DISCLAIMER:Don't own it... No money made... Just for fun and enjoyment.
SUMMARY: Sequel to Displacement. The CSI team and their recently hired coroner Stephanie are back to work solving cases, sharing companionship and generally making their way through the dire world of criminal investigation with humor and friendship... This one will show the development of the relationship between Grissom and Sara and there should be some other surprises down the road as well. Romance/Drama/Angst/Mature Situations
RATING: M for Mature - I'm starting this one out at "M", since we won't be waiting quite so long for the smut this time out ;) Also, there is a sprinkling of language throughout the story.
A/N: I promise... The suspense will not go on forever... Just a little while longer :D
REVIEWS: I am always looking for ways to improve my writing, and your reviews let me know if I am hitting my mark. Thank you in advance for the time you take to read & review this story.
Chapter 41
As they were pulling up in front of Desert Palms Hospital, Jim Brass could hear a cellphone going off. He checked the one in his pocket and ruled it out. When he noticed the man beside him in the front seat flip out his phone and begin talking, he knew where the culprit was located. "Fraser."
Brass stopped the car, and waited for any response from the other riders, but they all hung on the words being uttered by other man in the front seat.
"Are you serious?... Okay, that makes sense… Right… Well, given the properties he's talking about, I'd say we need a vasodialator as well… Oh wait." Everyone in the car held their breaths with the tone of his voice. "If you introduce those, without flushing the epinephrine, you could send her into defib… Right… Full bore…" The man looked around, realized that he was at the hospital and got out of the car. The others followed suit, and he continued talking, "Look, we just got here, I'll be right up… No! Start it now, time-… Right… Just a sec." The other three people were right behind him as he approached the front door, and he was about to start explaining, when the officer at the door stopped them.
"You can't park that here, buddy." The man was gruff and he blocked the doors to their entry.
Brass brought out his badge and simply said, "Stop me." The officer stepped aside and the four of them walked into the door.
As they made it inside, Dr. Fraser started to explain, "Okay, so it looks like someone isolated the allergen… And it seems the source is also a pathogen as well, so it's complicating things." The man shook his head with the frustration that was gripping all the doctors. "We've got a plan to try and reverse the effects of both the pathogen and the allergic reaction."
Thomas had finally found a voice, "Allergic reaction? I don't understand, her dust allergy has never been this severe."
The doctor stopped, and looked Elizabeth straight in the eye, "She has other allergies, though, right?"
Elizabeth searched her mind, she went back and then she found it. "Well, she won't ever go back to Redwood… There's an unusual family of ferns there that she's aller-…" She stopped. Professor Adler's research. "Oh my god… Adler dealt in jungle foliage… Ferns."
"Yeah, I guess the folks over at LVPD figured out the agent. Anyway, they're going to flush the epinephrine from her system, while starting her on a mucus thinner, continue the steroids, and switch the anti-histamine to something more suited for the agent." Fraser started moving toward the elevators again and the others followed.
Thomas had one more thing to add, "That means she's still reacting to the agent, right?"
"You got it… They also started her on humidified air, and along with the mucus thinners that should give her the ability to cough that crap out of there. Assuming the other symptoms are under control, she should, theoretically come around to do that." They all stepped into the elevator.
Thomas continued to process the information, and another question filtered through. "How long has she been on the epi?"
Fraser shrunk a little from the question, "Yeah, that's our wild card… Since shortly after six this morning." They all looked at their watches and the tension increased in the confined space. "More than four hours… And her BP has been a factor throughout… She crashed a few times, in the beginning. And-…" the words died in his throat as the doors of the elevator opened up and he stepped out.
However, Thomas did not budge before he got his answer. Fraser turned back to the younger man. He motioned for Thomas to step out and the others waited for him to move. "And what, Dr. Fraser?"
"They weren't sure how long she'd been down before she was found, so-…"
The tone of Thomas' voice was cold and painful. "So… This could all be academic."
