Chapter 1
Sitting bolt upright at the sound of an alarm clock, a young woman realized that she needed to begin getting ready for her new job at the Las Vegas crime lab. As she starts getting ready she begins to feel the pain in her lower back and remembers to take her pain meds before she left for work. Two hours later, she arrived at the lab and asked the receptionist where she could find a Gil Grissom. Just then he walked up behind and tapped her shoulder and she jumped, "Sorry didn't mean to startle you"
"It's ok"
"You must be Chelsea Monroe."
"Yes, sir"
"Ok, before you meet the rest of the team I'd like to speak with you in my office, follow me."
"Yes, sir" she then proceeded to follow Grissom to his office. Once inside his office she proceeded to listen as asked her some questions about her transfer reasons.
"Can you tell me why you transferred from New York?"
"Have you read my file yet?"
"Not yet, why?"
"My reasoning would be obvious." He then proceeded to look at the file and then proceeded to ask his next question, "Are you still requiring pain killers?"
"I need them sometimes."
"How often do you need to take them?"
"Once or twice a week, better than the every day that it was a month ago."
"Ok, if it changes let me know."
"Yes Sir."
"Ok, let's go to meet the rest of the team." with that comment they proceeded to the break room.
THE BREAK ROOM
Greg, Nick, Warrick, Sara and Catherine were waiting in the break room wondering why their supervisor was late. Then they heard the door open and their supervisor walked in with someone following him. "Everyone this is our new transfer from New York, Chelsea Monroe."
The CSI's then proceeded to introduce themselves to her. Once introductions were made; Grissom had chosen to pair Chelsea with Nick on a robbery. She was dusting a display case for prints when suddenly she was pushed down as someone ran past her, hitting her lower back as she fell caused her a serious round of pain. She closed her eyes to get her breathing under control and when she opened her eyes the scene was once again calm but she didn't see Nick anywhere, so she rolled over and stood up and proceeded to look for Nick. She found him on the floor next to another display case unconscious with a small trail of blood down the side of his head. She called into control for an ambulance as she couldn't wake Nick up and she was hurting pretty badly herself. The next thing she knew Grissom and the rest of the team was there and she proceeded to move away from Nick so they could help him when Grissom came up to her and she started to tell him what happened even thought she wasn't really sure herself and as the paramedics came in one proceeded to access Nick and the other approached her and she tried telling them that she was fine but before she could finish saying that she was fine she passed out and fell to the floor. The paramedic proceeded to load both her and Nick onto gurneys and move them into the ambulance and take them to the hospital.
IN THE AMBULANCE
The paramedics were accessing Nick and Chelsea to see if they could wake either of them and as they began trying to wake them they found stab wounds on both their abdomens so they proceeded to place pressure dressings on the wounds as they did this Nick moaned and tried to pull away from the pain. "Hey, take it easy your safe." the paramedic immediately began explaining to Nick who calmed slightly.
"What happened?"
"We don't really know"
"Where's Chelsea?"
"She's here you're in an ambulance on the way to the hospital, just relax ok" With that comment he drifted back into unconsciousness.
HOSPITAL WAITING ROOM
The team, excluding Greg and Warrick who had stayed at the scene were waiting on the doctor to come out and tell them what was going on with them. The paramedics had informed the CSI's of the discovery of the stab wounds on both CSI's leaving Grissom to wonder why he hadn't noticed either of them bleeding at the store. Just then the doctor came out from the treatment room he proceeded to take them back to his office. "How are they doing?" Catherine was the first to ask.
"They are both headed up to surgery to repair the injuries, Mr. Stokes regained consciousness in the ambulance just before they arrived here and Ms. Monroe woke in the trauma room only moments ago so I expect them both to recover fully. I assume you are going to want their clothing for your investigation."
"Yes, doctor" Grissom spoke up.
"I have other patients but the nurse can get their clothes"
Once the doctor had left Grissom turned to Sara and stated that she was to get the clothing and take it back to the lab and if Greg and Warrick were still at the scene she was to return and help them, he and Catherine would stay and wait for news on Chelsea and Nick.