Chapter 2
Blindsided
June 20th, 2004
"Lexie and Sharon were best friends, inseparable since they met in college. Sharon got married about seventeen years ago to some guy. Last I'd heard Sharon had just had Candace. The next thing I know I get a wedding invitation in the mail for her marriage to Seth." Catherine nodded at Jenna Kyriacos, who had identified herself as the bride's sister. The woman was blond, tints of red, and had the same blue eyes as her sister. She was holding tightly to a water bottle.
"You didn't keep in touch with your sister?"
"Sharon and I weren't really that close. We used to bicker a lot and when she moved away with her first husband, we didn't talk. Any news I got was through Lexie."
"Sharon had an ex?" Jenna nodded.
"He's Candace's dad. They divorced when Candace was 3. He used to share custody with Sharon before he got arrested."
"For what?"
"Possession of some drug." Catherine was slowly starting to get suspicious. Why did Jenna keep in touch with Lexie and not her sister? Her excuse just wasn't good enough. How did she know about the divorce, but not about the new engagement? How did Jenna know about the arrest? She saw Grissom step away from the mother and thanked Jenna. Grissom motioned back to the tape covering the doorway of the reception hall.
Sara, Warrick and Nick were busy at the opposite end of the room from the head table, setting up lasers for trajectories.
"What did you find?"
"Casings are over by the table, bagged and tagged. Other than that…" Sara shook her head as she finished. Catherine sighed.
"Mother's terrified, says she didn't see any one with a gun."
"Every one must have heard repeated shots. No one's talking?" Nick chimed in. Catherine shook her head.
"Either an automatic or more than one shooter," Warrick added.
"Personally, I'm liking more than one shooter," Sara picked up. "It seems like the bullets are coming from two different directions."
"And of course, no one say anything. From what we've gathered, everyone was too busy running for cover," Catherine said with a roll of her eyes. Sara snorted.
"Of course, no one saw anything," she said in disgust. Catherine felt a tug on her leg. Looking down, she found the mirror image of Bekki.
"I saw something."
Thanks to everyone who had the awesome reactions over the prologue. You guys all made me laugh, especially since last story I promised I would never kill off Catherine.
This one might be a little bit more complicated than the last one, make sure you keep track of all of the players!
Kavi Leighanna