The low emergency lights flashed on indicating that the generators had kicked in. But the air remained the same.

"Did someone forget to pay the power bill?" Warrick asked as they gathered for assignments.

"The power station is experiencing technical difficulties due to the heat and expects to have everything sorted in a few hours but until then half of Vegas is the dark including the Strip." Grissom announced. "The generator will allow us to use the equipment but we need to keep it to a minimum until the problem is sorted. It also means the air condition system will be offline so it's going to get very hot in here."

"Great." Everyone muttered.

"Do you have any cases where anyone has air conditioning?" Greg inquired.

"We have a body out in the desert. It could be just someone who died from the heat"

"I'll take it." Warrick took the slip. "Come on Greg, the car has air conditioning."

"Take plenty of water with you and keep hydrated." Catherine told them.

"Gee thanks." Greg followed Warrick while he asked. "How crazy do you have to be to go out to a desert in a heat wave?"

"What else?" Catherine inquired.

"Potential murder suicide on Birthday Ave."

"Got to love some of those street names. Birthday Ave right of Anniversary Street." Catherine stated.

"Take Nick with you." He handed her the slip. "From all accounts it's a bit of a bloodbath."

"A great way to start the night." Nick got up. "See you later." He winked at Sara before they left.

"Anything for me?" Sara inquired.

"As of yet no, I presumed you'd rather not being out in the desert or at a bloodbath. There will probably be several opportunistic robberies due to lack of power to security systems."

"I'm going to take my paperwork down to the morgue, it will be cooler down there and you can page me whenever we have a case." Sara stated.

"Okay." Grissom agreed.

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"Hey Doc." Sara said as she walked into the morgue. The feel of the temperature difference was immense.

"Sara. Did we have a body that was involved in a case of yours?" He asked.

"No. Since the power is the air conditioning is out too, so it's getting hotter, do you mind if I hang out here and do some paperwork until I get a case?"

"Are you sure that it won't upset your stomach?"

"Dead bodies I can handle the smell of luminol and bleach on the other hand. I'll be fine." She assured him. "And this is the coolest place in Vegas right now."

"Then by all means."

"Thanks Doc."

Sara was almost through with the paperwork when David came through the door with the first of the bodies he'd accompanied back from the scene.

"Hey David."

"Sara." He was a little surprised to see her.

"What have we got David?" Doc Robbins inquired.

"Sophie Vartan, 6, her mother Valerie Vartan 29 and the mother's boyfriend Benjamin Azur 34." David replied. "The mother and daughter have been dead about 3 hours, the guy about 2."

"Sara sorry to kick you out but we need the space."

Just then Sara's pager beeped.

"It's okay." She pulled the pager off her belt. "That's Grissom anyway, got a robbery in a jewellery store. Nothing like power cuts and football games to turn people into hooligans. Thank you for let me stay."

"It's nice to have company that isn't dead once in a while." Robbins told her.

"Bye David." Sara said grabbing up her paperwork.

"Bye." He replied.

"The air conditioning is out at the lab." Robbins explained. "It's cooler here."

"Do you want me to set up the bodies?"

"Get them ready for autopsy." Robbins replied.

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Sara stood by her Denali drinking a bottle of water. Despite it being just after three in the morning the temperature which had dipped a couple of degrees, was now beginning to climb again.

"Sara." Grissom walked over.

"I'm just taking a break, I'll be back to help finish processing in a minute."

"I actually need you to finish processing by yourself. There is another robbery across town."

"Okay. Is there any news on when we're going to get electricity back or when this heat wave is going to break?"

"The power company says they should have the problem fixed by 7 am and I believe it was another few days before we're in for the mother of all storms." Grissom replied.

"Great."

"Keep hydrating." Grissom told her. "And take it easy, PD will be here to secure the scene."

"I know." Sara replied.

"I'll see you later." Grissom left her too it.

The rest of the bottle of water and a quick snack and Sara headed back to work.

TBC