Chapter 4

No less than 5 minutes later, Alyssa and Nick were headed to the Tahoe, Cases in hand. They came about 15 minutes later to a deserted land site. There were a few police cars lined up on the road to stop any cars from coming and going. They both parked and stepped out in silence.

"Nicky," An older balding man said approaching the two.

"Hey there Brass, This is Alyssa our newest addition." He said nodding to her. She smiled.

"Yea he mentioned you, said you'd be good." She smiled.

"Nice to meet you, what have we got so far?" Alyssaasked impatiently.

"Always the ladies that wanna get right to it." Brass said. She smiled.

"Alright we had one police who walked to the victim and back,-size 10- there has been no others. Looks like a body dump to me." He said approaching the body with the two CSIs.

"When was the call?" Nick asked.

"About an hour ago, lady was driving by and saw her."

"She saw it from up there?" Alyssa said in disbelief. "That's too high up..."

"That was my thought but the scene looks undisturbed." Nick Said looking around.

Alyssa smelled something odd.

"Who does the land belong to?" Alyssa asked.

"Good question and the answer is the city of Las Vegas, but there somebody who comes to check on the land daily, you know for appearance sake." Brass answered, Alyssa nodded.

"If she was here yesterday it would have been reported, contact the offices and find out who checked on it yesterday." Nick said to Brass.

The man nodded and walked to his car. Alyssa and Nick pulled out their flash lights. The girl was dressed in a black skirt and black top. No shoes but dark stockings.

"Looks like she's dressed for her own funeral, pictures?" She said looking at Nick, who must have read her mind, as he was pulling out his camera.

"Got it, you write." Alyssa rolled her eyes to her self and pulled out the papers. Mid way through she stopped.

"This body is recent." She looked at Nick. "

Good observation." He smiled slyly.

"Then why do I smell decomp?" She said slapping her clips board on her thigh as she looked around Nick looked up and smelled.

"There is a revein back there." He said standing up.

Alyssa placed her papers on her case, and started further in with her flash light. Nick watched her and slowly followed. As the smell became stronger she picked up the pace. Almost at running speed she came to an abrupt stop at the edge of the water. She could hear Nick calling after her not even bothering to look back, she looked to her left and saw a few filled shopping bags. She almost gagged at the smell. She stepped in front of the bags and shone her flash light on the bags.

"What are you doing- It stinks" Nick said finally stepping to her side.

"Like human flesh." she said looking up at him.

His gaze shifted from her to the bags. Alyssa pulled out her gloves and slipped them on. Nick bent down and Alyssa joined him un-tying the bag carefully, not obstructing any potential evidence. The knot came loose and she looked inside the first bag.

"An arm, good catch." He said nodding in approval.

Alyssa looked up and shone her flash light. She jumped at the sight. And fell back onto the cold, musty floor. Nick looked to where her light was shone.

"Another body," He said almost in disbelief, staring at what looked like a mangled woman hanging from a tree.

"I'll call Grissom." she said. She said pulling out her phone. Nick nodded.

"And get him to bring Catherine."

"Why?" she stopped mid dial.

"There'll be four of us here the."

"There'll be 3 CSIs and one shadow." She stopped. Glaring at him. "Fine." She said and called Grissom.

Alyssa shut her phone and watched Nick. He looked up at her.

"oh sorry Nick, would you like me to shine a light?" She said rudely but innocently. She clicked the light on before she could answer. Totally oblivious he answered.

"No wanna start processing the hanging body?" He said.

"Shouldn't we wait till Catherine gets here? I'm just a shadow." Nick caught on.

"Alyssa I didn't mean to offend you. I didn't know if you were ready yet." He said turning back to his bags. Alyssa bit her tongue from exploding.

"Mhm, but just lemme point this out. If I wasn't ready, these two bodies would have been here until further investigation." She said turning around to collect her kit from the primary scene.

Nick let out a heavy sigh. "She's gonna be another hand full." He laughed.

"I heard that!" she shot back. Nick shook his head and laughed.

Alyssa was slowly processing, the hanging body, when Grissom walked to join them. Alyssa looked back and to Nick.

"Where's Cath?" They both asked.

"Didn't think she was needed," Grissom said pulling off his glasses.

Nick looked at Alyssa, and nodded, who in return, stuck her tongue out at him and winked. Nick smirked and gave a little laugh. Grissom raised his left brow.

"So who found, them?" He asked.

"The baby," Nick said.

"I am not- whatever, yes I found them. The smell of decomp gave them away." Alyssa said shooting a warning glare at Nick. "Call me a child one more time Stokes and I'll single handedly make sure you have none." She smiled as Nicked gulped.

"You wouldn't,"

"Try me." And with that she turned back to Grissom.

"The body upfront needs some examining; we figured we'd better do these two before more time gets lost, from the smell of things they've been here longer." She said wrinkling her nose.

"Find anything interesting?" He asked in a knowing tone.

"Yea here," she handed Grissom a container.

"Oh it's Christmas in Grissom land." Nick joked finishing up his bagged lady.

"It's a bug I found on the body, well one of like 20." She pointed to the other containers.

"All are different, figured you'd do better with them then me." She smiled and stood up.

"I'm done here for now, looks like Nick is too, where's the coroner?"

"He's just finishing the other body." He said and walked over to the hanging body.

Grissom pulled out his tweezers and collected what looked like a hair from the girls' mouth.

Alyssa's mouth dropped open. Without looking up he bagged the hair. Alyssa breathed in her nose causing her to choke on the smell. "Oh God…" She nearly gagged. Grissom initialed the package.

"You ok?" He asked raising his eyebrow. "Yes… No… I will be... The smell is really strong." She said admitting to defeat.

He held up the hair waiting for an explanation.

"I must have missed it." She said plainly. He nodded.

"Gris, she's not bad for a newbie." Nick said joining the brunette at her side. Alyssa half smiled.

"Guess the bodies should be swept away…" She noticed Grissom watching her intently. "..As soon as the area has been double checked for prints… we'll print ourselves when we get back to rule our selves out." She said as if she were rambling out a paragraph from a text book. Grissom nodded and turned to leave. Alyssa sighed. "He makes me nervous." She breathed steadily. Nick smirked. "You'll warm up to him soon enough." Alyssa nodded slowly as she began to search the area for prints.

TBC...!

Sorry i know it was long... But it would have been to short for two chapters... And it kind of flowed... Lemma know what you think so far. Sorry I'm not one to let my characters into a relationship thing... my stories are usually crazy long...