Note: takes place after GRAVE DANGER, the team are back together
Disclaimmer- well we all wish they were ours but alas they are not : )
By the time Sara arrived at the crime scene the rest of the team were already there. She had gotten slightly lost and had to ask at a gas station where she was going, which she was very embarrassed about and if interrogated would deny all of it. Sara got out her car and seeing no one round the front of the house opted to go round the drive way where she saw Nick bent down lifting foot prints.
"Hey Sara what time do you call this?" asked Nick with that huge Texas grin on his face.
"I made a wrong turn ok" smiled Sara flashing her toothy grin back.
"Well because of that you my friend have won a trip with the sent dogs" Sara's grin faded as Nick held out a piece of fabric waving it around at her and pointing to a officer holding a dogs lead.
"The trainers not available and apparently all the other dogs are doing something," he said indicating for the officer to hand Sara the lead. The dog was strong and Sara was having trouble standing up as it pulled against the lead.
"Well sent dogs so have busy social lives from what I here," said Greg coming round the side of the house.
"Oh how come I have to go walk the dog and he gets to help here," she pouted.
"Because I can read directions on a map" Sara gave Greg her best angry face. Nick looked at the two of them; there was something different about the way they smiled at each other lately. There had been a rumour going around that they went out for diner, he had just put it down to office gossip but even he couldn't miss the way they were with each other. Now there was something different Sara was defiantly angry with Greg for something and the two seemed strained, he just hoped they would work it out soon, what with Sara and Catherine still at it he couldn't cope with Greg as well.
"He'll bark when he finds something with the sent and to get him to find it you just say" Nick held the cloth to the dogs nose.
"Distinguish" and with that Sara was half dragged out the driveway by the dog.
"Oh if you find something call Cath" Sara's face was now defiantly one of anger but she didn't have time to complain because she was being dragged half way down the street.
"She's going to be mad," said Greg shaking his head at Nick.
"I'll tell her it was your idea," he said causing Greg to look panicked.
"You wouldn't dare," he said waving his kit at Nick and grinning.
An hour later and Sara was sat at the roadside waiting for Catherine. She had found what she thought was the murder weapon and a trainer had been to pick up the dog. At least the dog was better company that Cath thought Sara as she saw her car pull up. Catherine couldn't resist making a comment as she got out the car.
"Have fun walking the dog?" Sara could have swung for her but decided it wasn't worth it.
"Yes, you know some people say dogs are better company than people" she snapped back.
"Right where is it?" said Catherine not amused with Sara's comeback. Sara pointed down a hill.
"Why's it over there?" replied Catherine with her sharp tone.
"No gloves" said Sara waving her hands around.
"Fine" said Catherine and began striding towards where Sara had pointed.
"Well it looks like the murder weapon, covered in blood" Catherine said turning it in her hands she then looked to Sara who was completely ignoring her and looking in the opposite direction.
"Hello Sara"
"Err Cath. I didn't notice that before" she said pointing to a trail of blood a bit further on.
"Well I guess we better go walkies," she said turning and heading back to the car. Sara just shook her head at Cath's attempt at a dog joke.
"When do the comments stop?" she asked impatiently.
"Oh not for ages" grinned Catherine walking towards the car and away from the blood.
"Err Cath blood's that way"
"Hang on" said Catherine emerging from the car with two coats.
"Cath it's triple degrees!" said Sara looking at her like she'd lost the plot "how long have you been in the sun?"
"Funny! It's to protect me from it" she said holding the coat above her head so it created shade around her.
"Come on then" she said tossing Sara a coat.
An hour later of walking in the heat they finally found the end of the trail the only problem was there was a dead body attached to it.
"Great" sighed Sara "Now we've got to go back and get our kits," she said plonking herself on a near by rock and rubbing her legs. They had just scaled a very step rock face and Sara didn't fancy dong it again.
"He's not been dead long, in this heat he would have started to decompose early"
"Well what the heck was he dong here anyway?" said Cath kicking the side of the small hollow that hid the body. It was then Sara saw movement by the body; she reacted on instinct shoving Catherine to the floor as the dark shadow lunged at her.
"SARA!" shouted Catherine as she fell to the floor. Catherine had shouted it in mostly surprise and anger at been shoved to the floor. It took her a minute to realise what was happening.
The shadow had now become a man. He had thrown himself full force but instead of hitting Catherine he had rugby tackled Sara so that she slid across the ground and was now hanging half way over the steep rock face. Catherine immediately went for her gun but before her hand could reach it a scream filled the air and Sara disappeared from view. A fist now connected with Catherine's face causing her hand to move away from its target of the gun. Catherine managed to steady herself as she slid towards the edge with the force of the hit. She was now balanced precariously on the edge only supported by a few lose rocks. The man had grabbed something from by the body and ran off away from Catherine. The rocks beneath her gave way and she grabbed for anything around her only managing to pull the coat down as she slid down the side scraping her arm and leg as she did so. She came to an abrupt halt landing on something quite soft. It wasn't till she looked down and heard a soft moan she realised that she landed on top of Sara.
"SARA" Catherine screamed at her pushing her self away so she was sat next to her.
She did a quick mental cheek of herself for any source of pain. Her arm and leg stung but after a quick look she saw it was just grazes. She began cheeking Sara for injuries. The first thing she noticed was a large amount of blood coming from Sara's leg.
"Cath, what happened are you ok?" Sara mumbled barley coherent. Her mind was still a blur. She remembered seeing someone and pushing Catherine over. Normally she would have found that fun but in this situation it wasn't quite as enjoyable.
"Sara stay awake. I'm ok it's you who's not" she said gently tapping the side of her face.
"I'm up. OW" Sara cried as she tried to move. Falling down from her arm she had tried to steady herself with.
"Sara you need to keep still ok" Sara nodded and went back to concentrate on the pain coursing throughout her body.
"OK THINK" said Catherine out loud.
"Think about what?" asked Sara. Catherine couldn't help but smile she missed Sara's quick wit and sarcasm.
"I was talking to myself," said Catherine looking around and seeing the two coats she had brought with them laying couple of meters away.
"Oh if you have to think them were stuffed" smiled Sara trying to take her mind of the fact it felt like someone had put a red hot poker through her leg. Catherine gave Sara her best glare for that comment.
Catherine tried to stand but found her left ankle giving way. She wiggled her toes concluding that it was just a sprain not broken. She crawled across to the jackets and dragged them back. Her knees now sore and covered on dirt.
"Ok Sara this might hurt ok. Squeeze my arm if it does" Said Catherine placing Sara's left hand round the top of her arm as she pulled some of the ripped fabric off Sara's trousers away from her leg.
"OH" Catherine cut her self-short not wanting to alarm Sara. She could see the white of Sara's bone protruding just below her knee.
"Ok" she began to tear at the coats. Which she found quite difficult. Wadding was coming out of them and blowing in the breeze.
"Cheep coats. We should complain," said Sara attempting to smile. Catherine smiled back as she used her good leg to hold one half of the coat to the floor and pulled against it with her arm.
"Come on put some effort into it" that was Sara, her bone sticking out her leg and she was making comments.
"Do you ever shut up?" muttered Catherine.
"Not around you, I have to compete" Catherine turned around to face her.
"Compete?" she questioned.
"It's the only way I seem to get a response form you since….."
Sara trailed off.
TBC….
Please review. I've gone back to my drama writing style. Hope you like it and want to read more : ) any flames will be ignored and used to keep me warm! If you can't be constructive in your criticism then I wont bother reading. That said I welcome helpful advice : )
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