Running Blind
Crossover with CSI. Something supernatural is killing people in Las Vegas... and it all seems to lead back to a fifteenyearold runaway named Danny Fenton.
Crossover with CSI. Something supernatural is killing people in Las Vegas... and it all seems to lead back to a fifteenyearold runaway named Danny Fenton.
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Grissom frowned, looking up at Hodges. "Inconclusive?"
"You managed to stump me, the computer, three reference books and an online guide. About all I've got is that the clear stuff is a hydrocarbon of unknown type, slightly acidic. The green stuff's even weirder, though... I did it second, so it was sitting for a bit... it separated out, like blood does. The top stuff was identical to human plasma, but the bottom stuff... elemental traces of copper, similar to the way you'd find iron in blood. If I didn't know better, I'd almost assume it was blood, from some type of alien organism."
The two CSIs blinked at him. "What would be the function of copper in blood?" Greg asked, curiously.
"Well, this is all speculation here, so, y'know, take it with a grain of salt, but... if an organism for some reason had a "brain" that required electrical stimulation instead of oxygen, copper would be your best choice for your hemoglobin equivalent... But, like I said, all speculation."
Grissom made a noise in the back of his throat. "All right, what about the other samples taken from the trail? The red ones."
"Human blood. Fresh. DNA matching indicates that yes, it was from the kid in the hospital. Although..."
Blond eyebrows rose. "Although?"
"I got some seriously weird errors running the DNA. Only on the kid's blood, and the scene samples, though... all the test stuff shows the system working fine. But the system keeps showing me an extra pair of chromosomes. No clue what the extras might be, but that kid is not genetically normal."
The two field investigators looked at each other. This was getting weirder by the minute.