Ok this is my first fan fiction for normal Csi so bear with me ok. This takes place at the start of season nine. Where they have just lost Warrick, and they gain a new Csi. I would also like to thank Shining brighter for making me continue with this idea, and by making me I mean forcing me! Well I'll let you read it now hope you enjoy it! Please review, it would make me very happy. :).

Grissom sighed, the new Csi would be here soon. The one that would replace Warrick, but in his eyes Warrick was irreplaceable, and no matter how good this new Csi was, she would be no-where near as good as Warrick had once been. He picked her file up from his desk once again and scanned though it, she was an 23 year old English woman, she had graduated from oxford university top of her class, he had to admit he was impressed by that. Throwing her file back on his desk, he rose from his chair. He needed to relax, he scanned his bookshelf for his favorite book 'bugs of the world' he found it and flicked though the pages not really taking anything in. There was a light tapping on his office door.

"Come in!" Grissom called. He heard the door squeak open and put his book back down. He turned and faced the woman that was now stood in his office. She was average size, medium length brown hair, that had some orange, blue and pink highlights in it. He locked his blue eyes with her intense brown ones. She looked back at him nervously.

"Hi you must be Dr. Grissom, I've heard so much about you. I'm, Danielle Mitchell, though you can call me Danni for short, everyone does, I'm the new Csi" she paused and waited for his response. A few moments passed before Grissom replied.

"Yes, I'm Grissom" he offered her a small smile. "I'm the supervisor of the night-shift, your new boss." Grissom turned away from Danni sharply, and walked towards the door, he turned his head over his shoulder. "Oh yeah, by the way I'm going to need a pint of your blood!" Grissom looked away from the new Csi again and walked out the door.

Danni walked round the lab, rubbing her newly injured arm. Grissom had told her to find a person called Nick Stokes, she had presumed that he would be in the break room, but so far she had, had no luck in finding him. She was so deep in thought, that she walked into someone knocking them to the ground. Danni looked down at the person shocked.

"I'm, I'm, so sorry" Danni stuttered, offering her hand to the blond woman, the woman took it pulling herself up.

"It's ok, just watch where you are going ok!" the woman brushed a loose blond hair out of her face. "I'm Cathrine by the way, Cathrine Willows" Cathrine looked Danni up and down. "You must be the new Csi, whats your name?"

" Danni Mitchell" Danni replied, self consciously shifting her weight from foot to foot. Cathrine frowned.

"Well it's nice to meet you Danielle, I have work to do, so I'll see you around" Cathrine said, side stepping Danni and walking away.

"Wait!!" Danni exclaimed. Cathrine paused waiting for the new Csi to continue speaking. "Do you know where I can find a Nick Stokes?" Cathrine gave her a small smile.

"He's with Greg in the lab" Cathrine gave Danni one last look then sauntered away down the hall.

"Thanks!" Danni shouted as Cathrine turned the corner. She sighed. Today was going to be a long day.

Greg lounged back in his chair. This was his break, he was going to relax. He let Nick ramble on about last nights game, not really listening, he closed his eyes letting his mind wander. He didn't even realize someone walk into the room.

"Excuse me" someone tapped on his shoulder. "Are you Nick Stokes?" Greg opened his eyes. He found a female staring back at him. He blinked a couple times just to check that he was awake. He came to the conclusion that he was awake. Now he had to think of what to say. He had to think of something fast! Something smart. Something witty. Something cute. Wait. Did he honestly think that he had to say something cute!? Greg's brain was about to go into complete meltdown when Nick spoke.

"Err.. no that is Greg, I'm Nick." the Texan said jumping down from the table he was sitting on. "You must be the new Csi. Good to meet you. Grissom told me you were going to shadow me today, wait, what was your name again?" Nick raised an eyebrow at Danni.

"It's Danni" Danni smiled, so far today she had felt so cut off from everyone. She knew why. And under the circumstances she didn't blame them. They had recently lost a member of their team, and no-one recovers from that quickly.

"Danielle" Nick grinned "Thats a nice name, well Danielle, you will be shadowing me and young Greg here, today, under Grissom's orders." Danni nodded in agreement shifting her attention to Greg, who sat still speechless in his chair. Nick chuckled. "Enjoy this moment Danielle, he's not normally this quiet. In fact he never normally shuts up!"

"Shut up, Nick!" Greg huffed. He grinned at the new female Csi standing in front of him, and held his hand out. "Nice to meet you Danni, I'm Greg" he pulled a face. "Greg Sanders" Danni laughed and shook his hand.

"Nice to meet you too" she said her brown eyes twinkling. All of a sudden their pagers went off simultaneously.

"Looks like we have a case" Nick said putting his pager away. By the time Danni looked up from her pager, Nick had left and Greg was at the door. Greg winked at her.

"Welcome to Vegas..!"

When Danni arrived at the scene, Nick introduced her to detective Jim Brass, he was a middle aged looking man, who had started in the process of losing his hair, his brown eyes studied her. She greeted Brass warmly, but he just muttered something as he flipped open his note book.

" The Vic was a 21 year old woman, goes by the street name LJ, but real name is Lucy Jane. she has no family." Brass summarized.

" Thanks Jim" Nick called as he ducked under the crime scene tape, followed closely by Greg. Danni quickly picked up her kit and followed them, nearly forgetting the crime scene tape, she bent down just in time to miss walking straight though it. Greg had hung back for her, smiling as she approached him.

" You ready to see your first dead body?"

" I've seen dead bodies before, Greg, its just this one isn't in a book" Danni quipped.

" Oh well they don't count then, do they?" Greg lightly teased as they walked towards the Vic.

" Greg stop flirting with the newbie!" Nick shouted, then laughed. Greg turned a deep shade of red, then motioned Danni to follow him over to Nick. As soon as they reached Nick the Vic's body came into view. Danni looked at her shocked, she wasn't like the ones she had seen in all her study books. The Vic wasn't all clean, and she defiantly didn't look at peace with the world. in fact the Vic looked anything but peaceful. Greg and Nick now had serious expressions set on their faces.

Nick couched beside the Vic's body. He looked at Danni signaling her to crouch down beside him. Once she realized that her legs would still support her, Danni made her way to Nick and crouched down beside him.

" So Danielle, what can you tell me about the Vic?" he quizzed.

" Well.." Danni said putting her gloves on, she lifted the Vic's arm. "... Our Vic was a user, she has track marks" Danni pointed out to Nick.

" Doing good so far, what else can you tell me?" Danni smiled a little at the praise, then remembered where they were and took another look at the body. She noticed a greenish stain just to the right of the Vic's abdomen.

" Looks like the Vic has been here for awhile..." Danni brushed the Vic's long blond and black hair out of her face " Vic's face is slightly bloated.." Danni opened the Vic's mouth "..The tongue is slightly swelled. And the eyes have started to liquefy..." Danni pulled softly on the skin on the Vic's face. "The skin has also become slightly detached." she turned to Nick " My best guess is the Vic has been here for a couple weeks at best." she finished. Nick let out a low whistle.

" Very impressive, looks like Doc has some competition" Danni smiled. Greg crouched beside the body on the opposite side to Danni and Nick.

" Well it wasn't robbery..." Greg stated.

" Where's you evidence for that?" Nick questioned.

"..Well the Vic still has a lot of money on her" Greg took a photo of the Vic before removing a purse from her. He done a quick count on it" There must be like, one, two, three, four, about five hundred dollars in here!" he put the purse and the money in an evidence bag. " We might be able to lift some prints of the money" Nick nodded in silent agreement, and pressed lightly on the Vic's chest, a small hissing noise was his reply. He pointed to the Vic's chest.
" I think I found our Vic's C.O.D" he concluded. "Stab wound to the chest, tore straight though the sternum, and pierced the heart, so the Vic bled out" Nick took a quick scan of the scene. " There's no blood here at all, well, maybe theres a little, but not as much as their should be if the Vic bled out!"

" Body dump?" Danni questioned.

" Looks like it. We better get the body back to the morgue." Nick told them. " And process the scene". Danni and Greg nodded in unison, and headed off to search the scene.

Danni breathed in deep, the stench of death took some getting used to, but she wasn't prepared to give up yet.

" Hey, Danni, come over here for a second!" Greg shouted. Danni looked up and strolled over to where Greg was stood.

" What is it?" Danni questioned as Greg pointed to the floor.

" Theres blood drops, looks like the Vic was brought in this way, we better see where they lead." Danni nodded and quickly followed the trail. " Jeez, wait up" Greg laughed and jogged to keep up with her. " So err... do you want to, get a drink after this case is wrapped up?" Greg asked nervously.

" Sure" Danni replied. " What time are we all going to meet?" she asked as she studied the ground for blood drops.

" All?" Greg said casually.

" Yeah all like Nick, Cathrine and the rest of the team, I mean I want to introduce myself properly." she paused " The trail ends here, must have been taken out of a car." Danni looked up at Greg. " Whats the matter?" Greg signaled for her to be quiet, a couple moments passed in which they heard nothing, then the noise of footsteps replaced the soundtrack of silence. Danni shot Greg a worried look. Greg softly placed his kit down and drew his gun. He moved silently closer to Danni and whispered in her ear.

" Go find Nick, and stay with him, I'll sort this out" Danni turned her head slightly so she could whisper back into his ear.

" No chance, I'm coming with you" Danni drew out her new gun slowly, mimicking how Greg was holding his. They both looked at all the crates that were in front of them, knowing that murderer could be in anyone of them. The crate that Greg was stood in front off suddenly erupted with noise and a man came crashing out, knocking Greg's gun to the floor. The man grabbed hold of Greg's neck tightly. He slowly backed off so that Greg was in front of him, like a shield. Danni watched helplessly, with the gun in her shaking hands. She couldn't shoot, if she did there was a chance she could kill Greg. But she couldn't let the man take him either!! She had to make up her mind and fast! Her finger slid to the trigger and tightened it's grip. Greg flinched in pain as a gunshot rang out.