Hi ya'll! I'm sooooo sorry for not updating sooner. I'm a bad, bad kid.
I've been so completely busy. For the past two weeks I have gotten an
average of 5 hours of sleep a night. But I am back and I have not
forgotten you.
I would like to thank my strong but few faithful fans. I hope that you continue to read and enjoy my story.
There are some issues that I would like to clear up from the last chapter, like why Anna's papers don't have Anna on them. That issue will be addressed in the coming chapter. Thank you Kathryn for pointing this mistake out to me. (Oh, and Kath, I heart Batboy as well. Just a Three- Bedroom House. Hehe)
All right...all of the normal disclaimers apply, and the rating still doesn't but I promise that it will.
On with the story... (As a special treat, this will be a super long chapter)
Greg was bored as hell. He was sitting in his lab finishing up the latest batch of tests that were dumped on his desk. He let his mind wander to the girl he saw earlier, ~ She looked like a fun girl...too bad I won't meet her...she was really cute...Wait, why am I thinking about mystery girl...I need to get out of this lab ~. Greg stood up and shook his head quite violently. He didn't notice, but Nick and Warrick were walking past the lab at the same time and saw him. They just looked at each other and chuckled. Meanwhile, Greg decided that he needed to do something. So he picked up the recently printed results and went out to deliver them personally to the lucky CSIs who needed results.
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About five seconds after Greg left the lab Grissom and Anna walked in. Grissom needed to show her the environment that she would be working in and hopefully introduce her to her new partner. ~ Where is Greg? I mean I know that he is scatterbrained sometimes, but I told his that I would be bringing in his new partner about now.~ "Well, this is the lab. You'll have a partner, but he seems to be AWOL right now. Anyway...".
Anna listened intently to all that Grissom told her while she was looking around the lab. It looked like the words were just going in one ear and out of the other, but Anna was a bit different from most people. She had a recordable mind, it's kind of like a photographic memory, but she could tape conversations in her head and recall them later in perfect word order with every detail. So, when Grissom looked at her with his weird look that she would get to know so well she had the perfect response. "Yeah, I'm listening."
~Who is this kid, she's looking around and not even paying attention to me. She is acting like a teenager; well two can play this game. ~ "Ok then, what did I say?" Grissom looked at her with the smuggest look in the world because he figured that he had caught her lying.
Anna just looked at him with the blankest look, which made Grissom smile even more, but then she recited his whole spiel back to him word for word. Then it was her turn for the smug smile.
"Alright, I've seen and heard a lot of things in my career, but that was amazing. How did you do that?" Grissom now stood stuck in his spot with the most confused face ever. He may have been used to things being odd or disturbing, but this was the weirdest thing that he had ever heard and he wanted to know how it had happened.
Anna just looked at him, shook her head, and let out a small laugh. "Mr. Grissom, I know that you're not going to believe this, well actually with all of your experience with odd things you might, but I have a recordable mind. It's kind of like a photographic memory, but with words. I can remember almost every conversation that I have ever had and cared to remember word for word in perfect detail. It's an interesting gift."
"You are just a surprise wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a question in a tuxedo shirt and converse low tops." (I know, very uncharacteristic Grissom line, but I like it.) Grissom just shook his head and went on explaining the lab. "Now, this is a Stereo Microscope, but I'm sure you have seen one of those before. This is a ...What..." A very puzzled Grissom turns to look at a stunned Anna who has just erupted with an "OH MY GOD".
"You have a Polarized Light Microscope! I've always wanted to use one of those, but my college didn't have one. I get to use this...Oh wow, I have to call my mom, I have to call my old professors, I have to call...uh...umm...well, I have to call somebody! This is really exciting, you have no idea how exciting this is!"
Grissom just stared; he was absolutely stunned that a 25-year-old woman could be jumping up and down at the prospect of using a microscope. ~She must really love science... She'll fit right in.~
It's at this moment that Greg just happens to come back. He turns the corner in the hall and hears a girl yelling excitably about...a microscope? ~To each his own.~ He walks into the lab to see the girl from the hall that he would never see again bopping up and down on her toes and rambling on about how she gets to use the PLM. He looked back and forth between her and Grissom until Grissom turned around and noticed Greg. As Grissom turned so does Anna, and as she turned she got as red as her shoelaces.
Greg tries to hold back a laugh, just barely succeeding, "Grissom, who's this?"
Grissom looks at his watch at a sly smile works its way onto his face, "Well Greg, since you weren't here at 6:30 like I told you to be you'll have to wait. Now go and get everyone else into the break room if you please."
Greg gave Grissom a glare and turned to comply with his given task. Grissom just smiled and then he turned to Anna and watched her turn away in embarrassment. "Anna, it's alright that you're excited about the PLM. You might even get to use it tonight, because I bet that you have read extensively on how to use one." Anna brightened noticeably at this, and she nodded enthusiastically, because she actually had sat in her dorm room reading the manual to a PLM and she had then continued on to tell her friends about it in excruciating detail. To put it bluntly they weren't very happy friends. "We're going to head into the break room so that you can meet the team. Don't be surprised if they don't know who you are or if they ask you the same questions that I did. You know, because your name is not very common."
Anna just let out one of her little laughs, "Yeah, I'm used to it. Most people are at least mildly stunned by my name, so don't worry about it."
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Greg was running throughout the office popping his head in and out of doors yelling at anyone and everyone to come to the break room because Grissom said so. "NICK...CATH...WARRICK...SARA.........ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO, COME TO THE BREAK ROOM TO MEET...SOMEONE!"
The team slowly filed out of their respective rooms from doing their respective duties. Nick who was working on two hours of sleep due to a super long shift was dragging a bit. Greg saw this and, being his normally boppy self, he went to Nick and tried to get him to wake up, "Hey Nick buddy, what's up, how are you, you look a bit down, can I do anything to help..."
Nick looked up at Greg with an amused stare and cut him off, "Hey Greggo, yeah I'm fine, I'm just running on fumes you know."
"Oh, I got it, but there's someone Grissom wants us to meet, so come on wake up."
"Got it dude, I'm well on my way."
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Grissom looked at his watch and turned to Anna, "It's time to go and meet the team; are you ready?"
Anna, who was just calming back down from the PLM incident and was finally turning the normal human shade of peach, shook her head, "As ready as I'll ever be."
And thus ends chapter 3, sorry again for the wait, the next chapter will come along soon.
Thanks Hoogs
I would like to thank my strong but few faithful fans. I hope that you continue to read and enjoy my story.
There are some issues that I would like to clear up from the last chapter, like why Anna's papers don't have Anna on them. That issue will be addressed in the coming chapter. Thank you Kathryn for pointing this mistake out to me. (Oh, and Kath, I heart Batboy as well. Just a Three- Bedroom House. Hehe)
All right...all of the normal disclaimers apply, and the rating still doesn't but I promise that it will.
On with the story... (As a special treat, this will be a super long chapter)
Greg was bored as hell. He was sitting in his lab finishing up the latest batch of tests that were dumped on his desk. He let his mind wander to the girl he saw earlier, ~ She looked like a fun girl...too bad I won't meet her...she was really cute...Wait, why am I thinking about mystery girl...I need to get out of this lab ~. Greg stood up and shook his head quite violently. He didn't notice, but Nick and Warrick were walking past the lab at the same time and saw him. They just looked at each other and chuckled. Meanwhile, Greg decided that he needed to do something. So he picked up the recently printed results and went out to deliver them personally to the lucky CSIs who needed results.
**************************************************************************** **
About five seconds after Greg left the lab Grissom and Anna walked in. Grissom needed to show her the environment that she would be working in and hopefully introduce her to her new partner. ~ Where is Greg? I mean I know that he is scatterbrained sometimes, but I told his that I would be bringing in his new partner about now.~ "Well, this is the lab. You'll have a partner, but he seems to be AWOL right now. Anyway...".
Anna listened intently to all that Grissom told her while she was looking around the lab. It looked like the words were just going in one ear and out of the other, but Anna was a bit different from most people. She had a recordable mind, it's kind of like a photographic memory, but she could tape conversations in her head and recall them later in perfect word order with every detail. So, when Grissom looked at her with his weird look that she would get to know so well she had the perfect response. "Yeah, I'm listening."
~Who is this kid, she's looking around and not even paying attention to me. She is acting like a teenager; well two can play this game. ~ "Ok then, what did I say?" Grissom looked at her with the smuggest look in the world because he figured that he had caught her lying.
Anna just looked at him with the blankest look, which made Grissom smile even more, but then she recited his whole spiel back to him word for word. Then it was her turn for the smug smile.
"Alright, I've seen and heard a lot of things in my career, but that was amazing. How did you do that?" Grissom now stood stuck in his spot with the most confused face ever. He may have been used to things being odd or disturbing, but this was the weirdest thing that he had ever heard and he wanted to know how it had happened.
Anna just looked at him, shook her head, and let out a small laugh. "Mr. Grissom, I know that you're not going to believe this, well actually with all of your experience with odd things you might, but I have a recordable mind. It's kind of like a photographic memory, but with words. I can remember almost every conversation that I have ever had and cared to remember word for word in perfect detail. It's an interesting gift."
"You are just a surprise wrapped in a mystery wrapped in a question in a tuxedo shirt and converse low tops." (I know, very uncharacteristic Grissom line, but I like it.) Grissom just shook his head and went on explaining the lab. "Now, this is a Stereo Microscope, but I'm sure you have seen one of those before. This is a ...What..." A very puzzled Grissom turns to look at a stunned Anna who has just erupted with an "OH MY GOD".
"You have a Polarized Light Microscope! I've always wanted to use one of those, but my college didn't have one. I get to use this...Oh wow, I have to call my mom, I have to call my old professors, I have to call...uh...umm...well, I have to call somebody! This is really exciting, you have no idea how exciting this is!"
Grissom just stared; he was absolutely stunned that a 25-year-old woman could be jumping up and down at the prospect of using a microscope. ~She must really love science... She'll fit right in.~
It's at this moment that Greg just happens to come back. He turns the corner in the hall and hears a girl yelling excitably about...a microscope? ~To each his own.~ He walks into the lab to see the girl from the hall that he would never see again bopping up and down on her toes and rambling on about how she gets to use the PLM. He looked back and forth between her and Grissom until Grissom turned around and noticed Greg. As Grissom turned so does Anna, and as she turned she got as red as her shoelaces.
Greg tries to hold back a laugh, just barely succeeding, "Grissom, who's this?"
Grissom looks at his watch at a sly smile works its way onto his face, "Well Greg, since you weren't here at 6:30 like I told you to be you'll have to wait. Now go and get everyone else into the break room if you please."
Greg gave Grissom a glare and turned to comply with his given task. Grissom just smiled and then he turned to Anna and watched her turn away in embarrassment. "Anna, it's alright that you're excited about the PLM. You might even get to use it tonight, because I bet that you have read extensively on how to use one." Anna brightened noticeably at this, and she nodded enthusiastically, because she actually had sat in her dorm room reading the manual to a PLM and she had then continued on to tell her friends about it in excruciating detail. To put it bluntly they weren't very happy friends. "We're going to head into the break room so that you can meet the team. Don't be surprised if they don't know who you are or if they ask you the same questions that I did. You know, because your name is not very common."
Anna just let out one of her little laughs, "Yeah, I'm used to it. Most people are at least mildly stunned by my name, so don't worry about it."
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Greg was running throughout the office popping his head in and out of doors yelling at anyone and everyone to come to the break room because Grissom said so. "NICK...CATH...WARRICK...SARA.........ANYONE ELSE WHO WANTS TO, COME TO THE BREAK ROOM TO MEET...SOMEONE!"
The team slowly filed out of their respective rooms from doing their respective duties. Nick who was working on two hours of sleep due to a super long shift was dragging a bit. Greg saw this and, being his normally boppy self, he went to Nick and tried to get him to wake up, "Hey Nick buddy, what's up, how are you, you look a bit down, can I do anything to help..."
Nick looked up at Greg with an amused stare and cut him off, "Hey Greggo, yeah I'm fine, I'm just running on fumes you know."
"Oh, I got it, but there's someone Grissom wants us to meet, so come on wake up."
"Got it dude, I'm well on my way."
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Grissom looked at his watch and turned to Anna, "It's time to go and meet the team; are you ready?"
Anna, who was just calming back down from the PLM incident and was finally turning the normal human shade of peach, shook her head, "As ready as I'll ever be."
And thus ends chapter 3, sorry again for the wait, the next chapter will come along soon.
Thanks Hoogs
