Chapter Thirteen: To have and to hold
Its Saturday morning on June 2, 2001 and in room 210 of the Tropicana, Maire Summer is getting ready to marry her high school sweetheart Justine Pitt. When she hears the door opening, she though it was just one of the bridesmaids coming in and she continues to get ready for her big day. That when someone grabs her arms and the person pushes her up against the wall. Maire looks at the guy who has her pinned her up against the wall, but has no idea who he is. She tries to scream for help, but he puts a gag into her mouth. The next thing she knows is that he is on top of her and slowly everything becomes dark. An hour later the bride mom Mrs. Summer's walk into her daughters' hotel room, to found her laying on the floor. Mrs. Summer sees a pool of blood that came from a stab wound in her daughters' chest, along with a blood trail leading to the bathroom. Mrs. Summer reaches into her purse and grab her cellphone. Mrs. Summer then call 911, it's now 10:30 a.m. when the phone starts ringing at Gil Grissom's townhouse. Gil rolls over in bed and rubs his eyes, he then picks up the cordless phone. He hits the talk button on the phone and puts the phone up to his right ear.

"Gil Grissom's speaking."
"Hello Gil it Sheriff Antwater I need you and your team to meet Jim Brass at the Tropicana, in room 210. There has been a 420 (Homicide), the victim name is Maire Summer, and it was her wedding day."
"Why is the day shift not handling this case?"
"Because there are already working three cases and have two Crime scene investigators testify in court today, Gil Grissom."
"Ok, Sheriff Antwater, I will call my team members up and let them know."
"I am really sorry to wake you and your team up. Seeing your team only been off for a couple hours now."
"No big deal, Bye."
"Bye,"

Gil hangs up the phone and then get out of bed. Gil walks over to his closet and gets a pair of pant and shirt out. He grabs a pair of sock and underwear out of his dresser, Gil then gets dress and throw his pajama top and pant onto his bed. He then walks into the bathroom and brushes his tooth. Two minutes later he walks out of the bathroom and grabs his cellphone off the nightstand by the bed. Gil Grissom then hit the speed dial button for Catherine cellphone. Catherine picks up her cellphone after it rings two times.

"Catherine Willow's who this?"
"Its Gil Grissom, there has been a 420 (Homicide) at the Tropicana in room 210, a bride was murder on her wedding day."
"What the plan on get to the crime scene are we driving are self to the crime scene or meet at the lab?"
"We will all meet up at the crime lab to get our crime scene kits and pick up the two sport utility vehicles we will be taken to the crime scene. Then the six of us will head to the crime scene at the Tropicana and meet Jim Brass in room 210."
"Ok Gil, do you want me to call anyone?"
"Sure will you call Warrick and Nick?"
"Yes."
"Thanks, I will see you at the lab. Bye for now."
"Bye."

Gil and Catherine hang up and Catherine dial Nick phone number. A few minutes later Gil Grissom is in his car on the way to the crime lab, so he can pick up his crime scene kit and meet up with his team. When he stops for a red light, he hits the speed dial button for Sara cellphone and after three rings Sara answers her cellphone.

"Yawns Sara Sidle speaking?"
"Did I wake you Sara?"
"Yes, is there a reason you called me Gil Grissom, because I am tired?"
"Yes there is a reason I call you, there has been a 420 (Homicide) at the Tropicana in room 210. A bride was murder on her wedding day."
"That not good, are we meeting up at the crime lab and all ride to the scene together?"
"Yes."
"Have you called Destiny yet?"
"No,"
"When you call Destiny's let her know I will pick her up, because her sister has the car."
"Ok, I will see you at the lab, bye for now."
"Bye."

Sara and Gil hang up with each other as the light turns green. Grissom starts driving again and at the sometime hits the speed dial button for Destiny cellphone and after four rings it goes to voice mail, so Gil hangs up. He then hits the speed dial button for Destiny cellphone a second time and this time she picks up on the third ring.

"Ahem, Destiny Kessler speaking"
"Did I wake you?"
"Yes, I take it that you are calling to tell me about a crime scene?"
"Yes, there has been a 420 (Homicide) at the Tropicana in room 210. A bride was murder on her wedding day. Also, Sara says she will pick you up and give you a ride to the lab since your sister has your car."
"Ok, I will see you at the lab, bye."

Destiny flips her cellphone close before Grissom can say bye. At the sometime in Grissom's car, he has stops for another red light and cannot believe that Destiny hang up on him, before he was able to tell her bye. Meanwhile, Destiny is thinking the last thing she wants to do is go back into work. She sets up in her bed and rubs her eyes, wishing that she did not have a headache or that she did not have a severe sore throat, which come on suddenly right before the graveyard shift end. She gets out of bed slower, because she is ache all over. She then walks into the bathroom and over to the bathroom sink. Destiny looks in the mirror and sees that she looks flush. She opens open up the medicine cabinet and takes out the thermometer. She puts the thermometer into her mouth and when it beeps thirty second later she takes the thermometer out of her mouth. She then looks at the thermometer to see that her temperature is 101.1, she put the thermometer away and brush her tooth. She has just finishes brush her tooth when the door bell rings, she walks out of the bathroom and to the front door and let Sara into the house.

"You're not dress yet!"
"I knew that Sara!"
' You look flush Destiny's, are you still feeling under the weather?"
"Yes, I have a headache and a severe sore throat, which, Ahem come on suddenly right before the grave yard shift end. I am also ache and have a fever 101.1!"
"Sounds like you are getting sick."
"I hope not, I going to go get dress."
"OK."

Sara takes a set on the couch in the living room, as Destiny walks into her room to change out her pink nightshirt and get dress for work. She then walks into the bathroom and combs her hair. At the sometime Grissom pulls into the crime lab parking lot, he sees that Catherine, Warrick and Nick cars are in the parking lot. Gil Grissom gets out of his car and walks into the lab. As he walks by the break room, he sees Nick, Catherine and Warrick are in the break room talking. Gil Grissom also notices all three of the CSI crime scene kits on the break room floor. Gil Grissom walks to his office and he sees a pile of phone message notes from the front desk that has been left for him, so he picks them up. He then looks to see who the messages are from and he sees one of the messages is from is mother saying that she has taken a job at the school for the Deaf in Las Vegas, NV. He set the messages back on his desk because none of them needs to be answers right away. He then grabs his crime scene kit and walks out of his office. When he walks into the break room nine and half minutes later, Gil sees Sara and Destiny taken a set on the break room couch. Grissom looks at his five co-workers and notices they all look tired. Gil Grissom takes a second look at Destiny trying to figure out what is different about her, it's not the blue jeans or the long sleeve tan shirt and white tank top under the tan shirt that she is wearing he has seen them before. Then he realizes it's her hair, Destiny did not curl her hair before coming into work.

"Destiny's what is with your hair being straight, your hair is always curlier?"
"I do not have time to curl it before Sara arrived at my house, Grissom."
"Oh."
"Let's get this over with."
"Destiny's that not your normal attitude about going to a crime scene."
"I am tried Warrick!"
"All of us are tire Destiny's."
"Whatever Catherine."
"Destiny's is grumpy this morning."
"Ahem, leave me alone, I have a headache Warrick!"
"Ok, don't bite my head off!'
"Destiny you are driving one of the suv and I am driving the other suv to the crime scene."
"All right, Grissom."

The five crime scene investigators that were waiting for Grissom in the break room stand up. Then Sara, Destiny, Nick, Warrick and Catherine grab their crime scene kits from the floor. Destiny and Gil then grab the suv keys they will be taken off the hooks on the break room wall. As the six crime scene investigators walk out to the suv Destiny puts on her sunglass and she is wishing that the Tylenol she take on the way to the crime lab would start working. Catherine and Warrick get into the suv that Gil Grissom is taken to the crime scene and Sara and Nick gets into the suv that Destiny is taking to the crime scene. It was a quiet ride to the Tropicana in both of the suv, because all of them are tired. Fifteen minutes later Gil Grissom and Destiny Kessler's park the two sport utility vehicles in the Tropicana parking lot and all six of them are getting their crime scene kits out. A minute and half later Warrick, Catherine, Nick, Sara, Destiny and Gil's have finish getting all their crime scene kits out of the crime lab sport utility vehicles and now the team is walking into the Tropicana. Once inside the hotel the six of them walk up the staircase to room 210. Jim Brass meets Sara, Nick, Warrick, Destiny, Catherine and Grissom at the door.

"Grissom's just to let you know David is in with the body already. "
"Why David here he works nights?"
"Destiny's the day shift assistant coroner is out of town for a wedding."
"Oh"
"Nick's I want you to fingerprint all the stairway rails, Warrick I want you to fingerprint the elevators and Catherine's I want you to fingerprint all of the room doors. Destiny you are process the bathroom and Sara you with me process the bedroom and setting room. Let's get to work. "

Gil, Sara and Destiny walk into the room 210, as Catherine starts to fingerprint the door to room 210. Warrick goes over to the elevator and he gets to work on fingerprinting the elevators. At the sometime Nick head to the Stairway and start dusting for fingerprints. The first thing Sara, Gil and Destiny do is to walk over to David and see what he can tell them. David looks up at Destiny and sees she looks more tired then she did at the end of the graveyard shift.

"David's what can you tell us?"
"Grissom's she being dead since 8:30am and the victim was stabbing through the heart. Also, there are signs of sexual assault. She has bruises on her upper lags and on her arms. The victims' underwear is laying on the floor over there. She also has a gag in her mouth as the three of you can see."
"Let me take some photo of the body at the scene and take the gag out of her mouth and put the gag into an evidence bag. Then you can do your job, David."
"Ok, Sara."

Destiny start walking towards the bathroom with her crime scene kit, when David walks up to Destiny's and touch her shoulder to get her attention. Destiny turns around to face David and she looks at her boyfriend, who has a worry look on his face. David's looks at Destiny and he can see she is trying to hide that she is exhaust and does not feel good.

"What David, I need to start process the bathroom?"
" I just want to check to see how you are feeling seeing that you do not want to go out to breakfast this morning, Because you said that you were feeling under the weather and then you had your sister Dakota pick you up from work instead of me taking you home, like I normal do when your sister needs the car?"
"I am just tired, ache all over and have a headache, Ahem, so I want home to get some sleep."
" I hope you are not getting sick!"
"I hope that I am not getting sick too, because I hate being sick."
" Do not push yourself so hard today and take breaks when you need them."
"I won't push myself and if I need a break I will take one, I promise David."
"You can take the body now, David!"
"Thanks, Sara."

David pulls Destiny into a hug and then he kisses her forehead, which feels warm to his lips. Destiny hugs David back and then David takes a closer look at his girlfriend and sees that she looks flush.

"Sweetie, are you sure you are feeling ok because you are running warm?"
" I am fine!"
"Ok, I have to get back to work now!"
"Ok, I will see you later, David."

Sara looks over at Destiny and gives her a look that says you should have told David the truth. David walks over to the victim and puts her into a body bag and onto the stretcher, as her pushes the stretcher past the bathroom he stops and looks at his girlfriend one last time. He sees that she is checking the bathtub drain, Destiny's has just finish testing the swab from the bathtub drain to see if there was blood and it comes out negative, she turns her head towards the door and sees David pushes the stretcher past the bathroom door. Destiny's gets another swab out and test the bathroom sink drain and it comes out positive for blood.

"Grissom, the killer washes his or her hands in the bathroom sink."
"Get swabs for Greg in DNA."
"Ok."

Destiny gets the blood swaps at the sometime as Sara finds the knife use to stab the victim hide under the bed. She takes a couple pictures of the knife under the bed and then put the knife into an evidence bag. Meanwhile, Gil is swabbing the blood pool and blood trail. He then moves onto checking the furniture for fingerprints. At the sometime Nick and Warrick is still busy dusting for fingerprints. Jim Brass is talking to the people staying in the room near the victim room. Five minutes later Destiny walks out of the bathroom holding an evidence bag that has a condom in it. Along with the evidence bags with the blood swabs.

"DNA heaven the person that sex assault and kill the victim left the condom behind at the scene, nice found Destiny and I found the murder weapon."
"Great job Sara, and either the person is a first timer at both sexual assault and killing who is not afraid of getting caught or is dumb."
"I hope that the person is just dumb Grissom and that the person is in the system already? I have finished processing the bathroom, what do you want me to process next, Grissom?"
"Go and help Nick dust the stairway rails for fingerprints."
"Ok."
"I finish dusting the doors for fingerprints, I am going take a walk around the hotel to see if the killer throw the clothing he or she was wearing in any of the trash can, Grissom."
"Ok, Catherine."

Catherine and Destiny grab their crime scene kits, Sara watching Catherine and Destiny walking towards the door of room 210. Sara can see that the Tylenol Destiny's take on the way to the crime lab must have starts to work, because her cheeks are no longer red, like at her house earlier that morning. But Sarh knows that her best friend still does not feel good because she keeps clearing her throat and is walking slower then she normally does. Grissom looks at Sara and notice that she keeps watching Destiny, but does say anything seeing that she still processing the scene. It's now two and half hours later and Gil Grissom's team has finished processing the crime scene. Along with the near by areas and are walking outside to the suv's with the bags of evidence.

"I am hunger who wants to go get a late lunch and who want to take the evidence to the crime lab and check the evidence in?"
"Nick, I will take the evidence to the lab, I am not hunger."
"Thanks and you are losing you voice, Destiny!"
"I know, I think I am catching a cold."
"Do you want anyone to come back to the lab with you and do you want me to bring you some lunch to the lab?
"No everyone can go get lunch, Ahem, and no I do not want any food brought back, I do not have an appetite today, Nick!"
"That not good you need to eat, did you eat breakfast when you get home this morning?"
No Catherine, I take a shower, changes and, Ahem, then went right to bed."
"I am bringing you something to eat back, what do you want to eat?"
"Nothing Grissom."
"You need to eat, so just tell me what you want?"
"Ahem, fine Grissom brings me back tomato soup and a gill cheese sandwich."
"Ok, let get the evidence put away then."

Sara, Destiny, Warrick, Nick, Catherine and Gil pack the evidence into the back of crime lab suv that Destiny drive to the scene. When they have finish putting the evidence into the suv that Destiny drives to the crime scene, she gets into the suv. As the rest of the team gets into the suv Gil drive to the crime scene, Sara, Warrick and Catherine are in the back and Nick is the passenger seat and Gil is behind the wheel. Destiny and Gil pull the suv's they are driving out of the Tropicana parking lot and Gil drives to Jack Dinner and Destiny drives to the crime lab. When Destiny arrives at the crime lab, she checks the evidence in. Destiny grabs the bags that have the swabs of blood, gag, knife, Condom and blooded pant and shirt Catherine found in one of the trash can at the pool. Destiny's then slower walks to the DNA lab hoping that Greg is not in a chatting mood, because she not in the mood to talk to anyone. When Destiny walks into the DNA lab and sees Greg talking on the phone, Destiny set the bags onto the counter. She then starts to walk towards the door of the DNA lab, but stops when she hears Greg hang the phone.

"What did you bring me?"
"A evidence bag that has a Condom, evidence bag with a blooded Knife, evidence bags with a washcloth that was use as a gag. Also, an evidence bag with a blooded pair of pant and one evidence bag that has a blooded shirt in it."
"Is that all?"
"No, a forth, five and six evidence bags of blooded swabs from the bathroom sink."
"Destiny you sound hoarse, are you feeling all right?"
"Not really I have a sore throat, a headache and I'm ache all over."
"Sound like you are getting sick, Destiny's."
"I really hope not, but I think you, Sara and David are right. I need to get going and check in with Coroner Dr. Jenna Williams, that who working today right?"
"Yes, I hope you start feeling better."
"Thanks, me too!"

Destiny walks out the DNA lab and slower walks to the coroners' lab. As she is walking, she feels her forehead with her right hand, but can't tell if she is still running a fever. She reaches the door to the coroners' lab and walks inside and sees that Dr. Jenna Williams has not get to the victim for the case she is working.

"I am sorry Destiny Kessler's, we are behind this morning and I have not been able to work on the body that is from the case you are working!"
"That all right, you can take as much time as you need Dr. Jenna Williams."
"I should get to the case you are working within the next hour."
"Ok."

Destiny starts to walk out of the door when David stops in front of the door and takes a good look at his girlfriend. He then wraps his right arm around her waist and walks her into the hallway. She lays her head down on David right shoulder and closes her eyes. David walk Destiny over to the bench in the hallway and the two of them takes a set on the bench. Just then Conrad Ecklie walks past the two of them and into the coroners' lab.

"How are you feeling this afternoon?"
"I am feeling ok but I am losing my voice, have a sore throat, headache, ache all over and I am exhaust "
"Go lay down in the break room and close your eyes."
"I will after I get the fingerprint out of the evidence locker and take then to Charlotte Meridian in the fingerprint lab."
"Are you running a fever?"
"I was this morning, it was 101.1, but I am not Ahem, sure if I am now?"

David feels Destiny's forehead with his right hand and by the look on David face she knows that she is running a fever, he shakes his head yes to let her know she is running a fever and Destiny stands up. She waves bye to David and walk to the evidence locker. Once at the evidence locker she gets the fingerprint out and checks them out of the locker. She then walks to the fingerprint lab to found Charlotte Meridian, but she is not in the lab, she takes a set in Charlotte Meridian's desk chair to waiting for Charlotte and two minutes later Charlotte walks into the fingerprint lab and sees the huge pile of fingerprints that Destiny has bring her.

"From the 420 at the Tropicana right?"
"Yes."
"There is no way the room had that many fingerprints in it!"
"Gil Grissom's made Warrick's fingerprint the elevators and Nick's fingerprint the stairway rails!"
"That would be the reason for all these fingerprints, I am going to busy for hours on this case."
"I will leave and let you get to work."
"You don't have to leave you could help me!"
"Ahem, I might come by later and help you, But I need to take a break for a while, I am have a hard, Ahem time keep my eyes open."
"You do not sound good, do you have a sore throat?"
"Yes."
"Go take a break and feel better soon."
"Thanks and I hope that I feel better soon."

Destiny stands up from the desk chair and walks out of the fingerprint lab. She takes her handgun and cellphone off her right hip as she walks to the break room. When Destiny's get into the break room, she set her handgun and cellphone onto the break room coffee table. Destiny then put on a pillow on the couch arm that on the left side if facing the couch ( couch arm facing the door to the break room). She set down on the conch and then lay down on the couch. She close her eyes and rolls onto her right side, so she is facing the coffee table. She then bent her knees so if someone else comes in and want to set on the couch they can. Just then Conrad Ecklie walks into the break room and kneels down in front of her.

"I over hear you and David talking, Destiny. And if you not up to working, I can call in one of my day shift crime scene investigators that was in court this morning to come into work and take your places working the Summer case?"
"I am up to working Ecklie."
"Then why are you laying on the couch?"
"I just want to close my eyes for a few minutes, Ahem and rest my voice."
"Ok, but if you need to go home let Grissom's know. I already talk to him, so he will come and let me know if you go home and then I will call in one of my crime scene investigators that was in court this morning to come into work and take your places."
"Ok."

Conrad Ecklie stands up and then he walks out of the break room. Destiny close her eyes and fall to sleep a few second later. Gil, Sara, Nick, Warrick and Catherine get back to the crime lab about an hour and half after leaving the crime scene. Gil and Catherine head over to the coroners' lab and Nick, Warrick, Sara's along with Greg walks into the break room and see Destiny asleep on the couch. Nick, Sara and Greg walk over to Destiny, then Nick's set the round soup takeout container with the tomato soup down on the coffee table. Then he set the takeout box that has the gill cheese sandwich on the coffee table. Sara takes a set on the section of couch that is free, as Warrick takes a seat in the chair next to the couch, which is across from the door to the break room and he reaches out and feels Destiny's forehead with his left hands. At the sometime Greg shakes Destiny, who opens her eyes to see Greg waving a folder in the air and Nick opening the tomato soup up.

"Greg, what do you want?"
"I get a hit on CODIS from the semen off the condom. It belongs to a Steven Pitt. He the cousin to the groom, and there was also blood on the knife it belongs to the victim and to Steven Pitt.
"Ahem, Thanks Greg, Has anyone told Jim Brass yet?"
No, But I will go tell Jim Brass, Destiny. You eat your tomato soup and gill cheese sandwich."
"Ok, Nick."
"Destiny it feels like you are running a fever!"
"Yeah I knew, David said the same thing earlier."

Destiny set up and take the spoons for Nick, who watches Destiny take the first spoon full of soup, then walks out of the break room to go found Jim Bass. Meanwhile in the break room Destiny takes a bite of the gill cheese and start coughing when she tries to swallow the bite of the gill cheese sandwich. She grabs a napkin off of the coffee table and she spits the bite of the sandwich into the napkin. At the sometime Warrick reaches behind the chair he is set in a grab a bottle of water out of the mini refrigerator, he then hands the bottle of water to Destiny.

"Thanks Warrick."
"You are welcome."
"Are you ok, Destiny?"
"Yes, I just can't eat the gill cheese sandwich, it hurts too bad to swallow the sandwich."
"Then eat only the tomato soup."
"I think that what I am going to do, Sara."

Destiny opens the water bottle and takes a drink, she close the water bottle and set it on the coffee table. She then goes back to eat the soup and at the sometime Nick, Grissom and Catherine walks into the break room and all three of them takes a set in one of the chair at the table, on the side that facing the couch. Catherine, Nick and Grissom are watching Destiny eating and notice that she is only eating the soup and not the gill cheese sandwich. Grissom, Nick and Catherine also notice that Destiny has started to look flush again and that it looks like she in pain every time she swallows a spoon fill of soup or a drink of water.

"Jim Brass put an APB out on Steven Pitt."
"That good Nick."
"You hardly have a voice Destiny's. How sore is you throat?"
"I have a severed throat, Catherine."
"That is not good."
"I know Catherine."
"Destiny, Charlotte Meridian, also get a hit off AFIS from the hotel door to room 210 and it was Steven Pitt."
"Great Nick's it looks like we know who killed and Sexual assault Miss. Summer and I can't eat anymore, I am going to lie back down on the couch. Can't someone throw out my food?"
"I will."
"Thanks Sara."
"You are welcome."

Destiny lays back down and closes her eyes and goes right to sleep. Sara stands up and throws out the half-eaten container of tomato soup and the gill cheese with only a bite out of it. Nick, Warrick, Sara, Catherine and Grissom stand up and walks out of the break room and Gil Grissom close the door behind them. Grissom then puts a note on the break room door, which say please stays out of the break room and let Destiny Kessler's sleep, she is not feeling well. Two hours later Jim Brass and two uniform officers arrested Steven Pitt for the Sexual assault and murder of Marie Summer and Nick give Destiny's a ride home.