A/N: SORRY FOR THE LONG DELAY IN UPDATES, WE HAD A HOUSE FULL OF SICK/INJURED KIDS THE LAST FEW WEEKS(NOTHING SERIOUS, THANK GOD). THANKS FOR THE REVIEW, PLEASE KEEP 'EM COMING. AS ALWAYS, I DO NOT OWN CJ, CSI, LAS VEGAS OR ELVIS PRESLEY ENTERPRISES(IF I DID, I WOULD BE ONE HAPPY LADY!). ENJOY.
CHAPTER 10: ALL SHOOK UP
Woody wasted no time getting back to his hotel room. What he saw when he entered amused him, Jordan was pacing the room with Millie following her intently. Or was it the box of fishy crackers Jordan was holding? "Are you all packed Jo?", Woody asked, startling her out of her reverie. "What?", she questioned. "Packed. Ready...to…go.", he annunciated. "Yeah about that, I think we should stay. Help out a little.", she proposed, digging into the box and tossing a handful of crackers into her mouth. "Help with what? Rice said the case was a slam dunk, the wife did it.", he replied, chuckling as he watched Millie's face fall when her mother gobbled up her precious fishy crackers. "Jordan.", Woody added, nodding to the box of crackers then at his daughter. "Oh sorry, Sweet Pea.", Jordan apologized, pouring some crackers on Millie's tray. Millie accepted her mother's apology and munched on her snack, kicking her little feet in delight.
"What do you mean slam dunk? Woody you know as well as I do that the level of heroin in Joey's body couldn't have killed him. He was drug tested three days before and the test was negative. He's never had a drug problem before, I don't think the wife had anything to do with his death. But I do think he was murdered.", Jordan admitted. "I don't think she did it either, but there's no other evidence that points to murder. Besides, it's out of our jurisdiction, and our plane leaves tonight for Disneyland.", Woody reminded Jordan and tickled Millie's belly. Millie laughed and thanked her Daddy by feeding him some of her beloved crackers. "Woody this is serious. Disneyland will be there in a few months when we get the other half of our vacation time. She's only nine months old, she wouldn't even remember it. We could stay to support Dolly and Nigel, they'll need us.", she pleaded her case. "We've had this trip planned for months, we already rescheduled once to accommodate this wedding and Dr. Macy said Bug was going to stay her with Dolly and Nigel.", Woody defended.
Just as Jordan was about to defend herself again, there was a knock at the door. "Nige, Dolly…come in.", Jordan greeted as joyfully as she could considering the circumstances. "How you holdin' up Dol?", Woody asked his cousin. Dolly walked over at took a seat next to him, Woody held her tight, as she cried into his shoulder. "Well we just came by to tell you that the bus is leaving for the airport soon. Did you want to come with us to say goodbye to everyone?", Nigel asked somberly. "That'll be great. I'll get Millie cleaned up.", Jordan replied, giving Nigel's shoulder a comforting squeeze. "And we want to have dinner with you tonight, before you leave for California.", Dolly sniffed, drying her eyes with the tissue Woody handed her. "About the trip... you see, Jordan and I have decided not to go. We want to stay here incase you and Nigel need us.", Woody told his cousin. "You don't have to do that…. Oh thank you Woods.", Dolly exclaimed, hugging him again. Jordan gave Woody a huge smile, and he knew he made the right decision.
"Do you believe this? There putting the autopsy off until Friday. Evidence might be lost, it's only Wednesday.", Jordan stated, as they sat in the lounge of the hotel. " For God's sake Jordan, Dr. Pickler had a heart attack.", Woody replied. "It was an angina attack, there's a difference Woody.", Jordan argued. "They want to wait for this Dr. Robbins to get back. Gil said he was the best, remember?", Woody smirked. "So what do we do in the mean-time?", Jordan asked defensively. "Well for starters, I think our little girl needs a diaper change. I'm due in the control room in ten minutes to go over the surveillance tapes with Mitch, Danny and Det. Rice.", Woody smiled slyly, handing Millie to Jordan. She looked over at Woody with an astonished look on her face. "What?", he asked innocently, his smile growing larger. "I know Dolly would be more than happy to watch Millie while she's napping, if you, Nigel and Bug want to go make some new friends.", he added with a chuckle. Jordan playfully hit him on the arm. Woody in turn, pulled Jordan and Millie onto his lap and kissed them both. As they laughed together, Jordan thought; Woody's right, it's time to pay Mr. Grissom and Ms. Willows a friendly visit.
"Dr. Hoyt, what a pleasant surprise.", Gil Grissom greeted with an outstretched hand. "Thank you for taking the time to see me Mr. Grissom.", she replied. "Forget the formality, it's Gil.", he announced. "Jordan.", she answered back. "These are my colleagues Dr. Nigel Townsend and Bu…Dr. Mahesh Vij…..", she started to introduce. "Bug, you can call me Bug.", Bug interrupted. "Why Bug?", Gil questioned. "Simple, I like bugs. No actually I'm an entomologist.", Bug chuckled. "Small world, so am I.", Gil admitted. "Really?", Bug asked intrigued. "Yes, really. Here let me show you an interesting thing I found on the body.", Gil offered. "Hey Gil, I got the results from.…oh I'm sorry, I didn't know you had company.", Catherine apologized. "No interruption…you remember Dr. Hoyt from yesterday, this is Dr. Townsend and Dr. Bug, he's an entomologist.", Gil introduced. "Dr. Bug, how appropriate.", Catherine commented. "Actually it's Mahesh Vijayaraghavensatyanaryanamurthy.", Bug mumbled and rolled his eyes. "Yeah, I'd stick with Bug too." Catherine admitted with a smile.
"Look in here.", Gil said nodding to his microscope. "The Ornithodoros parkeri tick.", Bug said as he lifted his head up from the eyepiece. "Say what?", Nigel asked for clarification. "It's a tick that lives on the desert tortoise. I found it Mr. Tonoli's boot.", Gil responded. "So what does that mean?", Jordan asked. "It means Mr. Tonoli here was deep in the desert sometime between when he left the reception to when he died." , Bug explained. "But how does that help us find out if he was murdered or not?", Nigel asked. "Well is doesn't really.", Gil answered. "But this might.", Catherine piped in. "The fibers on his wife's gloves do not match and there was a witness who saw her parked outside her mothers house at 8 am. Her mother lives two hours away, if she was going to kill her husband she would have had to have left before then.", she added. "So we're back to square one?", Jordan sighed. "Not exactly, Robbins came back early, he's in with the body now.", Catherine explained.
"So how was your day?", Jordan asked as she entered the hotel room armed with a pizza and some beer. "Boring.", Woody admitted from his place, stretched out on the couch. "But you're in a great mood, so your day had to be better.", he grinned, grabbing her hand as she helped him sit up. She placed the pizza box on the coffee table and sat next to her husband. "They let the wife go.", Woody said, popping open two beer bottles. "I know, the fibers didn't match and the mother's neighbor came forward and confirmed her alibi.", Jordan said between bites of pizza. "We reviewed ten hours of surveillance tapes and came up with nothing. How about you?", Woody asked, pulling her closer.
"Well it turns out Mr. Tonoli did die of a heart attack, but not a natural one. Dr. Robbins found two puncture wounds in the vein the heroin was injected into, but only one hole in the skin. He was injected with air after the heroin.", she explained, kissing his neck. "Interesting, anything else?", he asked returning the kisses. "Yeah, there was fresh blood and cleaning solution in the crevices of Joey's diamond ring. So it looks like he was in some kind of altercation before he died.", she replied, running her hands up under his shirt. " No Jordan.", he whispered. "The baby's in the bedroom.", he added, lacing his fingers with hers. "She sleeping , right? We can stay right here, ya know.", she stated seductively. "The pizza'll get cold.", he nodded to box on the coffee table. "We have a microwave.", she pointed out. Jordan planted a few kisses on her husbands chest. He tried hard to stifle a chuckle. "Woody don't you know me by now? I never take no for an answer.", she laughed as she turned out the light.
