Part 9
It seemed like time was going in slow motion. This surreal feeling like nothing was moving and everything was moving at once. Hagen stood aside while Erik and Horatio were doing CPR
1..2..3..4..5 Breath
1..2..3.4.5 Breath
"Someone call the paramedics!!!"
"We have an officer down, I repeat - Officer down!!!"
After what seemed like forever the paramedics rushed in with Speed right behind them. The four men stood helplessly while the medics worked on Calleigh. Checking for signs of life. doing CPR. and giving her electric shocks
1.2.3.4.5. Breath charging to 200.. CLEAR!
1.2.3.4.5. Breath charging to 300.. CLEAR!
The chief paramedic stopped CPR to check Calleigh's vitals. A Hush fell on the room, it seemed like everyone were holding their breath, the silence was more deafening then any noise Hagen has ever heard in his life.
Finally they all heard it.
"WE HAVE A PULSE"
*
Alexx signed the last piece of paper on her desk and placed the last report at the top of the pile on her desk. She sighed again and stretched. It was so hard coming to work and pretending nothing was wrong. when in truth - nothing seemed right anymore.
Calleigh was shot, then Calleigh was kidnapped, they had no idea where she was and what they did know was that she was with Kerner who was a total psycho, and they were all falling apart slowly from the tension.
And the office was the worst.
They were a close knit group and everyone knew it. And now with everything that was going on with Calleigh - everyone was looking at her differently. There was this look of pity in their eyes and they seemed to be walking on eggshells around her. Like they were all, her Erik Speed and Horatio, made of some kind of fragile glass.
She has been locking herself in her lab and immersing heself in her work just so she wouldn't have to face anyone.
two young lab techs whose names Alexx couldn't remember right now came in for a report, they were laughing before they walked in but as soon as they saw her their laughter died down and their face adopted that same pathetic sad look that she was dreading - she felt like screaming!!!
The phone rang and Alexx picked it up instantly, before it could even complete the first ring.
She listened for a minute and became as pale as the wall behind her. Without a word she grabbed her bag and left the lab.
The phone was left dangling from the table.
*
Horatio looked over at his team.
This was starting to get annoyingly familiar. The waiting, the hospital, the doctors rushing around them.
Erik was pacing - actually creating a dent in the floor. Speed was eerily quiet. Alexx was crying - her head on Speed's shoulder. Hagen was crouched on the floor, his head buried in his hands.
He wanted to say something to him, because he knew what he was going through - how he was blaming himself for what happened to Calleigh just like he was still blaming himself for what happened to Horatio's own brother Ray - but he knew it wouldn't do any good. It didn't do any good when he kept saying it to himself.
A tiered looking doctor came out to meet them.
"It was a close call" he told them "But she's going to be alright. When she was moved it tore some blood vessels, it caused major bleeding and eventually her heart stopped."
"but she's going to be ok right?" Erik insisted
"She'll be fine.eventually" the doctor hesitated "but the healing process is going to be long and unfortunately very painful"
Alexx took the doctor aside and the too of them exchanged some of the more elaborated medical information. Horatio was about to say something when two men in suits along with the police commander - George Harkin - approached them.
"Detective Hagen?"
"Yeah, that's me" Hagen pushed himself off the wall and came forward
"We're from internal affairs - is there somewhere we could talk?"
*
"What is this about?" Hagen asked impatiently as soon as they were out of earshot. He didn't miss the look of concern Horatio threw his way before they walked off.
"We're here to get your account of today's shooting" The younger of the two men said
"He kidnapped a Miami Dade county officer, he was holding her hostage at gun point, I shot him. What more do you want?"
"Well, there is some concern."
"Just spit it out already will you?" Hagen was getting real mad, real fast "What is it?"
Speed came round the corner and lingered by, eavesdropping, unnoticed.
"There is some concern that you might have been a little too easy on the trigger due to your personal involvement with certain members of the CSI team"
"Are you accusing me of anything?" Hagen just couldn't believe his ears
"There's going to be a full investigation." The younger man spoke again but Harkin, Hagen's boss cut him off, finally joining the conversation.
"Look John, the press is all over this, they're saying that police officers are going on vendetta's against criminal's who go after their own. They're coming down hard on us, we need to conduct everything by the book"
"So IA is going to do an investigation.." Hagen's mind was still trying to catch up
"I'm going to have to put you on suspension John, I need you to turn in your gun and badge" Harkin looked a little uncomfortable but it only made Hagen even angrier.
With a look of utter disgust he unhooked his gun and badge from his belt and threw them at his boss, walking away he went through the double doors and let them slam behind him.
It seemed like time was going in slow motion. This surreal feeling like nothing was moving and everything was moving at once. Hagen stood aside while Erik and Horatio were doing CPR
1..2..3..4..5 Breath
1..2..3.4.5 Breath
"Someone call the paramedics!!!"
"We have an officer down, I repeat - Officer down!!!"
After what seemed like forever the paramedics rushed in with Speed right behind them. The four men stood helplessly while the medics worked on Calleigh. Checking for signs of life. doing CPR. and giving her electric shocks
1.2.3.4.5. Breath charging to 200.. CLEAR!
1.2.3.4.5. Breath charging to 300.. CLEAR!
The chief paramedic stopped CPR to check Calleigh's vitals. A Hush fell on the room, it seemed like everyone were holding their breath, the silence was more deafening then any noise Hagen has ever heard in his life.
Finally they all heard it.
"WE HAVE A PULSE"
*
Alexx signed the last piece of paper on her desk and placed the last report at the top of the pile on her desk. She sighed again and stretched. It was so hard coming to work and pretending nothing was wrong. when in truth - nothing seemed right anymore.
Calleigh was shot, then Calleigh was kidnapped, they had no idea where she was and what they did know was that she was with Kerner who was a total psycho, and they were all falling apart slowly from the tension.
And the office was the worst.
They were a close knit group and everyone knew it. And now with everything that was going on with Calleigh - everyone was looking at her differently. There was this look of pity in their eyes and they seemed to be walking on eggshells around her. Like they were all, her Erik Speed and Horatio, made of some kind of fragile glass.
She has been locking herself in her lab and immersing heself in her work just so she wouldn't have to face anyone.
two young lab techs whose names Alexx couldn't remember right now came in for a report, they were laughing before they walked in but as soon as they saw her their laughter died down and their face adopted that same pathetic sad look that she was dreading - she felt like screaming!!!
The phone rang and Alexx picked it up instantly, before it could even complete the first ring.
She listened for a minute and became as pale as the wall behind her. Without a word she grabbed her bag and left the lab.
The phone was left dangling from the table.
*
Horatio looked over at his team.
This was starting to get annoyingly familiar. The waiting, the hospital, the doctors rushing around them.
Erik was pacing - actually creating a dent in the floor. Speed was eerily quiet. Alexx was crying - her head on Speed's shoulder. Hagen was crouched on the floor, his head buried in his hands.
He wanted to say something to him, because he knew what he was going through - how he was blaming himself for what happened to Calleigh just like he was still blaming himself for what happened to Horatio's own brother Ray - but he knew it wouldn't do any good. It didn't do any good when he kept saying it to himself.
A tiered looking doctor came out to meet them.
"It was a close call" he told them "But she's going to be alright. When she was moved it tore some blood vessels, it caused major bleeding and eventually her heart stopped."
"but she's going to be ok right?" Erik insisted
"She'll be fine.eventually" the doctor hesitated "but the healing process is going to be long and unfortunately very painful"
Alexx took the doctor aside and the too of them exchanged some of the more elaborated medical information. Horatio was about to say something when two men in suits along with the police commander - George Harkin - approached them.
"Detective Hagen?"
"Yeah, that's me" Hagen pushed himself off the wall and came forward
"We're from internal affairs - is there somewhere we could talk?"
*
"What is this about?" Hagen asked impatiently as soon as they were out of earshot. He didn't miss the look of concern Horatio threw his way before they walked off.
"We're here to get your account of today's shooting" The younger of the two men said
"He kidnapped a Miami Dade county officer, he was holding her hostage at gun point, I shot him. What more do you want?"
"Well, there is some concern."
"Just spit it out already will you?" Hagen was getting real mad, real fast "What is it?"
Speed came round the corner and lingered by, eavesdropping, unnoticed.
"There is some concern that you might have been a little too easy on the trigger due to your personal involvement with certain members of the CSI team"
"Are you accusing me of anything?" Hagen just couldn't believe his ears
"There's going to be a full investigation." The younger man spoke again but Harkin, Hagen's boss cut him off, finally joining the conversation.
"Look John, the press is all over this, they're saying that police officers are going on vendetta's against criminal's who go after their own. They're coming down hard on us, we need to conduct everything by the book"
"So IA is going to do an investigation.." Hagen's mind was still trying to catch up
"I'm going to have to put you on suspension John, I need you to turn in your gun and badge" Harkin looked a little uncomfortable but it only made Hagen even angrier.
With a look of utter disgust he unhooked his gun and badge from his belt and threw them at his boss, walking away he went through the double doors and let them slam behind him.