I Do Not Own CSI

Pulling up to her brother's house, Sara noticed Brass's car already there.

"Hey Jim, thanks for doing this call out, I know it's not a homicide."

"But it's family, I understand, Sara."

"Have you gone in yet?"

"No, I was waiting on you to come before I knocked," Jim said as Nick's car came to a halt at the end of the driveway.

"Nick, did you speed the whole way here?"

"No, but Griss told me to drop what I was doing and get my butt over here. He told me what happened, have you gone in yet," Nick asked as the three walked up the driveway.

"No, I just pulled up two seconds before you," Sara said, knocking before she went inside.

"James, Jeremy?"

"In the kitchen, Sara," James said, coming out of said room.

"You ok?"

"I've been better," James said, looking around the battered room.

"Have you made a list of what's missing yet, like I asked," Sara asked.

"Yeah"

"Was anything missing from upstairs," Jim asked.

"Yeah, personal papers, stuff that could easily let a person access our credit cards and bank accounts."

"So, whoever did this knew what to go after," Nick said, looking at the list of things taken that Jeremy and James had made.

"And we tried to call the bank but we haven't been able to get through yet. Same goes with our credit cards."

"It's Vegas, they're always busy. I'll put a call in for you now, see if anything is up and get them to freeze your credit cards and bank accounts until we can sort through everything," Jim said, flipping his phone open and walking away.

"Ok Nick, I'll print and you look for trace."

"Nice try, Sara. I'll print, you get the easy stuff. You don't need to be straining yourself too much."

"I'm fine, Nick."

"Sara, listen to Nick, just do what you have to and don't stress yourself too much," James said.

"Fine, you two go relax in the kitchen. Get out of our hair for a bit until we're done. I'm going to check the locks, it looked like it was jimmied," Sara said, going about the task at hand.

Two hours later

"Anything," Sara asked.

"No, whoever did this knew what they were doing," Nick said, closing his kit as James and Jeremy came back into the room.

"You're at a dead end, aren't you?"

"We haven't given up yet. Jim flagged your credit cards and bank accounts instead of freezing them so if whoever did this tries to use them we can track them from there."

"In the meantime," Jeremy asked.

"Call your insurance company when they open, which should be soon," Sara said, looking at her watch.

"Don't clean until they send an agent out," Sara said with an apologizing look in her eyes.

"It's ok, Sara," James said softly as Sara and Nick both nodded and headed for their cars.

"This sucks," Sara said as her phone rang. Grissom's name appeared on the display.

"Meet you at the lab, Nick."

"Drive safely, Sara."

"Hey," Sara said, answering the phone.

"You ok?"

"I'm ok but I know James is upset, so is Jeremy. And the shitty thing is we have no leads."

"None?"

"Nope, no prints or trace. Neighbours didn't see anything, we've got nothing."

"We'll find something," Gil said with hope.

"I hope so. Hey, how did Greg do?"

"He's still going but he seems to be doing really well. I think he'll pass."

"Good"

"My mom called about ten minutes ago."

"She's up early today."

"She's always been that way. Anyway, she was up early making some blueberry pie. She wants to drop one off for us so I told her to just use her key and wait around, we would see her in a couple hours."

"Blueberry pie sounds really good."

"She said she remembered you talking about having a blueberry craving the other day."

"I love your mom, do you know that?"

"She loves you, too honey. You're a daughter she never had, she told me."

"Gil, honey, I'm going to go, I don't want to talk and drive. I'll see you soon."

"Drive safely."

"One last stop," Laura said, parking her car in front of Sara and Gil's house.

"My, my, my, look at this place. Sara's got a sugar daddy alright," Laura said as she made her way to the front door, easily jimming it again.

"For two investigators they sure do have crappy door locks."

Hearing a bark and paws hitting the floor Laura tensed.

"Hey boy," she said, holding out her hand for Bruno to sniff and then grabbing his collar and pulling him towards the closet and closing the door, muffling his barks.

"Ok, time to get this show on the road," Laura said, going up the stairs to where she hoped was Gil and Sara's bedroom, looking for anything that would get her into their bank accounts, credit cards, and if she was lucky, money that they had stuffed away.

"Paydirt," she said, opening a dresser drawer and finding an envelope full of money. It looked to be almost 500 dollars.

Grabbing the money and paperwork and Sara's jewellery, Laura made her way back downstairs, ready to start hauling some stuff out to her car.

As she was grabbing the DVD player, Laura heard the door, and humming coming from whoever entered. Watching the woman take the pie into the kitchen, Laura grabbed the first heavy object she could, a heavy set glass vase. Stalking up to the kitchen, she watched the woman fret around, cleaning the few dishes that were in the sink.

"Sara, you're home already," Marie said with a smile, her other senses kicking in as she turned around.

"Not Sara, only her mother," Laura said, hitting Marie over the head with the vase, making her world go dark.

TBC

Looks like Marie was in the wrong place at the wrong time! There's more Laura to come so stay tuned

Thank you for all the wonderful reviews!

Katie

p.s CSI tonight, don't forget to watch, i'm actually excited for this eppy, i don't think it's going to be as bad as everyone thinks! I think this eppy needs to happen, grissom needs a kick in the butt, he needs to figure out what he wants and he needs someone who is not so close to help him through it. Have no fear, GSR will be safe in the end, there is always a light at the end of the tunnel