***Sorry guys.... I have been bogged down since Christmas on. My family came in, and I had to make the nice appearance everywhere. And then hell...er, um, school started back up again, and I have to take 3 semester finals this week. I've already done one, and made a 92, the second highest score out of all of the classes!!!! But anyways, here we go again with Liz***





Liz woke up, momentarily confused, but the events leading up to her ending up in the path lab came back to her after a few seconds. She stood up, stretched and folded the sheet that had covered her. She looked around and saw Amanda at her desk, working. Amanda looked up at the movement and smiled.

"Hey sleeping beauty," she said, laughing.

"Hey Amanda. How long have I been asleep?" Liz asked.

"Oh, about 2 hours."

"Which explains the crick in my neck," she said, massaging at her neck.

"I told Mark I'd call him when you woke up. He's going to take you back to the beach house."

"Ok. Oh, what are you working on?"

"Autopsy report," she said as she gestured to the table in the middle of the room. A sheet covered the prone form of a body.

"May I?" Liz asked.

"Sure, I guess," Amanda said as she pulled the sheet to the man's waist.

"Liz noticed the redness of this cheeks. "Carbon Monoxide poisoning?"

"Yeah! How did you know?"

"I had a bad case last year. A bird decided to build a next in the chimney. My face was very, very red. The worst part was the hypobaric chamber. I absolutely bABHOREb small spaced," Liz said, shuddering at the memory. She covered the deceased up as Amanda called Mark.

"Yeah, she's up...Path Lab...Ok, I'll see you in a few...bye," she said as she hung up the phone. "Mark's on his way." They sat in companiable silence for a few minutes until mark roller-skated into the path lab. Mark came in as Liz burst out laughing.

"That i laugh i is b SO b cool," she said, pointing to the skates.

"It saves time," Mark said, chuckling.

"Ingenious," she said, seriously at first, but then she burst out laughing again.

Mark sat down and changed out of his skates into a pair of tennis shoes. "You ready?" he asked Liz.

"Yeah. Let's go," she said.