Author note: Cases are going to overlap for the first time between Longest months of Sarah Sidle life and Catherine family Issues.
Chapter Eleven: Mr. Cortaid Case
On Monday morning after a long night at work, Catherine walks into the house to hear Lindsey and Kevin who are still upstairs arguing. Catherine looks down at the pair of dirty gray dress pant and black blouse she is wearing, as she walks toward the hallway that lead to the kitchen and is listening to her son-in-law and daughter fighting.
"Lindsey get up and get ready for school!"
"No, I don't want to go!"
"Lindsey, you do not have any days left, you already miss the allowed number of days you are allowed to be absent."
"I don't care I feel fat and everyone is going to stare out me. I already had to start wear maternity clothing and I am only at the beginning of my twelfth week."
"You are beautiful honey and I am sure no one will stare at you."
"They did last week Kevin!"
"No, they do not Lindsey, beside you are not the only girl at the school that is pregnant, there are five other girls who are pregnant too."
"Ok you are right, I will be ready to go in a few minutes."
Catherine hears Kevin coming out of Lindsey and his bedroom and walks past the staircase and head into the kitchen. A few minutes later Kevin who is wearing a pair of jean and a blue tee shirt walk into the kitchen and see Catherine and Katie who wearing a pair of tight black jeans and a purple short sleeved shirt with a scoop neckline and Katie sitting on her wheelchair at the kitchen table. Katie is eating a bowl of cereal and Kevin sees that Catherine has also put a bowl and spoon on the table for him and Lindsey. Lindsey comes downstairs a few minutes later wearing a lavender empire waist blouse and a pair of dark jeans and sits down at the table next to Kevin. Kevin pours Lindsey and himself a bowl of cereal and pour some milk into his and Lindsey bowl. Catherine yawn into her left hand, as Lindsey and Kevin start to eat they cereal.
"Lindsey do not forget I am pick up Kevin, Katie and you after school and drop Kevin and Katie off at physical therapy, then the two of us are going to your twelfth week check up at your obgyn."
"I won't mom."
Catherine sits at the kitchen table drinking a cup of coffee and watches the three teenagers eat breakfast. When Lindsey, Kevin and Katie are finish eating they leave the kitchen to finish getting ready for school. Catherine stays up until Kevin, Katie and Lindsey have left for school and then Catherine goes upstairs to her bedroom and into the master bathroom to take a shower, twenty minutes later Catherine walks out of the master bathroom wearing a pair of light-blue pajama pants and light blue nightshirt and walks over to her bed and lay down on the bed. Meanwhile, at Jefferson High school Lindsey, Kevin and Katie have just come through the main doors of the school. Katie wheels her wheelchair away from her brother and Lindsey and heads right to her first class of the day and Lindsey and Kevin goes to the locker the two of them share. Lindsey friend Beth runs up to Kevin and Lindsey and Lindsey notices that Beth is wearing light-blue jean skirt and a black wide straps tank top.
"Kevin, how much long do you need to use the crutch for?"
"Three weeks, count this week, Beth."
"Lindsey, when are you get that doctor note allowing you to set out of gym for the rest of the year?"
"After school today."
"I wish I could get out of gym, I really hate gym class."
The bell rings and Kevin heads to the boys gym and Beth and Lindsey head to the girls locker room to get changes for gym class. After Lindsey and Beth have changes into they gym shirt and short Lindsey looks down at her shirt and short and see the gym clothing is getting tight, Beth looks at Lindsey and sees that Lindsey has almost out grew the shirt and short.
"It a good thing, you will be sitting out after today, because if you had to continue take part in gym class after today, you would have to stay wearing the plus sized gym clothing seeing that you are wear the lager size in nonplus size clothing."
"I know, I am getting huge."
The two girls head into gym class and when the bell for class to start rings the girl gym class warm up and then start to play volleyball. The school day goes by slow for Lindsey and Kevin, but goes by fast for Katie.
When school gets out Catherine is waiting in her SUV that is parked in front of the high school. Three minutes after the bell for school to end rings, Katie, Lindsey and Kevin come out of the high school and then comes to Catherine's SUV. Catherine gets out of the SUV and walks over to the sidewalk and then helps Katie into the front seat of the SUV, as Lindsey and Kevin get the back of the SUV. As Katie is putting the seatbelt on, Catherine is putting Katie's wheelchair into the back of the SUV behind the back seat. A few minutes later Catherine starts the SUV up and then take drives Kevin and Katie to physical therapy, then Catherine and Lindsey head to Lindsey obgyn appointment. Once at Dr. Moonstar office, Lindsey signs in and then Lindsey and Catherine sit down on chairs in the waiting room. Lindsey is call back for her appointment after only waiting one minute, by a nurse with short black hair, brown eyes, olive skin tone skin tone and wearing pink scrubs with baby foot prints on them. Lindsey stands up and then grabs her mom hand and pulls her back into the hallway that the examine rooms are in. Lindsey stops at the scale and the nurse takes her weight and then Lindsey and Catherine follows the nurse into examine room number three. Once in the exam room Lindsey gets up on the examine table and Catherine sits down on the chair that is next to the exam table. Then the nurse check Lindsey blood pressure.
"Lindsey I need you to go into the bathroom and give a urine sample, which will be used to check sugar and protein levels."
"Ok."
Lindsey takes the urine sample cup from the nurse and then walks out of the exam room. Two minutes later Lindsey walks into the exam room and hand the urine sample cup to the nurse, then sits down on the exam table. The nurse set the sample cup onto a tray and then puts on a pair of medical gloves and then draws some blood to run tests for chromosome abnormalities and other test the doctor wants to run. A few minutes later the nurse carries the tray with the sample cup and blood and Lindsey's chart walks out of the exam room and shut the door. The nurse put the chart into the holder on the exam room door and then walks to the lab. Meanwhile Lindsey looks at her mom who is wearing a lavender long sleeves shirt with scoop neckline and a pair of black dress pants and has her hair pulled back in a ponytail.
"I love what you are wearing this afternoon mom."
"Thank you Lindsey."
"You are welcome."
At the same time Dr. Moonstar walks up to the exam room door and take Lindsey chart out of the holder on the door. Then Dr. Moonstar open up the exam room door and walks into the exam room, as she looks at the chart. The doctor close the door behind her and Catherine and Lindsey notices the doctor is wear black dress pants and a white blouse under her white lab coat. Dr. Moonstar does her check up, which includes listening to the babies heart beats, check the growth of Lindsey stomach and then does an ultrasound to check the thickness of the back of your babies' necks. Right as Dr. Moonstar finishes the ultrasound and Lindsey is pulling her shirt down, the nurse from earlier brings the result from the blood work and urine sample into the doctor. Dr. Moonstar sits down on her chair, which is in front of Lindsey and looks over the result of the tests, as the nurse walks out of the exam room shutting the door behind her. Lindsey sits up on the exam table and looks at Dr. Moonstar.
"So is everything fine Dr. Moonstar?
"The babies' heart beats are great, and the urine sample says your sugar and protein levels are normal and you do not have a kidney or urinary tract infection. The blood work for chromosome abnormalities and the ultrasound I did show no chromosome abnormalities. The only thing I want you to do Lindsey is to gain fifteen more pounds before your sixteenth week check up."
"But I am huge already!"
"You need to gain the weight to keep the babies health."
"Ok."
The doctor, Catherine and Lindsey stand up and then walk out of the exam room. The doctor walks up to the door of exam room four, as Catherine and Lindsey head to waiting room. Catherine and Lindsey schedules Lindsey next appointment with the nurse at the check in desk and then Catherine and Lindsey heads out to the SUV. A few minutes later the two of them are on they way over to pick up Kevin and Katie and Lindsey looks at her mom.
"Can we go out to dinner after we pick up Kevin and Katie, I am starving?"
"Sure, honey."
Lindsey looks out the passengers' seat window, as her mom drives toward norther Las Vegas physical therapy building. Ten minutes later Katie and Kevin are sitting in Catherine SUV and the four of them head to Jack's diner to get dinner. Once at Jack diner Katie wheels her wheelchair up to the end of the fourth booth and Lindsey and Kevin sits down on the bench on the right side if standing at the end of the table and Catherine seat down on the bench across from Lindsey and Kevin. The four of them look at the menu and ten minutes later Catherine is eating grilled chicken salad, Lindsey and Kevin are eating cheese burger and French fries and Katie is eating a grilled chicken sandwich.
An hour later Kevin and Lindsey are sitting in the living room working on homework, when Kevin looks over at Lindsey.
"How was your doctors' appointment?"
"I need not want to talk about it"
"But they are my babies to and I have a right to know if everything going ok!"
"I know Kevin, I am just upset, Dr. Moonstar wants me to gain fifteen more pounds before my sixteenth week check up."
"But are the babies all right?"
"Yes, the babies' heart beats are really strong and the blood work say there is no chromosome abnormalities and urine sample show that my sugar and protein levels are normal and I do not have a kidney or urinary tract infection."
"I tell you that, you need yo gain weight Lindsey!"
"I know it just hard with the morning sickness and then get tonsilitis which cause my throat to be really swollen and very sore to the point where I could hardly swallow, because it hurt so bad. That I lost my appetite because of being sick and also the medicine causes loss of appetite too."
"I know Linds."
Kevin leans toward kiss Lindsey and kisses her on the lips and Lindsey kiss him back. Katie who is also in the living room is watching the newly married couple and smile at them. A few minutes later the three of them get back to work on they homework. A half hour later Lindsey taps Kevin on the arm.
"Kevin and Katie I am going to heat up my left over half of cheese burger and French Fries from dinner do either of you want anything to drink or eat?"
"Some more pop would be nice."
"Sure Katie, what about you Kevin?"
"No I am fine."
Lindsey stands up from the couch and then heads to the kitchen. A few minutes later Lindsey walks into the living room with a plate in her left hand and a can of Pepsi in her right hand. Lindsey hand the can of pop to Katie and then sit down on the couch and start to eat the cheese burger. By the time Catherine gets up from her nap and walks into the living room, she finds that both Lindsey and Kevin are sitting on the couch and Kevin is reading the novel they English class is reading out loud to Lindsey. Catherine then walks toward the kitchen and when she walks past the bedroom that used to be her office and is not Katie's bedroom, Catherine sees Katie is sitting on her bed reading her French textbook. Catherine walks down the hallway and into the kitchen and grabs a snack.
When Catherine gets to the crime lab, she looks around for Greg to see if he has any updates on the Davis case they been working together on all weekend, but find that Greg and Warrick have already been sent to a crime scene. Gil Grissom walks up to Catherine and hand her an assignment sheet. Catherine looks to see what case she is going to be working and see she is working with Nick and Sara on a case that deals with fostered girls being rape and one of the girls has been murder. Catherine sighs out loud and is thinking I hate having to work two cases at once and the two cases she is working on makes her happy that Lindsey is safe at home.
"Catherine you need to meet Sara and Nick at the crime scene."
"I will go get my crime scene kit and then leave the crime lab and head to the crime scene."
Catherine walks away from Gil Grissom and heads to the locker room to clock into work and get her crime scene kit out of her locker. Fifteen minutes later Catherine walks into the house the case is at and follows Jim Brass upstairs to the bedroom that the rapes and murder girl happed at. When the three of them reach the bedroom, Jim Brass step back and lets Catherine go into the bedroom. Catherine sees Nick who is wearing a black dress shirt and a pair of black suit pants is busy processing the room. Catherine set her crime scene kit on the floor and open up the kit to get out a pair of latex gloves, at the same Nick start to talk.
"The pick plastic doll bed I found on the floor, has a breaking part and I think it was used as foreign body on one of the girls, when we get back to the lab I am going to have Wendy run the DNA on the vase, to see if it belongs to Misty, Liz, Stacey, Caitlin or Tracy."
"Cath is everything ok, you seem depression tonight?"
"It just the two cases I am working on right now fostered children getting abused and a father killing his ex-wife then takes off leaving his daughter and son without a mother. Worst is the father is a cap for LVPD and has not been at work seen the day his wife was murder and know one has heard from him either. Greg found the fathers' duty side lay on the steps of the children play house cover in blood and his fingerprints in his wife blood."
"Sounds like his skip town."
"I think you are right, but Brass put out a wire on his car and a picture of what he look like to the states around us, hopeful we will have something soon."
Catherine start to colleted the bed sheets off the girls beds, as Nick collect evidence from the bedroom floor. Nick looks up at Catherine as she puts one of the bed sheets into a evidence bag.
"How Lindsey and her unborn babies doing?"
"Lindsey is doing great and the babies have very strong heartbeats. Dr. Moonstar did tell her to gain fifteen pounds before her sixteenth week check up. She was a little mad about that she thinks she is already huge."
"I just show her when I walks past David bridal shop on Saturday and Lindsey looks great and I do not think she looks huge at all."
"That what I, Kevin and Katie tell her, but she still thinks she is fat."
"That teenage girls for you, they are always thinking about weight."
Catherine and Nick stop talking and work quietly. The two of them work until late into the night, it is three o'clock in the morning when the two of them put all the evidence bags into the back of the SUV Catherine drive to the crime scene, seeing that the one Nick and Sara came to the crime scene in, is at the hospital with Sara. Once all the evidence is in the SUV Nick and Catherine get into the SUV and Catherine drives to the crime lab. Once at the crime lab Catherine and Nick takes the evidence out of the SUV and then check the evidence into the lab. Nick take the DNA evidence to the DNA lab and Catherine take the fingerprints to the fingerprint lab and trace evidence to the trace lab. Ten minute late Nick and Catherine meet in the break room and start to read the girls cases files from the social worker.
At five o'clock in the morning on Tuesday Catherine and Nick find themselves in interrogative room two and are sitting across for Mr. and Mrs. Cortaid who are Liz, Stacy, Tracy, Misty and Caitlin fostered parents. Jim Brass steps up to the end of the table and looks at the Judy's and Jim Brass start to talk.
"Mr. and Mrs. Cortaid do you know why you are sitting in this room and do you know what Mr. Stokes and Mrs. Willows do?"
"Yes our fostered children put in a complaint against me and my wife and Mr. Stokes and Mrs. Willows work for the crime lab."
"It more then a complaint this time there is forensic evidence Mr. Cortaid that you murder Misty Tanks and then raped Tracy and Stacy Combs, Liz Strep and Caitlin Ranch. There is also evidence that you used a pink doll bed when you raped Caitlin. "
"Caitlin was out cold and was not fight back like the other three was, so I was able to do whatever I wanting too."
Catherine looks away from Mr. and Mrs. Cortaid and start talking deep breath, Nick looks at Catherine, then looks at Mr. Cortaid and start to talk to him."
"And since Misty kick you when get off you her, you had to strangle Misty until she dead?"
"Yes but I really love doing it."
(Nick and Catherine) You are sick, do you know that Mr. Cortaid?"
"I am not sick."
"Why am I here Mr. Stokes?"
"For aid and bedded, you helped your husband leave town after he raped all the girls and murder one of the girls."
"Jim arrested them."
"Sure Catherine."
Nick and Catherine stand up and walk out of the interrogative room, then walk out of P.D. to they SUV, sees that they drive to P.D. in their own SUV so they could head home after that was finish, because Gil said that he, Warrick and Greg would cover the rest of the night shift. Catherine gets into her SUV and the turn the SUV. Catherine turns the CD player on to listens to music on the ride home. A few minutes later Catherine pulls out of the parking lot of P.D. and start drive home. As Catherine pulls into her driveway she looks over at Sara and Gil house and see that all the light are off.