Title: Helping Has Its Price
Rating: T (To be safe)
Summary: CSI Nick Stokes will learn price of being a Good Samaritan. The night he helps a woman with her car, is the same night that she ends up being killed. Nick was the last person spotted being with the woman, so he is a prime suspect...
A/N: I got the idea for this, and just had to write it. I'll still be updating my other fan fiction Curiosity Killed The Cat, but I just had to write this! Anyways, I hope that most of the information in here I used was correct (road names, the grocery store), I did research to make sure that I got the right names for things. Anyways, you can review and let me know what you thought ofthis chapterif you'd like :)
Chapter 1 - To Lend A Helping Hand
It was an unusually warm October evening when 30 year old-- Emily Jordan finally got the chance to stop by a grocery store. She worked as an assistant to the manager of an advertising company, and always stayed long after everyone had left. Just to ensure that the office was left in top shape. Everyone she worked with called her a perfectionist, and that was one of the reasons that she was hired to do the job that she did.
She was grateful for the 24 hours stores, so that she could do her routine errands once she was sure that everything in the office was in order. It was also more peaceful, as opposed to shopping during the day. There weren't as many lines, and less people to weave around as she searched for the items she needed to buy.
After her shopping was done, she took the items that she had bought out to her car. It was now dark outside, but it didn't matter much to her, the lights outside of the store were enough to show the way to her car. Once she arrived at her car, she set the grocery bags on the roof as she tried to open the door.
"Damn door," she muttered under her breathe as she tugged on the handle.
The door to her car stuck every so often, and she made a note to get it fixed as soon as she had the time.
"Oh come on! I want to get home before my ice cream melts!" she said, this time a little louder as she fought with the handle on her car.
Meanwhile, CSI Nick Stokes was just leaving the very same grocery store. He'd been given the night off after a case had involved someone that he used to know, so he decided that he'd head over to the store and rent a movie, and maybe buy some popcorn.
After leaving the store, he walked out to his car when he spotted the woman fighting with her car door. Deciding that he would be a Good Samaritan, he walked over to the woman and asked if she needed any help.
"It's this stupid door, sometimes it sticks, but it's never gotten this bad. I really need to have this looked at," Emily replied.
Nick offered to give her a hand, and tried to pull the door open. Unfortunately, he couldn't even get the door to budge.
"Thanks anyway, don't worry, I'll get this open. Sometimes you just have to kick it or something," Emily laughed as she kicked the door, then pulled the handle and opened the door. "Finally!" she exclaimed with triumph as she placed her bags in the passenger's seat of the car.
Nick smiled and walked away, looking over his shoulder to see Emily getting into her car and drive away.
"All right. We've got a body found in a car over on Fremont Street. Looks to be a homicide, but we're not making any assumptions. Catherine, you are going to go question our eyewitness, Brass is over there waiting. Greg, Sara, you two are going to come help me process the scene. Warrick, I've got a robbery over at Whitehall Co Jewelers, I want you to cover that," Grissom explained, "Call up Nicky and get him to help you if you want."
Not too long after Nick had returned to work after having time off because of the incident that happened to him, Ecklie decided that it would be best to put all of the team on one shift again.
After receiving their assignments, they all left to do what they were told. Over on Fremont Street, detective Jim Brass was waiting with the eyewitness.
"Mr. Williams, this is CSI Willows," Brass introduced.
"Call me George," Mr. Williams replied.
"All right, George. Tell me what you saw," Catherine said.
Williams paused for a moment, most likely trying to remember every detail of what he'd seen.
"That woman. She'd come out of a grocery store. Food 4 Less I think it was. I was getting into my car and I saw that she was having trouble getting her door opened. At least that's what it looked like. I was going to come out and help her but someone else went over there before I got the chance. So I just left, stopped at a few other places, and then decided to head home. On my way I noticed that same car again parked on the side of the road and it had its lights blinking, so I thought that maybe she needed help or something. Since her door didn't open, I assumed her car wasn't in good shape so I assumed that it had broke down or something. I pulled over, and got out of my car and walked over to see if there was anything I could do to help. I looked in the window, and I saw her in the driver's seat... she was covered in blood and I was sure she was dead. I freaked out and then called 911," Williams explained.
"All right. So describe the person you saw go help her get her car door open," Catherine told Mr. Williams.
Again, Williams paused before he spoke. "Umm, it was a man. Sort of tall I guess, maybe... 5'9"... 5'10". Short black hair. At least I think it was black. It was pretty dark outside, so it could have been a dark brown. I couldn't really tell what he was wearing, it was pretty dark, but I did get a look at his face."
Catherine continued to question the witness, and then decided that the witness should be taken to see a forensic artist to get a picture of the guy and see if anyone knew who he was.
To be continued...