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CHAPTER SEVEN
Warrick is walking in the corridors of the LVPD-CSI building, feeling a little bit sleepy. Shift ended three hours ago but he and Nick are going to pull overtime.
He entered the break room and found Christianna sitting in front of a laptop, eating something. When she saw him, she immediately clasped the technological contraption shut and smiled at him.
"Good morning." She greeted happily.
"Hey." Warrick replied as he grabbed a cup of coffee. "What are you still doing here?"
Christianna smiled wider.
"Pulling overtime."
Her answer seemed innocent but to Warrick, her smile isn't. It seems mischievous, in a bad kind of way.
"Really?" Warrick asked, raising a brow. "Then what are you doing inside the break room, instead of your desk?"
"I was banished by Mr. Ecklie. He said that I'm messing with his CSI's heads." Christianna answered, shrugging. Just as then, her cellular phone rang.
"Excuse me." She said to Warrick as she received the call.
Warrick watched her over his cup of coffee. He enjoys the teenager's company and her funny quips about life and death. Her mannerism, the way she carries herself and her physical features doesn't scream "Hey, I'm Greg Sanders' cousin!'. But both Greg and Christianna have the same enthusiasm when it comes to work. Shane, Christianna's twin brother, and their parents also have the same zealous streak. The family seems to be a clan of enthusiastic workaholics.
'Wait a minute…' Warrick thought. 'Twins…'
"Yeah, thanks. I'll do that. See you later." He heard Christianna say and ended the call. She looked at Warrick. "Hey, what's with you?" she asked, a bit concerned when she saw his face.
"Twins."
Christianna furrowed her brows. "Okay. What about twins?" she asked, perplexed.
"Fraternal twins happen because the mother releases two egg cells and being fertilized by two sperm cells, right?" Warrick asked. She nodded her head. "And identical twins happen because of a single fertilized egg cell splitting into two, right?" he asked.
And again, Christianna nodded her head. "Identical twins have the same gender, DNA and fingerprints because they came from the same egg. Fraternal twins don't have the same DNA and fingerprints, but not necessarily gender."
Warrick was quiet for a while. Suddenly, he stood up and left the room.
He thinks he has found a break in their case.
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"Ben Tyler is clean." Catherine said to Grissom. They were in the lay-out room checking and rechecking the evidence and circumstances in the case.
"What about Elisabeth Denver?" Grissom asked, not looking up from the folder.
"Just a few speeding tickets. Overall, she's clean." Catherine replied.
"What about the others? What about out vic's neighbors?" Grissom asked.
"Nope, everybody's clean."
They continued their work. Nobody seems to have a motive to kill Alaine Tripman. The case might as well be open until they find enough evidence that pinpoints to them their culprit.
A few minutes later, Catherine sighed. The sound prompted Grissom to look up from what he is reading.
"What is it?" he asked, carefully looking at Catherine's face. Catherine gave him a beleaguered smile.
"The case is a bit… slow."
"Well, sometimes, that's the way it is." Grissom replied.
"I know… but… never mind." She said and looked down at the papers.
After a few minutes, Christianna went in the room. "Hello, why the long faces?" she asked as she took a seat next to Catherine.
Catherine just smiled at her. She then noted that Christianna has another folder with her.
"Hacked another network?" Catherine jokingly asked. Christianna gave her a confused look.
"I don't hack…" she mumbled but gave the folder to Grissom. She gave another one to Catherine.
"Who is Taylor Benjamin?" Catherine asked when she saw a picture of a harried-looking, college aged, man inside the folder.
"Ben Tyler." Christianna answered. "He changed his name."
"He changed his name because he was expelled from his school and has a criminal record. He took ballet in his community center and found out that he's pretty good at it." Christianna continued, twirling her pen. "I don't think the name change is legal."
"I think so too. But why did you give this to us. What is the significance of Ben Tyler's change of name?" Grissom asked his former pupil.
"He's a stalker." Catherine answered. "Look in page three." She said to Grissom. Grissom looked at his folder and saw the portion Catherine is talking about.
"So, maybe you think that Ben Tyler stalked Alaine Tripman and eventually killed her?" Grissom asked.
"Her neighbors reported that he used to throw rocks in Alaine Tripman's window and calling out her name. Then it stopped about three months ago, when she started seeing Martin Barton." Christianna answered.
"Ben Tyler killed Alaine Tripman in jealous rage?" Catherine asked.
"Maybe." Christianna answered, shrugging her shoulders. "We won't really know if we don't ask."
"I'll call Brass then." Grissom said as he stood up. But before he left, he stopped and looked at Christianna.
"Chris, next time, no more hacking."
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"Mr. Hecht, thank you for cooperating with us." Warrick said, looking at the man in front of him. They asked Dan Hecht's parole officer if he could come and give a statement.
"Hey, you're the one who asked my parole officer to make me come here. What's this all about, anyway?" Dan Hecht asked.
"We want to know if you have a twin brother." Nick answered. Dan Hecht looked at him.
"Why do you wanna know? Aint that in my file?" he asked, leaning on his chair. He was measuring the 'toughness' of the two CSI's.
"No, its not. Your… brother may be part of our investigation." Nick replied.
"Yeah, I have a twin brother. But he's a total opposite of me. He's a fricking law abider."
"Do you know where he is?" Warrick asked. He obviously will not ask what his brother looks like because they're twins.
"Will lives in Vegas, but I don't know where. He's quite reclusive." Dan Hecht replied, leaning forward. "He's so damn reclusive that God's angels wouldn't probably know where to fetch him when he dies."
Warrick and Nick looked at each other.
"Thank you for your time, sir." Warrick said and stood up. He went out of the interrogation room, followed by Nick.
"Okay, so now, we look for a Will Hecht in the computer database?" Nick asked after he had closed the door.
Warrick looked at Dan Hecht through the glass. "Yeah. I'll just talk to him again. He might be pulling our legs with his lies."
"Okay. I'll see you back here in an hour." Nick said and then walked away. He wants bring Sara's attacker to justice. But he must find him first.
'I know what you look like, Will Hecht.'
A/N- sorry if I wasn't able to update it in five days. I got distracted with the news that Jorja Fox and George Eads were fired. Please sign petitions pertaining to this matter, because I will never watch CSI again if they don't come back (What's the use of watching the show if your two favorite characters aren't there?).
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