CSI:Miami - "Road Trip *puts on shades* Number Nine."

Thanks for the reviews everyone.

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Interrogation room, Miami

Calleigh: Alicia...*places paper on table* We have this photograph of you at the club.

Alicia: So?

Gavin: *writing notes*

Calleigh: So it shows you pouring what appears to be blood into the bucket.

Alicia: Yeah. It's a joke. It didn't kill her.

Calleigh: Autopsy reports came back. She had a heart attack.

Alicia: What? She was only 17.

Gavin: *shakes head*

Calleigh: There was so much stress running through her system, built up from years.

Alicia: You're saying a prank killed her.

Gavin: No, she's saying you killed her. And you know what? You can cut all of this 'i'm innocent' crap because you know exactly what happened. If you hadn't done this bullshit from the beginning, she'd still be here.

Alicia: *stares at Gavin*

Gavin: So you know what? I think you and your little friends are going to get what they deserve. *stands, leaves*

Alicia: ...

Calleigh: Excuse me. *stands, leaves*

Outside room

Calleigh: You were just supposed to take notes.

Gavin: That's really swell. The only problem is you CSIs always have to set up 'theatre time' and dance around the bush for ten years. Why don't you just tell her she's going to jail.

Calleigh: She has the right to know what happened.

Gavin: No she doesn't. She already knows what happened. No wonder this city has such a giant crime rate.

Calleigh: *crosses arms* You know, you got this job based on a referral. No one had to hire you.

Gavin: I don't even want this job.

Calleigh: Look, I understand you're goin' through a hard ti-

Gavin: That has nothing to do with it so why don't you mind your own business. *leaves*

Calleigh: *sigh*

Outside PD

Gavin: *pushes through doors*

Speed: *looks back* Hey.

Gavin: Get lost.

Speed: Nice to see you too.

Gavin: *stops* What is it with you people? You can't leave well enough alone!

Speed: Well you seem pleasant today.

Gavin: All you CSIs are a ridiculous excuse for human beings. And you know why? You don't take your jobs seriously. Everyone has to dance around and have a good time and shoot off terrible lines to make yourselves look cool but you know what? You're not. So why don't you just crawl back under the rock from which you came and leave me the hell alone. Especially you. I can't stand you.

Speed: That's okay, I'm not really a fan of myself either.

Gavin: *glares*

Speed: You seem...Constipated. Prunes help.

Gavin: *punches Speed in the face*

Speed: *falls over*

People stop, look

Speed: *holding face*

Gavin: *stares at Speed*

Speed: *stands*

Gavin: *crosses arms*

Speed: You've got some anger issues. I suggest you curb it.

Gavin: Why. Why do I need to?

Speed: Because it could land you in trouble.

Gavin: So I'm not ever allowed to be upset? I'm not allowed to get angry? I'm supposed to be some polite automaton for the rest of my life to make it easier on everyone else? I'm sick and tired of people's garbage.

Speed: I hear ya. I do, but most of the time, getting angry won't fix anything.

Gavin: You have no right to even tell me that. I know what you've done.

Speed: This isn't about me.

Gavin: *angry sigh*

Speed: You're upset about Lori.

Gavin: *throws hands up in the air*

Speed: Why don't you go spend some time with her.

Gavin: I can't. I need to work.

Speed: Don't worry about it.

Gavin: Are you insane?

Speed: I meant don't worry about the money. I'll take care of it.

Gavin: *nods*

Speed: Next time, try to calm down before you start throwing fists.

Gavin: *walks away*

Speed: *smirks*

TBC................

 

Thanks so much for the reviews everyone!

****Just thought I'd let you guys know that Topic Pruning is scheduled for November 11th (if you haven't already seen the announcement) If you want to keep the first thread, please save it to your computer or PM me and I'll send it to you. I'm pretty sure it will be among many threads that will be leaving us.

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^ Damn Anni. You totally stole what I was thinking.

:lol:

klj7678, if staring at the computer screen for a long period of time can make you blind, then I should have been blind long ago! Heh, glad you got all caught up and I hope you'll continue to read.

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Hospital 10pm, Miami

Speed: *walks in* She asleep?

Gavin: *nods*

Speed: *sits, hands over coffee*

Gavin: *puts coffee on floor*

Speed: *tilts head* Okay.

Gavin: I've ruined her life.

Speed: *looks at Gavin*

Gavin: *looks down at floor* I never should have met her.

Speed: You did what you had to do. I mean, you were undercover, right?

Gavin: *laughs* Yeah. My team was in San Antonio and I was in Miami. You really think they had much of an influence on my decisions? Truth is, I made a lousy cop and a better criminal. I guess my 'boss' knew how to push all the right buttons. He didn't just make those women the victims. *rubs face* He tortured us like dogs until we were so angry, we didn't care who we hurt.

Speed: *nods*

Gavin: And I don't know why Lori seemed to flip a switch in me. I suddenly wasn't...Angry anymore. I was so sorry for the things I'd done. *sigh* I should be the one in that bed, not her. She doesn't deserve this.

Speed: Neither do you. *stands* Well, I see you have a lot to think about. Call me if you need anything. *leaves*

Gavin: *grabs Lori's hand*

Lori: *opens eyes*

Gavin: *looks at Lori*

Lori: *smiles*

Gavin: *sniffs* Hey.

Lori: *smile fades* ...Wh-Wha...Wr...on-

Gavin: *wipes eye* Nothing. Everything's fine.

Lori: *stares at Gavin*

Gavin: *leaves*

Lori: *jumps out of bed*

Outside room

Lori: *grabs Gavin*

Gavin: *turns around*

Lori: *hugs Gavin*

Gavin: ...

Castle, UK

Delko: *coughing*

Anni: *holding cloth to mouth* It's gettin' really dense in here.

Katie: Break open a window.

Ryan: *hitting window with chair* It's not working! I think they're boarded up!

Colton: So break down the door.

Delko: Can't. It's reinforced steel.

Lilly: So what, we're just supposed to suffocate to death in here?

Anni: We could try breaking the ceiling.

Lora: Um, you do realize there's furniture above us. That could kill us faster.

Anni: Well do you have any bright ideas?

Lora: If I did, we'd probably be out already.

Carly: *coughing*

Anni: Okay okay okay, think think think. ERIC!

Delko: What?

Anni: DO SOMETHING! *cries* I DON'T WANNA DIE!

Delko: Um...Um...*hits door with shoe* OPEN UP!

Ryan: We're wasting oxygen. Everyone hold your breath!

Lora: No stupid. *slaps Ryan*

Ryan: Ow.

Heather: *hiding under bed* The end is near, the end is near, the end is near.

Carly: *looks down* We can cut a hole through the floor.

Lora: With what?

Carly: I don't KNOW!

JC: *prays* Hail Mary full of grace-

Missy: Not the time nor the place.

JC: Oh.

Delko: It's hopeless. We're dead. Everyone get into a cool position so when we're found, we can be stuffed and placed in a museum. *gets into Karate pose*

Anni: You want to be stuffed?

Delko: Sure. Why would anyone want this hod bod to decay? No way jose.

Lora: It ain't that great.

Delko: *frowns*

Carly: *gasping* Can't...Breathe....*coughs*

Anni: *kneels* You okay?

Carly: *clawing at Anni*

Anni: AH! AH! SHE'S POSESSED BY A CAT!

Delko: Is she alright?

Anni: I don't know, she just passed out.

Lilly: Okay I think now would be a good time to get out of here before any more of us kick it.

Delko: I have an idea. Everyone stomp on the floor so we break it and then fall through to whichever room lies underneath. Hopefully a pillow factory.

Everyone starts stomping on one part of the floor

Lilly: *slaming floor with curtain rod* OPEN SESAME!

Lora: FEEL MY WRATH! *slamming floor with night stand*

Floor cracks

Delko: YES! KEEP HITTING!

Katie: *pulls gun off wall, smashes floor* DIE WUBBA!

Colton: Why don't you just shoot the floor?

Katie: *looks down at gun*

Floor buckles

Everyone: AHHHHH!

Twenty minutes later--Ambulances scour the scene

Horatio: *runs over*

Delko: WHERE THE HELL WERE YOU!

Horatio: Stetler kidnapped me.

Ryan: Whoa, how'd you get away?

Horatio: Well...

[FLASHBACK--HUMMERHOME]

Stetler: It's brown.

Donahinkle: It's pink.

Stetler: Who paints a bathroom pink?

Donahinkle: Obviously the people who built the Hummerhome.

Stetler: It's brown!

Donahinkle: IT'S PINK!

Stetler: How many times do we have to go over this? It's a light brown.

Donahinkle: Dark pink.

Stetler: Light brown.

Donahinkle: Dark pink.

Stetler: IT'S NOT PINK!

Horatio: *slips out door*

Donahinkle: IT IS PINK!

Stetler: NOT!

Donahinkle: IS!

Stetler: NOT!

Donahinkle: IS!

Stetler: *turns around* Horatio, what do y-...Hey. He's gone.

[FLASHBACK-PRESENT]

Horatio: And that's how it happened.

Delko: Wow. So it was them all along.

Horatio: Mhm. So is everyone alright?

Delko: Carly was taken to a hospital. Everyone else seems to be alright.

Katie: *clapping* A wimbawa, a wimbawa, a wimbawa, a wimbawa-

Heather: *singing* In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the lion sleeps toniiiiiight!

Anni: A WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE A WIMBAWOMBOWAY!

Horatio: ...

Delko: ....Better than alright.

TBC.............

 

^ Hm, you know, I have no idea. :lol:

Thanks for the reviews everyone.

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Hummerhome, 11pm

Horatio: *places pot on table* Here, some hot food.

Ryan: What happened to Stetler and Donahinkle?

Horatio: They're staying in the castle.

Lilly: Isn't it full of noxious gas?

Horatio: Mhm, eat up.

Delko: *looks into pot* ...What the hell is that?

Horatio: Cous cous.

Delko: ...It's rice.

Horatio: *sits* Cous cous.

Delko: Rice.

Missy: *slaps cous cous onto plate* Just eat it.

Delko: ...But I don't want rice for dinner.

Horatio: Cous cous.

Lora: Any word on Carly?

Horatio: I just got off the phone with the doctors there. They'e going to keep her for a couple of days so we get to explore the countryside.

Lora: Oh. But isn't that kind of disrespectful?

Horatio: Carly's not dead.

Lora: I know, but still. We'll be bored and she'll be in the hospital with hot doctors and good food.

Cous cous drips off fork

Delko: *sniffs fork* Rice.

Horatio: Cous cous.

Anni: *opens bathroom door* Hey when did we paint this pink?

Horatio: It's brown.

Anni: *looks around* ...It's pink.

Colton: Pass me the bread.

Heather: *passes over bread* So where are we headed tomorrow?

Horatio: I'm not sure yet. I suppose the road will take us where we're meant to be.

Ryan: You don't believe in fate, do you?

Horatio: Not at all. I believe in the road.

Ryan: Spoken like a true road tripper.

Delko: Do we have anything else besides rice?

Heather: *hands over bread*

Horatio: Cous cous.

Lora: Can we get some steak or something? Or a McDonalds? Please?

Horatio: Eat your dinner.

Lora: *frowns* Excuse me, I'm not your child.

Horatio: Fine. Don't eat the dinner.

Lora: Damn straight.

Ryan: I really like this cous cous.

Delko: IT'S RICE!

Lilly: *closes phone* I ordered a pizza.

Horatio: ...I poured my sweat and blood into this.

Everyone: *looks down at food*

Horatio: Not literally.

Delko: *picks at food* Kind of looks like your brains are in here though.

Lora: *throws bread*

Delko: Ow. *holds eye*

Miami, Trace Lab

Speed: *walks in* Hey.

Calleigh: Hey.

Speed: What are you working on?

Calleigh: *sigh* Something's bothering me about the Halloween case.

Speed: You're still on that?

Calleigh: Her parents said she was posessed.

Speed: *frowns* You do realize no one can be posessed.

Calleigh: *smiles* There have actually been documented cases by the Catholic church, but that's not what I mean. I think the parents didn't know what was wrong with her. So I got the tox results back from Alexx and look what I found. *hands over paper*

Speed: *grabs paper* Paroxetine and lithium.

Calleigh: The first one's an antidepressant, the second one is used to augment antidepressants but are widely used for bipolar disorder as a mood stabilizer. So I checked her medical records and I didn't find anything. No tests, no visits, not even a flu shot.

Speed: So her parents just found whatever they could and hoped it would work.

Calleigh: Look at the levels.

Speed: *looks down at paper*

Calleigh: That's the test results from the hair I collected. In the last month, she's almost tripled the amounts of medication to her system.

Speed: *lifts head* Or her parents did.

Calleigh: *nods*

Large art&deco home, Miami

Calleigh: Mrs. Suarez, we have evidence that your daughter was taking medication.

Mrs. Suarez: *wipes eyes* What does that have to do with anything? I thought you got her killer.

Calleigh: Well, we follow where the evidence takes us.

Mrs. Suarez: You said it was a heart attack.

Speed: Did you get her medication.

Mrs. Suarez: Well...Yes, I mean...Well we didn't know what was wrong with her.

Speed: And you didn't think to take her to a doctor?

Mrs. Suarez: I went to a doctor...*looks down at floor* Ever since my husband...Left us...The coverage was gone.

Calleigh: So you went to an unliscenced physician.

Mrs. Suarez: What difference does it make? A doctor's a doctor. You don't need a piece of paper to tell you, you can treat people.

Speed: She was bipolar.

Mrs. Suarez: *shakes head* I didn't even know what bipolar was until I looked it up on the internet. I thought she was-

Speed: Posessed?

Mrs. Suarez: Wouldn't you think so too? She would...Be fine one second and then she would get enraged a second later and destroy half the house. I couldn't control her, she wouldn't talk to me and...Well that's when she got into the gothic phase with her...Charms and black clothes. So I took her to a doctor and he gave me the pills.

Calleigh: Paxil and Lithium.

Mrs. Suarez: I guess. I didn't know what they were.

Calleigh: Did she ever administer her own medication?

Mrs. Suarez: No. Not that I know of. I usually put it in her cereal.

Speed: Why?

Mrs. Suarez: *sigh* It's the only way I could get her to take it. It was something we never really spoke about after a while, so I guess she just accepted it.

Calleigh: May we take a look around?

Mrs. Suarez: Sure.

Kitchen

Calleigh: *pulls on gloves*

Speed: *opens kit*

Calleigh: You ever take antidepressants as a child?

Speed: ...Is that supposed to be a joke?

Calleigh: I just don't understand why her mother would have to sneak the drugs into her cereal, even if the child knew they were there. It shouldn't be such a secret to the world.

Speed: Either way, it made it into her system so it doesn't make a difference.

Calleigh: Depression sometimes runs in the family, right?

Speed: *looks at Calleigh*

Calleigh: Well with a depressed child, the parent may become depressed as well. You know, by proxy. Could explain the increased amount in her system.

Speed: You think she commited suicide.

Calleigh: I'm not thinking anything.

Speed: *shakes head*

Calleigh: Did I strike a chord or something?

Speed: No. *picks up pill container* But you were right.

Calleigh: I am?

Speed: This is perscribed to the mother. It was filled last week but it's empty.

Calleigh: Paroxetine.

Speed: So the girl's upset with the bullying at school. She's already bipolar, which makes things even worse and she finds out her mother isn't exactly spot on either. So she goes to the party, the last party of her life and...Plans to kill herself.

Calleigh: Maybe the prank was the last straw. She might have been having doubts before it happened.

Speed: But that pushed her over the edge.

Calleigh: Mhm. So she took the rest of her meds, and her mother's.

Speed: *looks into living room* I guess we have to tell her mother.

Calleigh: Finding out your child commited suicide is never an easy thing.

Speed: Um...You want to handle this?

Calleigh: ...Sure.

Speed: Thanks. *leaves*

Calleigh: *looks into living room*

Hummerhome

Anni: *in bathroom* Hey Katie! Come see this!

Katie: ...I think you're fine in there.

Anni: No no, come on.

Katie: *walks into bathroom*

Anni: I found a cellphone under the sink.

Katie: It's probably old.

Anni: No way, look. *clicking buttons*

Katie: ..So?

Anni: So they're love letters.

Katie: More like love texts.

Anni: I'd recognize this number anywhere, it's Eric's.

Katie: Eric's getting love texts? *laughs* Yeah right.

Anni: Look, look.

Katie: ...*GASP* NO WAY!

Anni: YES WAY!

Katie: Those are from Calleigh!

Anni: Shhhhhh!

Katie: Oh ho ho ho man. That sly dog.

Anni: Yeesh, Calleigh sure gets around. Next it's gonna be Ryan.

Katie: *runs out of bathroom* HEY ERIC!

Anni: *grabs Katie* NO!

Katie: AH! *falls over*

Delko: *playing PS3* What?

Katie: YOU'RE GETTING L-

Anni: *covers Katie's mouth* Shut up, no one else can know but us.

Katie: But...He already knows.

Delko: Know what?

Katie: YOU LOVE CALLEIGH!

Delko: ...

Anni: Idiot. And where's the team?

Katie: In bed. MAN I hope they totally didn't hear that.

Delko: Why would you think that?

Katie: Anni found a phone! *waves phone* It's yours! HA I TOTALLY KNEW YOU TWO WOULD GET TOGETHER!

Anni: You are way too hyper about this.

Delko: Look, we're not out to advertise it okay?

Katie: SO YOU ARE GOING OUT! OMGOSH THAT IS SO CUTE!

Delko: *lifts brow*

Anni: Katie, for the love of everything secretive, SHUT UP.

Katie: Fine. *pouts*

Delko: *smiles* You know, at first I thought she wouldn't even agree to go out with me. But...I WIN.

Anni: Probably not something you want to say to her.

Delko: Yeah probably.

Katie: Oh man if you hurt Calleigh, I'm gonna beat you up. Either that or I'll sick Colton on you. Oh man...Has anyone told him?

Anni: No one's told anyone.

Katie: You know what, fine. Burst my bubbles. You ruin everything for me.

Anni: Oh come off it.

Katie: No. No, see we used to be best friends but now all I have is Lori.

Anni: ...I heard she was in a coma.

Katie: WHAT? *opens phone, dials*

Anni: Who are you calling?

Katie: YOUR uninformative HUSBAND.

Anni: *rolls eyes*

Katie: TIMOTHY SPEEDLE!

Miami, Hummer

Speed: This better be important.

Hummerhome

Katie: You ASS.

Miami

Speed: *sigh* What do you want.

Hummerhome

Katie: When were you going to tell me my daughter is in a coma!

Miami

Speed: Why do you think I left?

Hummerhome

Katie: YOU SAID IT WAS A CASE!

Miami

Speed: It was. Now it isn't.

Hummerhome

Katie: WHAT HAPPENED!

Miami

Speed: Nothing. She's fine.

Hummerhome

Katie: Um WHAT DO YOU MEAN SHE'S FINE! I WANT TO TALK TO MY BABY!

Miami

Speed: Talk to her husband.

Hummerhome

Katie: WHAT! WHAT HUSBAND!

Click

Katie: WHAT HUSBAND! ANNI WHAT HUSBAND! *shakes Anni* WHAT HUSBAND!

Anni: Ah! Ah! Ah! I DON'T KNOW! GEEZ!

Katie: *sigh* I'm fine, I'm cool. I'm perfectly okay. Maybe she married a doctor or a lawyer or-

Delko: I heard she married Gavin.

Katie: *eye twitches*

Delko: ...Is that not a good thing?

Katie: *throws phone*

Delko: OW! *rubs eye*

TBC................

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Bar, Miami, 10 pm

Natalia: *sits* Calleigh told me I could find you here.

Gavin: Evenin'.

Natalia: So I hear you walked out.

Gavin: Mhm.

Natalia: Anything I can do?

Gavin: Do you offer this to everyone who quits?

Natalia: You seem like a nice guy, I just thought you deserve-

Gavin: Sympathy?

Natalia: Look, not everyone can do the job. I mean, it was hard for me at first. But eventually it grows on you and you really learn to like the people you work with.

Gavin: That's not the issue but thank you for the support.

Natalia: So what's the issue?

Gavin: *shakes head* Don't worry about it. I don't need to bring anyone else down. Besides, I'm dealin' with it.

Natalia: *smiles* Good. You know, I think we have something in common.

Gavin: Really.

Natalia: I was working against the lab at first, kind of undercover, and you did the same thing. Except...You went to prison but anyway it all worked out.

Gavin: *nods*

Natalia: Are you always this mysterious?

Gavin: *puts down drink* I don't tell everyone about my private life, no. Though I wouldn't call it mysterious.

Natalia: *laughs* Well, I would. It's very attractive, actually.

Gavin: *looks at Natalia* I guess before you continue making an ass of yourself, you should know that I'm married.

Natalia: *stares at Gavin* ...What?

Gavin: That case you were workin' on. That's my wife.

Natalia: *wide-eyed* I am SO sorry. I totally didn't mean to like...Like...Like invade on anything or like...Like-

Gavin: It's okay. Besides, I'm too young for you.

Natalia: HAHA! NICE ONE! ...Wait. *scratches head*

Gavin: Thanks for stoppin' by. *stands*

Natalia: You're leaving?

Gavin: Yeah.

Natalia: It's not even that late.

Gavin: I'm not much of a party animal.

Natalia: *sigh* Gosh there is just so much I want to know about you. In a totally platonic way.

Gavin: Have a pleasant evenin'. *leaves*

Natalia: Damn. *scratches chin* Maybe I can try for Eric Delko...

TBC..............