Chapter Eight: Anonymous
It's now May 5, 2001 and it has been a month since the sheriff had Grissom put aside the homicide case that happens out at the Steven farm house. Grissom was sitting in his office working on paperwork before the night shift start, but he would rather be at home in bed. Gil looks up at the clock, which is above his door to see what time it is and then rubs his head. Wishing that the headache, he had would go away. He goes back to working on the paper work and at the sometime his office phone start ringing. He picks the phone up after it rings five times.
"Gil Grissom speaking."
"This is Sheriff Antwater here, Gil I need you and your team to meet Jim Brass at the Thomas farm house. It is the farm house that is ten miles down the road from the Steven farm house.
"What the police code on this case?"
"It's a 420 (Homicide) and there are five dead and a two-and-half-year-old girl name Kelly that Jim Brass found alive hiding under her bed."
"This case sounds very familiar."
" A little too familiar for me Gil."
"I think we have a serial killer on our hands, Sheriff."
"I do too, Gil and do not worry about a CSI take Kelly to the hospital the children's welfare worker has already picked her up and a Welfare Worker has taken Kelly to the hospital to get check out for us."
"That good, it will take less time processing the crime scene with all six of us working the crime scene."
"And I hope that you team has better luck in finding out who the killer is this time around, Gil."
"Me too, Bye.
"Bye."
The Sheriff and Gil hang up and Gil stands up. He then grabs his kit and walk toward the parking lot. On his way to the parking lot he starts calling his team on his cellphone to tell them they need to come into work two hours early that night. He is able to get a hold of everyone but Catherine. He puts his kit on the back seat of the crime lab suv that he is taking and then gets into the suv. A minute later he is on his way to the crime scene and he is still trying to reach Catherine. He still has not reach Catherine when he gets to the crime Scene. When Gil gets out of the suv at the crime scene, the first thing he does is gets his crime scene kit out of the back of the suv. As he closes the suv doors, Gil Grissom sees Jim Brass, Sara, Destiny, Warrick and Nick waiting for him. Gil Grissom walks over to his team and gives them a look that says it is going to be a long night. Gil Grissom set his crime set kit on the ground and then Gil absent mindless rubs his forehead with his right hand.
"Has anyone seen or hear from Catherine today?"
"I run into her and Lindsey at Rit Aid when I was picking up my sister asthma medicine. She was buying children cold and flu medicine for Lindsey, plus some adult cold and flu medicine for herself Gil. Neither one of them sounding good and they look awful."
"Come to think of it Catherine left work early yesterday night, Gil."
"That right she did Sara, Catherine says she was not feeling good. Ok Nick and Warrick I want you to process the downstairs. Sara and Destiny's I want you to process the second floor. I will work the outside, as I try to reach Catherine's."
"Maybe we should just let Catherine have tonight off, Grissom."
" I would Sara, but Sheriff Antwater wants all hand on deck for this case. Now head inside and get to work Destiny, Nick, Warrick and Sara."
Nick, Warrick and Destiny grab their crime scene kits and go inside the house. The three of them then start to process the crime scene. But Sara hangs back and takes a good long look at Gil Grissom who has starts to rub his head with his right hand again. Sara walks over to Grissom and stops in front of him and gives him a look that say I am worried about you. Gil stops rubbing his head when he notices that Sara's has not gone into the Thomas house to process the second floor.
"Can I help you with something, Sara?"
"No, I was just worried about you Grissom, because you are paler then normal and you keep rubbing you head."
"I just have a headache is all, Sara."
"Do you want me to help you process the outsides of the house, Grissom?"
"No, Go process the second floor like I told you too!"
"Ok."
Sara grabs her crime scene kit and walk inside the house. She then walks upstairs and gets to work processing the second floor alongside Destiny. Gil Grissom hit the speed dial button for Catherine home phone number and put the phone up to his left ear. He then picks up his crime scene kit and start walking around the house looking for anything the killer might have left behind and for footprints. Meanwhile, at Catherine Willows's house both Catherine and Lindsey's are in their bedrooms and the two of them are fast asleep in they beds. Catherine keep thinking she hears a phone ringing, but she figures she is just dreaming that the phone is ringing, so she does not pick up the phone. The phone start ring again, but this time Lindsey gets out of bed and walks into the living room blowing her nose. When she reaches the phone, she clears her throat really fast and then picks the phone up.
" Hello, Ah-choo"
"Hello Lindsey, this is your mother supervisor at work Gil Grissom can you give her the phone, I really need to talk to her?"
"Sniff, yeah hang on a minute, coughs I have to go wake my mom up, Gil Grissom."
Lindsey put her hand over the bottom part of the cordless phone. She then walks to her moms' bedroom door and she knocks twice. But she gets no answers, so she open up the bedroom door and goes into her moms' bedroom. Lindsey walks over to her mom bed and shakes her mother to wake her up.
"Lindsey's what, Ah-choo, do you need?"
"Mr. Grissom is on, Ah-choo, the phone for you mom and, Ah-choo, he says he really needs to talk to you!
"(Lindsey hand her mom the phone) Thank Baby, go back to bed."
"Coughs, ok mom."
Lindsey's walk out of her moms' bedroom and she closes the door behind her. Catherine's grab a tissue from the box that is on her night stand and then blows her nose really fast. After she finishes blowing her nose, she starts coughing. She then picks up the bottle of water on her night stand and takes a drink of water. She puts the bottle of water back on the night stand and then puts the phone up to her left ear.
" Catherine specking, Ah-choo."
"You do know as of two minutes ago the night shift started?"
"You call me, Ah-choo, to tell me I am two minute late for work."
"No Catherine, do you remember the case out at the Steven farm house the sheriff had me put aside a month ago today?"
"Yes, Coughs"
"There has been another one at the Thomas Farm house ten mile down the road for the Steven farm, and this case has the same MO, Five family members dead and they were killed the same way that Steven's family was killed. Jim Brass found the two-and half-year-old daughter alive hiding under her bed, just like the Mr. and Mrs. Steven's three-year-old daughter was. Sheriff Antwater wants the whole night shift on deck tonight."
"Ah-choo, Ah-choo, Ah-choo, Gil I can't make it into work tonight and I call in sick, Ah-choo, Amy that works, coughs, the front desk should have given you the message."
"When did you call in Cath?"
"About, sniff, two hour and five, Ah-choo minute ago."
"That way I did not get the message, I had already left the lab to head to the crime scene. We can handle the case without you. Just take it easy and get lots of rest and drink enough fluids".
"Thanks Gil, Bye."
'Bye."
Gil flips his cellphone close and Catherine hit the off bottom on the cordless phone. She then lays back down and falls right to sleep. Gil has just finished processing the outsides of the house and the other thing he has found are two sets of boot print leading to the house and lead away from the house. He makes a cast of the boot print and then goes inside. And once he is inside the house he has to shout his eyes, because the light is hurting his them. Gil walks into the fathers' office (which is where the father was found dead) and he starts dusting the desk for fingerprints, despite his head pounding so bad that it causes him to be nauseated. He has just found a fingerprint and put the quick lift Tape down, when Sheriff Antwater walks up to him. Gil notices that the sheriff does not look happy with him.
"Gil Grissom I do recall telling you that I wanting the whole night shift on this case. I also know there are six members of your team counting you and they are only five members here. One of your senior team member Catherine Willows has not arrived yet."
"( Finishes lift the first fingerprint and start dust for fingerprints again) and she not going to be coming either, Antwater!"
"And why is Willows not going to be here, when I say the whole night shift team had to be here tonight!"
"Because both Catherine and her daughter Lindsey are sick."
"Did she call the lab and take a sick day or are you just making up a story to cover her butt?
"She called the Lab up and let them know she was taking a sick day!"
Sheriff Antwater give Gil, an evil look and then storm out of the house and he gets back into his car. He then heads to the crime lab to see if Catherine Willows did call the lab and say she had to take a sick day. A half hour later the CSI is packing all the evidence into the crime lab suv that Gil head driver to the scene, since Nick, Warrick, Sara and Destiny all drive their own cars to the crime scene. Once all the evidence is in the suv Gil get into the suv and heads back to the lab with Warrick, Nick, Sara and Destiny right behind him in their cars. Once back at the lab Gil heads to his offices and lays down on the couch. Elsewhere in the lab Sara is compare the paperwork found in Mr. Steven and Mr. Thomas office and she finds out that both Mr. Steven and Mr. Thomas were in debt with Sam Braun. Destiny is running the fingerprints through AFIS, but the only fingerprints find at both of the scene were family members. In the DNA lab Greg was able to match all five victims DNA samples, but the sixth DNA sample, he still could not get a match on, just like the Steven case, Greg is not able to found out who the murder is. The graveyard shrift has ended two minutes ago and Sara is waking past Grissom office and looks through the window of his office door and notice he is laying on the couch and his office lights are off. She knocks on the door but gets no answers, so she just open the door and walks in because she is worry about Gil Grissom.
"(Eyes still close) who there?"
"It Sara, the shrift end two and half minutes ago Grissom."
"Oh, was Greg able to get a match for the sixth DNA sample found at the crime scene?"
"No, I did found that both Mr. Steven and Mr. Thomas were in debt with Sam Braun, but that the only thing new Warrick and Nick hint a dead end trying to found out who made the boot that left the boot prints at both crime scenes. So Sheriff Antwater told us to set the case aside for now."
"Ok, What did Dr. Robbins say about how the victims were killed?"
"That all five victim fingers on both hands were smash and then shoot point-block in the head like the Steven case."
"Did the sixth DNA sample match the sixth DNA sample from the Steven case?"
"Yes, it did."
"Good."
"Grissom's are you all right, because you have not open your eyes and look at me?"
"I have a migraine."
"Are you able to driving yourselves home Grissom or do you want me to give you a ride home Grissom?"
"No, I am not in any shape to drive myself home, I am going to take you up on that ride home Sara."
"That fine, I am ready to go whenever you are, Grissom."
"Ok, I am ready now. "
Gil Grissom stands up and grabs his coat of the chair in front of his desk. He puts his coat on and then he and Sara walk out of the office and into the hallway. Gil follows Sara outside to her car in the parking lot. Once Gil is in Sara's 2001 blue ford taurus, he put the passenger seat in the lay back position and closes his eyes. Neither Sara nor Gil speaks during the ride to Grissom's townhouse. Sara pull up in front of Gil Grissom's townhouse and puts the car into park Sara's looks over and sees that Gil Grissom has fallen to sleep. Sara light taps Gil Grissom on the left shoulder. He opens his eyes and looks at Sara and then notices that she is park in front of his townhouse.
"Thanks for the ride home Sara."
"Your Welcome, beside I go past your townhouse on my way to my apartment building anyway, I will see you at work tonight."
"If I come into work, I might end up calling in sick and thanks again for the ride bye."
"Bye."
Grissom opens the car door and gets out of the car. He closes the door and takes the keys out of his coat pocket. He then walks to the door of his townhouse and unlocks the door. Sara's make sure Grissom's gets into his townhouse and then she backs out of the parking spot. She drives to the exits of the parking lot and pulls out the first back she gets and heads home.