^ 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..............