Ch. 24
Nick wanted to slam his head against the table when he realized that the prints were all restricted. It was only adding to his fears that he knew the woman in the picture and that something had happened. He saw Catherine and Grissom walking towards him and leaned back in his chair as they approached.
"All right give us some good news." Catherine said pointing to his fingerprints.
"Restricted Access. They won't give me a name, address or any information." Nick said shaking his head.
"What do you mean restricted access?" Catherine said confused.
"Just what I said." Nick said spinning the monitor so she could see the warning flashing on his screen. "However that doesn't mean I don't have something for you. It just means I can't prove what I have."
"Okay now I'm confused." Grissom said frowning.
"Joey-Jane Rosetti, AKA JJ was the daughter of one of my dad's friends. She is younger than me by a few years and as a favor to the family I took her to her prom and kept the other boys away from her. I think the reason she pretended to be obsessed with me is because she wanted to get me alone so she could tell me what was going on, in case I recognized who she was." Nick said with a sigh. "I called my dad and he sent me an updated picture of JJ Rosetti and it matches. I don't know why she was going by a different last name, at least I didn't until he told me what she did for a living."
"What does she do?" Catherine asked.
"I promised I wouldn't bring it up. JJ will have to be the one to tell you this, but he did let me know I could inform you that JJ being here only means something really bad brought her on board a case of this magnitude." Nick said with a sigh.
"Why would she hate Krisalyn then? I mean it just seems weird to me that she would purposely single her out." Catherine said with a sigh.
"Again until we find JJ we won't know anything." Nick said with a sigh.
JJ felt the tears in her eyes as she stared at the woman's lifeless body lying a few feet from her. She bit her bottom lip and turned towards Brass who was also struggling to comprehend what had just happened. Sighing JJ finally decided it was time to let him in on a few things.
"Look I was brought out here because no one has been able to get a bead on this guy. When I finally got something on him I ran with it. The problem is that I had done such a good job getting myself alienated at the lab there was no one willing to hear me out which meant no backup. I called my real boss and attempted to get backup from them however they were hours away." JJ told him with a sigh.
"First off no one should have ignored your need for backup. That is something that will have to be addressed, secondly who do you work for?" Brass asked.
"I work for a secret agency called FHI, what it stands for don't ask because I am not allowed to say. We are an agency that is a branch off the CIA, our main focus is homeland security but in times of great urgency because of our training and tools we are brought in to special cases. The problem is that we don't exist for all intense purposes to local agencies so we have no choice but to go in undercover. Since it seemed like the CSI team was handling most of the investigation it was a no-brainer that I needed to be part of CSI." JJ admitted slowly.
"Okay well then we have to hope your guys get us out and arrest this guy." Brass said nodding towards the suspect.
"But then we have no way of knowing who his accomplice could be." JJ said with a sigh. "I think I know who he is, but only our suspect can tell us."
"Why wouldn't there have been evidence to tell us about an accomplice?" Brass asked confused.
"Because the accomplice is the actual mastermind." JJ said with a look that said she was clearly shocked he hadn't figured that part out.
Nick was sitting in the DNA room with Greg and Krisalyn when his cell phone rang. He frowned as he walked over towards the corner for privacy before answering his father's phone call.
"Yeah dad?" Nick asked confused.
"I got nothing out of the Rosetti family that could help you Nick. Apparently Joey-Jane had a falling out with her family and hasn't spoken or seen them in a while. She sends them money to help pay for her mothers bills but they don't know why she would be in Vegas. Her dad refused to confirm what I found out through a source about her career, I have a feeling that you will not be able to confirm it either." His father told him evenly.
"It says restricted access whenever I try and run her name or her prints." Nick confirmed getting more and more confused. "Why would it be like this?"
"Because someone doesn't want anyone to know who she really is." His father told him.
Later that day Nick decided to run by his house and check his mail, to make sure there wasn't anything in there that he would need, he frowned when he saw a package from JJ sitting in the mailbox marked urgent. Nick grabbed the package and decided to open it in his car in case it was something she didn't want him to share.
He opened the package carefully and saw an address with a key and a letter directing him to go to the address for necessary information. He drove towards the address and used the key to enter the house. Nick was shocked when he saw the posh decorated home with pictures everywhere, there were even pictures from JJ's prom with him. He walked into the living room and noticed a folder sitting on the table with his name on it. The whole thing was filled with evidence and notes about the serial killer. JJ was working the case but she had noted that someone on the inside was helping him escape, possibly the federal agent in charge of his case. She had believed that someone was tipping the guy off whenever a cop got to close.
At FHI headquarters a team of agents assembled and went over plan after plan hoping to find a way to get to their missing agent. When Joey-Jane had sent out a distress call all agents had been activated and called in for duty. There was no one out there in the FHI roster who hadn't shown up to try and track her. The news that it might have been a fellow officer who had blown the whistle on her and gotten her taken wasn't sitting well with them.
"We need to know where the leak is and we need to plug it up now." The director of FHI stated simply.
Nick sat with Grissom and Catherine in JJ's actual home and could tell they were impressed. Everything that they read in her file was detailed and very thorough, right down to a dirty cop list. What shocked them the most was that Nick was included on that list however a note next to his name said he had been eliminated from the suspect list.
"Grissom she was very clear, someone is helping him out." Nick said confused.
"So we find out who it is and we take care of the problem." Catherine spoke up.
JJ and Brass stared at the suspect who was glaring at him. JJ had to admit this guy was not on her serial suspect lists but she knew who he was. She had seen an interview with the guy and knew that other cops had cleared him, apparently those cops were about to learn they had messed up big time. She looked up when the door opened and then her eyes widened. She knew there was a reason she hadn't liked this person and now she knew why.
"You?" JJ asked shocked.
"You?" Brass repeated with wide eyes.
"Me." The accomplice confirmed with a smirk. "I just came to let you know that Nick figured out who little miss JJ here is. He notified the FBI and Internal Affairs about everything."
"Good to know. Soon though it won't matter, as we take care of our problems once and for all. Make sure you get to be alone with Ella sometime soon so we can take care of that toddler once and for all. Then we get to everyone else. It's time that we figure out how to end this with a big splash. After we take out JJ here the government is going to be all over this case so we are going to have to lie low." The main suspect said.
"Derek Michaels." JJ said simply as she stared at the main suspect. "You work for a morgue."
"Correct." Derek said with a smirk. "And now me and my accomplice are going to finish the job tonight."
"Doubtful." JJ said shaking her head. "It won't be long until Nick finds the evidence I left for him with my suspect notes. Your accomplice is on the list of dirty cops."
"No I am not. There was no list in your apartment." The accomplice shook their head.
"That's because it's in my house." JJ smirked. "Captain Brass tell me something how long do you think before your team is on to our little friends?"
"Not long at all." Brass said playing along.
"Then I will just have to throw them off track." The accomplice said leaving the building and heading towards Las Vegas PD.
Nick was looking over the list when he heard the door open and he noticed the FBI agent in charge of the case walk in. He frowned remembering the words that JJ had written about him possibly being the dirty cop. He hid the list under some papers in front of him and just glared.
"What can I help you with?" Nick asked simply.
"We want to take Ella into protective custody." The agent said simply.
"Well as her father I am going to have to say no." Nick said shaking his head.
"Do you have DNA proof that she is your daughter?" The agent asked simply.
"Krisalyn told me I am and the hospital I am sure ran a test." Nick said not sure where this man was going with this.
"They ran a test to prove Krisalyn was the mother not that you are the father. The FBI has already taken Ella into custody this was just a formality." The agent said shrugging. "We believe that you two can't protect her."
Nick watched the man leave and felt panic rising within him. Something was really wrong and he knew it. Someone had taken his daughter but was it for her own safety or to take her out of the equation. What could Ella possibly know that would make her, a toddler, a threat to anyone. Nick looked at the door again when Grissom walked into the room and he could tell that something really bad was about to happen.
"Listen up everyone we have all been pulled from the case. The government wants to take over because they feel they are better equipped to find JJ and Brass and solve the killing than we are." Grissom announced to the room in front of him. He could feel the anger radiating from his CSI's. "So that's why you can't let anyone know you are still working the case. I want to know who this sick person is and I want to find our people more than anyone else. So folks let's get to it." Grissom said nodding towards his group.
A:n – All right I know this is probably not even close to my best work but I have to say I am thinking of revealing all, including the accomplice's identity next chapter. I will give you all a few guesses in your reviews, let's see if anyone can guess who the accomplice is, and who will be the ones to find JJ and Brass?