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A/N – Thank you so very much to those of you that left a review for the last chapter. I really appreciate you taking the time to give me any and all feedback you send. Story is beta'd by myself so any remaining mistakes are all mine, so I apologize in advance. R & R Enjoy!
Fall Out Boy – Chapter 7 – Help offered.
Looking up with a little frown Grissom spoke "Urm, No. I have some details for you about Kye for your records" he said shaking his last thoughts from his head to carry out the task at hand as he stepped up to the desk.
He relayed the necessary details over to her so she could update their file on the boy, then asked if it was okay to make some calls on his cell phone up on the floor, rather than go outside to do it.
"Yeah sure, we don't have anyone in surgery today or any patients in ICU either, so you should be okay. Use the waiting room or the parents room for privacy if you need to" Claire said helpfully.
Thanking the nurse Grissom walked into the empty waiting room and closed the door, then flipped open his cell phone to make one of several calls;
He made the first to Madeline Klien, to ask if she could get in touch with her contact at child services to try to arrange for a temporary custody/care order to be set up for Sara, for her to be able to have Kye when he would be released from the hospital.
After some minor teasing and prodding on his motives for requesting this favour, and receiving evasive answers in return, she acquiescence and agreed, stating she would also have all the proper foster carer forms sent out to the hospital with the Mrs Wilson, Grissom had told her about.
Grissom said he would act as a character reference for Sara, and that if they required others he could supply them for her on request.
His next call was placed to a good Judge he'd dealt with on a personal case, and had gone to on several occasions to secure warrants for other cases, he relayed the details briefly of the case and his CSI's intention to help the boy in a personal capacity, then asked if the judge would possibly help deal with any legal aspects that may arise with Sara's foster carers application and her attempt to have Kye released into her care.
The judge having been already aware of CSI Sidles very good and impeccable reputation, and brilliance in solving cases for the LVPD crime lab agreed to intervene if needed, asking to be kept in the loop as things progressed.
Grissom then made a few more calls including a very brief one to Conrad Ecklie informing him of his return to the lab some time later in the day, as it was now already approaching sunrise and the return of the child services woman.
Once all his calls had been made he slipped quietly back into the hospital room to see Kye on the bed sound asleep, with Sara sat to the side of him in case he woke up frightened.
Grissom told Sara quietly that hopefully they wouldn't come up against any resistance from child services releasing Kye into her care, and that provisions had been made to make things run as smoothly as possible for her and Kye to return to Vegas after paperwork had been filled and submitted.
Sara told Grissom she would need cloths and other items for Kye to help with his transition to her home, to help him hopefully settle in and feel more comfortable as quickly as possible.
Agreeing with her, and remembering the boy still needed to be in some sort of comfortable setting, and settled emotionally before being up to anyone interviewing him, Grissom offered to go to the lodge to collect the stuff for her, and to make sure Nick and Greg had finished up processing.
But Grissom also had an ulterior motive himself, of wanting to take a closer look around the home himself, to try to get rid of the nagging feeling he had that this 'Charlotte Meridian', the female victim in the case, was not the same 'Charlotte Meridian' lab technician who used to work at the LVPD crime lab, that he briefly had a short romantic relationship with years before.
It unsettled him, and would continue to do so until he could discount the distinct possibility that a former romantic partner of his could be the victim in this case, one that he was already getting deeper into personally, although he hadn't yet been directly involved with the victim at the scene, the scene itself, or the evidence collected as a CSI supervisor.
Slipping out of the room Grissom told Sara he would be as quick as he possibly could, wanting to make sure he was back for Mrs Wilson arriving at the hospital.
He drove quickly back to the crime scene, seeing only a single patrol car, with no sign of the CSI department issued denali, signalling Greg & Nick's return to the lab, as he approached and parked up.
A lone officer approached Grissom seeking out his ID, to which it was then explained that he needed to collect some personal items for the boy, from the lodge.
Being given the all clear to enter the property, Grissom told the officer he would make sure to keep a record of anything taken from there and add it to the investigation file later, then stepped up to the front door.........
A/N – I hope you all enjoyed this short chapter, yeah I did warn you that all the chapters wouldn't all be the same in length, but I needed to cut it here because the next chapter will include quite a lot with Grissom's search of the lodge, and the second meeting with Mrs Wilson, before the next stage of the story. Next post likely mid week.
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