My Dear Readers,

Thank you for opening this story and reading its tale. I have had this rolling around my mind for some time now and I wasn't sure I wanted to release it until I was sure that I would have a viable story line to weave.

This story is Post "Love Run Cold," but Pre "Silent Night." The revelations we have had in that episode may or may not be addressed in this story, I have not decided.

Please enjoy this story and feel free to send me any and all reviews on it. I appreciate them all.

Thank you again for taking the time to read this little story of mine. Please enjoy!!!

Sincerely,

The Princess of Pease

The Fence

In the lands the make up the state of Montana, there are forest game lands, rivers, towns, a few cities, roads, pastures, Indian lands, and farm land. These intersect, meet, flow, and neighbor each other, but at point in the middle, in one specific farm field, there is an old oak tree that no one owns, but is surrounded by a circling fence that has five points.

This pentagon is accented by the five lengths of fence that travel in different directions, marking the five boundaries of five different ranches owned by five different families. All these families had lived on their respective ranches for a very long time and at the beginning (when the oak tree was first planted) were even parts of the same family, but now they are close friends and neighbors (as close as twenty miles will allow) and as are their children.

It is this generation that is the center of our tale. And so at the old oak tree, surrounded by fence, land, and families, our story begins……..

CSI: NY