War wounds.

"Bella?!" Alice squeaked, desperately fumbling around for her clothes and failing. In the end she just grabbed a cushion from under the head of the guy she was riding. The naked guy beneath her sat up and squashed the cushion between them. Alice looked at me apologetically from over his shoulder. "I didn't expect you home yet."

"Obviously." I snorted, looking anywhere but at the naked couple on the couch.

"What happened to lunch with Emmett?"

"Rose turned up."

"Oh."

"Yeah, oh." I had told Alice about how Emmett is the brother I didn't know I had when she had come in that morning. "I'll uh..I'll just be in the kitchen." I shielded my eyes as I walked past them to the other room. I busied myself with re-arranging the cupboards, making as much noise as possible, to drown out the remainder of their love session.

Sometime later, while I was bent over clanging pots in the cupboard, Alice tapped me on the shoulder making me jump and bang my head.

"Ahh-ouch!"

"Sorry Bella." She tittered.

"Please tell me you're dressed."

"I am and so is Jasper."

"Jasper? Who the hell is Jasper?"

A throat cleared behind me. "Uh, that would be me, little lady." A deep southern voice drawled from behind me.

I turned to see Jasper behind me, leaning against the door frame. He was a lot taller than he looked on the couch. His sandy blonde hair hung in disarray around his head. It was the sort of hairstyle you would associate with tanned surfers from the 90's, windblown and straggly. For some reason it suited him well.

"Pleased to meet you fully dressed, Jasper." I walked over and held my hand out for him to shake. "What do you do Jasper?"

"I'm a CSI also. Usually do the day shift, but I swapped with a collegue.

"So we will be working together this evening?"

"I guess so." He glanced at his watch. "Actually, I better go and get ready. Ali, I love you and I'll see you later." He bent down to press a kiss to the top of her head. "Later Bella."

"Bye." I waited for the click of the front door closing before I rounded on Alice. "So Jasper huh?" I nudged her in the hip with my own, grinning.

"Yes, Jasper." She blushed.

Sure, she can sex it up on the couch, but now she blushes!

"So how long has it been going on?"

"A while." She replied. Geesh she was giving me nothing here.

"Aaalice!" I whined. "Spill! Come on."

"Fine, okay. We've been together about a year. He transferred from down south and it was love at first sight. Sorry I didn't tell you about him before now but you did kinda hold me at gunpoint."

Now it was my turn to blush. "I really am sorry about that. You know, I keep forgetting I only moved here yesteerday. Seems like I've been here an age."

"See, you fit in perfectly and you found your brother. Have you decided when you're going to meet Charlie?" Alice sat at the kitchen table, bouncing slightly in her seat.

"Not yet. It's still a bit too much to take in. I would offer to make some coffee but it looks like you've had too much already."

"Pfft, I am just naturally full of energy all the time."

I poured us both a cup and passed her one anyway before joining her at the table. "Tell me about the people at work. I want to know who I should avoid at all costs and who I should look out for."

"Well I'm in the lab, look out for Mike. He runs Trace. Can act like a lost puppy but is a bit of a sleaze. Angelais the Ballistics expert. Nicest woman you could ever meet, but fucking deadly with a gun." I snorted at this. Everyone who owns a gun is deadly, myself included. Alice continued on. "Jessica is the receptionist, wants to know all the gossip all of the time. You've already met James, Jasper and Emmett. I guess all that's left is Edward. He's a CSI also. Normally does swing shift. Currently training to be a supervisor."

"Is that it? Wow, must be a small lab."

"No silly, you only asked for the people you should look out for." Alice wrinkled her brow in confusion. "I can name everybody and what they do, but I think you'll find we'll be here all day."

"No, it's okay Alice. Just those will do for now. It's a start." I chuckled.

"Bella, you may think it rude of me, but why did you transfer?"

"It wasn't my choice. My old supervisor thought it was the best for me. I worked nights for five years. Rarely saw the sun, never had a day off. It...It was a bad enviroment for me back in Arizona. I lost a partner in a shoot out. He died in my arms. I guess I never really got over it. He was my partner in more ways than one, my best friend. After I recovered from my injuries I threw myself into work. Didn't really grieve properly. Just wallowed in misery."

"How did you get hurt?" Alice was staring at me wide eyed. Thankfully she let me carry on without too many interruptions.

"I was shot in the calf. A through and through." I lifted up the bottom of my pants leg to the knee. Alice gasped when she saw the mirriad of scars over my calf. While the redness had eventually faded, the skin was left marred with silvery white and pink bumps.

"Is that the only time you've been shot?"

"It's not the only time I've been shot at but it is the only time I've been hit." I pulled my pants leg back down and has to stifle my laughter at the expression on Alices face. "What about you, Alice? Got any tale worthy battle scars?!

"I do actually." She pulled up the capped sleeve of her blouse to reveal a faded burn mark. "It spreads over my back and down my rib cage. The lab exploded a couple of years back. Bombers. I was trapped. Maybe you heard about it? Three CSI's and five lab techs died in the blast."

I paled. I had heard of that explosion. A couple of people I trained with died in that blast. "I know of it Alice. Two people I knew died in that fire. Eric Yorkie and Katie Austin. I trained with them. Eric was going to propose to Katie at new years. The blast happened at christmas."

"That's right. Took us ages to catch the person responsible too. Wasn't until Jasper joined that we were finally able to take the perp down. He got mildly hurt while doing it."

"What happened?"

"The bloke bit him. Left a scar on his neck. That's why he keeps his hair long, to hide it. Don't tell him I told you though. He doesn't like to remember it."

"I won't." I decided to change the subject. "So, what will you get up to tonight?"

"Hmm... Testing blood samples, sperm samples, hairs." She let out a giggle at the look on my face. "I'm working silly."

"I thought you worked days?"

"I do...did. I swapped in an effort to help you fit in. I don't want to keep you up all day and you don't want to keep me up all night. It's just easier." She shrugged.

"Okay, makes sense I suppose. I'm gonna go and take a shower, then get ready for a tour of the crime lab from you." I nudged her in the ribs and left.

Sorry it's been a few days, work was manic.

Just a little filler but we got to meet Jasper!

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