Chapter Three

"Hi Dani, I'm Gil Grissom and this is Sara Sidle, we're from the Las Vegas Crime Lab." Grissom explained. Dani focused on Sara. "Can we ask you a few questions?" Gil asked. Dani didn't speak. She was still staring at Sara. Sara looked away to avoid Dani's eyes. "Dani?"

"Why are you here? Why would the police want anything to do with me?" Dani asked. Sara noted that the girl had a confident voice.

"Well..." Sara started but Dani cut her off.

"My Mom is dead, isn't she?" Dani asked quietly.

"Yes." Sara said softly. She paused. "Your sister is dead too." Dani turned her head and looked at the wall.

"Do you know you're adopted?" Gil asked. Dani nodded slowly. Sara and Grissom left the room and waited in the hall while Dani let her tears out. They decided to go back to the lab for a while.

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"Guys!" Greg called. Sara and Gil turned around. Greg walked up to them. "Doc.Robbins and I were waiting for you for half an hour."

"We were at the hospital, Greg." Grissom said.

"No, we waited." Greg said. Sara and Gil followed Greg to the coroners office.

"That was a long wait at the hospital. I thought the other girl was unconscious?" Doc.Robbins said.

"She was, but she woke up." Grissom said, he glanced at Sara, who stared at the ground. "What have we got?"

"Blood forced trauma for both. I'd say by something like a bat." Doc.Robbins explained. "That's it."

"What about their blood work?" Sara asked.

"Nope. There was nothing else out of the ordinary." Doc.Robbins said. Sara and Gil walked out of the coroners office. They went into the evidence room and looked at the evidence again.

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"We don't have anything." Sara said.

"We have a witness." Grissom said. "I'll go talk to her, you keep looking at the evidence."

"Okay." Sara said. Gil leaned in and kissed her on the cheek, then turned around and walked out of the room. Sara stood there, frozen to the ground. Did he? Did Gil just? Did he just kiss me! Sara put her hand on her cheek. He did.

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Gil came back an hour later. He went into the evidence room and Sara was looking at pictures of the blood pool. Gil stood beside her and looked down at the pictures. Sara waited for him to speak.

"She didn't say anything to me." Gil said.

"What?" Sara asked.

"Dani didn't answer any of my questions, she didn't nod her head or speak." Gil explained. "She'll only talk when you're around."

"Fine, I'll go." Sara said.

"I'll watch through the window." Gil said. Sara smiled at him then walked out of the room.