CHAPTER 19 - Where Is The Love? - Black Eyed Peas

Grissom and Sara practically ran into the lab because they where 15 minutes late. Because of their pillow fight they hadn't realized how the time flew by.

Sara headed to the locker room to grab her ID and gun, Grissom walked briskly to his office to get the assignments for the night.

Sara walked into the break to meet four set's of eye's on her. She smiled and blushed.

"Wow! Sara Sidle, for once in her life, is late for work!" Warrick said grinning at her.

Sara gave him a playful glare and then went to get some coffee.

"You and the bug man have a late night?" Greg asked.

Sara laughed. "No we did not have a late night, we just...lost track of time."

"Uh huh sure." Cath said, taking a sip of her coffee.

"So uh what gave it away?" Sara asked taking a seat next to Nick.

Nick laughed. "Grissom practically running down the hall way with a deer in the head light's look."

Greg took a sip of his coffee but almost spit it out when Grissom walked in behind Nick.

"He's behind me isn't he? Oh crap!" Nick said softly.

"Yes the 'deer' is behind you." Grissom said walking in, unable to keep a small smile from appearing on his face.

"Sorry boss." Nick said smiling.

Grissom just cleared his throat and started to hand out assignments. "Warrick and Greg you have a B and E on the strip, Catherine, Sara and Nick you have 2 DB's in Summerland."

"What are you doing?" Catherine asked.

Grissom smiled sarcastically. "Paper work."

"Alright then let's go." Nick said getting up. "Sara you driving?"

"And why wouldn't I be?" Sara asked.

"Well you know cause of your late night, I thought you might be tired." He said trying to keep a straight face but failed miserably.

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They pulled up to the crime seen. Detective O'Rilley was waiting outside for them.

"What do we have?" Nick asked handing Sara her kit.

"Thanks." She mumbled, looking at the house in front of her.

"Two dead, Eric and Allison Miller, look's like murder suicide. Two year old son, Joey, was with a friend tonight. The girl came by to drop the kid off and found em like this." He said as they entered the house. "Apparently they where having some problems in the marriage."

Sara sighed. "I'll uh I'll go and process upstairs."

Catherine looked at her. "Okay."

Sara headed towards the stair's, but stopped when Nick called her name.

"Hey Sara, you alright?" He asked, a concerned look in his eyes

"Yeah. Yeah I'm find Nick." Sara said not waiting for him to say anything else as she headed upstairs.

Nick sighed and went back into Catherine. He shrugged his shoulder's when she gave him a questioning look.

"Hey Nick." David said as he examined to two bodies.

"Hey Super Dave. What do we got?"

"Our male vic it appears to be a single gun shot wound to the head. Gun is still in his hand. Female vic, 2 gun shot wound's to the back." He said.

"TOD?" Catherine asked, taking photos'.

"Mmm...maybe two hours ago." David said and sighed. "I don't get people sometimes."

"What do you mean?" Nick asked.

"To, well what looks like, murder your wife and then commit suicide and to top it all off have a two year old child. I just don't get how people can do that."

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Sara looked around the parent's bedroom. No photo's of their son where to be found. Just picture's of them as a couple. For having a two year old son, the room seemed very tidy.

Sara went across the hall. She opened one door to an office. Again no picture's of Joey where there. She then went to the next room. Toy's where scattered across the room, covering the floor. The room was a dull white color.

Sara bent down and picked up a little stuffed animal. Now a two year old boy would grow up without his parent's. Sara thought that it might even be better that way. When ever she went it to someone's home she saw picture's of their children scattered around. But in this house she hadn't even seen one. She wondered where the love their son was.

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Nick headed outside leaving Catherine inside to finish up. He walked over to Detective O'Rilley, who was talking to the baby sitter.

"This is Nick Stokes with the crime lab, he'd like to ask you some questions" O'Rilley said.

"Um sure. I'm Susan Eliot, I live a couple door's down from Eric and Allison." She said, holding Joey close to her.

"Where Mr. and Mrs. Miller having problems?" Nick asked.

"Heh problems is an under statement. When they got married they acted the honeymoon never ended. Everyone thought they would be together forever. But then Alli got pregnant with Joey and thing's just went down hill from there. Eric never wanted kid's and Alli was fine with that, but I could tell she really wanted one, deep down.

Eric started getting after her for every little thing. He never hit her but sometime's I would come over to drop off Joey and I could hear him screaming at her at least a couple house's away. But Alli never said anything to me.

She let me take care of Joey a lot. She thought it would be better for him, you know, away from all the yelling. I didn't mind. I have three year old daughter and they got along fine so I didn't see any problems with it.

I'm sorry. You probably didn't need to hear all that it's just, it's still sinking in." Susan said sighing.

Nick gave her a warm smile. "No need to apologize. You pretty much answered all my question's I was going to ask so you made my job a lot easier." He said trying to lighten her mood a little.

She smiled. "So um what's going to happen to Joey?"

"Well do you know if Eric or Allison have any family near by?" Nick asked.

"Allison's parent's passed away year's ago. And I don't know about Eric's. Both of them where the only child I do know that. Alli always said I was Joey's long lost Aunt." Susan said. "Do you think it would be okay to have Joey with stay me?"

"I'll have to check, but I think that would be okay." Nick said.

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Sara came back downstairs' just as Catherine was finishing up.

"Find anything?" Cath asked.

"No. Just that they didn't have much love for their son." Sara said.

"Why do you say that?"

"There where no picture's of him anywhere up their. Even down here, walking in I didn't see one picture of Joey. I mean if you didn't know, you wouldn't even think they had a kid." Sara said.

"You okay Sara?" Cath asked, concerned about her friend was acting.

"When Lindsay was two year's old was your house this clean? Didn't you have picture's of her everywhere?"

"Yes I did, but Sara we don't know the whole story."

Sara was about to continue but Nick came in. "Sara's right Cath. Apparently Eric never wanted kids. This woman who was watching Joey, Susan, said that after he was born Eric and Allison fought a lot. She said Joey was with her most of the time because Allison didn't want him around Eric."

"So murder suicide is looking better and better." Cath said. "Eric doesn't like having Joey around. He get's in fight with Allison and it goes to far."

Sara looked at the floor. "And now both are dead leaving their son behind. Ending in the worst way possible."