10:35 PM
Grissom entered the break room right after the girls wanting to ask them what they meant but he knew he would have to wait till the end of the shift to ask. When he saw Brass greet Buffy with a smile he couldn't help smile himself. She was the second person he had helped persue the life they really wanted. When Grissom saw Buffy step back next to Catherine and Sara he knew Brass was ready to begin.
"We got some interesting ones tonight." said Brass with a grim look on his face.
"Why? Is it because Dayshift fucked up collecting evidence again and we have to separate it all?" asked Nick.
Everyone laughed at this comment except Buffy because she knew nothing about Dayshift and their sucky evidence collecting. She gave Grissom a confused look and he told her she would find out in time what they meant.
"No." said Brass with a small chuckle, "Unfortunately you're not that fortunate tonight. Okay...We got a DB behind a dumpster at a Chinese resturant on the corner of Fourth and Sixteenth, a Double Homicide in an appartment near the Strip, a Suicide at the Palms, and a Robbery Homicide at a home on the ouskirts of town."
"It's a beautifull day in the nieghborhood." joked Greg as he finished his coffee.
Grissom cracked a smile and the others laughed at the joke. Buffy chuckled and knew she was in the right line of work. Then Brass handed the assignments to Grissom and walked toward the door.
"Have fun kids." he joked as he left the break room.
"Okay. Nick and Sara you take the DB at the resturant, Warrick you're with me on the Double Homicide, Greg you can take the suicide at the Palms, and Catherine and Buffy you got the Robbery Homicide." said Grissom.
Sara and Nick finished their coffee and headed out. Warrick grabbed his vest and told Grissom he would meet him at Grissom's Tahoe. Grissom beconed Buffy and Catherine to his office. Once inside he went to his closet.
"Buffy,before you go there is some equipment you need." Said Grissom as he went into the closet, "You can't collect evidence if you don't have anything to collect it with." He came out carrying a silver case and some thing wrapped in plastic. "Here try this on." said Grissom as he threw the plastic wrapped item to her.
Buffy took off the plastic and noticed it was a vest. She took a minute to look it over and saw her last name on the chest, on the right. She put it on and found that it fit perfectly.
"Thanks. Its the perfect size." she said with a smile.
"I hope they spelt your last name right. Its kinda unusual, no offence." said Grissom as he walked toward them.
"U-N-D-O-M-N-I-E-L," Buffy spelt out, "No its right, and no offence taken. It's not my birth name anyways. I changed it before I came out here."
"Interesting...Well I'm glad it's spelt right. Here's your evidence case. You can move everything to a tackle box like Catherine's later if you want but for right now you get one like mine." said Grissom as he showed her the contents, then closed it and handed it to her.
"Cool. Alright then lets go. Catherine lead the way." said Buffy ready to go.
"Kay. We'll take my car. Its right next to Grissom's. Let's go." said Catherine as she left Grissom's office.
Grissom followed behind them after grabbing his vest and locking his office door. He was happy to see the two getting along so well. It was a good start for Buffy and he was sure she would make a great CSI. He was also pleased with himself for finding her and helping her get out of that strip club. He watched them talk and joke all the way out to the parking lot. When they met up with Warrick he looked disgruntled and totaly lost.
"What's wrong Warrick?" Catherine asked.
"You and Grissom have got to stop parking right next to each other. I can't tell which one's his." Warrick said with defeat.
"My car is red Warrick. They both look black at night but all you had to do was shine your light on either one to see the color difference." Catherine said as she chuckled.
Buffy failed at supressing a laugh and smiled a simpathy smile at Warrick. Which apparently made him feel better becaused he chuckled at himself. Once they were all in the right cars they left for their respective crime scenes.
"Buffy's pretty cool Grissom. Where did you find her? She looks so familiar, I can't put my fingure on it." Warrick asked.
"Do you remember 'bout a week ago when you, Nicky, and Greg dragged me to the French Palace?" asked Grissom hintingly.
"Yeah some what. All I really remember is the girls though." Warrick admitted.
"Well do you remember our waitress? The one who brought me the puzzle section? The one that I ended up talking to all night and we brought her home after?" said Grissom as they pulled into their crime scene.
"Yeah. Now I remember. She was the girl who helped Greggo into the car after right?" said Warrick as he got out of the car.
"Yeah thats her. I drove her home every night after her shift 'till she graduated. Then I went with her to the club when she quit three days ago." said Grissom as he happily remembered the night she left. "you should have seen the happiness on her face when she got back in the car and realized that she wouldn't ever have to go back there."
"Damn!...Hey wasn't that the same club that Cath had worked at before she met you?" asked Warrick.
"Yeah it is." said Grissom.
"Heh. You know if you not careful they could sew you for stealing their business." joked Warrick, "Taking their two best dancers could be considered colaterall damage." Warrick laughs
Grissom laughs as they start on the scene. Two bodies DOA. One in the master bedroom, a woman. COD Grissom ruled at first glance was the slice across her neck. The other was in the garage, another woman. COD Warrick ruled at first glance to be the Chef's Knife stiking out of her back. Both women were probably in their early thirties. Then Warrick though he heard a baby crying and checked the car.
"Dear god! Hey Grissom you might wanna come down here!" Warrick called to his supervisor.
"What is it Warrick?...Grissom looks into the car...You're kidding. Well call Social Services and let them know the baby is here but don't let them take him without checking for evidence first, and call me when they get here. Okay?" says Grissom.
"You got it boss." says Warrick as Grissom goes back into the house.
Warrick calls Social Services and then proceeds to look for evidence. When he doesn't find any he checks to see that the baby's ok. When the baby starts fussing Warrick takes him out of his car seat. He notices that the baby has a full diaper. Warrick finds a diaper under the carseat and wipes next to the seat. Moves the seat and proceeds to change the baby's diaper. Just as he finishes Grissom comes back into the garage and Social Services pulls up next to Grissom's Tahoe.
"Tell me you photographed the hole car before moving everything." Grissom asks when he sees Warrick changing the baby.
"Yes I did." Warrick answered.
Two social workers walked up just as Warrick finished putting the baby's pants back on.
"Well at least we know that the Graveyard shift knows how to handle kids." said one of the social workers with a smile, "the last child we 'collected' from Dayshift was hungry and had wet his pants, and he was five."
"Dayshift consists entirely with single people who have never been married or had kids. I guess we're just lucky that one of our teammates is a sigle mother who has brought her child in occasionaly." said Grissom with a smile.
"Besides. It's not good for a baby to sit in a dirty diaper for very long." said Warrik as he wrapped up the dirty diaper he had taken off the baby. "They can get a terrible rash that is very uncomfortable and we don't know how long he had been sitting in it before we got here. And even at that I hadn't noticed the baby in the car untill 'bout thirty minutes after we got here." said Warrick as he looked at the baby boy who was now sleeping in his arms.
"Well done Mr. Mom." joked Grissom as he looked at the sleeping child.
The baby couldn't have been more than seven months old. He seemed so comfortable as he slept in Warricks arms. Then the social worker, carefull not to desturb the crime scene walked up to Warrick and took the baby.
"I'll take the diaper for you too" she said as she took the baby.
Warrick gladly handed over the dirty diaper. The other social worker grabbed the carseat and diaper bag out of the car. They thanked Grissom and Warrick for taking care of the baby and left.
"Are you done in the house?" Warrick asked Grissom.
"Yeah, all my stuff is in the car, and I already did the yard too. Are you done here?" asked Grissom.
"Yeah, lets get this stuff to the lab." said Warrick as he gathered up his gear and evidence.
When they got back Buffy and Catherine were in one evidence room sorting through various pictures of there crime scene, Nick and Sara were in another sorting through their pictures as well. Just when Grissom was wondering where Greg was he came up behind them with two cops carrying a box of evidence behind him. Grissom and Warrick got out of there way and then followed them into an evidence room.
"Thanks guys. I wouldn't have been able to carry that by myself." said Greg.
"No problem." both cops said in unison.
They nodded to Grissom and left.
"All this for a suicide?" asked Warrick.
"I'm not so sure it's a suicide any more Warrick. Not after what I saw and collected. I'll be able to give you more Grissom after I develope these photos." said Greg as he held up his camera, "I must have pulled a dozen different prints from the bedroom alone, never mind the rest of the suite."
"Well it's your case and it looks like you were pretty thurrow. Good work Greg." said Grissom.
Then Grissom left the room and headed for his office.
"Good luck man." said Warrick as he gave Greg a pat on the back and followed Grissom to his office.
Warrick was glad to be working with Grissom because he always used his office to examine his evidence. Which ment there would be no distractions while they worked. Grissom cleared off his desk and they layed out all their evidence on it. Then they arranged the evidence by what room they had collected it from and got down to business.
Back with Catherine, Buffy looked over the photos from their crime scene while Catherine pulled evidence off the bloody clothes and finger prints off the other evidence they had collected from the scene. Buffy arranged the photos by room on the table. then she lined them up so she could vew them easier. Then something caught Buffy's eye. When she had taken pictures at the crime scene she had taken multiple pictures of each shot. She knew that nothing had been collected in the few seconds between each shot, but something as missing none the less.
"Hey Catherine?" Buffy called to her partner.
"Yeah Buffy." Catherine responded not looking up from what she was doing.
"Did you collect evidence from around the body while I was photographing it?" Buffy asked as she looked at her partner.
"No. I was in the other room when you were taking those photos. Why?" responded Catherine as she put down her work and walked over to the table.
"Something is missing from this photo, thats in this photo, and I took these photos not even three seconds apart. ... Look, something caught the light of the flash here and if you look at that spot with the magnifying glass you can clearly see that there is an object there. Now look at the other photo... There's nothing there! Nothing, nada, zip! When I collected the evidence after I took the photos there was nothing in that area of the body. There was nothing in that room that would have caught the flash like that. Even all that blood wouldn't have reflected the flash like that. Our equipment doesn't reflect a flash period, I don't get it. There was nothing but blood by the body,...no loose change, no sparkles or glitter. It just doesn't make sense." said Buffy exsasperated as Catherine examined the photos.
"That very strange." said Catherine putting down the magnifying glass, "You took these photos one after another?"
"Yes." said Buffy, "I think we need to go back to the crime scene."
"Yes, I agree." said Catherine with a nod, "Lets get these to DNA and Trace, then we can go."
"Alright." said Buffy grabbing her coat and kit, "I'll take this to Trace and meet you at your car."
"Got it." said Catherine as they split.
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