Psychosis

Chapter 45- Chemical Reaction

Isabel looked down at her partner, who was laying on the hospital bed, breathing steadily. In her hand, she held the vial that contained the antidote to the poison. Now all she needed was for her teammates to successfully create a diversion so that she could administer it without the hospital staff knowing. They didn't take kindly to others doing their job. So, she continued to talk to the woman on the bed, spouting nothing but nonsense, until she heard a commotion, and Isabel smiled. As all the staff went to where the commotion was, Isabel quickly found a vein, stuck the needle in the woman's arm, and administered the antidote. It didn't take long for her partner to open her eyes.

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Ciara pulled the safety goggles over her head as she looked down at the samples she had collected. She didn't really need the goggles, as she wouldn't be doing anything that could potentially blow up in her face, but she thought they completed the experience of being in a lab. They made her feel like a real chemist, so she kept them on as she pushed her arms through the sleeves of a lab coat. She had been given permission to use one of the labs back at Quantico, and JJ and Rossi, one of which drove her and the other came out of pure curiosity, were watching her intently. So much so that Ciara was close to yelling at them to quit hovering.

She grabbed one of the drinks and poured a little bit out into a Petri dish, doing the same with the other drinks and the bottles of tequila and vodka. She knew what she was looking for, and she thought with amusement that she really didn't need to come to the lab to test for such things. But, it had been a hot minute since she had gotten to play chemist, and everyone who was affected was in the hospital and out of harm's way, so what was the harm? She then grabbed the test she was going to be using- the test that would show if her theory was right or wrong. A test for date rape drugs.

She grabbed the three drinks and tested each of them for one of the three most common drugs: Rohypnol, GHB, and Ketamine. Each had a different way of affecting the drugged person, and each worked on a different time frame. But Ciara hadn't known how long after the drugged person got their drinks they passed out, so she couldn't tell which was used by the time frame. So she had to test all the drinks and see which came out positive. She shook her head, not wanting to get sidetracked. She had a job to do. So she looked at the tests, which had results quickly. But what she saw shocked her.

All three had come out positive.

She looked at the tests questioningly, wondering how all three of them were positive. Did the drugger switch drugs with each drink? That didn't seem likely. Most druggers picked one and went with it. So, she cleaned out the Petri dishes, completely sterilized them, and ran the test again, but with each drink being tested for a different drug. And again, all three came out positive. So she ran the test a third time, and the results didn't change.

"Huh," she said under her breath, before finally testing the alcohol itself. And, sure as shit, it tested positive for all three date rape drugs. "Well, ain't that something."

"What do you got?" JJ asked, stepping up beside Ciara, Rossi stepping up on her other side.

"Our Unsub decided to really feck shite up. He put some unholy concoction of Rohypnol, Ketamine, and GHB into the alcohol," Ciara answered, and JJ's eyes went wide.

"Good Lord. It's a miracle nobody dropped dead after consuming that," she responded, and Ciara nodded.

"So now we have to find out who did this and why. We're going to need to find out when these bottles were received, when they were opened, and everyone who would have come into contact with them," Ciara said.

"Actually, I have the answer to that. I asked the bartender about the alcohol he had been serving, if anyone might have tampered with it. He said the only people who had access to it would have been him and the manager, and apparently the manager had mainly stayed in the office tonight to do some paperwork," Rossi explained.