The Pain in the Past : A CSI:MIAMI Fanfiction - Chapter 5 Rated M for Mature

Valera was obviously excited as she waved the DNA results in her hand. "Slow down, Valera" Natalia said, closing the top of the MasSpec, "Now, what did you find?" "All of the blood isn't Horatio's!" Valera squealed at her success after the tedious work of testing the numerous samples of blood that had been taken from the warehouse crime scene. "Oh my gosh!" Natala exclaimed just as Eric walked by. "What?" Eric said, as he walked in on the squealing girls. "All of those blood drops weren't Horatio's!" Natalia practically screamed, drawing the attention of the majority of the lab, "Horatio took a chunk out of the guy!" "Ok." Eric's level-headed voice brought the excitement down, "They still have H. and we still have to investigate what ever happened to Jinnefer Caldwin. Have you even ran that trace yet?" Eric shook his head, "Now who's blood was with H.'s at the warehouse?" His voice sounded condescending, but Valera and Nat paid no attention. Everyone knew how close Horatio and Eric were, and how much Horatio's kidnapping had effected Eric most of all. "I compared all of the samples to Horatio's that he gave when was hired, and almost all of them matched him." Valera held up a paper that showed Horatio's DNA sample compared to a blood drop from the warehouse that read in green 'MATCH'. "But a few of the drops closer to where Ryan and you said the car was weren't his." She held a different paper that read in red, 'NO MATCH'."So I ran them through CODIS. It came up for Havier Sifuentes, who has a prior for attempted murder and kidnapping; he is serving a 47 year sentence. He escaped today with Memmo and another convict named José Riaz. He has a prior for assault with a deadly weapon and murder of the first degree, and he is serving a life sentence." "Wait." said Eric, "Riaz and Sifuentes, they are the last names of former and incarcerated Mala Noche. I say former because Antonio Riaz is the man that put the hit on Marisol." "One second," Natalia said stepping up to her computer,"I wondered why those names sounded familiar." She began typing, "Ya, here we go, Havier Sifuentes. His brother is Rapheal Sifuentes." "Ya, Horatio brought Rapheal in after on an explosives and attempted murder charge." Eric said, looking over Natalia's shoulder. "And I bet if you look into José Riaz, you will come up with Antonio Riaz." "Yep, here it is. Antonio Riaz is the older brother to José Riaz and..." Natalia stared, shocked at the screen that was in front of her. "What's wrong, Nat?" Valera looked at Natalia who's face was quickly growing pale. "Eric?" Natalia said turning to face Eric who had moved to study the blood sample comparisons. "Were you aware Antonio Riaz has an identical twin brother named Ricardo? He was brought in 8 years ago for drug possession, so his picture is in the mugshot database." "What!?" Eric said, his demeanor changing from anger to that of astonishment. "He has an identical twin brother?" "Ya," she clicked on an information bar underneath the photo of Ricardo, "and it says that he has been missing since you killed his brother." "Eric, you don't think it's possible that..." Valera was interrupted by Eric "No." Eric sighed, "There is no way that the man that H. stabbed wasn't Antonio Riaz. I am sure of that. He had the right voice and the right demeanor... The man that was killed was the man that pu the hit on Marisol." Without another word Eric walked out of the room, leaving Valera and Natalia alone in the room. "Do you think, Nat? Do you think that the man Horatio killed wasn't Antonio Riaz?" Valera gathered up the papers and placed them in the neat pile on the desk. "I don't know, Valera. Let's head to the A/V Lab, I have an idea." Natalia walk out of the room followed by Valera. "Hey, Ben!" Natalia chirped as she walked into the A/V Lab followed by Valera. "Hey!" Dave "Ben" Benton greeted his co-worker. He had always been known for his rock star look. His long, blond hair and ruddy appearance had always attracted to women of the lab, but he had only been friendly with Natalia. "I have a question for you?" Natalia asked walking up to the table which served as the touch pad for the Miami-Dade Crime Lab's holographic computer screen. "Ya," Ben smiled, "anything for the most beautiful thing in this crime lab." "Ha. Ha. Very funny, Ben." Natalia shook her head and laughed, "So my question is: I know identical twins look identical, but I heard that there are always small differences in appearance between both twins?" "All identical twins are identical inside the womb, but certain stresses such as broken bones, emotional trauma, car accidents, even being born can cause slight differences in appearance that are not visible to the naked eye." He said pulling pictures up on his computer, "See if you look at this pair of identical twins, you can see no visible differences, correct?" "Ya, they look alike, no differences." Natalia said, studying the photograph of two blond girls, who, to her looked identical. "Well, to you they are, but if you apply the comparison software to both faces you see the differences." He said as the computer took both faces and compared them, showing how different the twins really looked, "See how the twin on the right's eyes droop slightly more then the one on the left?" "A huh, how does that happen?" Valera said noticing just how many differences there were between the "identical twins". "Like I said, different stresses, cause differences in appearance." Dave dragged the cursor a place where the girls cheeks overlapped on the comparison image, "You see these laugh lines?" he asked rhetorically, "They are caused by one twin putting more stress on those muscles then the other." "Wow! So can you do this on any set of twins?" Natalia asked. "Probably. I'll just need a picture of each of the twins and some time. Who would you like me to compare?" He said removing the pictures of the twins from the screen. "Antonio and Ricardo Riaz." Natalia said, "You'll be able to find picture of both in the mug shot database." "Alright. It will take some time to compare them, but I'll..." Ben was interrupted by a trilling from the computer. "What is that?" Natalia said, shocked by the noise that she had never heard from the computer in her six years of working at the lab, "Make it stop, Ben." The continuous trilling attracted the attention of both Calleigh and Ryan, who walking to the lab, joining Natalia, Valera, and Ben. "What was that thing?" Calliegh asked as the noise stopped. "Oh my gosh." Dave said as he clicked a flashing envelope that had arrived with the alarm. "What?!" Ryan asked coming closer to the table. "When Horatio was taken we red flagged everything that he had." Ben said typing into his computer, "Email, cell phone, credit cards, anything that his captors could contact us through." "Ya, so?" Ryan asked. "So, Horatio just received an email from an unknown IP address, and all the email contains is a web address." He said turning towards Ryan. "Where does the web address lead us to?" Valera asked, concern growing on her face. "Well, let's find out, shall we." Ben clicked on the link provided in the email. A web site came up with a video feed. "Oh my God." Calleigh's voice broke as she stared at the man on the screen, "That's Horatio."