Disclaimer: CSI and team do not belong to me, but they do belong to CBS and Anthony E. Zuiker. Only Cass Sanders, her relationship with Greg and Nick, James Kenwood, and the plot are mine. So please ask before using them (Ok, so not really the concept of the plot). This is a work in progress, so please bear with me for however long it takes to finish. I will however provide a story on how Cass got on the team, and how she and Nick hooked up.

The Family Born From Rape

By TweetyPie82

Cass Sanders walked passed the yellow crime scene tape and flashed her Las Vegas Crime Lab badge to the officer on guard at the entrance. "It's a real mess in there, ma'am." He told her with a nod. She looked the young man up and down real carefully as if trying to make an assumption and filed the name on the tag with his face.

"How many crime scenes have you responded to, Officer Leon?" Cass finally asked and shook her head at the answer of two. "After you've seen as many as I have, very few of them can be described as messy." She asked where the bodies were and then went directly to them in the bedroom. She sat her large field kit down just inside the door of the room and took a deep breath. 'Just another crazy day at work in Vegas.' She thought to herself as she sat to work gathering evidence. She was on her own on this one, as there seemed to be a spike in mindless, violent deaths in the past week. She missed going out with her boyfriend and co-worker, Nick Stokes, as well as her super energetic brother, Greg Sanders.

Cass looked up when she heard Dr. Albert Robins' assistant ask if there has been a path cleared to the body. "Yeah David, the most direct approach is available." She answered with a smile and got up to assist him with the body. She watched him poked and prod the corpse, and after a few long minutes she asked in a professional way, "What should I be looking for at this point in time?" At his puzzled expression she hurriedly explained as he had always dealt with CSIs in teams, "We are stretched tight, and pulling in overtime by the truckload."

David nodded his head in understanding and said in his professional manner, "At first glance, the husband was slowly suffocated to death. The wife was badly and violently beaten and raped, but she died first and then the husband shortly after that. If I find anything else back at the morgue, I'll call you." With that, he and the handler with him load the bodies up and leave. Cass finished up a few hours later, and headed back to the lab with her kit and booty in tow.

Back at the lab and morgue

Cass lugged the evidence into the building and logged it in. She headed into the morgue to pick up some reference DNA samples from the victims, and bumped into her brother and boyfriend. She smiled at the two of them and asked, "Headed my way?"

Greg and Nick looked at each other and said in unison, "I'm headed to see David." Cass busted out laughing.

At their puzzled faces, Cass said, "I'm headed that way as well. What do the two of your have?" She asked knowing that some times more than one of the cases that are being worked on might be connected.

"A car bombing killing a mom and her kid." Greg answered in disgust, and Cass knew that her brother always got angry when kids are the victims and knew why.

"A suspicious drowning. What about you?" Nick asked gently as he knew something was up, and pulled her to lean into his side and placing her between Greg and himself.

"A husband and wife killed in their own bed. Violently, I may add." Cass sighed to the two of them as they walked into the morgue. Doc Robins was elbow deep into a body's chest and David was near by ready to hand the ME whatever instrument he needed to complete the autopsy. Cass noticed that it was her female vic that was on the table with an open chest.

David looked at the newest member of the CSI team and explained, "It looked like she was having a celebrating rendezvous with her husband and the two of them were surprised in the middle of their party for two and the guest of honor." He managed to say without getting too embarrassed.

"You mean to say they were having sexual intercourse to celebrate her being pregnant?" Cass asked slightly shocked and saw the assistant ME nod his head in answer.

"That is one sick son of a gun!" Cass heard Nick exclaim and shook her head at him and the disbelieving information she had just been given.

"David, I'm going to need samples from all three vics to run against what I collected at the house." Cass instructed and again was surprised when the young assistant ME handed her four DNA swabs. He showed her the three to the family, and the fourth was in the wife's vagina. "Thank you, David." She said and took the evidence before walking off. She had also wrangled out a promise for dinner from her brother for later that night.

Cass walked into the DNA lab to get the results from the samples she sent and just shook her head, as the surprises don't stop coming in this case. She called the detective on the case with her, "Vega, you wouldn't believe this. The baby isn't the husband's." She rattled off the father's name and address into the phone, which was gotten from CODIS. She said that she would meet him at the interrogation room to conduct the interview.

At the interrogation room

Cass walked into the room right behind Det. Sam Vega to stare into her main and only suspect's cold, calculating dark eyes. "Mr. Kenwood, do you know this woman?" She politely demanded as she showed the suspect the photo of the vic in the morgue.

"Sorry, can't say I do." Mr. Kenwood answered with confidence so full of shit, that Cass could smell it a mile away.

"Mr. Kenwood, I have your semen all over this woman's bed sheet and your DNA strain in the fetus she was carrying. Do you care to explain how that happened if you claim that you do not know her? It seems you did, and very well at that." Cass demanded as she leaned into his face and smiled inwardly as she saw the anger flare in his eyes.

"You're the CSI, you tell me." He demanded in a cocky tone of voice as he leaned back into his seat.

Cass returned to her own seat and replied in the same tone of voice, "I think you and her were having an affair and she only wanted you to be a sperm donor. When she finally got what she wanted, she broke it off with you. Except that you wanted more, you wanted her to leave her husband for you and she refused. You waited until they decided to 'celebrate' until you extracted your revenge. Just watching the two of them going after it fueled your already burning rage, so you killed her first as she was the one who hurt you and made him watch as you violently raped her and then killed her. You then finished off her husband." Cass watched for any sign from her suspect only to find him appearing to be amused.

"That is pretty interesting story, but you forgot that I was not there. Now if you are done with me, I have things to see and pretty smart CSI girls to do." Mr. Kenwood threatened Cass as he got up and walked out.

Vega looked over at the young CSI and asked in a concerned tone, "Are you okay?" He knew Greg and Nick would both kill him if anything happened to her, and he would like to be breathing a bit longer.

"Is it just me, or did he just threaten me?" Cass replied as she continued to stare out the door and down the hallway in the direction their suspect had left by.

"I'm sorry Cass but I didn't catch what he said." Vega apologized and watched the young CSI shake her head before walking out the door herself.