Big Slaughter

Part 4

By marcusreloaded

For summary and other look to part 1.

Part 4 - Another One Bites The Dust.

NOTE: Yes, I know it's 3 - read three - months I don't update, but I'm going to graduate, and I am studying day and night. I just promise you won't have to wait this long for chapter 5!

Nick and Sara were in the main room, waiting for infos about the autopsy.

Sara in particular had been waiting for four hours.

"Sara, please, move a little. You have been sitting there for ages!" Nick said.

"Worried about me?" Sara said, grinning a little.

"About your circulation, girl." He joked back.

After a while the Network announced that the show would go on.

And handed the nominations.

JOSH and SARA were nominated.

They didn't know that, in the shadow, somebody was watching.

And preparing their next move.

The news arrived, and Sara told Nick "I remember the smell of bitter almonds. Amanda talked about it, she said it was driving her mad."

"She was already being poisoned." Nick interjected. "You heard it. It was in her nebulizer."

"Am I the only one who senses a ritual murder here?" Alan said, making the two CSIs jump.

"Geez Alan, don't you know better than to give people heart attacks?" Sara said, a little angry.

"Sorry," he said, "Anyway, this murder had already happened in a book."

"'The Mirror Crack'd'? Yeah, we know." Nick continued. "But we'd better be prepared for the next move. Whoever he, or she, is, this killer wants to win, and is ready to kill everybody else to reach that goal."

That evening, everybody was lined up in the main hall - except Josh.

Where was he?

Nick went to look for him, and saw him on an armchair.

He called the nominee, but it didn't work, so he went to face him.

Then, he noticed the killer had striked again.

Josh seemed to be asleep. If it wasn't for the puncture wound on his neck, it would've been believable.

"One little Indian is stung..." Nick murmured, remembering the macabre rhyme from... an Agatha Christie book.

Sara and the others were behind him as he turned around. He hadn't heard them walking in.

"Is he...?" Sara asked.

Nick said, in a detached tone, "He was going to get out of the house, anyway."

TBC