SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 7 out, this is Chapter 8 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?
Disclaimers: I own nothing, except for the plot bunny which, unfortunately, is still alive and kicking.
Chapter 8: Grave Danger
"Well, there are a lot of intestines here, but no appendix, which made sense when I saw this." Dr. Robbins lifted a portion of the entrails, the CSI team having returned after Nick had been abducted.
"A cecum." Adeline nodded.
"Dog entrails." Catherine confirmed.
"Yeah." Both coroners nodded.
"That's not going to help." Catherine remarked and turned to leave.
"I'm sorry. Catherine..." Dr. Robbins apologized. Has Nick's family been informed?"
"No," Catherine shook her head. "That would be my job." With that, she exited the coroner's lab, leaving Dr. Robbins to look at the entrails and sigh.
"Sensei, do you want me to…" Adeline voiced.
"Too risky." Dr. Robbins objected.
The hours ticked by, with no much information of Nick as the team continued working to track down their missing comrade.
"This is getting us nowhere." Adeline muttered. Fingering a piece of tanzanite crystal in her lab coat and with a determined glint in her eyes, she took off to her lab and locked the doors. Sitting herself on the cold floor, she took a meditative position, and with the tanzanite crystal on her hands, she turned her third eye on at full force. Come on Nick. She prayed, using her psychometry to scour for the missing CSI. Work with me here.
"They're fire ants, very rare in Nevada." Grissom quickly briefed his team. "They don't like our soil. The only places you find them around Vegas are in plant and tree nurseries."
"There's eleven nurseries in the greater Las Vegas area." Catherine added behind the computer.
"Okay, I've got the web cam trace down to here." Archie remarked, drawing a large circle in black ink on the map in front of him.
"And the data from the black box in Walter Gordon's truck gave us a 23-mile travel radius." Greg continued, adding another circle, cutting the area down even more.
"Okay, I've got two nurseries within the overlap area." Warrick remarked, scanning the lists in his hand. "Here and here." and added two 'X' marks to the map within the overlapping area in blue ink.
"Everyone," the mentally exhausted Adeline voiced from the door. "I found Nick. And before anything else," she turned to Grissom before the group's questions bombarded her. "Do I have permission to go on leave for two days starting from tomorrow?"
"Granted." Grissom nodded.
"Thank you." Adeline replied. "Getting back to the matters at hand," she walked over to the map, Warrick moving aside to give her space. "Nick is right here." She pointed to the left-most blue cross on the map.
"How do you know?" Sara asked.
"Psychometry." Adeline replied.
"You activated your third eye." Grissom guessed.
"Yes," Adeline nodded. "My third eye was activated when I was 13; I never had a reason to use it, until now. For the last two hours or so, I've been using my third eye at full force and managed to get a mental image of where Nick is at."
"Right." Grissom nodded. "Thanks Adeline. Let's go." He instructed and the team headed off.
"Woah." Archie gaped, catching Adeline before she hit the ground after the team left. "You alright, Sprite?"
"I would be." Adeline assured. "Just… need some sleep; there's another reason why I don't use my psychometry: it's mentally exhausting, even with this," she took out the tanzanite crystal. "Amplifying it."
"That's why you requested for two days leave." Archie realized.
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