Lieutenant who from what…

The drive to the crime lab was quiet minus the music that Erik had playing in the background from his iPod that he had plugged into the sound system. Looking around in the early morning traffic he sung lightly to the song "Alberta Bound" as he drove along the highway's off-ramp. It was a nice commute into the city as he looked around at the morning life, once he made it to the lab and pulled into a park spot and shut off the car he looked through the windshield and looked up before shutting the car off and getting out grabbing his PDA and placing it into his suit coat pocket.

Walking up to the building he pulled his frameless Maui Jim shades off and place them around his neck, the interior of the building was beautifully built as he looked around, walking up to the front desk he looked around for a secretary when someone came up behind him.

"Hello can I help you?" the voice was soft and southern, turning around Erik was surprised by the blond on front of him. She was gorgeous sure but the box in her arms where telling him to help her out. Taking them out of her arms and placing them onto the counter he faced her again and saw a big friendly smile on her face.

"Yes you can, I'm looking for a Calliegh Duquesne."

"That would be me handsome, you are?"

"I'm Lieutenant Erik Destler, I'm a CSI from Canada… well a Canadian CSI in this case from a military group funded by a Canada/US coalition. And I've been called in to take control of the CSI unit till your boss in back in shape."

"How?" Calliegh looked at Erik as he looked at her and chuckled a bit. She took in his appearance, tall athletic build stance, excellent build, the short well kept brown-black hair with the sharpest ocean blue eyes that she's seen on a well chiseled face. The one thing that she took from his basic appearance other then the clean cut suit and dark army green shirt was the scar that ran down the right side of his face starting above his eyebrow across his eye and over to his cheek.

"There are many things that I know of, and Miss Duquesne I'm here as long as you need me to be, your boss is in a tough spot right now. Me and my people would like to see him continue to run this lab as he is the best, but what he did recently... Pushed the boundaries, and clean up right now is a bit messy."

"What are you talking about?" Erik looked around and reached over the secretary's counter and dropped something while picking something up at the same time. Calliegh watched him as if he was a bit crazy considering he broke a number of rules and laws before looking to Calliegh again.

"You might want to gather your team and take them to a quiet place, I'll explain everything." Holding up in his hand was a visitor's pass the letter on the desk explained who he was and that the lady at the desk had to be very discrete. Calliegh nodded and lead Erik to a sound audio room that served as a case layout for digital evidence at times. After telling Erik to stay put and that she would have the people back in a few minutes she left and went to hunt for the rest of the team.

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Opening his eyes and squinting as his eyes adjusted to the light Horatio groaned as the pain in his back was getting to him, soon there was someone in the room and a weight on the end of the bed then a soft voice.

"Hey, your awake. Here have some water and some painkillers, Alexx's orders" Horatio shifted his partially open eyes to Catherine who happened to be holding water in one hand and some ultra Tylenol in the other. Horatio pushed himself from his sleeping on front position to a half sitting one with Catherine helping him. Once he down the painkillers and the water he laid back down on his side and was glad that his stomach was holding down what he had taken.

"What time is it?" Since Catherine stripped him and placed him into pj's, his watch was taken off. Catherine looked at him with a raised eyebrow before answering him.

"It's almost 8 in the morning, and your going to stay in bed mister"

"I was going to ask when and if you had any sleep yet" Horatio grumbled out as Catherine set the glass down on the nightstand and sat back with her hands in her lap.

"Honestly, I work nightshift yes, but I can keep rolling and rolling as long as I need to. Don't worry about me, cause as I said you are not leaving the condo or the bed for that matter" Horatio looked at Catherine with a surprised look, how did she know that he was playing her?

"Yeah, I know when your trying to get back to work and you aren't leaving this bed even if it means I have to strap you down, besides I've taken all your keys and taken your cell phone and weapon as well, actually I handed that to Calliegh to have her look at it seeing as a full set of rounds are gone and probably in the swamp… am I right?"

Horatio moved his gaze to the bed and didn't bother answering her question seeing as Catherine knew him better then most. "You did, didn't you? Horatio what were you thinking?" Horatio had the good graces to be ashamed and color a bit in his cheeks and ears.

"See I was under the impression that Horatio Caine never backed down and he never did take the coward's way out. Why did you think of suicide Horatio… what happened yesterday?" Horatio rolled onto his other side and looked at the window's blinds. Catherine didn't give up and got up going to the other side and kneeling down in front of him, Horatio's eyes where glazed over and there was a build of tears.

"Horatio… let me in and tell me what happened…"

"I… I made some stupid mistakes… I first went to Brazil to face my past, then I came home to see one of my own had been kidnapped, there was a series of pedophiles. I just snapped.. I went after the pedophile after I told the girl to wait outside, I walked towards the man and we fought he took the beer bottles he had brought with him and broke them on my back then drove the broken edges into me, I just fought back and handcuffed him then stood up and realized what I did." Horatio just laid there not realizing that he had tears running down his face and Catherine was hugging him.

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The whistling continued as the man continued to set up for his date, humming he got ready for the day and grinned at his set up, looking to his computer set up he typed in a few things and looked up some information then shut off to the program.

Getting up from his seat he picked up a set of keys, a small cloth and a small bottle of liquid before leaving the room and locking his place up, heading to his Honda he unarmed the truck and got in, he left right after and started into town, he had to sit and wait for his prey, and wait he would because he had all the patience in world, his last girl knew about it too.

"Time, it is almost time…."

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A small clink in the glass had Erik turn from his position at one of the computers closing down one of the files that he with him, there was four other people with Calliegh when she walked back in. A tall Hispanic with shorn black hair and a serious face then meant business looked at Erik and looked like he was about to get up in Erik's face. The younger looking man in a suit and tie stood there with his arm's crossed waiting for the explanation that Erik was going to give, the woman just stood by Calliegh waiting on Erik.

"I'm Lieutenant Erik Destler, I'm a Canadian navy man, but my main job is a CSI. I was called in because of a situation that has arisen with your boss Horatio Caine. It seems that he's dug himself a hole and now me and my people are trying to clean it up. However I'm not here to replace your boss, I'm here to head off anything that should go wrong and help you on your cases, as of now till Horatio Caine is up and we of my unit have cleaned this up, I am taking control of CSI" the group looked like there where going to protest, when someone barged in.

"Who the hell are you!?" Erik looked to the man and raised an eyebrow, the tags IAB showed and Erik remembered back to his files that he had.

"IAB Stetler… what can I do for you?"

"I'm supposed to be head of the lab till Caine gets back"

"Unfortunately, you are not, now I suggest that you back down, before I decide to have more of my friends showing up and taking your spot. You can go now" Stetler stepped back but turned and swung at Erik who happened to be expecting it, twisting Stetler's arm around and pinning him to a wall he leaned in close and hissed in his ear.

"Don't ever attack a member of STAT, it just draws you into the open for my people to deal with you, get lost" Erik snarled and dropped the man's arm, Stetler vowed to get back at Erik as he walked away to lick his wounded pride.

"What exactly is STAT?"

"First off, we don't exist, much like the units within the CIA, FBI and the NSA that do but you have to look very hard, secondly my unit, my team… we are all trained in different walks of life, but we are all people that give a damn about the good people in the world. Horatio Caine was caught up in a fight he wouldn't have been able to win if we didn't get there in time to start to help clean up house.

The Mala Noche are a massive and very powerful group, Riaz was just one of the leaders. The others… well.. Lets just say that a warlord is more dangerous then a drug lord." Erik looked at the group and dropped the file he had in hand onto the layout table and opened it, the others where shocked at what they saw, the women had tears in their eyes and the two men looked at the images with a stony expression.

"As I said, the clean up is messy at the moment…"