Chp 7

On the way back to the lab Marissa never spoke one word to nobody. She just leaned against the window and watched as kids played in their yards; families came together for barbecues, friends going shopping and living the day as it came. She knew she was close not being able to live each day, but right now after having a verbal fight with her boss she didn't know what was worse. Living and ending their trust in their relationship or dying and rejoining her mom and dad in heaven.

She watched as Stella stopped at a stop sign and let little girls on bikes cross the roads. It was then that she had made up her mind. She would live the day as it came and she would make the most of it.

"How far are we from the lab?" She asked but almost in a droned voice; she never even lifted her sight from the window.

Stella blinked at her words and re-put her concentration back on the road.

"Five by car ten by foot why?" Stella looked sideways when she stopped at an intersection. Marissa was already halfway out of the car. "Marissa what are you doing?" She yelled out surprised.

Marissa never turned back, not once; she just made her way across the street on the sidewalk and began taking her shoes off and left them behind her. She walked barefoot on the lawns letting the texture of the grass tickle her feet and her toes.

In the car Stella looked at Marissa curiously. She radioed Mac at CSI.

"Taylor." He said, he still had a mouthful of anger but most of it was filled with worry.

"Hey Mac; it's Stella." She said from the car but was slowly following Marissa from a distance at a low speed.

"Is something wrong?" He asked automatically assuming something had happened to Marissa.

"I don't know Mac, Marissa been acting weird since you fought with her." Stella said as she turned the corner to see Marissa stripping off of her badge and her gun soon afterwards. She parked the car and walked onto the sidewalk to collect the items.

"What is she doing?" Mac asked anger gone and now replaced with concern. He was taking off his lab coat and threw it over on a chair and was exiting the room heading for his car.

"Well for on thing she got out of the car when I was at a red light, and now she's just walking towards Central Park; she took off her shoes, badge and gun awhile ago and she's now taking off her holster and leaving it on the ground." Stella picked up the gun and put it in her pocket and did the same to her badge.

"Okay I'm heading over; just make your way over to the lab." He said as he jumped into his car and turned on the ignition; he hung up the phone as he exited the parking lot and got onto one of the busiest streets of Manhattan.

Author's Note: I realized after I posted it that it was really reckless to make Marissa merely throw her gun away for anyone to take but please put in consideration Stella was there and she knew it…Love it? Hate it? Loathed it? Tell me your honest thoughts.

Brit –xox-