Natalia smiled to herself when she saw a software update appear on the screen. It was telling her that iChat needed to be updated. The window didn't say what version it was replacing the old one with, and like most updates it didn't say that it would restart the computer once completed.
She knew that this was Dave's hidden message so she clicked accept.
Once Dave and Walter saw that accept was hit, Walter got on his radio and gave everyone the heads on what was going on.
'Confirmation accepted... Connecting to wireless...Preparing for download... Download started...1%'
Natalia was shaking her leg, out of all the times she had downloaded something it always seemed to go fast, but right now it seemed like the computer was taking it's time. "Come on" Natalia said with a sigh.
'5%'
"You have got to be kidding me right now." Natalia said. She clicked on the upper right side of the screen to check the Internet connection she found out why it was going so slow.
Brian didn't have wireless Internet where she was; he was stealing someone else's. The connection that she was on only had 40% signal strength.
Walter and Dave were in the lab; just watching the screen as it slowly downloaded the IP address.
"It's been on 90% for the past like 5 minutes." Walter growled.
"It just hit 90% like two seconds ago, relax Walter."
Walter legs were crossed and shaking while his hand was tipping on the table. He gave a frustrated sigh as the bar jumped to 95% ... 96%.
Finally Walter's patients snapped. "Come on...COME ON!" Walter yelled slamming his fists on the desk.
"Walter calm down!" Dave said looking over to Walter.
"Well make it go faster!"
"I can't! Part of the download is based off of her Internet connection which must be slow, I'm sorry but this is the speed we are stuck at!"
97%...98%...99%... scanning IP address... ... 8955 NW 107th Avenue, Doral
"Walter!" Dave said pointing at the screen.
Walter jumped and reached for his radio. "Guys! You need to go to 8955 NW 107th Avenue, Doral!" The line was silent; he paused thinking that no one heard so he repeated himself.
"Walter, you need to calm down!" Dave shot back.
"Calm down!... Calm down, we are dealing with a serial killer that has given us a 12 hour window. We don't have much time!" Walter yelled.
Walter grabbed the radio again and was about to say something when a whiskey voice that was usually calm and collected begin shouting back. "Canie and Tripp heading south on Hialeah Hia Gardens Blvd, ETA 30 minutes.
A few minutes later Eric's voice filled the room "Delko and Wolfe, heading east on 74th Street ETA 10 minutes."
Followed by "Duquesne! On the corner of 58th and 107th ETA 5 minutes!"
Calleigh's foot stomped to ground and she pushed her hummer to its limits. She was going 110 down 107th weaving in and out of traffic. "GET OUT OF THE WAY!" She screamed slamming her hands on the steering wheel.
Calleigh was in the left lane when an old lady cut in her lane, taking up both lanes causing Calleigh move into oncoming traffic.
Her eyes got wide as she came face to face with a semi truck that was the honking horn and flashing its high beams.
Everything for Calleigh was like instant slow motion; she couldn't move right back into traffic because it was being blocked with other cars. Leave it to Florida drives to continue on their daily driving routine even when a cop car is blaring their sirens. It's not like she is trying to get to an emergency.
Calleigh took a deep breath, as she couldn't see on the other side of the truck all she could do was hope that there was no on coming traffic on the other side of the truck.
She swerved into the other lane of on coming traffic at the last minute. Once she got into the that lane all the other cars around the semi truck stopped moving allowing her weave thru them and merge back to the right side of the road.
After a few more blocks, Calleigh made a hard left into the address that Walter had given her. At first Calleigh was shocked that she able to make such a hard left turn without flipping over the Hummer, but that feeling quickly turned to panic when she realized that address Walter gave was to a condominium complex.
Natalia was still playing on Brian's computer; she was debating whether or not to change her Internet connection, to a local coffee shop that she was able to find.
The signal strength was stronger but she ran the risk of losing all the progress that she had already made. She was so deep in thought, she never heard Brian's car pull up to the condo. The mouse was hovering over the new connection as Brian made his way upstairs to her room.
"What are you doing bitch!" Brian said from behind Natalia. Natalia turned around from the laptop and was greeted with punch to face causing her jaw her break. Natalia lost her balance for a second before she regained her composer, she looked over to see Brian take another swing but Natalia lifted her arms. His hand snagged against her bonded hands causing the duck tape to rip, freeing her hands.
Natalia stood on her own two feet; her pain subsided from the rush of adrenaline. She took another swing but missed and fell to ground. "That is it, I'm going to kill you" Brian said.
He took out a gun and walked to Natalia, he leaned over her just as he did this Natalia raised her head, head-butting him. This caused him to drop the gun, Natalia grabbed the gun and fired only there was nothing but clicking. "Shit" she said under her breath, so she turned the gun around and hit him square in the temple knocking him out.
Natalia stood on her feet and made her way to the stairs, she took the first step on the stairs and felt her knee give way and she came crashing down the first flight slamming her head on the ground knocking her out as well.
Calleigh got out of the Hummer; she looked around with her hand on her forehead. She took a deep breath before grabbing her radio. "Walter, it's a condominium complex, which one is she in?"
Walter paused and looked over to Dave, who was typing and clicking on the computer. "DAVE!"
"I'm working on it!" he shot back.
"In case you forgot, Natalia is in the hands of man who is not afraid to kill her before time runs out."
"Okay, Okay... she's in 225!"
"Calleigh, it's 225!" Walter repeated back.
"225," Calleigh said to herself. She threw the radio back into the Hummer and then took off in a dead sprint kicking off her heels in the process. She followed the signs pointing to condo's 210 - 250 without waiting for backup to arrive.
It felt as if Calleigh had been running for forever. Just as she rounded to the corner, she could see from her peripheral vision that her back up officers were just now turning to run down the long stretch of condos that she just flew by.
'221...223...225!' Calleigh said to herself, without even waiting for backup to catch up with her she kicked down the front door. "MIAMI DADE POLICE DEPARTMENT! IF THERE IS ANYBODY HERE IDENTIFY YOURSELF NOW!" Calleigh shouted with her gun drawn.
Natalia gave a light groan as she came too; she rolled over to her side and used the stair's hand railing to help lift herself up. It took her a few seconds before she was finally standing up with her back leaned up against the wall panting. She was trying to find the strength and energy to walk down the second flight of stairs.
"You dumb bitch, why must you make everything so complicated." Brian said as he came down the first flight of stairs. "Since I can't shoot you..." He said as she took out a knife from his back pocket. He lunged forward and tried to stab Natalia but she able to move out of the in time.
Brian grinned and shook his as he tried again to stab her and once again Natalia was able to move out of the way, but this time she lifted her leg with the shattered kneecap and pushed Brian backwards.
She gave a light groan from the pain, as hit the wall and slid down the first couple of steps.
Calleigh was still downstairs looking around, she had cleared the living room and kitchen and was walking around the dining room when she a loud thud coming from upstairs. Once again without even thinking or waiting for backup she rushed upstairs ignoring all the other rooms.
When Calleigh made it upstairs she made a right turn and started to walk down the hallway, right as Ryan and Eric entered the house.
"Quit fucking around, and just let me kill you!" Brian said as he stood up quickly, too quickly for Natalia to make her next move. He grabbed her right shoulder and stabbed her in stomach.
Natalia's eyes got wide as she felt warm liquid run down the rest of her stomach and on to her hands which were right under the knife.
Natalia was just staring at Brian as she tried to remember how to breathe, she opened to her mouth to say something, but right as she did the door at the bottom of the stairs flew open.
"NATALIA!" Calleigh screamed, as a single shot rang out throughout the house.
In that split second when Calleigh opened the door, she found her target and shot. She was trained to shoot a suspect in a non-vital area of the body, but when she saw that Brian had stabbed Natalia rage and anger set in. Not only did she mange to shoot him, she shot him in the head killing him instantly.
Natalia was looking straight ahead, breathing heavily as she slowly slid down to the floor.
"Oh God, Nat." Calleigh said with tears in her eyes as she ran up the stairs to Natalia. "HELP! I NEED A MEDIC RIGHT NOW!" she shouted.
Calleigh didn't know what she should do with her heads, all she wanted to do was hold Natalia in her arms, but her police training told her not to touch her.
Calleigh was just sitting over Natalia who was cling on to life when Eric and Ryan came. Eric went to Calleigh's side while Ryan went to check on Brian.
"WE NEED A MEDIC NOW!" Eric yelled as he kneeled right beside Calleigh. "She'll be okay," he whispered as he put an arm around her.
It only took seconds before Natalia was put on a stretched and was being loaded into the ambulance.
Calleigh was about to step in when a paramedic stopped her, "Ma'am I can't let you in there," he said.
Calleigh just shot him a glare, and he immediately back down and let her in. Once in the ambulance Calleigh sat there holding Natalia's hand watching as the paramedic did everything in his power to make sure that the knife in Natalia's stomach didn't move.
"Cal..." Natalia said in a soft whisper.
"Hey, I'm here, I'm right here and I'm not going anywhere I promise." Calleigh said coming closer.
Natalia was about to say something, but stopped when started to cough up blood for a few seconds before losing consciousness.
"Damn it Paul, I think knife nicked her Aorta... speed it up!" The paramedic said.
"I'm doing my best, we are about two minutes out!" Paul yelled back.