Twenty-One
Eric walked through Sheremetyevo International airport with a backpack hanging loosely by his side. Horatio carried his duffle. Eric was determined to get Calleigh back no matter what, even if it would kill him. He would rather die than let Sarnoff’s men kill her.
Nirvana was standing a few steps ahead fiddling with a lock of wavy brown hair. She looked up seeing them coming towards her. She instinctively picked up her backpack and headed towards them so she could be standing side by side next to Eric.
“Good flight?” Horatio asked her. She looked over at him as if he’d grown three heads.
“No, I was stuck between two old men who had prostate problems,” her tone was incredibly serious. She must be telling the truth, “That’s the last time I ever sit on the aisle seat,” Horatio couldn’t help but let out a quick chuckle.
Once they stepped out the doors, they were hit with a blast of cold air. Eric couldn’t help but step back a bit. The Cuban CSI had never felt this cold in his entire life. Horatio let a shiver escape from his body. Nirvana didn’t move, she just looked back at Eric and smirked a bit.
“Welcome to Russia,” she stepped forward towards the vehicle taking them to their hotel.
Eric stared at her for a second, “You’ve been here before?” she nodded, “How long ago?”
She looked over at him, “I came here two years ago,” he nodded, “My reasons for not coming back are between me and myself.”
…
Calleigh’s hands were handcuffed tightly to two wooden posts above her head. Her arms felt heavy and tired. They felt numb. Warm blood ran down her arms from were the handcuffs had cut into her delicate flesh. The blood stained her white shirt. Her damp white shirt.
The sound of a metal door closing caused her head to lift a bit. She wanted to know who was going to attempt in getting her to talk this time was. After Aleksandra, there was Isaak and David. She’d yet needed to know who the first one was.
It was Isaak.
Isaak stood two feet in front of her before she knew it. The aroma of stale bread and soup filled her nostrils. She stared at the bowl he had in his left hand, her stomach grumbled at the sight of it.
“If you talk, you will get this,” he held the piece of bread by her mouth, “Now, tell me where Eric Sharova is,” she looked at him with such venom. She looked as if she was going to say something, then she spit in his face. He yelled out in Russian and brought his leg up and kicked her in the stomach. She felt the urge to fall on her knees, involuntarily doing so, the handcuffs cut even deeper into her skin. She yelled out feeling the warm blood once again running down slightly faster than before towards her elbows.
Her head was down on her chest. He grabbed her hair and yanked her head back, “Never do that again,” he pushed her back making the cuts even more irritated.
“Martin!” he yelled out as he set the bowl down and walked towards the door. The next words Calleigh could not distinguish. They were in Russian. Then she heard heavy footsteps coming closer to her.
The blood once again pounded in her ears and her heart pounded in her chest every second. The man who stood before her was the same guy who she saw before. The one she’d been eager to know the name of.
He pulled a stool up in front of her, “Calleigh,” she didn’t look at him, “I don’t want to kill you,” she didn’t say anything, “I simply want to know where my brother is,” Calleigh looked up and stared at him.
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Eric walked through the streets of Moscow. People stared at him; he looked like he did not belong there. The way his hands were stuffed in the pockets of his new jacket and the way his shoulders had been rolled forward. A woman bumped into his shoulder. He turned and faced her. She gave him a death glare, and then her eyebrows softened up.
She turned so she was watching him. Eric observed her. She was extremely beautiful. Her light brown hair was in tight curls framing her heart shaped face. Her eyes were a golden-brown. She looked…delicate.
“Can I help you?” she gave him an innocent look.
Eric stared at her for a second, “Yeah, I’m a little lost,” she smiled at him, “I’m looking for—,” he didn’t have time to finish his sentence when he felt someone grab the back of his jacket and pull him backwards.
The person whirled him around until he was staring right at the face of…Nirvana. She looked angry. Extremely angry. Eric turned and looked at the woman. Her expression matched Nirvana’s exactly. Both showed extreme anger. By any chance did they know each other?
“Stay away from her,” she growled. Eric never thought he’d hear this from Nirvana. It was almost like she wasn’t…well…Nirvana.
Eric turned to look back at the woman. She wasn’t there. Eric raised an eyebrow and looked at Nirvana, “Who is she?”
Nirvana shook her head, “She will kill you,” Nirvana grabbed him by the arm, “She works for Sarnoff.”
At the sound of his name, Eric broke free from her grip with fire in his eyes, “Why didn’t you tell me?” he grabbed Nirvana and slammed her into a nearby car.
He stared at her dark brown orb eyes, “Didn’t seem relevant,” he tightened his grip on her and pulled her from the car and slammed her back down on it, “Did you really want to start a fight right here? This is what Sharova would have wanted,” he furrowed his brow at the sound of his father’s name, “Just—,” he stood his ground, “Do you really want to do this here?”
“Yes.”
Nirvana shook her head, “Eric, let me go.”
“No.”
Nirvana brought her foot up so it was resting on his stomach. She pushed back hard causing him to loosen his grip and stumble back. She fell to her feet quickly grabbing her upper arms. They would bruise in the morning.
He was about to grab her again, but they didn’t have the chance before a voice spoke up, “Eric,” it was Horatio, “Stop,”Eric looked over at him. Eric wanted to argue. How dare Nirvana do that. He would have liked them to take him to Calleigh.
“That woman knows were Calleigh is!” he tried to reason.
“Let’s go back to the hotel, you caused too much commotion,” Horatio put his hand on Eric’s shoulder and led him towards the hotel.
The Eric saw a glint of something out of his peripheral vision.
“H! Mo-,” he couldn’t finish his sentence when he heard a shot ring out. He shut his eyes waiting for the bullet to hit him. He remembered the bullet hitting his thigh. His experience after his shooting.
But no pain came.
A woman’s cry rang through the crowd followed by a figure falling to the ground. Eric watched in horror as blood spread across the pavement leaking onto the white snow. The flashbacks came to him quickly causing him to contort his face in pain. The woman pulled off her glove and put pressure on the wound. Horatio leaned down and put even more pressure making her scream out.
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Calleigh found herself lying in the middle of a floor. A table in front of her was overturned. She had Martin standing over her with a bottle of alcohol. So far Martin had a couple of scratches on his face, neck, and arms.
“I will kill you!” Martin grabbed her wrist, putting pressure on the wounds. She yelped. He picked her up and threw her as if she was a rag doll across the small room. She landed awkwardly on her already injured arm. She turned into a fetal position and tried to protect her belly. He grabbed her by the elbow and brought her up to him.
She spit on his face for the fifth time. He shut his eyes and smacked her across the face again. She felt blood run down her cheek, “I warned you!” he uncapped the alcohol and poured it over her cut wrists. It stung. It felt like she was burning. Her whole body felt like flames were consuming it. Her body twisted in pain as she screamed out.
He grabbed her neck holding her in one place, “Tell me!” he poured some more of the liquid on his hands and wiped it across her face. That was the worst feeling that she’d felt since her abduction. The burning filling her whole body, “If you do not I will cut your entire body and pour all of this over it,” she squirmed more out of his grip and screamed an ear piercing scream.
Then he kicked her.
He kicked her in the stomach hard. She felt all the wind come out of her body. She wanted to die. She was at that point. He then leaned down and pressed down where he kicked her, “Where is he?” he demanded.
“My-,” she chocked on the newly formed tears, “My-,” she felt pain erupt from her stomach. It exploded and her body jerked in a painful direction. She arched her back and screamed out again. Her body hit the floor once again causing wounds that were on her back to reopen. She felt them bleed. The blood soaked through her clothes once more and onto the floor.
She felt herself slip into unconsciousness. She felt the life inside her slip away. She looked up at Martin and stared him in the eye. The look she gave him was murderous.
“My baby.”