A/N: Hey guys! I'm doing another movie inspired fan fic... I know I know... ;P But I really liked the movie Deep Impact and thought it would be great to put the CSI team into the action and see how it plays out. It's slightly AU, pairings are GSR, post Nick/Greg, and Lindsey Willows/OC, the story is mainly told through Lindsey and Greg. Not betaed so all mistakes are mine, I don't own CSI or Deep Impact... blah blah, please R&R guys, thanks!
Lindsey Willows sat in the mountains outside Vegas peering into her telescope.
Astronomy club… how lame, she thought. Her mom had signed her up for it trying to give her something to do at night. More like keeping me from going out…
At least the scenery wasn't too bad. Lindsey pushed her hair back and smiled at John Graham, about the only guy on the club worth looking at. Of course, he was really worth looking at. The weird thing was that he was her mom's old boss's nephew, his parents had died three years ago, and now he lived in Vegas with Grissom and Sara. Apparently he had inherited his uncle's intelligence, and fortunately his looks were to die for.
"John? I'm not sure what I'm looking at? Can you help?"
He gave her a lopsided smile and walked over to her telescope.
"Ok, well you're looking at Ursa Major… So what's that one?" he asked, pointing into the sky at a bright star. Lindsey bent down towards the sight on the telescope.
"Uh…. Mizar"
"Good, so what's that one?"
"Alcor"
"Alright and that?"
"Uhhhh"
John smiled while she struggled and finally said, "It's Alioth"
"Oh…" she said unsure.
"Guess you really didn't need my help," John said smirked and walked away.
Lindsey blushed, and then frowned, looking back into the telescope, and then looking down at the chart on the ground.
"John? It's not Alioth"
"What?"
"It's not in the right place"
John came over and looked through her telescope, frowning.
"So what is it?"
"I don't know…"
Lindsey smiled at her flirtatious victory. John lightly pushed her shoulder.
"We'll send it to Dr. Stone at the observatory, he'll probably know"
Lindsey just smiled.
"Oh don't look so smug"
Dr. Harry Stone sat at his console at the Las Vegas Observatory thumbing through the pictures of the Butterfield Academy Astronomy Club..
He smiled at the large banner and the large group of kids. Then a photo fell out of the stack, paper clipped to a question form. He looked at the photo of Ursa Major and the circled star. He read on.
Discovered last week… Lindsey Willows…
Stone sighed and punched the coordinates into the computer and sat back as the large telescope moved into position. He went to the fridge in his office and grabbed a drink before going back to the screen. Stone pulled his glasses off his forehead and stared at what appeared to be an as of yet undiscovered comet. He sat down and set the telescope to map the comet over the next week to calculate its trajectory.
Lucky kid, she just found herself a comet
Stone pulled a form out of a desk and filled out the name.
Stone-Willows
He sighed and went back towards the break room; he'd send the form into the national observatory when he figured out the thing's orbit.
Sara sat in her seat, grumbling about her morning sickness. Greg was across from her in the open-air restaurant, a large trellis shading them.
"And right now he's looking at her down the aisle… smiling that big stupid southern grin of his… His nephew the ring bearer is fidgeting because he's only 3, and…" Greg said, looking at his watch, " now Kitty is up at the altar-"
Sara snorted with a laugh, "It's Katie"
"What?"
"Her name is Katie, you said Kitty"
"Oh well, they're both terrible names."
Sara burst into laughter.
"Now it's do you Nick Stokes take Katie what's her face to be your whatever, the kissy kissy starts, its happily ever after and now we all drink booze," Greg said with a sad smile, tipping his glass to Sara and taking a drink. Sara smiled and raised an eyebrow.
"You going to be ok?" she asked.
"Eh, why would I want a closet case like him back? And I should be asking you if it's suspicious that you're not at the wedding?"
"I told Grissom to tell Nick and Kitty that I have morning sickness"
Greg laughed and sighed, looking down at his watch.
"Ok, I have to get back to the lab, I'll see you later?"
"Mmhmm, and Greg? It'll be ok"
"I know, thanks Sara," Greg said, kissing her on the cheek before leaving the restaurant.
It had been two weeks since Dr. Stone had received the info from the astronomy club, and he had almost completely forgotten about the comet. He was walking back towards his office with a drink when he noticed one of the screens at the workstation flashing with a red border.
"What?"
He walked over to the pulsing screen and brought up the info, he realized it was about the comet, and then he realized what it meant. Dr. Stone's drink went crashing to the floor.
"Oh my god…"