CHAPTER 3: THEIR STORY

"Calleigh. Do you recognize us?" She just stood there staring with a blank look on her face. That voice! It was Horatio's!

'What's going on,' she wondered. 'Horatio, as well as the rest of the team and dad, was all dead.' The blank stair continued, but it also held confusion. She remembered what happened at the lab three years before. There was just no way! Their deaths had been confirmed.

"We weren't at the lab when it exploded," the man that saved her stated. He was Eric. "We got a call your dad was found dead near the beach, so we went to the scene and got kidnapped on the way over. Mala Noche has been holding us in different places over the past three years."

'Why didn't you guy's escaped before,' Calleigh asked herself.

"We couldn't ever escape before," the guy figured to be Ryan started. "Every time we tried, we got caught and were tortured." A loud, distant scream came from inside in the sewer. They started running. "Where are we running to," Kenwall, Calleigh's dad, wanted to know. "I don't know. I'm just following Calleigh," Ryan replied breathlessly.

30 MINUTES LATER

Calleigh rang the door bell. "What are we doing at your mother's house," Kenwall asked. The door opened.

"Calleigh. I was so worried about you," Ms. Duquesne exclaimed hugging her. She looked like she was about to cry. It wasn't until after they pulled away that she noticed everybody else. "Who are these people?"

"What? You don't remember me," Kenwall questioned a bit sarcastically.

"Duke?" Ms. Duquesne sounded confused.

"Calleigh…What's going on?"

"Clavo," she whispered. It was the first thing she said since the explosion three years ago. That's when it hit Ms. Duquesne. She looked at the group then back at Calleigh.

"Come inside. Sit down. Can I get you all something to drink?" After filling the water requests, she sat down with everyone. "So what happened to you all over the last three years?" Calleigh looked around, curious about the same thing. Everything was silent for a moment as if the question was being pondered.

"We got moved around a lot," Alexx started.

"They beat us up," continued Ryan.

"God. There were so many of them," Natalia stated, looking like she was going to cry. Eric put his arm around her and she fell into it, a tear falling down her cheek.

"One of them got you pregnant, didn't they," ventured Ms. Duquesne. Natalia just nodded, crying.

FLASHBACK

"I can't believe you, pimps, would even think of trying to escape," he yelled. He grabbed Natalia while the rest of them were held back at gun point. When he had gotten on top of her, he unbuttoned her shirt. She was crying and fighting, but it was no use…

FLASHBACK OVER

Nobody had anything else to say. Everything had basically been put out in the open. For the next few minutes, the only sound was Natalia's soft crying.