Let the Bodies Hit the Floor

After his press conference Erik and the other CSI's left the lab and went to tackle the crime scene that they had yet to find, but from what Ryan had gathered, he said the information he picked up from the news station led to a neighborhood that was getting renovated. In his BMW Erik was following behind the two hummers and was leading the police cars that followed up behind him.

Looking out on the road he took in everything that he saw; the risks, the people, the possible dangers when on site, the military training had kicked into overdrive allowing him to be the hunter of the hunted. Once they made it on site the police conducted the search clearing house after house till they stopped at one and they called over the CSI's. A letter on the door gathered attention as one of the officers yelled for again for the CSI's. Erik was the first there with his gloves on as he pulled the letter from the door and he opened it reading it, dropping the letter he told the officers to step back and kicked in the door shattering it to pieces as the broken hinges hung on teh frame ready to fall off. Caliegh and Delko ran up behind Erik and watched the strength the man had as the door splintered then shattered. Bending down Calliegh read the letter that set Erik off.

Dear Erik,

Oh I know you're here, let's see if you can save this one unlike the last time when you put a bullet in her head.

Yours

'Shark'

Following in behind Erik with the shattering of the door Calliegh and Delko found Erik kneeling down beside a figure, his back blocking the view till the both of them stepped up behind Erik. Turning away Calliegh went green and was out the door soon followed by Delko in the same state leaving Erik there looking at the girl softly, it was clear he had seen things before and this didn't unnerve him unlike the other two CSI's.

"Stay with me, don't move… I'm here to save you… Shhh don't try to do anything ok?" Erik pulled his phone out and called in rescue as he sat there trying to calm the girl down, looking around Erik remembered the picture on TV this was not who they where after, a glance around gave Erik enough, he saw pictures and evidence of more then just mother and father family, there was an uncle around too from what the pictures where showing. The young girl was in most of the pictures smiling happily with her family.

"Ok, I'm going to ask you a couple of questions, don't try to talk or move, just a grunt for yes and silence for no, can you do that for me?" A very pained groan answered Erik, nodding he looked at the girl her limbs where all over the place, and her eyes looked up at him from her mouth. Trying not to show tears Erik gently very gently cleaned the blood away from her mouth and gently asked his questions.

"Did he take your family?" A grunt answered him, "Are they dead?" A silent response answered him as he looked at her sadly, if the girl could of cried, she would have. Hearing the sirens of the ambulance he looked up and around to make sure that she wasn't booby trapped or attached to anything. Kneeling back down beside her Erik kept making soothing sounds for the young girl as the EMT's came in and stopped.

"Don't just stand there, help her…" Erik snapped his head to the side as the two EMT's stood there frozen before Erik's voice broke them out of their trance and went to work. Once the girl was out of there Erik stood and walked outside. Glancing around Erik saw a home that needed to have it's walls taken down, heading over to the house and to the side of one of the walls he raised his hands and struck. letting out a roar Erik unleashed his fury and rage into the walls.

The rest of the CSI's went over to Calliegh and Delko who happened to be emptying their stomachs and helping the two when the question was asked. They all looked to Erik as he tore down the walls down with his bare hands, when he stopped he was bleeding badly from the many scrapes and cuts he had to his hands.

"We possibly have more victims… another 4 if I looked at the photo's correctly. The girl is out of the house, I want it processed now. Calliegh, Eric you two are on the outside detail. Wolfe, you and Miss Boa Vista are inside get going. I need to go to the hospital and check on the 7-year-old girl. I'm hand's off, but I will offer the information on the girl from my past if need be." Erik walked off to the ambulance and the EMT's who watched him waved him into the truck.

Ryan looked at Natalia and their two friends waved them off with their heads between their knees. With the other two hurrying off to process the inside of the house Calliegh and Delko tried to regain their stomachs, never in their years as a CSI have they seen anything like that before. And to think that there was more possible bodies out there had Calliegh go green again.

"We need to get to work and then we are going to need Erik's story after this."

"Oh I think I can help you guys on that"

"Yelina?" Eric Delko looked up from the ground and took in the Spanish beauty that had taken Horatio Caine's heart a number of years ago.

"Yes that is me… come on I'll fill you guys in"

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Lying in bed Horatio groaned and rolled over onto his side, his back was feeling a bit better seeing as the throbbing was slowly leaving him. When he looked to his nightstand he saw some more Tylenol along side the water and a note tucked under the glass. Reaching over Horatio plucked the letter from its spot and unfolded it.

Horatio,

Stay in bed, I've gone to get some groceries, don't bother trying to leave I have your cell phone and your key's, so your stuck. I'll be gone for a little bit don't worry you have your house phone and my cell number by it if you need to phone me.

Catherine

Stifling a groan and shifting closer to the meds and water Horatio downed the pills and pulled himself back into the bed resting his head on the pillow before sleep took him again.

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Catherine wandered through the aisles of the grocery store and pulled things off and placed them into a buggy, over the PA system there was another news report most of the time of was to tell of a deal or someone was paging another member in the store. This time it was different, looking around Catherine noted some people where trying to keep in their lunches from the way they looked.

"Could the people of the store please make your way to the nearest exit of the store calmly, this is an emergency, repeat please leave the store through the nearest exit."

Catherine looked up and groaned then picked up her bag and started for the exit, but not before she heard a scream followed by another. Pulling her gun from her purse she went into police search and clear mode as she walked down the aisles and ended up in the meat department. There was a body on the meat racks where normally the packaged meats went, the body was sitting there with his shirt cut open as the previously muscular chest had a carving along with a bulge under a quick and crude military sewing attempt.

'Caine, you have failed to save those around you, you've fallen into your pit. Now you'll never get out of it as I take another of yours'

Catherine looked at the note and noticed what the note meant when she started to see a pulsating movement of the chest and stomach, turning on her heel and running she was barreled from the side just as an explosion went off, there was someone on top of her holding her down as she hear debris raining down on her and whoever happened to be protecting her.

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~An Hour Before~

The ambulance ride to the hospital was an event as the little girl tried not to continue being afraid but all the jostle of the truck was causing her more and more pain, Erik had several deep laceration on the top of his hands, but they were all dealt with and wrapped up. Given a few warnings Erik pulled out a pair of black military armored gloves and slipped them on looking down as the medical technicians looked at him. Pulling out a card he looked at the girl then handed it to one of the men, "I may have to step out from time to time, and any information on her I would like even if it's a no need status update"

"yes sir" Once they arrived at the hospital the little girl was rushed into the operating room and dealt with. Erik stood there with his hands in his pockets as he stood there watching the girl being taken care of, after nodding to no one he walked into the waiting room where the tv caught his attention as well as everyone else.

Running out of the hospital and to the nearest taxi as he told the man who he was and a show of badges he was on site of the of the grocery market telling the manager to clear out the store, it was the first of the screams the sounds over the PA announcement that Erik took off down the aisles and he heard someone running away from the meat department, taking a corner of an aisle the explosion rocked the building as he tackled someone to the ground and used his body as a shield from the flying debris.

After his head stopped spinning he opened his closed eyes and looked down to the person he was covering, it was a woman and there was a shopping list in one hand and a gun in another.

"Lady… didn't you hear the announcement?"

"Yeah I did, but I'm a police officer of another jurisdiction… Who the hell are you?"

"Police officer… uh huh… as to who I am, I just saved your life" pushing himself to a stand Erik touch the back of his head and felt some blood after he felt a small cut by his right ear and just on his jaw line. Pulling out his cell that he hadn't crushed he brought up a number and called it..

"I need the CSI here, yes it'll be all over the news. Believe me I'll be on the news as the one of the people running into the store… trust me… wait… what? That can't be… she's right here with me… Strawberry blond hair, tall, great looking body? Yeah… ohhh and the eyes that scream 'I'll kick your ass' oh yeah I'm getting that glare right now. Yeah if what you say is what I'm seeing Willow's right here. Ok get the team over here and start processing, I'll fill her in." Erik hung up and looked at Catherine.

"So… you must be Catherin Willows from Vegas"

"Just who are you?"

"I'm Erik Destler, Lieutenant Erik Destler; I'm the replacement head of CSI here in Miami. Tell me how is the good Lieutenant Caine doing?"

"How?"

"I'm known for knowing things, please just answer the question"

"He's sick… he got attacked and was found laying in the glades by me" Erik frowned and looked to the side as Catherine got a good look at his right side and the blood that was flowing from his wound. Looking around quickly Catherine grabbed a roll of paper towel and put a good deal of it to the side of Erik's face, Erik was about to turn his head was a strong hand on the other side of his face kept him in place.

"And your hurt Erik, you need to see someone" Erik turned his eyes as well as he could to look at Catherine before he answered.

"Believe me lady, this is not the worst that I have ever had" Erik was stuck at the hand of a woman that was a stubborn as one of his own whenever he got hurt.

"Let me deal with your bleeding and you can wander off… oh hi Alexx" Erik looked with his eyes to the side as Alexx walked into view, groaning Alexx stepped in and looked over at Erik and she ended up scolding him about being careful. A sharp grunt from Erik made Alexx smirk as she took over Catherine's work applying gauze and pressure to his face. Erik saw in her eyes they had to talk later on. Erik had been in Miami no longer than 24 hours and Alexx had him whipped.

Once Erik was patched up and ready to go Alexx went over to where the body was or should have been and stopped turning her head to Erik.

"Uh-uh, no way honey there is next to nothing here. I should just be leaving this work for home"

Erik felt bad and lowered his head a little. "Sorry Mrs. Woods, but I'm guessing you want everything to do a COD?"

"You damn right better think that… something you want to tell me?"

"No Ma'am, at least not here" Alexx scrutinized Erik with a look and basically dragged him and Catherine out of the crime scene as the other CSI's and Body pick up people walked in to do the work.

"We're going for a drive back to the morgue and your coming with Erik, same with you Catherine you have a nice bump on your head too" Catherine looked at Alexx and felt her head gingerly and found the said bump and winced. Once at the morgue Alexx took care of Catherine first and told her she was fine she wouldn't have a concussion, next she told Erik to get up on the steel table and she completely checked him out, he was covered in blood, guts and debris. When she told Erik to take his coat off he agreed, but when she told him to take his shirt off he hesitated.

"Take the shirt off you have something in your side and the hole in your shirt is telling you this too" Alexx stood with her hands on her hips glaring menacingly at Erik, sighing he reluctantly took off his shirt and he left his head hanging and his eyes closed waiting for the questions that would come.

"Holy... shit... now do you want to explain what the hell happened to you?" Catherine was the first to say something when Alexx just ran her fingers down Erik's back, deep jagged scars adored nearly every area of his back, and his chest was no better with even more scars, pits, burned scar tissue.

Erik looked up his eyes hard for the second time since Stetler; Alexx was dealing with his side and the small bit of metal that was sticking out harmlessly of his side. "I... I'm a Canadian navy man; my background is criminology and forensics. I serve my country even now, I was one of the few that was chosen to be part of a very, very in the shadows and under the table military group funded by a US/Canadian coalition.

We are above every special unit out there in the world today, we have had to end certain things in the world that would have killed us all if we never intervened, we are also from all walks of life; I'm an officer, a forensics investigator while my friend is on the other side of the spectrum. She is a hitwoman, she is our tracker and ultimately one of the best silent killers we have, the rest come from gang background, military background, and some pulled off the street because of what they can do.

We are all honest people even those from the gang background and the reason they haven't died yet is because of the skills they were forced to learn. Galen is a navy man in the US Navy, and he's one of our top hi-jackers when it comes to vehicles, he can drive anything. Anyways, that body that you saw Alexx don't expect anything I could tell you the COD. It's the exact same as one of the other bodies I found when I was in Brazil a while ago, it was an uncle and if you where to match DNA to the girl you see relations to each other.

Whoever is doing this is copying the murders committed by the Shark. And that person would of had to been around when my unit was last there" Erik was interrupted by a sound coming from his hip, pulled his cell phone from his hip he flipped it opened and answered.

"Destler"

"Erik... bad news, I found the Shark finally, but he's been dead for quite a while. From what I'm seeing here and how badly it stinks, it must have been a few weeks to at least 2 months. This place is enclosed, and it's damn humid and hot in here..."

"That's can't be... I'm in Miami and the murders that are occurring here are exactly like the Shark's, right down to the uncle being turned into a human grenade. I was just in the store, as for the girl, I got a letter from someone that knows I was there when I had no choice but to kill the girl from before."

"Erik I'm telling you, this isn't a mistake this room is a panic room, and orders where being issued by e-mail coming from this room, this is the guy, I even took one of his men to confirm before I put a bullet into his head, this is the Shark."

"Fuck.... how the hell did we get watched while in Brazil, we all had the sat links up rooted to my computer, and yours there was no way we saw anyone other then us."

"I don't know Erik, I'm going to clean this place up and set the bomb here then head home I'll let you know when I get back to the island"

"Take care Cameron" Erik hung up and sat there rubbing his face, Alexx and Catherine looked at Erik when all of the CSI's showed up with a woman that Erik had never seen before. Delko walked up to Erik in a fury and threw his punch catching Erik in the side of the head as he fell off the steel table and landed on the ground.

"YOU SELF RIGHTGOUS BASTARD! YOU KILLED THAT GIRL BECAUSE YOU COULDN'T GET HER HELP!?! YOU FUCKING ASSHOLE, PUT HER OUT OF HER MISERY YOU DAMN WELL DID, YOU FUCKING BLEW HER TO PEICES!" As Delko continued to yell he was straddling Erik's hips and leaning down and throwing punches into Erik's body and face.

"Eric Delko, get off of him now!" Calliegh and everyone else rushed forwards, as they tried to get him off of Erik whose eyes where now lulling in his head as blood was coming from a split eye and down the side of his mouth. Ryan jumped into the fray to try and get Delko off but he caught an elbow to his stomach and he went down.

Frank had been coming in to see Erik and saw Delko beating the crap out of Erik, going over he plucked Delko from Erik and restrained him against the steel table as Alexx and everyone else rushed over to Erik, "Ok cowboy, time to settle down... time to take a breather"

"Frank don't hurt him"

"Well Yelina, didn't see you do anything other then stand there till I pulled Delko off of Destler. The hell you doing here?"

"Sharing information that I got from a source"

"Uh huh....wanna tell us what the deal is then?"

"Sure, but we should wait till the good Lieutenant is awake again. I have a message from a friend of his seeing as the information came from a friend of his. Says that Destler is insane, and a murderer"

"Really, and who would that be, Salas?" Erik had passed out but he reawakened catching the last of the conversation.

"Really because I have evidence that says otherwise, seeing as Zacharias Paige is the one that told me to investigate you"

Erik's face went white at the name, "What did you say?"

"Zacharias Paige, I'm sure you know him"

"He's back at base getting Psyc help; he was the one that was kidnapped. Most of my scars came from him when I tried to help him when we finally found him, no way he's here"

A/N OK! So I've finally joined the land of the living and we are now putting up the next chapter to this story. Sorry for delay and please read and review.

EDIT: Slight change in the chapter heh...