Chapter two
Thank you for all those reviews. I hope I'm not disappointing anyone with chapter two.
Calleigh slowly walked through the halls of the Miami dade police station/lab. She needed to get to Eric's lab but at the pace she was going it would take her probably an hour. The closer she got the more her body protested. 'Oh, what's wrong with me' she thought to herself. What? she knew perfectly well what was wrong with her. She was in love with him and ever since she knew why his badge was missing, she felt like she had let him down by not being there for him when his best friend died and he clearly needed her. She was so focused on her own grief and her loss that she missed Eric's grief.
Eric's stomach turned as he thought of the way he left things with Calleigh earlier. He just wasn't able to figure out what he could do to make things right. He had tried to talk to her about it on several occasions but she wasn't interested, at least she made it look that way. Now his mind was really far from his work. He yawned while stretching his arms, god he felt so tired. This whole thing was wearing him out but he was determined to fix it. Right now he said to himself but just as he wanted to leave he saw Calleigh staring at him. They looked at each other real intense before Calleigh broke the eye contact and walked away, something which made Eric consider twice about fixing things right this minute.
Alex just finished processing the body when Horatio joined her for information that would back up his theory of a serial killer. "You were right. Many of the injuries are in fact similar to the other victim but Horatio I found some male DNA."
Horatio looked very surprised "DNA?" Alex nodded. "That's not what you expected to find isn't it." "No not really." He picked up the evidence bag with the DNA. "Thank you Alex" And left.
"Hey I heard you have DNA?" Yelina asked him spontaneously but Horatio didn't answer her. Only when she called his name for the second time did he seemed to be back on this planet with his mind. "hmm"
"I said: I heard you had some DNA. So do you have a match yet?"
"Hmm Yes, but something doesn't add up. You see, the DNA matches a certain Ramirez, Diego Ramirez" Horatio carefully studied the expression on Yelina's face. He spotted the terror in Yelina's eyes what confirmed that she knew about it.
She tried to avoid his intense look by looking at his desk while putting a stress of curly hair behind her ear and letting out a small smile. Just before she stared speaking she swallowed hard and cleared her throat. "The man you saw me with this morning. The DA, he came to tell me that they had to let Ramirez go a week ago."
"A week ago? When the first body was found. Yelina, he was sentenced life in prison without the possibility of parole, what is he doing on the streets then?"
"It seems that someone else confessed the murders he was sentenced for. They euhm.."
"They shouldn't have let him go free. Tell me, are you okay with this."
FLASHBACK
" I'll get you for this Puta! I swear." Ramirez yelled to Yelina, who was watching him being
taken to prison.
Present
"I'm fine, it was a long time ago. I'm sure he's forgotten all about it." She smiled nervously. Of course he wasn't but the last thing she wanted was Horatio worrying for her, coming by every chance he got. Not that she didn't appreciate it but it would only strengthen her feelings for him, and she knew it could never be…ring ring Both Yelina's and Horatio's cell phone went off. After spending two minutes on the telephone they both left for the crime scene.
They looked at each other, nodded and left together to another crime scene.
Thank god for Eric & Calleigh's case the murder weapon was recovered by Ryan, who later joined Alex at the scene. It was Calleigh's job now to try to match the bullet found in the victim, with a bullet from the recovered weapon. She fired a whole round, just to be on the safe side. Just as she wanted to compare the results someone said "What were you running away from earlier?" Her body shivered as Eric said those words. He knew… What was she going the say. She knew it was time to tell him the truth and finally talked about their relationship but she wasn't ready yet. "I don't know what you're talking about."
"Right, so I didn't see you at the lab this morning. It was all in my imagionation" He decided to play along.
"That's not what I said. I said I didn't know what you were talking about, meaning I wasn't running from anyone." His eyes widened. Calleigh realized her slip and quickly said "Anything"
Eric nodded, shook his head. "You know, we're gonna need to talk about this." Calleigh looked confused "Talk about what's going on with us, why we're acting the way we do."
" Nothing's going on with us Eric." She had a real hard time not to cry. Cause that's what she wanted to do, burst out in tears and letting him hold her and telling her that everything would be okay, like he did at Tim's funeral. So she could relay on him and believe every word he said.
"I have to go." She quickly said and ran out of the room looking for Alex, leaving Eric alone with her results.
"Hey hey, are you okay" Alex asked concerned. "What's going on with you Honey." She held Calleigh real close and tried to comfort her. "It's going to be alright." Calleigh tried to respond but her tears forced her to keep quite a little longer. Only after she was provided with several tissues she spoke. "I just don't know what to do anymore, Alex, I just don't know…" Alex nodded and rubbed her back with her one hand while handing her another tissue with the other. "Maybe you should talk to him." Alex softly suggested. "I know… It's just whenever I want to, I just close up. I can't say a word."
"It's okay honey, I'm sure you'll do it when you're ready for it." "Thank you." They smiled at Calleigh received another big hug before Horatio called to report a new body…
