A/N: Ok sorry it took a couple of weeks, I got to the point where I'd write something then not like it then change it, then change it back to the original arrrggggg. Was driving me nuts but here it is sorry it's not as long as what it could be but hopefully the next few chapters will be crackers. Cheers
Calleigh listened into the conversation between Mark and Horatio, it had struck her like a ton of bricks discovering one of the men behind the masks was none other than Mark Allan. She had met him only twice but when she had she had decided to stay away from him as much as possible. He left the lab pretty soon after she got there, she never really found out why but there were rumors bad ones, everybody had turned their back on him for what he had done and nobody wanted to talk about it.
Mark turned back around towards Calleigh,
"Well I guess I don't need this anymore," He slowly removed his mask "I think Horatio was slightly pissed, not surprising considering you're here with me beautiful" Mark reached out his hand to put a strand of loose hair behind her ear. Calleigh was purely repulsed by this and shied away from his hand.
"Hey, look at me when I talk to you" he demanded as he yanked her hair back with force causing her face back towards him. She glared at him with as much defiance as she could muster.
"You and I are going to have some fun, we weren't able to get to know each other when I was at CSI so now's a perfect time to get acquainted, but first we need to change vehicles, Rob pull over by that rest stop up there, by the red van"
Mark handcuffed Calleigh's hands behind her back and subsequently shoved her into the back of the van onto the cold steel floor resulting in her smacking her shins against the side and sending shooting pains up her legs. If that wasn't enough she was soon plunged into darkness as they shut the sliding door and jumped into the front of the van. She could do nothing except hope that what ever was in store that Horatio would save her from it before she ever had to find out.
"I have a location" Eric jumped up from the desk "It's out in the glades about an hours drive from here"
"OK, Eric you're with me, Ryan stay here and process the scene and see if you can find out how they got in and out and who the other men are" Horatio requested as he hurried Eric out the door.
Horatio was driving like a mad man. Eric was starting to get worried that if something bad has happened to Calleigh that Horatio would never be able to pick himself up from it, thinking of ways to calm him down and to stop them being killed before they reached the scene Eric asked him about the case.
"So who is this Mark Allan anyway?" Eric asked
They sat in silence for a couple of minutes before Horatio decided to answer.
"He was one of the best CSI's I've ever worked with, we started around the same time became good friends, he was actually a specialist in ballistics. Then he mislaid some important evidence, at the time IA thought it was on purpose, he had started drinking and gambling in his off time word was that he owed somebody a lot of money and that by losing the evidence he could pay off part of his debt. They didn't have enough evidence for it to stick so they transferred him to nights. Everything got worse from there he started drinking more, he became angry, my career was going forward and he had been transferred and demoted, when he found out I had hired Calleigh he became obsessed with her, always competing against her and me, of course Calleigh didn't know it, I made sure that she was safe from him. I guess it all got too much from him" Horatio sighed as he recalled the scene
"About a month after Calleigh started working I got a call out to a motel not far from CSI there I found a girl same size, blond hair and green eyes like Calleigh, I hadn't known Calleigh for long but it disturbed me, that and the absence of any evidence, she was killed by a single gun shot wound to the head. The only thing that indicated the killer was the bullet it was from a rare gun from the late 40's Calleigh was able to identify it, unfortunately I knew of someone who had one, Mark Allan had left town before I could ever confront him." Horatio took a deep breath at this last comment. "I should have known it wasn't over, I thought I knew him, I thought that he had gotten out of town to save himself, I never thought he'd come back."
Eric was surprised at how open Horatio was being with his feelings Calleigh's disappearance had hit him hard. Eric opened his mouth to say something when he saw a parked vehicle ahead.
"Pull over Horatio, I think we may have found our vehicle" Eric said as he looked down at the GPS device.
As soon as the hummer stopped they jumped out and approached the vehicle guns at the ready. With no sign of activity Horatio reached into his pocket for a glove, he cautiously tried the back door. What was on the other side of it shocked both him and Eric.
The whole seat was covered in blood virtually dripping. Eric took a step back away from the vehicle. Horatio tilted his head as he watched Eric slowly retreat away.
"Eric" Horatio called to the departing CSI "Eric, it's not hers, he wouldn't kill her so soon, he's planted evidence" Horatio dropped his head as he approached Eric's panicked face. Eric snapped out of it.
"What?" Eric asked surprised "This is going to take forever to process, H"
"I know that's exactly what he was counting on, lets get started, can you ring for a tow truck, I'm going to take a look around" with that Horatio looked down at his watch they only had 46 hours to find her and counting.