Post by Cammie Moonites on Jan 25, 2009 7:30:17 GMT -10
Alright, heres the deal, its a series of posts, all written by me, Role Play style,
I figured its something new and refreshing...
Mature Content Warning.
Enjoy.
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Cassity:
She was alone in her home, that she'd recently purchased.. she'd called him wanting him to come see her.. she'd missed him, missed his presence since he'd given her a few days off, and she knew, he knew that.
He'd told her he loved her when she'd hung up the phone... and she knew he meant it. So she'd cleaned up her place, made a little lunch for them, and knew that he'd be coming shortly.
Depression hit her, suddenly and off guard... all those years of seeing women, and children, and men torn apart, by someone, was starting to get to her.. starting to make her feel as though, she was one of them.
The truth was.. she was.
She was alone now.. in this world, even having him at her side, wasnt enough for her.. she knew it in her heart. She sat down on the couch in her living space, and pulled her gun from its holster.
It was just a tool, she thought.. a way to end lives, and protect your own, or that of an innocent civilian. She played with the idea of taking her own life in her head, it bounced around over and over. She knew, what Horatio had gone through the day Speedle had went down. She was there, in the background. She didnt know the man personally, and at the time had just been transfered to Miami.
She sighed. Threw the pistol down, and went to her door, to see if he was coming.
There, as she stood in the doorway peering out, pulled in her drive, a CSI Department issue hummer. And he sat inside.
She smiled a little, and waited.
Today, would change both of thier lives.. forever.
Horatio:
Horatio Caine hadnt seen Cassity in about four days. He was afraid that, that time apart had caused their relationship to plummet downwards.. He pulled in the driveway of the home, that she'd told him to meet her at, although he wondered if it was really her house.
Parked the hummer, and slowly got out.. strode to the door, where she was already waiting.
Something wasn't right, he could tell by the look in her deep hazel eyes..
He narrowed his ocean blue pools and strode inside after she'd let him in. It was bigger inside than outside, he noted, very decorative for the holidays, and as always had that Cassity taste to it. That put a smile on his face.. So maybe he'd been wrong, this was her home. He'd surely out of paranoia check it out later.
"Nice place." he murmured. He kept scanning the area, always always wondering if he'd be ambushed. He wasnt like that before. Never had been, until Speedle went down, and they where ambushed that day, and now, since then, he'd developed a sort of "dontambushme paranoia"
He watched as she walked to the table, she wasnt carrying, he noted.. he looked around.. thingyed his head to the side.
"How is my Detective." he asked, and outstretched his arm to touch her back, as he walked to her. He rested his head on her shoulder and whispered into her ear.
"I missed you.." he said it. And meant it.
There was no reaction from Cassity, like he thought there would be.. something was definitely wrong..something that, he knew... his gut was telling him, that this whole situation was about to go south quick.
"Ma'am, the food looks great." he said, and forced himself to pull away.
He stood, with his hand on his pistol, other on his left hip, head thingyed to the side. Wondering what she had planned, wondering...how south this was going to go.
Cassity:
She smiled at his touch, felt him around her although she didnt show her reaction, because, she was to numb, to numb to even care.
Heard his words about the food, and that too put a smile on her face.. but she had alterior motives. Knew how this was going to end. She was holding her pistol, in her hands. And Horatio hadnt caught it, which made it all the more grand.
No, she wasnt going to kill Horatio... it was quite the oppisite actually..
She turned, slowly and pivoted her leg into the air, knowing she'd connected with his jaw. Caught him off guard, that was for sure, and she saw it in his eyes. Would he pull his gun on her..?
She smiled whickedly.. "Mmm, I made it just for you Lieutenant Caine." she said it, the voice like that out of a horror movie.
Sly smile crossed her features now as she stood, and pondered how this was going to end, watching the blood fall from his broken jaw. She'd connected, alright, and connceted hard. Shattered his cheekbone. She could see the bruise already forming.
"I'm sorry Horatio...I had to do it.." deranged words came from her vocals as she stood..
"So you would do me the honor..." she stopped, and stared at him, trying to fight her way back to sanity, but it wasnt working...she stood, waiting for his next move, wondering what he would do, would he shoot her... no, not yet, nor would he call for backup.
Horatio:
Horatio took the hit without fault to his cheek, jaw area. Blood was now coming from the teeth she'd forced out of his mouth, and the bruise from his cheek that was now shattered. He could still talk, although it was hard and his mouth wasnt cooperating.
Issues arose about what he was going to do, and now, at this moment, he realized he couldnt follow procedure.. not in this situation. He was a cop full blooded, but this, this was insanity.
He narrowed his eyes and stared at her.. spitting out a few of his teeth onto the already blood soaked floor.
"What do you want..." he asked as pain welled up in his face. He shifted his weight a little, his gun already ready to be pulled.
"Do you the.. Honor." he said the words and then thought about them for a minute, two.
It hit him, as hard as it could have... she wanted him to kill her. Suicide by cop..
He shook his head..
"Courtney.. I cant... I wont do that.." he said, "Not even if you force me to, I wont pull the trigger on you." he narrowed his eyes, trying to talk her down, and noticed that it wasnt working, and now he was alone with her. He searched for something anything, but he knew, she was in charge here and there was no way around it.
"Why...why do you suddenly want to lose it all?" he asked, his eyes narrowing again.
"What has happened to the woman that I realized I wanted to spend the rest of my life with...?" he shifted his weight again, his jaw, he realized wasnt broken, just badly bruised and he was thankful for it.
He stood, staring into the eyes of insanity, and he knew, one way or another, how this was going to end and it, wasnt, it never would be him being carried out in a body bag, and he knew, thats what she wanted, what he'd come here for, why she'd called him, because he, was going to be the one who was forced into taking her life
Cassity:
Cassity smiled at his questions.. knew there where no answers, although she thingyed her service pistol, and pointed it at him.
"Because, Caine. Horatio...I love you." was all she could come up with, all that would come from her mouth. She narrowed her own eyes and stare into his..
"You've taken so many lives... I've yet, to take one... now you get to do me the honor of taking mine.." she murmured.
She stepped forward, and lifted the pistol to point directly into his chest.
"So. What will it be...either I kill you, or you kill me." she smiled at the rhyme.
This wasnt a game by any means to her, she knew how this was going to end, and how she wanted it to end, and as she thought that, her finger caressed the trigger.
"I'm already, numb, I cant work...this job, has destroyed everything I am." She played the trigger again. She would indeed shoot him if she had to to get him to kill her, but she knew Horatio wasnt easily matched by anyone.
"I cant do this anymore, I wont do this anymore... my life... is not my life anymore, its the life of.. Courtney Cassity, Sex Crimes detective, with all of those marks on her badge.. for good service, what am I in the army?" she snorted... narrowed her eyes..
"Its a choice I had to made, surely I wasnt going to allow myself to take my own life, no, I had to have someone else do it.. someone who'd done it before...ah yes, and here comes the point, I am, indeed no better than Clavo Cruz..for I have blood on my hands as well... Horatio." she paused long and hard..
Narrowed her eyes more.. "Your son. Is dead." she said it deadpan, and watched as anger broiled over pain ran through Horatio's veins.
"Mmm, From my bullet." she said the words, and just waited for him to take her life... waited for him to make that choice
Horatio:
Horatio listened to the words of insanity, listened to her brag about killing Kyle, he knew he was alive, but he allowed her to see the pain he would feel if he'd been dead, allowed her to see what she'd done to him.
"Wh...wh...at..?" he played along... he'd seen Kyle not moments before coming here, and he knew she didnt know that. His eyes got wide, and finally he pulled his pistol from its holster.
She'd already told him that she'd not taken a life, so he realized, she was lying the moment the words spewed from her mouth.. How dare she go there, he thought, even if it was a lie.
Horatio pulled his pistol to aim at her chest. He was indeed going to be forced into killing her. Which he didnt want to do, never wanted to do, but knew it had to be done. There was no way to avoid it, and as his finger met the trigger, he waited, a beat, two...would she say more...
Two shots rang out.............echoed through the building, shattering glass, breaking a life...........
Cassity:
Cassity pulled the trigger in the same instant Horatio had, although she hit the ground first.. and blood pooled from a bullet placed directly in her heart. She coughed up blood, tried to find a way to survive, that was primal, she only had moments left, and hoped that Horatio would forgive her, before she dissipeared into nothing. Fear ran through her suddenly as she realized she was actually going to die...
"H...h...horatio..." she coughed his name... she didnt even know if she'd hit him.. was he lying at her feet.. she tried using what adrenaline she had left to shift her weight... to roll onto her side... but it was to no avail...
Would he come to her...she wondered, would he come, be beside her, as she faded away....
she began to weep, saline tears streamed down her face, and mixed with the crimson liquid that was her blood.
She closed her eyes and swallowed the acid of death, fighting it back for a few short moments, when he'd grab her hand, and tell her she was forgiven...
Horatio:
Horatio was hit, but he'd moved just in time, to only be shot directly in the shoulder, and despite the pain he knew, she wanted him beside her.. He pulled himself together, and crawled to her side.
Holstered his pistol, and kneeled over her. Grabbing her hand, and squeezing...
"Cassity...." he murmured.. thier blood mixing in the floor..
"I forgive you..." he said the words, he knew would set her free, he could feel her fading, as she faught to stay alive.. but he knew, just like with Speedle, that it wasnt going to work... he grabbed her face, and tried to wipe the blood off of her mouth...
"Stay with me...partner.." he murmured, knowing what was to happen after she died..
Pain now laced with fear, and guilt wrapped around his heart, and he allowed saline tears down his own features...
"Stay...with me.." he said the words again, wondering if she could hear him, wondering if this, truely was the end.
Cassity:
Cassity held his hand, wanted him to know she still loved him... with everything she was... but... there was no way to tell him, her voice had dissapeared.. and came back, for a moment..
"I...cant....br..reathe.." was all she could say... all she knew he would hear..
She looked into his eyes one last time... stared into the beautiful ocean blue eyes of the warrior who knelt beside her... Horatio Caine...
She turned her head to the side, and then stare at his face again, wanting so badly to touch him one last time, but she knew, she hadnt the strength.
She coughed, and her body flinched, and, her hand fell to the side...
she was gone.
Horatio:
Horatio heard her pleas for life, heard her begging to stay alive... telling him she couldnt breath, and all he could offer was..
"I know, I know.." and infact he did know.
Slowly her hand lost its grasp from his, and fell to the side, her eyes went light, and he knew she was gone.
He fell to her chest, his face becoming coated in her blood, just as he'd done with Speedle... but this time, he actually started sobbing... Suicide by cop, had worked, and now, he knew he was going to have to face the consequences of his actions.
He wasnt going to call it in immediately.. He couldnt pull himself together enough to. He fell to his rump beside her.. closed her eyes... and threw his pistol to the side, suddenly he started CPR on her, realizing that maybe he could bring her back... maybe he could... he stopped himself short... there was so much blood, he was soaked with it. Covered in it from head to toe..
He pulled out his phone...
Shuddering he called it in...
"Th..this is Lieutenant Caine, I have shots fired, officer down...DOA...no backup needed..." he murmured.. "Just..... ME and CSI" he said... he shrugged, and dropped his phone into the crimson colored liquid that he was now sitting in... Some of the blood was his, he knew, some of it was hers, most of it was... he didnt even care that his arm was bleeding, it was just a graze, deep but a graze...
He faught himself to his feet and walked to the door, this wasnt a crime scene... no evidence needed to be preserved, it was self defence, on his part, and he knew they'd see it that way...
He narrowed his eyes, and leaned up against the door, with his shoulder that wasnt injured.
Waited, for someone to come...
For someone to save him from doing the same....
His heart was going to take a long time to recover this time...with Speedle it had been long enough, but this... was going to take a while....
He already was breaking again, and he knew he had to pull himself together... for the sake of his CSI's...
He wondered who would be the first to arrive... he was betting on either Rick, or... he didnt know... too much was floating around in his mind for him to care, and try as he may to distract himself...
He had just taken a life.
Rick:
Rick Stetler was in the lab when he'd heard the call out, waiting for Horatio Caine.
One of the dispatchers had put it into the brass and it went to him.
Thats two cops that had died under Horatio Caine's watch..
Another reason for him to lose his job.. Rick smiled.
He walked to his car without talking to anyone, narrowed his eyes and got in, turned on his computer and read what the Call out had said...
Horatio Caine had called it in... interesting..he thought... He'd called in Speedles shooting as well.
"Th..this is Lieutenant Caine, I have shots fired, officer down...DOA...no backup needed...Just..... ME and CSI"
Rick sighed, a little, and made his way to Courtney Cassity's home. It wasnt far from the Crime lab, and surely Horatio had stayed on scene.
He pulled in behind the hummer, and as he got out of his Tahoe, he realized that there was defiantly more to the story than what Horatio had told dispatch... slowly he walked up the sidewalk, the scent of death was flowing infront of the house.. and it made his nostrils flare with it.
He walked up to the door, and peered inside. Horatio was kneeling down by Cassity's body just as he had for Tim Speedle... it was like Dajavu to him..He didnt even bother knocking, instead he opened the door and walked in. Careful not to slip on the still drying blood.
"Horatio.." he said as he looked down at the Lieutenant.
"What happened...?" he asked, accusation in his voice.
He narrowed his eyes.
"It looks like you murdered her in cold blood Horatio." he said the words, he knew would broil Horatio's blood.
He took a moment to look around... there was so much blood, Horatio didnt look like himself, crimson color soaked about every inch of him. He was covered in it.. He also noted the teeth that Lieutenant Caine was missing, laying on the floor.
"Horatio... answer." he said...ordered.
He stood, hands on his hips in one of the few areas not coated in either of thier blood... sighed, shrugged and waited for a response.
Horatio:
Horatio heard someone walk in, his gaze was hazed with what he'd done... and all of the fears running through his system. Horatio was fearless, on the outside... but on the inside that was a different story, Horatio was a tough cop.. awesome leader, but he too had his fears, and even though it didnt show... they where there.
He knew Rick had walked in the door, as soon as he'd heard the footsteps come closer, he knew Ricks gate from a mile away. He didnt even acknowledge his presence... he was too lost.. staring at the body of Courtney Cassity.
Why... he wondered had he let it go that far.. he knew deep down there was more he could have done.. more that he could have said.. why hadnt he...
Horatio finally looked up at Rick, and narrowed his blood stained eyes..
"Rick...if your going to interrogate me, do it later.." he murmured. He knew as well as Rick did that this was now an IAB case since a police officer had been killed by another one..
Horatio looked down at Cassity, saline tears coated his cheeks, his features.. they made trails through the blood that was so heavily stained to his flesh..
"Rick. She... she called me here..." was all he could say, all that would come from him... if more came, from his tongue the memories would flood back into his mind, and he'd mentally break down, and he was going to save that for later.
"She...wanted me to come over for dinner.." he murmured.. trying to tip toe around the issue at hand.
He knew what Ricks response was going to be... 'Did the sex get out of hand, or was she not good enough for you...?' and he was ready for it.
Just like he was ready to face the consequences of his actions. He always did in the end.
Horatio stood on his feet and looked directly into Rick's eyes..
"The body is still warm.." he said.. he reached down, and grabbed his blood soaked pistol, pulled off his holster, and slung it in it.. blood dripping from every inch of it...
"Here. Your going to need this.." he said and shoved it into Rick's grasp.
Horatio turned a little and then collapsed beside Cassity again...
"Why d**nit!" he yelled, Horatio generally didnt swear, he tried not to then and again but at the moment he didnt give a flying rats ass about anything..
He threw his head to her chest again, and sobbed, there, infront of Rick... proof, that he too, was human. And that he too, could break.
Rick:
Rick looked into Horatio's eyes and narrowed his own.
"She called you over for dinner, Horatio..." he paused.. "You know I dont believe you, how about you came here, because she'd pissed you off, because she had been with someone else? or that maybe something else had happened, and she got thingyy with you, and you decided the best thing would be to put one in her heart." he stopped, watch the emotion waited for it to wash over Horatio's face.
He took the gun, as blood soaked as it was and held onto it. He now held Horatio Caine's life in his hands, and it was a power, anyone would love to have. And he enjoyed the rush of it every time Horatio had been forced to hand over his gun.
He watched Horatio yell, and then collapse, and fall into Cassity's chest again.. said nothing..there where no words, he knew, even as much as he hated Horatio, there where no words to console a broken heart...
His gaze sombered as he looked at the door, thinking he'd heard something. There was no way to say good-bye either he knew all too well..
"Horatio.." he murmured, but that was all he said, the apology he almost spewed kept on his tongue. "Your going to be interrogated later today, when the ME comes take some time to get everything clear, and wash the hell up."
He snorted..
It was proof as Horatio sit there, proof that even the strongest of people could break in two. And that made him realize it.. but he wasnt going to show it.
"Horatio your not acting like a Lieutenant, your acting like a pansy get the hell up." he ordered. Knew Horatio wouldnt listen.
He shifted his weight, and tried to find a bag or something to put the pistol that now had bled all over his jacket somewhere. Into a bag, something.
He couldnt find one and just set it down on the counter where Horatio was hunched over.
He sighed...
Waited a beat.
"Lieutenant Caine you are under arrest, for the murder of Detective Cassity, Stand up, you have the right to remain silent...anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law, you have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one one will be apointed to you, do you understand your rights, as I have said them to you?" he said smiling as he mirandised Lieutenant Caine...
Mmm, today, he thought, was a good day.
Horatio:
Horatio was taken aback. All of the words that Rick had said, about what he'd thought had happened, and now, as he struggled to stand, and swallowed the sobs down hard, he stood, looking at Rick..
"Un..Under arrest...but...this was suicide by cop..Rick." he said his eyes narrowing to slits, Horatio couldnt believe that he'd just been put under arrest. Again.
He sighed, and wiped his sleeve on his cheeks, and realized that it wasnt going to matter, he was being hauled in anyways. He sighed, just another death on his conscience another death that Rick would blame on him..
"It...it was self defense... if anything.. Stetler." he said using Ricks last name because he knew it annoyed him.
Horatio stepped forward.
"I'm not a murderer..." he said the words low, and almost broke again.
He almost whimpered too. Horatio looked away, hoping and praying someone would come through the door, anyone, to prove that he was innocent in the facts that he'd killed only in self defense.
"I dont kill, unless I have to Rick...unlike you, who beats women just because you can." he said his voice still shaking a little. The feeling of utter destruction was wrapped around his gut and his heart, and it wasnt going to fade any time soon.
He sighed, and shifted his weight as he stood, realizing his arm was still bleeding, he did nothing to get help for it, and it looked like Rick didnt care if he did or not.
Horatio narrowed his eyes when he spoke again.
"You ever get therapy for that little problem you have Rick?" he asked, anger and violence reining behind his gaze.
"You should." he said and then looked away.
I figured its something new and refreshing...
Mature Content Warning.
Enjoy.
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Cassity:
She was alone in her home, that she'd recently purchased.. she'd called him wanting him to come see her.. she'd missed him, missed his presence since he'd given her a few days off, and she knew, he knew that.
He'd told her he loved her when she'd hung up the phone... and she knew he meant it. So she'd cleaned up her place, made a little lunch for them, and knew that he'd be coming shortly.
Depression hit her, suddenly and off guard... all those years of seeing women, and children, and men torn apart, by someone, was starting to get to her.. starting to make her feel as though, she was one of them.
The truth was.. she was.
She was alone now.. in this world, even having him at her side, wasnt enough for her.. she knew it in her heart. She sat down on the couch in her living space, and pulled her gun from its holster.
It was just a tool, she thought.. a way to end lives, and protect your own, or that of an innocent civilian. She played with the idea of taking her own life in her head, it bounced around over and over. She knew, what Horatio had gone through the day Speedle had went down. She was there, in the background. She didnt know the man personally, and at the time had just been transfered to Miami.
She sighed. Threw the pistol down, and went to her door, to see if he was coming.
There, as she stood in the doorway peering out, pulled in her drive, a CSI Department issue hummer. And he sat inside.
She smiled a little, and waited.
Today, would change both of thier lives.. forever.
Horatio:
Horatio Caine hadnt seen Cassity in about four days. He was afraid that, that time apart had caused their relationship to plummet downwards.. He pulled in the driveway of the home, that she'd told him to meet her at, although he wondered if it was really her house.
Parked the hummer, and slowly got out.. strode to the door, where she was already waiting.
Something wasn't right, he could tell by the look in her deep hazel eyes..
He narrowed his ocean blue pools and strode inside after she'd let him in. It was bigger inside than outside, he noted, very decorative for the holidays, and as always had that Cassity taste to it. That put a smile on his face.. So maybe he'd been wrong, this was her home. He'd surely out of paranoia check it out later.
"Nice place." he murmured. He kept scanning the area, always always wondering if he'd be ambushed. He wasnt like that before. Never had been, until Speedle went down, and they where ambushed that day, and now, since then, he'd developed a sort of "dontambushme paranoia"
He watched as she walked to the table, she wasnt carrying, he noted.. he looked around.. thingyed his head to the side.
"How is my Detective." he asked, and outstretched his arm to touch her back, as he walked to her. He rested his head on her shoulder and whispered into her ear.
"I missed you.." he said it. And meant it.
There was no reaction from Cassity, like he thought there would be.. something was definitely wrong..something that, he knew... his gut was telling him, that this whole situation was about to go south quick.
"Ma'am, the food looks great." he said, and forced himself to pull away.
He stood, with his hand on his pistol, other on his left hip, head thingyed to the side. Wondering what she had planned, wondering...how south this was going to go.
Cassity:
She smiled at his touch, felt him around her although she didnt show her reaction, because, she was to numb, to numb to even care.
Heard his words about the food, and that too put a smile on her face.. but she had alterior motives. Knew how this was going to end. She was holding her pistol, in her hands. And Horatio hadnt caught it, which made it all the more grand.
No, she wasnt going to kill Horatio... it was quite the oppisite actually..
She turned, slowly and pivoted her leg into the air, knowing she'd connected with his jaw. Caught him off guard, that was for sure, and she saw it in his eyes. Would he pull his gun on her..?
She smiled whickedly.. "Mmm, I made it just for you Lieutenant Caine." she said it, the voice like that out of a horror movie.
Sly smile crossed her features now as she stood, and pondered how this was going to end, watching the blood fall from his broken jaw. She'd connected, alright, and connceted hard. Shattered his cheekbone. She could see the bruise already forming.
"I'm sorry Horatio...I had to do it.." deranged words came from her vocals as she stood..
"So you would do me the honor..." she stopped, and stared at him, trying to fight her way back to sanity, but it wasnt working...she stood, waiting for his next move, wondering what he would do, would he shoot her... no, not yet, nor would he call for backup.
Horatio:
Horatio took the hit without fault to his cheek, jaw area. Blood was now coming from the teeth she'd forced out of his mouth, and the bruise from his cheek that was now shattered. He could still talk, although it was hard and his mouth wasnt cooperating.
Issues arose about what he was going to do, and now, at this moment, he realized he couldnt follow procedure.. not in this situation. He was a cop full blooded, but this, this was insanity.
He narrowed his eyes and stared at her.. spitting out a few of his teeth onto the already blood soaked floor.
"What do you want..." he asked as pain welled up in his face. He shifted his weight a little, his gun already ready to be pulled.
"Do you the.. Honor." he said the words and then thought about them for a minute, two.
It hit him, as hard as it could have... she wanted him to kill her. Suicide by cop..
He shook his head..
"Courtney.. I cant... I wont do that.." he said, "Not even if you force me to, I wont pull the trigger on you." he narrowed his eyes, trying to talk her down, and noticed that it wasnt working, and now he was alone with her. He searched for something anything, but he knew, she was in charge here and there was no way around it.
"Why...why do you suddenly want to lose it all?" he asked, his eyes narrowing again.
"What has happened to the woman that I realized I wanted to spend the rest of my life with...?" he shifted his weight again, his jaw, he realized wasnt broken, just badly bruised and he was thankful for it.
He stood, staring into the eyes of insanity, and he knew, one way or another, how this was going to end and it, wasnt, it never would be him being carried out in a body bag, and he knew, thats what she wanted, what he'd come here for, why she'd called him, because he, was going to be the one who was forced into taking her life
Cassity:
Cassity smiled at his questions.. knew there where no answers, although she thingyed her service pistol, and pointed it at him.
"Because, Caine. Horatio...I love you." was all she could come up with, all that would come from her mouth. She narrowed her own eyes and stare into his..
"You've taken so many lives... I've yet, to take one... now you get to do me the honor of taking mine.." she murmured.
She stepped forward, and lifted the pistol to point directly into his chest.
"So. What will it be...either I kill you, or you kill me." she smiled at the rhyme.
This wasnt a game by any means to her, she knew how this was going to end, and how she wanted it to end, and as she thought that, her finger caressed the trigger.
"I'm already, numb, I cant work...this job, has destroyed everything I am." She played the trigger again. She would indeed shoot him if she had to to get him to kill her, but she knew Horatio wasnt easily matched by anyone.
"I cant do this anymore, I wont do this anymore... my life... is not my life anymore, its the life of.. Courtney Cassity, Sex Crimes detective, with all of those marks on her badge.. for good service, what am I in the army?" she snorted... narrowed her eyes..
"Its a choice I had to made, surely I wasnt going to allow myself to take my own life, no, I had to have someone else do it.. someone who'd done it before...ah yes, and here comes the point, I am, indeed no better than Clavo Cruz..for I have blood on my hands as well... Horatio." she paused long and hard..
Narrowed her eyes more.. "Your son. Is dead." she said it deadpan, and watched as anger broiled over pain ran through Horatio's veins.
"Mmm, From my bullet." she said the words, and just waited for him to take her life... waited for him to make that choice
Horatio:
Horatio listened to the words of insanity, listened to her brag about killing Kyle, he knew he was alive, but he allowed her to see the pain he would feel if he'd been dead, allowed her to see what she'd done to him.
"Wh...wh...at..?" he played along... he'd seen Kyle not moments before coming here, and he knew she didnt know that. His eyes got wide, and finally he pulled his pistol from its holster.
She'd already told him that she'd not taken a life, so he realized, she was lying the moment the words spewed from her mouth.. How dare she go there, he thought, even if it was a lie.
Horatio pulled his pistol to aim at her chest. He was indeed going to be forced into killing her. Which he didnt want to do, never wanted to do, but knew it had to be done. There was no way to avoid it, and as his finger met the trigger, he waited, a beat, two...would she say more...
Two shots rang out.............echoed through the building, shattering glass, breaking a life...........
Cassity:
Cassity pulled the trigger in the same instant Horatio had, although she hit the ground first.. and blood pooled from a bullet placed directly in her heart. She coughed up blood, tried to find a way to survive, that was primal, she only had moments left, and hoped that Horatio would forgive her, before she dissipeared into nothing. Fear ran through her suddenly as she realized she was actually going to die...
"H...h...horatio..." she coughed his name... she didnt even know if she'd hit him.. was he lying at her feet.. she tried using what adrenaline she had left to shift her weight... to roll onto her side... but it was to no avail...
Would he come to her...she wondered, would he come, be beside her, as she faded away....
she began to weep, saline tears streamed down her face, and mixed with the crimson liquid that was her blood.
She closed her eyes and swallowed the acid of death, fighting it back for a few short moments, when he'd grab her hand, and tell her she was forgiven...
Horatio:
Horatio was hit, but he'd moved just in time, to only be shot directly in the shoulder, and despite the pain he knew, she wanted him beside her.. He pulled himself together, and crawled to her side.
Holstered his pistol, and kneeled over her. Grabbing her hand, and squeezing...
"Cassity...." he murmured.. thier blood mixing in the floor..
"I forgive you..." he said the words, he knew would set her free, he could feel her fading, as she faught to stay alive.. but he knew, just like with Speedle, that it wasnt going to work... he grabbed her face, and tried to wipe the blood off of her mouth...
"Stay with me...partner.." he murmured, knowing what was to happen after she died..
Pain now laced with fear, and guilt wrapped around his heart, and he allowed saline tears down his own features...
"Stay...with me.." he said the words again, wondering if she could hear him, wondering if this, truely was the end.
Cassity:
Cassity held his hand, wanted him to know she still loved him... with everything she was... but... there was no way to tell him, her voice had dissapeared.. and came back, for a moment..
"I...cant....br..reathe.." was all she could say... all she knew he would hear..
She looked into his eyes one last time... stared into the beautiful ocean blue eyes of the warrior who knelt beside her... Horatio Caine...
She turned her head to the side, and then stare at his face again, wanting so badly to touch him one last time, but she knew, she hadnt the strength.
She coughed, and her body flinched, and, her hand fell to the side...
she was gone.
Horatio:
Horatio heard her pleas for life, heard her begging to stay alive... telling him she couldnt breath, and all he could offer was..
"I know, I know.." and infact he did know.
Slowly her hand lost its grasp from his, and fell to the side, her eyes went light, and he knew she was gone.
He fell to her chest, his face becoming coated in her blood, just as he'd done with Speedle... but this time, he actually started sobbing... Suicide by cop, had worked, and now, he knew he was going to have to face the consequences of his actions.
He wasnt going to call it in immediately.. He couldnt pull himself together enough to. He fell to his rump beside her.. closed her eyes... and threw his pistol to the side, suddenly he started CPR on her, realizing that maybe he could bring her back... maybe he could... he stopped himself short... there was so much blood, he was soaked with it. Covered in it from head to toe..
He pulled out his phone...
Shuddering he called it in...
"Th..this is Lieutenant Caine, I have shots fired, officer down...DOA...no backup needed..." he murmured.. "Just..... ME and CSI" he said... he shrugged, and dropped his phone into the crimson colored liquid that he was now sitting in... Some of the blood was his, he knew, some of it was hers, most of it was... he didnt even care that his arm was bleeding, it was just a graze, deep but a graze...
He faught himself to his feet and walked to the door, this wasnt a crime scene... no evidence needed to be preserved, it was self defence, on his part, and he knew they'd see it that way...
He narrowed his eyes, and leaned up against the door, with his shoulder that wasnt injured.
Waited, for someone to come...
For someone to save him from doing the same....
His heart was going to take a long time to recover this time...with Speedle it had been long enough, but this... was going to take a while....
He already was breaking again, and he knew he had to pull himself together... for the sake of his CSI's...
He wondered who would be the first to arrive... he was betting on either Rick, or... he didnt know... too much was floating around in his mind for him to care, and try as he may to distract himself...
He had just taken a life.
Rick:
Rick Stetler was in the lab when he'd heard the call out, waiting for Horatio Caine.
One of the dispatchers had put it into the brass and it went to him.
Thats two cops that had died under Horatio Caine's watch..
Another reason for him to lose his job.. Rick smiled.
He walked to his car without talking to anyone, narrowed his eyes and got in, turned on his computer and read what the Call out had said...
Horatio Caine had called it in... interesting..he thought... He'd called in Speedles shooting as well.
"Th..this is Lieutenant Caine, I have shots fired, officer down...DOA...no backup needed...Just..... ME and CSI"
Rick sighed, a little, and made his way to Courtney Cassity's home. It wasnt far from the Crime lab, and surely Horatio had stayed on scene.
He pulled in behind the hummer, and as he got out of his Tahoe, he realized that there was defiantly more to the story than what Horatio had told dispatch... slowly he walked up the sidewalk, the scent of death was flowing infront of the house.. and it made his nostrils flare with it.
He walked up to the door, and peered inside. Horatio was kneeling down by Cassity's body just as he had for Tim Speedle... it was like Dajavu to him..He didnt even bother knocking, instead he opened the door and walked in. Careful not to slip on the still drying blood.
"Horatio.." he said as he looked down at the Lieutenant.
"What happened...?" he asked, accusation in his voice.
He narrowed his eyes.
"It looks like you murdered her in cold blood Horatio." he said the words, he knew would broil Horatio's blood.
He took a moment to look around... there was so much blood, Horatio didnt look like himself, crimson color soaked about every inch of him. He was covered in it.. He also noted the teeth that Lieutenant Caine was missing, laying on the floor.
"Horatio... answer." he said...ordered.
He stood, hands on his hips in one of the few areas not coated in either of thier blood... sighed, shrugged and waited for a response.
Horatio:
Horatio heard someone walk in, his gaze was hazed with what he'd done... and all of the fears running through his system. Horatio was fearless, on the outside... but on the inside that was a different story, Horatio was a tough cop.. awesome leader, but he too had his fears, and even though it didnt show... they where there.
He knew Rick had walked in the door, as soon as he'd heard the footsteps come closer, he knew Ricks gate from a mile away. He didnt even acknowledge his presence... he was too lost.. staring at the body of Courtney Cassity.
Why... he wondered had he let it go that far.. he knew deep down there was more he could have done.. more that he could have said.. why hadnt he...
Horatio finally looked up at Rick, and narrowed his blood stained eyes..
"Rick...if your going to interrogate me, do it later.." he murmured. He knew as well as Rick did that this was now an IAB case since a police officer had been killed by another one..
Horatio looked down at Cassity, saline tears coated his cheeks, his features.. they made trails through the blood that was so heavily stained to his flesh..
"Rick. She... she called me here..." was all he could say, all that would come from him... if more came, from his tongue the memories would flood back into his mind, and he'd mentally break down, and he was going to save that for later.
"She...wanted me to come over for dinner.." he murmured.. trying to tip toe around the issue at hand.
He knew what Ricks response was going to be... 'Did the sex get out of hand, or was she not good enough for you...?' and he was ready for it.
Just like he was ready to face the consequences of his actions. He always did in the end.
Horatio stood on his feet and looked directly into Rick's eyes..
"The body is still warm.." he said.. he reached down, and grabbed his blood soaked pistol, pulled off his holster, and slung it in it.. blood dripping from every inch of it...
"Here. Your going to need this.." he said and shoved it into Rick's grasp.
Horatio turned a little and then collapsed beside Cassity again...
"Why d**nit!" he yelled, Horatio generally didnt swear, he tried not to then and again but at the moment he didnt give a flying rats ass about anything..
He threw his head to her chest again, and sobbed, there, infront of Rick... proof, that he too, was human. And that he too, could break.
Rick:
Rick looked into Horatio's eyes and narrowed his own.
"She called you over for dinner, Horatio..." he paused.. "You know I dont believe you, how about you came here, because she'd pissed you off, because she had been with someone else? or that maybe something else had happened, and she got thingyy with you, and you decided the best thing would be to put one in her heart." he stopped, watch the emotion waited for it to wash over Horatio's face.
He took the gun, as blood soaked as it was and held onto it. He now held Horatio Caine's life in his hands, and it was a power, anyone would love to have. And he enjoyed the rush of it every time Horatio had been forced to hand over his gun.
He watched Horatio yell, and then collapse, and fall into Cassity's chest again.. said nothing..there where no words, he knew, even as much as he hated Horatio, there where no words to console a broken heart...
His gaze sombered as he looked at the door, thinking he'd heard something. There was no way to say good-bye either he knew all too well..
"Horatio.." he murmured, but that was all he said, the apology he almost spewed kept on his tongue. "Your going to be interrogated later today, when the ME comes take some time to get everything clear, and wash the hell up."
He snorted..
It was proof as Horatio sit there, proof that even the strongest of people could break in two. And that made him realize it.. but he wasnt going to show it.
"Horatio your not acting like a Lieutenant, your acting like a pansy get the hell up." he ordered. Knew Horatio wouldnt listen.
He shifted his weight, and tried to find a bag or something to put the pistol that now had bled all over his jacket somewhere. Into a bag, something.
He couldnt find one and just set it down on the counter where Horatio was hunched over.
He sighed...
Waited a beat.
"Lieutenant Caine you are under arrest, for the murder of Detective Cassity, Stand up, you have the right to remain silent...anything you say can and will be held against you in a court of law, you have the right to an attorney, if you cannot afford one one will be apointed to you, do you understand your rights, as I have said them to you?" he said smiling as he mirandised Lieutenant Caine...
Mmm, today, he thought, was a good day.
Horatio:
Horatio was taken aback. All of the words that Rick had said, about what he'd thought had happened, and now, as he struggled to stand, and swallowed the sobs down hard, he stood, looking at Rick..
"Un..Under arrest...but...this was suicide by cop..Rick." he said his eyes narrowing to slits, Horatio couldnt believe that he'd just been put under arrest. Again.
He sighed, and wiped his sleeve on his cheeks, and realized that it wasnt going to matter, he was being hauled in anyways. He sighed, just another death on his conscience another death that Rick would blame on him..
"It...it was self defense... if anything.. Stetler." he said using Ricks last name because he knew it annoyed him.
Horatio stepped forward.
"I'm not a murderer..." he said the words low, and almost broke again.
He almost whimpered too. Horatio looked away, hoping and praying someone would come through the door, anyone, to prove that he was innocent in the facts that he'd killed only in self defense.
"I dont kill, unless I have to Rick...unlike you, who beats women just because you can." he said his voice still shaking a little. The feeling of utter destruction was wrapped around his gut and his heart, and it wasnt going to fade any time soon.
He sighed, and shifted his weight as he stood, realizing his arm was still bleeding, he did nothing to get help for it, and it looked like Rick didnt care if he did or not.
Horatio narrowed his eyes when he spoke again.
"You ever get therapy for that little problem you have Rick?" he asked, anger and violence reining behind his gaze.
"You should." he said and then looked away.