A/N: Ok so this is a short chapter, as some of you may have guessed Calleigh was going to have bad things done to her and she does. I'm going to go for the "I don't want to write graphic depictions of rape" stance on this one leaving it up to your imagination plus it keeps the fic under the M rating. Oh and I know nothing about American trees so if any of you are tree experts I'm happy to change the species of the tree.Hope to have the next chapter up soon.
Disclaimer: As I believe I haven't done one for this story, I don't own anything apart from the nasty original characters and even I don't like them.
Alex arrived on the scene within 15 minutes of the call, Horatio was impressed by her punctuality considering she looked like she was just holding it together.
"Horatio, what are we looking at here" Alex asked, Horatio had not said much about the scene when he had called her in.
Looking through his sunglasses he glanced towards the body. "Male , 34 , lived alone, single gun shot wound to the head"
"Horatio, what is it sugar, what's bothering you apart from the obvious?" Alex asked as she studied Horatio more closely noticing the worry creases near his eyes which he was trying to hide with his sunglasses.
"He's toying with us Alex, we found this on the body" Horatio lifted up an evidence bag to Alex.
Alex brought a hand to her mouth as she studied Calleigh's appearance in the photo. There she sat with a busted lip and bruises forming on her face.
"She's alive Horatio hold onto that fact, now we can help her best by processing the scene" Alex motioned for them to walk towards the body
"You're right Alex" Horatio sighed "It's just that…" Horatio started
"I know honey, but you can tell her when you see her" Alex reassured as she realised how deep Horatio's feelings went for Calleigh way beyond boss or co-worker.
It had taken a couple of hours to process the scene as Horatio didn't want to miss anything. During his search he discovered that the car they had in the CSI garage in fact belonged to John Edwards, which would explain why no foreign vehicles were seen around CSI at the time of the abduction. Taking in a breath he studied the street in front of him, trying to think of his next step or even better Mark's next step.
The ringing of his phone brought him out of his somber mind frame.
"Eric, tell me you have something" Horatio answered without even a hello
"The seed it's from a northwestern redwood, not to common in Florida, stands about 18ft tall if a mature, it's easy to identify though it has…"
"A four pronged leaf that turns red in autumn and often has several birds nesting in it" Horatio finished
"How did you know?" Eric asked
"Because I'm staring it right now, damn" Horatio cursed into the phone "It's a dead end Eric the tree's at Mr Edwards house beside his driveway. It's likely we found the seeds because they'd parked the car outside at some point, look I'm heading back to the lab grab Ryan we'll meet in my office in a half hour."
"OK H see you soon" Eric signed off.
Calleigh had retreated into herself as soon as he touched her. She was aware of what he was doing but she didn't want to see it with her eyes. She'd tried to close them but that only resulted in getting hit in some form. So instead she just thought of good memories, the first time she learnt how to fire a gun, her first kiss, meeting Horatio for the first time, the Christmas party two years ago.
She suddenly felt the weight lift off her, curious she came back from her happy place to discover that Mark was talking to a man in the doorway. She could only catch parts of the conversation something about drop off and the Marina a boat called Fair Maria not much more was said as Mark said goodbye and came back towards the bed he approached her and straddled her once again, seeing that she was regressing back into wherever she'd been before he grabbed her hard.
"Oh no you don't I want you to enjoy this" he commented kissing her hard on the lips and he started again on his activities. Calleigh couldn't stand it anymore she tried to close her eyes, this time he was even more violent with her and he started to choke her just so she would open her eyes. The last thing she heard as she succumbed to blackness was Mark cursing after he realized he'd gone too far.