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Dead bodies and New Life – Chapter 10 – Graveyard shift
Meanwhile back at the lab Warwick, Nick and Greg were sat around the table in the break-room waiting, for Catherine to arrive and Grissom to bring in the nights assignments. Catherine came in clutching a file and some slips of papers, and made for the coffee pot to pour herself some.
She turned around and went to sit down "right guys, Gissom isn't in tonight, so i will be giving out assignments" she looked at them in turn "but first, i have something to tell you, before that" she smiled at them "Gil has asked us all, including Brass and Sofia, to meet up with him and Sara at the diner, at 9 for breakfast in the morning" she let them take this in before she continued "he said the meeting was important" she finished with a mischievous grin.
Greg chirped up "well it must be personal, because he would tell us at the lab, if it was about work"
"Grissom doesn't do personal, man" Nick added.
Catherine watched the guys with amusement.
Warwick looked thoughtful before he said "if Brass, Sofia and Sara is gonna be there, it must be something pretty important, what gives Cath, do you know" they all looked to her.
"wish i did, it's been driving me nuts trying to work out what it could be, but i have a few ideas what it could be" she finished with a smile.
"i bet Grissom and Sara are moving in together" said Greg.
"nope, they already live together in a new house apparently, according to Brass" said Catherine
"no way, when did that happen, and why didn't we know" said Nick looking a bit hurt that Sara hadn't told him I thought she was my friend and could tell me anything.
Cath sighed "a while now, and you know how private they both are, they are not going to tell us about their life outside of work, now are they"
"50 bucks says Grissom popped the big question to Sara, any takers" Greg grinned.
"i will have some of that Sanders, i like taking money off you. They have not been together long enough to be thinking of that yet" Nick finished confidently, "what about you Warwick man"
"no way Greg, you might be right though" said Warwick
Just then Jim Brass walked in with a smile on his face at just catching a bit of the conversation "i will give you 50, that he didn't Greg" Brass said.
"what do you know Jim"asked Catherine.
"nothing" he lied with a smirk.
"come on Jim, you and Sofia are invited to the breakfast ,with Gil and Sara tomorrow at 9, at the diner, so what do you know" she said, knowing full well Jim probably had a good idea what the importance of the breakfast was about.
Jim smirked yet again "sorry no can do, it is up to them to tell you, i am sworn to secrecy, by the wrath of Sidle" he chuckled at Catherine's annoyance at not knowing.
"i knew it" she huffed "i knew you would know, this is so not fair Jim" she said clearly annoyed and impatient.
Nick was thoughtful for a couple of minutes as the other guys chuckled at Catherine, why had Brass taken Greg's bet if he knows what it is, so it can't be a proposal, or that they have moved in together, but it has to be something big, because it's not like Grissom to call a meeting at breakfast with Sara, and Brass and Sofia to be present "tell you what guys, 50 says Sara's pregnant" said Nick confidently.
"awe no way man, not our Sara and the Bugman" Warwick said "i will take a piece of that"
Brass sat back with a blank face, even though he wanted to smile, especially at Nick, as the others looked at him.
Greg said "so will i Nick, my sweetness and divine Sara, wouldn't want a kid, especially not with Grissom,... ewe"
"yeah i will too Nicky, i can't see the two biggest geeks in the world with a kid together" said Catherine.
Jim Brass got up to leave the room "well i got people to arrest, can't sit around gossiping all day, see you later" he said
"oh Jim, can you let Sofia know about the breakfast" Catherine said with a not very amused tone.
"yeah, will do" Jim said as he left the room.
"Right guys back to work, there is only one case tonight, but we still need to work on the Jackson case" they all nodded "right we have a possible suicide, at the Belagio, take Greg with you, your primary Nick" she handed Nick a slip of paper with the details on,they both nodded "i am driving Greg" Nick said, as they got up and left. "you and me are meeting up with Vartan to do a search of Matthew Thompson's apartment, to see if we can find any evidence, or a connection to Arron Jackson, okay"
"yeah just need the restroom, and then i will meet you outside" Warick said.
Catherine was sat in one of the work Denali's when Warwick came outside to the parking lot, he got in the car and Catherine said "Sofia just called, Matthew Thompson was on vacation with a friend according to his boss, when Arron Jackson went missing two moths ago, so we need to see if there is anything, that says he was in California, and who he was with, Vartan is waiting at the apartment for us" she turned the ignition and drove out of the lot.
After the 20 minute drive, they approached the apartment complex and Detective Vartan was waiting by the door. As they approached Vartan handed Catherine the search warrant and said "hi Catherine, Warwick, i don't think anyone is home, if not, i will break the door in for you"
Catherine knocked on the door and waited, no answer, so she knocked again "LVPD Crime lab open the door" no response again.
Vartan drew his gun, asked Catherine to stand back, then kicked the door in shouting "LVPD, if there is anyone here, come out with your hands up where we can see them" he made his way about the rooms then shouted to the two CSI's "all clear"
The two csi's split up, to look around and process the apartment, while the detective waited out by the front door. The rooms were dirty with beer bottles and takeaway wrappers and cartons all over the place, and what looked like dirty cloths were thrown all over the bed, the smell of sweat and rotten food permeated the air along with dust.
A couple hours later Warwick found Catherine in the kitchen "you get anything Cath" he asked her "yeah, i got a couple of gas station receipts from California, dated the day before and the day the boy went missing, got some framed photographs of the suspect with some kids and a woman, no sign's though of a woman or kids living here though .I also bagged most of the takeout stuff, to see if we can pull any of the boys DNA off of them," she finished "what you got"
"all his shoes were a size 11, and i did find a pair of Nike Air max sneakers, i got more takeout stuff bagged, and i found a box under the bed with photo's of two boys and a woman, some baseball cards, a kids cap, a cheap casio kids watch, and some jewelry, but again no sign of them living in the rooms i checked" Warwick said "i have finished in the other rooms, need a hand finishing up Cath"
"no, 5 minutes and i will be done, and we can head back to the lab" she stood up "go put the evidence in the car, and i will be out in a minute" Catherine replied.
After calling at a drive-through for a coffee and burger to go, they made it back to the lab and booked the evidence in, then they passed off some of the evidence to be processed in various labs, Mandy in the DNA lab, got the mountain of bags with the takeaway food packaging from Warwick "this is gonna take at least two shifts to get through all this, thanks" Mandy said "sorry" Warwick replied as he left to drop of the photographs of with Archie in the AV lab so he could cleanup and enhance them.
Catherine was in one of the layout rooms, with the box Warwick had found under the bed, she was swabbing the cap, baseball cards and the jewelry for DNA traces. As she was closing the cap to the last swab Warick walked in "well the Nike air max print we got from the warehouse is the same as the shoe we found at Thompson's apartment, but the guy worked at the warehouse, so i don't think it helps much, even though the print was found near the body, it could have been there before the body was dumped" he sighed "i am gonna look at the gas receipts and locate where abouts in California they are from, okay" he headed out of the room.
As Catherine was dusting the baseball cards for prints Nick and Greg walked in "hey Catherine, the case was a suicide all right, hanged himself, we found ID and a suicide note to his wife, in his briefcase. Seems the guy had quite a high powered job, but owed a whole lot of gambling debts, and the wife was about to find out, so i guess he couldn't take the shame of being dishonest to his wife, or his work buddies finding out he had an addiction. The wife is on her way into PD to talk to Brass, we just got the paperwork to do then we are finished up" Nick said.
"okay, go take a break, then both of you finish up any paperwork you need to, then that should bring you up until the end of shift" Catherine said as they were leaving and she turned to carry on dusting the cards.
After a while Catherine had the swabs and 4 fingerprints she had lifted of the cards, as she walked into the DNA lab "hey Mandy, sorry about all the takeaway package evidence, but i have these swabs that need testing for DNA, any chance you could do them before you do any more of them" she pointed to the mountain of bags "you can give me the results next shift, i am off the clock in ten minutes"
"yeah sure Catherine" Mandy replied "thanks" Catherine said as she made her way to drop off the fingerprints and then head to the locker room.
Warick handed a sample of what looked like soil, and a sample of some other substance to Hodges "can you tell me where this, that looks like a soil sample comes from, and can you identify this other sample for me, please, i am off the clock now so next shift will do, thanks" he said
"no problem, leave it to the expert to find out" Hodges shouted as Warick walked out shaking his head.
Greg, Nick, Warick and Catherine were now in the locker room getting ready to head to breakfast "who's ready for breakfast" Greg said excitedly.
"never mind breakfast, i wanna know what Grissom is going to say" replied Catherine eagerly "come on boys, lets get going"
"get your money out guys, i will be collecting soon" said Nick as the others laughed at him.
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