Note: Hi everyone, sorry for the delay. My computer's crashed, so I lost all my files. I'm trying to catch up with everything asap. Anyway, here's the next chapter of this story. I hope you enjoy it, and please, let me know what you think of it.
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When Emily and Dusty arrived at the Lakeview for dinner, they ran into Vienna Hyatt and Henry Coleman. It still suprised Emily the two were still a couple. Vienna and Henry were heading for their room when they bumped into Emily and Dusty, whom were heading for Dusty's room to order roomservice. Vienna and Henry were to well-known people in Oakdale; Vienna for being the pretty woman she was, who turned out to be a lot different than everyone had expected, and Henry for... Well, being Henry. Emily had been very good friends with Henry for a time. Their relation had cooled down a lot though, so after a simple 'hello', they went their own ways again.
It was almost four in the afternoon when Catherine heard her doorbell ring and opened her door, to find a handsome man and a pretty, blonde woman standing next to him, smiling widly at her. The woman started talking. "Hi, I'm Carly Snyder, and this is my husband Jack. We live around the corner and we saw you two moving in today so we decided to bring you a little something." The woman handed Catherine a basket that smelled delicious, and Catherine accepted the gift while Carly gave her a hand. So, this was mister Jack Snyder. Catherine had to admit he was very good looking, and he seemed very nice. She was pleased about the fact that Jack knew his wife so well since his wife had handed her a basket full of homemade things. It smelled delicious, but the files in it were more important. "That's very nice of you, thank you so much. So you live around the corner, just the two of you together?" Catherine asked curiously. Carly nodded and Jack introduced himself to Catherine. "Hi, I'm Jack. Are you very busy, we can always come back later if you like." Catherine shook her head. "No, no. We just finished unpacking our stuff." Grissom came walking down the stairs and Catherine called him and introduced him. After a short talk about Oakdale and a quick look in Catherine and Gil's house, Jack told his wife it was time to leave. The kids would be home soon. Catherine was happy to know Jack and Carly had kids; that way it would be a little less quiet. It made her think about Lindsey though, who was sleeping at her sister's house. She already missed her daughter terribly.
When Carly and Jack walked back to their house, Carly started talking about the new family in town immidiately. "They seem like nice people, Jack." Jack nodded. "I wonder if they have kids," Carly continued, "perhaps someone to play with for Sage." Jack smiled and asked his wife: "Honey, have you seen any children or toys in that house?" Carly shrugged. "I don't know, Jack. I'll ask Catherine later. Perhaps I can go and have dinner with her some time. She seems like a very nice person." Jack nodded, and the two started walking a little faster when they saw their three children, Sage, Parker and JJ standing in front of their house. Sage came running towards her mother immidiately when she saw her and yelled: "Mommy! Where were you and daddy? We've been waiting here for hours!" "Don't exaggerate Sage, we've been here for less than five minutes," her older brother Parker responded. Jack opened the front door and the family walked in, and JJ said: "Mom... What are we having for dinner?"
Meanwhile, their neighbours were looking through the files that were hidden in Carly's basket full with food. It included a little photograph of each citizen, along with random information and the times they were arrested and for what. After Catherine had been through a couple of files, she sighed and said: "Wow, is there anyone in this town without a track record? Even Carly has been arrested. A lot." Gil shrugged while Catherine said: "I would've never thought something like that about her." Gil didn't answer. Catherine was used to him being quiet, but he had been talking very less since they'd arrived here. She hoped it would change a bit very soon. If not, she was probably out of the house very often. But that would be businnes she would deal with later. For now, she had to look through those files. It would be a little complicated to meet new people from now on though. She would know every single person's name already and even more, some stuff they probably wouldn't like for her to know. It was her job though. Catherine was suprised when she saw the file of the man she'd seen that morning. Dusty Donovan. Catherine thought he was cute. Too bad he was already taken though. Catherine wasn't used to her role, she already noticed it. Her role was to be Gil's loving wife. Not a flirty, single, fourty-something woman.
Meanwhile, Dusty and Emily were ordering roomservice in the Lakeview. Dusty wanted to give Emily something special, and ordered champagne, strawberries and melted chocolate. It was probably a little ordinair, but he knew Emily would like it. They'd been through a lot lately. After Emily'd found out he'd slept with her sister, Alison, Dusty had thought things would've been over between them. Dusty had been broken when he'd seen the look on Emily's face after she'd found out. He couldn't describe how happy he was about her giving him another chance. And he wouldn't blow it this time.
Meanwhile, there were a lot of different things going on at the Snyder farm. It was the farm were Jack's mother, Emma, lived, along with her son Holden, his wife Lily, their kids and her daughter Meg. Lately, Meg wasn't home often though. She'd been in the Lakeview most of the time, spending time with her boyfriend Paul Ryan. Today, Meg had been home all day though. She was in her room, lying on her bed, staring at the ceiling. After she'd been forced the stop her job as a nurse, she hadn't been having a job. It wasn't necessary at the moment, but Meg wanted to make her own money and had been searching for a job ever since the day she'd been fired. Today she hadn't been out of bed though. Her boyfriend Paul had been having visions again. It was kinda hard to believe for people whom hadn't had anything to do with those spiritual things, but after certain events, Meg believed Paul had visions about the future. Most of the time, they were very vague, but the one Paul had had the night before, had been perfectly clear for both of them. Paul had seen himself, his hands covered with blood and a knife lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Afterwards, he'd seen a hand with a ring. And it had been perfectly clear that hand had been Craig Montgomery's.
Catherine had been walking around town after she'd finished reading the files. On top of the files, she'd found a note, written bye Margo Hughes. It said her or Gil had to come to the policestation that same afternoon, to talk about the serial killer. Margo had said one of them should come around five in the afternoon, so Catherine was on her way to the police station. When she walked in, she looked around the small building to see if she could possibly find someone of whom she thought it could be Margo Hughes. She was saved by a woman that walked to her, and introduced herself as Margo Hughes. She was about as tall as Catherine, with red hair 'till her shoulders. They went to a private room and after they sat down, Margo started talking. "We've been reading all the files about the serial killer, but we can't find any similarities between the victims." Catherine sighed and nodded. "We know. We're trying to find similarities between them for a long time now, but there isn't anything that connects all the people. Nothing in their past, not their work, their age, their looks... Absolutely nothing. It seems like he's just killing random people." Margo nodded. "It's going to be hard to find a killer here." Catherine nodded and said: "We have less than three weeks... I don't want him to make any more victims." Margo flipped through the files again and said: "The only clue you've found about the killer so far is a little bit of hair, a shoeprint and a cap, right." Catherine nodded. "We've run the DNA through KODIS, but we didn't get a hit, and the cap wasn't having any fingerprints on it, only a little bit of sand, but no particular kind of sand, just sand you buy in stores for a playground or for your garden. And his shoesize, it's a size eleven. But there are thousands of men with shoe size eleven. We don't know a thing about this guy."
When Catherine arrived back home around seven, she was suprised to find dinner on their kitchen table. "Gil, have you been cooking?" He smiled and said: "Yes, I did. I figured I had to practice for my role as loving husband. And what's nicer for a woman to come home and find dinner on the table, made by her loving husband."
It wasn't akward at all when Catherine stepped into bed that evening, lying next to Gil. They'd been friends for such a long time now, and Catherine had gotten used to lying next to him. For Gil, it was a little more difficult to stay as cool as he was. Catherine was a gorgeous woman, and he was just a man. When her body touched his, he felt a little electric shock going through his body. He turned her back towards her, and just prayed he would fall asleep very quick.
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