Summary: The virus breaks out in Las Vegas and the team are forced to believe in what is being said in the news. It's not long before Grissom starts his own experiment to see if he can cure the virus once and for all but not before all hell breaks loose.
Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or the 28 days later series, I never will and it makes me sad to keep saying it D: I forgot to add, I do not have a beta so all mistakes are mine.
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"I think we might have a serial on our hands." Nick said before he briefly turned to Warrick in the Denali.
"What do you mean?"
"Every call we've had tonight has been more or less the same. Each victim had been killed by having their necks torn to pieces and left to bleed out."
"It could be a gang effort not necessarily one person."
"Probably, I mean the location where all the D.B's were found have a huge distance between each other. It must be hard to get from one end of Vegas to the other in the space of an hour."
"I still think it's a little strange that each of the Vic's are missing a chunk of their neck. Are we dealing with cannibals or just the plain, violent, everyday psycho?"
"Yeah well, I guess we'll find out when we get there."
Nick pulled the Denali up at a curb and noticed that they had to walk through a pitch black ally to get to the crime scene. Taking their field kits from the back of the car, they started to make their way through the narrow path. Warrick pulled out his torch to give them a little light ahead of their track when he noticed a dark red trail leading from one side of the ally to the other.
"Can you see that?" Warrick stopped dead in his tracks and pulled Nick back to avoid him walking straight through it. Nick shook his hand from his own arm and crouched down towards the trail.
"It's blood. Where do you think it came from?"
"I dunno. I'll take a look over here, you go over there."
A few minutes later Nick called out to Warrick with a sound of uncertainty in his voice. He trailed over to where his Texan drawl was coming from and looked down at what looked to be a torso crawling along the floor.
"Nick? Is he moving?"
"Looks like it." They both slowly backed away as the body edged its way closer to them. It strained its voice like it was in severe pain. From its current condition, it seemed like the torso most probably was. "Isn't dismemberment usually fatal? This looks like something out of a horror movie!" Its hands gripped the ground and lurched forward trying to grip onto Warrick's trouser leg. He shone his flash light towards the face and its eye's were, evil. Blood trailed down its mouth as if he had previously puked up its guts. Or what was left of its guts. As soon as he tried to shake his leg free, the torso projectiled blood up his trouser leg.
"Fuck off you weirdo!" He exclaimed. Nick found a piece of wood lying dormant next to a trash can and reacted quickly trying to lodge the 'thing' off of Warrick's leg. He swung harder than he meant and killed the torso straight away.
"What the fuck!" Nick paused then pieced together what had happened over the past month. "These are the same effects of that virus!"
"What? You are not seriously believing that shit are you?"
"Afterthat,anything's possible." He stood pointing at the dismembered body, out of breath.
They took pictures of the scene and power walked to their original crime scene hoping that they could get back to the lab as soon as possible. The image they came across was similar to what they had just witnessed except the head was removed completely from the body instead of the legs. A huge void was still present in the neck.
"You think this one will stay still long enough to process?" Warrick asked, clearly still shaken up from ten minutes before, trying to suppress his fear with a light laugh.
"Let's just do this." Nick was too pissed to start goofing off and began processing as quickly as possible.
Two hours later they arrived back at the lab heading straight for Grissom's office awaiting answers on what has been happening in the city. As the amount of horror and gore each of them had come across mounted, both scenes made no comparison and each seemed more unreal than the last. Reaching his office the door was locked so they knocked a couple of times before giving in and looking elsewhere.
They found him with Greg and Sara in the DNA lab looking as if they were in a detailed discussion which just made events seem more unreal as Greg is neverserious.
"Griss we need to talk to you."
"I've been trying to call you two for hours!" Sara exhaled with relief that her friends were okay.
"Come here guys I think I know what you're going to say. Just listen in because you'll find your answers." Grissom didn't even look at either of them, instead he continued his conversation with the other two.
"Right so, the chemical in the blood has interfered with the DNA in the blood cells and formed an extra set of chromosomes that have taken over the previous ones causing the brain to act violently towards others. Hence the 'Rage'. " Grissom stated matter of factly.
"If this is the case, then what about the previously functioning systems? Obviously they can move but what about the others? Like talking?" Sara added to Grissom's statement.
"Well if their systems are pretty much shut down apart from any types of physical violence then I imagine that they can't. It's not part of what they are newly programmed to do." Greg replied trying to get his head around the newly passed on information.
Warrick entered a few more steps into the room, mouth agape. "So this is what's been happening? The rage virus is here?"
"Indeed it is Warrick and we've got to find the cure before it becomes and epidemic."
"I think it's a bit more than an epidemic now Griss." Sara complimented to the conversation.
Neither one of the team could understand how this managed to get from Britain to America and for them to be the first City to show the signs. How this was going to pan out was up to them and each member had to keep their calm so this could be worked out as professionally and as quickly as possible.
"Where's Cath?" Nick realised.
"She's examining the body with Doc, trying to see whether any other changes occurred when they 'turn'. Also Lindsey is going to be joining us soon so that we can keep a close eye on her, I want you all to make sure she's kept calm and not aware of any of this. We don't need a psychotic child on the loose." Greg was the only one to grin at Grissom's answer but was soon put back to his straight face when Sara glared at him.
"Oh and everyone, if you happen to come into contact with any of these so called 'zombies' make sure they don't get blood or saliva anywhere on you where it can enter the blood stream." Grissom walked towards the door, took one last look over his glasses at the team huddled in the lab and walked back to the break room to grab a strong coffee. 'This is going to be a long shift.'
TBC
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A/n: Three chapters in one day, not bad! This should tide you over while I get back to my course. Review with your opinions, I appreciate them all and try my hardest to reply when I can. This story is going to get a bit more interesting soon and we may encounter a little GSR and some YoBling:D