Chapter Nine: Unfriendly sky
It is the beginning of another night shift for Gil Grissom and his co-workers. Gil Grissom had got a ride into work with Catherine who is laying on the break room couch with her eyes close and Grissom is sitting at the table in the break room and he is leaning back in the chair he is sitting in with he eyes close, both Gil and Catherine are wishing that they had called into work sick that night. At the sometime they co-workers are slower coming into the break room, as Nick, Destiny, Sara and Warrick take a set at the table and once all six of them are in the break room Gil Grissom stands up, rubbing his forehead with his left hand. Sara looks up at Gil Grissom and can tell that he is still fighting the migraine he had when she dropped him off at his townhouse that morning. Sara then looks over at Catherine laying on the break room couch and can see that she still does not feel good.
"There is only one case, tonight and the case is a 442 (Airplane Emergency).
"What type of Airplane emergency Grissom?"
"Sara, a plane made an emergency landed on I-15 and the plane was heading to Texas."
"Why did they want us to go out to I-15?"
"Nick, the reason is because the pilot and co-pilot had a gun pointing at they head and were made to land the plane on I-15. As soon as the plane landed on I-15 the two gunmen shoot the pilot and co-pilot in the head. They also killed five people who try to stop them. Go get you kit and then will we meet out at the suv's, so we can head to the crime scene.
Nick, Destiny, Sara and Warrick stand up from the chairs they are setting in and go to the locker room and grab they crime scene kits. Catherine slowly gets up from the couch and pick up her kit off the floor next to the couch at the sometime Gil Grissom walks to his office to get his crime scene kit. A few minutes late all six of them are outside and are walking over to the two sport utility vehicles, they are taking to the crime scene. Sara gets behind the wheel of one of the suv and Gil Grissom takes the passenger seat, Nick and Destiny's get into the back of the suv. Warrick gets behind the wheel of the second suv and Catherine takes the passenger seat and two minutes later Sara and Warrick's are driving towards the crime scene. On the ride to the crime scene in the first suv, which Sara is driving Grissom has put on his sunglass even through the sun has set.
"Grissom why are you wearing Sunglass?"
"Because I get a migraine Nick and the bright headlights are killing my eyes."
"Are you feeling any better then you were this morning Grissom or are you still feeling as bad as you were this morning?"
"I feel a little better then this morning, but my head is still pounding and I am still nauseated, Sara."
"You should have called in sick Grissom."
" I was till the Sheriff, Lockwood and Jim Brass called and tell me about the 442 (Airplane Emergency).
"Do you want us to keep quiet the rest of the way to the crime scene?"
"Yes, Sara that would be great."
Sara stops talking to Grissom and Destiny and Nick stop talking to each other and look out the windows of the suv. Meanwhile, over in the suv Warrick driving, he has stopped the suv behind Sara at a red light. Warrick looks over at Catharine and sees that Catharine looks flush. He also notices that she has her eyes closed. The light turns green and Warrick takes his foot off the break, once the crime lab suv Sara is driving has started to move. At the sometime Catherine starts coughing.
"Catherine's are you sure you should be at work tonight, because you sound awful and you look flush too?"
"I feel awful too, Ah-choo, and I know that I look flush. I am running a fever of 102. 9 Fahrenheit and no, I should probably not be at work tonight. But Sheriff Antwater would not let me take another sick day, because of the 442 (Airplane Emergency), coughed, and then Gil called me and he asks for a ride into work, because Sara give him a ride home this morning because he had a migraine and was in no shape to drive home. So his car, coughs, was still in the crime lab parking lot."
"That sucks Catherine, how Lindsey feeling today?"
"She is feeling better then I am, but she came down with the flu two days before I come down with it."
"Who watching Lindsey tonight?"
"Her grandma Flynn (Catherine mom) is watching her tonight, coughs."
"Do you think you will be able to make it through the shift tonight, Catherine?"
"I am not sure, Ah-choo, can we stop talking Warrick, Because I want to get some rest on the ride to the crime scene?"
"Sure, Catherine."
Warrick and Catherine stop talking and Catherine close her eyes, trying to hold back the urge to cough, but she is not able to and starts coughing. A minute and half later Catherine stops coughing and puts a cough drop into her mouth. Several minutes later Sara and Warrick pull up to the yellow police tape marking the site of the airplane emergency landed and the crime scene. Sara and Warrick put the suv into park and turn the suv off. Then Warrick, Sara, Destiny and Nick open the suv doors and get out. Grissom and Catherine get out of the suv that the two of them are in as Warrick, Sara, Destiny and Nick are grabbing their crime scene kits. Once they all have grabbed their crime scene kits, Destiny and Sara lead the way to the airplane with Warrick and Nick right behind them. Catherine and Grissom are behind Nick and Warrick and walking slower then Sara, Nick, Destiny and Warrick. All of the CSI sees that the passengers from the airplane are sitting on the grass along the side the highway. The CSI also notices several scared toddles and babies that are crying. The CSI sees that the toddlers are holding on tightly to their mothers. Detective Lockwood and Jim Brass are talking to the witness as Sara, Destiny, Warrick, Nick, Catherine and Gil walk under the yellow tape and over to the airplane. Gil Grissom and his team then head into the airplane. The CSI takes in the five dead bodies that are laying near the cockpit door and David look up at the CSI.
"The five bodies out here have been dead since 8:50pm."
"And it's now 10:05pm, so the victims have been dead for an hour and fifteen minutes right David?"
"Yes that is right!"
"Where did the flight come from?"
"The airplanes take off from Seattle, at lest that what Jim Brass told me, Destiny."
" How long has the airplane been on I-15 for, coughs?
"Jim Brass told me it has been on I-15 for thirty minutes now and Catharine you do not sound good."
"I know David, I have the flu."
Just then detective Brass and Lockwood walk into the airplane and over to the CSI and look at David who is now taking the liver temperature of the pilot and co-pilot to see how long they have been dead for. Catherine pulls a tissue out of her pant pocket and blow her nose several times.
"The pilot and co-pilot have been dead for thirty minutes .
Thanks David, Catherine and I will take the outsides of the plane, Destiny, you are processing the cockpit of the airplane. Sara, Nick and Warrick's, the three of you are processing the rest of the airplane."
"David's you can take the five dead bodies by the cockpit door now, I have got the pictures of victims in the spot the five of them were found at."
"Ok Sara, that would make it easily for Destiny to get into the cockpit to take the pictures of the pilot, co-pilot and the evidence in there, see that she is wearing a skirt it would be hard for her to step over them."
"Yes it would make it easily for me to get inside the cockpit and take pictures along with process the area, David."
After David moves the bodies by the cockpit door Destiny's walks into the cockpit and takes the pictures of the dead pilot and co-pilot where there had been killed at. She looks up after taking the last picture of the co-pilot and she sees David standing at the cockpit door watching her.
"David's you can take the pilot and co-pilot now."
"Ok, and by the way I love the red suit jacket, red tank top that you are wearing under the suit jacket and the red skirt that you are wearing tonight."
"I had to testify in court today and then I went to watch my sister high school gymnastic meet, so I did not have time to change before the night shift, but thanks David."
"You are welcome."
David remover the bodies from the cockpit and Destiny get to work snapping pictures of the blood pools and other evidence. Meanwhile, Catherine and Grissom have found two sets of footprints leading away from the scene. The two of them follow the footprints and take photos of both set of footprints up to the spot the footprints end. Grissom and Catherine then see tire marks that show that the car the killers used to get away went east. Catherine snap a photo of the tire marks and then she starts coughing. After she stops coughing her and Gil walk to the crime lab suv that Warrick drive to the crime scene.
"Do you have the suv key Catherine?"
"No, Warrick drive, do you, Ah-coo, want me to go and get the key from Warrick?"
"No, I will go and get the key from Warrick, you stay here Catherine."
"Ok, Gil."
Gil Grissom walks back under the yellow tape and to the airplane. He walks into the plane and over to Warrick, who stops process the scene and look up at Gil who is rubbing his forehead with his right hand. Warrick pulls the suv keys out of his pocket.
"Do you want the key Grissom?"
"Yes, Catherine and I are going to go back to the lab and go to the coroners' lab to see what Dr. Robbins and David found out.
"Here is the key, Grissom."
Grissom takes the suv key from Warrick and walks out off of the airplane. He walks to the yellow tape and goes under the tape. Gil hits the unlocking button that is on the key chain and as he is walking over to the suv he tosses Catherine the key to suv. The two of them get into the suv and Catherine drive to the crime lab. When Catherine pulls into the parking lot of the crime lab fifteen minutes later, she pulls suv into the first spot by the door mark crime lab suv. She puts the suv into park and then she turns the suv off. Catherine looks over at Gil in the passenger seat and founds that he has fallen to sleep. Catherine lightly taps Gil Grissom on the left shoulder, but Grissom does not wake up. So Catherine tap Gil Grissom on his shoulder a little harder and he opens his eyes. He then turns his head and looks at Catherine.
"Did I fall to sleep, Catherine?"
"(Clears her throat) yes you fall to sleep on the ride to the crime lab, Gil."
"Sorry, Cath."
"It's all right Gil, if I wasn't driving I would have gone to sleep too."
Gil and Catherine open up the doors of the suv and then get out. Catherine and Gil close the front doors of the suv and open the back door and get their crime scene kits out. After they close the suv doors and lock up the suv Catherine and Gil walk into the lab and to the locker room to put their crime scene kits in their lockers. Five minutes later Gil and Catherine walk into the coroners' lab and see David and Dr. Robbins standing along side one of the coroner table that have the only female victim on it. Catherine and Gil walk over to the table, Gil is stands next to Dr. Robbins and Catherine is stands next to David at the coroner table.
"I have gone a head and take the photo of the bruise that was on the bodies of two of the victims and collect the evidence from these two bodies and put it into evidence bags.
"Thank, can you tell use anything yet, Dr. Robbins?"
" I remove three bullets from two of the five victims that was laying in front of the cockpit door, I still have to remove the bullets from the other three victims from in front of the cockpit door. I have removed one bullet from the pilot heads and one from the co-pilots head. I put them each in there own evidence bags and sent then to Bobby Dawson in ballistics. I will be able to tell you more after I do a full autopsy on each of seven victims."
"Ok, coughs just sent us the reports when you have them done."
"I will, Catherine's how are you hold up, because you sound a lot worse then at the starts of the night shift?"
"I am hold up ok, but I feel horrible."
"And you look horrible."
"Thanks David, that just what I wanting, Ah-choo, to hear, coughing."
"Catherine's will you let me listens to your lungs and take your temperature?"
"Coughs, sure Dr. Robbins."
"Go take a set in my desk chair."
"Ok."
"I am going to go wait in the hallway for you Catherine, the smell is starting to get to me, Cath."
"That fine Gil."
Gil Grissom walks into the hallway and Catherine walks over to Dr. Robbins desk. She then takes a set in his desk chair. Dr. Robbins takes off his latex gloves and throws them into the trash can by the coroner table. He then grabs his elbow crutch and walks over to the sink, so he can wash his hands. After he has washed his hands Dr. Robbins walks over to his desk and open up the bottom drawer of his desk and takes out his doctor bag. He set the doctor bag on the desk and then close the bottom desk drawer. He open up his doctor bag up and takes out the thermometer and his stethoscope out of his doctor bag. Dr. Robbins hands Catherine the thermometer and she puts the thermometer into her mouth. When the digital thermometer beeps thirty second later, Catherine takes it out of her mouth and hands it to Dr. Robbins, who looks and the thermometer and puts the thermometer back into his doctor bag.
"Catherine, you have a fever of 103.1, I recommend that you take some cold and flu medicine that has a fever reduce in it to get you fever down and to help relive some of you flu symptoms."
"Ok, coughs."
"I am going to listens to you lungs now and as I am doing it I want you to take deep breath."
"Ok, I will try to."
Dr. Robbins put the stethoscope eartip into his ears and then put the stethoscope chestpiece onto Catherine back over where her left lung is location at. He then listens to her left lung as she takes a deep breath and starts to cough. He moves the stethoscope chestpiece over to the right side and Catherine takes another deep breath and start coughing again. Dr. Robbins takes the stethoscope eartip out of his ears and put the stethoscope into his doctor bag. He then turns the desk chair around so Catherine is facing him. Dr. Robbins then takes out his penlight.
"Catherine's I want to take a look at your throat."
"All right."
Doctor Robbins turns his penlight on and Catherine's opens her mouth. Then Dr. Robbins shines the penlight into Catherine's mouth. He notices that her throat is a little red, but her tonsils are not swollen and she does not have any white patches on her throat or on her tonsils. He turns of his penlight and Catherine close her mouth as Dr. Robbins put the penlight into his doctor bag. He then feels her neck to see if her lymph nodes swollen and he finds that the lymph nodes are slightly swollen. Dr. Robbins takes a set on the edge of his desk and at the sometime Catherine start sneezes.
"Catherine can you tell me what symptoms you have?"
"Fever, aching all over, a headache, a sore throat, a cough, Fatigue, chills, sweats, Nasal congestion, Ah-choo, I also have a running nose and I feel weak, coughing. What did you found when listens to my lungs, looking at my throat and feeling my neck, Dr. Robbins?"
"Catherine's your lymph node are slightly swollen and your throat is a little red, but your tonsil are not swollen and there are no white patches on your tonsil or throat which is a good thing, but when I was listens to your lungs it was clear that you are having a hard time taking deep breath and your lungs are making crackle sound which mean that what start out as the flu is moving into you lungs, so I would keep an eye on that."
"Ok, I will and thank Dr. Robbins."
"Your welcome and I hope you feel better soon Catherine."
"Me too."
Catherine stands up and walks into the hall and then Gil and Catherine walks to the break room and meet up with the rest of the team and when Catherine and Gil get to the break room the two of them see the rest of the team is setting around the table talking and that Sheriff Antwater is getting himself a cup of coffee.
"Way are you all setting around the table talking when there is work to be done on the case still?
"No, there is no work to be done on the case. The two missing passengers from the plane are wanted terrorists so homeland security has taken over the case. So Gil only a couple of your team members needs to stay at the lab incase another case or cases get call in tonight."
"Thanks for letting me know Sheriff Antwater. Catherine's, I am sending you home, Destiny you had a long day seeing that you were at court this morning testifying so you can go home too. Nick you have to be in court tomorrow to testifying in a case so you can go home too. Sara and Warrick you are the two stays at the lab and I am going to go home too."
"(Nick, Warrick, Sara, Destiny and Catherine) ok, Grissom."
Catherine and Gil walk out of the break room, Catherine head to the locker room to get her things out of her locker and Gil Grissom heads to his office to get his coat and keys. Back in the break room Destiny and Nick stands up and they walk to the break room doors. When they reach the doors they stop and look at Sara and Warrick and then walk out of the break room and head to the locker room to gets theirs belongs out of theirs lockers. By the time Nick and Destiny get to the locker room Catherine has already left the lab and so has Gil Grissom. A few minutes later Sara and Warrick watch Nick and Destiny walking past the break room on theirs way to the main doors of the lab to go out to their cars and go home.