A/N: OK so here we go next chapter, should be able to get some more up over the next few days as long as the characters behave themselves, they have a tendency to go in a different direction to what I'm writing. Thank you for all your reviews it makes a humble girl like me smile.
The van came to an abrupt stop slamming Calleigh against the front divider. Despite all her efforts to brace herself while the van was moving she was sure she was going to have bruises for weeks to come from the bumpy van ride she'd been subjected too. Her thoughts were broken as the side door slid open. Squinting from the sudden sunlight she saw Mark reach in to grab her. She tried to kick his hand as his he touched her leg, she managed to connect with it unfortunately he used his other hand to grab her other leg and still managed to pull her out of the van.
"What did you do that for?" Mark asked voice raised as he shook his hand to ease the pain "There's no where to run Calleigh, so no point in struggling just give in to it and it will be so much easier" he suggested as he leaned in close to her face. He pushed her forward towards the run down farm house. Once inside he removed the handcuffs and replaced them with chained shackles to her wrists which were in turn attached to a small metal table that was welded to the floor in the cold debilitated kitchen.
"You're going to help me and we don't have much time" Mark commented as his buddies placed the two bags of guns on the table.
"Clean these, then you and I can get our rewards" Mark reached down and kissed Calleigh. Repulsed by this action she moved her head to the side. This only helped to anger Mark, he yanked on her hair again so that she looked straight into his eyes.
"You will learn to obey me" he spat out "Now get to work" he let go of her.
"If she gives you any trouble you know what to do, I've got to make a phone call I'll be back soon" with that he left, leaving Calleigh alone with two bags of guns and an angry looking man.
Horatio was getting frustrated, so frustrated in fact that it was starting to show. He was doing his fifth sweep of the scene nothing was standing out, the car had long been towed and Eric had caught a ride back to start getting it processed. As the last patrol car left, he looked down at his watch, which made him curse under his breath three hours had passed and he had nothing to show for it except the start of a headache. Climbing into the hummer he turned on the air conditioning and leaned his head back onto the head rest. He prayed that Eric had found something and was just too busy to let him know, unfortunately in the back of his mind he doubted whether or not they'd find anything useful in the car and so he started back to CSI with a heavy burden on his shoulders and no way to lift it.
He heard a sigh as he entered the garage, as he approached the vehicle he found Eric rummaging in the back seat on his hands and knees.
"Found anything?" Horatio enquired as he came up behind Eric giving the CSI some room as he climbed out of the vehicle.
"I've been processing since I got back, the blood is human sent it off to DNA doesn't seem to be Calleigh's, there's so many fibres and hairs I've been cataloging for 3 hours straight and I still haven't got all of them, it's going to take at least another 2 to get them all and that's just the back seat, I haven't even started on the front two seats" Eric looked at his boss with despair
"It's ok Eric keep up the good work, I'll get someone on nights to help you process the rest of the vehicle, page me if you find anything and make sure you take a break after you've finished I don't want us running on empty on this case" Horatio commented as he left Eric to continue with processing.
Calleigh's head was swimming she looked up at her attacker from the position of the floor. Wincing as he gruffly picked her up and placed her back on the chair that had toppled when he had hit her. She rubbed her wrists as she settled on the chair as the cuffs had almost snapped them with the force she fell off the chair with.
"Now get back to work" the captor demanded "Don't make me remind you again"
She had started to fall asleep as finished the first bag of guns it had been 6 hours of cleaning, she was absolutely exhausted as she had worked a double before getting put into this situation, she'd also skipped dinner as she had been too engrossed in the case to stop. She had been abruptly reminded where she was when she ended up on the floor. She picked up the next gun and started to clean praying that Horatio would find her soon.
Horatio was off to find Ryan he hadn't heard anything from the young CSI since leaving the station. He found him in the AV lab winding and rewinding CCTV footage.
"Ryan" Horatio greeted as he stepped up beside his chair.
"Sorry I haven't contacted you yet but I wanted to be sure in what I had before I filled you in." Ryan apologized as he rewound the tap and faced his Boss.
" I started off with tonight's footage and worked back. You can't see much from the corridors or the back entrance which is where they came in I might add. Looks like they knew where all the positioning of the cameras where which made me think. Someone must of known where they were placed and what they picked up, now at first I thought maybe it was this Mark Allan guy knew from when he was a CSI but the camera's have changed and been cleaned e.t.c since he left so that was a dead end. Then I got thinking how did they know that Calleigh was in the gun cage at the time the came in" Ryan questioned
"They were monitoring the camera's" Horatio commented as it dawned on him what was going on.
"Exactly, I was trying to find a situation where someone had maybe cleaned or moved the camera's last so I started looking over the last couple of weeks of tape. Seems one of them was faulty two weeks ago I was just about to look at the other tapes around that time to see if we can get a shot of who fixed it." Ryan answered
"Keep up with the good work" Horatio placed his hand on the younger mans shoulder "Let me know if you get an image" Horatio requested as he headed out the door.
"Why where are you going?" Ryan asked to the now empty room
"Damn I hate it when he does that" he cursed under his breath.
