will"
Hagen finished the conversation and headed back towards Calleigh's room, the doctor was already gone when he pushed the door open and entered, wondering how to break the news to Calleigh.
She lifted her eyes when she saw him come in, the small smile on her lips fading when she saw the grim look on his face.
"What happened?"
*
Horatio clicked the phone shut and sighed in relief "She's awake" he replied to Speed's unasked question and the young man let out a similar sigh of his own.
They followed Kerner's trail to another doctor, unfortunately, this doctor didn't have the sense to refuse the convict's request for treatment, and received an ironic reward for his efforts.
The doctor was lying face down in a pool of his own blood next to the bloody table where he must have been treating Kerner not long ago. The surgical equipment he used was still covered with blood and the bullet he pulled from Kerner's body was still in the small basin.
Speed was kneeling next to the body, examining the wound "Single gun shot to the head, close range, there's gun powder residue on the temple. This guy is consistent"
Speed looked up at Horatio to notice that his boss was not entirely paying attention to him. "H? you with me?"
Horatio looked around the room, knowing what he was looking for but not wanting to let the others know about it yet. At the far end of the room he noticed a TV set and he went over and pushed the button, waiting to see what channel it would be on when he turned it on.
"I'm Katy Parkinson and you're watching channel three news..."
Horatio clicked the TV shut again, looking back at Speed and Erik who were looking at him quizzically "They just reported Calleigh in the channel three news, he knows she's alive"
"He's not dumb enough to go after her again is he?" Speed asked, his tone sounding more hopeful then certain.
"I think he just might..." Erik said ominously, pulling up a piece of paper from the doctor's desk.
Horatio came over and read the note out load "I'm coming for you blondy!"
"H, I got some blood on the phone here" Erik continued, trying not to show how shaken he was with the death threat on his close friend.
Horatio nodded at him and he swabbed the phone with a q-tip, taking a sample for analysis. Then he picked up the phone and pushed the redial button
"Hospital information how can I help you?"
The cheerful voice on the other end of the line made Erik want to vomit.
??
(footnote continued)