Thank You to the people who reviewd this and I do apologise for the long time between updates, but I hope that this chapter is OK and I think that it seems to have worked out quite near the way that I had wanted it.
As I have not seen all of CSI, I will base this on what I have seen and it will be set around Season 5/6.
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The bang echoed loud through the still air.
Catherine turned around to look behind them and see what had happened and what the bang was.
As she turned Jay looked straight at her and ran her hand down the outside of her left leg until she reached just below her knee. A tear in her dark blue jeans and the red glistening blood that was on her fingertips and palm when she raised it up again to Catherine made the situation and the bang clearer.
Although she had been shot, Jay seemed OK and was still upright and even threw a funny look towards Catherine and nodded when Catherine nodded at her.
Just as she reached to remove her jacket to put it over her leg and stem the small flow of blood that was coming from the wound, something happened.
As Catherine went to take a step forward, hand at her side next to her weapon, in what seemed like an eternity, but was in fact only a second or two another loud bang filled the air. The all too familiar sound had rung out again.
Again, in what seemed like an eternity, Catherine watched Jay move her hand up to her left upper chest, and place it on the widening red blotch on her shirt.
Catherine also watched the blood trickle through Jay's fingers and down her arm.
Catherine then watched, in what felt like slow-motion, Jay slowly slump to her knees and bend over forwards toward the road.
All seemed to speed up again as Catherine ran the short distance between them and landed on her knees beside a still quite conscious, remarkably and shockingly conscious Jay.
Catherine managed to get her to lean back and tried to grab Jay's jacket off of her but could not quite manage it, so took her own off and doubled it over and held it, quite firmly, on Jay's chest, over the wound.
As Catherine reached into her pocket to grab her phone to call for help, she realized that she had left her phone in the car so grabbed Jay's out of her pocket and quickly dialed the number for dispatch.
Catherine was greeted by an awfully crackly reception and figured that the earlier storm must have probably hit a transmitter.
The voice on the other end said "hello, LVPD, can I help?"
Catherine responded with their address/location and then loudly said, "CSI DOWN, I repeat CSI DOWN! We need Rescue, and back-up," and that was all she managed before the reception went totally.
She continued putting pressure on Jay's chest and talking to her. She was trying to keep her conscious.
"Come on, stay with me Jay," Catherine said.
"I am," said Jay, through obvious pain and slight breathlessness.
As Jay's breathing seemed to get heavier and heavier she knew that she needed help right now, and by placing to finders to Jay's neck and checking her pulse, this thought was reinforced.
As Catherine was now quite desperately trying to keep Jay conscious and with her, she could her the faint wail of multiple sirens a few blocks away which acted as some kind of salvation or hope to her if that was possible.
"Come on," Catherine said, "You are doing well, nearly there, stay with me Jay!"
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Meanwhile, in the Lab, a police officer ran through the halls towards Grissom's office with a print-out of what had happened and he bumped into him and caught him just outside of it.
He quickly handed him the sheet, which Grissom read quickly and his face instantly fell.
He picked up speed and ran past the break room and banged the door and shouted "Let's go!" to a somewhat stunned and confused Nick, Warrick and Sara who instantly jumped up and started following Grissom.
The quickly moved behind him, down the corridor towards the exit and the parked cars.
"What had happened boss?" Nick called from behind.
"CSI down – that is all we know – it is only a few blocks away," Grissom called behind him as they exited the CSI Lab.
"Do we know who?" Nick asked, through murmurs of the same thing from Warrick and Sara.
"Early indications point to Catherine," Grissom said, "the phone used was Jay's, but the reception was bad, so this is just an assumption at the moment," he concluded.
"Warrick, you are with me," Grissom said, followed by, "Nick and Sara, you are together," as he got into his CSI jeep and Nick and Sara got into theirs respectively before pulling out of the car park quickly behind each other and a police car with it's sirens blaring.
The few blocks ride seemed like much longer to the four members of the team who each had their own thoughts, but a similar theme of panic and worry were present.
As the four members of the team rode in silence, with the wailing and blaring sirens in the background, they were effectively riding to the scene of what hopefully was not, but could be not just a team member, but a friend's death.
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As they pulled up to the scene behind each other, Nick stopping first, they all ran out of the CSI jeeps and towards the crowd of officers and under the familiar yellow 'Crime Scene' tape.
As they reached the officers, they saw the paramedics coming through the crowd and stopping at the front of it.
With a deep breath, the four of them moved through the group of officers, which parted for them, to look down and find Catherine on her knees putting pressure on Jay's now very bloody chest.
With shock and worry concerning them all, the simply watched as Jay, now obviously finding it hard to keep conscious, her breathing very heavy and her face with pain evident on it, talk to Catherine in what seemed like a whisper and the paramedics took over.
Catherine moved back, but kept Jay's hand firmly in her's.
