There's No Place Like Home
Chapter 2 Whatever it Takes
Greg was putting his things all together in his bag as the flight attendant said they were about to land in LAX airport. He was about to go home to see his parents, work with SID and work on a secret case. But he has to keep the crime lab in Las Vegas up to date on what's going on. They will be assisting him through technology.
Once the plane did land he went out carrying his bag, grabbed his suitcase then got himself a cab. He loaded in and said his parents address and the cab went out to it. He sat in the back thinking of his parents and what they're going to think about him being home.
He paid the driver the fair got out and grabbed his suitcase. He looked at the house he grew up in an older brick and stucco home. He walked up to the white side door ringing the doorbell to his house. Footsteps were going around inside then the door opened.
"Greg." said his mother seeing him
"Hey mom." said Greg going over giving her a hug
"We got your call and cleaned your old room." said his mother
He looked at his mother who seemed to be a middle aged woman who was roughly five feet six inches tall, shoulder length light brown hair with trickles of gray, brown eyes and kind of rough skin. But seemed to be maintaining her look and to be clean.
"I can't believe what happened to Shane." said his mother
"Greggo." said his father coming in
Greg saw his father there wearing black pants, black dress shoes and a nice blue top. His father also looked to be clean shaven, his dark brown hair combed through and apparently smelled like peaches.
"You going somewhere dad?" asked Greg to his father right there
"You're father has to be in court. He's on the jury." told his mother
"What judge?" asked Greg
"Renault." said his father "Got to go."
His father went in the garage getting his car and left. Greg stood there looking at his mother right there. She was glad to see him after not really seeing each other in about a year or two. He has talked to her recently after he told her he became a CSI about eight months ago. She was surprised, shocked and a little mad at him. But she calmed down after a while when he told her that he saved a man's life.
Greg smiled at his mother then went up the stairs and went into his old room setting his suitcase on the ground. He looked around seeing the twin bed, the posters, his desk, and the science kit stuff, pictures of him and the chess club and other knickknacks. He sat on the bed smoothing his hands over the sheets. He hasn't been home literally in a long time and in his room. It was like he was a teenager again being back home, living there for a brief period of time.
Growing up for him was tough with his being an only child it caused his mother to be overprotected. She wanted four kids and all she got was him. So he never did any sports all he got into was chess. It was the most active he would get it was his sport. Chess can get competitive though.
He sat there thinking about the case he will be doing out in Los Angeles the one that Shane was doing. His secret case that he didn't let anyone in, he never shared anything of it but now Greg is going to investigate it.
Greg then got up from the bed and went out of the house he was going over to Shane Bishop's place. He was going to grab everything of Shane's that involves in the case like files, papers, notebooks, charts, pictures, post it notes anything he can get. He's going to do whatever it takes to get the thing done, figure out the case and find out what happened to Shane. He needs to know what happened.
He then got inside grabbing all of it that he found. He also found small hand notebooks, tri-fold boards, note cards and found picture books with small notes in it. He grabbed it all and brought it back to his parent's home. He ended up taking three trips in total as there was a bunch of stuff. There seemed to be a lot on the case, the high profile case. It was totally secret and could have been part of some kind of conspiracy.
He then organized it on up around his room putting things on the walls, on the dresser and on the desk. It was going there so he can rifle through everything to piece it all together. He started to look at the note cards as a good starter point as there were only about thirty of them. They were small and didn't have a ton of writing on them. He just found thoughts on them of what was going through Shane's mind. It seemed like it was filled with crazy thoughts.
Greg also found out that Shane named the case naming it, Sweet Delirium; it seemed like an interesting name for the case. He didn't know what it was entirely about but with the word delirium he thinks he might have an idea. He then opened up a pocket notebook. He read the first line which said There's no place like home.
He closed his eyes as he sat there looking at the page in front of him knowing the feeling of the line. It brings him back here, back home, with his parents to his grandmother Olaf. There can be pain but it can be put away if you know the right cure to take.
With this case he can't turn away. He has to move forward, he has to believe in himself. He can do this he knows he can. He may be a newer CSI in Las Vegas but he's been doing well. He's made his mother proud but more he's made himself proud. He believed in himself saying he could do it and he is.
He sat there when the phone rang and his mother answered the phone as he heard her say Hello. She was talking low and it seemed brief. He saw the door open as his mother stood there holding the phone.
"It's for you." said his mother
Greg got up grabbing the phone from his mother as he smiled. She smiled at him and shut the door behind her as he put the phone to his ear.
"This is Greg Sanders speaking." said Greg
"CSI Sanders from the Vegas crime lab." said a somewhat deep male voice
"Yes." mumbled Greg
"This is Nathaniel Baker SID dayshift Supervisor." said the male voice "I was wondering if you got Shane's things."
"I did and I just started going through his things with his thoughts, his evidence filled with bags with recordings of it in a black notebook as well as graphs, charts, pictures, files, note cards and a couple tri-fold boards." said Greg looking at everything
"Good I would like to have a meeting with you tomorrow morning to go over a few of his things. I want and need to get involved in whatever it was. I will also talk about his murder case briefly with you. Can you make it? Ten o'clock?" said Supervisor Nathaniel Baker
"Yeah of course I will be there." responded Greg knowing this will have to happen anyway once he got here to San Gabriel and Los Angeles
"Great, you will also become one of us since you're here until this case is broken and figured out. It could take a week to two weeks even a month tops, possibly even longer I don't know." said Supervisor Nathaniel Baker
"Alright. See you tomorrow." replied Greg "Bye."
"Bye Sanders." said Supervisor Nathaniel Baker
Greg pressed end, ending his call with the SID dayshift supervisor. So now he knows he has to go in tomorrow to talk with Nathaniel Baker about the situation with the case and some of the things. They were also going to talk about the murder that happened to Shane. Both of them need the closure.
