Follow Your Heart
Requirements:
The word "Nutsack" must be said three times
Something happens at an amusement park
Brass has to push Nick up against a wall
Greg has to tell Warrick a secret
A reference to a bar fight is made
Grissom eats lunch with Catherine and puts moves on her
A reference to prostitution is made
Warrick sees Sara naked
"Do you care to explain this to us??" Brass asked, trying not to let the humor of the situation get the better of his demeanor.
"What's to explain??" The blonde in front of him asked, "I stabbed him."
"Do you know where you stabbed him??" Nick asked, sitting next to Brass at the interrogation table.
"Yea, I stabbed him in his nutsack."
Brass laughed lightly and briefly at the bluntness of her words.
"Why??" Nick asked, repressing a smile himself.
"He cheated on me."
"So you waited until you got to the amusement park, then you stabbed him??"
"Well, not exactly."
"Walk us through it, please." Brass coaxed.
"Well, he cheated on me a couple months ago and…we've been going through therapy. The whole thing gets brought up all over again for me when he looks at another woman."
"And there were a lot of women there, weren't there, Heidi??"
"Yea…" She said, putting her head down, "And this one looked just like that…that bitch that he cheated on me with, so I stabbed him. Right in the nutsack."
"Where were you??" Nick asked, trying to ignore the repetition of the word 'nutsack'.
"Well, we were behind the little place where we had lunch, she walked by, I pushed him up against the wall, and stabbed him."
"Well, the trajectory's off, ma'am…" Nick said, looking at photos.
"What's that??"
"Care to assist me, Nick??" Brass asked, standing.
"Not at all." Nick said, joining him.
"So, you're pissed off right??" Brass rhetorically asked Heidi, "He looks at her, you go nuts…Pardon the expression."
Nick laughed.
"You pushed him up against the wall."
Brass pushed Nick against the wall to illustrate his point.
"Then what??"
"I reached down and stabbed him…Simple as that."
"Ma'am, what we're trying to—"
"I used to turn tricks, alright??" Heidi started, "No one's better than me. The fact that he went elsewhere for it…I can't deal with it."
"Is that why we found… "The Bitch's" body in a Dumpster in the alley behind her house??" Brass asked.
Stokes sat down, as the Captain did.
"I was at a bar." Heidi stated, "I saw her there and broke my glass against her head."
"What happened then??" Nick asked, looking at pictures of the mistress's skull and realizing that the cranial fractures made sense.
"I got kicked out…I dunno how she died."
It was obvious that the ex-prostitute was lying.
It wouldn't take much to convince the jury, especially with the forensics that Greg was having processed down the hall.
The skin from under the mistress's nails were a match to Heidi.
Greg turned from the lab and walked down the hall to find Nick and Brass.
"Greggo!" He heard behind him.
"Yea, Warrick??" Greg stopped and turned to see his friend.
"I got a problem…"
"What is it, I'm kinda in a hurry, War…" Greg said, trying to make time for his friend.
"I saw Sara naked last night…"
"You what?!"
"Yea, I mean, it was an accident…She was in the locker room. She had been around a decomp all day with Doc Robbins, and I she was changing out of, well…everything so that the smell wouldn't follow her home any more than usual. She thought the door was locked and…"
"It wasn't."
"No…But now I'm scared that things will be awkward between us."
"Let me tell you a secret, War…" Greg said as they stepped into the lounge.
"Shoot."
"I saw her when we were in the body builder's house…Remember?? The mold from the hooker he shot?? The team came in and we had to take a shower because we could've been infected or…or something."
"Yea??"
"Yea…I told her I didn't see anything, but um, I saw everything, War. And it was that moment that I knew I loved everything about her."
"You mean, you…and Sara??"
"Pshh, I wish. She'd never give me the time of day."
"Well, you never know until you—"
"Guys, problem…" Catherine interrupted, walking into the lounge.
"How'd lunch with Grissom go??" Warrick asked.
"Well, I got the promotion…" She said, referring to the supervising position she had had her eye on, "And I also got an invitation to his house tonight."
"What?!" Greg asked, suddenly forgetting about his own problems, "You mean, you have to like…sleep with him to get the job?!" He asked, whispering fiercely.
"No, nothing like that…" Catherine said, pouring herself a cup of coffee. "He told me that Sara told him that if you don't try to grab onto what you want, pretty soon, it'll be gone…So he said I'm the one he wants and he's trying to make it work."
"That's actually sweet, Cath…"
"What're you gonna do??"
"I dunno..." Catherine confessed, taking a sip, "I can't deny that I have feelings for him. Maybe Sara's right…You should follow your heart on situations like this…I'm gonna do it."
"Hmmm…" Warrick said, looking at Greg with a smirk, "You should follow your heart, shouldn't you, Greggo??" He asked.
Greg nodded, knowing exactly what Warrick meant.
"I'll be right back." He said, walking out of the lounge.
Sara should be in Doc Robbin's right about now…