Chapter 7

Gil passed out assignments and then went to Ecklie's office. "What is your problem with Sara?" he asked. Ecklie looked at him.

"She told me what you said," Gil told him. He left out his phone call from Hodges, not wanting to get him in to trouble.

"She is a trouble maker and I don't want her in my lab," Conrad told Gil.

"Marvin Jones called me and told me all about her," Conrad said then he threw down some papers, "He also faxed me a copy of her jacket."

Gil picked it up. "I intend to put it on file here," Conrad said.

"You can't," Gil told him, "You can't put anything in her jacket that did not happen here."

"Let her screw up just once," Conrad said, "and I will have her ass fired. I have eyes all over the building."

Gil turned and walked away, he was reading the file and not paying attention to where he was walking, he bumped into Sara, all the evidence she had in her hand hit the floor.

"Damn it!" she said. "Sorry," Gil said as he helped her pick it up. Sara smiled, "Noting is messed up it is ok. You should learn to watch where you are walking, you might hurt someone."

"That evidence is contaminated," Ecklie yelled. Gil looked at him, "No it is not and you know it. There was nothing breakable and the plastic bags did not open."

Ecklie slammed his door, he hated it when Gil was right.

Over the next six months Sara's bond with the rest of the team grew, more then once she had gone above and beyond in her job performance.

Ecklie still would not get off her back, he tried every way he could to make whatever she had done look bad, that was one reason why Gil never let her do a solo, he wanted to make sure that if Ecklie said anything to his supervisors there would be someone to back up Sara's story.

Ecklie rode the team too, Sara knew it was because of her. He would give them all the dirtiest assignments, make them work doubles to cover for days, one time he even credited days with an arrest that graves put together.

Sara knew this was bothering Gil, she also knew she had to do something about it, she went looking for Ecklie.

She did not want to request a transfer but if that is what it took to bring peace back to graves, then she would.

David told Sara he had seen Ecklie head for the basement, that is where Sara went.

Sara went into the only room she saw a light on she stopped when she thought she heard voices.

Very quietly he headed for the voices. She found Ecklie, one of the janitors and two men from days playing cards for money.

Gambling was legal in Nevada but it was not allowed on company time.

Sara smiled, she took out her camera and took several pictures, then she left.

Later she seen Ecklie in his office, without knocking she walked in. "You are going to back off me and the team," she told him matter-of-factly.

"Oh I am?" he said, "What makes you think that?" "Because if you don't I will see to it that the sheriff gets these," Sara said showing Ecklie the pictures.

"Get the hell out of my office," he said. Sara knew she had won.

At the house that night Gil had remarked her much Conrad had changed, Sara just smiled, for now she had a secret, she was debating rather to tell Gil or not.

She took his hands, "Let's go to bed. I have kept my hands off my husband for way to long and I need him." Gil chuckled, "I know just what you mean."