Never piss off a lady

Frank had been out on patrol about to end his run, when there was a call from dispatch when he heard there was a hit and run shooting. Turning his lights and sirens on he put his foot to the pedal and he took off heading for the downtown area heading out to the Everglades where he heard that was where the call was.

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Raising her head up and looking around Catherine looked out at her shot out windows and heard the tires of the Honda squeal before it took off Catherine didn't have enough time to make out the license plate but she was able to get a good look at the car as it turned a corner.

"Well… that was interesting, shaking the glass out of her hair she picked up her phone and called it in while staying by the car with her gun behind her back as she waited on the police cars to show up after about 15 minutes of sitting at an empty road with GMC Tahoe with it's windows shot out along with a few other holes in the tires and along the side she was getting pissy.

The first of the sirens where heard as a Ford Taurus pulled up and out got a bald looking man.

"Hey put your hands where I can see them"

"Put it up your pipe and get over here, I'm CSI Catherine Willows from Vegas"

"Catherine? Wait you're the ones that CSI called to help with Horatio"

"No kidding cowboy, wanna help and call in the CSI?" Catherine put her gun into her holster and reached into the truck pulling out a camera and snapping off shots as Frank made his calls and got the rest of the back up that followed him to set up a perimeter.

"This was supposed to be a type of vacation for me, boy does this suck" Looking at the shots into the truck she sighed and looked to Frank Tripp as he walked up to Catherine. "I know, I have to answer your questions, fire away big boy"

Tripp grinned and pulled out a pen and a pad of paper,

"Wanna tell me what warranted you getting shot at?"

"Hell if I know, I had just finished making a call to your friends and got the location on the good Lieutenant and was on my way to see him when his black and tinted out Honda pulled up beside me, the passenger side window opened up and all I saw was the barrel of the gun before I reached for mine and ducked down then the shots rang out.

I looked up in time to see the Honda pull out fast and turn down that street. Anything else? Oh and no I didn't see the face of the shooter."

"Your kinda spunky, not to mention hot" Catherine turned her head and had a look of surprise on her face. Tripp just grinned and walked off leaving Catherine to stand there with her mouth open and her hands on her hips.

"Texans" was all she said as the first of two hummers pulled up, out of the driver's seat came a well dressed latina, out of the passenger side came a blond woman whom Catherine remembered was Calliegh Duquene.

"Well if it isn't Catherine Willows, can't you keep out of trouble for more then a few hours?" The southern girl grinned and walked up shaking her hands with Catherine.

"I would have kept out of trouble, well long enough to cause a bit of problems for your boss, but this was not what I was hoping for. Think I could still take off and find your boss?" Catherine watched at the younger Latina girl started to snap off photo's of the scene.

"Oh I forgot, Catherine, this is Natalia Boa Vista, Natalia this is Catherine Willows, she's from the Vegas Crime lab."

"Nice to meet you? I see you have a camera did you take photo's already?"

"I did you can take the card, but the camera is staying with me, Gil would shoot me if he found out I borrowed his 12.24 mega pixel camera. Unless I can trust you well enough to take my bags and stuff to the lab till I can pick them up unless you want me to stay here"

"No it's good, get one of uniforms to take you out there, we'll take care of your stuff" Calliegh started with the processing of the crime scene as Catherine whistled to one of the uniforms and she told the officer where she needed to go to and they took off.

Looking at the uniformed car leave Calliegh looked at the holes in the rental that Catherine was driving and noted something very strange and she snapped a photo.

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Arriving at Hell's Bay Catherine saw the Hummer up in the distance and told the uniform to stop the car and let her out, walking towards the hummer the uniform sat there in his car as Catherine walked on.

Continuing on along the dusty beaten path Catherine pulled her flash light out and looked around when she saw the pier then the fabric of a coat she hurried on and shone her light on the man on the ground with gun in hand.

"Horatio?"