A/N Thanks again for the R&R's!
Krys- I know I am evil! But don't tell my shrink that. Shhhhhh!
Mudhousejunkie- You only wish you could get me! Hahahaha
Chapter 8
It looked like a lion
Nick sat across the table from Malorie Lunsford. The little girl was much more calm then before.
Waiting for Catherine, Nick asked
"Are you hungry?" Malorie nodded.
"My friend Catherine is going to bring you a soda and something to eat untill we find your dad. Okay?" Nick being the youngest of seven children had more nieces and nephews then he did fingers. So he was comfortable around kids.
"Do you remember the kind of dog you seen last nigh?" he asked her.
"Yeah, but I don't know what they are called." Nick nodded. He needed her to actually say the name of the breed of the chow chow or point it out so he could link the dog to the other scenes. But he couldn't say it or point it out him self, other wise he would be coaching her.
"Okay... I have a book here that has pictures of Dogs, If you look at the pictures do you think you would recognize it?" Nick asked there was a knock on the interagation room door. Opening it Catherine came in with her arms full of sodas, Famous Amos snake cookies and an oversized book of dog breeds. Nick took the cookies and the book. They sat down and Nick showed the three different sodas to Malorie who chose the orange.
"Are you guys gonna find Aunt Lori?" Malorie asked opening her cookies and soda. Nick glanced over to Cath. Catherine just gave a small shake of her head.
"We're working on it, sweetie." Catherine not wanting to tell Malorie, that they had already found Lori Madsen, and that she was at the current time on a slab in Doc's morgue. Letting the news fall on her father's shoulders.
"Do you want to look through that book now?" Nick asked wanting to get her mind off her aunt.
"Yeah, if it will find Aunt Lori." She said sitting forward. Taking the book Nick offered. Sitting back she started to flip through the book. The door opened and Brass stuck his head in the room.
"Nick," he said motion for Nick. Closing the door, Brass waited for Nick to join him in the hall.
"We found Malorie's father. He's out in Laughlin, romancing the flavor of the month. Said he can be here in two hours." Brass said
"So, has she said it was a Chow yet?" Nick just looked at him.
"How did you know it was a chow?" Nick asked
Brass just shrugged. "I heard it through the grapevine." was all he said. Nick just looked at him.
"Okay, it was Hodges." he remarked.
"Man that guy will do anything to get a head." Nick said then muttered "Kiss Ass." under his breath."
"Yup!" Brass said
"Thanks, I'll page you when he gets her. We need to confirm hi ailiby to exclude him from our list.
Ten minutes passed before she found the breed. She had indeed point out the Chow .
"This one. The Chow" She said reading and tapping the picture of the chow . Nick looked at Catherine with a slight smile.
"Are you sure?" Cath said
"Yeah, I remember because it looked like a lion. Except the one I saw was not black. It was brown. Kind of red." Malorie
"Okay. Listen I have some of my nephews coloring books and crayons in my car, If I go out and get them, would you like to use them?" Nick asked. Catherine looked at him with a surprised smile.
"I'm bored, so yeah sure. If my dad's not going to be here for a while, I might as well do something."
"Okay, anything else?" he asked. Malorie looked down and shyly asked
"Do you guys have anything to eat? I haven't had anything to eat since dinner last night except for the cookies and soda you gave me." She said
"Yeah, I'll see if I can dig anything up for you. Catherine." He said motioning for her to follow him.
Both Catherine and Nick emerging form the building, and heading for his SUV. Opening the back hatch, grabbing Spiderman and Batman coloring books and a box of sixty-four Crayolas. Turning to Catherine, he handed over the art supplies, the shutting the hatch.
"Take these to her. I'll be back in a bit." He said climbing into the car.
"Where are you going?" she asked as he started the engine and rolling down the windows to relieve the inside of the car of the sweltering triple degree heat.
"In and Out." He said sliding sunglasses on. "You want anything?" he asked cranking the AC on.
"Sure get me a burger and fries." Cath said as he pulled away.
Meanwhile back at the Jones Interrogation.
"Come on Jones. You expect us to believe this? Give us a little more credit than that." Brass said leaning over Jones.
"I'm telling the truth. I was not cheating on my wife! I love her. I just… I just didn't go to work that day." Jones said with his shoulders hunched.
"Okay I think my I.Q. just dropped twenty points" Sara said. "I'm going to make sure Malorie is okay, before I get any more stupider from listening to this crap!" She got up and went to the door, opened it then looked at Grissom.
"See! Stupider isn't even a word!" with that she went out the door leaving Grissom and Brass snickering.
