Disclaimer: Not mine, except Amanda, she is mine (or Brit's). Anyone you don't recognise is mine and Brit's, anyone you do isn't. L

Summary: New csi joins the team, Miami/NY crossover, posted under Miami because its mainly Miami, umm, hope you like, plz read, review and Enjoy xx oh, and the catorgory, can only chosoe two, but will be most of them, lol, angsty, drama, comedy, romance. and thanx to heartagram lala for the help wit the title, thanx, Enjoy xx.

A/N: This is the first chappy of a longer story that Brit and I have written, we will post it a bit at a time if you want us to continue to post it, plz review and let us know what you think of it, thanx, luv CalleighRox and 99CDN xx

Everything's Connected.

Amanda

Amanda Jensen was at another fire scene in Chicago searching through the rubble for a clue as to what caused it. It was just another day, so she thought. She was unaware that Lieutenant Horatio Caine from the Miami Dade crime lab was watching her every move. He had heard about her skills as a fire investigator and thought she would make a good addition to his team of CSIs back in Miami. He approached her as she carefully made her way through the rubble documenting and collecting evidence. Her long, dark brown hair was pulled up into a pony tail on top of her head, and still ran the length down her back. She was wearing a tight black tank top, and tight fitting black slacks over her slim, graceful figure. He walked up to her as she stopped to photograph a burn pattern on a door frame.

'Hi', he started, she stopped and turned around surprised, she hadn't heard him come up behind her, she turned and faced him with her deep, chocolate brown eyes, for a second Horatio was stunned, but quickly composed himself,

'Hi', she replied,

'Amanda Jensen?', he asked her,

'yes', she answered,

'I'm lieutenant Horatio Caine, I'm with the Miami Dade Crime Lab', he thought he would get right to the point after seeing her confused look, he figured she probably thought what was he doing in Chicago then, 'I'm here to ask you to join my team in Miami', he stood with his jacket pushed back and his hands on his hips and looked down and back up into her eyes as he waited for her answer.

'Oh, wow, umm', she answered, not sure what to say, 'how did you find me?', she asked him, she wondered what her boss would say if she agreed to move to Miami,

'I spoke to your boss, I heard about your reputation for being a great fire investigator, she told me you were at a scene and were I could find you',

'so it's sorted with her that I can go to Miami?',

'yes it is', he answered,

'wow, then yes, I think I would love to join your team', she smiled, still trying to take in the news,

'good', he smiled, tilting his head as he looked in her eyes again, 'I'll see you in a week then',

'wait', she said as he turned to leave, 'how will you find me, or how will I find you?', she asked confused,

'I'll come find you after your shift in a week, you'll be at your lab right?',

'yeah',

'ok, see you then', he told her with a smile as he let her to finish working her scene

'ok', she answered him as he left, she finished her scene and found the cause, another electrical fault. She could use a change of scenery from all these fire scenes she thought, a chance to go into criminalistics, catch real criminals, instead of analysing fire scenes all the time, she loved her job, but it got to be the same day after day, and she needed a change, Miami would be a good change she thought, confident she had made the right decision.

She was clearing out her locker into a box she had gotten from her boss, they had said their goodbyes, and she had said goodbyes to all her colleagues she worked with, but she had never really gotten close to them.

She had always been friends with Mac, her best friend, she had grown up with him, but he had gone into the marines, and she wasn't sure if she would ever see him again.

She hoped she would someday, she missed him.

He had married a girl named Claire, she was a nice girl and she liked her, but she didn't know were Claire was now, she had left Chicago when Mac had joined the marines, and Amanda never found out were she went.

She was deep in thought about Mac and the fun times they had had together when Horatio appeared at the locker room door, she didn't hear him walk up or enter the locker room, only jumped when he spoke to her when he was stood next to her locker,

'Lieutenant', she said, as she jumped and noticed he was there, 'how do you do that?',

'do what?', he asked ,

'sneak up all quietly', she replied, smiling now,

'sorry', he replied, looking down to the floor, 'I just came to see if you're ready?'

'yeah, everything's packed at my apartment, ready to move',

'good', he replied softly, and smiled, 'you have a place to stay in Miami?',

'yeah, I found an apartment', she smiled, he nodded,

'ok, good, let's go then'.

A few days later she was in Miami and Horatio had given her time to get used to her new apartment and unpack a little before her first day of work at the Miami crime lab. She unpacked all he essentials that she needed daily, and decided she could do the rest a bit at a time over the net few weeks. She had her essentials unpacked and was relaxing in front of the TV before she had to go to work the next day. He wanted her there for seven. She decided on an early night, the last thing she wanted was to be tired or late on her first day.

She was at the crime lab at six forty five the next morning, she had always made sure she was at work earlier, she went to the reception desk and they directed her to Lieutenant Caine's office. She went up the stairs to his office and knocked on the door, it was now just before five to seven.

'come in', he called, she opened the door and stepped inside, she closed the door behind her as she went him, he stood up to greet her as she came in,

'Amanda Hi', he greeted, and indicated to the chair opposite his desk, 'have a seat',

'hi lieutenant, thank you', she greeted and replied,

'we still have a few minutes before I have to go down to the break room and hand out assignments, you can meet the rest of the team then, and you can call me Horatio or H, everybody does', as he finished they could hear gun fire in the background, quietly echoing through the building, Horatio smiled, 'That's Calleigh, our ballistics expert, she's usually down in the gun lab if you need her'. Amanda nodded and smiled.

'Ok, they should be down there by now, I've asked Alexx to come to the break room this morning too, she's our coroner so she's not normally there for handing out assignments , and I've asked Maxine Valera to come too, she's our DNA lab technician, so you can meet them too', he told Amanda as they walked to the break room, she nodded, and smiled.

When they got to the room everyone was there except Calleigh, Horatio waited a moment before he heard her behind him,

'Hi Cal',

'Hi Horatio, sorry, I got carried away',

'that's ok', he smiled, 'Guys this is Amanda Jensen from Chicago, Amanda this is Eric Delko, Tim Speedle, Calleigh Duquesne, Alexx Woods, and Maxine Valera', he went around the room and she shook hands with everyone in turn,

'Hey, call me Delko', she nodded and smiled,

'Hi, Speed', she nodded again and smiled again,

'Hey', Calleigh greeted in her cheery southern accent,

'Hi Honey', Alexx greeted her,

'Hey, everyone calls me Valera', Amanda nodded and smiled,

'right everyone, assignments', as Horatio handed out assignments Alexx headed back down to the morgue and Valera headed back to DNA.

Amanda settled into the Miami crime lab well over the next four years.

A/N: ok first chappy, plz read and review let us know what you thought, and what you think we could add/change. Thanx, luv CalleighRox and 99CDN.