Title: Traces of the Past 2/?
Author: Chaos
Rating: PG 13
Archive: Sure. Any one wants it just let me know
Summary: A part of Sara's past is revealed as the CSIs work w/the FBI agents of WaT
Sorry this has taken so long. I have been in hospital w/a bacterial infection in my
respiratory tract. Home for 32 hours when the old blood sugar reacted to the antibiotic
overload and dumped on me. FYI: a glucose of 32 is not inducive to conciousness.
Anywho...I finally was able to sign back on & read the reviews. I have to tell you I
cringed before opening each one just waiting for a flame. I was joyfully surprised at
the encouraging comments, so I thank all of you. To...
Sara Grissom: Sorry, doll, but taping my hands to the board wouldn't have helped. They
still would've found a way to IV both of them
Buttercup Harmony: Nope you'll find no missing CSI, FBI or police personnel
Krismarief, Bradybunch4529,xpossibilities & bene: I stated it wasn't going to be Cat
friendly not that I was going to slap her down. She'll be here just
not as a major player.
CSIfan1,Nikki,geek03,GG3,Sarah143: Thank you ror the encouragement
LaredoGrissom: I would be happy to bring you over to the dark side by converting you
to a WaT fan. I hope you saw the one shown on 12-11. It was a virtual
tour de force for Samantha. Her actions/reactions reminded me of the
way the Sara character was written in seasons 1 and 2
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Jack looked at Grissom, his near black eyes speculative. The other man may wear the title
of supervisor but it was obvious that he had no control over the blond woman who smirked
triumphantly as she sat at the table.
"Dr. Grissom, we have no intention of commandeering your whole staff. I'll lay it out for
you and you can decide but I believe that Miss Sidle and one other CSI will be sufficient."
Grissom had no problem reading the message in the other man's eyes. He had never claimed
to be supervisor of the year but he was proficient at his job and his staff respected him.
He looked left to see the superior face of Catherine gloating across the table at Sara. Or
maybe not. The situation with Catherine had gotten out of hand, he was going to have to get
some distance to think about this.
Jack cleared his throat.
"Sorry, Agent Malone, please explain the situation."
He looked at Grissom for several additional seconds before turning his attention to the
papers before him.
"Three days ago Liesl Hoffmeier, age 16, and Carla Lisonne, 15, disappeared from Long
Island."
He passed two photographs to Sara who quickly jotted notes and sent them across to
Grissom. He tried to catch her eye but she didn't even look up.
"They had spent the night with a third friend, Sherry Rhoades and were on their way to their
own homes. They lived next door to each other less than two blocks from the Rhoades home.
Some time in a five minute walk they disappeared" His glance swept the table once more.
"Since Carla Lisonne's father is CEO of a Fortune 500 company we expected a ransom request.
It never came. Yesterday, we got a phone call from Lieutenant Harper of your Sheriff's
Department who informed us that a young woman had been found on side of the road just inside
the northern border of Clark County. She identified herself as Liesl Hoffmeier. We flew in
last night and spoke to her at Desert Palms."
Catherine broke in, "We weren't informed by the sheriff."
"She was found at 10a.m. A George Fox responded."
"Dayshift. So why are WE here now?" She shot back.
Jack's chin tilted upward giving the impression that he was looking down on Catherine as he
replied. "Lt. Harper and several of his colleagues suggested that we would increase our
chances of finding evidence if we worked with the night shift. Sheriff Atwater agreed and
reassigned the case."
"Oh, Ecklie's going to be on the warpath for awhile." Warrick's statement brought a groan
from Sara.
"Uh, I think I'll take vacation as soon as this case is over." Danny smiled at her.
"You could come to New York."
As she turned to smile at him she caught Grissom's eye and the smile fell away.
"Let's get the case solved and we'll discuss all of this, okay, Danny?" Jack said. Every
one could see the humor shining in his eyes.
"Would you like me to continue or do you prefer the case be returned to your day shift
colleagues?" Jack posed the question to Grissom.
"No, please continue. You'll have our full cooperation." Jack nodded.
Taking a deep breath he went on. "The young lady was quite upset as you can imagine but
we finally got enough out of her to piece together the story. Miss Hoffmeier and Carla
Lisonne were approached by two men in a dark green jaguar. Since the vehicle didn't seem
out of place in that particular neighborhood they didn't think any thing about approaching
the car when the male in the passenger's seat asked for directions. When they got close
enough both men were out of the car and grabbed the girls, stuffing them in the back seat."
"What I find so hard to understand is how no one heard them screaming before the car took
off." Sam put in. "We canvassed the neighborhood and no one saw or heard anything, yet
Liesl said they both screamed and kicked as they were being shoved in the car." She shook
her head. Grissom noticed that Sara was making an identical motion at the other end of the
table.
"So, why did these guys let Liesl go?" She asked.
"She said that they drove straight through to Vegas with only a couple of stops for gas. If
the girls needed to go to the bathroom they would stop in a rest area and the men would take
them, one at a time, into a men's rest room. They never got the opportunity to talk to
anyone. Once they got here they checked in to a low rent motel. She said she remembered
seeing a pyramid and a 'really cool fountain' on the drive in and she thinks it had to be
really close to a liquor store because one of the guys left and returned less than five minutes
later with a couple of bottles."
Sara began making lists of motels within easy reach of liquor stores. It was a substantial
list.
"She said they were tied up and after the men finished off one of the bottles they were raped
several times throughout the night. The men kept switching off so the semen that was collected
is no good. They were also force fed alcohol during that time." He looked around once again.
"Yesterday, before dawn, they were put back in the car and headed north. Liesl began to feel
sick. She asked them to pull over and let her out. They wouldn't of course, and she threw
up in the car. That forced them to stop. She was pulled out and they left her on
side of the road. She said she begged them not to leave her out there. She was afraid that
someone even worse would find her or she'd die and be eaten by animals. She even grabbed onto
the man who was putting her out. She broke three nails while clawing at him but we do have
a small amount of skin tissue from her nails. I was told you have an excellent lab tech who
can hopefully get us a match?"
Sara smiled but before she could answer Catherine piped in, "Well, Greg can run it for us. I
don't know if he'll actually find anything."
Jack stared at her, Viv rolled her eyes, Danny and Sam both turned their attention to Sara and
Martin began to wonder exactly who ran this unit. He was a little slow on the uptake.
"Anyway even though she was a very frightened little girl, she was able to look at the license
plate. It was registered in Nevada but that's all she can remember clearly."
"Catherine, start running dark green Jaguars with Nevada plates." Grissom told the woman beside
him. She gave him one of those 'I'm not a minion' looks. "Now, Catherine, this is too
important to sit on."
She finally rose, glared at Sara then flounced out of the room.
Grissom's sigh was heard around the room. "Agent Malone, while it is slow every one of my
CSIs is at your disposal. When things begin to pick up I can reassign Catherine, Warrick and
Nick Stokes. I'll remain on this case along with Sara." This time she looked up in shock
and he was waiting for her. He smiled gently as he caught her eye.
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Please read and review. I promise the next chapter is already being worked on so it will be
posted soon if any one is still interested.
And, I know I dissed poor Martin but...he does look lost fairly often.
BTW, this is the fourth time I've tried to reformat but...if it's messed up I'm extremely
sorry.
Author: Chaos
Rating: PG 13
Archive: Sure. Any one wants it just let me know
Summary: A part of Sara's past is revealed as the CSIs work w/the FBI agents of WaT
Sorry this has taken so long. I have been in hospital w/a bacterial infection in my
respiratory tract. Home for 32 hours when the old blood sugar reacted to the antibiotic
overload and dumped on me. FYI: a glucose of 32 is not inducive to conciousness.
Anywho...I finally was able to sign back on & read the reviews. I have to tell you I
cringed before opening each one just waiting for a flame. I was joyfully surprised at
the encouraging comments, so I thank all of you. To...
Sara Grissom: Sorry, doll, but taping my hands to the board wouldn't have helped. They
still would've found a way to IV both of them
Buttercup Harmony: Nope you'll find no missing CSI, FBI or police personnel
Krismarief, Bradybunch4529,xpossibilities & bene: I stated it wasn't going to be Cat
friendly not that I was going to slap her down. She'll be here just
not as a major player.
CSIfan1,Nikki,geek03,GG3,Sarah143: Thank you ror the encouragement
LaredoGrissom: I would be happy to bring you over to the dark side by converting you
to a WaT fan. I hope you saw the one shown on 12-11. It was a virtual
tour de force for Samantha. Her actions/reactions reminded me of the
way the Sara character was written in seasons 1 and 2
_______________________________________________________________
Jack looked at Grissom, his near black eyes speculative. The other man may wear the title
of supervisor but it was obvious that he had no control over the blond woman who smirked
triumphantly as she sat at the table.
"Dr. Grissom, we have no intention of commandeering your whole staff. I'll lay it out for
you and you can decide but I believe that Miss Sidle and one other CSI will be sufficient."
Grissom had no problem reading the message in the other man's eyes. He had never claimed
to be supervisor of the year but he was proficient at his job and his staff respected him.
He looked left to see the superior face of Catherine gloating across the table at Sara. Or
maybe not. The situation with Catherine had gotten out of hand, he was going to have to get
some distance to think about this.
Jack cleared his throat.
"Sorry, Agent Malone, please explain the situation."
He looked at Grissom for several additional seconds before turning his attention to the
papers before him.
"Three days ago Liesl Hoffmeier, age 16, and Carla Lisonne, 15, disappeared from Long
Island."
He passed two photographs to Sara who quickly jotted notes and sent them across to
Grissom. He tried to catch her eye but she didn't even look up.
"They had spent the night with a third friend, Sherry Rhoades and were on their way to their
own homes. They lived next door to each other less than two blocks from the Rhoades home.
Some time in a five minute walk they disappeared" His glance swept the table once more.
"Since Carla Lisonne's father is CEO of a Fortune 500 company we expected a ransom request.
It never came. Yesterday, we got a phone call from Lieutenant Harper of your Sheriff's
Department who informed us that a young woman had been found on side of the road just inside
the northern border of Clark County. She identified herself as Liesl Hoffmeier. We flew in
last night and spoke to her at Desert Palms."
Catherine broke in, "We weren't informed by the sheriff."
"She was found at 10a.m. A George Fox responded."
"Dayshift. So why are WE here now?" She shot back.
Jack's chin tilted upward giving the impression that he was looking down on Catherine as he
replied. "Lt. Harper and several of his colleagues suggested that we would increase our
chances of finding evidence if we worked with the night shift. Sheriff Atwater agreed and
reassigned the case."
"Oh, Ecklie's going to be on the warpath for awhile." Warrick's statement brought a groan
from Sara.
"Uh, I think I'll take vacation as soon as this case is over." Danny smiled at her.
"You could come to New York."
As she turned to smile at him she caught Grissom's eye and the smile fell away.
"Let's get the case solved and we'll discuss all of this, okay, Danny?" Jack said. Every
one could see the humor shining in his eyes.
"Would you like me to continue or do you prefer the case be returned to your day shift
colleagues?" Jack posed the question to Grissom.
"No, please continue. You'll have our full cooperation." Jack nodded.
Taking a deep breath he went on. "The young lady was quite upset as you can imagine but
we finally got enough out of her to piece together the story. Miss Hoffmeier and Carla
Lisonne were approached by two men in a dark green jaguar. Since the vehicle didn't seem
out of place in that particular neighborhood they didn't think any thing about approaching
the car when the male in the passenger's seat asked for directions. When they got close
enough both men were out of the car and grabbed the girls, stuffing them in the back seat."
"What I find so hard to understand is how no one heard them screaming before the car took
off." Sam put in. "We canvassed the neighborhood and no one saw or heard anything, yet
Liesl said they both screamed and kicked as they were being shoved in the car." She shook
her head. Grissom noticed that Sara was making an identical motion at the other end of the
table.
"So, why did these guys let Liesl go?" She asked.
"She said that they drove straight through to Vegas with only a couple of stops for gas. If
the girls needed to go to the bathroom they would stop in a rest area and the men would take
them, one at a time, into a men's rest room. They never got the opportunity to talk to
anyone. Once they got here they checked in to a low rent motel. She said she remembered
seeing a pyramid and a 'really cool fountain' on the drive in and she thinks it had to be
really close to a liquor store because one of the guys left and returned less than five minutes
later with a couple of bottles."
Sara began making lists of motels within easy reach of liquor stores. It was a substantial
list.
"She said they were tied up and after the men finished off one of the bottles they were raped
several times throughout the night. The men kept switching off so the semen that was collected
is no good. They were also force fed alcohol during that time." He looked around once again.
"Yesterday, before dawn, they were put back in the car and headed north. Liesl began to feel
sick. She asked them to pull over and let her out. They wouldn't of course, and she threw
up in the car. That forced them to stop. She was pulled out and they left her on
side of the road. She said she begged them not to leave her out there. She was afraid that
someone even worse would find her or she'd die and be eaten by animals. She even grabbed onto
the man who was putting her out. She broke three nails while clawing at him but we do have
a small amount of skin tissue from her nails. I was told you have an excellent lab tech who
can hopefully get us a match?"
Sara smiled but before she could answer Catherine piped in, "Well, Greg can run it for us. I
don't know if he'll actually find anything."
Jack stared at her, Viv rolled her eyes, Danny and Sam both turned their attention to Sara and
Martin began to wonder exactly who ran this unit. He was a little slow on the uptake.
"Anyway even though she was a very frightened little girl, she was able to look at the license
plate. It was registered in Nevada but that's all she can remember clearly."
"Catherine, start running dark green Jaguars with Nevada plates." Grissom told the woman beside
him. She gave him one of those 'I'm not a minion' looks. "Now, Catherine, this is too
important to sit on."
She finally rose, glared at Sara then flounced out of the room.
Grissom's sigh was heard around the room. "Agent Malone, while it is slow every one of my
CSIs is at your disposal. When things begin to pick up I can reassign Catherine, Warrick and
Nick Stokes. I'll remain on this case along with Sara." This time she looked up in shock
and he was waiting for her. He smiled gently as he caught her eye.
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Please read and review. I promise the next chapter is already being worked on so it will be
posted soon if any one is still interested.
And, I know I dissed poor Martin but...he does look lost fairly often.
BTW, this is the fourth time I've tried to reformat but...if it's messed up I'm extremely
sorry.