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Post by Dr. Anna McBreadle on Apr 15, 2009 7:34:15 GMT -10
im feeling much better today, i even felt well enough to take alisha swimming today and now she is all tired out, thank god! anyway, enjoy! luv sam x
At Oleta River State Park, Ryan arrived shortly followed by Eric. They were greeted by the head park keeper. “You must be Graham, I’m Ryan Wolfe from the crime lab, we spoke earlier on the phone.” The well built, fair haired man put out the cigarette he was smoking, “yeah, that’s me. Are you here about Daley?” Ryan nodded, “do you have a list of employees we could have please?” “Sure, come into my office.” Eric turned to Ryan, “I’ll have a look around.” Ryan followed Graham in to the building, “do you have many ex-cons working for you?” Graham rustled through some papers in his filing cabinet, “yeah quite a few. Not many people want to do hard labour nowadays so I’ll get whatever workforce I can get.” “Do you check them out?” “Oh yeah. There are some criminals that I won’t hire like paedophiles. There are a lot of families that come here so I don’t want that kind of a person working for me,” he handed Ryan a sheet of paper. “Thanks, also is there anyone on this list that Daley had a lot of contact with?” Graham scanned through the list, “yeah, Karl Jenks. Everyone calls him Jinx though.” “Jinx?” Graham shrugged, “I think it’s something to do with his last name. I don’t know, apparently he picked it up in the slammer.” Ryan grinned and shook his head, “can you tell me where he is please?” Graham took Ryan to meet ‘Jinx’.
Eric looked around the park. He noticed a patch of dead plants in the middle of a flower bed. He took a closer look and found some dead flowers and nepeta amongst the live ones. “Can I help you?” Eric jumped out of skin and stood up to come face to face with a long haired, burly man wearing a dark green overall, “who are you?” “I’m one of the keepers, who are you?” “Eric Delko, I’m from Miami-Dade crime lab. What happened here?” “Some drunk fell in it a couple of days ago. We haven’t had time to replant anything. We’re a bit short staffed.” “Especially since one of your co-workers were killed.” Graham and Ryan approached the two men. “This is Jinx,” Graham gestured towards the man Eric was talking to, “he’ll answer any questions you need, won’t you Jinx?” Jinx looked at the men around him, “sure boss” “I’ll be in my office if you need anything else,” Graham turned to leave them all to it. Ryan eyes narrowed as he looked at Jinx, “how long have you known Daley for?” “A few months, I met him in the slammer just before he was released.” “When was the last time you saw Daley?” Jinx thought for a moment, “maybe two or three days ago. He said that he was off to see someone in the slammer.” Ryan and Eric’s attention was fully on the ex-con, “do you know who that was?” Eric got his phone out. “Nope, he didn’t say. Just that he had a score to settle. That was it.” “Thank you Jinx, I we need anything else we’ll find you,” Eric dialled his phone and put it to his ear. “You calling Horatio?” Eric nodded, “Horatio, its Eric. Daley visited someone in the joint to ‘settle a score’, you may want to check it out.”
“Okay Eric, I will do,” Horatio hung up then realised that the score he had to settle might have been with Tillidge. As Horatio was signing in, he asked the officer at the desk if he could have a list of visitors who had been to visit Tillidge. The officer obliged and handed a sheet of paper to Horatio who in turn read it. Sure enough, Daley’s name was on the list. Horatio was led to a room and waited for Tillidge to come through. A moment later, a familiar face in an orange jumpsuit was led in and put in the seat opposite him. “Mr Tillidge, you just can’t keep out of trouble can you?” Tillidge snorted, “I have no idea what you’re talking about.” Horatio grinned, “you do know Daley don’t you?” “Yeah, what’s it to you?” “Well, he was strangled to death and dumped in a stolen car in a parking lot and I think you had something to do with it.” Tillidge laughed, “now how the hell am I supposed to do that in here?” Horatio looked over at the prisoner, “I have seen worse done from this side of the bars so I do know that you are capable. I know you’re a member of a drug ring, so you do have contacts on the outside.” “Now why would I go and kill Daley, he was my cell mate for a week.” “Because you have motive.” Tillidge laughed nervously, “and what may that be?” “He sexually assaulted you’re sister, Tracey. She committed suicide a week before Daley was released, you had to blame someone to you blamed Daley. Now I have been told that Daley came here to settle a score with someone and that someone was you wasn’t it? I have a record of Daley coming here to see you.” Tillidge hesitated for a moment and folded his arms, “he came here to tell me that he was going to screw the rest of my family just like my sister. I got p*ssed off and pushed the table into him and he fell to the floor, the wuss. After that, I got taken back to my cell.” “Now that is what I call a motive. What did you do? Call up your buddies and order a hit on him?” Tillidge stood up suddenly and his chair flew backwards. He pointed his finger at Horatio, “you’re wrong Caine, I had nothing to do with it.” The security officer took Tillidge away screaming at Horatio. Horatio went back to the desk. “Do you have a list of numbers that Tillidge called please?” The officer once again obliged to his request. Horatio then went out to his hummer and drove back to the lab.
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Post by pinkyster on Apr 15, 2009 7:56:34 GMT -10
Oh my, did Tillidge really have something to do with it? That is perfect motive? Great chapter.
Jen
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Post by sanne on Apr 15, 2009 8:25:55 GMT -10
Perfect motive indeed.......And therefor probably not the killer...too obvious.... Sandra
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Post by margaret1234 on Apr 15, 2009 8:45:18 GMT -10
Mmmm....perfect motive.......maybe he did arrange the hit from inside......don't know. Guess we will know very soon.
Margaret
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Post by Dr. Anna McBreadle on Apr 16, 2009 7:45:43 GMT -10
okay here is the next chap! tomorrow will the finale and there are a couple of suprizes in store for you all! but first of all, here is todays chap! enjoy! luv sam x
Natalia sat in the interview room with Frank. Devlyn Cordia was sat opposite them. Frank stared at Devlyn, “well? Who was your partner?” Devlyn had been sat in silence for the last twenty minutes whilst Natalia explained to him that he was being charged for the robbery and shooting the cashier. Natalia leant forward, “look Devlyn, the gun that I found under your bed has your prints all over it and so does the jewellery. The bullet from the cashier is a match to the one from the gun which was reported stolen last week. You are being charged with the robbery, assault and handling stolen goods on two counts. You can either take the charge on yourself or you can share it with your partner. What’s it going to be?” Devlyn sat there in silence still. By this time Frank was getting annoyed, “look punk, this getting extremely childish and to be honest, I’m getting fed up with trying to help you out. If you don’t want help then that’s fine, you can have your partner’s share of the charges. If you give him up, then you will have a lesser sentence. So what’s it going to be?” Devlyn grinned, “why should I give up my best mate?” Natalia turned to the officer by the door, “take him.” Frank looked shocked at Natalia. After Devlyn was led away he turned to Natalia, “why the hell did do that? He’d just started to talk.” “Frank, he said that he wasn’t going to give up his best mate.” “Yeah, and?” “Well I’m sure his mother can tell us who his best mate is.” Suddenly it clicked, Frank realised what Natalia was up to.
Devlyn’s mother was waiting in the waiting room. She stood up as she saw Natalia heading her way. “Did you get Devlyn to talk?” Natalia shook her head, “not exactly. He wouldn’t give up his partner but his did say that he wouldn’t give up his best mate. Would you know who that is?” Alice nodded, “James Gloucester. They’ve been mates since high school.” “Do you know where we can find him?” “He lives two doors down from us. I should have known he was involved. They’ve both been in trouble before.” “Thank you Alice. You’ve been a great help,” Frank took out his phone to get the suspect brought in.
“Kyle, would you like a drink?” Calleigh had just put the twins upstairs for a nap and was making drinks for everyone. “Yes please Calleigh,” Kyle fell into the couch feeling tired out from the trip to the park. Chloe sat next to Kyle and then lay down on his lap to go to sleep. “You’ve made a friend there mate,” Hugh chuckled. Kyle blushed slightly and smiled, “yeah looks like it.” Anna sat in one of the armchairs as Calleigh came through with a tray of drinks for everyone then proceeded to sit on the other armchair. Anna took a sip of her drink, “so Calleigh, when are you due back to work?” “Next week. It’s going to be hard leaving the girls with a childminder. I’ve not spent much time away from them.” Anna smiled, “it will hard but you will get used to it. It took a while for me to get used to not having Chloe around me when I went back to work. You’ll soon appreciate the time away to be with other adults. Don’t get me wrong, I love being with Chloe but I love my job as well. I soon appreciated time away and getting back to some sort of normality. Also putting the girls with a childminder they will get to mix with other children and will make friends. Chloe has two boyfriends and a few best friends who she sees every time she goes to her childminder. Although, Hugh isn’t too keen on her interest in the boys.” Calleigh laughed, “she’s only young, I’m sure she’ll have more boyfriends before she gets married.” Hugh lifted his eyebrows, “not if I can help it.” Calleigh and Anna laughed. Anna turned to Kyle, “what about you Kyle? I’m sure you’re fighting the girls off.” Kyle shifted a little, “not really. I’m not really into having girlfriends, I prefer to hang out with my mates.” “Just ignore them mate, they’re winding you up,” Hugh smiled as he took a sip of his drink. Kyle looked at his watch, it was nearly five thirty, “I’ll have to make a move, mom is taking me out for dinner with her parents.” Calleigh smiled, “you don’t sound too excited about that?” Kyle shook his head, “they bore me and mom always makes a big deal out of it. Can I come back again tomorrow to see the girls?” “Sure thing, it’s been nice to have you here,” Calleigh was pleased at this and couldn’t wait to tell Horatio. Kyle lifted Chloe’s head up, moved from under her and put a pillow under her, “tell Chloe I’ll see her soon.” Anna nodded, “don’t worry, I will do.” Kyle said his goodbyes and left to go home.
Horatio stood in the lab with Ryan, “is everything set for tonight?” “Yeah, Natalia has finalised everything. Suze is going to make sure Eric is there on time.” “Does Eric still have suspicions about you and Natalia?” Ryan laughed, “yeah he does. He’s even asked Alexx to see if anything is going on between us.” “I take it Alexx hasn’t said anything then?” Ryan shook his head, “no, Alexx told me that she said to him that he was imagining things.” Horatio laughed as Eric walked in, “so what’s so funny?” Horatio cleared his throat, “nothing. Did you run the phone numbers?” Eric wasn’t convinced, “yes I did. There was one phone call just after Daley left and that was to our friend Jinx.” “Well lets bring him in.”
Jinx sat opposite Ryan and Eric in the interrogation room. Ryan took out the phone record and showed it to him, “why didn’t you say that you’d had a call from Tillidge just after Daley had visited him?” “You never asked.” “What did he talk to you about?” “The weather,” the sarcasm from Jinx didn’t go down well with Eric. “We know you had something to do with Daley’s death and we know that Tillidge called you to get rid of Daley.” “That’s just speculation, you have no evidence to support that theory.” Ryan smirked, “we have your work truck in the lab now along with your equipment. One of our C.S.I’s are processing it now. Do you have anything to say before we find out the results?” “Nope.” Just then, there was a knock on the door and Natalia walked in with some paper and handed to Eric. “Are sure you don’t want to reconsider that? The garden twine in your truck has Daley’s D.N.A all over it along with your epiphylls on either side.” Ryan leant over the table, “if you tell us that Tillidge put you up to it then it will help you in the long run. There not a lot more that can happen to Tillidge, he’s already in for triple homicide, he’s never getting out already. If you take the fall for him, you’ll be there for a lot longer than you need to be. Help yourself because no-one else will.” Jinx let out a long sigh, “yeah Steve called me. He told me that Daley threatened his family and asked me to take real good care of him. So I did. I stole a car from the parking lot at the park and put his body in the trunk. I took the car to another parking lot and left it there.” “See, that wasn’t so hard was it,” Eric packed up the papers as the officer took Jinx away.
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Post by sanne on Apr 16, 2009 8:00:51 GMT -10
So there we have the killer............Curious about what the "best mate" has to say about the robbery though. So they are planning something for Eric.......his birthday? Sandra
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Post by margaret1234 on Apr 16, 2009 8:16:12 GMT -10
Great the killer is behind bars.......hope Devlyn's mother is safe. And I am also wondering what they are planning for Eric.......this is no doubt something to do with the surprises in store for us tomorrow.
Margaret
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Post by Dr. Anna McBreadle on Apr 17, 2009 6:56:28 GMT -10
i have the finale here for you and it's full of surprizes! luv sam x
Later that same night, Suze took Eric to the nightclub that they had been in the night before. “Why are we here Suze?” “You’ll see,” Suze teased. Eric followed Suze up the stairs to a private room. Eric turned on the lights and got the shock of his life. “Surprise!” The whole team were there as well as Anna and Hugh. Ryan and Natalia walked towards Eric, “happy birthday,” Ryan handed Eric a bottle of beer. Suddenly Eric clicked as to what Ryan and Natalia were up to, “so you two were sneaking around me to organize this. And there I was thinking you two had got it together.” Natalia looked at Ryan and Ryan looked back at her, “Eric, do you really think I’d date Ryan? Come on, give me some credit. I do have standards.” Ryan mocked being hurt, “that hurt bad Natalia.” “You know I’m only kidding.” Eric and Suze joined in with everyone else. Alexx approached Eric, “I told you that you were imagining things didn’t I?” Eric grinned and lowered his head slightly, “you did Alexx and you were right, I let my imagination go into overdrive,” Eric turned to Suze, “so last night when they both disappeared, where did they actually go?” Suze put her arm round Eric’s waist, “to make sure this room was sorted for tonight.” “Eric,” Horatio caught his attention, “happy birthday. Just don’t turn up to work tomorrow in the same state you did this morning. I might have a special job for you again.” Suze looked confused, “what did you have him do?” “Both Eric and Ryan weren’t exactly well this morning. So I sent them to a decomp this morning. They both soon sobered up.” Suze, who knew about decomp and various other things thanks to Eric, just laughed, “I bet they were impressed with you.” Horatio smiled, “well, you could say that.”
Kyle entered the room. Horatio walked over to him and handed him a bottle of beer, “glad you can make it son. That’s the only bottle you’re getting so make it last and don’t tell your mother otherwise she’ll have me.” “Okay dad, thanks,” Kyle took the bottle from his father, “sorry I’m late, I had problems getting away from the grandparents,” Horatio pointed to a pink lipstick mark on his cheek courtesy of his grandma. Kyle groaned and used his sleeve to rub it off. “I can see, well son, you’re here now,” Horatio stood a little closer to Kyle to have a quiet word with him, “Calleigh tells me you’ve been spending a lot of time with the girls.” Kyle smiled, “mm well, I spent the day with them. They’re so cute.” Horatio tilted his head and smiled, “I’m glad you think so.” “And they look a lot like you as well,” Kyle teased. “It’s the hair, right?” Horatio joked. Kyle laughed, “yeah. Anyway, Calleigh said I can come round again tomorrow to see them again, if that’s okay with you.” Horatio put his arm round Kyle’s shoulder, “of course it is son. You know what I’m very proud of you.” Kyle screwed his face up, “why?” “Because you did what YOU thought was right. I just hope that the girls will have a big brother that they can rely on when they get older.” “Don’t worry dad, I’m not going anywhere.” “That’s good to hear. I have also been told that you have a new best friend,” Horatio smiled. Kyle had to think for a while, then realised what his dad was talking about, “oh yeah, Chloe. She’s great, full of energy. I don’t know how Hugh and Anna keep up with her.” “Well Calleigh and myself will have all that to come but in a double dose.” “If you need an extra hand just give me a shout,” offered Kyle. “I’ll keep that in mind son. Anyway, let’s get back to this party.”
A week later, and Calleigh’s first day back at work came all too soon for her. She had just waved off the McBreadles at the airport and walked into work. Everyone greeted her with a smile and a welcome back comment of some sort. She was glad to be back, even though leaving Donna and Daisy Jo with the childminder for the first time was difficult but she managed it. She hoped it would get easier as Anna had promised.
Calleigh entered her ballistics lab, shut the door behind her. Everything seemed as she’d left it before she left. Her temporary replacement had done a good job. Then she noticed a target sheet had been left hung up in the gun range. She pressed a button to bring it towards her thinking that her replacement had forgotten to tidy up everything.
But as it travelled towards her, the holes in the target sheet weren’t in a random pattern as they should be. They had spelt out two words, MARRY ME? “Marry me?” Calleigh quietly read it out to herself as she took it down. “So how does Mrs Calleigh Caine sound?” came a familiar voice from behind her. Calleigh turned round to see Horatio stood there with his head tilted slightly, looking deeply into her eyes. She was speechless. She placed the target sheet down on the counter and walked towards Horatio who had his eyes fixed on her every movement. Calleigh put her arms around Horatio’s waist and drew herself closer to him as Horatio wrapped his arms around her, “well Calleigh Caine does have a certain ring to it.” Horatio smiled and lowered his head slightly. Calleigh loved it when he did that. “I’d love to be Calleigh Caine.” Horatio, who had been a bag of nerves for the whole of the morning, breathed a sigh of relief, “Mrs Caine, I could get used to calling you that.” Calleigh smiled, “I love you.” “I love you too,” Horatio was about to give his fiancée a kiss when Alexx followed by the rest of the team came piling into the room, all cheering for them. Calleigh hid her face in Horatio’s chest, she had gone bright red. Stetler put his hand on Horatio’s shoulder, “congratulations. See Horatio, you never know until you ask.” Calleigh put her head up, “you mean everyone knew about this?” “Honey, the whole department knew what Horatio as up to,” Alexx beamed then started to weep. “Oh Alexx, don’t start crying, you set me off,” teased Calleigh. Stetler raised his voice above everyone else, “right people, I don’t want to sound like a miserable git but we all need to get back to work. Come on, everyone out.” Stetler ushered everyone out of the ballistics lab and turned to Horatio, “don’t take too long you two, Frank is waiting to get to a scene,” then he left them both to each other. Calleigh playfully put her hands on Horatio’s chest as held them, “Lieutenant Caine, you’re very sneaky.” Horatio smiled, “you know I now have to leave a message on the McBreadles home for when they get home.” “They knew as well?” “Mhmm.” Calleigh giggled, “can you imagine Anna on the plane all excited and Hugh trying to calm her down?” Horatio laughed, “at least they’ll have some good news to come home to.” “Well you better not keep Frank waiting. He’s not very good at waiting around.” “Well then, I will see you later.” “You most definitely will.” They kissed each other and Horatio left. Calleigh had a huge smiled across her face as she went to the phone on her desk. She dialled a number and waited for an answer. “Hey daddy, guess what? … What? … You knew as well? … Oh did he now!”
The End
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Post by margaret1234 on Apr 17, 2009 7:04:58 GMT -10
Brilliant chapter Sam.....loved it from start to end. Marry Me......that was done so well and fancy Stetler still being nice. Great ending.
Margaret
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Post by pinkyster on Apr 17, 2009 7:22:03 GMT -10
Very nice. Glad that you ended it with a proposal. A very happy ending.
Jen
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Post by Dr. Anna McBreadle on Apr 17, 2009 8:09:31 GMT -10
@ margaret - they settled their differences at the end of 'from vegas with love' so they're going to be nice to each other. i enjoyed writing for horatio and stetler but now i can't do it and i miss that! oh well!
the proposal took me a few days to think about. i knew it had to be something that only calleigh could appreciate so the gun range seemed perfect! luv sam x
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Post by margaret1234 on Apr 17, 2009 8:16:04 GMT -10
Sam......I know they settled their differences at the end of Vegas......but where Stettie is concerned I never trust him even though you have turned him into a so much nicer person.
Margaret
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Post by sanne on Apr 17, 2009 12:58:25 GMT -10
That was nice, Sam. Loved it. So the next sequel has a marriage to start with...... ;D Sandra
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Post by Dr. Anna McBreadle on Apr 18, 2009 8:31:14 GMT -10
@ sandra - i'm not sure if i will do a sequel yet! although i do have ideas but i have no plans as yet to do another sequel. if i do, it wont be for a while.
thanks for all of your comments and support everyone, i really apreciate it! i will let you all know if and when i do another one!
luv sam x
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Post by sanne on Apr 18, 2009 13:23:43 GMT -10
I didn't say it had to start tomorrow.......... Sandra
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