Here you go, chapter twelve. Please enjoy!


They interrogated Ben for six hours straight, and they got nowhere. He claimed he had nothing to do with it. He insisted that he had no idea what they were talking about.

It was the same story with Laura. They both denied everything.

After a long night of interrogations, the CSI team started to think of other possibilities. Greg came up with a working theory. "What if the other person wasn't just hired? What if he's been working with them all along?"

"Who are you thinking, Greg?" Catherine asked.

"Richard Alvarez. His DNA was found along with Ben's. We've been assuming they hired this third person after they were both arrested, maybe he's been right here in front of us all along."

They considered this theory, and sent Brass to arrest Richard Alvarez, but he wasn't anywhere in Las Vegas. They were right in their assumption that he had gone back to his house in Southern California, and so they sent officers of the LAPD pick him up there, and interrogate Richard.


Morgan Brody walked into the interrogation room. "Richard Alvarez."

"What? What is this about? I didn't do anything."

"Have you been to Vegas recently?"

"Well yeah, a while ago. The cops there already questioned me and cleared me."

"Have you been there since then?"

"No, I been here, working at my restaurant, ask anybody."

"We will, we'll ask everybody."

"What do you want to know?"

"I want you to answer me honestly. Do you know Ben Thomas?"

"Who? No. I don't know who this Ben guy is. Honestly."

"How about Eddie Almond?"

"No."

"Really? Your DNA was found at his crime scene. Maybe you want to rethink your answer?"

"I'm sorry, I don't know who this man is."

"What about Nick Stokes? The man you tried to poison, and drove into a lamp post? You know him?"

Catherine had made the call to the LAPD, and she told them EVERYTHING about the case. She thought Nick would never meet these people, and wouldn't care if they knew. Besides, most of the LVPD knew by now, it wasn't any big secret. It didn't take too long after Sara and Greg were told until, Brass started to get the hint there was something more going on. He asked Nick, but he wouldn't say. Later on, Nick asked Catherine to tell Brass for him, and she did, she told him the whole story. Nick only wanted a limited amount of people to know about everything, and asked Catherine to keep it that way. She didn't know Morgan was taking extra notice to this case being that her dad works in Vegas. She also never expected her to transfer to the LVPD in the future.

"No, I already told the LVPD I don't know these people."

"What about Laura Alden? Do you know her?"

"Who?"

"Laura Alden. The girl who molested these guys when they were younger. Now, she's going after them again with your help! Except now, they're turning up dead! Did she hire you, or are you doing this on your own, without pay?"

"I got no clue what you're talking about."

Morgan left the interrogation room frustrated. After she left, she stopped by the restaurant to confirm Richard's alibi, and it checked out. He was at the restaurant during the time of most of the attacks.


Nick was staying at the lab while the others were at work. They wouldn't let him be alone at his house after what had happened the last few times he was alone. Nick hated this, but what didn't he hate? He hated everything ever since his friend was found dead in his own house. He was sitting in the break room when Hodges walked in. "Oh... Nick... hi... I thought you were... I mean I didn't think..."

"What is it Hodges?" Nick asked irritated.

"Um, okay, I wasn't going to say anything, but since you asked. There's this rumor going around, and um it's about you. When um... you were nine-"

Nick cut Hodges off, he didn't want to hear the rest, and couldn't stand the awkwardness. "-Yes, Hodges, it's true. Now can we agree to never talk about this again?"

"Yes sir, just one thing. Can I have your permission to confirm the rumor?"

"I really don't care, as long as nobody talks to me about it."

"Thank you, and I'm sorry about... it."

"Okay, bye Hodges." Nick said, and Hodges left the break room. Then, Nick left to go yell at whoever had told Hodges.


In LA Morgan was working the case, trying to build up evidence against Richard Alvarez, but he was looking more and more innocent the more she looked into it. There was no proof he had went back to Vegas since he left for the last time. She so badly wanted to help out her dad's coworkers, but it was hard if there was no evidence to be found.

She took a break for the rest of the day, and decided to look at the case again once she got some sleep.


It was the day before Nick and Catherine were supposed to fly to Texas for the trial. Nick begged to be alone, he said he needed some time to just think before the trial. They all agreed that it was probably a good idea, and wouldn't hurt as long as he had his phone, and gun on him at all times. As soon as they left his house, Nick drank a beer. He had another one. It was only eleven in the morning, but it didn't matter to him, he was trying to relax before the trial. He didn't care about anything after a few, and he left his gun in the kitchen because, it kept getting in his way when he was trying to lie down. He had drank almost all the beer he owned within an hour. He was glad to be alone again, it felt a lot better.


In LA, Morgan had been working this case, giving it her full effort even after the LVPD had given up, even if they claim they hadn't. She called her dad, and told him everything she didn't discover, but it was really awkward because she hadn't talked to him for so long. She doubted he was concentrating on the case she knew he was just glad to get a call from her, even if they had to talk about dead bodies and murder suspects. She knew she should call Catherine instead, and pretended she had somewhere to be, and ended the call with Ecklie.

After she hung up, she called Catherine and hoped they weren't sitting in the same room. They weren't. "Willows." Catherine answered her phone.

"Hey, it's Morgan Brody, LAPD."

"Hey, how's the case going over there?"

"Well, I've been looking into Richard Alvarez's past for the last few days, and I can't find anything. I interrogated him, I talked to everyone at his restaurant, even a few customers. He wasn't in Vegas, it's not him."

"Okay, well thanks for looking into it for us, and I'm sorry we wasted your time."

"Oh, no problem. Just one more thing... I may know who did it. It's just a theory, but I kind of doubt you looked too much into it."

"Well, what is it?" Catherine asked.


Catherine rushed to Nick's house as fast as she could. He was home alone, and she knew that wasn't good if Morgan's theory was correct.


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