Chapter Fifteen: Oh, Atlanta
The weather was defiantly turning colder and colder. It was the CSI's second day in Sylva, North Carolina and everything had gone pretty well. Except if you added in the never before seen tears that had fallen down a certain supervisor's face.
But now everyone was becoming somewhat accustomed to living together. Jim Brass had taken a shot of caffeine that morning and was looking sunny with the 17 hours of sleep he had attained.
That morning, everyone had woken up, eaten breakfast, and dressed themselves. Everyone wore jeans and long sleeved shirts with a sweater and a heavy jacket just in case the temperatures decided to decline even more than they already had. Most of the leaves were blowing off the numerous amount of trees, due to the gusty weather that day.
"Country music! Country!" Nick Stokes turned up the volume as he sat in the driver seat of the Tahoe.
"On my way back to Georgia!" He sang. Grissom, Sara, and Greg were all bunched up together in the seat behind Catherine, the driver, and Nick, the music man.
"On my way back to Georgia!" He sang louder. Sara was freezing, but was thankful for the warm bodies she sat between. Warrick and Brass sat scrunched in the way back.
"...It's the same ol' city, what can I do? I'm falling in love, I'm just an ol' hound dog, roaming' around."
Everyone rolled their eyes.
"I'm comin' back to you one fine day...SARA! Take it away." Nick shouted above the music.
She sighed but figured, What the heck...
"On my way back to Georgia...on my way, back to Georrrrrrrrrggggggggia!" She say. Her voice sounded like silk, and Gil Grissom's attention was forced out he window. But he listened intently, becoming intoxicated by her every note.
"Same old place, it's the same ol' city, what can I do? I'm fallin' in love, I'm just an ol' hound dog, roamin' around, oh lord, I've got all this and heaven above..."
She wandered off, giving her voice a rest. Then continued.
"...ain't no hurry."
She stopped and then started again.
"Well, Atlanta, hear me callin' I'm coming back to you one fine day, Oh, no need to worry..."
The song soon ended and everyone broke out in applause. She turned to Grissom, to find him gazing out the window. He did not give her any congrats, but just stared. She watched him and then let her head droop down. "Grissom, Gris!" Catherine called, noticing Sara's expression through her mirror. "Ya?" He replied.
"Wasn't Sara's voice just amazing?" She asked.
Her eyebrows were so high, Sara thought for a moment they would just fly away.
"Uh, ya," He turned to Sara. "You were great. Really, great."
They were put into a low hum of conversation until Warrick broke it.
"We're we goin'?" He'd attained some southern accent already. "Downtown Sylva, and then possibly Waynesville if we have time." Nick took over. Nick had visited this place a few times before.
"Ya, we'll shop around for Christmas presents and then get some lunch at this cute little place I saw called uh, 'Grandma's Barn." Everyone nodded in agreement.
This truly was going to be great.
When they arrived they noticed that Downtown Sylva was all closed down.
"What's up with that?" Greg asked, peering out the window. Nick nodded and confirmed his suspicion. "Sunday. Everyone's gone."
Sighs followed as everyone's spirits were gone. Nick picked them back up. "Wait, I remember now, there was this place further up the road called, Dillsburo. It has shops, and fudge shops, it's a little village. We can go there."
Everyone was picked back up. "Show me where." Catherine said.
Everyone clambered out of the Tahoe and sighed in the cool mountain air. This was great. They could shop and be merry.
"Ok. We have to figure out on how we're goin' to shop." Grissom began. "Greg, may I see your hat?" Greg sacrificed his hat to Grissoms hands. He took a ball of crumpled paper out of his pocket and wrote something on it and shredded them into bits and dumped them into Greg's hat. They were playing 'Secret Santa.'
Everyone drew a piece of paper, reading them, they chuckled together.
This is how they'd drawn them:
Sorry but I messed up a lot. I wasn't supposed to show certain things on this. It's so confusing on how to post stories up on here. So, I ended up losing the continuing chapter to this and I messed up putting the same chapter on twice. So I fixed it and found the continuing part of this chapter. So I can retype it. Hope you all like my story. Thank you! Kisses and Hugs, and pumpkins! It's almost Halloween!
Oh, and I'm not going to reveal who everyone got on Secret Santa. Shhhhhhh...it's a secret that will be found out in the near future.