After few days here it is. Hope you all like it!
Gabrielle Walker
Chapter 3
Horatio and Gabie walks through the corridor of Miami Dade Crime Lab as they head to Calleigh at the ballistic lab. They passed by the DNA and AV lab where the lab techs are all busy with the evidence they have to process. When they reach the ballistic lab, Gabie spotted Calleigh checking the guns they took from the scene.
"Calleigh, you shouldn't be doing this alone. Have you forgotten your condition?" Horatio said to Calleigh while he points at her belly.
Calleigh shook her head as sign of protest. "Do you have someone in your mind? These babies are rare, Horatio! I'll accept help with these babies if it's you or Eric or Speed. No offense, Gabie."
"None taken, Calleigh." Gabie move closer to take a look at the table full of guns at the moment. Some of the guns are still in the boxes that's located on the floor of the ballistic lab. She notice some really old stuff that she's not so familiar. As if on cue Calleigh points at each gun and tell her the name.
"This is an Allen and Thurber single-shot pistol, country of origin is here in the U.S around 1848. This one is a British sea service pistol from year 1750. And this, Colt Model 1851 Navy, also from here." She paused for a while then took another gun. "And this is a Welrod, it's an assassin's pistol from United Kingdom around 1939. Most of these babies are really rare and if you sell it, you might earn millions of dollars."
Horatio nodded and took one of the guns. "This is a Nambu pistol from Japan and from the year 1902. So we're looking for a possible robbery. This guns worth a fortune." He took his phone and called Eric. "Eric, I need you to check if we can get finger prints from the guns." He puts down the phone and turned to Calleigh. "Do you think we can get prints on these?"
"I'm not so sure, Horatio. If the person who owns this consider it a collection then it's kind of impossible to get some prints. Normally collectors wipe these things just to clean it."
Then they heard Horatio's phone rings. Horatio took his phone and saw Frank's name on it. "Yes, Frank? What do you have for me?" He paused for a while to listen to Frank. "Okay, so we got set up and it's up for us to find out why. Thank you, Frank!"
He turned to the ladies whose obviously waiting for his explanation. He saw Eric from a corner of his eyes rushing his way to the ballistic lab. "I want everyone here. Let me call the rest."
"I'll call Natalia." Calleigh took her own phone so they can start with the brainstorming.
"Hey, Nat. Who's with you right now? Can you both come to Horatio's office? Horatio's with us right now, we're going to his office now. See you in a bit." the she turned to Horatio. "She's with Jesse and I asked both of them to go to your office."
"let's go." Horatio walk out of the ballistic lab, the three followed him.
When they reached Horatio's office the trio sat on the chairs in the office. After a few minutes Tim arrived and sat straight beside Horatio, few moment passed Ryan and Walter came in and sat beside Eric. Later on Jesse and Natalia came walk straight to Horatio and handed Horatio a piece of paper.
"Where do you get this Ms. Boa Vista?" Horatio intently look at the paper. He read it out to the rest of the team. "Anteanoche."
"Night before last." Gabie translated what Horatio said to them.
Everyone look at Gabie. "What? For sure most of you speak Spanish." She said out loud.
"Okay people, what do we know so far? Any evidence that you think is relevant?" Horatio look at his team. "I asked Frank to get me any information about the owner of that house and the shooter. It's seems that the owner and the shooter are the same person. Calleigh and Gabie found these at the scene." Horatio showed the team the photos of the gun collection.
Speed took one of the photos. "Why we received a call that there's a DB at that house if the shooter is the owner of the house?"
"That's the reason why I asked all of you to come here, I want everything about this. But for now I want all of you to go home and rest. We'll continue this early tomorrow. I want everyone here before the sun rises." Then Horatio walks out of his office.
The rest of the team walked out of Horatio's office and heads to the locker.
Walter face the team and wave his hand in front of everyone. "hey, guys how 'bout we eat out tonight like a welcome dinner for Gabie. We won't stay late, just dinner or at least a drink."
Everyone agreed to Walter and they all walked out of the locker room.
They head out to a restaurant few blocks from the lab. The team took the table in the middle of the restaurant. During dinner they we're talking about the case that they have.
After the dinner they decided to have at a drink. Ryan called for the waiter.
"Six bottles of beer." then the waiter left. "Way to go Delko, you got shot so no beer for you man!"
Eric laughed at what Ryan said. Then Tim's attention got drawn outside of the restaurant He noticed a black SUV parked at the oposite lane. "Hey, have you seen that SUV? It's been there few minutes since we arrived."
"Yeah, I noticed that, I didn't pay much attention cause I thought it'll just go away after few minutes." Calleigh nodded at Tim, then she grab her purse and took her gun. "I don't like this." She noticed Tim took his gun then followed by Eric, Ryan and Jesse.
Before the rest of the team gets the chance to take their guns the saw few guys wearing mask came out of the SUV and heads to the restaurant.
"Cal, babe. Why don't you, Natalia and Gabie go to the back of this place, call for back up will you?" Says Eric.
"Eric, let Natalia and Calleigh go. I'll be here with you guys." Gabie says to Eric. She held her gun and prepared.
Natalia grab her phone and call for back up. They all stay in their chair, no one budge to make a move. Then Tim got up and talk out loud to the rest of the costumer. "Miami Dade PD, People kindly walk out of this place now. And please try not to make too much commotion, thank you." Then they saw people slowly leaving the place. Few seconds after that, a blast from the side of the restaurant occured. Followed by gunshots coming from outside.
"Everybody get down!" Yelled Jesse.
Eric tried his best to cover Calleigh's body with his own.
Then they heard Gabie's voice. She's behind Walter. "I got shot!"
I'm working on the next chapter right now. Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year guys!