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"What does he mean he has answers? Answers to what?" Nick asked after Catherine briefly recapped the conversation she'd had with Sam.
"I don't know, Nick...but he's being so cryptic and mysterious, I...I think I'm going to go talk to him. I've had it with his vague statements." She responded neglecting to include the bit about Sam being worried she was 'going to hurt someone.'
"Surely you don't think he knows about why this stuff is happening?" Nick asked, not really giving much credibility to the thought.
"I don't know how he can possibly explain any of it any more than we can, but I do need to see what he's up to....obviously something." She opened the back door and headed back towards the lab.
"Wait...I thought we were going to talk to you dad?" Nick asked, following after her.
"First of all, WE are not going anywhere....I am going to talk to Sam. Secondly, I'm through with speculation...and I want to start getting some answers." She paused and waited for him to catch up. "Scientific ones."
Nick gave her a puzzled look as they went through the crime lab doors. Catherine headed to her office, where she grabbed her kit, opened it and pulled out two swabs. Nick watched her, lounging in the doorway. He saw her look outside to see if anyone was around and then walk up to him. Grabbing his chin so that his mouth opened in surprise, she shoved the swab into his mouth, getting a DNA sample. Closing it, she opened a clean one and did the same to herself.
"I'm going to give these to Greg and then I'm leaving." She said, marking on the boxes.
"Greg's not the DNA tech anymore... and besides, where are you going to say they are from?"
"Greg's our friend, so I'm asking him to do this as a favor....and he knows not to ask any questions with me." She smiled, thinking to the time he ran DNA for her and ended up matching hers with Sam's. She made her way to the DNA lab and saw that Greg had already responded to her text she'd sent only a few minutes before when she finally decided to do the test.
"What's up, Cath?" He asked.
"I have two DNA swabs here that I want you to look at."
"Well...why not just get Wendy to do it?" He asked, puzzled.
"Because that last time I got her to run tests for the case we're working, she contaminated everything, or messed up....or....I don't know, just do me this favor, ok?" She smiled at him.
"Ok, Cath...but only because you know I think you're hot." He winked, taking the two swabs from her and looking at them. "No names?"
"Uh, no. We're not really sure. We found the saliva on the victim, but that was it."
"Ok...I'll see what I can do....anything in particular you're looking for."
"Yes...we don't care who it belongs to...I know that sounds strange, but...we think we're looking for some sort of genetic mishap or deformity or mutation, or...anything out of the ordinary, let me know...and that about sums it up."
"Alright..." Greg answered wondering what she wasn't saying. This was a little out of the ordinary, but he'd learned a long time ago not to ask too many questions of Catherine. Besides, she always seemed to know what she was doing.
"Call me with the results as soon as possible?"
"Yep." He told her, pulling the swabs from their boxes and getting to work.
Nick followed Catherine back to the parking lot as she headed for her car.
"Wait. Let's take my car."
"Nick...you're not going with me. I'm a big girl...and like it or not he's my father. I can handle it." Catherine asserted.
"Catherine. I didn't say you couldn't handle it, I just said I'm coming with you." He said, taking her by the hand and changing their course of direction for his car before she could protest further.
"Nick...he's not going to talk to me if you come along. I don't need your help." She replied.
He just kept walking, taking her with him.
"Cath, just get in and let's go already."
Catherine rolled her eyes dramatically enough for him to see her......and then she climbed into the passenger seat and clicked her seatbelt.
"What are you hoping Greg finds?" He softly asked her about halfway across town.
Staring at the window, finding her eyes once again drawn to the moon, she sighed, "An explanation."
REVIEW!!! Thanks for all the suggestions about Nick going with her...next chapter (which hopefully will be posted today) is the big everyone learns what's going on, chapter...
