Chapter Dino pt 1_

Warning: Grief, Mentions of death of child.


Barbara clawed at the hole with her bare hands. Blood and dirt under her nails. Rain pouring as she dug away looking for a plastic dinosaur. She had remembered in the shower that Tom had buried it in the garden. The day of the accident he'd begged to stay home and dig it up.

DB wanted to drag her back inside the house, shake her until her senses returned but he stood there helpless twisting his wedding ring around his finger. How would finding Dino help? It wouldn't bring Tom back.

Tom's death was killing him too, it was hurting Maya and Charlie but all Barbara saw was her own grief.

"I will put Charlie to bed and check on Maya," DB told her from the backdoor. "You should come inside with me. Maybe read to Charlie, you know you are the only one who does the voices right for Donnie and Herbert,".

"I'll come inside once I've found Dino," Barbara muttered. "You need to leave for work soon, you need to get ready," her voice sounded tired and determined.

He didn't mean to slam the door. DB was angry. Mad at himself for not being there, at the driver for being tired and at Barbara for turning her back for a minute.

"Dad, come and read me a story," Charlie called out from upstairs. It was strange ever since Tom's death it was him that Charlie called for or at least on the days he was talking at all. Charlie had withdrawn into himself whilst Maya was loud and argumentative.

"Coming bud,"


DB had convinced Barbara to come inside. Phoned her mother to come over to make sure she and the children were okay while he went to work. He was running late but knew supervisor Tate would understand. The rest of the team too while he kept his work and home life separate they all knew he was struggling.

With a tired sigh he walked into the lab, made his way to the break room and hoped for an easy case.

He spotted her straight away with a coffee mug in her hand, blonde hair in a ponytail.

"DB this is CSI Julie Finlay, just transferred from a lab in Philadelphia. You and her have a scene at the Hookey warehouse. Five dead and two injured at an underage party," Tate told him barely looking at either of them.

He wanted to say he knew who she was. That they'd met at a conference two months ago but the words wouldn't come out and he settled with "Okay and nice to meet you, Finlay,".

They walked together in a silence that was neither comfortable nor awkward. Collected their kits and went to his car. He couldn't help remembering the first time they met. She couldn't shift a creep who wouldn't take no for an answer, asked him to pretend he was husband to make the guy go away. Actually, she wanted to break his nose but thought it wouldn't go down well with her boss so settled for a less violent approach.

He'd agreed to it. They talked and drank at the bar; they laughed too. That day was the last time he laughed. It was strange to think about when that day when now seemed a lifetime ago.


"How are you liking Seattle?" DB asked, keeping his eyes fixed on the road as he drove. Hands clenched around the wheel like it was an anchor to the world.

"Well, I'm living in a motel where the people next door keep having loud sex for hours, I was late because my car wouldn't start but other than that it's great," Finn told him, inside she was debating on whether telling him that Zack and Mia had told her about his son. She didn't know him well enough to say sorry about his loss and he was probably sick of hearing it from people.

"Why did you move here? Sorry, that was too personal," DB apologized, he didn't even know why he asked it. He wanted to keep the conversation going until they reached the crime scene.

"Its fine. I wasn't happy in Philadelphia. Searched for jobs all over the country. Got offered an interview here and Las Vegas. I remembered you talking about how much you loved it here so I choose here," Finn told him shrugging her shoulders a little bit.

"I could have been lying, this place could be terrible," DB said with a small smile and feeling his body relax a little.

"Nah you have a tell when you're lying I spotted it when you told smoke breath you were my husband," Finn replied with a tiny smirk.

"I do not have a tell when I'm lying,"

"You totally do,"

"I don't,".


Hi, hope you enjoyed this chapter. Each chapter will be set in 3 or 4 parts. This fic will explore DB and Finn relationship over time in Seattle.

You are also probably wondering why I gave the Russells an extra child and that child to be dead.

1. I'm evil

2. The idea came to me and fits the story perfectly

3. But it's mainly because I'm evil.