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Nick and Grissom were silent on the ride over to the scene. When they reached the scene it really started to hit them that if they had not stopped Greg from leaving, they would be searching for his remains right now. Each man grabbed their case and headed over to where Ecklie and Brass were under a tent that seemed to serve as a command post for the operation.
"Where do you need us?" Grissom asked.
"Well it is nice that you finally decided to join us." Ecklie remarked snidely.
"We were just checking on Warrick's condition before we left." That seemed to spike Ecklie's interest.
"How is he doing?"
"Not too well. We will just have to wait and see." Grissom replied and watched as Ecklie just nodded.
"Well I need both of your heads here and not back there. Catherine is with your lab techs out there."
"What?" Nick asked. 'Why would the techs be out here' he thought.
"This was a full plane. We needed all the hands we could get. We have Simms, Webster, Hodges, and Dawson out there."
"What about Henry and Archie?" Nick questioned.
"They are elsewhere helping." Ecklie replied quickly. Grissom just raised an eyebrow towards Brass who just shrugged. Ecklie pointed them in the direction the others were, and they headed that way.
As they walked pass different parts of the plane they saw different personal pulling bodies out of the wreckage. Nick spotted the gang over near where the trouble had apparently started, at the left wing.
"What have you got Cath?" Grissom questioned.
"Not a whole lot at the moment. It looks like the wing just caught on fire. It seems like this engine wasn't serviced lately and malfunctioned." Nick and Grissom could both tell that there was more to it than that, but Catherine didn't want to say it in front of the others.
"What have you four found?" Grissom asked the others standing there.
"Besides the sudden urge to throw up from the smell? Nothing out of the ordinary." Wendy remarked.
"Wasn't Sanders supposed to be right here?" Hodges said as looked at the plane.
"He was suppose to be on the plane" Nick started before he was interrupted.
"Yes I know that, but wasn't his seat right here by the wing?" They all glanced at each other.
"How do you know that Hodges?" Catherine questioned. No one was supposed to know where he was going to sit.
"He talked about it." Mandy commented. "He said he was sitting by the wing and he said something about surfing on the wing."
"Oh I see." Grissom said as he glanced up at where Greg would have been sitting. "I want you four to go around and see if you can piece together which section is which in this plane. Try not to disturb any of the bodies still left, but mark the pieces so we can reconstruct it later." Each tech nodded and went back to grab some items to mark the plane's pieces.
"That was weird." Nick commented as he watched them leave.
"What is really going on here Catherine?" Grissom turned towards Catherine who seemed to have a hard time gathering her thoughts.
"There was a trigger under his seat Gil." Catherine whispered.
"What?!" Nick all but shouted. This seemed to get better and better by the minute.
"Nicky be quiet." Grissom urged. Nick just nodded his head and Grissom motioned for Catherine to continue.
"From what I can tell there was a pressure switch under his seat. The first part was activated when he sat down. The second part was activated when the plane reached a certain altitude. Someone was gunning for him guys. Someone was trying to kill Greg." Nick shook his head in disbelief. He hopped up on the plane himself and looked. Sure enough under the charbroiled remains of the seat was a switch box.
"Who was sitting here?" Nick looked down at them. "Who sat here instead of Greg?"
"Since there are no survivors I doubt we will ever know Nicky." Nick just shook his head. With out getting into the wing itself they would not be able to tell where the trigger connected at. The question was how they could be good CSIs and not look into this.
"We have to play the game." Nick stated as he jumped down from the plane.
"What do you mean Nicky?" Catherine asked.
"We can't find this information, but if say some lab tech finds this then it would not be us finding too much information." Nick thought it sounded like a good idea.
"I think you are right Nicky. We need to get those four up in this section and see what happens. If any of them are in on what's going on they will look over that seat. Good thinking Nicky." Grissom said as he left to go bring over the techs that were busy marking the plane pieces. As he led them back over both Catherine and Nick were wondering what the cover story would be.
"All right, I called you back over here because we need your help. They have cleared this piece of the plane of bodies. Our job now is going to be going through the plane piece by piece and looking for a layout. We have a passenger log and I want to see where they were all sitting." Grissom ordered.
"Ok boss, you heard the man let's get to it." Hodges said as he led the others up into the plane. Grissom and his gang started to work on the piece that was right next to this one. It wasn't too long before they heard it.
"Uh Grissom, I think you should look at this." They all turned to where Bobby was standing. He was at the chair and was looking at the box connected to the chair. "Is this normal for a chair sitting by the wing?"
"No Bobby this is abnormal. This is defiantly something we will have to look into further. Thank you for noticing it." Both Mandy and Hodges stood back from the chair that held the switch.
"What have we got?" They all turned to see Ecklie and Brass coming their way.
"Well it seems that Bobby has found a switch underneath that chair. We will need to further investigate that chair and this wing." Ecklie just nodded.
"Ok let's get a crew to move this so you guys can dissect it." The trio nodded at each other and began the process of getting this piece ready for transport.
(MEANWHILE)
Greg entered the darkened room where they had Warrick. He could hear the heart monitor and oxygen going. He almost ran back out of the room, but he knew that he had to stay strong for himself as well as Warrick. As they got further into the room, he could fully see Warrick. There was gauze and bandages around his neck and chest. He had a tube connected at the bottom of his neck. Greg turned towards the doctor waiting for an answer to his unheard question.
"Since he was shot in the throat we inserted a tube further down so that it could give his throat time to heal. If we would have inserted it straight down it would have hindered his throat's healing." Greg just nodded and went over to Warrick and looked down at him. He took a seat right next to him and took his hand in his.
The doctor and nurses looked over at him and then at each other. They decided that they would leave for now and come back in an hour or so. Greg just nodded when the doctor told him their plans. He could not take his eyes off of Warrick. When he heard the door close he let the first tear drop fall.
"Damn Rick I wish you were awake right now. You would not believe what is going on. We got a conspiracy theory going on. Someone or Someones are out to get us. I don't know what to think Rick. This morning I should have gotten on my plane to Los Angeles, but then you had to get yourself shot and end up saving my life. See Rick my plane went down. Something happened to it and it went down. Gris and the others are out there right now trying to figure out what is going on. To tell you the truth Rick I am scared. If someone blows up my plane just to kill me, what are they really capable of?" Greg let a few more tear drops fall. Greg was deep in thought when he heard the door being knocked on and then a figure sticking their head in.
"Mr. Sanders would you like something to eat?" Nurse Jacobs asked.
"I am not really hungry."
"The doctor said you should try to eat something. He said you need to keep up your strength."
"Ok I guess I will try to eat something."
"Great." Nurse Jacobs brought in the standard hospital food and sat it on the stand for Greg. Greg nodded his thanks and watched as the nurse left. As he smelled the food his stomach growled. He had not eaten since the diner. Greg ate most of what was on his plate, and then he felt sleepy. He got up on the bed set up for him and tried to keep his eyes open, but they became heavy with sleep.
Greg was coming out of sleep hearing voices around him. "What the heck are you doing? We should let him sleep."
"No he has slept enough he needs to wake up." Greg jerked awake when a hand landed on his shoulder. He flew off the bed and glanced over to where the two new comers were by Warrick's bed.
"What the hell are you two doing here?" Greg asked Archie and Henry.
"We heard about Warrick and decided to come see him. We didn't know you were here. We thought you were in the plane wreck." Henry said. Greg did not like how the computer guy and Tox guy were standing pretty close to Warrick's bed. Greg edged around the bed and pressed the button that was in his pocket.
"How did you know which room he was in?" Greg questioned the two men.
"Process of elimination." Archie said just as the door opened and both nurses and the doctor came into the room.
"Excuse me who are you?" The doctor asked.
"We are friends of Warrick and Greg." Henry said.
"There is supposed to be no one in here except family. Greg is listed but you aren't. I am going to have to ask you to leave." The doctor ordered. Both men looked to Greg, but Greg just shrugged.
"All right, I guess we will see you later then. We will stop by tomorrow and see how you are." Henry said as he left.
"Don't worry Greg; the doctor can't keep us away forever." Archie said as he smiled and left.
"Check him doctor. I fell asleep and when I woke up they were by his bed." The doctor made quick work of looking over Warrick's vitals.
"I see nothing out of the ordinary. If something should happen call me. I am going to move you both again. I do not like how easily they found you." Greg just nodded.
"It is not your fault Greg. You are exhausted."
"Was there something in my food?"
"No why?"
"I got really sleepy after I began to eat that." Greg looked over to the nurses.
"Sorry Greg. You seemed so stressed that I thought you could use some sleep." Nurse Jacobs hung his head in shame.
"We will talk about this later, Jacobs." Doctor Tanner sent a look of apology to Greg as he led the nurses out. Greg took his chair again by Warrick and waited until it was either time to move or the guys to come back.
(ELSEWHERE)
"I didn't hear anything I swear!! Please Oh God please don't kill me." A male voice begged.
"I'm sorry, but you know too much now." Another male voice said.
"I won't tell anyone please don't do this!"
"Listen to me!" He grabbed the begging man. "If I do not end your life now they will, but they won't stop there. They will torture you until they get everything they want from you and even then they won't let you die. You will become terminated. You will cease to exist to the world, but become their torture device."
"If you don't like this then why don't you leave?"
"I signed a deal with the devil and I have to pay my debts, but I won't have you in this."
"Just let me go, I will run away and you will never see me again."
"I can't let you, I am sorry."
(BANG BANG)
"Goodbye Henry." Archie hid his gun in his belt again, and pulled out his phone.
(RING RING)
"What?" A male voice asked.
"I need a clean up."
"Henry found out too much?"
"Yeah."
"Too bad he was a good kid. Keep your watch over Sanders and Brown."
"All right, I will contact you later with the progress."
"Ok, Oh and Archie… The next time you let one of your monkeys hear too much it will be you on the other end of that gun… Well after the bosses get done with you." The voice laughed as Archie shut his phone. God how he wished he had never made that deal. It was too late for him now though. He just hoped the other would get out before it was too late.
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