Disclaimer: I do not own the rights or the characters of CSI, Im just a fan who loves to write, I do however own this story and the characters that I have added, if this story gives you ideas great but don't steal my Ideas. Thank You and Forever Later Daze.

Chapter One

The Forecast Calls For Raine

The world seemed so cold, like it had wanted nothing to do with her, she had made it so far but now their seemed to be this wall stopping her from going any farther. She stared out the tinted window before her at a world she no longer knew as her own, but at a surface yet to be identified. Raine was 20 years old and had lived on her own since she was 16, her father deserted her and her brother Tyde when she was 13 and her mother passed away from cancer when she was 15. She lived with a foster family for not even a year before she ran away to be on her own. Raine got by working small jobs, and living in a small apartment disguised as the granddaughter of the old lady who owned it. She finished up high school on her own, she never had friends because she didn't want to get close to anyone because she had plans of her own, and couldn't get attached. When high school was over she worked until she had enough money for a bus ticket to get out of town, she was going to go as far as it would take her. Raine barely looked 20 she had a small frame and she was short, her hair was long coming down to mid back, it was naturally a bright blonde but she had recently died it a jet black. She had her mother's eyes just like her brother Tyde a deep green, they were bright behind her dark frame of hair around them. Tyde by now would be almost 17, she wasn't sure if he was still with the same family or not, she would try him whenever she got to where she was going.

Raine had fallen asleep for the remainder of the ride, she was shooken awake by an unfamiliar hand, she pulled herself away from them realizing the bus had stopped.

"This is the end of the line dear, I didn't mean to wake you but I have other places to be" The lady driver said, Raine shifted her eyes to her name tag, it read Dolaris, thats a wierd spelling she thought.

"Thank you" she replied softly as she put her bookbag on her back and walked off the bus, she stepped down onto the orange dirt, the weather was hotter then she had expected. She figured she would change in the restroom where she would clean up a bit and see if she could find something to eat. Before her was a welcoming center that welcomed her to Nevada, she didn't realize how far the bus would take her, it was farther then she had planned but it worked. Raine made her way to the building before her, it was large and made out of a sandy brick, it looked old and rather unkept. She shrugged and pushed her way into the bathroom, she found a empty stall where she did her business, and changed into a pair of black cut off shorts and a light blue tank top, she tied a black zip up jacket around her waist incase the nights got cold. She stood in the stall for a few minutes until she could no longer hear anyone else in the restroom, when all was clear she emerged walking over to the sink where she washed her face and pulled up her hair. Raine finished up and walked out of the restroom into the visitors part of the center, where they had a few places to get something to eat, she removed her pink tin that was in the shape of a star, opening it she took a twenty from her stash of money. She closed the tin wrapping it in a small blue blanket and stuffing it back in her bag, she walked into the dining part where she went to a sub place getting a ham sandwhich and a bag of chips. Raine walked over to a vending machine removing two bottles of water, one for now the other for later. She found an empty spot where she took a seat, sitting she ate her sandwhich and chips, she put on her headphones to block everyone out around her. Raine was so wrapped up in herself that when she emerged back into the world around her, she realized everyone had left and she was the only one seated except for the workers which were few to even want to count. She cleaned up her trash and was on her way towards the door when she heard a commotion from another room, she stopped in her tracks to stop the sound of her shoes on the laminate and listened. It was someone arguing with another person, then she heard a gunshot, her eyes widened and she froze where she was, she didn't know what to do. Raine heard footsteps running, then there was another set and another shot, she grabbed her mouth to stop herself from screaming at the body that now lay in the entryway before her. She could hear the other footsteps running towards the body and they were getting closer, she quickly inhaled and ran hiding on the otherside of the vending machine next to the entryway, she kneeled down and huddled as close to it as she could. She could hear the body being dragged, she couldn't tell if it was being dragged away from the room or into it, but all she could do was sit here frozen in fear of moving and being seen. Raine closed her eyes tears streaking down her pink cheeks, her face felt warm from her heart beating so fast pumping her blood at high speeds, if she wasn't going to die from a gunshot wound, it would be from a heartattack, and people said you couldn't die from fright.

After a few minutes everything was silent again and she couldn't hear any footsteps or voices, she slowly got to her feet exhaling deeply, she walked around the vending machine slowly approaching the entryway, the blood was still there. Raine carefully stepped over it, taking a look in each direction of the hall before taking off down it, she heard a voice behind her and another shot, she felt the pain in her shoulder and fell forward. She lay there still, afraid to move, she could hear sirens and then running footsteps of whoever shot her taking off for higher ground, she grabbed her shoulder pushing herself to her feet. Raine felt dizzy and weak, she had never been shot before and she couldn't tell if where she had been shot was fatal or not. She tried to run but collapsed into the wall, Fuck come on her mind screamed at her body to move, but it couldn't and it fell beneath her, she slid down the wall.

"We have a live one, someone get the paramedics." A young guy with messy blonde hair screamed to another somewhat older guy with brown hair. "Your going to be okay" he said to her but her vision was blurred, all she could see was that his jacket said CSI below the LVPD logo, he held her up and tried to keep her with him but she couldn't hold on any longer and she let herself slip away.

Hours later Raine woke up in a hospital bed, her arm wrapped with IV's coming out everywhere, she couldn't talk her throat hurt so bad she felt like she was going to gag, they had put a breathing tube in her throat. She looked around the room for someone, but she didn't see anyone and she couldn't move her head without a sharp pain. Raine wanted to cry, she didn't know what was going on, and she didn't know how to help herself out of the situation. Just when she thought everything was over, the door to her room opened, a nurse walked in noticing she was awake ran to get a doctor, a few minutes later they were pulling out the breathing tube and giving her a glass of water for her now raw and dry throat.

"How does your shoulder feel?" the Doctor replied.

"Fine I guess, I can barely feel it"

"Thats the morphine, it should wear off in a bit" he checked her vitals, blood pressure and all. "I'm Doctor Knolls, we couldn't find any identification, so you are?"

"Raine..." she left it at that, it had been so long since she used her real last name, it was a surprise she hadn't forgotten it.

"Raine, pretty" he replied with a smile "Well Raine, there are some gentleman here to speak with you about what happened, they need some information" She nodded, and he left the room and a few minutes later a older short guy with a badge came in with a younger guy, she recognized him as the guy who had ran to her when she fell in the hallway.

"Hello, I'm Detective Brass, and this is CSI Sanders" the older one replied.

"I'm Raine" she said softly, she wasn't sure what was going on.

"Sanders is going to see if he can find any trace evidence on you, if you don't mind" she shook her head and looked at Brass.

"And your here for?" she asked, he smiled at her.

"I'm going to ask you a few questions about what happened."

"Oh well I can tell you now, I never saw the shooter, I only heard everything"

"Fine, tell me what you heard" Raine shifted a little, she tried to ignore Sanders who was looking over her for any evidence.

"Well, I was sitting in the dining center listening to my headphones, when I realized I was the only one there. I got up to leave when I heard agruing coming from somewhere close by in another room."

"Do you know what was being said?" Brass asked, as Sanders got what he could now just listening.

"No I couldn't make it out, I tried to...but I got nothing"

"Okay, so what happened next?"

"I went to leave the room" Raine shifted sitting up wincing a little bit, the morphine was wearing off. "Then I heard a gunshot, I froze...I didn't know what to do, I wanted to run but I couldn't" she was quiet for a second letting it replay in her head, she closed her eyes to get a better idea. "I heard footsteps running, and footsteps behind those, and then there was another shot this time the body had fallen right in the entryway, I grabbed my mouth so I wouldn't scream. I could hear the shooter running up to the body so I ran beside the vending machine to hide myself. I heard the body move"

"Move? what do you mean move?" this time it was Sander's asking the question, Raine opened her eyes looking at him, her green eyes meant his brown ones giving him a little chill.

"Like the person was dragging it, to hide it or something."

"Oh" he replied, he shot a look at Brass. "That would explain why we didn't find another body when there was evidence of one"

"You mean, you didn't find the body?" Raine looked at both of them.

"Not yet, they are still looking" Sanders looked back at her.

"Can you describe the body?"

"I don't know..." she tried to think.

"You saw it, when it landed in the entryway" Brass recited from her story.

"I know, but I was so frightened, I'm not sure if it even had time to register to me that it was a dead body" she said this running her fingers through her hair, making a face at how disgusting it felt.

"Well it's okay for now, but we will be back to try to get anything else you may remember, so think about it" Brass said this getting to his feet, Sanders waited to let him go before him.

"Thanks for your help" he replied to her, she nodded as he walked out of the room.