Title: Eye in the Sky Author: Amanda Summery: A black-jack dealer is found, murdered, in the hotel suit of the casino's owner. Disclaimer: I do not own Grissom, Sara, Nick, Warrick, Catherine, or any of the characters in this story. I do however own a few of the characters. If you don't recognize the name, I own them.

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Chapter One:

Nights in Vegas are crazy. That's when all the real freaks come out to party, and just damn his luck, little mama's boy Tome Jenkins started his first night as a black-jack dealer down at the MGM Grand. He had been well sheltered growing up and he had never been around something like this. He had never had drunk billionares and their mistresses pass out on the black- jack table right in front of him. However, that was the be expected of Vegas.

When his shift changed he was pulled aside by someone. "Shh." it was a woman. He turned around and saw the face of Maria Fitzgerald staring back at him. She smiled at him, and pulled him over behiend one of the plants.

"Hey." Tom said. "What'cha doing?"

Maria smiled and kissed him. She let go of him and smiled. Her lipstick hadn't smeared all over his face. She had gotten what she had paid for. "You know he'll see." Tom told her. Maria sighed. Way to kill the mood, Tom.

"I don't care." Maria replied. "So he likes me. It doesn't matter. Because I like you."

Tom nodded, but frowned. Maria was confused. "You like me? Just like me? Because I don't know if I want to risk getting killed if you just like me."

Maria took a deep breath. This was crazy. He was ruining their lives, and trying their best to make it impossible for Maria and Tom to see eachother. She would just quit, but she knew that he would make it so that she wouldn't find work anywhere else.

"You're not going to die." Maria assured Tom. "He is a spinless worm. That's all he is. He won't kill you." Tom sighed. He didn't know whether or not to believe her. I mean, he was a crazy bastard, but would he kill? Tom, unfortunatly, had no idea. Maria set her empty tray down on a nearby table, he held onto Tom's face wth both her hands. "I love you."

Tom closed his eyes tightly, then crushed her against him. He kissed the side of her head. "I love you too. But, if we keep standing here we're going to get fired."

Maria nodded and kissed Tom goodbye. He looked at her, and then walked off. Maria turned around and sighed, hoping that he wasn't watching.

However, in Vegas, the eye-in-the-sky is always watching.

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Brass stood out in from of the MGM Grand. He had been eating a quick, take out dinner when he got the call. A young black-jack dealer named Thomas Jenkins had been beat to a bloody pulp by someone, then left for dead in the casino owner's hotel suit.

Sara and Grissom arrived and walked up to Brass. He filled them in on the details then led them up to the suit. Before they even got into the hotel the paramedics wheeled out a boy on a strecher, who Grissom assumed was Thomas Jenkins.

"Wait! Wait, please!" a beautiful woman ran out of the doors of the casino. Her face was stained with tears, and she was chasing after Tom like her feet where on fire. "Stop! I have to go with him!"

Grissom looked after the girl. Her outfit was falling off of her shoulders and she was wrapped in leather coat. He black high heels didn't seem to slow her down. She was as white as a sheet, and looked like she had seen a ghost.

"Maria!" another person ran out the door, and Grissom sighed. This was very unusual. "Maria, stop!"Grissom looked at the man. He was very intimidating in a suit worthy of the rat-pack. His steely gray hair was unlike those on most men his age. For one thing it was not a comb over. He could only assume that this man was the owner of not only the casino, but the hotel suit that the man was found in.

The woman whipped around and stared daggers at the man. She looked like she might just bite his head off of his shoulders and spit it back out. "You stay away from me!" she screamed at him. She put herhand on her boyfriend's strecher. "You did this you asshole!" she turned to a police officer. It was easy to tell that she was both furious and terrified. "You keep him the hell away from me."

The police officer nodded and stepped between Maria and the man, who was about two hundered feet away from her. The man, who had yet to reveal his name, looked very hurt as he watched Maria climb into the back of the ambulance and furiously grab her boyfriend's hand.

Sara looked over to Grissom and laughed a little. "Well," she said. "That sure was interesting." Grissom nodded, but he was captivated by the heartbroken look on the man's face. He looked from the man to the back of the ambulence that was now turning out of the parking lot and driveing down the street to the hospital. What the hell is going on here?