|Chapter 2|
Calleigh struggled hard against the ropes on her wrists, she didn't care that it hurt badly. Blood was already tripling down her hands, and hit the pillow next to her. "Please!" She screamed out of breath, "Leave her alone!" She screamed when she didn't get an answer right away. A few tears had rolled down her cheeks, when she heard Kate crying out for her again. "noo.." she whispered in despair. She kept looking in the dark hallway, but she couldn't see anything. A few strains of light from her room made their way in the hallway, but she still couldn't see anything. She prayed to god that he wouldn't touch her, that he would leave her alone. Herself was one thing, she could handle that. She would be fine after a while. But Kate, she was just a kid. She was her kid! She couldn't imagine what such a experience would do to a kid. To her child!
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Kate was very scared when her Mum didn't appear by her calling. It was the third night that she hadn't slept well because her favorite teddy bear Josh was gone, and she couldn't find it. "Mommy!" she called out again, but didn't get an answer again. Her mind searched for an explanation that she wouldn't reply, and tried to remember if her Mum would work late today and her dad was going to take care of her. She was never alone, someone must be at home. "Daddy!" she called out, and waited impatiently for a response. Nothing. Slowly she was getting very scared but she wasn't going to give up before getting an answer for her question why no one answered at her callings. She pushed her sheets off of her and sat up in bed. She was about to get up when her door slowly opened and a man stood in the doorway. She figured out it must be her dad, "Daddy," she breathed, and walked towards him, "-Mommy won'tanswer me." She said, but stopped dead in her tracks when she noticed it wasn't her dad, who was standing before her.
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An other tear ran down her cheeks when she heard her daughter calling out for her Dad this time. "Eric.." she whispered and couldn't stop a wave of tears which started to roll down her cheeks. She had been so damn stupid, so childish. God! She did love him, more than anyone else before. He was the perfect friend, the perfect man, the perfect husband. And he was sort of wrong with one thing, she was the one who didn't deserve him. He did deserve much better than her. He'd make breakfast for her every morning, how he cared about her while her pregnancy, how he played with Kate. He was just perfect! And now, -now she had ruined everything. She was the one who started this damn fight, and she was the one who screamed at him first.
But she'd overreacted, it was just too much for her at this time. Jesus, he grabbed her arm, -nothing more. Why'd she need to cry because of this, why'd she be that fury and emotional because of this. She wanted him, right now and right there. She wanted to apologize, she wanted to tell him how much she loved him and that he was right. She wanted to talk to him about this situation, in a calm voice. She didn't mean to scream at him and argue with him that way. She did understand him very well, but it was dangerous wasn't it? But her job was it too, and he wouldn't say anything about that too. Damn it! She cursed, she needed to talk with this Agent Tailor, it was all her fault and her assignment to make this ok again.
She shocked her head no. Kate was in danger, she needed to get free by any way. For Kate and for Eric! She tried hard to think for a way out of this, to protect her daughter. She was a CSI, she would find a way out of this wouldn't she? And then it hit her, she and Eric had told Kate what to do by an emergency. They told her what to do when the house is set in fire, the explained her what to do when someone strange is in the house, and they told her what to do in a situation like this. Them, Eric and her were CSI's so they knew about the dnger out there, they knew everything. Actually it was mostly Eric's idea to talk to her, another thing that made him to an awesome Dad. "Kate!" she called out, "Pumukel!" she shouted, " You are in danger!" she shouted, "RUN!" she added a bit louder. She hoped that Kate would remember what they'd told her, not a long time ago.
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Kate backed abruptly back when she heard her Mum's words. She shocked her head in fear, and took another step backwards. The man who she thought was her daddy, was now coming towards her, hiding something behind his back. She hit the wall behind her, and tried to find a way out of this. She remembered the talk between her and her parents, remembered their words and felt the tears staring to form in her eyes. She was scared, scared of the man in front of her. Quickly she looked around, and her eyes stopped on the bathroom door that was leading from her room in the hallway. Taking one last glance at the man, who was just a few feet away from her by now, she ran as quickly as she could towards the door. She opened it quickly, and ran through the bathroom out in the hallway. "Mommy!" she screamed out, not knowing what to do. She heard the man following her, and tried to run faster.
She ran down the stairs not noticing the opened bedroom door from her parents. She just thought about the plan that was told her by an emergency. She ran through the living room, and stopped a second when she saw the phone. She stared at it, and quickly grabbed it when she heard someone coming down the stairs. She hesitated when she saw the door, actually she was told to run out the door and getting over to their neighbors but she had an idea, and she didn't want to leave without her mum. So she ran further into the kitchen, and cradled in one of the lower kitchen shelves. Quietly she closed the door, and hold her breath. She took a look at the phone in her hand and pressed speed dialing number two, 'Daddy'. She put thephone on her ear and waited for the telltale ringing on the other end.
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Eric was walking through the hallways of the department, walking over to trace in this moment. But his thoughts weren't by their case as they should be, they were by Calleigh. The whole night he had been unconsecrated and distracted. He just wanted to bring this case over with and heading home, hoping Calleigh wouldn't be angry at him. He hadn't meant this words, and especially he hadn't meant to hurt her. He hated himself for that. How could he possibly hurt the love of his life? Something was wrong with him, but before he could finish his thoughts his cell phone ran. He'd picked it up and didn't care to look at the ID. "Delko" he answered, and walked further in direction trace lab. It wasn't his day, and the whole situation was getting on his nerves. So he waited impatiently for an answer on the other end, "Hello?" he spat out again, but still no answer.
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Kate almost smiled when she heard her Daddy's voice, but it quickly faded when she heard footsteps outside and she held her breath again, hiding the phone behind her back. When the footsteps seemed to walk away, she put the phone back to hear ear, just to hear her Dad saying 'Hallo' a second time. "Daddy" she exclaimed , and afterwards followed a shaky breath. "Daddy, there's man in house, and.." she paused to take another breath, "and..I- I can't find Mommy." She explained, and pressed herself harder against the inside of the shelf. "Daddy, I'm scared," she whispered, and closed her eyes. "-an-and Josh's..s- gone." She said in a much sadder tone that anything else, hugging the phone, she waited for a reply.
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Eric stopped dead in his tracks when he heard that, his face turned white and his eyes showed pure shock. No! His mind screamed at him, his eyes loosed the focus at they were now just staring straight forward. A thousand questions ran through his head, and his brain tried hard to focus at one question at a time. "Kate, you said a man. Where's he?" he asked, and feared the life of his daughter for one moment. His mind slowly began to focus on the people who were walking past him, one of them was Horatio who immediately noticed something was wrong. Eric gave him a look and stared in his blue eyes, searching for comfort, -searching for hold for a moment. His face started to get some color back, and his mind seemed much clearer now too. He just focused on the conversation, on Kate.
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Kate held her breath again, and tried to hear some noises which could help her to answer the question. But she heard nothing. No footsteps at all, no voices. Nothing. She closed her eyes in despair, and opened them abruptly when she heard something. Something close, but she couldn't make out what or where it came from. "I..-I don't know," she said, "but somewhere close," she finished and couldn't stop a whimper that came from her mouth. "Daddy.." she half cried and half said, "I'm scared.." she said, and pushed her knees back up against her chest. "..-come a'get me?.." she asked and sounded as scared as the said she was.
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It nearly broke his heart, and all he wanted was kill this bastard who scared her like that and hug her as tightly as she needed it. But he needed to stay calm, to keep a clear head. But just when he decided this, another question shot through his head. Where's Calleigh? His expression filled with fury but his eyes filled with sadness at the same time, and he had to control himself hard to hinder himself of slamming his fist right there and then in the wall next to him. "Kate listen," he started and continued quickly, "-still remember 'our talk'?" He questioned but was sure she did, so he wouldn't let her time to reply," Make your way to the front door and run over to Mr. and Mrs. Gardner. And stay on the phone, you hear me?" he said and hoped she would understand, that she would remember. He was about to add that she should take care, when he heard a scream that let his blood freeze in his veins.
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Calleigh was tied up in bed, and still struggled to get free when she saw a figure moving just outside her bedroom. She had screamed all along for him to stop, to leave her alone but he didn't listen to her, not at all. After she had commanded Kate to run for a second time, she tried to listen. Tried to listen to a noise, to footsteps, anything. But nothing, the house was completely filled with silence and it killed her not to know what's going on with her daughter. She kept consecrating to the ropes on her wrists and made no noise to listen at the same time. She just needed to get one had free, only one. She had to get free! And then she heard it the scream. A scream full of fear mixed with pure shock. He eyes widened in fear and she found her eyes fixed on the door. Her breath got heavier when she heard footsteps on the stairs, and when she saw him enter with an unconscious Kate in his arms she completely lost it. "Kate!" she screamed out, when he once again closed the door behind him and walked in her direction.
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"Kate?" Eric brought out only in a small whisper. No! His mind screamed at him, "Kate!" he shouted in the phone much stronger this time."Daddy's coming, sweetheart.." It took him a couple of minutes until he realized the line went dead, and it was then when he pulled the phone away from his ear and stared in disbelieve at it. Soon his desperation turned over in anger and he clenched his jaw. "H-" he puffed and his gaze met Horatios right away. He clenched his fist around the phone even more, "Something's wrong." He lifted his hands to his head and brought them to his head's sides, clutching it still in disbelieve, in misunderstanding. "Calleigh..she's.." he begun but he didn't even know what was wrong. Actually he had Kate on the line, "-and Kate..she's all alone..I.." he spoke, and shocked his head now. "I..-" he wanted to say something, just anything what would clear his mind. But Horatio cut him off.
"I understand." He simply said, and turned himself a bit, his left hand was on his hip and the other practically played with his sunglasses. "Let's go!" he mumbled, with a fury and a hectic voice when he slipped his sunglasses on and rushed down the hall, in direction elevator. Eric following right behind him.
A/N: There will be one or two more Chapters, then this story will be finished; I promise! Sometimes I hate myself for being such a drama-freak. -Calleigh always need to suffer, and she's never happy with Eric, in none of my fanfictions. I'm sorry, but I'm also a fan from Happy Ends, so there's still hope guys! *Janne-I love you.x3
TBC