"SIDLE" Ecklie screamed at Sara something she would never have expected him to do.
"What? What the hell do you want now!" she screamed back over the howling wind while continuing to walk away.
"Where the hell do you think your going?"
"Away anywhere, I've told you already PAY ATTENTION" she shouted not turning around.
Ecklie decided no matter how angry he was with her he wanted to stay wither as she was likely to find the way out much quicker then he would, not which he'd admit it.
"So that's it the bike didn't' work so your going to storm of again?" asked Ecklie.
"Well standing next to it and praying fro God to strike you down didn't' work so yes" she replied but he didn't hear for the howling wind.
Sara ran her hand over her head forcing her rain-laden hair back from her forehead. Her tee shirt was stuck to her and freezing he legs were numb along with her arms and if there was any light it would have shown her ears and nose to be bright red with the cold.
"Sara we can't walk aimlessly"
"You got a better idea?"
"Well can't we look t the stars or something?" he suggested beginning to wish he was stuck with Grissom as he suspected he'd follow some star formation and find his way out and straight into a coffee shop.
"Sure if WE COULD SEE ANY" Shouted Sara throwing her hands up in the air indicating the clouds that were covering the sky and raining the heavens down upon them. Lightening once more lit up the sky an thunder followed just seconds afterwards echoing around the sky.
"This is great I'm going to die form hypothermia with just Ecklie for company" muttered Sara as Ecklie ran along side with her his ragged breathing indicating his lack of physical fitness when a familiar light came into view, A flashing blue light from the top of Ecklie's Tahoe.
"Yes" Sara couldn't' resist running or the car like a child towards presets Christmas morning. If it weren't for Ecklie following behind she would have hugged it as well but settled for madly shouting at Ecklie for the keys after running into the open.
On reaching the car Sara grabbed the keys from Ecklie and flung the door open no longer caring the Ecklie was stood there she pulled her wet tee shirt of to a coughing fit from Ecklie who just stood staring still in the rain his jacket keeping most of him dry. Sara rummaged in the back as Ecklie got in the front. She found a blue jump suit and began putting it on while Ecklie switched the heating on. The drive back to the lab was complete silence.
"Hey your…back" smiled Catherine it fading as Ecklie stormed by her followed by Sara who was trudging behind him soaking wet and as white as a sheet wearing a blue jump suit.
"You ok" asked Catherine as she walked up to her.
"I never want to work with him again," Sara simply said heading into the locker room.
"What happened?" asked Catherine following her in and waiting as she got changed.
"Well our decomp kept 100 jars of urine and faeces, Ecklie tried to process the bathroom with no gloves, then we found human soup in the basement along with a woman who was probably beaten to death, followed by Ecklie's mad march into the woods that GOT US LOST IN THE RAIN" Sara said shouting the last part becoming tangled in her top as she frantically tried to get it on "oh and my processing methods are floored and I become to involved" Sara said finally getting dressed and sitting down.
"I'm so pleased he's not evaluating me," said Catherine sitting down next to her.
"Are you ok your very white" she said trying to get Sara to calm down.
"I'm fine just angry" she said rubbing her temples.
"Want some help processing? I saw Ecklie heading to the morgue so he'll be interrogating David for a bit" she added with a slight smile. "Mia's banned him from her lab while she's working told him he had no authority telling her what to do and when, he blew a gasket and stormed off"
This raised a slight smile from Sara.
"Why would someone keep 100 jars of urine anyway?" asked Catherine following Sara out.
"Why would anyone put dead bugs on their walls, whatever does it for you" said Sara as they walked by Grissom's office her pager beeped
"Ecklie" she sighed. With that Cath grabbed it from her and threw it in the nearest bin.
"Oops must have lost it at the scene" she said as Sara looked at her shocked.
"I'll get you a new one," said Catherine dragging Sara away form the bin and into a room full of boxes.
"What if it was important?"
"It was Ecklie, I some how doubt it" smiled Catherine pulling out a box "so other than urine what we got"?
"A gun, lots of blood samples in DNA and enough finger prints to decorate the entire lab" said Sara
"And a deed of ownership" added Brass form the doorway making Sara jump. "Your vic, the first one that is owned the house, Lee West 35" he handed Sara the paper and then left.
"Kills the owner then uses the house to dump his rather impressive collection of bodies," suggested Catherine.
"Well mortgage was paid up, that's unusual." Said Sara reading the paper.
Ten minutes later and Ecklie was back from the morgue.
"Sidle I've been paging you" he called as Cath smirked at him.
"Lost my pager" Sara simply stated not looking up at him for fear her head might drop off.
"First vic died from a single gun shot, second unable to tell and the third died from a internal haemorrhage, she was hit so hard her brain basically bleed out" said Ecklie
"So someone used her as punch bag" clarified Catherine
"Willows I don't remember you working this case"
"I am since it became a triple," said Catherine smiling at him "want to process the jars" she added pushing a box full of them at him.
"Actually I'm working on an ID for our beaten blonde"
"Jane Doe" said Sara looking and wishing she hadn't moved her head "have some respect" she muttered causing Ecklie to raise an eyebrow at her.
"I'll check missing persons"
"If they beat her they probably didn't care enough to register them as missing, especially if they killed them" said Sara as Ecklie became frustrated with her, showing him up in front of Catherine.
"Family members may have"
"Family members probably don't' know, domestic violence is well hid" said Sara. Catherine was desperately trying to think of a way to cut Sara of before she really pissed him off but without making her angry with her she was finding it hard.
"Ecklie" just then the sheriff walked in cutting everyone off.
"I hear you have a triple, papers have already got hold of it, calling it the body basement"
"Oh catchy" mocked Sara getting a look from everyone.
"I want a result fast, evaluations will have to wait," he said shooting Sara a look
"Do we have anything yet?" asked the sheriff
"Well we have a recent finger print form the bathroom but we probably wont get a match after Conrad smudged it. Could have used a bit more practice in the field before he worked something high profile" announced Sara as Cath looked at the ground not sure what to do.
"Sheriff" called Ecklie chasing after him wanting to write a report on how Sara had no respect for her superiors.
"I think they may be talking about you" smiled Catherine
"Probably telling him how I told him to get lost," sighed Sara her head flopping in her arms.
"You told Ecklie to get lost," said Cath with a smirk.
"It was a reflex," replied Sara burying her face in her hands.
"Well if your trying to wind him up that should do it" smiled Cath starting to process the jars.
Sara was trying to ignore the growing nausea in her stomach but the fact she was sat processing jars of urine made this very hard to do.
"Sara are you ok?" asked Catherine noticing how pale she ahs suddenly gone and the fact she was rocking slightly back and forth.
"I jut need some fresh air" announced Sara getting up and wobbling slightly as Catherine steadied her and lead her into the corridor.
"Sara it's ok to admit you sick" Catherine said slightly amused at how Sara could insist she was fine despite the fact she looked worse than some of the corpses Cath had processed.
"I'm going to be sick" Sara got out in one breath shoving a hand to her mouth and one to her stomach.
"Oh" Catherine scanned the corridor for a bin or something she clocked the men's restroom been the nearest, the women's was at the other and of the corridor and from the interesting shade Sara was turning Cath doubted they'd make it that far.
"Emergency" cried Catherine leading Sara in the men's room and making the fact that women were coming in known. Nick who was washing his hands looked startled as Cath's voice echoed round the room before Sara entered been pushed by Catherine. Sara barely made it into the stall before been sick.
"Oh" was Nick's reply before exiting the room.
"Typical man, things get messy and he leaves," muttered Catherine as Sara slumped down next to the toilet.
"Feel better?" asked Cath
"No" replied Sara looking like she was going to be sick again when Nick came back in offering a cup of water to her and resisting the need to throw his arms around her and hold her.
"Tastes horrible thought you might want a drink" he said handing the cup to a very grateful Sara.
"Thanks" mumbled Sara trying to get up embarrassed she'd been sick in front of friends especially Nick.
TBC ……….. with added snickers!