A/N ok there is a typo in chapter 2, I have Sara leaving the lab when Nick did, scratch that, she never left, she was running finger prints thru AFIS. I hope yall enjoy this chapter, I think it's one of my best so far. I think I'm gonna have to scrap Grissom's bugs, I really don't want to, but I still haven't gotten word back from so I didn't want to delay the chapter anymore than I had to. Sorry for the wait. ENJOY!
Chapter 3
Nick met up with Grissom back at the scene.
"Hey Griss, anything new?" Nick said squatting down by where the third body had been found, sliding gloves from his back pocket, the putting them on.
"Luminol, please." Grissom said motioning to his field kit which was 5 feet away. Nick retrieved it, brought it back to Grissom, who started spraying Luminol on the leaves leading to the body to the edge of the woods. Seeing no lumination with his ALS, he stated "There is a lack of blood on the surrounding leaves, trees, they were dumped, there is disturbance in the leaves, but no drops."
"Well doc said that they were all exsanguinated, all female and the third has only been dead about three hours, Sara's running them all thru AFIS and Codis, hoping to pull something, We have one skull and three vics" Nick caught something from the corner of his eye, he gently brushed dead leaves away and the mandible from a second skull was showing through, strangely enough there was absolutely no blood on it.
"Grissom… I have another skull, and it's been boiled." He said retrieving an evidence bag from his kit. Gently lifting it as to not disturb any evidence left on it, he placed it in the bag and labeling it 'Human Skull'. Handing it over to Grissom, Nick watched as a beetle crawled from the nasal cavity.
"This is good." Was all Grissom said
"Entomological Timeline." Nick answered, "So what else is there?"
"I don't know Nick, Why don't you go and check where the other bodies were found"
Grissom said going back to his beetle and skull, Nicks cell rang,
"Yeah this is Stokes." He said
Grissom went about collecting a leaf that had a single solitary drop of blood on it, hoping the killer slipped up when dumping the bodies. Nick hung up his phone
"That was Sara, we have a hit on one of our vics, Felicia Mae Jones, from downtown Vegas, AFIS had her for small stuff, shoplifting and unpaid parking tickets." Nick said as his speech was slower with every word.
"What?" Grissom asked getting up from the spot he was at.
"It's probably nothing… but, I think I know her, the name sounds familiar. She works at the Stage Café, I think." Nick said placing his phone back on his belt. Grissom doing the opposite, he phone Brass
"Yeah Jim, have you been over top the Jones's yet?"
"Good wait, Sara and I will be there in twenty minutes, Nick knows Felicia Mae Jones." Grissom paused before continuing.
"And that is why Sara is coming and not Nick." Grissom said hanging up his phone and giving Nick one of his looks as well as three paper bags with evidence tape across the top sealing them.
"Take these back to the lab, log everything, Oh and this, producing a small manila envelope from his field kit.
"Orange fibers recovered from victim number three. I think it's nylon, but I want to be sure." Grissom said heading back to his Chevy.
"I want a rush put on everything. I think this guy is gonna kill again." Grissom left the park, leaving Nick putting everything in his truck and driving back to the lab. When Nick got back to the lab, Sara and Grissom were climbing into Grissom's Chevy. Sara turned when she seen Nick, giving him a look of confusion. All Nick did was shrug.
It was far too quiet for Sara to stand.
"Grissom, what is going on? Why didn't you just take Nick with you?" she asked
still not saying anything as he headed towards Stuart AVE.
"Griss, if I don't hear it from you, I'll ask Nick." She said looking out the window.
"Nick knows the victim." Grissom said stopping at a traffic light.
"Short and too the point, nice… Grissom how does he know her?" looking back at Griss.
"She works at Stage." Grissom turned on to Ballatine DR.
"oh, well that is comforting. If that's the case then we all know her to some extent." Sara said with doubt in her voice.
"Yes, we do." Grissom pulled up to the curb behind Brass's car. Before they even reached the front door a guy out of the house and lunging at Brass before they realized what was happening. The assisting officer pulled the guy off.
"Where is my wife!" The guy yelled at Brass.
A/N Ok tell me if I should continue, I can't promise that the chapter will be long, only because I write what happens to be in my head at the time, but I will be updating more often. Remember you can find my email in my profile.
