A/N: There are no words to describe this fic. The first part is something that really happened to me, only I didn't die (duh).
Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or the CSI characters that would be cool if I did though…
Brittni and Elizabeth had both just taken a math final, thankful that it was over they decided to walk downtown.
"Where'd Kara go?" Brittni asked. They were supposed to walk with Kara, their friend, but had left the building without her.
"I don't know, she's slow." Elizabeth laughed. "Just keep going".
Brittni raised her eyebrows and shrugged. They walked to the corner and turned in the direction of the bridge. Deciding she was thirsty, Brittni took out her apple juice, tipped her head back and took a drink. Realizing she had walked off the sidewalk she said "Whoa!" and laughed.
Elizabeth just hadto make fun of her horrible coordination. "Ew, shut up!" Brittni said laughing.
5 HOURS LATER
Grissom and Sara arrived at the Las Vegas High School just as the sun was going down. Three cop cars were already there, blue and red lights flashing silently. Work lights lit up a river.
They both climbed out of the Tahoe, grabbed their kits and walked over to where Brass was waiting for them, behind the yellow tape.
"Dead high school girl" he said pointing down the river. "Coroner's already taken the body. No ID on her, and no witnesses to speak of."
"None?" Sara asked, surprised that in a high school this big there was nobody that saw what happened.
"Testing days, students only come in if they have a test," he explained. "Have fun getting down there" he said referring to the steep riverbank.
"Looks like fun" Sara said, thankful that she'd worn flat sneakers today, not that she was much of a high heel type of girl anyway.
"Shall we?" Grissom asked.
"Let's do it," she said taking off her sweatshirt. "You can go first" She smiled. " If I trip you'll break my fall"
They began the hike down, side by side. Grissom decided that he didn't want to be pushed down the riverbank by a falling Sara. He didn't want her to fall either, so he took her hand to make sure she didn't.
They finally reached the bottom, where Brass has told them the body had been, on the shore of the river on several large rocks.
"Backpack" Sara said, walking closer to the bridge to get it. She set her kit down and pulled on a pair of latex gloves. The backpack was a navy blue and light blue school bag with two compartments. The bag was only a little wet from the river, but it had been lying mostly on the rocks presumably nearthe areathe body had been.
She carefully opened the front pocket, in search for an ID. She pulled out a black wallet and read from the school ID card 'Brittni Elane'.
Putting it back into the bag she placed the whole backpack into a large evidence bag and said to Grissom "Vic's name is Brittni Elane"
"I found a lot of trash. I got a lunch tray, empty bag of chips, plastic bag, a soda can, plastic bottle of apple juice, and somebody's gym shorts."
"Somebody doesn't like gym class very much" she said, raising an eyebrow.
They continued looking for, well anything, until they were both satisfied that they hadn't missed anything.
"I think that's everything down here," Grissom said.
Sara stared up the riverbank, "this is so not going to be fun" she thought out loud.
After a difficult hike up with their kits and they evidence they had bagged they decided to dust the railing for prints. The railing was partially blocking the pathway down to the river, but still left a wide space to go down before the trees began.
They found few prints in the middle of the railing and more to the left and right.
"Think she flipped over it?" Grissom asked.
"Could be" Sara said taking pictures of the irregular pattern.
Grissom lifted the prints and tucked them inside his kit while Sara continued taking pictures of the overall scene.
An hour later they loaded everything into the Tahoe and headed back to the lab.
TBC? you tell me.