When they came back to the police department a surprise was waiting for Sofia in front of the department; or standing.

"Detective."

"Keane, what do you want?" She wasn't happy to see the man again. She had given away the roses, she had made it clear to him, he was wasting his time on her and he it seems like he didn't understand.

"As I understood I'm not your suspect anymore."

"And who told you that?"

"A friend."

"I'm glad you've got friends. Go and see them." Sofia wanted to go on, but he got her arm and stopped her from walking away.

"Let go. Now." Sofia said quietly and controlled. "Otherwise I've to get you in for assaulting an officer."

"I don't assault you."

"I won't repeat myself, Keane." Her eyes were small. He opened his fingers and gave her arm free. Without a word Sofia walked away, joining Sara, who was waiting a few yards away.

"Are you alright?"

"Yeah. He can be glad that he's alright. The next time he touches me I'll show him what pain means."

"What did he want?"

"Whatever he wanted, he didn't get it. Forget him, we've got something more important to do."

Sara wanted to say something but made the decision it was better to let go. It wasn't the time to talk about Keane, they had to concentrate on their case. They found Grissom in his office, Brass in front of the desk.

"The three musketeers and D'Artagnan are together. "Sofia smiled.

"What?"

"Jim understands me. Did you get anything, Grissom?"

"A lot of people with bad memories. You?"

"One Lady with a good memory who wants to see you soon for tea. You're supposed to call her." Sara said with a smile.

"Didn't you visit whorehouses?" Jim asked suspicious.

"Brass, they're illegal, we visit places for pleasure." Sara teased.

"Yeah. And one of these pleasure sisters knows Gil? You're full of surprises, old friend."

"What did you tell Heather?" Grissom ignored Brass.

"I'll tell you and you'll call her. You better do that, Gilbert Grissom. And when you and Heather had a lovely afternoon, Sofia and me will come over for dinner."

"Is that kind of foursome? If so, Gil is the happiest man in the world."

"I don't want my boss talking about me like that." Sofia furrowed her brows. "Stop that right away and get back to business. Lady Heather recognized two of the women, they were at her place a few weeks ago and they weren't alone. Cassias was with them."

"That's a start."

"I've got this picture that shows Cassias with Cassey, I think that's reason enough to get him in for an interview." Sara said.

"What's about the warrant?"

"I'll call judge Mayer soon. So far there's nothing on Albraz but we can have him in and question him. We need something that places Cassey in his house, I'm not sure if knowing her is enough for Mayer."

"Add your charm and you'll get the warrant." Brass grinned.

"Would you stop to reduce me to my body?"

"I was talking about your sharp mind."

"Yeah, sure. Isn't it enough that this jerk outside is stalking me and trying to get into my life?"

"Which jerk?" Immediately Brass was all cop and serious.

"Keane."

"Mister Roses? He's outside. Why?"

"I don't know. He started with that he had heard he isn't a suspect anymore and when he tried to stop me from walking inside I made it very clear to him, he'd regret holding me back if wouldn't let me go immediately."

"He's quite into Sofia."

"There must a language problem between him and me. Every time I say 'no' he understands 'yes, go on.'. I don't know why. Do I numble?"

"Sometimes." Sara chuckled. "When you're sleeping, but you were very clear to him."

"Thanks."

"What else does she do when she's sleeping?" Grissom asked with a smirk.

"I guess dreaming. I haven't heard her saying your name, Griss, so I can't tell you she dreams of you."

"Well, she changed in front of my eyes – but she said she wore underwear."

"Hello? Is this the 'picking-on-Sofia-group'?"

"I'm not picking on you, Dear, I'm on your side. And if you go and call the judge, I call New York back and we meet here with the two busy looking men again."

"That's something sensible…why do we work and they don't?"

"They're older, they need to rest." Sara laughed and pulled Sofia out of the office.


"We've got a warrant for Albaraz and his business place." Sofia said. "It comes through to your office, Grissom."

"You're great, Sofia."

"She knows that." Sara came in. "She's even better than great."

"Thanks Sara. What do you want?"

"Nothing. That was for free. I've got the address of Cassias. Shall we both bring in right now and have a look at the business place? New York is working with our information, they try to get a warrant for the business place there and detective Flack is emailing me the whole folder with their investigation information."

"If we go to Albarez office first, the rest will disappear immediately." Brass assumed. "We need to get both at the same time. I'll send some officers to get Cassias, he'll call for a lawyer what gives us some time for the alpha dog. I've no idea how big the place of his is, you think the two of you will be alright in there?" He looked at Grissom and Sara.

"Sure. If not, we've got a back-up CSI with us. Detective Curtis gets some gloves, I'm sure she's still good in her old job."

"Grissom, the keyword was 'old' job. I'm not a CSI anymore, I'll stand around and protect you and Sara."

"How good that your boss is with you and can tell you what to do." Brass smiled. "We should…"

"Excuse me." A delivery man knocked on the door. "The man at the front desk told me I can find a detective Curtis here?"

"That would be me." Sofia got up.

"I need you to sign here, please." He gave her a form and a little box.

"What is that?"

"I don't know, I'm just the delivery boy."

"Yeah sure, sorry." She gave him the form back.

"Thanks."

"Thank you." Sofia turned the little box. "What the hell is that?"

"You're the detective, go detect."

"Very funny, Sidle." Sofia torn the paper apart and a box, clearly a jewelry box, showed up.

"I guess nothing good." She opened the box. A golden collar. "Great." Her voice said everything but not that she was happy with that gift.

"That's looks rather nice. May I?"

"Sure." She gave the box to Grissom and took the card. I'm sorry for the misunderstanding and would like to invite you to dinner, detective. Please accept the little gift as an apology. Keane.

"This is gold, and I'm not talking about 8 carat, I'm talking about 24 carat. This is very valuable, Sofia."

"Yeah? He can put his valuable gold where the sun's not shinning, I don't want it."

"If you had to pay for it, you pay at least a four months pay."

"Still don't want it. And, that's the good thing, I can't take it. Bribe."

"He's not a suspect anymore." Sara liked the collar and very tempted to put it on. On the other side she could understand what Sofia meant. The blonde was right, she couldn't keep this one. She would get in trouble for that.

"This guy is really into you." Brass looked at the collar. "I wouldn't buy something like that for a woman. Not even for my ex wife when she was still my wife."

"Maybe that's why she's your ex-wife. "Grissom suggested and put the collar back in the box.

"In that case I'm happy that I kept my money for myself."

"Jim, I don't want to give it back."

"Sofia, you can't keep it."

"I know, I don't want to keep it."

"But?"

"But what if I go over to the cash shop, sell it there, get a sales slip and donate the money to the Breast Cancer Foundation? They're in front of the department and I'm sure they'd like to get this money. It won't be a bribe then anymore."

"In that case Keane has bribed the foundation which is perfectly fine."

"Give me five minutes and I'll be back…do I need a witness?"

"I'm sure the foundation will give you something when you ask."

"Perfect. Five minutes and we can leave and do our job." Sofia took the box and left the room.

"Smart woman." Brass smiled satisfied with his detective.

"Yeah. Most woman would keep it, the others would send it back, she makes him pay without giving him the satisfaction that she keeps his gift. I hope he gets the message." Sara sighed.

"How bad is he?"

"He's annoying. She told him she isn't interested, he doesn't take 'no' for an answer."

"He follows her?"

"No, that the first time they met without having an appointment. He did send flowers to her apartment and she gave them all away."

"He's not a suspect anymore, he can stop bribing the primary. Or do you think he's really interested?"

"Yeah, as he interested in ninety percent of all women around him."

"Sofia won't like that."

"No, she doesn't."

"You take care of her? I mean…" He said when Sara raised an eye brow. "When you're both off. You're not there to protect a detective, I mean when you're both off. You spend a lot of time together…"

"I'll make sure she's fine as far as I can do that. Don't worry Jim, I don't let my friends down. She knows what she wants and she knows how to protect herself. But I'll make sure she isn't too much alone the next time." That shouldn't be a problem; after all they spend often enough the time after work together at one's place.