Page 104 of Chaos has a Name
Immediately, Chris stopped her.
“Wait. You kept digging down even further?” he asked.
She nodded.
“We reached more bones that were bigger, like femurs, and some little bones. I think they are foot bones.”
Elizabeth knew where this was going.
Chris was turning red.
Why?
They disturbed a crime scene, and he got particularly prickly when he had multiple bodies, and only one ME to work it. Yeah, that was problematic.
For him.
“Did I do something wrong?” Rayna asked as she saw the man staring at her. “Is he okay?”
Callen tried to take the temperature down before Chris dug him a hole—with the Natives.
Yeah, he was back to this again.
“Normally, once you find one bone, you stop, back up, and call for backup. It makes it more difficult when people touch the bones and move them. MEs like to see them in situ—as they were found.”
She considered it.
“Oh, okay. I wore gloves.”
Chris was saying nothing, but only because Elizabeth was staring at him and giving him the look that said,‘don’t do it. Getting bitchy will piss off a spouse’.
Since it was their first day back, he wouldn’t, but he was going to bitch in private.
Bet.
On.
It.
That was his compromise.
Elizabeth got them ready to head out by doling out the jobs.
“Christopher, call Tony and have him meet us here. You both can follow us to the scene. Go ahead. Take a moment,” she offered.
Oh, and Chris did.
He got up, pushed away from the table, and miracle of miracles, he didn’t say a single, solitary word.
She’d reward him for that later. It made Callen’s job so much easier.
“Who is Tony?” Rayna asked when the man had left the room.
Elizabeth explained to the Chief of Police.
“That’s our Forensic Anthropologist. He’s landed and on his way here. He’ll assist Chris in digging up the remains. Meanwhile, after I see the scene, I’ll take a trip to ThomasAdsila’s home, so I can look around. We’re going to have to retrace his footsteps.”
She wasn’t sure how this worked, so she was going to try to insert herself into the investigation.
