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ALEXX

She knew Death. Death knew her. This was truth, and truth was hated.

Everyday Death walked into her life, in the form of a rich actress that was shot, a four year old boy that accidently drowned, a father who died saving his children from burning to Death.

The truth was hated, and this was the truth: Death knew her and she knew Death.

CALLEIGH

Did anyone care? The murders and rapes going on, the victims left to suffer. The horror of what is Miami.

Like that poor girl that was found in a hot tub, her throat slashed and yet...she was alive. Barely. Rushed to the emergency room, and there she stayed. Critical.

Calleigh looked out to the waiting room, saw a couple talking with Horatio. The woman looked like maybe she was the girl's mother.

Yes, someone cared. CSI cared - and she cared.

She was going to get the bastard that did it to that fourteen year old.

CALLEIGH

The world was cruel. She knew this, but still she kept the happy face, and the light jokes, and the bright-side-of-everything.

People hated her for that. People loved her for it, as well.

She just thought it was survival.