Haha…. yah, I also have a tendency to look over stupid mistakes when I do a proof read. Whoops…. [You're my lifesaver Blaze…:-)]
This is kinda short, but I'm just getting warmed up….
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Grissom stood outside the autopsy room waiting for Doc to be ready. His migraine had finally gone away, but he knew as soon as Sara came bursting into the lab it would be back. She had that strange effect on him for some reason. Sara could calm him down and then instantly fire him up once again.
Doc Robbins opened the door to summon Grissom in, and Catherine came bounding down the hall.
"What?" Grissom asked knowing that she wanted something.
Catherine hesitated for a moment, "Jenny wants to watch the autopsy. I know, I know, I tried to talk her out of it, but she insists that she can handle it."
Grissom was a little taken aback at this comment. An incident was clear in his mind of someone else and their first autopsy. He shuddered at the though of Holly's experience, and then of course because of the memory of her. "I don't think this is a good idea." He said clearly to Catherine.
"I can take it." Jenny called from behind the corner of the hallway. She stuck her head out and smiled. "Trust me, I think I've seen worse."
Grissom just shrugged his shoulders, and Jenny took this as a "yes" and came bounding down the hallway.
Josh was already lying on the table and Grissom was looking at him when she opened the door and tiptoed in. the only thing the two men in there could do was hope that this didn't affect her emotionally because she had known him. And also of course because this was her first autopsy.
"This guy was certainly an interesting fellow." Doc said to Grissom. "Very fit, and not just because of the endorsements in his system."
"He was on drugs?" Grissom questioned. " I thought that was illegal for athletes to use."
"It is. Don't you remember all the to do stuff about that at the Olympics? I ran him through tox and it came back positive."
Grissom looked at Jenny who was standing there next to him talking everything in. "Oh, if someone knew he was on drugs he would be kicked off the team so quick his head would spin. Sure, people use it all the time though. There was a whole thing about the swim team and using 'boosters' a while back. They were all suspended."
"So, if he was on drugs, maybe the rest of the team was on them also. Do you think Mr. Davids knows about this?" Grissom asked
"I wouldn't be surprised if Davids wasn't the one getting them for his team." Jenny said dryly. "All college sports seem to be corrupted nowadays."
"We're going to need to talk to the coach again."
"Don't worry, I can get you in." Jenny said reassuringly.
"Wait Grissom, I'm not done." Doc said looking at Grissom who seemed to be about ready to head back out to the lab. "That wasn't the worst part about this guy. I sent some more of that white power stuff off to Greg for analysis. There were a few hairs stuck in his uniform that I sent off too…."
"Wait, Doc, what killed him?" Grissom suddenly asked.
"Loss of blood." Doc replied with a heavy sigh.
"Loss of blood?" Grissom replied. "How could he have lost any blood? What, was that football spiked or something?" he then added in a sarcastic tone.
Doc leaned forward and pulled the cloth over the bottom part of the body off. Grissom looked down. "He was shot in the stomach?" he said in shock. "That doesn't make any sense! How could this guy have played football with a bullet in his stomach?"
Doc turned and grabbed some cloth bandages out of a bowl to the side of him. "Who ever bandaged him did a good job and kept him alive that much longer. And those drugs in his system probably helped." Grissom took the bandages into his hands and began to look at them. "Yes, I think there are some epithelials, if that's what your thinking, Grissom."
"Jenny, run this down to Greg and see if he can get this to me as quickly as he can." Grissom said handing the bowl of blood soaked bandages to Jenny. She took them with a disgusted look on her face, but then that cleared and she then turned and walked out of the room. "Anything else?" Grissom then asked.
The Doc shook his head. "I'll get that bullet over to Bobby as soon as I get it out."
"I'll be waiting for the report." Grissom said and he then walked out of the room. This case seemed to be getting odder and odder. How on earth did Josh get a bullet in his stomach, and then why did he go and play football?? Right now, none of this made any sense to Grissom. He didn't think Sara was in the lab yet, but he could already feel that pesky migraine again. Maybe if he did see Sara, the pain from his head would counteract with the pain (or grief, or sarcasm, or determination, or even just her presence….) that she would give him and he would feel better. He was already feeling better with the thought of Sara….
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Catherine stood in the lab with Greg and Jenny, waiting impatiently for Greg to run the epithelials thought DNA.
"So, what I am doing now determines the outcome of the case?" he asked excitedly
"Not exactly." Catherine replied.
"How about a little bit? Will this determine if someone killed someone else??"
"No." Catherine replied sternly. She really wished Greg would stop fooling around so much and just give her the results.
"How about figuring out who shot JR?"
"GREG!"
"Geese, you need to get out of the lab more often Catherine." Greg turned back to the machine he was working on. "I now don't want to give you the results. So I'll give them to Sparkie." Greg wheeled around in his chair and handed them to Jenny who was leaning up against the wall. Catherine game the two of them a puzzled look. "She tried to burn down my Lab." Greg said whispering to Catherine.
"Would you stop saying that?" Jenny roared. "Seriously Greg, an accident…" Jenny trailed off as she looked down at the paper. "I think we can add something else to Frankie Despo's list."
A grin spread across Catherine's face.
