The Pain in the Past : A CSI:MIAMI Fanfiction - Chapter 7 Rated M for Mature

"What!?" Ryan almost pushed Ben over to sit center of the screen to look at Horatio. "Oh my God. Look at him..." Natalia noticed how her ginger boss was slumped over in the chair, and tears began to run down her face, "Is he dead?" She asked, as Ben zoomed into take a closer look at Horatio. "No," Calleigh sighed with relief as she saw his chest go up and down. "Where is Eric?" Valera asked, knowing he would want to know that Horatio was alive. "He's down in autopsy, helping Alexx with Jinnefer Caldwin." Calleigh said, pulling out her phone and holding it up to her ear. She waited a moment and the shut the phone, "He's not answering." "I'll go get him." Ryan said, leaving the A/V lab and walking towards the elevator, leaving the girls and Ben to watch Horatio sleep. The autopsy looked as it always had, the body coolers lined the wall, and the three metal slabs, that were used to hold bodies during autopsies, lay clean. Only one was occupied by the body of Jinnefer Caldwin. "Eric, I was right in what I said to Horatio." Alexx said as she examined the wounds closer, pouring silicone in to make a cast of the wound, "This baby was shot, then stabbed, but that's not what killed her." "What, Alexx? Are you saying something other then the massive trauma to her stomach?" Eric seemed confused. "Hey, I know I haven't been here in while and that I am just covering while Dr. Loman is out, but I am still an M.E. I know what I am talking about!" She said laughing, trying to lighten Eric's obviously strained mood. Alexx had worked with Horatio and his team of CSI's for ten years before she had taken an early retirement to spend more time with her family. The slender black women was close with everyone of the CSI's, and when the current M.E., Dr. Tom Loman, had needed some personal time off, Horatio had asked her to return for a small time to fulfill his duties. She, of course, had said yes. "There is no bruising around these wounds, which tells me that they were made after death." "What killed him then?" Eric chuckled, and he smiled at Alexx. "I got results back on that trace that was on her lips," Alexx said, looking over the girls face, "It was arsenic, but she was poisoned so severely and quickly that symptoms couldn't present. This poor girl was asphyxiated by poison." "Wait a minute." Eric paused, his face was perplexed, "You say that she had arsenic power forced into her mouth, which she swallowed, but there was so much it asphyxiated her. Then she was shot, and then she was stabbed." "Ya." She said, "Someone really wanted to make sure she was dead." "Ya, that's what I..." Eric was interrupted by Ryan storming into the autopsy room. "We have a live video feed on Horatio!" Ryan gasped for breath, trying to recover form his journey down to autopsy. "What!?" Eric started for Ryan and the elevator, "What do you mean? How?" "I'm coming too." Alexx said, as she joined Eric and Ryan in the elevator. The elevator started to move, and Ryan gave both a quick overview of what had happened. The doors opened to the lobby of the lab, and the three quickly moved to the A/V lab, where the video feed had been shut off. "What in the hell! Why'd you turn it off?!" Eric all but screamed at the group of ladies that had visible tears stains down their cheeks. He moved to restart the video, but Ben tried to stop him. Eric pushed Ben into the table, and he pulled up the video. It quickly became obvious why they had turned it off, for now Eric stared at a video that pierced him to the core. He watched a man rape his boss, who was still out cold, but Horatio had been moved to a bed. The camera angle had changed, providing a perfect view of what was happening, while guarding the perpetrators face. "Oh my God." Alexx gasped, and tears started to fall down her face. "Turn it off, Eric!" "We have to record this. We need to have all the video to prosecute this asshole!" Eric tried to keep his voice calm. "But H. also needs his dignity." Ryan said, making eye contact with Eric, "So we tell no one what we saw," Ryan now spoke to the room, "Especially, Horatio." The room was in agreement, and as soon as it had began, the rape of Horatio Caine ended. "It's over." Calleigh sighed with relief, but soon realized how exposed he was, "Can we blur out his um... His..." Calleigh's face blushed red , and Ben realized what she was talking about. With a few strokes of the touch-pad table, Horatio's privacy was again intact. "Look at him..." Valera swallowed, trying to keep herself from crying again. She suddenly had more urgency in her voice as she walked towards the door, "I'm going to go process all of the DNA evidence we have from both crime scenes. Maybe then we can find this guy, and Horatio." As she left Horatio began to come to. "He's awake." Natalia looked at her boss with pity, "I can't watch this. I'm going to go run the trace, and I'll help Valera as well." She walked quickly away. "Who is he talking to?" Calleigh asked, "Is there anyway we can get sound on this video?" Ben typed quickly. "No." Ben said, "Its a video only, no sound. You'll have to get someone to read lips." For a split second a smile came across the crowd's lips as they realized who they could call. "I'll call Walter," Ryan chuckled wryly, "He'll be happy with the time change." Walter Simmons was a CSI who had worked the night shift. He had been transferred to day shift, and Horatio's team, after Eric had been shot in the line of duty. When Eric had recovered, Walter had stayed on the team until an injury on the night shift had caused Walter to be transferred back to night shift. He had been missed by all, especially Ryan. Walter was the best lip-reader in the MDPD, and now the team could have him back on day shift to help find Horatio. "Ryan, look at this." Alexx said, "There's a woman with him." "Ya, H. is talking to her." Ryan sighed, "to bad we can't read lips. I'm gonna go call Walter; tell him to hurry up and get here." "K," She said as she watched the woman leave Horatio. "Why is he laughing?" Ben asked as he watched H. begin to laugh hysterically. "He's not mentally there." Alexx sighed, looking down from the video, "He's probably realized he's been raped, and that this is not just a bad dream." She said as he looked into the camera, and met her eyes. His eyes showing the anguish and fear that no one but Alexx and Calleigh saw "It's alright Horatio baby. We're gonna get you home." Alexx turned and walked out of the lab, heading back to autopsy. Ryan reentered just as Memmo came into the room. "He'll be here in an hour." Ryan addressed both Calleigh, Eric, and Ben. "Ok," Calleigh said her mind obviously on something other then Ryan. "Is that Memmo?" Ryan asked "Yes." Eric said, his voice deepening. "Oh my God." Calleigh hid herself into Ryan's chest as Memmo pressed the stun baton into Horatio's chest, and he began to convulse. "It' alright, Calleigh," Ryan ran is hands through her hair, "It gonna be fine. We're gonna get him back." "Hey. Is it true?" Frank's voice had startled the group that looked on at Horatio, "Oh my God, Horatio." No one greeted Frank. He joined the group that watched as Horatio's eyes filled with remembrance and love. "Who is he looking at?" Eric questioned. Frank sighed as he realized where he had seen Horatio look like that before. "It can't be." Frank's eyes when back to the night Horatio had told him about Speedle and him. His eyes had looked just like that. A man walked into view, his face blocked by the angle of the camera. "What is it, Frank?" Eric's voice began to grow angrier. "Who is that!?" "Horatio told me never to tell anyone, but in this case, I don't think he'd mind." Frank swallowed, "Horatio's eyes. I have only seen them like that once, when he told me about him and Speedle." "What about him and Speedle?" Ryan asked. "Their relationship." The Texan choked out, "Him and Speed dated. They were a couple months from their wedding when Speed was killed." "That can't be Speed, and Horatio can't be bisexual!" Eric screamed, and stormed out. "Look at that man." Calleigh sighed, staring at the man that now approached Horatio "He looks just like Speed from the back. I've just never seen him shirtless." "I could see how Horatio could be bisexual." Ryan said, not listening to Calleigh, "He has looked at me a couple times..." "Wait a second," Frank stopped Ryan, "You're gay?!" "Bisexual, there is a difference." Ryan attempted to laugh at his friend. "Wait, guys, look at what this guy is doing to Horatio." She watched as the mysterious man held Horatio's head up, and helped him drink. The man ran his hand through Horatio's hair, and for a second the man lifted his head to the camera. "What the hell!?" Frank looked into the man's eyes. "Speed." Calleigh's mouth dropped.