A few weeks had passed, and Horatio had assigned her many tedious tasks, such as unsolved cases, and many dirty tasks, like digging through dumpsters and sifting through stomach contents.

She was teased a lot for completing those tasks. Even the new guy working in the AV lab teased her for being the 'new girl'.

Even Ryan seemed to joke around with her, even though she rarely saw him. He would poke fun of her for her reputation of having no fashion sense (even when she got her normal 7 hours of sleep) and getting the dirty jobs.

But even the peer pressure didn't stop her. She always completed her task, on time, and perfectly done. She didn't have to be OCD like Ryan to organize papers and write notes neatly.

She knew her life was about to get a little more upbeat when she, along with all of the other CSIs, got a 911 call. A new case, and she knew that when every CSI was called on the case, that wasn't a good sign.

When they all drove over to the crime scene, they were in shock.

The crime happened in a very big house, owned by one of the most prestigious doctor's daughter in Miami. Her name was Gia Walter.

"So, this is the house of Thomas Walter, right? Occupied by just his daughter though." Abi read off of her scratched on the notes she took on the way there.

"Yeah, but at the moment she wasn't the only one occupying it. Wait until we get inside..." Alexx Woods said, opening the door to the mansion.

Inside laid four blonde girls, bound with duck tape to the floor by their feet. Their hands were bound behind their backs. It was a horrible and grueling sight, even Calleigh had to turn away and take a deep breath before looking again. All of them barely had clothes on, and blood overflowed their abdomen area, along with a puddle beneath them.

Abi, who was the last to enter the house, looked up, and dropped her notepad. Calleigh, Ryan, Eric, and Alexx looked at the wide-eyed newbie.

"Uh, Abi? Are you okay?" Ryan asked as she turned white as a ghost. She froze, but slowly started walking toward the bodies.

"Honey, don't touch those bodies without gloves--" Alexx said to her quietly, grabbing her arm to stop her. All Abi did was look at Alexx with her normally bright eyes. Now they were dull and grey, showing no life.

After a moment of silence, Eric spoke up, "We should start to process this scene--"

"Wait," Abi said.

They team was starting to become afraid of Abi's reaction. Was she going insane, or...

"Listen. Do you hear that?" Abi started walking toward a door. Now the muffling sound become louder. She opened the closet door to recover another girl, about the same age as the other four victims.

"We have a live one!" Abi shouted, and Alexx rushed in for the rescue.

"Get her out of this closet now! And give her room to breath for God's sake! Eric, call an ambulance. Calleigh, get me some scissors to cut off this duck tape. Hurry!" Although her voice was stern, Alexx was very calm to see a girl who was struggling for her life.

Abi didn't even skip a beat when she rushed to go get something to stop the bleeding. The girl had, like the other, a big wound on her abdomen. "Ma'am, it's going to be okay. Please, take deep breaths, I know this is hard--" Abi tried her best to comfort the hyperventilating patient. But before she knew it, the patient had blacked out, her eyes rolling to the back of her head.

The EMTs were just a second too late. The young woman just laid there, in a pool of her own crimson blood. Abi stayed, holding her dead weight, not letting go. A person had just died in her arms...

The whole gang just stood around the one once living victim, and possibly their only way of catching the killer of now five young females. Calleigh had found scissors, Eric had called the paramedics. But it was too late.

"Abi..." Wolfe said softly. He reached out his arm, but she denied his comfort. She just rested the young lady softly on the cold floor, and stood up slowly. Her clothes were soaked in blood. She looked at her hands, also with now slightly dried blood.

"I'm, going to wash up now." Abi said softly, and left the room towards the bathroom. She knew it was against the rules to turn on the sink and wash off the victims blood in her own bathroom, but at the moment, Abi just didn't care.

She started scrubbing, harder and harder, and as she was doing so, tears fell down her cheeks. To Abi, the past events were entirely her fault. She should have stopped the bleeding. She should have helped the girl and saved her. That's why she took this job in the first place: to save people's lives, to protect the innocent, to uncover murderers and bad guys.

The body was taken away, along with the rest of the bodies, after Eric and Calleigh processed the scene. Ryan was interrogating the only witness, a jogger that heard the screams.

Horatio finished his conversation with Alexx, and then proceeded to talk to Ryan. "Mister Wolfe, have you seen Abi?"

He shook his head, "Not since...well you know. Why?"

"Because I haven't seen her either. Can you check the bathroom please?"

"Sure H." Ryan walked over to the bathroom and opened it slightly, seeing Abi, bent over the sink, with her hands bright red and stretched out right below the running faucet.

She turned her head to the side, and seeing it was Ryan, she sat up. "I, uh-"

Ryan frowned and shut the faucet off. He grabbed the nearest towel and took one of her hands and started drying it, "You shouldn't beat yourself up over this AJ. It wasn't your fault."

Abi looked at her feet, "But I could have prevented it."

"Listen," Ryan proceeded to her other hand, "Since you are new here, I'll let you in on a secret. Everything can be avoided or prevented. But it's not always, and do you know why?"

Still looking at the ground, Abi shook her head.

"Because if it was possible to avoid and prevent ever bad event ever, life would be boring. There would be no point. Plus, that's impossible. You can't control someone's freewill." Ryan put the towel on the edge of the sink and let Abi's hands fall to her side. "This job is tough AJ. Just promise me that you won't do anything stupid like use a possible crime scene as your own personal bathroom, okay?"

Abi smiled and nodded. "Thank you Ryan."

He too smiled, "We should get back to HQ."

"Right," Abi replied and opened the door, "After you."

"Why thank you," Ryan said jokingly back. Abi rolled her eyes.