CSI- Primed.

Chapter 1.

Sundays are always meant to be a day of relaxation but not in Vegas and certainly never for the Las Vegas Crime Lab.

Gil Grissom walked down the hallway of the lab to meet up with Brass to discuss the latest case they were embroiled in, when he literally bumped into Catherine and Sara. "Whoa, whats the rush?!" Grissom said as he quickly composed himself with the brief but sexually charged body clash with his wife, Sara. Catherine noticed the tension or be it the glint in Grissoms eyes and smirked a suggestive smile to Grissom, then replied, "Well before you nearly trampled on us, me and your beloved here have caught ourselves a double homicide in the Vegas mountains...Millionaires Mountain", Catherine was somewhat excited.

Grissom looked confused, and raised a questioning eyebrow. "Millionaires Mountain is a new housing development in the Vegas mountains, perfectly situated mansions built into the mountain itself, luxury at its finest. Or at least thats what the tagline says, Grissom the cheapest house is $25 million dollars..." said Sara, trying to fill in her clueless husband. "And this is whats got you both in a hurry-luxury houses?", Catherine was quick to defend them both, " no the double homicide is what excited us of course. A house is a house Gil, with a pool, games room, home cinema with 4 screens, shooting ranges, golf ranges, marble floors, solid gold fittings, you know just a house". As the pair sloped off Grissom shouted to Sara, "you will remember to come home dear?", Sara turned and smiled, " Don't worry Gilbert, your all the millions i want" then winked as she headed off to the crime scene with Catherine.

Grissom carried on down the hall, when Greg stopped him, " hey Grissom, how come Sara & Catherine get the hottest case of like the decade, millionaires mountain man! dude that aint fair, the home entertainment systems in those mansions are way beyond cool and they get a double homicde to work, i got a robbery at a store-my 3rd in a fornight might i add". With a frown Grissom answered the CSI level 1, " Greg you're forgetting i don't hand out the assignments anymore, Nick does, i suggest you speak to him and one more point-i am not a dude". Greg looked sheepishly " ah dude, i mean Grissom, i forgot you aint he boss man no more", as Grissom began on his journey again he said, " Greg, ask yourself why Nick has put you robberies lately, why he's had Warrick mentoring you heavily for the last month, why he's given you the highest case load. How much longer do you think you can stay a Csi level 2...dude?", with that Grissom disappeared into Brass's office. "He called me dude. Csi level 2...", greg pondered those those as he stalked off to Nicks office.

The sun was blazing on a hot august afternoon in Vegas, as Catherine and Sara made their way to Millionaires Mountain. "Thankgod for air conditioning huh, you know it's 98 degees outthere, and about 198 degrees back in the lab when we clashed with Grissom". Sara blushed immediatley, " Ha, don't tell me you don't realise you two have some serious sexual tension going on, you know i notice the eye sex all the time", Catherine was teasing big time. "I, er, eye sex? we don't do that...do we?...we do don't we?" Sara looked at Catherine, "Not all the time but yeah you do! Hey you're still all loved up, honey trust me keep it as long as you can, besides it's kinda nice to see happiness,especially with what we see everyday".

Staring out he window of the Denali, Sara asked, "Catherine, you know when i was under that car and you guys were looking for me, what was it like? i mean for you guys?". Catherine looked at Sara for a moment, slightly confused as to where that question had come from. " Well before i answer that, do you wanna tell me why you asked it, i mean we were talking eye sex with Grissom and then that, Sara that happend nearly two years ago...". Sara continued to stare out the window, Catherine started to look slightly concerned as she prompted Sara, "Sara?". Sara responded " I had a letter from Natalie yesterday, from the pysch ward. She said no one did much in the worrying department", Sara looked at Catherine.

In a state of disbelief, Catherine smiled warmly, and pulled the Denali to a stop at the side of the road, "Sara, when we learned that Natalie had taken you and put you under that car, everyone of us were worried and we all worked round the clock to find you, none of us would have stopped til we got you back and when we did, you were close to death, sweetie we all care about you, probably more than you think. We love you Sara, all of us, even Hodges in his own way".

Catherine tried to figure out what the pained look on Sara's face was saying but was getting mixed messages, only Sara knew what this was all about and Catherine wasn't sure whether to push or leave the subject at that. She decided to leave it for the moment and wait for Sara to open up again. For a woman as private and strong as Sara, for her to open up at all to her was an achievement in its self, Catherine knew that, although a little surprised that Sara would open up to her, but at the same time glad she had. The pair would never admit to it but the women did actually care alot about eacother.

Catherine pulled back onto the road, " lets go see some of these mansions then eh", Sara glanced at Catherine " Yeah lets, Catherine thanks, and er, don't tell Grissom i asked". Catherine still concerned for her colleague replied " Our secret, i'm here, you know that", Sara smiled back "yeah i do". As the Denali turned the corner, the Csi's headed onto Milionaires Moutain.

"Which number is it? catherine asked, checking the paperwork, Sara replied "13. Hmm unlucky for some". As they pulled up the drive Catherine said " I don't call that unlucky". Getting out the Denali, the pair stood and looked at the mansion, this one was one of the smaller ones but was still ten times the size of their modest abodes. "ok lets go nosey, and work the homicde" Catherine said. With that they walked up to the main entrance.

" Hey Greggo, how you getting on with that robbery case man?" Nick Stokes, the night shift supervisor stepped out of his office. "Well Nick, thats going just fine, i was coming to see you about the case our two girls have...how come i didn't get to go man, you know that would have been a good case for me" Greg asked. Nick smiled in response, " Greg there's two weeks left til the end of the month and at that time i intend to assess you for your Level 2 Csi, i want you pass it man, but i can't have you glory chasing with high profile cases like the one i gave Sara & Catherine, you don't need it".

"The end of the month, you'll promote me at the end of the month-level 2", Greg re-iterated, "End of the month and i will assess you Greg, don't screw it up", Nick smiled again, knowing deep down the young Csi would do him proud. " Catch you later", Nick said as he walked off. Greg watched him walk off and turned to find Warrick leaning on the door frame waiting for him. "You ready to get going now you've had your moan?" Warrick teased Greg, "I don't know what you mean Warrick, don't tell me you wouldn't like to be up there with Catherine?", Greg teased back and winked at Warrick. "You know Gregg, you may not make it to level 2. Now can we please go"...Warrick motioned him to start walking, as Greg did he said " I wonder what Sara's doing now?", Warrick answered, "Greg...shut up".

Catherine and Sara stood in the spacious lobby of the mansion. " Now this what i call i an entrance. So where's the crime and more to the point where's the cops?" Catherine stated, " Hey Catherine, we never saw any patrol cars parked out front, nothing, and why do i suddenly get a weird feeling about this" Sara said as she scanned the part of the house for any sign of life.

" You know what, how about we take a look around and call it in back at the lab", Catherine beagn to walk towards the staircase. "Hey Catherine we're not suppose to go anywhere unless we have a police presence at the crime scene, you know that, for our own safety and all", Sara looked at the older Csi. " Sara, call it in, i'm only going up stairs", with that remark Catherine was half way up the stairs when a voice, which seemed to echo around the whole house, said " Good morning CSi's, so glad you could join in the fun". Sara automatically looked up to see where the voice came from. " Catherine i think we should go back outside...now!", Sara waited as Catherine made her way back down the stairs, " I couldn't agree more". With that the door slammed shut, Catherine and Sara ran towards the door and tried the handle, " It's locked" Sara said, Catherine replied " It's dead bolted, someone doesn't want us to leave". The voice spoke again, " Too right i don't want you leave. We're gonna have some fun- of the deadly kind". At that moment metal shutters slammed down over every window, entrance & exit from the inside, plunging the place into darkness.