TITLE:::: SECOND DEGREE BURN

Summary: Catherine and Sara are sent to a crime scene.

The evidence they collect will put a member of law enforcement behind bars. What happens to when Catherine and Sara's vehicle is found in a ditch on fire?

Disclaimer: I do not own nothing, unfortunately this goes for not only the show and it's characters, but for anything else in my life.

Catherine Willows and Sara Sidle arrived raced down a deserted desert road toward the massacre that awaited them in a small cabin on the outs skirts of Las Vegas.

"Are you sure you know where you are going?" Sara smiled across at Catherine who was in the driver's seat.

"Yeah" she kept her focus on the road " Lindsey and I used to go for long drives with Eddie, back when he was not such a jerk and we would drive along and wonder why anyone would want to live out here in the middle of nowhere."

"I' would" Sara replied. Catherine made a face. " You're serious? You would want to live all he way out here, in the middle of nowhere? I don't get it?" she smiled she turned off on to a gravel road toward the flashing lights of a police cruiser. "See, I told you I knew where I was going." she smirked as she put the vehicle in park and climbed out.

Sara and Catherine grabbed their kits and walked slowly toward the crime scene to the officer that waited.

"Hi" she smiled " holding her hand out " Catherine Willows, Las Vegas crime lab, this is Sara Sidle."

Sara smiled " So what do we have?"

Officer Hawke turned toward the small cabin. "Three db's. All shot, looks like execution style, it's a mess in their blood everywhere, you two can go ahead. I have been a cop for 10 years and I have never seen something like this, I am going to hang out here."

Sara and Catherine walked in side. "Hmm Officer Hawke wasn't lying." Sara whispered as she came upon the first body.

"Just a little girl" Catherine bent down " can't be anymore then 9 years old." Catherine let out a small sigh as she turned to the kitchen. "This must be her father" Catherine said as she bent down beside the body. " A single bullet" she pointed to the wound tract left behind by the bucket that pierced his skull. Catherine looked toward the kitchen and back to the little girl. "From the way she is positioned I would say she was running away from something. Or someone.

" The mother is in the bedroom" Sara called from the back of the cabin

Catherine shook her head " took out the whole family, sometimes I wonder what makes people do the things they do."

Catherine opened her kit and pulled out her yellow markers and began placing them around the crime scene in various positions around the room.

"I'll start in the bedroom" Sara called as she turned to walk away.

Sara entered the bedroom. " Single vic found in the bedroom. Her clothes are torn" she called to Catherine " possible sexual assault," she whispered to herself.

Sara fiddled with her camera and began taking pictures of the victim and the bedroom scene. She then opened her kit and pulled out a swab and took a sample of the blood and proceeded to seal it in a bag marked evidence.

Outside in the living room Catherine was also taking pictures. Catherine proceeded to take samples of blood from the victims' wounds and sealed the evidence. After finishing with this victim she moved to the kitchen.

"Father, not very old either" she called to Sara. She bent down " bullet went in" she said leaning over the body " Bullet came out" she paused "through n through" she stood up and began searching the walls "which means what goes up must come down." she slowly explored the walls. "Aha" she went back to her kit and pulled out a tool that looked a lot like tweezers and retrieved the bullet from the drywall.

Sara stood over the body that was sprawled across the bed. Leaning down to get a closer look she noticed the victims wrists had large red marks around them. " Ligature marks" she bent closer to look at the patterned left behind. "Handcuffs?"

Sara walked around the bedroom and opened the closet. "Wow, very expensive" she replied looking through the victims clothing. At the back of the closet Sara noticed a chest. "What do we have here?" she whispered bent down to pull out the chest, after struggling she called for help. " Hey Cath, I may have something here. Could you give me a hand?"

"I found a bullet in the drywall out in the kitchen" she commented as she came into the bedroom. "Shooter obviously did not think we would look for the bullet or maybe he or she did not have time to remove the bullet." Catherine squatted beside Sara and pulled on the chest.

Sara popped the chest open. The chest was full of photos and memorabilia. "That's weird" Sara stated as she picked up a picture and pointed to the spot where a face had been cut out. "Husband, boyfriend maybe. Whoever cut his face out of these pictures must have been pissed."

Catherine nodded her head " Yeah, I can relate, after I found out Eddie was cheating I found this box of all these pictures of us, they were all taken before Lindsey was born and I cut his face out of most of them, when my hands got tired of holding the scissors I just decide to burn them. Sometimes I wish I hadn't because no matter how long we are apart or how long I stayed mad at him, part of me still wanted to remember the good times." Catherine got up "I guess we are taking the whole chest back to the lab."

"I am going to move out back, yell if you need me." Sara turned and walked outside, as Catherine walked back to the kitchen and began dusting for prints. "Hey Catherine" Sara yelled on her way through the living room. "Do you smell something burning?"

Sara walked out to the back of the house and saw flames in a small fire pit. " Hey Cath, you got a fire extinguisher?" She ran back in the house.

Catherine made a face at her " Fire extinguisher? I am going to assume there is a fire out there." she bent down and looked under the kitchen sink "Here," she said as she handed it to Sara ad followed her out side.

"Someone must have just started this" Sara yelled to Catherine as she put the fire out. "Maybe trying to hid evidence." After the fire went down. Catherine approached "If someone was trying to hide evidence," she paused " that means a potential suspect was still on the property."

Sara sifted through the ashes and the soot. "Right but if a suspect was still on location then it had to be someone that is in uniform."

"I'll go talk to them, you finish up here" Catherine stood up and walked around to the front of the house.

"Officer Hawke" Catherine called as she walked toward him "If it is not to much trouble I am going to need a list of every officer that is on scene tonight." Officer Hawke made a face "Well actually I might be asking a lot, We are all on the same team right" he smirked " Okay" Catherine smiled "Let me rephrase, I don't care how much trouble it may be I need a list of all the officers that were on scene tonight." she smirked back

"Are we suspects," he yelled at her. Catherine put her hands up " Whoa, just calm down, you said you and you're guys cleared the area, well someone obviously slipped through your fingers because someone started a fire outback."

"No way" he yelled, " I supervised the clearing. " Okay then" Catherine replied, " tat means one of you started the fire and we are going to need you all down at the station for questioning. Catherine pulled out her cell phone and called brass.

After filing him in she filed back into the yard and met up with Sara.

"Find anything?" Catherine bent down beside her. "I think someone had the same idea as you Cath" Sara chuckled " found this half charred picture, I can't quite make out who is in it but I think we can get something of it" Sara continued to sift through when she came across something melt. " Oww" she yelled as she snapped her hand backward. "That's hot" she looked at her hand. The material around her fingers had begun to melt. "What was that?" Catherine took Sara's place "Handcuffs" she looked over at Sara "Not exactly the perfect way to get rid of something, handcuffs will get really hot before anything else begins to happen." Catherine stood up. "Whoever was trying to hide these thought the would melt like plastic."

Sara turned to go back into the house. "I smell gas" she sniffed "there" she pointed to a small porch. Sara reached under the porch. "Gas can" she said holding up the red plastic container. "I'll bag it"

"Did you find any prints?" Catherine asked Sara as they walked back in the house"

"Yeah, but door knobs are one of the worst places to find prints, three partials and one full one though." The two women gathered the kits and walked outside. "We should get this stuff back to the lab and then meet with the doc."

After loading their findings into their Tahoe Catherine walked over to Officer Hawke " Hey" she smiled " you got that list?"

Officer Hawke handed her the list " I don't see why this was necessary, you CSI's treat everyone like criminals." Catherine shook her head at his remark. "Just doing my job?" she said, "you got a nasty cut there" she said pointing to his neck. "Yeah" he replied " gun fight out on the strip, bullet grazed my neck. I am just lucky to be alive."

Catherine made a sarcastic good for you face. "Yes you are" she said and retreated to her Tahoe.