SailorStar9: After getting Chapter 10 out, this is Chapter 11 of this fic. (Sighs) Guys and girls, is it too hard for you to leave a review, instead of just putting this fic up on your favorited list and story alerts?

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Chapter 11: Bite Me

"Becky Lester, 32. Final meal, pasta." Dr. Robbins reported his findings to Grissom. "I can't tell you the variety of the noodle, but there was a white sauce with clams. And I found some blood in her stomach. Her tongue was lacerated perimortem."

"She probably chomped down on it when she hit the stairs." Grissom suggested.

"I sent a blood sample to Tox and Nick asked for teeth impressions." Adeline added. "Husband claims she's a biter."

"Fine line between pleasure and pain." Dr. Robbins shrugged. "But who doesn't like to cross it every once in a while, right? Anyway, um," he continued when the other two shot him a look. "I don't know if it's probative, but there's semen in her vaginal vault. Sperm motility and positive acid phosphates suggest intercourse approximately six to 12 hours prior to death."

"Yeah," Grissom nodded. "I'm mostly interested in cause."

"Exsanguination from five lacerations." Adeline pointed with a pen. "Two to the forehead, one to the right temple, and two to the occipital bone."

"Are they consistent with a fall?" Grissom asked.

"Yes," Dr. Robbins nodded. "But I'd expect to see hand fractures as a result of the impact, and there are none."

"Are they consistent with blunt force trauma?" Grissom inquired.

"Sure, but if the husband bludgeoned her, there'd be fractures to the skull." Dr. Robbins answered.

"And there are none." Grissom concluded.

"None." Adeline nodded.

"Well, you two have given me a lot of information, and none of it very helpful." Grissom remarked.

"They don't tell you about this part of the job when you're training to become a CSI." Warrick joked as he and Dr. Phillips stood at both ends of the coffin.

"Come on, after five years, at least they don't smell anymore." Dr. Robbins pointed out.

"Always with the silver lining." Dr. Phillips muttered.

"Right." Dr. Robbins remarked.

"You ready?" Warrick looked at Dr. Philips and the two men opened the coffin, revealing Jackie's corpse inside.

"Well, hello, Jackie Lester." Warrick greeted the dead woman. "On three." He looked at Dr. Philips as both men reached into the coffin. "One ... two ... three." With that, they lifted up the corpse and put it on the empty table next to them.

"If you two don't mind ... we'd like some alone time." Dr. Robbins looked at Warrick and Dr. Philips as he placed a hand on the corpse's head and Adeline readied a razor.

After the two left, Adeline proceeded with shaving off the corpse's hair. With Jackie now bald, Dr. Robbins took over and cut the scalp, peeling the skin off the skull, before he noticed something.

"You done with your alone time, Doc?" Warrick asked, entering the mortuary a while later.

"Just completed my prelim, but check this out." Dr. Robbins replied. "Subgaleal hemorrhages, consistent with lacerations to the occipital bone."

"So both of Ray's wives end up dead at the bottom of the stairs with lacerations to the head." Warrick concluded.

"If my full autopsy confirms murder, you may be looking at the first serial stairway killer." Dr. Robbins shrugged.

"This is a blood clot." Dr. Robbins pointed to the brain on the metal tray. "Take a look." he pried the brain apart to show Warrick what it looked like inside.

"Huh." Warrick nodded. "The blood's continuous."

"Comes from deep within the parenchyma." Dr. Robbins stated.

"The first wife had a stroke and it was fatal." Adeline elaborated.

"What about the scalp lacerations?" Warrick asked.

"Perimortem." Dr. Robbins replied.

"So she must've hit her head on the stairs on the way down." Warrick concluded.

"Well, I can't tell you about the second wife, but this was a natural." Dr. Robbins remarked.

"So, let me get this straight." Archie stated, returning to the living room with a fruit bowl as Adeline sipped her rose wine on her couch in her apartment. "The mother dies of natural causes and the daughter kills the stepmother to protect the father. Whatever happened to normalcy in families?"

"And not to mention the father's biting fetish." Adeline quipped. "Had fun watching the clips?" she teased.

"Funny." Archie muttered, silencing his grinning lover with a slice of fruit. "But I like my body mark-free."

"That's because you're the licker, not the biter, Arch." Adeline joked.

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