Hunters and Collectors
Disclaimer: CBS owns CSI
A/N In no way does this have anything to do with the band.
It includes Sara, Catherine, Sofia, a little Grissom and a few others, as for ships, you'll have to wait and see.
Does contain some graphic images, but nothing out of the CSI ordinary.
Chapter 1
It was August, it was hot, it was night time, and worst of all, it was raining heavily.
Sara and Catherine had been called to a violent domestic scene and were due to meet Sofia there as the Detective in charge of the scene. Everything seemed pretty straightforward in all of that, but what they found would make the most hardened cop on the force puke.
"Has the scene been secured?" Sofia asked the senior officer at the scene.
"No ma'am, none of the officers could go inside and not throw up so we decided to secure the perimeter and wait for you to arrive with some back up."
"Fine then Officer Mitchell and Dylan can clear the main floor, I'll take the upstairs, if you want to heave, hold it." Sofia had no time for queasy officers in a potentially dangerous situation.
Sara and Catherine waited outside whilst Sofia entered the nightmarish house to secure it. She was dumbfounded at the blood everywhere. The house had been trashed, the husband was lying in a pool of his own blood, his head severed and set up on the mantle above the fireplace. Blood sprayed around the walls and blood trails led upstairs.
While the officers cleared the first floor, finding every room trashed, Sofia cautiously headed upstairs knowing full well that if anyone was still on scene, her being on the stairs was her most vulnerable position. Her gut instinct told her that someone was up there, waiting for someone to intrude upon them. She had to play it cautiously, but she asked herself, 'how cautiously can one climb a staircase without being a sitting duck'.
She reached the second top step and froze, her back to the wall. There was someone up there as she suspected. She waited the lifted her foot to move up to the top and found herself confronted by a person dressed in black aiming a gun at her head. Her own gun aimed at the intruder as well, it was a potential stand off until someone moved. Sofia moved first and ducked her head, loosing off a shot in the direction of the intruder who in turn fired back.
Sofia felt the hot piercing pain of the bullet then felt her body shatter as she fell out of control down the staircase until she reached the bottom where she lay bleeding and unconscious. The killer at the top of the stairs was also down and bleeding but very much conscious and taking steps to find a way out of the house.
The alleged killer didn't get very far, Mitchell and Dylan ran up the stairs after him and cornered him on an alcove balcony. They arrested him and took him down stairs to the paramedics.
Sara and Catherine ran into see Sofia crumpled up at the base of the stairs, immediately they called in the paramedics. The bullet had gone straight through her stomach and she needed help immediately. Gut shots are a slow and painful way to die, although Sofia was feeling no pain with all the injuries sustained falling down the stairs. Being unconscious does help in this regard.
The paramedics did what they could but time of the essence now, IVs were set up, oxygen mask applied, a compression bandage put over packing in her bullet wound and bandaged her head, the rest could be done en route. She had a broken right leg, left arm, two broken ribs on her right side and a severe head wound all to go along with the gun shot wound. Things didn't look good for her but she was alive for now.
Catherine's first instincts were correct in assessing the situation. They now had two crime scenes combined into one. They needed help out here so calling Grissom was her first priority.
"Grissom."
"Grissom, it's Cath, we need more people down here, the scene wasn't secure and shot securing it, Sara and I can process the primary scene but Sofia's scene needs other hands as well."
"Ok I'm sending out Nick and Greg, are you and Sara saf
"Should be now, there are several uniforms around and the perp was arrested after being shot."
"Ok call me if you need anything else."
Catherine closed her phone and picked up her kit. "Come on Sara, time to process the primary scene, Nick and Greg are coming out for the secondary.
Catherine and Sara took their time downstairs, photographing everything, swabbing the walls, the pool of blood and everything around the periphery of the body until the coroner arrived. Sara moved into the kitchen to see blood everywhere in there as well. Pots and pans on the floor, cutlery and crockery strewn about the place and one body, that of the wife, her head smashed in and flattened like a pancake. Cast off from repeated blows to her head decorated the walls and every appliance in the kitchen but as yet she hadn't found the weapon in all this bloodied mess. Once more she took detailed pictures with her camera, swabbed the blood pools and walls. She did notice a void in the blood spatter, probably where the killer stood. Looking around the room she noticed one thing out of place, a bloodied implement inconsistent with all other blood spatter markings. It was a marble rolling pin discarded amongst the strewn cutlery, she bagged it.
Next step was to proceed upstairs, Catherine was still processing downstairs.
"Cath, I'm done with the kitchen until David comes, got one possible murder weapon but I'm going upstairs now ok?"
"Ok Sara, I haven't found any weapon down here yet but I'll process the other downstairs rooms."
Sara went up to the bedrooms, 4 bedrooms, a bathroom and an alcove to the balcony were on this level. That meant kids or lots of guest bedrooms, she hoped it was the latter. It wasn't.
In each room the contents were trashed, the parents room was clear of blood but the other bedrooms each had one small body in it, throat slashed in one case, multiple stab wounds and cast off in another and the last left Sara gasping for air as though she would vomit. A samurai sword plunged down through the stomach of the small child, pinning it to the bed.
"Catherine, I think I just found the other murder weapon up here."
"Good Sara, bag it then so we can check it later."
"That's gonna be bit hard right now, I'll need help and David."
"Sidle if you keep yelling in riddles I'll kill you myself, hold on then I'm coming up."
A/N So what is Sara on about really, more to the point, how does a person manage to kill two adults plus sleeping kids without any warning? Answer in the next chapter, maybe. If you're good.
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