....causing Eric to shut up immediately...
-pats Eric-
well Logan did actually shut Eric up! i don't think Eric quite knows what to do! bless him!
i have the next chap for you!
enjoy!
luv
sam
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Back at the lab, Horatio went to see Stetler in his office. He knew Stetler would want to see him about the new recruit.
“Horatio, I was about to call you but you already knew that didn’t you?”
Horatio grinned, “Rick, you know me too well. You want to know about Logan right?”
“Yes, I’m worried that he may be a liability to the lab. I have read things about him which disturbs me.”
“He’s come highly recommended by Xavier.”
“I know, I read the report. I hope you trust his opinion, as I have reservations.”
“Xavier hasn’t let us down before has he?”
Stetler thought for a few moments, “true but there is always a first.”
“I trust this man and I listen to what he has to say. I will not dismiss any of my team because you have reservations about one of them. You said the same about Frank.”
“And I have apologized for that, but this new one, I can’t quite get my head round him.”
“I admit, he has put his barriers up but we have to earn his trust before we can get to know him better.”
Stetler wasn’t too sure, “I hope you know what you are doing. If this back fires on the lab, I will hold you responsible.”
Horatio smiled, “I wouldn’t expect anything less coming from you, Rick.”
“I’m not trying to pass the blame but I just want say for the record, I don’t like this guy and will not take responsibility for anything that he does.”
“Duly noted Rick, now if you don’t mind, I have work to do.”
“One more thing Horatio, does he know about everyone else yet?”
“Not yet, I will tell him when I feel he’s ready,” with that Horatio left the office and went in search of Speedle.
“Speed, can you get down to the mall and meet Eric and Logan there please? I just want you to make sure things don’t go wrong.”
“Sure, I’ll get going now,” Speed collected his kit from the lab and left.
At the mall, Alexx was in the male changing rooms processing the body. Speed was already there when Eric and Logan arrived.
“Hey Speed, how come you’re here?”
Logan looked at Speed a little confused, “how did you get here before us? You were in the staff room when I last saw you.”
Eric looked at Speed then at Logan, “he always seems to know the short cuts and gets here before everyone else. I keep telling him that he needs to let me know his secret but he won’t tell me. He always parks his hummer round the corner from the scenes for some strange reason. He’s a strange one.”
“Excuse me boys, but this baby boy that’s laying dead here needs your attention.”
“Sorry Alexx, this is Logan’s first scene,” Eric was very apologetic.
Alexx stood up, “so you’re the new recruit. Just watch these two, they’re thick as thieves. Just don’t join in with their betting games, you’ll never win.”
Logan raised one of his eye brows, “I’ll remember that, thanks.”
Speed took photos of the scene as Eric walked around the scene looking for any evidence. Suddenly Eric knelt down, “Logan, could you please pass me the tweezers from my kit?”
He opened Eric’s case and found the tweezers and handed them to Eric.
“What you found?”
Eric stood up with a dark hair in the tweezers, “a strand of brown hair with plenty of DNA on the end to make a comparison. Alexx, what colour hair does the vic have?”
“It’s been dyed to a deep red. There are brown roots coming through.”
“This is all brown. We can safely say that this is someone else’s. Possibly a female as it’s quite long.”
“Eric, how the hell did you see that in this colour carpet?” Logan was getting more and more curious about his new workmates.
“Years of practice. I’ve been doing this for along time now.”
Logan wasn’t convinced. He heard Alexx talking and turned round. She was talking to the body.
“Okay, that is a little weird.”
Speed laughed, “don’t worry about it. It’s just the way Alexx works, she says it helps her cope with the job.”
“Still, it’s a little bit weird.”
“I thought the same when I first started but I soon got used to it.”
Logan approached Alexx cautiously, “is he talking back to you?”
“In a way, yes. You see the epiphylls under the nails? That tells me that he was in a fight before he died. And you see the dried blood that looks like dried bubbles around his mouth? He’s telling me that the gunshot wound went through his lung and he drowned in his own blood.”
Logan’s mind was all over the place. Everyone seemed strange but familiar.
“Excuse me a moment, I just need to go outside a minute.”
“Are you okay honey? Most recruits can’t stand being around dead bodies for long so don’t worry about it.”
“It’s not that, I’ve seen dead bodies in worse states than that. I just need to go outside a moment,” he stood up and walked outside.
Thoughts were going through his mind. What was going on with his workmates? First Speed got there before everyone else and there was no sign of his hummer anywhere. Then Eric with his impeccable sight, that wasn’t human at all. Then there was Alexx, she gave him the creeps with the whole talking to the dead thing. The only person that didn’t give cause for concern was Frank. Something wasn’t right.
He turned to go back into the building when he noticed that there was a darkness that suddenly came over. Everything stood still, the cars stopped in their tracks, the people stood still as statues and even the birds seemed to be suspended in flight. He looked around to see if he could see anything but nothing was to be seen. He turned to go back into the mall and he heard his name being called. He looked behind to see Horatio walking towards him.