Emily was on her way to her locker later that day, looking for something to do. There was a lull in the case for now. She had already finished everything Horatio had told her to do, and had spoken to him about the death threats found on Philip Gordon's computer. Now everyone else was busy and she was bored.
She sighed as she reached her locker and pulled out her sketchbook and some pencils. She walked back to the break room and sat at the table. She rifled through the sketchbook until she found an empty page.
She picked up a pencil and began to draw an outline. The outline quickly shaped itself into two people, talking and laughing. She smiled as she bent lower over the sketch and began to fill in and shade it eagerly. She smiled as she leaned back to examine her work.
It was a sketch of Eric and Ryan the day Ryan had played a prank on the entire lab with exploding pens. Eric had Ryan in a chokehold and they were both laughing.
Ryan walked in. "What're you working on?" He asked, leaning over her shoulder to examine her work.
He stepped back after a minute. "That's good."
Emily blushed. "Thanks. Did you get anything out of the delivery notice at the Gordon's house?"
Ryan sighed. "No. Mrs. Gordon said she walked through the park on her way to see the doctor. The alibi checks out."
"Where do we go from here?" Emily said with a frown.
Ryan only shrugged. Emily sighed and walked into the hall, meaning to find Horatio to see if there was anything she could work on.
Emily looked up. There was some commotion at the front desk.
"I need to see Lieutenant Caine!" A rather large man in a blue shirt was yelling at a secretary.
Emily ran up, recognizing the man as Ned Ostroff, the suspect they had brought in earlier.
"Sir!" She yelled running up. "Sir!"
Ned looked up. "Finally!" He shouted as he grabbed her shoulders.
"Where is Lieutenant Caine?" He asked, shaking her roughly.
"I'm right here, Ned, and I suggest you get your hands off my CSI, right now," Horatio said as he stood calmly behind Ned.
Emily stumbled back, landing on her butt, as Ned released her suddenly. Horatio gave Ned a look and helped Emily up.
"Are you okay?" He asked.
Emily nodded and swallowed, looking at Mr. Ostroff with trepidation. "I'm good."
Horatio smiled. "Go back to the break room. I'll be there in a minute."
Emily nodded and obeyed walking off.
Horatio turned back to Ned.
"Ned, what's wrong?"
"Someone tried to kill me!" Ned shouted.
"Ned," Horatio said calmly. "I need you to calm down and go into that interview room right now, so we can talk about this."
Emily walked back to the break room and plopped down on a chair, closing her eyes and waiting for Horatio to finish talking to Ned. Hopefully when he finished they would have something to go on.
Horatio stepped into the break room 15 minutes later hoping to find Ryan. He instead found Emily fast asleep on the couch. She was curled up in a tight ball and shivering slightly.
He walked over to the couch and pulled a blanket out of a basket on the side. He carefully covered Emily with it and left, intent on finding Ryan.
