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Author Note: Once again beta'd by the love of my life – John

Sorry for the delay – there were technical difficulties! O-o

So as hypocritical as it is I hate authors that beg for reviews and threaten readers if they don't produce. I only did it for chapter 1 to see if the story was worth anything. So thanks to those of you who did review & those who favourite it, or followed it or alerted it or whatever. I should be updating every week or so.

Thanks

BJ

Now for chapter 2

Chapter 2 – Scarlet fatal

Julia Winston smiled as she paged through a photo album in the living room of her house. The book was filled with photos of her son Kyle and her granddaughter Abigail. Not that she was really old enough to be a grandmother. Julia thought to herself as she sipped her herbal tea. She wasn't even forty yet. Julia's smile grew as she turned the page, Abbey was twenty two months old now and had strawberry blond hair and large, expressive pale blue eyes. Abbey was the most beautiful toddler in the world. Well at least in Julia's opinion. It was true that she had not been overjoyed the day she learnt that Kyle had gotten a woman pregnant. Her son had only been sixteen when fatherhood was thrust upon him and then the woman had gotten herself incarcerated and had no living relatives. When Kyle found out that Penny McKenzie was pregnant and that she had to give his daughter away, Kyle had begun fighting tooth and nail for custody of his daughter. He won, mostly due to the fact that his father was THE Lieutenant Horatio Caine.

Julia closed the album and finished her tea just as she heard a car pull up across the street. Kyle and his best-friend, Trent were home from school. Julia took her cup to the kitchen then went outside to greet her son. Trent and Kyle were talking around Trent's car. "Hey Julia!" A cheery voice called. Trent's mother Katie stepped out of the Walkers house. "Katie!" Julia gushed. "Ill see you tomorrow Kyle." Trent told Kyle as he picked up his backpack. "Later man!" Kyle called back as he headed toward home. Kyle stopped at the edge of the street and looked both ways before stepping onto the street.

It seemed to happen in the blink of an eye. Julia spotted the silver car racing down the street out of the corner of her eye. "Kyle!" She screamed in warning but it was too late. The silver car slammed into Kyle at full speed before breaking hard. Julia froze in shock. Why would the car hit kyle first and then break? Why didn't the car swerve to avoid Kyle? He was barely off the pavement and there was plenty of space for the car to go around. Julia stared at the car as It changed gears and raced away. It was a silver Porsche and she just barely caught a glimpse of the driver. It was a woman around her age with long dark red hair. "Trent go call an ambulance!" Julia snapped out of her trance to see Katie drop to her knees next to him. "Kyle!" Julia screamed as she ran across the road to her side. Her baby boy lay unconscious on the street, his blond hair streaked with blood. Wait her baby was bleeding! "He's bleeding!" She shouted. "Julia calm down, Kyle will be okay. Trent went to get the paramedics." Katie said trying to calm her best-friend, as she heard the sound of approaching sirens. Julia blanked out again. The ambulance came from around the corner and stopped next to them.

"He's not responsive. You said he was hit by a car? Bring the spine board. What did you say his name was?" The lead paramedic snapped at the other two." Julia snapped out of it again. "Penicillin! He's allergic to penicillin!" Julia shouted, "His name is Kyle Harmon, he's eighteen years old and he's allergic to penicillin!" The medic smiled at Julia, "Thanks, your his mother." Julia nodded. The medics strapped Kyle to the board and loaded him into the van. The medic helped Julia inside. "Ill let Horatio know!" Katie called out as they closed the door and they drove off.

They reached the hospital fast. The medics quickly pulled Kyle out of the van and raced inside. A large black nurse in a tight white uniform grabbed hold of Julia's arm. "You cant go in there honey! Don't worry they will look after your boy. Now why don't you just take a seat right here and fill out this form." She pushed Julia into a chair in the waiting-room and pressed a clipboard into her hands. A pen attached to a string dangled from it. Julia stared at the words on the page that seemed to swirl in a mix of black and white. Who cared about papers when her Kyle was hurt. Oh God her baby was hurt! Her little boy was hurt! She had only had him for two years! She couldn't loose him now and he..He was bleeding when they got here. What if they couldn't make it stop? What if he didn't wake up? What if he was permanently injured? What if her Kyle DIED?! Oh God what if Kyle was dying right now! Julia threw the clipboard onto the chair next to her and leapt to her feet. She had to find him and make sure he was okay. She had to find her Kyle, her son.

Julia raced toward the emergency room to find her son. "Oh no Honey! You can't go in there!" she said grabbing Julia around the waist. "Let me GO!" Julia screamed, "My SON is in there! I need to be with him! Let me go!" The nurse just shook her head. "I got a crazy one here! Get me a tranquillizer now!" Julia flinched. She hated needles and now this crazy nurse wanted to stab her with one instead of letting her see her baby boy. "LET ME GO!" She screamed, thrashing wildly as a man with a hypodermic needle and syringe of clear liquid approached her. "No!" Julia shouted again. The man jabbed the needle in her arm and the world started going black

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When Julia woke up it was dark. She appeared to be in a hospital bed with the curtains closed around her bed. She was about to get up when she heard a female voice talking. "... and you Kyle Harmon will die and then I will have my Haley back! You hear me Harmon! She is my daughter. I cant believe those idiots gave her to a stupid kid like you. What kind of a stupid name is Abigail any way? My daughters name is Haley! Haley! You and that bitch of a mother and your evil father that had me locked in jail! I will get her back. You see this? This is a syringe full of penicillin. I haven't forgotten that you're allergic to it. Its the middle of the night. No-one will even hear you scream as you die because dying is exactly what you deserve! All I have to do is stick this little needle in your drip here and poof you'll be gone forever!" Julia shook her head, sure she was hearing incorrectly. "Hello?" She said softly. There was a soft gasp and something dropped to the floor. "Shit! I thought the room was empty!" Julia dived from the bed and ripped open the curtains just in time to see a sheet of dark red hair racing from the room. That hair! It was the car driver! The bitch who had run over her son!. Julia turned back to Kyle to see his face turn red and start to swell. She picked up the syringe from the floor, it was empty. "NO!" She screamed, she was not going to loose her son to some insane witch! "SOMEONE HELP ME! HELP ME!"

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Julia sighed as she gently held Kyle's cold hand in hers. Half a dozen machines were connected to him, with pipes and needles and sticky pads. She had only just gotten her baby back and then there was all the trouble with the law and she just didn't want to loose him, not now. Kyle was almost eighteen but he looked so young and small in the hospital bed with all the machines attached to him.

"Kyle Harmon's room?" She heard a voice say from in the passageway. That was Horatio's voice. "Room 204 Lieutenant!" came the shouted answer. Horatio raced into the room with one of his CSI's Eric Delko on his heels. "Julia." he said as he stepped inside. He moved to the window and looked back at his son. "How is he?" He asked softly. Julia closed her eyes. "He's stable and is better than he had been the last two days. Where have you been exactly? You know this is why I didn't tell you about him. Your job is always more important than family. You need to get the bitch that did this. I gave the description MDPD. Why haven't you found her yet? She hurt our Kyle!" "There was a serial killer Julia. "Eric and I have been in Las Vegas for the last three days. I only found out about Kyle this morning and came straight here." Horatio removed his glasses and looked at Julia. "We will find her." He vowed.

A rock song started playing from the doorway. Eric blushed red before ducking away to answer his cellphone. Horatio replaced his glasses and sat down opposite Julia taking Kyle's other hand in his own. Eric stuck his head in the door a few minutes later. "H, we gotta go, the body of a kid was found in the glades. " Horatio nodded and Eric left. "Ill be back later." Horatio told Julia as he tucked Kyle's hand under the covers of his bed. Horatio slipped from the room and took a deep breath. He released it slowly before walking up to Eric who stood further along the corridor. He would never admit it but seeing Kyle like that had hit him hard. The son that he had only had for two years and then almost lost again at least half a dozen times was unconscious in a hospital bed.

"Two hikers found the remains of a child in a trunk." Eric told him as they walked out of the hospital and got into the hummer. Eric drove leaving Horatio to his thoughts. His poor son. He had lost so much of Kyle's life and now there was a chance for him to loose his son again. Well he simply refused. He would make sure that Kyle had the best doctors and treatment that he could get him.

Horatio startled as Eric touched his arm but didn't have a physical reaction. "We're here H." Calleigh and Natalie are already at the meadow. "The location?" Horatio asked. Eric pointed at a tree that was tagged with police tape. "The meadow is off the trail. Calliegh said to just flow the police tape." Horatio nodded and Eric got out and took his case out from the back of the hummer before leading the way down the hidden path.

"It should be just through these bushes." Eric said as they reached the end of the trail. He pushed his way between two bushes that were taller than he was. They gave way easily and Eric disappear between them. Horatio was about to follow him when he saw something. Dozens of police that had been walking this path since the gruesome discovery had disturbed the paths sand. A small flat item was half covered by dirt. It looked like a piece of a thin metallic disk. Horatio pulled his pen from his pocket and used the end to dig it out. It was an old rusted medical alert bracelet. It was extremely rusted. Horatio lifted it up gently with his pen. As it was only a piece of it, he only had part of the serial number but it was the first five numbers which if he remembered correctly was the serial number of the place where it was issued and if he remembered correctly the number was for New York city, but he would have to check it at the lab to make sure. "H?" Eric said stepping out through the bushes. Horatio lifted the bracelet by its chain and held it up. "It looks like we have found our first piece of evidence Eric." he said as the bracelet glistened in the greenish sunlight that filtered between the trees.

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