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Chapter Three

Family Ties

Raine sat on the back of the ambulance as they cleaned up the few scrapes and bruises she endured from the glass shattering around them. Greg was taken to another ambulance where he was talking with a cop about what happened.

"What do you think your doing Greg?" Grissom exclaimed walking up to him, Sanders looked at him.

"What do you mean?" he replied.

"Having breakfast with a witness and possible suspect"

"Wait a minute since when is she a suspect" Grissom looked at him.

"Since we found her father's fingerprints on the handcart in the dumpster"

"Well Raine doesn't know where her father is" Greg walked away from the ambulance, Grissom followed him.

"How do you know?"

"Well you asked me to get some more information and that's what I was doing, we meant at the Denny's I was asking her questions about the case"

"And her father just happened to come up in the conversation?" Greg looked at Grissom.

"Yea when we started talking about why she was here and why she was at the bus station" he sighed "Look I know it seems odd, but it wasn't anything, we were just talking about the case."

"Well you may be right but don't expect Ecklie to see it that way" Grissom walked away. Greg closed his eyes and sighed walking over to Nick.

"Hey Greg so what's up with this whole thing?"

"I think it's possible our shooter from the first case, is trying to finish the job"

"Why do you think this is connected?" Nick looked at him "It's possible you guys just happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time"

"Well it seems that Raine has been in the wrong place at the wrong time both times."

"Maybe it's just bad luck" Greg shot him a look.

"Well I bet if you compare this bullet shells with the ones from the other case they will be a match." Greg walked away from him and over to the ambulance where a officer was talking to Raine. "Excuse me, I got this" he replied the officer nodded and proceeded onto the other victims.

"This just doesn't seem to be working right for me at all" she replied with a small smile.

"Well at least you weren't hurt" he said returning the smile.

"Are you in trouble, I saw that guy yelling at you"

"Oh no, he wasn't yelling at me..." Greg looked over at the other CSI's investigating the scene.

"Shouldn't you be helping?" Raine replied.

"No I can't, I'm not allowed to process a scene I was at or witnessed." she nodded, he took a seat next to her.

"Do you think it's the same guy? Is it possible he's looking for me?"

"It's possible but we won't know for sure until we examine the evidence" he looked back out at the rubble of the Denny's he wanted to tell her that the guy who shot her was her father but he knew it wasn't his job. "They're going to want to take you back to the hospital to check you out, and Detective Brass will probably be there to ask you a few questions, but do me a favor..." he looked at her.

"Okay"

"Call me at this number" he wrote it on a piece of paper giving it to her "To let me now you got back to the hotel okay"

"Sure" she nodded taking it and placing it in her pocket, Greg gave her a smile and walked back over to Grissom.

Raine arrived at the hospital and they placed her in a room where they checked her vitals and did a few xrays to make sure everything was fine. After all that she was placed in a room for a doctor to brief her and release her, while she waited Detective Brass walked in the door.

"Hello again" he replied giving her a soft smile, Raine smiled back. "I guess you know why I'm here"

"Yea I have a pretty good idea"

"Well I guess I'll go ahead and start, When is the last time you saw your father?" Raine gave him a puzzeled look.

"Why are we talking about my father what does he have to do with anything?"

"Just please answer the question" Brass took a seat.

"Well he left seven years ago and I haven't heard or seen him since"

"What about other family, would they have contact with him" Raine shook her head.

"I have no other family but my brother"

"Would he have contact with your father?"

"No, he lives with a foster family last time I talked with him"

"When was that?"

"Four years ago" Raine fiddled with the bottom of her gown. "I came out here to find a place where we could live together without someone else trying to run our lives. He'll be eighteen in a year, thats when he's coming out here, once I give him a call and let him know"

"So you have a number where we could reach him?"

"Yea I can give it to you, but I'm not positive if it's still the number I haven't had a chance to try it since I got here with everything that's been going on" Brass nodded and took out a notepad.

"What's his name?"

"Well his first name is Tyde, I assume his last name would be Mitchell because that was the name of the foster family but I can't be to sure"

"All right, and the number?" Raine gave him a look.

"I don't know it off the top of my head but I have it back at my room"

"Okay then, here's my number, give it a call with the number for me"

"Sure" Raine took it adding it to her pocket with Greg's number.

"One more question, I just want to clear something up" Brass stopped in the entryway of the room.

"Okay" she looked at him.

"Why were you at the Denny's with CSI Sanders"

"We were there to discuss the case, he told me he had a few more questions to ask, and thats what we were doing, Why? is he in trouble or something?"

"No not at all" Brass gave her a smile.

"Well I have a question for you."

"I'll try to answer it if I can"

"Why are you asking me about my dad?" he looked down and sighed a bit.

"His prints were found at the scene, we believe he might have been the shooter but we can't be sure" Raine looked at him a little surprised, she never expected to ever see her father, let alone be shot by him. She knew Greg must have known because he was acting wierd back at Denny's after he had talked with the older CSI.

"Well I'll do my best to help" she got to her feet not waiting for the doctor, she dressed in her clothes and left the hospital a few minutes later. Raine grabbed a cab and took it out to the hotel she was staying at. After she got into her room she locked it up and called up Greg.

"Sanders" he replied on the other line.

"It's Raine"

"Oh are you back?" he replied.

"Yes"

"Is something wrong?"

"Why didn't you tell me" she sounded a little angry.

"Tell you what?"

"About my father, I know you knew about it"

"I couldn't I didn't have the authority to tell you" he said this and sighed "I'm sorry"

"Don't worry about it you were just doing you job." Raine replied with a mocking tone and hung up the phone. She got up from the bed, she grabbed a water from the fridge and sat down on the couch, this was terrible, she knew she couldn't stay here, she was pretty sure he had a pretty good idea she was here. Raine would leave in the morning and call Brass from another hotel, that way if her room was being bugged or anything they wouldn't get her brothers number. After a few hours she finally passed out, it was about noon by this time, she slept until five getting up she packed up her things and went down to the lobby checking out. Raine grabbed a cab and took it to another hotel a little farther down the strip, she checked in and went to her room, she plopped down on the bed and called up Brass she gave him the number and hung up. She ordered room service and waited for it turning on the TV.

Greg walked into the CSI building to start another shift, he walked into Grissom's office, where he sat looking over photos.

"Did they get a match on the bullets?" he replied, Grissom nodded and looked up at him through his glasses.

"It was a match"

"Well what are they going to do about Raine, I mean he's obviously trying to finish the job because she is his only witness"

"We have it taken care of" Grissom said looking back down to his work.

"And what exactly does that mean?" Greg looked at him and Grissom didn't reply he just handed his case to him.

"A body was found in an alley, Sarah is already there" Greg took it reluctantly leaving the room and going back out of the lab.