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Another Chance

Chapter Two

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Sara looked up abruptly from her place beside the bed, her sad smile turned into a frown when she saw Grissom standing by the door "what are you doing here? How long have you been standing there?"

"Long enough, Sara" he said sadly. He didn't accuse her of anything or look disappointed he just stood there, and that was worse, she didn't know what he was feeling.

She stood up and became defensive "you were listening in on my private conversation!"

"I didn't listen…I read you're lips" he said correcting her.

"You shouldn't have done that either" Sara said angrily.

"What are you doing here, Sara?" he looked at Pamela Adler, at least she wasn't listening to their argument.

"She isn't evidence anymore, Grissom" Sara told him coldly, she regarded the woman next to her "I visit her, I promised I would" she added.

"Catherine called me and told me you were at the crime scene…I --" he was cut off.

"Save it, I don't want to hear how much you're disappointed in me, how you never thought I could do something so stupid, how I'm supposed to follow the evidence…not tamper with it" she sat back down and looked at Pamela. "The Nurse said that she can still hear people speaking, I don't want her to hear us arguing…can we talk about this somewhere else" she asked, Grissom nodded and opened the door for her to walk through. Sara closed the door gently behind her and they stayed in the corridor.

"I was disappointed…at first and then I realised that you were being led by you're anger, you weren't thinking straight, you were protecting Pamela…"

At least he didn't forget her name call her Jane Doe Sara thought briefly. "It wouldn't have been right to frame Thorpe, if I had then the real culprit would get away and this victim would never receive the justice he deserves."

"I can't say I like what you wanted to do but I'm proud that in the end you did the right thing…don't you have a case to work on?" He broke the sudden uncomfortable silence and Sara nodded.

"Uh yeah, Warrick's probably sent out a search party…what are you going to do?"

"You had a moment of weakness it happens to everyone, you didn't follow through with you're intentions…" he said shrugging.

Sara smiled warmly "thank you." She began to walk down the corridor "are you coming?"

Grissom nodded "in a minute." Sara nodded and continued to walk away, Grissom silently walked back into Pamela's room, and he sat down in the chair Sara had previously occupied. "I'm not very good at things like this…I can't promise you that Tony Thorpe will go to prison, the prospect of that happening is growing less likely everyday. I can promise you that Sara will never give up trying, and neither will I."

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"Where have you been? I'm almost done here" Warrick asked, slightly agitated when he saw Sara enter the house, their crime scene.

"Hello to you too Warrick" she said absently as she surveyed the room "the bodies moved already."
"Brilliant observation Sherlock."

"So tell me you're findings Watson" she waited expectantly.

"Victim is Roger Hall he was found by his wife Heidi two and half hours ago…"

"Cause of death?"

"Don't know yet, the body was…weird" he said.

Sara looked up at him, mildly amused "that's very scientific of you."

"The body was twisted, the hands curved over like claws, the face had a sadistic smile…it was creepy" he shuddered for added effect.

"Well no obvious signs of a struggle…possible weapon?" she asked.

"Nope, nothing, nada, zilch, just a dead body in an otherwise perfectly clean house,"

"Have you interviewed the wife?"

"I was leaving that to you."

"I heard the police say they thought it was an overdose" Heidi Hall sniffed and looked tearfully at Sara "we were so happy together!" She began sobbing "I'm sorry."
Sara smiled politely "that's alright…what time did you find you're husband?"

Heidi thought for a second before answering "12:30pm, I'd been grocery shopping and he was just lying there…"

"Thank you for you're co-operation Mrs Hall…you can go now" Heidi nodded and rose from the couch, Warrick seeing that the interview was done came over to join Sara "I don't believe her." She watched Heidi as a cop comforted her. "She said the cops thought it was an overdose but there's no evidence of that…no bottle, no loose tablets and we haven't released any information. Secondly she told me she'd been shopping but there's no bags and even if there was, if you had just found a loved one, dead, would you find the time to put away the groceries?"

Warrick shook his head in response "we just have to find out how he died and prove that she killed him."

*

"Jamie we found you're prints on the murder weapon, if you didn't kill Robert Scott, how did they get there?" Grissom asked as he watched closely for a reaction from his prime suspect.

Jamie shrugged and looked around nervously "I ran out when Tony and Robert were arguing."

"The evidence tells us otherwise."
"Jamie looked like he wanted to burst into tears "I…I…I didn't mean to, it was an accident!" he said quietly.

"What happened?" Grissom asked.

"Jamie looked up fearfully "he, he said he was gonna get me, I told Tony and he went to Robert and they argued…I wanted to leave but Robert pushed Tony and pulled out the knife. I ran over to him and he pushed me away…"

"You'll get you're turn" Robert sneered, he looked away from Jamie and concentrated on Tony, "I'm gonna kill you!"

Jamie lunged forward and they fought for the knife "you're not gonna hurt me again!" Jamie screamed, he clutched at the knife and backed away.

"What? You're going to kill me? You couldn't do that, you don't have the guts" Robert taunted. Jamie ran at Robert and pushed him back, he brought the knife down.

"I was scared of him, of what he'd do! I didn't mean to kill him!" Jamie began panicking.

Brass took him by the arm "lets go kid." He led Jamie Fielding out of the interrogation room. They'd found the real killer and Tony Thorpe was going to be free.

TBC