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Harmless Liaisons: Chapter Three
"Looks like sharp force trauma to the head." David said turning their victims head from side to side to take a full look at the state of the skull, the deep lacerations on the victim suggesting ferocity and violence of levels that suggested a monster.
David placed the body on the gurney and moved out of the room leaving the three of them to look at void, the space where a person's life had ended.
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"Have a look at this." Catherine indicated for Langston to take a look at what was in the boot of the car they had towed from the middle of the dessert to the lab.
"That's very interesting." he said looking at what appeared to be a grey bag that had been untouched by the fire.
"How on earth did that survive?" Catherine asked taking a look at the burnt remains of the rest of the car.
"A fire resistant material?" Langston suggested. "Or... someone placed the bag inside after the car had finishing burning."
Catherine pulled the bag out of the boot and placed it on a nearby table, carefully unzipping it. Inside were a set of clothes carefully folded. It was not until she lifted them out they noticed the blood splatter that covered them.
"If it was me...I would have burnt these along with the car." Catherine commented.
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Greg, Sara and Nick silently continued processing the scene collecting even the tiniest pieces of evidence in small plastic bags and pots.
"I think I've found the murder weapon." Sara called her voice suggesting uncertainty. She showed them what appeared to be a trophy; a solid metal cuboids. "The corners are consist with the head wounds, and the blood looks smeared rather than splattered." She explained how she had come to her conclusion that the object in her hands was the murder weapon.
The three of them looked back to the void in the middle of the room form which the body had been removed.
"There was directionality, in the blood splatter on the other side of the room, suggesting the victim was walking this way, towards here, and away from his attacker." Greg informed them of what he had found.
"So..." Nick stepped over the markers they had placed down to the other side of the room. "The vic was probably standing here, talking to his attacker..." he indicated to the spot where he was standing "...he turn around starts to walk away...and the attacker grabs the trophy from here..." he says noticing a dust void on a nearby self.
They stood in their spots imagining the attack take place in the space in front of them.
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"So we have women's clothes covered in blood in a bag, in the boot of a torched car." Catherine stated placing her hands on her hips as she surveyed the evidence they had, from the train-wreck of a case they were working.
"Well...we have the evidence of a crime...but no actual crime." Langston mused.
"You want to get started on the interior? I'm going to take these to trace." Catherine instructed disappearing out of the door.
"Just the two of us then." Ray said and turned to the car.
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Sara hung up her jacket in the locker room as Greg walked through the door. They stood in silence look each other in the eye knowing exactly what was happening.
"Are you embarrassed of being with me Sara? It is because I'm younger than you-" Greg started keeping his voice low as not to alert any unwanted attention.
"No...How could you think that?" Sara asked taking a step towards him.
"The fact you're keeping this as a secret. Keeping us a secret. Why is that? Why don't you want anyone to know about us?" he asked, folding his arms across his chest in an aggressive manor.
"Greg...it's..." Sara trailed off looking down at her feet not wanting to finish the sentence knowing what she was about to say sounded stupid.
"It's what Sara?" he asked sternly. The tone of his voice making her look up at him, there was hardness in his expression that she wasn't used to.
"Complicated." she whispered, answering his question for the sake of answering it.
"How?" Greg growled slightly, the cigarettes he smoked apparent in his voice, and had they not been "fighting" Sara would taken that husky voice to mean that he needed her.
"You were with Grissom, that's over, now we're together. It may be complicated for you because you are pretending that you're still married to him." Greg said not raising his voice once, but the look in his dark eyes said it all.
"Hey you guys coming? The evidence 'ain't gonna process itself." Nick's Texan drawl forcing an end to their conversation.