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A/N So this is the second chapter slightly longer than the last, hope a couple more people might read and review for me.

He hadn't been able to sleep so he tried to do some cross-words to keep his mind off what had happened, nothing however seemed to be working. Soon it was time to get ready for work, how the hell was he going to explain his black eye let alone why he looked like death warmed up. Oh well maybe if he didn't mention it everyone would be too afraid to ask and he could just lock himself away in his office for the night.

As he approached the break room he had a funny suspicion that this was not going to work and that everyone would look at him. Why hadn't he taken the night off at least until the swelling went down, oh that's right he needed to keep his mind busy and the best way to do that was to come to work. Stepping through door everyone lifted there eyes to his, the range of emotions was clear on their faces as he went to sit down. Catherine looked surprised and almost amused, probably assuming that he had received it in some stupid way, Warrick and Nick both looked confused and Sara well Sara looked concerned.

"Right, Warrick & Nick B&E take Greg with, it's a big house so you'll need the extra set of hands, Sara keep going with that missing persons from last night and get Catherine to help you when she's finished with her paperwork, I'll be in my office."

With that he got up and left leaving them to talk among themselves. Hopefully that worked he thought to himself as he walked back to his office.

"Did anyone else not think that weird?" Warrick asked as the remaining CSI's sat around the table.

"What the black eye or the fact that Grissom was trying to avoid us all?" Catherine commented as she started to get up from the chair

"I'm sure he got it by bumping into something and he was just too embarrassed to tell us how, it's not like he gets himself into bar room brawls or anything, now I don't know about you but I think we all have work to do."

Everybody left the breakroom except Sara who just sat there chewing her lip she knew something was up and by the end of the shit she was going to find out what.

Grissom shifted once more in his chair, he just couldn't get comfortable his back was sore from earlier on in the day and his ribs ached slightly from being spear tackled. He sighed and rubbed his good eye he just couldn't concentrate. There was a knock on the door accompanied by a brunette sticking her head around it

"Can I come in?, I just wanted to hand you my report from the missing persons".

"Finished already? I thought you said this case could take awhile as there weren't many leads"

"Well turns out the girl was staying with a friend, was trying to get back at the parents for grounding her, hey Grissom are you ok? You look a little tired" Sara questioned.

"Yeah just didn't get much sleep last night". He replied as he motioned for her to give him the file in her hand

"Oh yeah sorry" as she handed him the file "You don't have to answer this but how did you get the black eye, people are taking bets, Greg reckons you got into a fight with Ecklie"

"If I tell you Sara it is to stay strictly between you and me, not even to Catherine" Sara nodded in agreement.

"Well I got it because" just then Grissom's beeper went off he looked down cursing what it said. "419 brass" Sara went to leave , but Grissom motioned for her to stay "I'm going to need you on this one" A look of surprise crossed her face "As I can only see out of one eye and CSI's need all 5 senses" A slight look of disappointment twisted her features then passed. "Just hold on while I call Brass".

After getting the location from brass Sara and Grissom headed towards the Tahoe's. "You're driving" Grissom mentioned as he threw the keys over the bonnet of the SUV to Sara, as Sara went to catch them she saw a flinch of pain from Grissom as he went to open the door. "Are you sure you're ok?" She questioned as she opened her own door. "Yeah just getting old" he winked at her as he got into the Tahoe.

"You know it's going to be hard to see evidence until light break out here Griss". Sara commented as she retrieved her kit out of the Tahoe.

"That's the problem with visiting the desert at night Sara it's dark" Grissom joked "But looks like they've set up some portable lights for us so we shouldn't miss anything, I'm going to talk to Brass why don't you start processing the body" with that he grabbed his kit and started to walk towards Brass. Sara watched as he walked away he seemed to be walking slower than usual like he was favoring one side of his body over the other, very odd but then that's Griss she thought as she headed in the direction of the body.

" 70 year old male, no id as of yet found about an hour ago by that kid over there apparently he comes out here to look at the stars, seems harmless enough says he hasn't moved or touched the body before you ask."

"Thanks Jim, anybody else been near the body?"

"Not as far as I know, first officer on the scene kept away, something about knowing that the guy was dead from a distance, possible clue was the fact is not much is left of his face" Brass replied as his cell phone started to ring "Excuse me" Brass apologized as he went to answer

"I'll be with the body, get the boy to sit tight Catherine can process him when she arrives".

"So what have you found?" Grissom asked as he settled down beside David and Sara

" Elderly male, stab wound to the chest, face is pretty messed up going to make it hard to ID looks possibly like acid, but we'll know more when we get him back to the morgue" David mentioned while getting out his black bag for the body

"Looks like he might have been in a fight before he died has banged up left knuckles also an interesting scar on his right hand pretty old looks like teeth marks" Sara added as she lifted some fibers off the body. Grissom got up with an abruptness that caused both David and Sara to look up.

"I can't, I don't believe it," Grissom stuttered "Sara keep to the evidence and stop the speculation just continue to process the body". With that Grissom turned and walked quickly as possible back to his Tahoe.

"What was that about?" David enquired "I don't know but I intend to find out, just stay with the body for a second David I'll be back in a minute" Sara quickly got up and followed Grissom's footsteps, if he thought she was going to process this whole scene by herself he was sorely mistaken, black eye no black eye there was no excuse to just walk off like that. As she reached the Tahoe her anger grew as she saw Grissom just standing there with his hands on the tailgate of the Tahoe knuckles as white as anything.

"Grissom what was that about and where do you get the right to talk to me like that, if you think I'm going to process this whole scene by myself you're sorely mistaken"

"Are you even listening to me?" Sara questioned

"I can't help you Sara" Grissom replied still with his back turned

"What because of your eye? You could at least do photo's." Sara let out a sigh "I can't because" Grissom took a deep breath "I'm related to the victim"

"What?" Sara exclaimed almost dropping her torch that she had in her hand "The vic was related to you, how?" Grissom turned at this she could see the confusion and anger in his one good eye

"How do you think Sara, he was my father which is why I shouldn't even be here I'm compromising the scene by even being here, I need to go can I have the keys?" Grissom blurted out

"Grissom you can't drive, not in this state or with that eye, just sit tight in the Tahoe I'll go see if Jim can give you a ride back in his car, I'm so sorry about your dad Griss" Sara motioned to touch his arm but he moved out of her reach and walked around to the passengers door and sat down and stared at the dashboard as if it was the most interesting thing in the world.

"Brass, we have a problem"

"Sara, I'm sort of busy here if you have a problem can't you talk to Grissom".

"Unfortunately my problem is Grissom" Sara let out with a sigh. Brass looked up from the report he was scanning

"What?"

"The victim it's Grissom's father, we need to get him out of here, he's not going to be any good to us and in fact he's right when he say's he's technically compromising the scene, is it possible you could drive him back to the lab and keep an eye on him I have a funny suspicion we might have to talk to him after we've processed the scene".

"You think he's a suspect? Come on Sara we're talking about the most unemotional man on the earth here plus he wouldn't ever commit something like this, he's too smart, but I'll keep an eye on him just the same, let him know I'll give him a ride when he's ready".

Sara nodded and headed back to the Tahoe.

"Griss, Jim's ready when you are to go" Grissom swung his legs out of the Tahoe and started to walk towards the squad car, Sara wasn't even sure he was sure where he was until she heard a small "Thankyou" as he walked past and on towards Brass.

"Hey, what's happening, I just saw Grissom and Brass heading the other way". Catherine asked as she stepped up beside Sara who was processing the area under the body now that David had taken it away. Sara rubbed her eyes with the back of her arm.

"Well apart from the fact that the victim was Grissom's father and we have the whole desert to process not much, want to do a spiral search to the edges of the lights?"

"Whoa Sara slow down, the victim was Grissom's father? I thought Grissom hadn't seen him in years, how did he know it was him?" Catherine asked in a puzzled tone

"That's what I wondered but it's not important right now what is is the evidence I'm almost finished here then we just have the search to do but I don't hold out much hope in finding anything as this wasn't the primary site the body was just dumped here"

"Alright lets get to work the quicker we get this done the quicker we can figure out what's happened, you know we're going to have to interview Grissom and unfortunately Ecklie is probably going to have get into this."

What the hell was he going to do he looked guilty the neighbors probably heard them fighting, his fathers DNA was all over his door and hallway not to mention his eye and his DNA on his fathers knuckles, it didn't even take a scientist to figure out what had gone down it was obvious they had fought and for some people it wasn't much of a jump to murder.

His train of thought was broken as they pulled up to the lab. "Gil, we're here"

"Thanks Jim" with that Grissom opened the door and headed towards the lab.

"Damn" Brass cursed as he turned off the ignition and raced after Grissom, finally catching up with him as he was shutting his office door.

"You can't just shut yourself off in here Gil it's not healthy"

"You know as well as I do Jim that I'm now a suspect in this case as I'm his only living relative in Vegas plus I saw him last night, you're going to want to talk to me ohhhh I'd say in about 2 hours after Doc Robbins pre-lim I just want to collect my thoughts and make it easier for you to find me is all, now would you kindly leave, I have some paperwork to do" Grissom replied in a curt tone

"Just don't do anything stupid, I'll be around if you need me, I've got something I need to discuss with Warrick anyway" and with that brass left grissom in peace.

"Single, stab wound to the chest was the cause of death but look at this bruising near the stomach looks like a foot, by the coloration I'd say it was administered before death, probably received at the same time as the grazes on his knuckles. Not sure about the acid though we'll know more when the analysis comes back but I'd say HCl inflicted post-mortem."

"What about the scar on his right hand I was curious about what it was from" Sara enquired

'It's definitely from human teeth if I'd take a guess probably a child but it's at least 40 years old, not recent, see how the scar tissue is white and faded."

"Thanks Doc" Sara turned to leave

"Oh Sara"

"Yes?"

"Is it true what they're saying, that this is Grissom's father"

"Unfortunately it looks that way" and with that Sara disappeared out the morgue doors.

"We need to question Grissom now Catherine, there is no way of getting around it" Sara commented as they cataloged what little evidence they had.

"I agree lets get Brass to bring him to an interview room and get it over with, once we have that out of the way we can continue looking for the actual killer"