Only time could tell

Only time could tell ...
Chapter 5

I turned my back to the house and looked at the parents. They where both shot in the head. Lying facedown in the mud. As if they where put there and then executed from a short range. I could see what the officer meant when he told me that they where executed. I looked around and saw a table near the swimming pool. There where two wine glasses on the table and an empty le nle next to it. I watched the scene closer and I noticed that there where only three chairs. I stepped closer to the table and noticed that the fourth chair was lying on the ground in pieces. They sure put up a fight, I looked closer at the chair and there was some blood on the end of one of the pieces that once was an armchair.

“Cath, I found some blood here.” She came closer and handed me my kit.

I opened my kit and started to process the evidence. One minute later Cath started doing the same thing. We worked in absolute silence. Suddenly I heard her soft voice calling my name.

“Sara, I’m sorry. I never saw you with kids, or ever heard you talk about kids. I guess I just assumed that you don’t have an interest in kids. I was wrong, I’m not the one to judge you.” Cath admitted.

I nodded, not really sure what to say. Maybe I wasn’t so great with kids but I could learn.

“I want them someday, I guess.”

“What?” Cath asked nure ure whether she heard it right.

“I want kids someday, I guess, just not right now. And not on my own.” Cath looked at me with a frown, she probably never even imagined me with kids. I smiled at her and she smiled back.

We continued working on the scene and as soon as we where finished I packed my kit and watched Cath. She was putting the last samples in her kit. She stood up and we walked out of the garden. She opened the gate door and held it open for me.

My hand toughed hers when I passed her, a shiver crept up and down my spine.

I looked at her and she smile back. “Shall we grab a bite before heading back to the labs, we could both use the break?”

“Just tell me where, I’ll be right there, I want to see Ryan before we go.”

Cath nodded that night she saw a small piece of the person that Sara really was. She never thought that Sara would be this different, she always thought that she figured Sara out.

Cath nodded, “The dinner where we went the other day with the team.”

I nodded and walked to the ambulance, not really knowing why I wanted to see Ryan again. I wasn’t like I could bring his parents back or his sister for that matter. I placed my kit in my car and closed the door.

“Sara!” Ryan cried when he saw me. He was still sitting on the bed in the ambulance, and someone had put a blanket around his little shoulders.

“How’s Ryan doing?” I asked the paramedics.

“He’s fine, considering what happened.”

I picked Ryan up as a woman approached us.

“Social Services, Alyson Parker.” She introduced herself to the paramedics and me.

I shook her hand, “Sara Sidle, Las Vegas Crime Lab.”

She nodded, “The one who found him.” She said while she pointed at Ryan, who was in my arms. I looked down at Ryan, and I noticed that he’d fallen asleep against my shoulder.

“Yep, that’s me, that’s my colleague Catherine Willows.” I said when Cath joined us.

I knew by looking at Ryan that it was my job to inform him about his family. You can call it maternal instinct or something. But I knew that I gained his trust and that I was the only one he would believe. I looked at Cath seeking for help and she knew what I meant.

“Miss Parker, can I have a word with you.” She asked in her most professional voice, which made sure that she didn’t want no for an answer.

Miss Parker nodded and followed Cath.

“He doesn’t know what happened yet, my colleague made sure that he didn’t see anything. She found him in his sisters closet,” Alyson nodded. “Can we take him to the crime labs to ask him some questions and secondly, he can drive there with one of us in one of our SUV’s. They have blinded windows, the photographers can’t take pictures that way. We don’t want that the killer can see his face all over the newspapers, now would we?” Alyson could do nothing more then agree and she did.

Cath walked back to me, she smiled. “He’s coming with us, you owe me big time.” She said with a huge smile on her face.