Title : Secrets from their past..chapter 3
Disclaimers.: Again with the rubbing it in my face. I don't own them so just stop rubbing cause my face is raw.
Summary: Supervisors Gil Grissom and Catherine Willows, are engaged. Gil and Catherine are called to a crime scene. Catherine soon realizes she knows the two victims found brutally attacked and let for dead. There is little evidence that can help them and the prime suspect is the victims fiance. Eddie Willows.
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Gil arrived back at the lab and headed straight for the autopsy room.
When he entered the room he saw Catherine was waiting for him. Inside she was standing between the two tables, that Kaley and Cathy were lying on. As she stared down the at their faces she wondered if Eddie was capable of something so terrible.
"Cath?"
She quickly looked up. " Oh, Gil I didn't hear you come in, have you seen Al?"
Gil shook his head as he walked toward her " No, he's on his way though" he paused " Are you okay?"
Catherine nodded " Yeah, why wouldn't I be?"
Gil shrugged " Well, your ex's family as just murdered, I wouldn't be okay if I was in you're shoes."
Catherine sighed " Well, I 'm fine, he's my ex and besides that, it has nothing to do with me"
"Okay" Gil replied " Did you talk with him?"
"You mean was I in there with Brass when he was questioned?" Catherine added " Yes I was, and it was a stupid of me,"
"I don't understand. Did something happen?"
Catherine looked back at the two bodies that occupied the room. " I'm still afraid of him." she whispered " After everything that I've been through and everything I have done to get past him, I still fear him, he still has this ability to scare me."
Gil wrapped his arm around her and pulled her into a hug. " You don't have to be, but I understand, he put you through hell, Cath and it's okay to still be afraid. Especially when..he' facing" he looked down at the bodies "something like this."
Catherine pulled away " Do you think he did it?"
Gil sighed " I don't know Cath, but taking his past into consideration, It's not looking good."
Catherine nodded as a tear fell from her eye " You're probably wondering what I was thinking?"
Gil furrowed his brow " What do you mean?"
"I mean, you're probably standing there wondering why I was in love with him or why I wasted my time, and why or how I could have a child with someone so evil and cold."
Gil reached out and wiped a stray tears from her cheek " He wasn't always like that, that's not what I was thinking."
"He said he never laid a hand on her." she looked over at Cathy " I don't understand if he never had this drive to hurt her..why was he always hurting me?"
Gil cupped her chin and directed her focus to him. " Cath, he..right now we have conflicting stories, a neighbor says that all he ever did was fight with her, now whether he was lying it doesn't excuse what he did to you, I don't why he did what he did , but it's over now, he's never going to hurt you again."
Catherine wiped her eyes and tried to smile " Thank you" she whispered hugging him "I love you."
Gil embraced her " I love you too, promise me you'll take care of yourself during this."
Catherine nodded " I will" she whispered "I will."
"Am I interrupting?" Al called as he walked in the door.
Catherine and Gil separated " No" Gil replied taking her hand in his " we were just waiting for you."
Doc smiled as he slid on his latex gloves " Okay let's get started."
A shiver was sent up and down Catherine's spine as she watched as he examined Cathy Trenton's body.
"Well C.o.d is obvious" he pointed "Despite the other stab wound it was this single stab wound to the heart that killed her, he slit her throat but it wasn't deep enough, she would have slowly and surely bleed out but it would not have been as fast."
"The marks around her wrist support the fact that she was bound tight, so tight in fact that the discolorations in both her hands was because the blood stopped flowing, proves the ropes were extremely tight. She may have even been pulled around by it."
"May be when she was dragged" Gil added " he used the rope to drag her back to her room."
"We have some dark shading around the ribs my guess is an old injury if you look how the bruise is shaped it looks like she was punched.There is also some bruising on her knuckles, now some of this maybe from her attack tonight, but most it looks to be old, I can't say much more until we open her up but, I am clocking her time of death to be around one a.m."
"Same thing here with the daughter, except that when he slit her throat he got it right. Time of death is after her mother, placing it around almost two a.m which doesn't necessarily mean that he attacked her after , he may have cut her and went back for the mother, but the mother was dead before Kaley bled to death."
Catherine looked over at Gil and let go of his hand. "I'm gonna go and see how the others are doing,"
Gil nodded and watched as she walked out of the room.
"She okay?" Doc asked
Gil shrugged " She'll be fine, it's just hard, with the victim's being Eddie's fiance and everything."
"Ahh, I see" Al replied " Well maybe you should go with her, I'll call you when I am through, with the sexual assault kit."
Gil agreed and headed out after Catherine.
Gil passed through the layout room expecting to find Catherine.
"Warrick, Did Cath stop by?"
Warrick looked up from the pictures " Not that I know of, but Greg said he had results for you so maybe she's with him."
Gil nodded " Thanks" and headed of to DNA.
"Griss! "Greg shouted " Just the guy I was looking for, I have some results. The semen that was found came up in Cathy's Trenton's bed. Two samples, one came up in the systems as Eddie Willows which would make sense since he was going to marry the women, and another came up unknown, which I am assuming..which I shouldn't is the attackers."
Gil took the paper from his hand " Anything else?"
"There was no semen found on or around Kaley so there may have been no sexual assault, but we will be waiting for Doc's findings so we can compare and eliminate. But the blood that was found in the hallway was all from Kaley Trenton .Originally Sara thought it may have been Cathy's but test prove Kaley Trenton was dragged across the hallway floor."
" Also something that was really weird, the sample Warrick sent down to me, there was a white powdered substance found on Cathy," he held up the paper " Cocaine, Cathy had traces of cocaine on her and in her system."
Gil handed him back the slip and paper " Thanks Greg" he turned and stopped " Did Cath come by here?"
"No. Why?" he replied looking back in to his microscope.
Gil turned and headed out of the room without responding. He then headed off toward the break room which he found empty. He pulled out his cell phone to call Catherine and find out where she had disappeared to. The phone rang once when he heard it coming from his office. Not realizing he hadn't bothered to check in there he slowly opened the door and peered inside. "Cath?"
The room was dark but he knew she was there he could feel her presence and she could feel his. Without saying anything more he walked inside and sat next to her.
"Talk to me" he whispered wrapping an arm around her and resting back on the couch with her head on his shoulder.
"Should I have warned her?" She whispered to him " I mean, I knew she was getting into a serious relationship, and I knew what he was capable of. I feel like I should have warned her ,made her aware of what he was."
Gil caressed her cheek " Cath, that's not up to you, If he was in fact beating her there was nothing you could have done."
"I could have put him in jail" she sat up " A long time ago, when he was abusing me, I had the chance and I passed it up. If he killed them, I could have stopped it or prevented it. All I had to do was put him away."
Gil got up and flipped on the light. " Cath you know why you didn't have him out in jail."
Catherine sighed " Yeah, because Lindsey needed a father, but she didn't want to see him half the time anyway."
"That's not the point Cath, you had your reasons and you need to respect that,we don't know who killed Cathy and Kaley, and you can't beat yourself up for something when you aren't responsible."
Catherine put her head in her hands and exhaled " It is selfish for me to be afraid, I keep thinking that if Eddie did do this.." she paused " I keep thinking that it could have been me or Lindsey or both of us..at anytime, I mean what was stopping him?"
Gil pulled her back into him as she sobbed " I don't know Cath, but we have to wait and see what the evidence tells us."
"I know" she replied getting off the couch " I wonder if Doc is finished, we should get out there they are probably looking for us."
Gil nodded and followed behind her "Cath, you sure you want to work this one?"
Catherine turned to him " Yeah, I'm sure" she smiled kissing him on the cheek " I'm okay...really."
Gil nd Catherine walked out of his office to be instantly greeted by Nick.
"Just the two people I was looking for. Brass has gone to pick up Eddie. The neighbor called in and reported finding a bloody knife and rope in her bushes out front, prints on the knife and epithelials found on the rope match Eddie."
Catherine glanced over at Gil who in turn took her hand in his. As much as she wanted and hoped Eddie was innocent everything was leading to the conclusion he was guilty.
TBC
