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Chapter Two

Just When you Thought Everything Was Safe.

Sanders sat going over the clothing Raine had been wearing when she was shot, they could tell from her wound that she had been shot from a far distance, her shirt proved it as well. He ran a magnifying glass over it looking for anything else, he felt a pressence behind him and saw Nick.

"Hey" he replied

"Find anything?" Nick asked, Sanders shook his head. "Well Grissom wants to see you, he wants you to go back out to the hospital before the Vic is realeased and see if you can get anything else out of her."

"Just me?" he said, Nick nodded.

"Yep your on your own"

"All right" Sanders got to his feet and walked to his locker grabbing his jacket before leaving the building getting in his car. He drove down to the hospital walking to Raine's room but it was empty, he caught the next nurse walking by. "Excuse me, do you know what happened to the girl in this room?"

"I think they went ahead and released her, you can check the front desk" she gave him a smile and proceeded on her way. Sanders realized this wasn't going to be as easy as he thought, he sighed and walked down to the front desk.

"Yes Sir can I help you?" an older nurse on the otherside of the desk asked.

"I'm looking for a patient that was released today, her name is Raine...I don't have a last name"

"I'm sorry I can't release any information, unless your family"

"I got one better, I'm with the crime lab and I need to get some information from her" he showed her his ID, and she looked for her file.

"Her name is Raine Wilder, she left a hotel address, no room number where we could reach her" she wrote it down and handed it to him, he took it.

"Thanks" he replied this leaving the hospital and heading to the address on the paper given to him, his phone rang on the way there. "Sanders" he replied.

"Greg where are you?" Grissom said on the other line.

"I'm on my way to speak with the witness slash victim, why?"

"We found the body, and Nick needs you, so do that later and get down here now"

After the call Greg pulled a U-ie and headed to the body dump, where Nick was processing the scene and the body. He grabbed his camera and started taking shots of the scene, he found a wallet opening it, he noticed that it was the ID of the body.

"His name is Juno Derner" Greg said looking over to Nick who shot him a look.

"Where did you find that?" he asked, Greg placed the wallet back down.

"Here" he said taking a photo and marking it.

"Well Juno here, has a shot to the chest and one in the back of the head, which accounts for the two shots the witness heard." Greg looked over and noticed them and Nick looked at him.

"Did you get anything else out of her?"

"No, she wasn't at the hospital anymore, I have the address where she is, but Grissom called me when I was on my way and told me to get down here." Nick nodded and went back processing what he could.

Back at the lab Grissom went over the crime scene photos, trying to place everyone, Catherine walked in.

"So we share yet another case" she replied with a smile.

"Yes it seems that we do" he replied looking at the photos.

"Fill me in?" Catherine said taking a seat, he placed the photos before her.

"This is where your body originally was from the eyewitness's statement, according to her she heard the body move, which would account for the tracks here where the body was dragged into this room here. The tracks stop, and from what I can think is the body was put on something."

"But what?" Catherine looked at the photos.

"That's what I'm not sure, there was nothing at the scene the body could have been transferred on, which means the killer dumped whatever it was after the fact and we have to find where."

"Right, well I'll take Warrick and we will go back over the outside of the scene, check ditches and dumpsters" she said getting to her feet leaving the room.

Greg walked into the CSI building and up to Mia in the lab, giving her what they had to be processed. He walked out yawning, his shift was coming to an end but he still had to go and talk to Raine.

"Greg what are you still doing here?" Grissom said walking up the hall towards him.

"I had to drop off the evidence from the body dump, and I'm going to go ahead and run to the witness to get some more information out of her to place her at the scene."

"Why don't you let someone else do it"

"No I got it Grissom, it's cool" he said this walking past him and leaving the building again, working his way back to the address the nurse had given him. He pulled into the parking lot, he walked inside and went to the front desk. "Hi I'm with the Las Vegas Crime lab and I'm looking for a Raine Wilder" he flashed his ID and they looked in their log book.

"Yes, Miss Wilder is on the third floor, room 308"

"Thank you" he said flashing a suttle smile and taking the elevator up and walking to her room knocking on the door.

Raine shifted in her sleep at a knock at her door, she looked at the clock it was half past eleven, she stepped out of her bed in a pair of sweat pants and a tank top. She glanced in the peephole, she saw Sander's and she undid the chain lock and opened the door.

"Yes?" she replied

"I'm sorry Miss Wilder for bothering you so late, but I had some things to do before getting to you"

"Call me Raine...Miss Wilder sounds to appropriate." Sander's smiled. "Your Sanders right?"

"You can call me Greg" he said, she moved to let him in.

"What did you need?" Raine said walking into her room and sitting down in the chair by the balcony window.

"I needed to ask you a few question about where you were at the scene so we can factor you out in the areas you were to help us with the investigation" Greg took a seat on the couch next to her.

"Did you want something to drink, I have soda and water"

"A soda would be nice, I haven't had a chance to have anything since earlier today." Raine got up walking over to the little fridge grabbing a coke, and handing it to him sitting back down.

"Okay so where should I start?" she asked.

"From when you arrived at the scene." he looked at her.

"Well I got off the bus, and the first thing I did was stop in the bathroom, after that I walked out into the lobby between the restrooms and the rest of the visitors center."

"Okay, so where did you go from there?" Greg took a drink of his coke, and Raine shifted sitting indian style on the chair.

"I went into the dining center, where I went to the sub counter got my food, and I sat at the table closest to the window, it was the only one that was completely empty"

"Were you alone on the bus?"

"Well no there was other people" she looked at him, Greg smiled.

"I meant did you come alone?"

"Oh yea, I've been on my own and alone for four years" he nodded.

"So after you ate what did you do?"

"I got up and threw my stuff away, I was walking to leave the room when everything started. I hid by the vending machine and when I couldn't hear anything more and I thought maybe the person had left I got up to leave, I ran down the hall and thats when he shot me."

"Your sure it was a guy?" Greg asked, Raine looked at him her green eyes piercing his again.

"When I heard the agruing I only heard male voices, so I'm assuming the shooter was a male, because the victim was...am I right?" he nodded.

"The body was male, yes.."

"He was ethnic to, but he wasn't foriegn he was from here, possibly his parents were from somewhere else"

"Why do you say that?"

"I don't remember any accents when I heard the voices, they both spoke perfect english and I remember the body being kind of tan" Greg finished the rest of the soda.

"I know this is an odd question and I could probably get in trouble for asking, but are you hungry" he asked.

"Starving, why?" Raine replied.

"It's a little against the rules, but I'm starving to, did you want to go get a bite to eat, and I'll ask you some more questions."

"Sure I guess.." she said "But let me change first." Raine got to her feet and walked into the bathroom, she put on a pair of khakis and a short sleeve pink tee.

They left the building and walked to the nearby Denny's, they got a table and sat down looking over the menus.

"So why would this be against the rules?" she looked at him.

"Well it's not appropriate to take the witness out to eat" Greg said with a laugh "But I've been working all day without eating anything, and I'm off the clock"

"Well if your off the clock, then why did you come to see me?"

"Because I was suppose to talk to you earlier when I was on the clock but then I ran into something else and I ran out of time to come back here, so I decided to do it anyway."

"You could have waited til tomorrow"

"I wasn't sure if you were going to even still be at the hotel" Greg looked at her setting his menu down. "When I saw the address was a hotel, I thought you might be on your way somewhere"

"Well I was, but I'm here and I'm not going anywhere else, I'm at the hotel until I can get a job and get my own place to live"

"Oh, well where did you come here from?"

"North Dakota" Raine set her menu down as well, and the waitress came over to take their order.

"I'll have the cornbeef hash and two scramble eggs" Greg replied, the waitress turned to Raine.

"Just waffles with fresh strawberry topping" the waitress took it down.

"Anything for you guys to drink?"

"Coffee" Greg said handing her the menu "and a small glass of orange juice"

"I'll have a large milk" Raine said as the waitress took her menu as well walking away.

"North Dakota is pretty far, how come you came here?" Greg asked getting back on topic.

"There was nothing for me in North Dakota, I figured I might as well move on and see if there is something else for me somewhere else."

"So why did you choose Vegas?"

"I didn't I just bought a ticket and took the bus to it's last stop, and it happened to be here"Raine shrugged and the waitress brought them their drinks. Greg put some sugar and milk in his coffee and sipped at it.

"What about family?"

"I have no idea where my father is and my brother is living somewhere with a foster family. I haven't gotten in touch with him yet"

"And your mother?" Greg looked at her, and Raine stared at her milk.

"She died when I was fifteen, she had cancer" he was silent for a second.

"I'm sorry I asked..."

"Nah it's okay, I've moved on" Raine looked at him. "I just want to try to find a place where me and my brother can live..."

"How old is he?"

"He'll be 17 this year...when he's 18 he's moving out with me"

"Well that'll be nice"

"I hope so, but with all thats going on now, me being shot and all and the person still out there I don't know if it's such a good idea." Raine swirled her straw around her milk. "I'm all he has, and he's all I have" Greg looked at her and wanted to tell her everything would be fine, but he didn't know. He had no idea what would happen, he wasn't sure if they would ever find him and he didn't know if the shooter would ever come after her again. Just when he was about to speak, gunshots went off and the glass of the Denny's shattered around them, Greg grabbed Raine pushing her down to the ground covering her and throwing his hands over his head. After the shots were fired, he heard tires squeal and the vehicle take off, Greg looked up and around him, everyone was on the ground and no one was hurt. He looked down at Raine who was covering her face.

"Raine" he said quietly "Are you okay?" she just nodded and cried, He put his arms around her, he looked up when he heard screaming from the otherside of the restuarant.

"He's Dead!" a Lady screamed histeracally crying, Greg got to his feet leaving Raine's side, she sat up brushing off the glass. He walked over to the guy, he checked his pulse and he was gone.