Well here is chapter 2. Hope it's not as bad as the first chapter!
"Sara what did you find?" Nick asked.
"Well I did some digging and I looked up Melissa on the database."
"What did you find?" Cath repeated.
"Nothing. But..."
"What?"
"When I didn't find anything on Melissa White I looked up Melissa Winters."
"And?" Cath was getting impatient.
"Melissa Winters is Megan Winters twin sister."
"Well we already knew that. What else did you find?"
"Well both of these girls parents were listed as their mother being Bridie Winters and father unknown."
"What else?"
"Well I had a look at the crime scene report and it said there was a sighting of a blue sedan so I checked it out. The same car was seen parked a block away from Bridie's place. So I checked the license plate. The car is registered to a Bernard Wellington."
"Got his address?"
"Yep. Here you go." Sara handed her the piece of paper.
"Nick you come with me we'll go see who this Bernard guy is. Sara you see if you can track down Melissa Winters for us."
"Gee thanks Sara. Glad you found out that information." Sara muttered as she left the room. "Thanks for nothing Cath."
"Hey lighten up. She'll give you a break sooner or later."
"Yeah?" Sara asked sarcastically. "Well apparently I completely ruined Lindsay's life. I don't get why she's mad anyway. It should be me that's mad after what she did."
"Should I even bother asking?' Nick looked at her.
"No. Because I don't want to talk about it. All I know is Cath is never speaking to me again and to tell you the truth I don't ever want to speak to her again either."
"You should try and work things out. If not for you two then for the team. We're supposed to be the #2 team, how are we supposed to keep that up if two of our members aren't talking to each other?" Nick asked. "You should at least try to talk to her."
"So she can just yell at me all over again…no thanks."
"Ok fine. I give up. Just try and keep your differences away from work. If Grissom finds out then one or both of you will get suspended."
"Hah. Like he's suspend Cath after what they did."
"What do you mean?"
"I saw them-"
"Nick!" Cath cried. She had come back to see what was taking him so long. When she saw him kneeling in front of Sara with his arms on her knees she snapped. "In case you haven't noticed we have a job to do!"
"Yeah righto I'm coming." Nick turned back to Sara he leant in and kissed her softly on the cheek. "I'll meet you back here soon and we'll talk."
"Yeah." She moved her lips in a sort of smile and Nick stood and followed Cath.
"You could give her a break you know?" Nick suggested. "Do you have any idea how upset she is?
"Who?"
"You know who. She hasn't done anything wrong."
"You call ruining my life nothing wrong. And ruining Lindsay's life too. Do you have any idea how hard it is to explain to a 7-year-old girl what happened? Why she cant see her Uncle Grissom anymore?"
"I don't know Cath. I don't know what happened but…"
"Exactly you don't know what happened so you've got no right to butt in."
"Cath I…"
"Stay out of it Nick." Cath said when she pulled up at Mr Wellington's house. She ignored Nick as she walked up to the door.
"Can I help you?" A young woman asked when she opened the door.
"Yes we'd like to speak to Bernard Wellington." Cath replied.
"He's not home. You just missed him I'm afraid. But you can speak to me about anything to do with him. There's no secrets between us."
"I'm Catherine Willows and this is Nick stokes. We're from the LV Crime lab."
"Crime lab?" The woman was confused. "What's he got to do with the crime lab?"
"Yes we'd like to speak to him about the car he owns."
"You mean the Mercedes?" The woman asked. "That's been in the garage for three weeks now."
"No actually we wanted to know about the blue sedan."
"Ah right. Well then it's not Bernie you'd want to talk to. That's Jenny's car."
"Jenny?"
"Yes. Bernie's daughter."
"And is she home?"
"No. She hasn't been home for a while. She's been staying with her boyfriend for the past few months and we haven't seen her for at least 5 weeks."
"Where does this boyfriend live?"
"Ah hold on I'll just grab the address. Bernie wrote it down for me before. He says if I needed anything to call Jen."
"Thankyou." Cath replied. She turned to Nick after the woman had gone inside. Nick could see the question coming so he answered before she asked.
"Mistress maybe?"
"No. She seems to nice to be a mistress." Cath pondered for a second. She was about to speak when the woman walked back out again.
"Here you are. I hope you can read my writing." She laughed.
"Thankyou..."
"Geri. Geri Lowe. I'm Bernie's Sister." Nick shook her outstretched hand. "And it was my pleasure."
When Cath pulled up at the address she had been given she wasn't surprised at the state the house was in. the front gate had fallen off its hinges, the plants were wilting and there were empty beer bottles all over the lawn. She walked over and knocked on the door.
"Yeah?" A guy asked when he opened the door.
"I'm Catherine Willows and this is Nick stokes. We're from the crime lab. We'd like to speak to Jenny."
"She's not in."
"Where is she?"
"Dunno. But she aint here." The guy replied. "Now buzz off." He went to close the door but Cath stuck her foot in the way.
"I said Buzz off."
"Harry tell whoever it is to get lost and come back to bed." Cath heard a woman's voice.
"I thought you said Jenny wasn't here." Cath raised her eyebrows when she saw a woman in a towel walk up and wrap her arms around Harry.
"She aint. That's Cheryl." He paused. "Look I aint seen Jenny in months ok. Last I heard she was moving back in with her Mum."
"Do you know where he mother lives?"
"Nup. And I dun care. Now like I said before. Buzz off!" He managed to close the door this time. Cath heard the latch close then he heard the guy walk away from the door.
"Well that was a big help." Nick commented.
"We're still not any further in our investigations."
"I'm sure we'll figure it out eventually. Maybe Sara has something interesting."
"I hope so." Cath got into the Tahoe and slammed the door. Nick was barely in the car when Cath started it and took off.
"Watch it Cath. What is your problem anyway?"
"None of your business." She snapped not taking her eyes off the road.
When they arrived back at the crime lab Sara walked up to them.
"What have you got?" Nick asked.
"Well I checked out the mother. There's nothing really on her. She's got a record for drug dealing and robbery. But there's nothing else."
"What about the daughters? Did you get hold of their birth certificates?"
"Well I found out that Bridie had a twin sister also. Their mother was a drug addict and died when they were born so Bridie and her sister were adopted out separately. And you'll never guess who her Sister is."
"I don't have time for guessing games right now." Cath snapped. "Just tell me."
"Well it seems that Bridie's sister's name was Kelly White. And she married a man called…Bernard Wellington."
"What?" Both Nick and Cath cried.
"I think we need to have a little chat with Mr Wellington.'
Well there we go…few changes. You'll find out what happened between Cath And Sara soon. I promise!
Jess
