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3 Chapter Six
Once Grissom had calmed himself down enough he headed to his office to talk to Jade. He opened the door to find it empty. He frowned, then figured that they'd gone to the break room. He strides down the corridor and stops when he reaches the door. Jade is sitting next to Warrick and Greg on the sofa and they're laughing. Nick who's pouring coffee suddenly shouts out and jumps back. Grissom leans against the doorframe.
"Damn it! Oh, that's HOT!!"
Nick shouts turning and grabbing a nearby teacloth. The front of his shirt and pants are soaking. Jade, Greg and Warrick start to smirk.
"The cards must be smiling on me today!"
He says sarcastically as he wipes at his shirt.
"And I bet there's some laughing and pointing going on too!"
Jade says aside to Warrick and Greg, and then collapses in a small fit of giggles as Warrick and Greg try to conceal their laughter without success, causing Nick to glare at them. Once they'd calmed a little, Jade spoke.
"I'm sorry, Nick. But you really look like you've wet yourself!"
This sends all three into another fit of laughter at Nick's misfortune. Grissom smiles at the scene, then enters fully, getting noticed for the first time.
"Hey, Gris, tell your God-daughter to stop laughing at me, before I decide to get payback."
He aimed the second part to Jade in a glare. She stopped laughing straight away but he could still see her mouth twinging in the desperate attempt to compose herself.
"No can do Nick. You'll just have to wait for your bad luck to stop."
Grissom had heard about Nick's unlucky streak from Warrick the day before. It started with Nick locking his house keys in his house, running over a large nail and getting a puncture, tripping over just about every piece of furniture in the department and now he'd spilt coffee down him. Grissom could do nothing but laugh at him, and for a moment it felt good for him to laugh, and to see Jade laugh, seeing as he was about to give her some bad news.
Nick rolled his eyes and sighed.
"I'm going to get changed."
He said and stalked off.
Grissom watched him leave, smiling, then turned back to look at Jade, his face straightening up. He gave Greg a look.
"Uh, Greg, haven't you got something to be doing?"
Greg knew the look on his face. It said 'Move. Now.'
"Looks like it." He said standing. "See you later."
He said to no-one inparticular. Warrick and Jade both said bye. Grissom sat down in the place Greg had just vacated.
"How'd it go?"
Jade asked before he could say anything.
"He's going down for attempted murder. Brass'll see he gets the maximum."
Jade sighed, feeling relieved. Then she looked up again, another question in her eyes.
"What about Mr. Williams? Was it the guys partner?"
Grissom just looked at her for a moment, his face sad.
"What?"
"He didn't have a partner. He didn't even know about Mr. Williams."
Jade looked worried.
"So...what? You're saying there's someone still out there? And we have no clue as to who?"
The worry was evident in her eyes.
"We do know he's between 5'5'' and 5'8'' with size seven feet. That's something."
Warrick said, trying to give her some hope without success.
"It's still not enough though, is it."
She stated to Grissom. He looked at her, thinking. Then looked up at Warrick.
"Get Catherine, get back to the house and go over everything with a fine tooth comb – especially upstairs. Anything unusual is to be checked. Got me?"
"What about the case we're on at the moment?"
"Tell Nick to get Sam to help him. This case takes priority though. If you need help get Nick or Sam."
Warrick nodded and stood.
"What about you?"
"I'll be working from home. I need to get Jade back."
"What?"
He looked at her.
"You need to rest."
She gives him a stubborn look.
"He's right. You are looking kinda pale."
She rolls her eyes, knowing she's outnumbered and stands.
"See you later."
Warrick smiles at her. She gives him a smile back and he leaves.
*****
It's not long before he gets her home and has cooked her dinner. Once she'd finished she stood and grabbed their plates.
"You know they say that ice-cream cures all ills."
She said hinting.
"Yeah, temporarily."
He replied, not looking up from the magazine he was reading.
"Long enough for me." She opened the freezer. "And you don't have any."
She said hinting again. He looked up, smiled at her and stood.
"What flavour?"
"Surprise me!"
She smiled. He smiled back.
"I'll try not to be too long, okay?"
She nodded.
"Sure."
It wasn't long before he was back and they'd finished their bowls of cookie dough ice-cream. Then she just sat there listening to music and watching Grissom sitting at the table pouring over the information. Jade yawned, then stood.
"I'm going to bed, goodnight Gil."
Grissom looked up.
"Goodnight hon. Sleep well."
"Mmhm."
Grissom watched her go, smiling to himself at how resilient she seemed.
*****
Cold. Pain. Can't breathe.
Her legs turned to jelly and she staggered back. Her legs gave and she dropped to her knees, cold sweat on her brow as she tried to take in air.
She shook from fear, the blade of the knife filling her view. She felt a hot breath by her ear and against her neck but all she could see was the knife and her blood along the blade.
"See that tunnel of white light yet? You will. Give my regards to St. Peter."
Suddenly she was spinning. She was spinning down a long tunnel – heading for the darkness at the end. Light flashed by, making her dizzy. Fear overcame her mind, screaming in her ears. She kept reaching out but there was nothing there for her to grab. She screamed out, hoping someone would help her. The scream reverberated off the imaginary walls and echoed around her.
She jolted –
– and sat bolt upright. The blanket's clung to her form the cold sweat and she leaned forwards, resting her head in her hands, trying to calm herself down. Suddenly the door opened and the light was turned on. Jade looked up to see Grissom standing there wearing sweat pants and a white T-shirt, his hair was a bit ruffled and he'd obviously just woken.
"You okay? You screamed."
He asked, the scream unmistakably had scared the life out of him.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"You sure? You, uh, wanna talk about it?"
The worry evident. She shook her head.
"It was just a bad dream."
"…okay. But you know I'm just down the corridor if you need me, right?"
"Yeah, thanks."
"Goodnight."
He said, obviously reluctant to go. He pulled the door closed. She laid back down and sighed.
*****
Light shone through her eyelids but she couldn't be asked to open them. She was too comfortable and warm. Reluctantly she opened them slowly, waiting for her eyes to adjust to the bright light. She looked up at the clock. It was 10.30am. She couldn't believe she had slept so late and she sat up, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Getting up, she has a shower and gets dressed. She enters the kitchen area to see Grissom pouring fresh orange juice into a glass.
"Morning."
"Oh hey. I was just gonna bring this into you, I know how much you like fresh orange juice, I've made you some toast as well."
He said gesturing to the plate on the side. She smiled at the look on his face. He could look so naïve sometimes, almost childlike in his actions – trying to please people by doing nice things.
"Thank you."
He gestured to the table and he followed her over with the plate of toast and glass of orange and placed them infront of her. Then he sat down beside her with his own mug of coffee and read the paper. She took a bite of the toast and watched him as he read. She smiled to herself. For the first time since her parents died, she felt that she was a part of a family – even if it was just Grissom and her. She'd never spent one moment sitting at a table eating with her aunt and uncle. He looked up, feeling her eyes upon him, smiled and went back to reading. She smiled back at him.
Most of the day was spent doing nothing. Grissom occupied himself by studying his newly acquired bugs and various experiments he had going on in his fridge while Jade tried to pass the time away by watching the TV, reading and listening to music while she tried to get her mind on studying. By four o'clock she was as bored as anything. She watched Grissom as he noted down reactions from one of his many experiments of the day.
"I'm bored. Can't I just go out for a little while?"
Looking over the rim of his glasses he gave her a look. He'd obviously heard that question quite a few times that day.
"You heard what the doctors said, you need to rest. And that nurse has told you the same thing. I'd love to let you go out but I can't, you really do need the rest – why don't you go and take a nice relaxing bath?"
"I did that this morning. How about I invite my friend over here?"
Grissom once again looked up. He seemed to be pondering the question, then he nodded.
"Go ahead – but only for a short while."
She stood, quite quickly and headed for the phone smiling.
"Thanks."
It wasn't long before the doorbell rang.
"That'll be Zoe`."
She said getting up from the stool by the kitchen counter. She answered the door and Grissom heard a girls voice asking her how she was – basic girl chit-chat he thought to himself.
"Hey Gil, this is Zoe`, Zoe` this is my uncle Gil Grissom."
They'd headed over to him and he stood to shake her hand and greet her when he got his first look at her. For a moment he just stared over the rim of his glasses, then slowly he took them off, still staring. She definitely wasn't what he'd expected. Firstly she was dressed all in black – black bell bottom corduroys, black top and a long black leather coat. She had long black hair with red streaks throughout and earrings adorned her ears, nose, eyebrow and lip and Grissom was sure she had other body parts pierced.
She was smiling at him and had her hand held out, jewellery covered her wrist and fingers.
"It's nice to meet you, Jade speaks of you often."
She sounded normal for her appearance, Grissom thought.
"Gil!"
Jade said almost through gritted teeth. He jolted just slightly and found his voice.
"It's uh, nice to meet you too."
"We're gonna be in my room for a bit okay?"
Jade said and gestured down the hall to Zoe`. Grissom watched them walk away, Jade turning around and giving him a look as if to say *what the hell was that?!* Then they'd disappeared around the corner.
Grissom stood there for a moment, shook his head and went back to work. He saw Jade just once in the two hours that Zoe` was there and that was to answer the door when the pizza man came. She offered Gil some and he declined saying that once that week was enough.
Around six o'clock Catherine had been round and had given Grissom all the evidence they had gathered and he was once again poring over it. He heard Jade say good-bye to Zoe` and looked up and she came back into the living area.
"So, have a good time?"
"Yeah, I don't get to see enough of her so it was great to just sit there and chat."
"So uh, what does Zoe` um…do?"
Jade smiled, almost hearing Grissom's mind going through a list of things she could be.
"What do you think she does?"
"Uh…a groupie?"
He questions almost in a joking way, but also to say that he's not sure about her. Jade gave him a stern look, then answered him.
"She's just got back from Cambridge for the summer. She's studying medicine."
His eyes widened and he just stood there for a moment, trying to take in that the girl he had seem was actually very intelligent. Jade laughed at him.
"What's that well known phrase? Don't judge a book by it's cover?"
Grissom half smiled and nodded.
"Want a coffee?"
Jade asked moving away.
"Sure, thanks."
She headed over into the kitchen and puts the kettle on. It's not long before she's carrying a mug of steaming coffee back over to the table. He sits up from studying the photos.
"Thanks."
He says as he takes it off her. She looks down at the photo on top of the pile as he takes a sip. The photo was of Mr. Williams bedroom. There was white tape around where Mr. Williams had obviously been lying next to the bed. The room was spotless, the bed was made, the magazines next to the vase of flowers on the bedside table were neatly arranged. She stared at the flowers. They were yellow lilies and they had a red ribbon tied around them. Her forehead creased in confusion.
"Flowers?"
Grissom looked up at her.
"What?"
"There are flowers."
She stated.
"Yes."
She looked away from the photo and to Grissom.
"Mr. Williams never kept flowers – he's allergic to pollen if he's around it too long – why do you think he's gardens full of veg and non blooming plants."
Grissom looks almost as confused as her for a split second then suddenly he looks as giddy as a school boy and he jumps up from the chair and gives her a kiss on the forehead.
"Thank you!"
Turning, he quickly gathers up all the papers and photos on the table and throws them into his bag.
"I've got to get to work – I'll be back as soon as I can. You'll be all right?"
"Yes, go. I'll be fine. Besides he's behind bars it's not as if he can hurt me now."
"I'll be as quick as I can."
And with that he was gone.
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3 Chapter Six
Once Grissom had calmed himself down enough he headed to his office to talk to Jade. He opened the door to find it empty. He frowned, then figured that they'd gone to the break room. He strides down the corridor and stops when he reaches the door. Jade is sitting next to Warrick and Greg on the sofa and they're laughing. Nick who's pouring coffee suddenly shouts out and jumps back. Grissom leans against the doorframe.
"Damn it! Oh, that's HOT!!"
Nick shouts turning and grabbing a nearby teacloth. The front of his shirt and pants are soaking. Jade, Greg and Warrick start to smirk.
"The cards must be smiling on me today!"
He says sarcastically as he wipes at his shirt.
"And I bet there's some laughing and pointing going on too!"
Jade says aside to Warrick and Greg, and then collapses in a small fit of giggles as Warrick and Greg try to conceal their laughter without success, causing Nick to glare at them. Once they'd calmed a little, Jade spoke.
"I'm sorry, Nick. But you really look like you've wet yourself!"
This sends all three into another fit of laughter at Nick's misfortune. Grissom smiles at the scene, then enters fully, getting noticed for the first time.
"Hey, Gris, tell your God-daughter to stop laughing at me, before I decide to get payback."
He aimed the second part to Jade in a glare. She stopped laughing straight away but he could still see her mouth twinging in the desperate attempt to compose herself.
"No can do Nick. You'll just have to wait for your bad luck to stop."
Grissom had heard about Nick's unlucky streak from Warrick the day before. It started with Nick locking his house keys in his house, running over a large nail and getting a puncture, tripping over just about every piece of furniture in the department and now he'd spilt coffee down him. Grissom could do nothing but laugh at him, and for a moment it felt good for him to laugh, and to see Jade laugh, seeing as he was about to give her some bad news.
Nick rolled his eyes and sighed.
"I'm going to get changed."
He said and stalked off.
Grissom watched him leave, smiling, then turned back to look at Jade, his face straightening up. He gave Greg a look.
"Uh, Greg, haven't you got something to be doing?"
Greg knew the look on his face. It said 'Move. Now.'
"Looks like it." He said standing. "See you later."
He said to no-one inparticular. Warrick and Jade both said bye. Grissom sat down in the place Greg had just vacated.
"How'd it go?"
Jade asked before he could say anything.
"He's going down for attempted murder. Brass'll see he gets the maximum."
Jade sighed, feeling relieved. Then she looked up again, another question in her eyes.
"What about Mr. Williams? Was it the guys partner?"
Grissom just looked at her for a moment, his face sad.
"What?"
"He didn't have a partner. He didn't even know about Mr. Williams."
Jade looked worried.
"So...what? You're saying there's someone still out there? And we have no clue as to who?"
The worry was evident in her eyes.
"We do know he's between 5'5'' and 5'8'' with size seven feet. That's something."
Warrick said, trying to give her some hope without success.
"It's still not enough though, is it."
She stated to Grissom. He looked at her, thinking. Then looked up at Warrick.
"Get Catherine, get back to the house and go over everything with a fine tooth comb – especially upstairs. Anything unusual is to be checked. Got me?"
"What about the case we're on at the moment?"
"Tell Nick to get Sam to help him. This case takes priority though. If you need help get Nick or Sam."
Warrick nodded and stood.
"What about you?"
"I'll be working from home. I need to get Jade back."
"What?"
He looked at her.
"You need to rest."
She gives him a stubborn look.
"He's right. You are looking kinda pale."
She rolls her eyes, knowing she's outnumbered and stands.
"See you later."
Warrick smiles at her. She gives him a smile back and he leaves.
*****
It's not long before he gets her home and has cooked her dinner. Once she'd finished she stood and grabbed their plates.
"You know they say that ice-cream cures all ills."
She said hinting.
"Yeah, temporarily."
He replied, not looking up from the magazine he was reading.
"Long enough for me." She opened the freezer. "And you don't have any."
She said hinting again. He looked up, smiled at her and stood.
"What flavour?"
"Surprise me!"
She smiled. He smiled back.
"I'll try not to be too long, okay?"
She nodded.
"Sure."
It wasn't long before he was back and they'd finished their bowls of cookie dough ice-cream. Then she just sat there listening to music and watching Grissom sitting at the table pouring over the information. Jade yawned, then stood.
"I'm going to bed, goodnight Gil."
Grissom looked up.
"Goodnight hon. Sleep well."
"Mmhm."
Grissom watched her go, smiling to himself at how resilient she seemed.
*****
Cold. Pain. Can't breathe.
Her legs turned to jelly and she staggered back. Her legs gave and she dropped to her knees, cold sweat on her brow as she tried to take in air.
She shook from fear, the blade of the knife filling her view. She felt a hot breath by her ear and against her neck but all she could see was the knife and her blood along the blade.
"See that tunnel of white light yet? You will. Give my regards to St. Peter."
Suddenly she was spinning. She was spinning down a long tunnel – heading for the darkness at the end. Light flashed by, making her dizzy. Fear overcame her mind, screaming in her ears. She kept reaching out but there was nothing there for her to grab. She screamed out, hoping someone would help her. The scream reverberated off the imaginary walls and echoed around her.
She jolted –
– and sat bolt upright. The blanket's clung to her form the cold sweat and she leaned forwards, resting her head in her hands, trying to calm herself down. Suddenly the door opened and the light was turned on. Jade looked up to see Grissom standing there wearing sweat pants and a white T-shirt, his hair was a bit ruffled and he'd obviously just woken.
"You okay? You screamed."
He asked, the scream unmistakably had scared the life out of him.
"Yeah, I'm fine."
"You sure? You, uh, wanna talk about it?"
The worry evident. She shook her head.
"It was just a bad dream."
"…okay. But you know I'm just down the corridor if you need me, right?"
"Yeah, thanks."
"Goodnight."
He said, obviously reluctant to go. He pulled the door closed. She laid back down and sighed.
*****
Light shone through her eyelids but she couldn't be asked to open them. She was too comfortable and warm. Reluctantly she opened them slowly, waiting for her eyes to adjust to the bright light. She looked up at the clock. It was 10.30am. She couldn't believe she had slept so late and she sat up, rubbing the sleep out of her eyes. Getting up, she has a shower and gets dressed. She enters the kitchen area to see Grissom pouring fresh orange juice into a glass.
"Morning."
"Oh hey. I was just gonna bring this into you, I know how much you like fresh orange juice, I've made you some toast as well."
He said gesturing to the plate on the side. She smiled at the look on his face. He could look so naïve sometimes, almost childlike in his actions – trying to please people by doing nice things.
"Thank you."
He gestured to the table and he followed her over with the plate of toast and glass of orange and placed them infront of her. Then he sat down beside her with his own mug of coffee and read the paper. She took a bite of the toast and watched him as he read. She smiled to herself. For the first time since her parents died, she felt that she was a part of a family – even if it was just Grissom and her. She'd never spent one moment sitting at a table eating with her aunt and uncle. He looked up, feeling her eyes upon him, smiled and went back to reading. She smiled back at him.
Most of the day was spent doing nothing. Grissom occupied himself by studying his newly acquired bugs and various experiments he had going on in his fridge while Jade tried to pass the time away by watching the TV, reading and listening to music while she tried to get her mind on studying. By four o'clock she was as bored as anything. She watched Grissom as he noted down reactions from one of his many experiments of the day.
"I'm bored. Can't I just go out for a little while?"
Looking over the rim of his glasses he gave her a look. He'd obviously heard that question quite a few times that day.
"You heard what the doctors said, you need to rest. And that nurse has told you the same thing. I'd love to let you go out but I can't, you really do need the rest – why don't you go and take a nice relaxing bath?"
"I did that this morning. How about I invite my friend over here?"
Grissom once again looked up. He seemed to be pondering the question, then he nodded.
"Go ahead – but only for a short while."
She stood, quite quickly and headed for the phone smiling.
"Thanks."
It wasn't long before the doorbell rang.
"That'll be Zoe`."
She said getting up from the stool by the kitchen counter. She answered the door and Grissom heard a girls voice asking her how she was – basic girl chit-chat he thought to himself.
"Hey Gil, this is Zoe`, Zoe` this is my uncle Gil Grissom."
They'd headed over to him and he stood to shake her hand and greet her when he got his first look at her. For a moment he just stared over the rim of his glasses, then slowly he took them off, still staring. She definitely wasn't what he'd expected. Firstly she was dressed all in black – black bell bottom corduroys, black top and a long black leather coat. She had long black hair with red streaks throughout and earrings adorned her ears, nose, eyebrow and lip and Grissom was sure she had other body parts pierced.
She was smiling at him and had her hand held out, jewellery covered her wrist and fingers.
"It's nice to meet you, Jade speaks of you often."
She sounded normal for her appearance, Grissom thought.
"Gil!"
Jade said almost through gritted teeth. He jolted just slightly and found his voice.
"It's uh, nice to meet you too."
"We're gonna be in my room for a bit okay?"
Jade said and gestured down the hall to Zoe`. Grissom watched them walk away, Jade turning around and giving him a look as if to say *what the hell was that?!* Then they'd disappeared around the corner.
Grissom stood there for a moment, shook his head and went back to work. He saw Jade just once in the two hours that Zoe` was there and that was to answer the door when the pizza man came. She offered Gil some and he declined saying that once that week was enough.
Around six o'clock Catherine had been round and had given Grissom all the evidence they had gathered and he was once again poring over it. He heard Jade say good-bye to Zoe` and looked up and she came back into the living area.
"So, have a good time?"
"Yeah, I don't get to see enough of her so it was great to just sit there and chat."
"So uh, what does Zoe` um…do?"
Jade smiled, almost hearing Grissom's mind going through a list of things she could be.
"What do you think she does?"
"Uh…a groupie?"
He questions almost in a joking way, but also to say that he's not sure about her. Jade gave him a stern look, then answered him.
"She's just got back from Cambridge for the summer. She's studying medicine."
His eyes widened and he just stood there for a moment, trying to take in that the girl he had seem was actually very intelligent. Jade laughed at him.
"What's that well known phrase? Don't judge a book by it's cover?"
Grissom half smiled and nodded.
"Want a coffee?"
Jade asked moving away.
"Sure, thanks."
She headed over into the kitchen and puts the kettle on. It's not long before she's carrying a mug of steaming coffee back over to the table. He sits up from studying the photos.
"Thanks."
He says as he takes it off her. She looks down at the photo on top of the pile as he takes a sip. The photo was of Mr. Williams bedroom. There was white tape around where Mr. Williams had obviously been lying next to the bed. The room was spotless, the bed was made, the magazines next to the vase of flowers on the bedside table were neatly arranged. She stared at the flowers. They were yellow lilies and they had a red ribbon tied around them. Her forehead creased in confusion.
"Flowers?"
Grissom looked up at her.
"What?"
"There are flowers."
She stated.
"Yes."
She looked away from the photo and to Grissom.
"Mr. Williams never kept flowers – he's allergic to pollen if he's around it too long – why do you think he's gardens full of veg and non blooming plants."
Grissom looks almost as confused as her for a split second then suddenly he looks as giddy as a school boy and he jumps up from the chair and gives her a kiss on the forehead.
"Thank you!"
Turning, he quickly gathers up all the papers and photos on the table and throws them into his bag.
"I've got to get to work – I'll be back as soon as I can. You'll be all right?"
"Yes, go. I'll be fine. Besides he's behind bars it's not as if he can hurt me now."
"I'll be as quick as I can."
And with that he was gone.
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