The Pack… By ishotsherlock.
A/N: Sorry this is a little late but I have been working hard, and then my friend borrowed my computer and virus'd it up to the eyeballs, (I was not a happy bunny), then when I ran my new virus protection it removed my writing documents, luckily I had copied my stories to a pen drive but it has taken a while to put everything back on her. Again sorry and now on to the chapter, it is two chapters in one just to make up for the wait you have had.
Chapter nine.
They had been at the scene for a few hours now and had set up the portable lights around the bodies and a few around the clearing when Grissom received a call, Sara had been over by the second body and had only seen the ranger as he waved at her then disappeared into the trees. She walked over to Grissom "Hey where did the ranger go."
"David called, the second ranger got called away on a rescue mission so Ralph had to go fetch him and his gear."
"Ralph… his name is Ralph."
Grissom looked up at her and saw her smiling "Yes, and like me he shortens his name and goes by Ray."
"Well Gilbert isn't that bad."
He smiled at her "It is when your students have just watched a certain Johnny Depp movie and then find out its also the name of their teacher." he chuckled.
Sara smiled "Well I should get back to examining my body." she saw him gulp and blush as she turned and walked back over to the second victim.
Grissom stayed sat on the ground and watched as she walked away from him, it was his second favourite site, the first being her walking towards him, he sighed and returned his attention back to the body before him. He was sitting crossed legged next to his victim with an assortment of jars beside him, some had live specimens in and some had deceased specimens in and the rest were waiting for the body to be removed so that the insects hiding beneath could be placed in the jars along with the others.
Sara had her own growing collection of jars surrounding the body, and after working with Grissom all this time some of his bug hunting and catching had rubbed off on her, she was good but nowhere as good as him. So far she had avoided the blood in the clearing, wondering if when the test results came back would they show human, wolf or a mix of both and if her DNA came through would they just think it was cross contamination, she was so lost in her thoughts that she didn't hear Grissom walk up behind her.
He had been calling her name for five minutes and not getting a response from her, so he had got up slowly and walked over to her, he placed his hand on her shoulder which was a big mistake. She had been in the middle of filling one of the jars with the liquid that Grissom had given her, saying that it was one of his special concoctions and not as harmful as the stuff usually used. She had jumped and spilled most of the liquid all down her front, but at the same time she had turned her head and sunk her teeth into his hand at the same time she drew her gun.
But that wasn't the worst part, the skunk that Grissom had been trying to warn her about, turned and sprayed them both and the body, luckily Sara had a mouthful of Grissom's hand so didn't get a mouthful of skunk anal gland. As soon as the smell hit them they both tried to move, Sara tried to stand up to fast and her head collided with Grissom's chin, which made him fall backwards and because Sara still had his hand clamped in her teeth it tore a small chunk off. As Grissom landed on his back he cried out in pain trying to stem the blood flow.
"Oh my god, Grissom." she yelled spitting out the chunk of his hand "You scared the crap out of me, and what is this awful smell."
"Sorry, can you get me something to wrap around my hand."
She started to go towards her kit but the smell got even worse so she ran over to where his kit was and grabbed the first aid kit from the bottom then ran back over to him. After she had sterilised and bandaged his hand he sat up slowly and looked around "At least the bloody skunk has gone."
"Skunk… what skunk."
"The one that was creeping up on you, I thought it might have had rabies, and now we stink and I'm bleeding." he laughed.
"Okay that would explain the smell and I am really sorry about your hand, but you startled me, how the hell are we going to get this smell of us."
"Well there is a few ways, but I don't think we have any of the ingredients out here, so we'll just have to wait."
"If it was just the smell I could wait but when you startled me I had was just filling up one of the specimen jars."
It was then that he noticed that she was soaking wet as well as smelly "Sorry, don't you have any spare shirts in your pack."
"Yeah I do." she said looking over to her pack "But I think they got sprayed as well."
"You can borrow one of mine if you would like."
"Thanks, I think you should also change, you have blood all over your shirt, and you don't want to get any on your body." though she wouldn't mind cleaning it off his body if she got the chance. No she shouldn't be having those kind of thoughts not here and specially not now.
Grissom slowly got to his feet and went over to his pack he got two shirts out and handed one to Sara, without thinking about it he pulled off his own shirt and dropped it into his pack, he didn't see the shocked look on Sara's face before she turned and removed her own shirt and bra. She was just about to put his shirt on when she heard a gasp behind her.
"Sara, what happened to your back."
She closed her eyes remembering about the scratches and bite marks "Oh while I was at my friends this weekend her dog got a bit carried away while we were playing."
"Have you seen a doctor to make sure they wont get infected."
"She's a nurse and said they are just superficial scratches and bites." she hated lying to him but there was no way she was going to tell him the truth about her back "Er Grissom I saw your back, how did you get those scars." as she said this she put the shirt on.
"Oh, a few years after my father passed away my mother remarried, but he didn't like me and thought that I needed to be taught a lesson at every opportunity, and the way he did that was with either his belt or a riding crop that he hung by the back door. My mother was deaf so never heard me crying or shouting and she only found out one day when she caught him beating me. That night we left and never went back, I heard that he was killed in a knife fight a few days later, a neighbour came home from working in his fields and caught my stepfather whipping his wife because she wouldn't sleep with him, so the man pulled a knife and my stepfather also pulled a knife but he lost, the best man won I think." he looked at her and saw the shocked look on her face.
"Oh my god, how old were you."
"Eleven, can we not talk about it any more, it was a long time ago and its all in the distant past now." he looked at her and loved the way she looked in his shirt, he wondered what she would look like in the morning after just waking from a night of love making and wearing his shirt as she came to him in the kitchen or living room. He shook his head and turned back to his body on the ground "Do you want to finish photographing the clearing or would you like to take samples of the blood pool."
She saw the look in his eyes before he had turned away and wondered what he had been thinking "I'll do the collecting if you don't mind, we will have to use your camera now as mine stinks to high heaven." she chuckled.
And that was it the moment was over and they went back to work, Sara took samples of the blood, which she knew was hers and Grissom walked around the clearing taking photo's of the paw tracks leading to and from both bodies.
The ranger and David showed up two and a half an hours later dragging two gurneys behind them.
"David, what's with the gurneys I thought they would be sending a chopper into air lift the bodies to the morgue."
"The choppers are out at the moment looking for four missing children on the other side of the lake, sorry Grissom."
"When did they go missing." he asked the ranger.
"Six hours ago, but the parents only realised four hours ago when the kids didn't show up for their meal, how long until you are finished here."
"Well as soon as David has removed both bodies we will probably be a few hours."
"And how long until you can remove the bodies." he asked David.
"It depends on how far along Grissom and Sara have got." he looked over to Grissom.
"Just waiting on you David."
"Oh then half an hour possibly forty five minutes."
The ranger looked up at the sky for a few minutes then back to the group in front of him "This is what we're going to do then, while your gathering up your bodies I'm going to run back to the camp ground and grab a few things then high tail it back here to help David get the bodies back to his truck, after that I have to go help with the search, after we have found the kids I'll come back here and take both of you back to the camp ground, but you should know that it may take a few hours so I don't want you two wandering off into those woods, and you better be here when I get back or there will be hell to pay because we have enough on our hands with missing kids the last thing we need is to then go looking for a couple of city slickers who thought they knew the way out."
Grissom was about to protest but thought better of it when he received a warning look from the ranger "Okay we will stay here and wait."
"But Griss…"
"No Sara you heard the man, we wait here until he comes back."
"Fine." she huffed and led David over to the body that Grissom had been looking at, she heard the ranger leave and Grissom joined them.
Forty minutes later the ranger came back and deposited three back packs in the middle of the clearing "Okay David you nearly ready to go."
"Yeah just zipping up the last body." he said as he zipped up the body bag.
"Grissom, Sara, these are for you." he said pointing to the back packs "The light blue one has a two man tent in it and some bed rolls and a sleeping bag sorry could only find one, the green one has food, water and some other things in and the red one is special, it has cola, baked beans and a whole bunch of lemons for you to try and get the smell of skunk off of you, there is a stream you can use about one hundred yards through the trees." he pointed in a direction "I sorted you both out some clean clothes for after, and I suggest you put the tent up soon we have a storm rolling in from the mountains and its going to get very wet here very soon." he looked at David "Okay you ready to go now."
"Yep both bodies are secure to the gurneys, if you pull I'll push." he looked to Sara and Grissom "See you later, have fun and I'll get one of the others to stock up the lemon supplies for when you get back." and with that said the ranger pulled the gurneys out of the clearing making David run to catch up with him.
Grissom watched the two people go then walked over to the pack with the tent in, he pulled it out and looked at Sara "Cool pop up tent it's been years since I've been in one of these."
Sara rolled her eyes as she watched him release the catch and the tent sprang up as it unfolded, she walked over and grabbed the small mallet and began securing the tent to the ground. "Okay I think my plaster moulds should be ready by now." she said indicating the white splotches behind her.
"Can you check on my ones as well while I set up the camp." she looked over at him but he had his head and arms in the tent.
When they had all of the evidence bagged and packed into the back of the tent they picked up the red back pack and made their way to the stream. When they got there Grissom set the bag down and removed the items in it, luckily all of the clothes and two pairs of hiking boots were all in bags so the smell wouldn't permeate the new clothes. Then he pulled out the lemons, two wash cloths, a two large towels and four large cola bottles "I think we should use the cola first to get rid of the worst of the smell the use the lemons to get rid of the rest, is that okay with you."
"Yeah sounds fine to me, but how are we going to do this."
"We will have to strip down to our underwear the one of us tips the cola while the other one scrubs then we swap and after that we rinse off in the stream and repeat it with the second bottle and also the lemons."
Sara looked down and tried to remember what underwear she was wearing, then silently cursed as she remembered that she was wearing a red thong, she looked back up just in time to see his back towards her as he removed his shirt again, sighing and cursing her luck she began to strip.
Grissom had to keep his body in check when he turned round and saw her, he was glad that this was one of the days he hadn't gone commando and had a pair of blue boxer shorts on. He liked what he saw as his eyes scanned over the exposed flesh in front of him. Her tanned back with the scratches and bites from the dog, then lower to the smooth curve of her hips and oh my god she was wearing a thong, a thin red thong, which he couldn't tear his eyes away from. That was until she turned around, he quickly shut his eyes but the image of her standing there in nothing but a thong and with her arm covering her breasts was imprinted on his brain now, he turned and walked into the very cold stream to cool his heated body. He heard Sara laugh behind him.
"Griss what are you doing." she chuckled.
"Just rinsing myself down." and thanks to the cold water there was a little less to cool down.
"Well when your finished do you want to do me first or shall I do you." she could hear how wrong that sounded as soon as the words left her mouth.
"Wha… what do… do … you mean." oh my god did she just say that, thank god he was in the stream already.
"Yeah the cola and the lemons." God he was acting strange.
"Oh yeah of coarse." he slowly got out of the stream and picked up one of the bottles, she had turner around by the time he stood up and he was thankful for that as he slowly began to pour the cola over her head "Be careful when you get into the water, it's a bit of a shock to the system." he said as he tried his hardest not to let his gaze slip below her neck.
It took about two hours until they couldn't smell the foul skunk aroma anymore and by the time they both emerged from the stream Sara was no longer covering herself, they each grabbed a towel and dried off before getting dressed, the clothes that Ralph had brought them were a little big but at least they didn't stink. Grissom grabbed one of the bags the towels had been in and used it as a glove as he placed all of their stinking clothes in the other bag and secured it as best as he could, by the time they made it back to the camp they had almost stopped shivering.
"I think we should get into the sleeping bag and share body warmth, just to help us get warm and hopefully get some sleep." he said as he unzipped the tent.
Sara looked inside and thought this might be the last time that she gets to sleep with him, even if it was fully clothed "Okay then." she said as she removed her boots before getting into the tent.
Grissom had also removed his boots and was now laying on his side in the sleeping bag, he watched as she crawled up the bag and got in beside him
"Sara your going to have to get closer so I can do the zip up." with her eyes shut tight she wriggled as close to him as she could and she could feel how he was feeling by the lump pressing against the back of her leg.
She had her head resting on his forearm and he had his other arm draped across her waist and was unconsciously running his fingers in circles on her exposed stomach, and the temperature in the sleeping bag was getting pretty hot because of it. They had been laying there for a while now so he was very stunned when she spoke.
"Griss, I.. erm.. May have to leave the lab in a couple of months, I cant tell you why at the moment and it may not happen but I thought you should know."
He was silent for a moment longer than she cared for but then he spoke.
"Sara, there's something I think you should know, I……."
TO BE CONTINUED
A/N: How evil am I for leaving you there lol, am now going to hide while you lot throw things and try not to break anything important lol.