Disclaimer: I own NOTHING familiar. All of it belongs to CBS. Any relation to a real life character or situation is a coincidence, because I made up the plot. But I wish I did. I REALLY wish I owned New York and Miami.

Y'know, I might always put the disclaimer first. It's just a habit, I guess. Oh yeahh. I know Natalia's only a trainee, but I wanted to introduce both her and Valera, so I had Natalia work the case too. Also, is peri mortem a word? Because I've head it in CSI before…

WARNING: There might be a little OOC-ness in here. I need to put this at the beginning of every chapter too.


CSI trainee Natalia Boa Vista and Calleigh ducked under the yellow crime scene tape and walked to Alexx.

"Let me guess," Natalia, who wasn't at the last crime scene, said. "Same MO as our other vic."

"You got that right, honey," Alexx said. "Same gunshot wound between the eyes, multiple stab wounds."

"All right," Calleigh said. "Page me after post."

Alexx nodded. "You got it," she said. She then called other MEs to put the body in a dark body bag. After the body was in the bag, she and her MEs got in the truck and drove back to the morgue.

Calleigh turned to Natalia. "Okay, Horatio said to look for anything that could lead us to the whereabouts of Bryson."

Natalia put her gloves on. "No problem."


For the next two hours, the women searched through the crime scene like a fine-toothed comb. After they covered the entire scene and gathered all of the evidence, they took it all back to the lab. Natalia found a hair and was awaiting results from DNA.

"Hey Maxine," Natalia said as she walked into the DNA room. "You got the results from the hair I gave you?"

"Not ye—," DNA technician Maxine Valera started to say. She was interrupted by the whir of the printer. Maxine walked over to the printer, grabbed the papers, and cleared her throat.

"Yeah, I got the results right here," Maxine grinned, handing the papers over to Natalia. Natalia chuckled. The look on her face turned to a look of confusion.

"This makes no sense," she murmured.

"What makes no sense?" Maxine asked, also looking at the papers.

"The hair that I found right by the body is an exact match to the reference sample we took from the vic's wife, Bethany Fuller," Natalia explained.

"But didn't you say that she wasn't anywhere near the vic at the time of the murder?" questioned Maxine.

"That's what I thought," Natalia replied. Her phone rang.

"Natalia," she answered. Natalia raised her eyebrows. "Really? I'll be right down. Bye."

Maxine was already starting to work on other samples. "Hey Maxine, could you give these samples to Horatio for me 'cause I got to rush to the morgue," Natalia said.

Maxine shook her head. "Sorry Nat. I'm swamped with DNA work."

Just then, Stella walked by the DNA room. She appeared to be walking in the direction of Horatio's office. If what Alexx said about the MO was true, Natalia really had to rush to the morgue.

"Stella!" she called. Stella turned around and walked to the CSI trainee.

"Are you heading to Horatio's office? Because I really need to rush to the morgue, but I have DNA results to deliver. Alexx found out something important about the vic's MO and COD, so I need to run," Natalia continued.

Stella nodded. "Sure. It's no problem; I was heading over there anyway."

Natalia beamed. "Thanks, Stella!" Both women then went their separate ways.


"So you're saying COD was not the same as Victoria Chavez?" Calleigh asked. Natalia had just joined them in the morgue.

Alexx shook her head. "No. This guy's COD was massive internal bleeding due to damage of major internal organs."

"But in the other vics, the stab wounds didn't hit any major organs and they were also post mortem," Natalia said.

"These stab wounds were peri mortem, around the time of death. The gunshot between the eyes was the thing that was post mortem, and look at this," Alexx said. She showed them a section of the victim's forearms previously covered by his long sleeved shirt. "Lacerations on his forearms indicate that his hands were tied behind his back and then untied after death."

Natalia thought about the DNA results she got before. "Didn't you say that Bryson gave her the bracelet to keep quiet about the murder?" Natalia suddenly asked.

Calleigh and Alexx looked at her. "Yeah, I did. Have an idea who might have done it?"

Natalia nodded. "I think Bethany Fuller killed him."

"The vic's wife?" Alexx asked, surprised.

"Yeah," Natalia replied. "I have a theory that he gave the bracelet to her, not to keep quiet, but to kill Andrew for him. She would leave different evidence behind and we would get thrown off course."

"That does make sense," Calleigh mused. "I wouldn't want the police after me either, but the thing is, we don't really have enough evidence to prove she did it."

Natalia's honey-brown eyes lit up. "Where's that bloody shoe print you lifted?" she asked.

"It's in the evidence room, why?" Calleigh said.

"I think I have an idea," she replied.



Tried to throw a little twist in. R&R please! Reviews make me happy! Please don't review about the OOC-ness. I warned you. –points to warning-

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