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Chapter two The First Stand
With out a word of indication on the subject Sara knew that Nick would head down to the evidence locker and log in their evidence, some how she knew he didn't want to have anything to do with this particular autopsy.
Sara didn't stop to find out what body Doc Robins was with, instead she just walked in, she knew that David would have told the head coroner that Grissom with a suspect in this case. The Doc and Grissom had a very good friendship, branching from their sheared fascination with their work.
"Did you really send him home?" Doc Robins asked as she walked up to him to find that she was indeed right that her vic was actually bumped to the top of the list like she had thought she would be.
"Yes, have you got course of death yet?" Sara asked laying her kit out and pulling on her gloves.
"I'm afraid that there is nothing obvious, no sign's of violence or sexual activity, I did find one thing odd though, leaches, actually just the one." Doc said standing in his accustomed stance one hand supporting himself on his crouch and the other idly laying on the autopsy bed, watching her reacting but holding back something.
"The scene was on where near water." Sara said looking over at the coroner.
"And even if the was I highly doubt that in would have closed it's self in a sample jar which somehow managed to find it's way in to her mouth." He handed her the sample encased in an evidence baggie.
"Greg should be able to get some DNA out of that. And I might get some prints." Sara said more to her self then to Robins. She reached over to her kit and put the leach in her kit and took out her scale magnify glass. And moved toward the vic's right leg just as Warrick and Catherine walked in.
"How can we help?" Catherine demanded.
"Who did Grissom hand his case's off to?" Sara asked barley looking up at them
"Cath got them." Warrick said, "I just closed the Walker case."
"Start at her head and work and your way down."
"Sara!" Catherine demanded coursing Sara to look up from the vic for the first time that they had entered. Cath saw in her eyes what Warrick had seen in her posture. She was not going to be bullied on this one, but Cath couldn't help herself she was differently not going to give up her place as Alpha female with out a fight. "With Grissom at home I am in charge of the Lab not you, you don't tell me what case's I work I tell you what case's you work."
"You think you can take me of this case Catherine, you go ahead and try, if you want this case solved back the hell off, because we both know you can't do it, not in time anyway."
"Excuse me?" Catherine asked shocked at the younger woman
"I'm better then you Catherine, you just wont let yourself admit it." Sara said standing tall in front of Catherine and using every bit of her two- inch hight advantage.
"Now you listen-"
"No! I'm working I suggest you do the same." Sara said and went back to her work with out any paying further attention to the woman fuming behind her.
As Catherine stormed out of the autopsy bay, Sara could help but think of the girl in high school who had forced her in to doing all of her homework. It didn't really bother Sara have to do the extra assignments and papers but she hated that she was being used it, rubbed at her pride in bad way. So when said girl told her to write a paper about the abolition of Slavery of her American history paper Sara did and sited several White pride publications for the facts she use to back up her argument that the abolition of slavery was the worst thing that had ever happened to the African American race. The girl of course was told that they could not grade her paper and was sent to the school counsellor were she admitted that she had not written the paper and had in fact threaten a freshmen in to writing it for her. While the girl had been suspended, Sara was tested and found to be frighteningly more advanced then her follow students and was put on a special study programme that was better sited to her intellect. Sara wondered if this little step out side of character would turn out as well as her last.
With Warrick's help the body was quickly processed and Robins able to start cutting.
"Well as you know Rigor Mortis starts after three to four hours in the small muscles of the face, hands, and feet before affecting the larger muscles, as it wears off it follows the same Patten, rigor can take any up to thirty six hours to set in completely and seventy two to wear off,"
"But off corse rigor can be affected by body weight, heat of the environment, and metabolic activity before death." Sara finished for him "I know Doc, but as close as you can get us"
"By the extent of the marbling on her abdomen, I'd have to say sixty to sixty four hours. I hope that helps"
"So do I," Sara said and packed up her kit. "Stick around see get me a corse of death." Sara said to Warrick, as she closed up her kit.
"Where you going to be?" he asked her.
"I'm going to dorp our little friend here off with Greg and then take Brass with me over to Grissom's"
"You don't think Grissom did this do you?"
"If he did he wouldn't have wanted me to work it" Sara said as she walked out of the autopsy bay with out looking back. If she had she would have seen both Robins and Warrick watching her leave with puzzled expressions.
"Power trip?" Al Robins asked surprised by the young woman's words and demeanour.
"Na, I think she's just so worried about Griss that she's forgotten to doubt herself." Warrick answered
Chapter two The First Stand
With out a word of indication on the subject Sara knew that Nick would head down to the evidence locker and log in their evidence, some how she knew he didn't want to have anything to do with this particular autopsy.
Sara didn't stop to find out what body Doc Robins was with, instead she just walked in, she knew that David would have told the head coroner that Grissom with a suspect in this case. The Doc and Grissom had a very good friendship, branching from their sheared fascination with their work.
"Did you really send him home?" Doc Robins asked as she walked up to him to find that she was indeed right that her vic was actually bumped to the top of the list like she had thought she would be.
"Yes, have you got course of death yet?" Sara asked laying her kit out and pulling on her gloves.
"I'm afraid that there is nothing obvious, no sign's of violence or sexual activity, I did find one thing odd though, leaches, actually just the one." Doc said standing in his accustomed stance one hand supporting himself on his crouch and the other idly laying on the autopsy bed, watching her reacting but holding back something.
"The scene was on where near water." Sara said looking over at the coroner.
"And even if the was I highly doubt that in would have closed it's self in a sample jar which somehow managed to find it's way in to her mouth." He handed her the sample encased in an evidence baggie.
"Greg should be able to get some DNA out of that. And I might get some prints." Sara said more to her self then to Robins. She reached over to her kit and put the leach in her kit and took out her scale magnify glass. And moved toward the vic's right leg just as Warrick and Catherine walked in.
"How can we help?" Catherine demanded.
"Who did Grissom hand his case's off to?" Sara asked barley looking up at them
"Cath got them." Warrick said, "I just closed the Walker case."
"Start at her head and work and your way down."
"Sara!" Catherine demanded coursing Sara to look up from the vic for the first time that they had entered. Cath saw in her eyes what Warrick had seen in her posture. She was not going to be bullied on this one, but Cath couldn't help herself she was differently not going to give up her place as Alpha female with out a fight. "With Grissom at home I am in charge of the Lab not you, you don't tell me what case's I work I tell you what case's you work."
"You think you can take me of this case Catherine, you go ahead and try, if you want this case solved back the hell off, because we both know you can't do it, not in time anyway."
"Excuse me?" Catherine asked shocked at the younger woman
"I'm better then you Catherine, you just wont let yourself admit it." Sara said standing tall in front of Catherine and using every bit of her two- inch hight advantage.
"Now you listen-"
"No! I'm working I suggest you do the same." Sara said and went back to her work with out any paying further attention to the woman fuming behind her.
As Catherine stormed out of the autopsy bay, Sara could help but think of the girl in high school who had forced her in to doing all of her homework. It didn't really bother Sara have to do the extra assignments and papers but she hated that she was being used it, rubbed at her pride in bad way. So when said girl told her to write a paper about the abolition of Slavery of her American history paper Sara did and sited several White pride publications for the facts she use to back up her argument that the abolition of slavery was the worst thing that had ever happened to the African American race. The girl of course was told that they could not grade her paper and was sent to the school counsellor were she admitted that she had not written the paper and had in fact threaten a freshmen in to writing it for her. While the girl had been suspended, Sara was tested and found to be frighteningly more advanced then her follow students and was put on a special study programme that was better sited to her intellect. Sara wondered if this little step out side of character would turn out as well as her last.
With Warrick's help the body was quickly processed and Robins able to start cutting.
"Well as you know Rigor Mortis starts after three to four hours in the small muscles of the face, hands, and feet before affecting the larger muscles, as it wears off it follows the same Patten, rigor can take any up to thirty six hours to set in completely and seventy two to wear off,"
"But off corse rigor can be affected by body weight, heat of the environment, and metabolic activity before death." Sara finished for him "I know Doc, but as close as you can get us"
"By the extent of the marbling on her abdomen, I'd have to say sixty to sixty four hours. I hope that helps"
"So do I," Sara said and packed up her kit. "Stick around see get me a corse of death." Sara said to Warrick, as she closed up her kit.
"Where you going to be?" he asked her.
"I'm going to dorp our little friend here off with Greg and then take Brass with me over to Grissom's"
"You don't think Grissom did this do you?"
"If he did he wouldn't have wanted me to work it" Sara said as she walked out of the autopsy bay with out looking back. If she had she would have seen both Robins and Warrick watching her leave with puzzled expressions.
"Power trip?" Al Robins asked surprised by the young woman's words and demeanour.
"Na, I think she's just so worried about Griss that she's forgotten to doubt herself." Warrick answered
