Yay tension! It's always fun to write and read tension.
And the Alena story is a comin'! As well as a few others.
Have I semi convinced Anni of something between Ryan and Calleigh?
:lol:
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Miami Lab
Horatio: Eric.
Delko: Yeah H.
Horatio: We recieved a call out this morning to The Everglades. A young girl was found.
Delko: ...Is it Alena?
Horatio: We're still waiting on an ID. Gators got to the body before we did.
Delko: *sigh* Jess...Isn't doing too well with all of this. She won't come out of the house, she won't answer the door, she won't pick up the phone...I had to look through the window to make sure she was still alive.
Horatio: I understand.
Delko: And I'm still under investigation. Am I ever going to get back out into the field?
Horatio: Once IAB clears you.
Delko: I need to find out who that little girl is, H.
Horatio: We've got it under control, E.
Delko: ....Did you just call me 'E'?
Horatio: *coughs* What? No. I had something caught in my throat. *coughs*
Delko: Okay because that would be lame.
Horatio: Hey it's not like I go around calling Frank,
Francis.
Delko: I could have sworn you did.
Horatio: ...What alternate reality are you living in?
Delko: One with bright colors and babes everywhere but no real plot.
Horatio: Ah. Well get back into the right timeframe.
Delko: Done and done.
Yelina: *walks over* Horatio.
Horatio: Ma'am.
Yelina: Colton was able to get some DNA off of the victim in the Glades.
Horatio: *nods* We'll compare the DNA with Eric's file.
Yelina: Also there's another thing that might interest you.
Horatio: Let's hear it.
Yelina: Stetler's back.
Horatio: *looks at Eric*
Delko: *frowns*
Cemetary
Alexx: You sure you got a court order?
Katie: Oh yeah. It's in the Hummer.
Alexx: May I see it?
Katie: Just open the casket.
Alexx: This won't help you to heal.
Katie: Alexx it's important.
Alexx: Okay but I warned you.
Katie: *crosses arms*
Alexx: *pries open casket*
Katie: *looks over*
Alexx: *stares inside*
Katie: ...Alexx. Where's the body?
Alexx: *steps back* I don't know.
Katie: Where's my daughter's body?
Alexx: ...
Katie: *narrows eyes* Alexx where have you been for the past two days? Ryan's been trying to get a hold of you. And before that you were in the Bahamas for two weeks. Were you really there?
Alexx: One question at a time baby.
Katie: Answer.
Alexx: I've been at the Colombian syndicate.
Katie: Why?
Alexx: I was asked to confirm a death and sign some papers.
Katie: Who's death?
Alexx: *looks down at ground* Look, you shouldn't worry yourself about things like this.
Katie: When you were in the 'Bahamas', where were you really?
Alexx: Colombia.
Katie: Why?
Alexx: Same reasons but that time everything I said about the autopsy reports were recorded via video tape.
Katie: In Colombia?
Alexx: The victim was a citizen of the United States and was recently declared-
Katie: A citizen of Colombia? What the hell is going on? Where's my daughter's body?
Alexx: I can't say specifically.
Katie: Why?
Alexx: Because I can't.
Katie: Does anyone else know about your secret trip to Colombia to sign off on a dead person who was supposed to be in this grave?
Alexx: No. Not even Horatio.
Katie: Alexx, you have pretty good knowledge on comatose inducing drugs and those types of things right?
Alexx: What are you getting at?
Katie: I have to look at some evidence. *walks away*
Alexx: *lifts brow*
Trace Lab, two hours later
Carly: *walks in* Hey what are you working on?
Katie: Evidence.
Carly: ...What evidence? Is that a knife?
Katie: Mhm.
Carly: From your casino crime scene?
Katie: No.
Carly: You working a double case or something?
Katie: Something like that, yeah.
Printer beeps
Katie: *grabs paper*
Carly: You found that on the knife?
Katie: Yeah. C11H17N3O8.
Carly: Isn't that...Puffer fish?
Katie: Pretty poisonous too, if you don't know how to use it.
Carly: So someone was cooking fish.
Katie: No. I read last year that if this this stuff is injested with a controled dose and monitored, it's victim will have temporary paralysis of the limbs, breathing and pulse slows down to almost zero but still keeping the victim alive, pupils dialate and the skin sometimes turns a greyish white. Essentially it mimics death.
Carly: Sounds like whoever took it was close to death after taking this.
Katie: Yes but it doesn't kill if you know what you're doing.
Carly: So a doctor would have administered it.
Katie: Or someone with at least a medical degree and some knowledge about toxins.
Carly: You have anyone in mind?
Katie: I do.
Carly: *looks at box* ...That's Lori's case.
Katie: Yeah and check this out. *pushes knife* Retractible if not locked in place. I didn't see it before.
Carly: Katie I think you've run this case into the ground already.
Katie: Something came up.
Carly: Really.
Katie: Her grave is empty. Looks like it has been for a while. Alexx said she was deported off to Colombia and I want to know why. Except now that I have this information about the toxin, I have reason to b-
Carly: Stop. Just...Stop. Katie, that knife was used in a college kitchen. Of course it would have that substance on it.
Katie: You don't underst-
Carly: I do understand. You're looking for answers where there are none.
Katie: Then how about I test the blood found at the crime scene? See if it's actually hers.
Carly: Katie...Enough.
Katie: As I recall, you're the one who kept Speed away for the majority of the time after she was 'killed'.
Carly: He didn't need to see her like that. And besides, we went back to look over her body and believe me. She was dead.
Katie: Of course you'd say that.
Carly: You're going to go crazy if you keep digging more holes.
Katie: The last hole I dug was empty so you can see why I'm a little concerned about this case. Logan was in Colombia and unfortunately I killed him. What was the real reason he was there?
Carly: He was there because he was working for the people who took the plane and kept Eric and Jess hostage.
Katie: See I think there was a second reason he was there and I think it was Lori. Speed found a note indicating that she was going to get Logan if it meant sacrificing herself. Now there was a fair amount of cocaine in his posession that Lori set up perfectly to be found at the apartment. Convenient. A note and everything.
Carly: Katie...
Katie: She's always felt like the people in Colombia who were being exploited needed some kind of help. My guess is the cocaine was to pay off the bosses there and get the girls out. Or maybe she was going to sell the drugs and get money to help them, I don't know. Maybe she felt she couldn't leave unless she really 'left'. I think Logan helped her fake her death but then got impatient when he couldn't get his hands on the cocaine himself.
Carly: That's a nice theory but you have nothing but a knife with fish poison on it.
Katie: So Logan was involved with these other Colombians as well, trying to make some more bucks but something went wrong. Eric and Jess were on that plane and he didn't expect that. The plan spun out of control and eventually he ended up dead. His greed killed him and now Lori is out there somewhere, alive.
Carly: *frowns*
Katie: Am I close?
Carly: What made you want to open the casket?
Katie: Um, an unrelated event sparked my interest.
Carly: Well you sure know your daughter.
Katie: I'm guessing you guys helped cover it up.
Carly: I made sure Speed didn't overstep his bounds and find out what was going on. He almost did when he went to the morgue but I convinced him to leave before the stuff wore off.
Katie: So she's alive. Alexx was just covering things to make sure that she stayed 'dead'.
Carly: That's right.
Katie: *nods* My daughter's been alive for almost three years and you kept this from me.
Carly: It was necessary. Cocaine is still illegal to pass along the borders.
Katie: You know how much emotional pain we had to go through?
Carly: I'm sorry.
Katie: Three years trying to rebuild my life. Three years of grief for nothing. You took her from me.
Carly: I don't know what to say.
Katie: How about her phone number.
Carly: She made it clear that she doesn't want to bring you guys into it.
Katie: ....Oh my God.
Carly: What?
Katie: Speed. He didn't even react at the funeral. He won't tell me what's going on with his therapist. He knew, didn't he? He found out.
Carly: I didn't ask. But I suspected he might have found out after we left the morgue.
Katie: That's why he won't talk about her. She betrayed us and she left us. That's why he was angry. *leaves*
Carly: Katie! *sigh* It always has to be drama drama drama with those people.
TBC..............
