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 4
Disclaimer : Unfortunatley...I don't own anything...
Ecklie was still inside the hospital room with Catherine when Gil returned.
"You know" Ecklie spoke " Relationships between co-workers is frowned upon."
Catherine clenched her eyes shut due to the throbbing pain in her head and tried to ignore him the best she could.
"It's clear to me now, after what I have witnessed here tonight that something is going on and it needs to be stopped."
"Could you leave me be ?" Catherine begged " I have nothing to say to you or anyone else. And you're violating my right to privacy." she snapped ingnoring the increase in pain as she quickly sat up.
"Temper!" Ecklie commented " The same thing that probably got Chris Bezich killed."
"ECKLIE!" Gil was furious as he pushed through the door " Leave her alone!"
Catherine slowly at back down and held her head in her hands. " Gil" she whispered " I don't...feel.."
Gil however was still dealing with Ecklie " I' m sure Catherine advise you she wanted to wait for her lawyer so have no business still being in this room!"
Ecklie smirked " Why are you here?" he commented turbing his question into a rhetorical one. " I know there is something going on between the two of you and I don't want it in my lab."
"Gil" Catherine whispered again as the room started to spin " Gil please..."
Gil quickly turned to her forgetting all about Ecklie as he sauntered cockily out of the room.
"Catherine what's wrong?" he was instantly at her side as she tried to stand.
"Gil..I..don't feel well...I can't..." she mumbled as she fell to her kness clutching her abdomen and began to heave violently.
Gil got done beside her " Catherine! " he rubbed her back as sheer panic swept over him. "I'm going to get help...BRASS!" he bellowed " I need a doctor."
Brass stuck his head inside the room and within seconds had summond a nurse for help.
As a doctor and two other nurses flooded into the room. Gil was slowly pushed out, by this time Catherine's breathing had laboured and her body was suddenly sent into massive convulsions. Gil was forced into the hallway feeling helpless and afraid...all he could do was wait.
For what seemed like an eternity was really only a half an hour when Sam Braun and Brian showed up.
Gil was on his feet as soon as they made an appearence.
"Sam thank you for coming, Catherine is so greatfull that you are doing this for her."
Sam nooded "Where is she, I'd like to see her before Brian get's started."
Gil sighed, and it was then that Sam saw the remaining tears escape his eye. " What's happening?" he looked over at Brass who were seated behind Gil and Ecklie who was across the hallway sipping coffee like he hadn't a care in the world.
"I don't know yet." Gil turned his attention to the closed door. " They have been there almost fourty minutes now, they said she was doing fine and I left the room for a second to call you, I came back and alll of a sudden she said she felt sick and she's started heaving and her breathing got heavy and then she started convulsing, they made me leave the room and I have been waiting for them."
A that very moment the doctor emerged from the room closing the door behind, him with a look of concern on his face.. " Excuse me? Mr. Grissom..." he turned to Gil and Sam.
Sara walked toward the layout room hoping to find Warrick, " Hey. War.." she walked in knowing he had heard her enter even if he hadn't bothered to look up. " I just got the results from the DNA..turns out the blood and hairs we found on marbel pyramid did in fact belong to Chris..and I payed a visit to doc and the wound on the back of his head where he was hit..distinctivly matches the corner of the pyramid so..you can let Gil..or whoever know that we have our murder weapon..Greg's in the middle of processing the prints we found on it..so far two full prints and a partial..so we will see what happens."
Warrick nodded the whole Sara had been talking to him but he was clearly on had his mind on the paper infront him " Bachlorelette party..." he mumbled " As he lighlty rubbed the lead pencil across the pad of paper found back in the office. " Chris knew about it."
Sara made a face but quickly figured out what he was saying " Of course he knew..any big event has to go through his ..he owns the place. And it's pretty hard, you need to be on the guest list to get in there."
Warrick nodded "Yeah..so basically the note pad has given us nothing..we know what killed him ..now we need to find out who and why." he paused " Have you heard anything from Nick?"
Sara nodded " They just brought in our suspect...Nick's getting ready to talk with the waiter." she replied as her pager went off.
"I'll be back I'm being paged to the front desk."
Warrick nodded as Sara turned and left.
Sara reached the front desk abd Catherine's sister rushed up to her. " Do you know how my sister is doing?"
Sara shook her head " No. We haven't heard back yet but thank you for coming in."
Nancy nodded " I was pretty meesed up when they wanted to talk to me before..so I went home and regrouped and then I called the hospital but they wouldn't tell me anything, or even if she had been brought in. I figured I could come down and try and help."
Sara nodded " Okay.." Sara began " What exactly do you remember from last night?"
"Bit's and peices..I remember the waiter was really nice. He was designated by the owner to wait on us. Chris..the owner came up to the table seconds behind Catherine and introduced himself. I guess as a wedding gift Chris said we could have all our drinks on the house. Catherine..was a little upset about it and I remember her leaving the table and going after him. I know they were dating for a bit but I wasn't exaclty sure if they still were. Cath seemed a little annoyed with him. She was mad when she came back but she quickly forgot and we were having a good time. I don't know what time it was exactly she looked...I don't know.. dazed I guess, she got up from the table and kind of stumbled toward the restroom.. I didn't think much of it I mean we were all drinking. Catherine" she pauesd " not as much as the rest of us but the alcohol seemed to hit her hard."
Sara nodded taking in the information "We do have evidence showing that your sister had been drugged..so it makes sense that she was a little incoherent..she wasn't drunk."
"Drugged? Nancy shook her head trying to grasp the news " Why would someone do such a thing.." she paused " It was Chris wasn't it? And you think she killed him?"
Sam and Gil stared balankly at the docotor hoping for the best, but truly expecting the worst.
"Miss Willows had a severe allergic reaction to the drugs in her system...She's stable now..her throat was swelling shut..we had to insert a breathing tube. She's going to be fine but she's still going to need to stay..maybe for a few days. Just until the drug is completley flushed, we wouldn't want her to have another reaction."
Gil nodded and sighed in relief. " Can we go see her?"
The Doctor nodded " That will be fine but I suggest you let her rest, she's pretty weak she'll be groggy for a least another few hours."
With that the doctor left the two and headed down the hall.
"I guess she's home free..." Ecklie stood up " For now." he turned to Brass " You stay here..none of them leave this hospital with her unless they are escorted by an officer and she is being brought in for questioning."
Brass nodded as if Ecklie were his boss
"Money can't change what she's done." Ecklie scoffed in Sam's direction " Just like her father." he commented as he walked past. " And remember what I said Grissom..I don't you anywhere near this case or the lab."
Gil didn't wait to watch Ecklie walk off.
"Cath?" he quielty walked into the room and stopped at her bedside.
Catherine's eyes fluttered open and she slowly turned her head.
Gil tired to smile,hoping he could comfort her but a small tear escaped from her eye as well as his own. " Sam came with the lawyer but the doctor said you should be resting. Everything is going to fine okay?"
Catherine nodded and reached out her hand, Gil lovingly took it and sat next to her. Sam not wanting to interrupt slowly backed out of the room and closed the door behind him.
"My daughter is going to be just fine as long as she has him. Let's go Brian we can come back tommorow."
tbc