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Chapter 4

We arrived at the Elliots house. A simple two story house, white with blue shutters. Nick and I got out of the car and walked over to Brass.

'16 year old girl found in her closet name Anna Elliot. Her room is upstairs and is the last door on the right.' I nodded.

Nick and I walked up the stairs and saw pictures hanging on the wall. The first picture was a girl at what looked at age two. Then there was another girl in the other pictures. The two girls were in all of the pictures until what looked like the other girl was thirteen. Then it was just the first girl again.

'Like what?' Nick asked me.

'Huh?'

'What's something that I don't know about you?'

I opened the door to Anna's room. The room was pink with medals and trophies all over the room. I walked over to her desk and saw Herbal Essences blonde hair dye. There was also picture frames of her and her friends.

'Looks like a girl scouts room.' Nick mumbled.

'Yeah.' I went over to her closet and saw Anna.

Nick sneaked up behind me, 'Looks kind of water logged.' He put his arms around my waist. Anna's face was pale white and her hair was over her eyes. MY eyes traveled down to her stomach and it was cut open and her insides were out and her outsides were in.

'Nick why is she wet?'

'I don't know.' I bent down and looked at the surrounding area.

'The floors not wet, so she wasn't dragged to the closet. Most likely nicely placed.'

Nick and I swept the we found nothing. The place was clean, no hair. No blood and no problem besides the fact that Anna was dead in the closet.

'I'm going to go out back to the lab and look at this stuff more. You can question the family.' Nick told me.

'Ok call me if you find anything.' I watched Nick leave in his Tahoe. I went down stairs and started to question Anna's mother.

'Anna was such a nice girl. I do not know who could have killed her.' Said the women in the orange dress.

'I'm sure she was. But do you know anyone that acted different around her?'

'Only her sister, but they have been fighting since they were kids.'

'Could I talk to her?'

I sat down inside a tent in the back yard where Anna's sister was. Anna's sisters name was Madison or Maddie. I walked into the tent and was surrounded by black candles in a circle with Maddie sitting in the middle. Everything was black and dark except for the light from the candles in the circle. It was a peaceful smelling smell, a smell that I have never smelled before.

'I saw you coming. Sit down.' She gestured her hand to the floor outside the circle, her eyes still shut.

'Are you Maddie?' I asked her carefully.

'No, I am River. Maddie died three years ago, mother and father did not like it very much though.'

'River? Do you know what happened with your sister?'

'Yes but only bits and pieces. I know that she's not dead, she ran off with her boyfriend. In a couple days he will be called in as a run away.'

'How do you know this?' I touched her arm. River's eyes opened revealing bright purple eyes.

'You've never met a witch before, I can tell. It's ok though, my parents think I'm a freak. But Blaze and Sky never did. It's no surprise to me that you think I'm weird too.'

'So your sister knew?'

'Yes, she told me that I should stop and make everyone happy. But she still respected me besides our differences. I told her that it wasn't the point if I made everyone else happy, but as long as I'm happy with myself then, what's the point?'

'Point of what?'

'Living.' She stepped outside of the circle and the candles all went out in a domino effect. She lit another candle. 'Your smoke?'

'No.'

'It's hell of a lot better then what your doing to yourself.' He lit a cigarette and took a puff.

'Do what?' I tried to act calm.

'Don't act like you don't know. Your hair is brown use to be thicker, it's getting thinner. When you touched my arm I noticed that you have a thin layer of hair that is more thicker then your average duck. Your elbow bones stick out, and most importantly I can see it in your eyes.' She got inches from my face. 'Your doing it for him.' She blew a ring of smoke in my face.

'You notice things very closely, your very observant.'

'So I've been told.' She sat back down and looked at me.

'Why do you think that Anna ran away?'

'Blaze ran with Sky because mother and father of both sides wouldn't like it if they knew what they were doing.'

'What's their plan?'

'To get married.'

'Oh. So your-' My phone went off. 'Sidle *pause* ok *pause* ok, but Nick my cars not here, pick me up? *pause* thanks Nick.' I hung up the phone. 'I have to go.'

'I know.' I got up and went over to the tent flap. River went and hid in the shadows hiding herself from the sun beams. 'He's good to you, don't take him for granite Sara.' I went out of the tent and went back to my Tahoe. huh I turned on the radio.

''m just a simple girl

In a high tech digital world

I really try to understand

All the powers that rule this land

They say Miss J's big butt is boss

Kate Moss can't find a job

In a world of post modern fad

What was good now is bad

It's not hard to understand

Just follow this simple plan

Follow your heart

Your intuition

It will lead you in the right direction

Let go of your mind

Your Intuition

It's easy to find

Just follow your heart baby

You look at me

but you're not quite sure

Am I it or could you get more?

You learn cool from magazines

You learn love from Charlie Sheen

If you want me let me know

I promise I won't say no

Follow your heart

Your intuition

It will lead you in the right direction

Let go of your mind

Your Intuition

It's easy to find

Just follow your heart baby

You got something that you want me to sell

Sell your sin. Just cash in.

You got something that you want me to tell

You'll love me. Wait and see.

If you want me

Don't play games

I promise

it won't be in vain

Uh-uh-uh' I pulled up to the crime lab and went to go find Nick.

'Sara take a look at this.' Nick moved over and I looked into the microscope. 'On the left is a DNA sample of Anna Elliot, on the right is a DNA sample from the body that we found in her room.' I looked at them, they were different. But I already knew that. 'It's not Anna Elliot that died.'

'I already knew that Nick.'

'How could you?'

'I talked to her sister Madison Elliot AKA River. She is believed to be a witch and can see things that other people do not.'

'What did she tell you?'

'That Anna ran away with her boyfriend Sky, I think that's his name at least. They ran away because each others families have been fighting for years. They wanted to get married, so they ran off together.'

'Do you really think that we should trust her though?'

'Yes she knew that Anna wasn't dead in her closet.'

'Is that all she told you?'

'Yes.' I lied.

'Alright so what did the mother and father say?'

'That Anna was everyone's friend and everyone loved her and all that good stuff.'

'So now we have to identify the body.'

'Has the body been looked at more closely?'

'No, he's looking at Grissom's dead guy.'

'So what do you want to do until then?' I looked up at him and held onto his jacket.

'Go to the break room, have some coffee, and then-' I cuddle up next to him. 'Your feeling better.'

'Only because your here. You are a wonderful doctor, Nick.'

'Guess I am pretty good.' Nick and I walked into the break room. He poured himself and me a cup of coffee. I sat down at the couch. 'So figured out what was wrong with you earlier?'

'I just needed some food in my system. I was a little tipsy too.' I sipped at my coffee.

'Why did you get drunk though?' He cupped his hands around his coffee mug.

'Because of what happened a few days ago. After the lab blew exploded I haven't been able to sleep like I use to.'

'Anyway I could help?'

'No, not really it's just something that I have to figure out on my own.' I got closer to Nick and put my head onto his shoulder, I closed my eyes. He put his head on mine, and we sat there, enjoying each others presence. Warrick walked into the break room.

'HI ummmm Nick, Sara.' I sat back up.

'Hey Warrick.' Nick said.

'Ummmm Grissom wants to see us all.' Warrick still looked confused.

'Ok.' We all walked and met up with Grissom and Catherine with two bodies. The bodies were two girls, one was "Anna" and the other one I haven't seen before.

'Sara, Nick what have you found out about your body?' Grissom asked us.

'Well Anna Elliot was found dead in her closet. She was wet and her insides were out. We found no evidence in the room.' Nick explained.

'When I questioned Anna's sister she told me that Anna was not dead. She called her Blaze but I knew who she meant, Anna. She changes the names of people for some reason. Anyways she and her boyfriend Sky ran off. They were to get married.' I looked at Nick, 'When Nick called me, I came back and he told me that Anna's DNA did not match the vics DNA.'

'So River was right.'

'Do you know who this is then?' Catherine said pointing to the body. I shook my head no.

'Why did you bring us here Gris?' Nick asked.

'This body was found in the lake with a bottle of champagne shoved threw her neck. The girl had no identification on her, all she had was a wedding ring on. The person who called it in, we don't know. Then when I came and saw your body, I found out that they only died within hours of each other. I ran a DNA test. This is Anna Elliot.' Grissom stood over his body.