FROM RUSSIA WITH HATE
CHAPTER 1
Chapter 1 of my next story, Ed and Lindsey are enjoying their lives together with Sharon, however soon a new case turns up for the CSI team, with some interesting results.
Discliamer: I don't own CSI or its characters
The sun rose over the infamous 'Sin City' Las Vegas. In one apartment the alarm clock went off, to the tune of 'The East is Red on chimes' the young teenage couple who lived in the apartment woke up. The male reached over to switch the alarm clock off and, after a few failed attempts he was able to hit the switch and turn it off. The woman sighed and turned to face her boyfriend/fiancée.
"Ed, what's with your alarm clock?"
Ed Kennedy turned to face his girlfriend/fiancée Lindsey Willows and smiled.
"I thought it'd be catchy".
"Ugh, why did I agree to let you learn Chinese if you took a liking to Maoist music".
Ed simply shrugged, just then the sound of a baby crying reached their ears, Lindsey smiled, it was their daughter Sharon Willows Kennedy.
"There's our other wake-up call".
"I got her".
Ed climbed out of bed, grabbed his white cane and left the room, heading through to Sharon's room. Lindsey's smile grew wider as she thought about Ed and Sharon. One thing that did bother her was, while Sharon hadn't inherited her father's blindness her eyesight had suffered. It was apparent, and confirmed by the paediatrician, that Sharon would need glasses when she got older. Lindsey also climbed out of bed, pulled her bathrobe on and headed through to Sharon's room herself. As she walked through she thought about Ed's alarm clock, Ed already knew Russian and Spanish and was now learning Chinese and Arabic. He was also learning Polish in order to better communicate with Maria Jaruzelska, the Polish Landlady of the apartment building.
She stood in the doorway and watched as Ed gently rocked Sharon who was now relaxed. Lindsey smiled again and walked over to them, Sharon looked up at her and smiled back. Lindsey's thoughts then went to Sharon's first word which had been 'Dada' followed shortly by 'Momma'. Sharon then reached out to her Mother, Lindsey gently picked her up and cradled her in her arms, Ed smiled and spoke.
"I'll go get the mail".
"Alright, Sharon and I will be in the kitchen".
Ed then went to the front door, Lindsey headed into the kitchen, where she faced what was currently the only real challenge when it came to raising her daughter. Sharon was six months old and, despite Lindsey's best efforts, still refusing to feed from a bottle. Lindsey was trying again but without success.
"C'mon sweetie".
No good, whenever Lindsey tried to give Sharon her bottle she turned her head away, Lindsey sighed, giving up.
"Fine".
Ed returned to the kitchen, he was familiar with all possible sounds in the apartment so he knew Lindsey was now breastfeeding Sharon, he turned in their direction, confused.
"Lindsey?"
Lindsey sighed and explained.
"Six months old and still wants to breastfeed, unbelievable".
Ed gave a short laugh, put the newspaper on the table and began making his and Lindsey's breakfast. After Sharon was finished feeding Lindsey burped her and began gently rocking her so she could take a nap. Once they were finished and Lindsey sat with Sharon on her lap, supporting her, the TV was on and, although not entirely sure of what was going on, Sharon was listening. Ed went to speak to Maria, Ed and Lindsey jointly paid the rent on their apartment, while Lindsey always paid the rent with no trouble Ed had tried to pay the rent electronically and it hadn't come through apparently, according to Maria there was a problem with the computer so Ed decided to go and try and help out.
That night however, as Ed and Lindsey were putting Sharon to bed, the valet of the car park in an expensive restaurant had discovered the body of one of the patrons, dead next to his car, the door was open but the car otherwise looked untouched. The valet quickly called the police, after the police sealed off the crime scene CSI was called and soon they arrived. Grissom, Greg and Nick soon arrived on scene and met up with Brass.
"Okay, here's the story so far, the valet over there is doing his job, notices that the car over there hasn't moved for some time. He remembers seeing the owner leave the restaurant and go towards his car, so he goes to check it out, what he finds is the owner dead".
"Okay, thanks Brass, Greg, go talk to the witness and the owner, Catherine and I will start processing the scene".
"Right".
They then prepared to get to work. Greg approached the valet first.
"Sir, I'm Greg Sanders, I'm with the Las Vegas crime lab, I understand you found the body".
"That's right, oh sorry my name, I'm Terrance Jones, I've been a valet here for two years, never seen anything like this".
Greg nodded and continued to question Terrance.
"Do you recognize the victim?"
"Yeah, he only started coming here recently but I got to know, he's a Russian who moved here a few months ago".
"Did you get his name?"
"Yeah...Georgy Molotov".
Greg nodded and then, after asking what he had found Terrance explained.
"Okay, I was working, I saw Georgy come out of the restaurant, I gave him his keys and he walked over to his car. I was busy with a few other customers, which took up about half an hour. I looked over and saw that Georgy's car was still there, I was confused, I went over to see what was going on and saw Georgy lying there, there was blood everywhere, I hurried and told owner, we called the police and then, you guys showed up".
Greg nodded.
"Okay, thanks, we'll be in touch".
With that Greg went to talk to the owner to get his story. Meanwhile Grissom and Catherine were examining the body, they had collected samples of blood from the victims head and the car, the blood spatter on the window indicated the possibility of blunt force trauma. One thing that really stood out however was a single fingerprint one the inside of open car door, on the window, a bloody fingerprint. After taking the print Catherine spotted two sets of bloody shoeprints, one could be identified as the shoes the valet was wearing. He had surrendered his shoes and had admitted that he had come up close to check on the victim, stepping in the blood pool in the process. They then made an examination of the interior of the vehicle's front seats, surprisingly they found a possible murder weapon, a baseball bat soaked in blood, it looked as if it had been discarded, possibly by the killer. Having collected the available evidence the CSI's prepared for the body to be taken to the morgue and the car to the forensic garage, they then left the scene and prepared to examine the car more thoroughly.
End of chapter, next up the CSI's investigate the car more thoroughly and hear from the morgue before analyzing the evidence, what will they discover about the victim? Hope you enjoyed this chapter, read and review please.