Thank you for all of your reviews, I really appreciate it. OK here's chapter 8 as promised, there's probably a few errors in it, but I did write it very quickly! Anyway here you go…
Eric and Ryan pulled up to the address where the 911 call had been made, Ryan knocked on the door whilst Eric walked around the house looking for any sign of forced entry. After walking around the house, finding nothing suspicious, Eric rejoined Ryan at the front door.
"No answer?" Eric asked.
"Nope, what do you think should we just break it down?"
"I've got an idea, follow me," Ryan followed Eric around to the backdoor, which had small panes of glass in it, Eric picked up a brick smashing the pane nearest the handle, before reaching in and turning the key on the inside.
"Very clever Delko," Ryan smiled.
"Thank you, come on, let's get inside."
They both entered the house; Eric took downstairs whilst Ryan headed upstairs. Eric headed for the phone which was in the living area of the small house, he managed to get a couple of prints off it, figuring that they would probably be Bartlett's, but they still weren't any closer to where he was, or where Calleigh was.
"Eric, come and take a look at this," Ryan shouted from upstairs, Eric followed the sound and when he reached the top of stairs, he found Ryan in a bedroom.
"Look," Ryan said holding up a photograph, "Isn't this Bartlett?" The photograph was a picture of a man with short brown hair standing next to an attractive young girl.
"That's him, he either lives here or knows someone who does, and there was no forced entry so he must've had a key so he could get in."
"Did you find anything downstairs?" Ryan asked.
"Just some prints on the phone." They both spent another half an hour searching the house but didn't find anything else of great importance and decided to head back to CSI. Eric was really annoyed that all of their leads seemed to becoming dead ends, everything they tried didn't seem to get them any closer to where Bartlett was and more importantly where Calleigh was.
"You Ok?" Ryan asked, noticing that Eric was very quiet, when Ryan had first joined CSI, he and Eric had never really got on very well, Eric thought of Ryan as Speeds replacement and resented him as if he was someway to blame for Speeds death. But after Ryan's nail injury they seemed to get along much better, Ryan was worried about him though he looked awful and was much quieter than usual.
"Yeah, it's just I was thinking about Calleigh," Eric replied, "we don't seem to be any closer to finding her and time is passing. She could be anywhere, Bartlett could be doing anything to her, she could be dead and we don't have the slightest idea."
"We'll find her Eric, you know we will."
"She's already been through this once, why should she have to go through it all again?" Eric questioned, they then both sat in silence for the rest of the way back to the lab.
Calleigh woke up at first she was unsure of where she was, she'd had a great dream about her and Eric, but as the realisation of where she was set in she just stared into space, wishing for an end to this nightmare. She had to get out of here she just had to, she began pulling at her restraints again, and although her wrists were red raw, she pulled harder and harder trying to free a hand. It wouldn't work; instead she again began biting at the rope, one thread at a time, she knew it would take forever to bite all the way through but she had to try something. All of a sudden she heard the door unlock, and was terrified, she moved back down the bed and pretended to be asleep.
"Oh no you don't!" He yelled, "I know you're awake, so don't be stupid!" He moved towards the bed and sat on the side of it. "Thought you could trick me did you, well I'll teach you." He stood up and removed his trousers and his boxers then he lifted the sheet off her and straddled her.
"Please don't! not again!"
"Shut up!" He began touching himself with one hand using the other to stroke her body, the second he touched her she regressed back inside herself, without warning he forced himself inside her and she screamed out in agony, his hands were groping her breasts so hard it hurt. He forced himself deeper into her and she just tried to block out everything that was happening, thinking of happier times, the first time she fired a gun, when she first became a CSI and the first and only time she was ever with Eric, she wanted that time back so much. Bartlett kept going, becoming more violent, he started trying to strangle her. His hands clenched tightly around her neck. She was forced to come back to her thoughts, she couldn't breath, she tried to fight against him, but with her arms tied and her legs held down there wasn't much she could do. He kept thrusting into her as he strangled her and eventually he came, releasing her neck at the same time, not being able to continue strangling her as the waves of pleasure swept through his body. He held himself inside as long as he could and Calleigh tried to regain her breath.
"You bastard!" she screamed.
"You deserved it, you little bitch." He said removing himself from her. He got up and redressed himself, before sitting back on the edge of the bed.
"Why are you doing this?" She asked.
"You deserve it, you put me in jail."
"You raped me, you deserved to go to jail, they should have killed you."
"Now that's not very nice, is it? You took away 15 years of my life, I had to spend everyday staring at the same four walls, stuck in there with perverts and paedophiles, do you know how sick those people are?"
"Yes, you ARE one of those people."
"That's not true, I loved you."
"You don't even know me."
"I've fucked you so you're mine, have been for 15 years."
"You raped me, I didn't want you to do that, you just nearly killed me, when they find me you won't get away with this time they'll kill you, you bastard!"
He stood up and undressed himself again, the previous act repeated itself as Calleigh lay there wondering how many more times she'd have to go through this before she was found, if she ever would be found.
Eric and Ryan had reported to Horatio's office when they arrived back at CSI, they had told him what they'd found.
"Ok, Ryan can you go and find the registered owner of that house, if had a key then he must know them," Horatio asked.
"Yeah, sure, I'll do it now." Ryan left the room, leaving Eric and Horatio alone.
"Eric, how close were you and Calleigh?" Horatio asked.
"It's complicated."
"Why don't you explain it to me?" Horatio offered, wanting Eric to feel comfortable, but Horatio needed to know how close they were not only as it may affect Eric's ability to do his job, but also because he cared about him and his CSI was becoming increasingly distant and quiet.
"We only really got together the day before she was taken, but I love her Horatio, I have done for a long time and I should have told her so long ago, but now she's gone and if something happens I'll never forgive myself for that. We could have had so much more time together, if we hadn't messed about for so long, I've never told her how I feel and I can't lose her not now, not now I've finally faced up to how I really feel."
"We're going to find her, ok Eric; you're going to get the chance to tell her how you feel ok?" Horatio said,"but now you're going to go home and get some rest, you've been working on this for 2 days and you need to sleep."
"I can't Horatio, I need to find her…"
"Go home Eric, you're no good to her like this."
After much persuasion Eric finally agreed and went home, he knew he needed to sleep so decided to go to bed and a least try and get some sleep. As he turned out the light and snuggled into the covers, he thought about Calleigh and what she must be going through at this very moment in time, and what was he doing? He was in bed going to sleep, he felt so guilty, but he was so tired and after a few minutes sleep finally claimed him.
So there it is, more to come soon hopefully! Please read and review I really want to hear what you think of this so far. Thank you!