Title: Murder at the Acid Drop

Summary: A murder at the club Acid drop. Gil will lead his team through the investigation to find the evidence that leads to one suspect.

chapter 3

Disclaimer : Unfortunatley...I don't own anything...

"The good news being that there are no signs of sexual assault, but you do have a severe concussion , you will need to stay the night." she smiled "I'll give you two a few minutes, I'll go and round up the forms that need to be filled out..."

As soon as the nurse closed the door, Gil felt her hand drop away from his grasp. " Cath I.."

"Don't " She whispered " I told you nothing happened to me , I knew that." she paused "nevermind.. I don't want to stay here Gil..I'll be fine I just want to go home."

"Catherine, I know that you just want to go to sleep and forget this ever happened but Chris is dead and right now you're the last person to see him alive."

"I didn't kill him and I know that Brass and Ecklie think I did but it's not true, I would remember if I killed someone and I don't so that means it wasn't me." she sighed " You believe me don't you?"

Gil nodded taking her hand once more " You know I do."

"So what happenes now?"

Gil sighed " Ecklie being the jerk that he is got me put on mandatory leave so I wouldn't jepordize the case. So I' m going to be there for you and Lindsey no matter what."

Catherine nodded " Thank you.." she whispered resting her head on his shoulder

"Ecklie is pulling Gil off the case." Warrick broke the news as soon as it was relayed to him " I can't believe that guy!"

"Well Ecklie had to do what was necessary for the case" Sara replied " Gil is Catherine's good friend and.. he could hurt her, even when he thinks he is helping her."

"They're best friends..and Ecklie is just jealous of what they share."

"Well maybe" Sara glared at Nick for cutting her off " He thinks it's more then that and he dosen't want someone to get away with what they have done."

"So you think she killed him?" Nick quickly replied " You were saying differently at the scene"

Sara shurgged " I don't know yet but we are all on the same side here, we should be doing our jobs, before we all get kicked off the case."

"Well, I think we need to start with the guy who was bringing Catherine her drinks, I' just finished proceesing his uniform and I found a white residue across the back of his apron., I had some test run and they confirm the residue is from GHB tablets."

"The same drug in her system."

Warrick nodded " Which may mean he had the pills in his hands, and once he was done slipping them in her drink he wiped his hands on his uniform."

"Does Ecklie know about your findings yet?" Sara spoke

Warrick shrugged " Not yet, I'm going to fill Grissom in first and see which route he thinks we should take. I don't care what Ecklie says' he's not my supervisor."

"Yeah," Sara added " but neither is Grissom."

Gil and Catheirne had just finished filling out the forms when Ecklie burst into the room. " Catherine, we need to hurry this up" he turned to Gil " If you don't mind the suspect needs to be taken in."

Gil gripped her hand " She's can't leave the hospital tonight, if you bothered to check with the doctor or the nurse then you would have know they are keeping her overnigiht."

Ecklie nodded " That's fine then we'll do the questioning here."

Gil nodded and turned to Catherine " I'm not going anywhere" he assured her "I'll stay with you."

"I'm scared" she whispred in his ear "Should I be getting a lawyer Gil?"

"it's up to you." he replied, then looking deep into her eyes he knew who he had to call " I'll call him for you."

"Thank you" she whispered as he pulled away. " Ecklie you're going to have to wait for my lawyer."

Ecklie scoffed " Thats' what I figured, that's the first sign of guilt." she smirked "So what was all the whispering about? Thinking to lie about what really happened tonight?"

Catherine ignored his question " You shouldn't be asking me anything once I have requested a lawyer..but I'm sure you know the law and being the big shot that you are your not going to keep breaking it. Are you?"

Ecklie nodded " I'm going prove once and for all what you really are Catherine, You can't keep getting away with things. This time you crossed the line, this wasn't just another slip up. Your dealing with me now, not Gil, You are not going to be given the get out of jail free card anymore."

Catherine sighed and rested back on the bed, she was is far to much pain to repsond to his intaganizing comments.

Gil headed outside toward the waiting room and pulled out his cell phone. The phone line on the other end rang a few times before the man picked up " I was expecting you to call" was how he answered.

"Mr. Bruan" Gil began " I'm at the hospital with Catherine, she needs help. She .."

Sam cut hin off " I saw it on the news, I'm assuming she wants a good lawyer."

"That's correct" Gil replied " Look for the sake of Catherine I'm going to be civil with you, I know she didn't do it and if you love her at all then you'll help her."

"She's my only daughter of course I want to help her. I'll call Brad, he's the best and we'll be at the hospital soon."

Gil sighed with relief " Thank you..Sam..I let her know you're coming ."

TBC