"Sara, come on, we gotta go, Jim needs us."
"What happened?" She said getting up.
"Not sure, but it didn't sound good." He pulled his cell phone out again. "Wanna gall Greg? Its all hands on deck." Sara nodded.
Sara called Greg and Grissom Sofia and they all met at Jim Staples house. Sirens and onlookers wondering what was going on surrounded it. They met up with Brass immediately.
"Jim, what have we got?"
"DB, Jim Staples I assume, he is hanging from his closet bar by his belt. The house is a mess, its gonna take a while to process."
Grissom took the lead. "Alright Sara, you and Sofia take the body, process it so that we can decide if it was indeed a suicide, Greg and I will do the downstairs.
Sara took off upstairs with Sofia right behind her. Sara began to process the body and Sofia looked at her like she stole her property.
"Do you have a problem with me, Sofia?"
"No." She tested back to Sara.
"I think you do. What was with that rumor spiel this morning?"
"What do you mean? I was just repeating what I heard."
"Since when did my life matter to you?" Sara asked inquisitively.
Since you started honing in on Grissom. Sophia thought to herself. "It matters to the lab." She shot back quickly.
"Bullshit!" Sara shot back. "My personal life doesn't matter to the lab, what I do on my own time is my own business."
Sofia grabbed Sara and they were on the floor. There was a crash Sofia grabbed the lamp from the table and threw it at Sara. It hit her in the head knocking her out. Sofia grabbed her hair and slapped Sara across the face she then crawled on top of her and pinned her down and her hand was in the air, ready to make contact with her face when she heard something behind them.
"Alright a cat fight!" Greg chimed in. "Can we watch?"
Grissom was right behind him "What the hell is going on here? This is a crime scene."
Sofia got up off Sara. "Sorry, Grissom. She rubbed me the wrong way." Sofia snarled back crawling off the floor.
"Sofia this is the last straw. Your behavior this morning was bad, but it just got worse. Go home consider yourself on vacation for a few days. Don't think we won't talk about this."
Sofia got up and left. This is not finished she thought as she walked out.
"What got into them?" Greg asked picking up the lamp.
Grissom was at Sara's side. "I'm not sure Greg." He lowered his head to his lap. "Sara, sweetie, are you ok?" He asked rubbing her cheek."
Sweetie? Greg thought, what the?"Grissom, what happened?" She asked trying to get up. She fell back down.
"Sara, seems Sofia knocked you out with a lamp. Care to tell me what happened?"
"We were arguing," Sara began. "She grabbed me by the hair and threw me down. The next thing I knew I woke up with my head in your lap, not that I'm complaining." She was grinning.
"Greg, you wanna finish up here? I'll get Brass to stay to bring you back. I'm gonna take Sara home."
"Ok Boss. Not a problem."
Grissom told Brass what went on and loaded Sara into the truck to take her home. They went to Grissom's house. He parked the car and helped her inside. He tucked her into bed and kissed her on the forehead and crawled in beside her. He picked up the phone to call Catherine to see if she would finish his shift for him.
He dialled the number. "Hey Cath, I really hate to do this to you but can you or Warrick do me a favor please?"
"What is it Gil?" She asked.
"Sara and Sofia got into it at out crime scene. Sara got knocked out."
"Is she alright?"
"Yes, but I don't want to leave her alone, the risk of a concussion, right."
"So what do you want me to do?"
"Can you go in and finish my shift with Greg, I sent Sofia home."
"Sure Gil, but you owe me. You are just lucky Warrick is over to stay with Lindsay."
"Thanks Cath." He hung up the phone and took out a forensic magazine to read it. He tapped Sara on the shoulder. "Sara, honey, is there anything I can get for you? Do you want to go to the Doctor and get checked out?"
"Could you get me some painkillers, please, but no doctors? My head just hurts, I'll be alright tomorrow."
He got up and returned in a few minutes with the pain medication and some water. She swallowed the meds and lay back down.
"Griss, what are you going to do about Sofia?"
"I don't know. I guess I'm gonna have to ask Cath for her opinion tomorrow."
Catherine got to the lab as quick as she could and greeted Greg.
"Hey Cath, what do I owe the honor?" He asked.
"Coffee, and make it the good stuff." She choked out. "You and me need to talk."
Greg made a pot of his finest coffee and sat down in Grissom's office with Catherine.
"What the hell happened tonight?" She asked taking a sip of the liquid heaven.
"Well it all started lastnight." Greg began and continued to tell Catherine the whole story right down to the comment she had made about Ecklie.
"Something is up with that one, I don't trust her one bit." Catherine added finishing the last swallow of her coffee. "I think it is time for me to intervene."
"Whatcha gonna do?" Greg asked.
"Talk to Ecklie, that is the next step for Gil. I can push his buttons better than him." Catherine was smiling.