Time seemed to creep by really slowly inside the vault for Lindsay, but she tried not to let her nervousness show, as she worked beside Danny as they process the evidence of the robbery of the safe deposit boxes first before starting on the bodies. "Well, this isn't how I planned to be spending my day," Danny said, as he looked around at the vault. "But it could be worse."
"How?" Lindsay asked, as she took some pictures, pausing to shoot a glance over at him. "How could it be worse?'
"We could be up to our chest in sewer run off, or other stuff." Lindsay shot him a disgusted look and went back to taking pictures. "Told you it could be worse."
"You would think of worse things." She stepped back and tripped over a box, falling back. Danny caught the movement out of the corner of his eye and caught her elbow before she fell to the ground. "Thanks. Looks like they dropped one. Wonder what's inside?"
"Let's see." Danny tipped it onto its side and shined his flashlight into it. Out came diamonds, by the looks of it, a couple hundreds of little ones.
"Wow, diamonds." She hunched down and picked up a few in her hands. "Wonder why they didn't take them?"
"Don't know? Better call Mac and tell him we got diamonds."
"Okay." Lindsay reached for her phone and froze when she saw a shape move from the box. "Danny, don't move."
"What?"
"There's a rattle snake coming out of the box."
"You're kidding me? How did it live in the box? It couldn't have survive?"
"I don't know? But it's alive and it's moving." Danny shot a glance over and saw the snake. It was slowly moving its way out of the safety deposit box and towards Lindsay. "Any ideas."
"Yeah, you back away from it."
"I don't think moving is such a good idea." Danny looked over at Lindsay to see that she had a touch of fear in her eyes. "They can sense movement."
"Lindsay, you're going to have to trust me on this one. Just step back away from it carefully." She nodded and did as she was told. He then stepped away as well and soon was next to her. He reached out, took her arm, and pulled her into his side. "Okay, that was close. Now we call Mac and see what he think what we should do."
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"There's a what?" Mac asked, causing Stella to look up from her work. "You're serious. Okay, just stay away from it. Hopefully it will go back in the box. If not, you may have to shoot it. I'll try to contact animal control for you for help. I'll keep in touch Danny." Mac then hung up. Mac shot Stella a smile as he came up to her side. "Seems someone left a safety deposit box inside with diamonds and a live rattle snake for Danny and Lindsay to find and play with." She shot him a panic look. "Don't worry, they're both okay for now. They're both trained CSI's with guns up against a rattler with enough poison to drop them both dead."
"I'm sure they'll be fine," Stella said, as she turned to look at the techs who were working at the vault door. "Did they say how long before they could get that open?"
"Not for another few hours."
"How much longer before they run out of air?"
"Another few hours."
"Running kinda close." Stella turned back to her work. "Hope they are getting somewhere on the boxes on the inside."
"I'm sure they are, Stella." Mac said, as he put a hand on her arm. "They are good at their jobs. We won't let them done. They'll get out of this."
"I know."
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The steady rattling kept Lindsay on her toes and that made Danny uneasy. "Damn, snake," he muttered, causing Lindsay to look over at him. "What, I don't like them all that much." He kicked another safety deposit box, that was on the floor, only to have it slide across the floor towards the snake and hit the snake the snake and explode. "Holy shit." He turned and covered Lindsay, pulling her to the floor with him. "I didn't know that was going to happen."
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Mac and Stella froze when they felt the after effect of the explosion and turned toward the vault. "Was that an explosion?" Stella asked, turning to look at Mac. "Please tell me that wasn't an explosion?" Mac was all ready going for his phone. "That didn't come from inside the vault?"
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Lindsay opened her eyes and shook her head to clear her ears of the ringing. She was still in Danny's arms. "You all right?" he asked he softly, and she looked up at him to see concerned in his eyes. She slowly nodded, and he slowly moved into a better position. She then saw the severe damage the one deposit box bomb had made.
"Oh, god," she said, as she looked at the end of the vault. "We could have opened it and not know about it." The walls, ceilings, and floor was marked with scorched marks.
"Well, think about it this way, we got rid of that snake." He then took up her hands in his. "Lindsay. I'm just glad, you tripped over the snake box and not the bomb box, okay."
"Me too." Just then both their cell phones went off and they jumped. "We better get those. They probably think we died or something went terribly wrong."
"Yeah, you're probably, right." Danny released only one of her hands and answered his phone. "Hey, Mac. Yeah, we're okay. It was a bomb in one of the safety deposit boxes. I kicked it at the snake not knowing that it was a bomb and it went off. Took out our snake problem." Danny then froze and looked around for any more boxes on the floor. "No, they are no more boxes on the floor. They are more boxes still in the wall. I couldn't tell you if they are in there. But there are no more on the floor." He then shot a glance over at the bodies. "Okay, you want to continue to process the vault and keep you inform. Okay. Gotcha. We'll do that. Yes, Mac, we promise. No, more explosive. I promise. Okay, Bye." He then hung up the phone, and looked over at Lindsay. "Mac, wants up to keep up the work. Keep process the vault. They're still working the bank scene and working on getting us out, it'll take them a while."
"Then let's get to work," she said, as she looked over at him, with a smile. "We don't want to keep them waiting."
"No, we don't." They then headed towards the bodies.
TBC
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