"Ah, that's not funny," Chris muttered, as he turned around and came face to face with one of the corpses. "Holy crap." He scrambled back away from it and ended up on the floor. "Oh, good heavens, that's ugly."
"Hey, have some manners," Hawkes said, as he made his way over to the corpses snapping on gloves as he went. "They are human after all."
"Right, I forgot that part. Sorry." Chris then looked over at Danny and Lindsay. "You two okay?"
"Yeah, we're fine," Danny replied, as he looked over at him. "Why you ask?"
"Cause, I'm worried," he replied. "You guys took off in the opposite direction from us."
"And the dog went after you guys," Lindsay pointed out. "We're okay, Officer. Don't worry about us. We can handle ourselves. It's yourself you need to be worried about. The dog attacked you, not me."
"But you hurt yourself."
"I've done worse to myself out in the field. This is just a scratch. Hawkes would have said something if it was bad. I trust him with my life." Lindsay then moved past Christ, clipping him in the shoulder and went over to Hawkes' side. "You need help?"
"Yeah, since you're offering," he said, as he looked up at her. "Chris bothering you?"
"No," she said, as she pulled out a pair of latex gloves from her pocket and slid them on. "Why you ask?"
"Because normally Lindsay, you never ask me if I need help on a body. You would rather help Danny gather evidence than help me with the body."
"Okay, Chris is getting on my nerves just a bit. Can we drop it now?"
"Yep, what every you say, Miss Monroe." He then looked over at the corpse. "Shall we?"
"Let's do this." She was reaching for a body when a growl caused her to halt. She looked over at Hawkes. "Please tell me that was your stomach?"
"No," he whispered, as he reached out and grabbed onto her arm, pulling her into his side. "Don't move."
"Not, planning on it." She then looked over and saw a dog heading towards them. "Oh, great. How that get in here?"
"I don't know. I'm not going to ask it either. Are you?" Hawkes could feel her shaking in his hold. "Easy. We don't want the nice doggie to know that we're both terrified of it."
"Not possible."
Just then Chris and Danny came over to their sides. "What up, Doc?" Danny asked, only to freeze when he saw their posture. "You guys okay?"
"Of course they're okay, Labbie," Chris said, as he went over to lean up against a table, with a corpse on it. "Why wouldn't they be?" Just then a dog came up over the corpse. Danny backed up next to Hawkes and Lindsay. "What? Is there a Dog behind me?" They all nodded at once. "Oh, please don't say that."
"Don't make any sudden movements," Lindsay said, as she looked over at Danny and Hawkes, as if asking: 'what do we do now?'.
"Yeah, I'm not dumb."
"Oh, just making sure."
"Okay, on the count of three, Hawkes, and I are going go run that way," Danny whispered as he moved past Lindsay, brushing her back, and she looked up at him. "And you and Chris are going to run thataway. Hopefully, the dog goes after us."
"You're going with hopefully, labbie."
"Shut up, Chris!" all the CSIs snapped at once. "Not helping."
"Sorry."
Outside the warehouse, Mac and Stella looked up at the warehouse and then at each other. "Okay, were is the other officer?" Stella asked, as she looked in the police car. "Isn't he supposed to be here?"
"Yes, he should be," Mac said, as he looked over at her. "Come on, they said they needed help. And we should tell them that we're here."
"Right. Let's go meet the dogs, they're so scared of. They can't be all that bad." They then headed inside.
"Okay, let's do this," Danny said, as they got ready to run.
"Have I told you that this is a bad plan," Chris said for the hundredth time.
"Yes, you have," Hawkes muttered, as he shot a glance over at the cop then over at Lindsay. "Just protect her and don't get eaten by the dogs. We'll try to loop back and catch up with you guys."
"Okay," Lindsay said, as she looked over at them. "Just be careful and don't end up dog food."
"We'll try," Danny smirked as he looked over at her. "You do the same. Cause remember, Montana, he's got 'friends' out there."
"Yeah, Messer, I remember."
"Good. See ya around. Let's do this. On three, one..two.."
"Bye," Chris said, as he took off.
"I didn't say three," Danny muttered, as he quickly yanked Lindsay to his side as the dog took off after Chris. "Oh the dummy."
"He is an idiot," Lindsay muttered, as they watched the dog high tail it out of the room. "We better go after him and try to save his rear end. Or Mac will have us sitting at desks for the rest of our careers."
"Good point," both Hawkes and Danny pointed out, as they started to jog after the dog and Chris. They heard a loud crash, and looked up to see Chris come running back towards them. "What the heck?"
"Run!" Chris yelled, as he grabbed onto Lindsay's arm. "Just run!" They didn't take the time to question him, but simply ran down the hallway. They could hear feet behind them, and growls. "I tried to trick him into a closet, which worked, but I forgot about his buddies."
"Oh, great," Lindsay said, as she stumbled and Chris let go of her arm. Danny helped her back up and put a hand on her arm. "I'm okay." They turned a corner and slammed smack into Mac and Stella. "Mac, Stella. Sorry."
"Whoa, there Lindsay," Mac said, as he looked up at the young CSI and then looked over at Danny. "Where's the fire?"
"No, fire," Danny said, as he looked behind him. "Trust me no fire. Just dogs."
"Dogs, Danny, you're scared of dogs?" Stella said, as she looked over at him. "Come on."
Just then Hawkes and Chris round the corner. "Why did you guys stop?" Chris asked in shock. "They are right behind us."
"They ran into our boss," Hawkes answered, as he looked over at Mac and Stella. "We got a little situation here."
"What kind?" Mac asked as he looked over at Hawkes, then Danny and Lindsay. "Spill it."
"The body we found was eaten by dogs."
"Ewww, nice," Stella muttered. She then froze as she heard growls. "Please tell me that was one of you guys stomachs." They shook their heads. "Let me guess, the dogs." The nodded. "Oh, lovely." They turned their head to see three of them coming at them. "And there they are. So Mac, what do you suggest we do?"
"Don't panic, and back away slowly."
"Good idea."
TBC
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