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Another Chance

Chapter Four

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Heidi Hall, it turned out was a pretty good actress, better than Sara and Warrick had first thought, they'd gotten a warrant for the needles and shown it to her, as if on cue tears poured out of her eyes and trailed down her bronzed face. "Ho…how could you th…think I'd do something so, so…atrocious!" her eyes blazed, a truly wonderful and most believable performance.

"She should be at Juilliard" Warrick whispered to Sara as Heidi walked slowly and in a dazed fashion, to the couch.

"Maybe she is and that's another of her secrets, what's one more?" They followed Heidi and stood in front of her, she looked up at them, her face tear stained "we're just looking at this from every possible angle" Sara said with a fake smile.

Heidi nodded "I understand, I'll get the syringes" she left the room and the two CSI's and Brass heard her walking up the stairs.

"If I didn't know the truth about her, I'd believe her" Brass said as he watched Warrick and Sara take another quick look around the living room.

Heidi came back down the stairs a few minutes later she handed a small case containing the syringes, to Warrick, she batted her eye lashes at him and smiled "this is everything Mr Brown, if I can be of anymore help just call me."
They thanked her and exited the house "if we hadn't have been in there she'd have given you her number" Sara told him.

"Then probably the keys to the house" Brass added.

"And in a few months time you'd be husband number five" Sara smirked as he shivered at the thought.

"Dead husband number five…I'm glad I know what she is" he turned back to the house "if walls could talk."

"If these walls could talk the stories the tales would be the basis for the next Hollywood thriller" Sara and Warrick nodded at that remark, Heidi watched them from the front window and when they saw her she waved like she was saying goodbye to friends…or potential victims.

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Greg didn't hear Warrick and Sara, he was too busy listening to some music that could be heard throughout the room despite the fact Greg was wearing headphones, he waved his hands above his head like he was at a concert. Warrick took one of the earphones away from his ear "Hey!" he shouted.

Greg looked like he was about to have a heart attack "you don't have to shout I can hear you perfectly well."

"Then why didn't you hear us shouting?"

"I was just…ignoring you" he defended himself.

"Well now that we have you're attention…" Sara said "do you have something for us."

"I have something, but, it isn't what you want to hear…I found trace amounts of…insulin, in the needles" he waited for their reactions and they came at the same time.

"What!" Someone who was passing by stopped walking at their loud exclamation, at the look he got from the two annoyed CSI's, he hurried on his way.

"This can't be right" Sara objected.

"I knew you'd say that, so I checked again…"
"And?" Warrick asked with a glimmer of hope.

"Same result…sorry."

"There has to be something…that needle hasn't been dusted for prints yet, has it?" Sara asked.

"No…of course, she could have switched syringes."

"Wouldn't her prints be on them anyway?" Greg asked.

"She said she doesn't touch them and when she gave them to us they were in their case" Sara told him.

Fifteen minutes later they had their answer, Heidi Hall had handled the syringes that she claimed she hadn't touched "this doesn't prove murder" Warrick said, "it should be enough to get a warrant to search the house again though."

"She almost got away again."

"She's never had us on her tail before though" Warrick said with a smile.

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Heidi smiled brightly when she answered the door; her smile soon faded though when she found out the reason for their visit…her tears began again.

"Did you have to practice crying or does it just come naturally for you" Brass asked as he took the warrant from her, she didn't reply and instead walked into the living room…her tears had magically disappeared. It didn't take long for them to find the other syringe, she may have been imaginative in the lying department but when it came to hiding evidence she simply hid things under the bed. "I know it isn't as exotic travelling to England, New Zealand, Australia or The Bahamas but you're little trip to the police station should be just as fun…you're stay will be a lot longer too" Brass smirked.

"I…I didn't do anything" Mrs Hall said meekly, her acting wasn't nearly as believable as before.

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Mrs Heidi Hall was buried under a mountain of evidence and no amount of lying was going to save her, her fingerprints were found on the syringe that her husband had used, as well as small amounts of strychnine inside. Once they'd told her she was under arrest she began telling the truth, about her last husband's murder at least. They couldn't pin the others on her…that would change though with a few calls to the other police departments that had handled the other cases concerning Mrs Hall, now they knew what to look for.

Grissom walked over to Sara and Warrick as she watched Mrs Hall being led away, she turned to look at them and gave them a murderous stare "if looks could kill…" Warrick started.

"We'd be fine…she'd rather use poison" Sara finished.

"God work on the Hall case" Grissom congratulated them "Sara, can I talk to you for a minute?"

"I gotta be somewhere" Warrick said "see you later" he left his two colleagues alone in the corridor.

"Yeah, you wanted to tell me something earlier," said Sara remembering they're previous conversation "you said I could help you with something."

"Actually…its more what I can do for you." They were interrupted by someone shouting at them down the corridor "what's he doing here? Charges have been dropped again him" Grissom enquired as Tony Thorpe was led to the cells. Sara smirked "What's going on here?"

"He's under arrest."

"But he didn't kill that kid" Grissom followed Sara as she walked over to join Brass and the extremely angry Tony Thorpe.

"What the fuck is going on!"

"You're under arrest for the murder of Pamela Adler" Sara said as her smile grew bigger. Grissom gave her a quizzical look "She died an hour ago" she told Grissom sadly "I guess she'd rather have died than let you kill someone else."

"You can't do this bitch!"

"I am doing this…you remember what we told you, right? If she dies within a year and a day of the crime then it's murder. Four more days and you'd have gotten away with it" Sara couldn't help but gloat, Thorpe struggled but he wasn't going to escape.

Brass led him away "two convictions in one day, I'm impressed" Grissom was proud of her.

"I guess her need for justice overcame her will to live…so, what did you want me for?"

"You're going on vacation" she opened her mouth to protest but Grissom put up his hand to silence her, he needed to say this or he wouldn't say it at all. "I knew you wouldn't accept my offer so I've all ready got the tickets so you can't object…"

"Tickets?"

"And just in case you did insist you can't go, I have left Catherine in charge so I can go on vacation too…I will personally escort you to the airport. And so you can't get off the plane at the last minute…which you would try to do if someone wasn't there to stop you, I am going to chaperone you." He stopped for a breath "Then we're going to book into a hotel…and I'm going to take you to dinner" he finished and looked at her to see her reaction. "You said that I told you to get a life…and I want you to…" unsaid words hung in the air.

With me

Sara looked at him.

With Grissom

He wants me

Say yes

I can't speak

Nod your head

Say something!

Do something!

He's leaving…

He thinks I don't want to

Speak God damn it!

Where did he go?

Sara looked around the corridor, the sound of fading footsteps breaking out of her thoughts.

He left

I waited too long

A door was still swinging on its hinges, he'd gone to the car park, she ran down the corridor and flung open the door, Grissom heard and turned around, her heart beat wildly in her chest "where are we going?"

The End

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A/N - Thank you to Crime Scene Investigator and Jane Doe for reviewing, and to those who I hope will review this chapter, thanks for reading.

A/N 2 - The stuff about Strychnine is true and I hope I've got everything about it correct.