Another Nice Mess We've Gotten Into
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After two DBs turn up with messages on them, Sara and Catherine go missing. Will the team find them in time? Will Sara ever be the same? You'll have to read it to find out.
Chapter 1
Peter Symonds was his name and he was angry. Angrier than was normally conceivable. Currently he had in his basement two girls, one a long haired brunette, the other, blonde. Each day he had taken out his anger on these two innocent ladies, knowing full well they weren't the ones he was angry at. The two he wanted weren't as easily accessible.
The two ladies in his possession had been bound, beaten and savagely raped. They still hoped for salvation but each day those hopes grew fainter. They were now numb, ready to die, almost hoping for it all to end any way it could. The brunette lasted longer than the blonde. Broken bones, pain and a broken mind let her slip away, her body gave up without the mind striving to keep it going. She died in pain.
Symonds put her bound body into the trunk of his car and drove her to the outskirts of Las Vegas, left her driver's licence on her, and a message carved into her chest. 'CATHERINE WILLOWS, THIS IS YOUR FUTURE!' He then drove back to his lair to prepare for his next message.
Back at the lab
Grissom handed out assignments. "Catherine, you and Nick have a 419 on the outskirts. Female, aged 40, Brass will meet you there. Sara you and Warrick take a B&E in Henderson, grocery store, three wounded. Greg you are with me on our current case load here in the lab, but be ready for call out. Right let's go folks."
Nick drove out to edge of Vegas where they saw the flashing lights and met up with Brass at the scene, he looked very worried. "Nick, Catherine, we have a dead female, aged 41, ID says she's Leslie Parks. Her address is one of the more expensive parts of Vegas, COD not conclusive yet. She was severely beaten, raped and tortured. One more thing, the killer left a message carved into her chest."
Catherine and Nick walked over to where the Coroner stood, Parks' arms were bound behind her with duct tape, ankles likewise and another strip over her mouth. Catherine suddenly went deathly pale as she saw the message left by the killer. Nick came to her side and saw the reason for her unhealthy pallor.
"I want the tape left intact, we'll take it off at the lab and check for prints and DNA there, bag the licence Cath and check the perimeter, I'll do the body," Nick said strongly, knowing this would jolt her out of the trance.
Catherine responded as her training kicked in, she still was trembling inside, but if she did her job efficiently then they might catch this killer before he could carry out his threat.
Grissom had a call from Doc Robbins to come down and view Leslie Parks' body and bring the camera. The Doc was an old workhorse so nothing surprised him much these days but this was something different.
"COD doc?" asked Grissom.
"Not totally established yet Gil, could be a number of things, or none of them. I'll tell you why before you ask. Broken bones aplenty, ribs, right arm, cheek bone, jaw and eyesocket fractures. Kneecaps, nose all shattered. Unknown weapons used in all, blunt force though. Neck ligatures suggest strangulation, but the eyes don't agree so my guess is the killer used strangulation as a torture, not as a kill weapon.
Her heart on the other hand is different, it's showing signs of fatigue, weakness and atrophy. One kidney is ruptured, lacerated liver. But basically all I can say for certain is that she had a heart attack. Whoever did this to her took away her will to live and her heart gave out.
"The is the message that was carved into her chest Gil, it was meant for Catherine," he said showing Grissom the highlighted screen view of the message. CATHERINE WILLOWS THIS IS YOUR FUTURE.
Grissom called a team meeting to discuss this message with the team and to check any and all results from the scene. So far no prints had been found on the licence apart from the vic's. The tape was generic and cut with a straight, sharp blade, no useable prints, only smudges. Footprints and tyretracks at the scene were a washout, nothing there to use. Next came the issue of Catherine's protection.
"Grissom, I'm not going to be locked away just in case, however I will send Lindsey to my sister's place for a few days to start with, but I do have another idea which might very well work."
Catherine went on about how she had spoken to Doc Robbins, who even approved the idea and would do it. "I can get Doc Robbins to implant a microchip so I can be tracked, no phone GPS needed, just a little transdermal chip, as for the placement, well it would have to be somewhere it can't be broken or ripped out," she said, shuddering at the thought, but thinking realistically.
After discussion regarding the vic's injuries, and untouched places, it was agreed that anywhere was risky but that her hip region was probably the best option, near her spine. Theoretically the case now seemed solved, all they had to do was bait the trap…. With Catherine, and pray nothing went wrong.
Peter Symonds was still enjoying himself with his other toy, the brunette, Josephine Collins, she was made of sterner stuff than the blonde had been. After inflicting the same cruel punishment on Josephine, he went further, slicing through her flesh with a scalpel, her blood filling the shallow table on which she lay. Her eyes full of pain and fear one moment, then glassy and still as her heart ran out of fuel to pump.
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