Behind The Scenes

By: supercsi4

Chapter 28 – Sweet Jane

SARA:

Well Grissom's been gone one week and I miss him so much, but I'm not gonna pick up the phone and call him. He's the one who left me, so he needs to call me first, right?

Anyways, we were doing just fine for one whole week being one person short, but no, Ecklie threw a newbie into our team to pick up the slack while Grissom's away. As Catherine said, "Well, he was hired to staff the new day shift, but…since we're one shy with Grissom away, Ecklie wanted us to break him in for a few weeks." Whatever. He's entirely too serious and way too quiet. I get a real bad feeling about him and you know the quiet ones are the ones you have to worry about. But it wasn't too long before Catherine was throwing herself, and her chest, at him.

So Keppler is from Baltimore, which got me thinking how I've never been to Maryland. I've always wanted to travel to Maryland, to our nation's capital and all its surroundings. Grissom and I should take a trip to Washington D.C. next, I mean…never mind I'm still mad at him.

So our case today, and I'm sorry if I ramble on and on, but usually I have Grissom to ramble on and on to and since he decided to be an ass and leave me for 4 weeks, this is all I've got. So the dead body of a young woman was found and identified as Veronica Sorenson and Doc Robbins determined the C.O.D. was asphyxiation. He also found signs of vaginal trauma, but no semen, indicating the killer used a condom. There was cotton trace on her body suggesting she was washed before she was dumped, revealing that this probably wasn't the first time our killer has murdered someone. Searching back thru some cold cases, we found three Jane Does bearing several similarities to our current case. The Jane Does' cases were from 1999, 1989, and 1975 and because of crappy police work and the lack of technology we have now, all the cases ran cold.

So Doc Robbins exhumed the bodies and discovered that all three women had dental work very similar to Veronica's. Next we learned that they were all patients of the Colebert Dental Group and all saw Dr. David Lowry, who's been practicing dentistry for 32 years, old enough to have seen all of our victims. We matched bite marks found on one of the victims to Dr. Lowry but he seems unfazed. He was an old man by now and would surely die before he'd even have to worry about being executed. But to top it all off, the heartless old bastard wouldn't tell us the names of his other victims, leaving little chance that their families will get closure.

GRISSOM:

God I miss Sara so much. She hasn't called me yet and I'm too afraid to call her. I was going to write a letter, but is it too soon? I mean we've only been apart for a week, maybe she needs some space, maybe she'll call me, maybe I shouldn't worry about it, maybe I'll stop missing her so much.

Well, I'm at least going to send her a present. While taking a walk thru a lush garden near campus today I came across the most beautiful cocoon and I can only imagine the beautiful butterfly which will blossom from it. It made me immediately think of Sara, so I gently cut the branch off the tree and carried it back too my hotel. I know she'll love it.

I wonder how work is going without me there. I'm enjoying teaching very much, more then I thought I would. At least now I know I have a definite back up plan when I'm finished being a CSI. It's so wonderful to walk into a classroom and see all those faces eager to learn from me and bursting with questions to ask me, which also reminds me of Sara and when we first met. Will I ever be able to get her out of my mind? I wish she was here with me.