Chapter Eleven
Wake Up
Disclaimer: I do NOT own CSI: New York and/or its characters repeat DO NOT own. But I do own my character Katherine Booth.
In the morning
"Okay where is he?!" Diane blasted through the door of Don's apartment at…6:00 am.
Katherine jolted, "BAGPIPES!"
Diane looked at her strangely, "Bagpipes?!"
Katherine rubbed her eyes and slumped back on the couch, "Another ten minutes mama…"
Diane rolled her eyes and went over to her tired best friend, "Wake up Kate, you've got work in an hour!"
"Hun…" Katherine groaned as she rolled over and grabbed a pillow to block out the loud and annoying sound.
Diane sighed and dropped her stuff as she grabbed Kate's shoulders and shook her.
"KATHERINE BOOTH, WAKE UP!!" Diane yelled into her ear.
No reaction.
Then the Don's bedroom door blasted open, "Keep it down!! People are trying to SLEEP!" Don yelled back.
"YOU," Diane screamed back, "THIS IS ALL YOUR FAULT!"
"Keep your voice down! Must you yell?!" Don growled staggering from his lack of sleep (Luckily his shift wasn't until after lunch).
"YES, I BELIEVE I MUST! HOW MANY TIMES HAVE I TOLD YOU THAT DRINKING TO GET DRUNK IS COMPLETELY UNHEALTHY AND STUPID!" Diane yelled some more.
"Diane it's WAY too early for this could you, do this later when I get my hearing back because I think you just YELLED ME INTO DEAFNESS!" Don countered.
"WELL I WOULDN'T BE YELLING IF YOU HAD SOME COMMON SENSE!"
"I do! It just happened to SLIP last night I'M SORRY OKAY?!"
"NO, IT'S NOT OKAY!"
"WELL WHAT DO YOU WANT ME TO DO ABOUT IT?!"
"OH MY GOD WOULD YOU TWO PUT A SOCK IN IT!! Diane please can you come back later and Don go back to sleep." Katherine screamed as she was now finally awake.
"BUT-," "SHE-."
"NOW!" Katherine roared.
"Ugh fine, but this is so not over!" Diane sulked out of the apartment.
"Psh women…" Don mumbled as he went back to bed.
Katherine groggily got up and went into the washroom. She looked into the mirror, there staring right back at her was a female's face that looked like her except her eyes had very dark bags underneath them and her hair was in a wild tangled frenzy.
She sighed and splashed her face; that was the last time she stayed up past midnight on a work night.
After freshening up in the bathroom, she grabbed her stuff that was scattered around Don's living room. When she gathered everything she strained her ears against Flack's bedroom door, only to hear him snoring soundly.
With a small smile she went into the kitchen and grabbed a pen and a piece of paper and scribbled a note:
Good morning Sleepy-head,
I'm sorry I got you into this…
But I really appreciate you doing it; it's actually uncharacteristically sweet of you…
Well I better head off to work, I guess I'll see you later…
xoxo
Kate
Break room
"Oh please you can't be serious can you?" Lindsay asked completely shocked at what Danny just told her.
"I'm serious! I called Flack at 2 in the MORNING… and Katherine answered the phone!" Danny reasoned.
"But she did tell you that she was there only because Don was drunk and Diane was with Zach," Lindsay said, "So maybe she is telling the truth."
"Yeah, but isn't it weird? I mean don't you just think it's a bit unlike her?" Danny asked.
"Well she may dislike Don, but it's not like she's completely heartless," Lindsay reasoned back.
"Who isn't completely heartless?" Katherine asked as she entered the break room.
"Uhm…" Danny stuttered.
Lindsay rolled her eyes at Danny's childish behaviour, there was nothing intimidating or scary about Katherine.
"Danny thinks you and Don are dating, or at least did something last night," Lindsay scoffed as if it was the most ridiculous thing she's ever heard.
Kate let out a little giggle just a bit nervously but not enough to be detectable (she hoped), "Ha-ha why do you think that Messer?"
"Well you know uhm…" Danny continued he was completely speechless.
"His evidence is that you were there at his place last night at two in the morning and well his imagination went wandering and you know…" Lindsay explained.
"Oh, well we're not, I was only there helping a very drunk Flack home and to make sure he was okay, as instructed by Diane." Katherine said in a careless tone as if it was what really happened and there was nothing more to it.
Since when did you become such a good liar? Her thoughts prodded her mind.
"See I told you Danny, why don't you ever listen to me?" Lindsay said.
"What did Messer do this time?" Hawks entered laughing.
"Nothing he was just being stupid, again," Lindsay commented.
"I see," Hawks said calmly but he couldn't erase the laughter in his eyes as Danny glared at the back of Lindsay's head.
Katherine just giggled at her friends' antics, but last night's lack of sleep was really weighing on her.
"Morning to all," Stella said beaming. She was the always such a happy morning person.
"Hey Stella," Lindsay replied.
"Morning," Danny answered.
"Good morning to you too," Sheldon said.
Stella smiled and grabbed herself a cup of coffee, that's when she noticed Katherine, curled up on the couch asleep.
"What's with her?" Stella asked. The others turned to see the same sight.
"Oh… I thought she left," Messer said.
"Poor girl, she must be so tired from staying way past midnight last night." Lindsay said sympathetically.
"Why was she-," Stella asked but was interrupted by Mac.
"Good morning everybody, here are your assign-," Mac started but noticed what everyone was looking at.
Katherine felt the stare of everybody and was afraid to open her eyes, "Why is everyone looking at me??" She asked with tightly closed eyes.
"Is she sleep-talking?" Messer asked.
"No you idiot, she's just wondering why we're all staring at her!" Lindsay said smacking him at the side of the head.
"Sheesh, Lindsay why do you have to be so mean to me!" Messer said.
"Well… why are you all staring at me?" Katherine asked.
"You fell asleep Kate," Stella said concerned, "Are you sure you're okay?"
"Huh? Oh yeah, I'm fine, all I need is some coffee and I should be fully awake." Katherine said opening her eyes and getting up to grab herself a cup.
"Alright then here are your assignments… Katherine, you, Stella and I will handle this case, while Hawks, Lindsay and Danny take this one." Mac said as he handed out the assignments.
Statements of approval went out as they each grabbed their assignments and headed out.
"So is there any particular reason as to why you are very tired Ms. Booth?" Mac said turning to the young CSI, and beside him stood Stella with a concerned look.
Katherine just sighed, "I'm fine enough to do the job, it was an unexpected late night, and I'm sorry Mac it won't happen again. And I promise to fully concentrate on this case." She said with an earnest voice as she sipped her coffee.
"It's alright it happens even to the best of us, anyway let's get going Detective Angell is already at the scene." Mac said sympathetically.
Crime Scene
The crime scene was crowded by curious on-lookers.
"Crap, I hate it when people do this," Stella muttered under her breath.
Mac agreed, yet couldn't help but chuckle at his partner's irritation.
Katherine just glared; she was lacking sleep, frustrated and incredibly grumpy, and the people... yeah they weren't helping.
Mac and Stella knelt and examined the body of a dead Caucasian man with a bullet hole right in the eye.
"O, right in the eye," Stella stated.
"Talk about 'bullseye'," Katherine commented.
Both Stella and Mac couldn't help but laugh at her comment. Katherine gave a sloppy grin and continued examining the surroundings of the crime scene.
After a minute of gathering evidence, Mac and Stella stood up to discuss, the happenings.
"So what do you think?" Mac started asking Stella and Kate.
"Well-," Stella began but was interrupted by a crazed woman breaking through the crowd and wailing, "Let me through! Get out of my way that's my house!"
A police officer stopped her before she got passed the tape.
"Let go of me!" She said, but then screamed and wailed again when she saw the dead man, "Oh my God, that's my husband!! Oh my God, what happened to him?!"
"That's what we're trying to find out ma'am," Mac said calmly to the distressed woman.
Stella came up to his side and asked her, "Do you happen to know where your husband was headed for this morning?"
"Yes, he was headed for work; he told me that he had to go to the office before I left to do some groceries." The woman informed as she calmed down from her previous hysterics.
"Hey guys," Katherine said, "Sorry, to interrupt but I got something you might want to see."
Mac and Stella excused themselves from the wife and came over to Katherine.
"Take a look at the bullet, I found it by the door." Kate started.
"It looks like, it's been bent… and there's trace on it." Stella said as she examined the bullet.
"Yeah, what's even weirder is that normally when a bullet is bent like this its because it's gone through something, anything really even pieces of paper could bend a bullet like that, but that only works if the bullet is going really fast and from a far distance." Katherine informed.
"So this wasn't a point blank shot as originally thought," Mac said.
"Yeah… and I can't find-," Katherine started to say, but was interrupted again by another woman this time.
"What the hell is going on? That's my house!!... Oh my God…" She said when she saw the scene that lay before her.
Stella came up to her, "Excuse me miss, but do you know the deceased?"
"Yes, I do…that's, that's…that's MY HUSBAND!" She cried hysterically.
The previous woman came towards her and wrapped her arms around her and gave her comforting words.
Katherine, Mac and Stella all exchanged confusing looks.
"But isn't she… the guy has two wives?" Katherine bluntly blurted out.
The two women looked at her, and Katherine clasped her mouth, not believing she just said that out loud.
"Sorry, I didn't mean it the way I sounded it to mean." Katherine apologized to the women.
They shook their heads, the first woman to arrive she had red-hair looked at me and explained, "We originally got married just as a couple, but then as time passed. 'Activities' in bed were beginning to bore us… Then we met her and later asked her to join us, and she became part of the family. She saved our marriage."
Katherine was at a complete loss, it went against her religion (she's Catholic)... Wow... uhm... concentrate on the case, it's okay different people have different values and moralities... okay concentrating on evidence.
Stella and Mac just gave non-caring looks, as if they've seen these weird situations everyday, and taking a look at their past cases, one could agree with that statement.
Katherine shook out of her moral thoughts and shrugged them away; she decided that she would gather the evidence and head to the lab and morgue with the ME and the body.
Stella and Mac agreed, "We'll stay behind and talk with them and collect anymore evidence we find." Stella said.
"I want you to take a look at the bullet, find out the trace evidence… that's top priority, after that check with me for your results." Mac informed.
Katherine gave her final salute of agreement and jumped into the ME's van as it headed to the morgue.
Lab
Katherine was in the lab looking through a microscope with a light above her head, and was concentrating incredibly hard on her evidence …
"I think you're going to burn a hole in that thing," a voice said.
Katherine looked up in surprise, only to hit her head on the light, "Shit!" She cursed not only because she hit her head but because she knew all to well who that voice belonged to.
It was Don Flack, who stood there laughing at the sight.
Katherine got up, dusted her clothes and glared irritatingly at the laughing detective, "Are you done?"
Flack kept laughing as he shook his head, "Ha-ha, wait just give ha-ha me ha-ha a second… ha-ha!"
"It wasn't that funny," Katherine said as she placed her hands on her hips as the detective continued to laugh.
She growled, and turned back to work deciding to ignore the laughing detective.
By then Don stopped laughing and looked at her, there under the luminescent light her hair slightly messed up by frustration, her eyebrows knitted in aggravation and her eyes concentrating but the bags underneath them told him that she was tired. Yet even with all of that he couldn't believe how beautiful she looked.
Ugh, could you be anymore cheesier??
Shut up he's admiring his beloved.
Argh! I'm talking to myself again!
Don shook his head, so many thoughts, he sighed looked around the lab was practically empty, Mac and Stella were out getting the proposed suspect, Lindsay and Danny were in interrogation and Hawks was watching in the observatory, save for the occasional lab rat it was empty. He smirked the shutters were even closed.
He walked over to her and stood behind her.
"Can't you see I'm a little busy?!" Katherine snapped at him.
Flack didn't know why or when it happened but he really liked getting Katherine all riled up.
"Nope," Flack said shrugging, "What are you looking at?"
"Just some trace sample…" Katherine said, "I can't believe this guy, he marries one woman and then when the sex isn't good enough they go find another person to make the marriage better?" Katherine looked disgusted, "Not only are they breaking commandment they didn't even marry for love."
Don looked at her with a questioning look, "Uhm okay?"
Katherine sighed, "The case I'm working on is about a dead man with two wives."
"Ah, and since when were you the religious type?" Don asked remembering her mentioning commandments.
"Since I was born, I just never thought I needed to mention it seeing as most people believe science and religion don't really mix." Katherine said shrugging.
"So basically you're a bible-hugger?" Don asked.
Katherine glared at him, "We prefer the term Catholic."
Don smirked, "And I prefer the term angel," he whispered into her ear.
Katherine's face turned bright red, and tried to push him out, "Were in a public place!" She hissed at him.
"Look around does it look very public to you?" Don asked, as Kate looked around at an empty lab with the shutters closed.
Don just smirked as he saw Kate's face get even redder; he started to kiss the base of her neck.
"Now is… not a…very…good…time!" Katherine gasped in between kisses.
Don just grunted as he continued to kiss up her neck, her chin, cheeks, and nose and finally captured her lips in a heated kiss.
Katherine couldn't fight him and soon she began quietly moaning as the kiss got deeper and hands were roaming until…
RING, RING!
"Damn, not again," Flack cursed.
Katherine quickly pulled away as the ringing reminded her of where she was. She pushed Flack and reached for her cell phone.
"Hello?" She said completely out of breath.
"Are you okay?" said the voice on the other end.
"Oh, yeah sorry, Stella, I had to run and look for my cell buried under my stuff… I just came back from grabbing a snack."
"Ha-ha okay, you sound so out of breath, anyway Mac and I got the guy, do you happen to have the evidence that ties him??" Stella asked.
"I do, I just have to double check everything, and I kind of got distracted by someone…" Katherine said as she glared at that someone. Flack just gave her a smirk.
Stella sounded confused as she replied, "Are you sure you're okay?"
"Yeah sorry it was just the gossipers talking again and I got you know distracted sorry." Katherine said.
"Well don't listen to them! You know it's not true and that's all that matters. Anyway Mac and I are almost there, see you in 10." Stella said.
Katherine hung up and sighed.
"What is the matter with you?" Katherine said glaring at Don.
"I'm sorry I just thought I'd spend a little time with you before I had to work," Don said ever-so charmingly.
"No, no don't give me that I know you could get a lot of women to bend to your every whim with that sexy voice of yours, but I am not one of them!" Katherine said she was uncharacteristically grumpy (any guesses as to why?).
Flack looked surprised, but that all changed when what she said processed into his brain. And the surprise turned into a highly amused and confident smirk.
Katherine glared even harder; Stupid, conceited, idiotic, ASS! Who does he think he is? Uh… he's your boyfriend. Not to mention he's incredibly sexy and a complete hunk!
Don just smirked and whispered into her voice, "You think my voice is sexy?"
"Don Flack!" Katherine growled.
Don laughed and said, "Alright, alright I'm gone, but I'll see you later, angel."
Katherine stuck her tongue out, "Be gone!" She said as she shooed him out of the lab and got back to work.
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