CSI Chap 1
It was night, darkness looming over the Las Vegas Crime Lab and to be Honest Catherine Willows was ready to pack up her stuff and head home. First she had Greg call in sick with a bug that had all of the day shift out...being stretched to capacity she had Nick and Sara both on Solo 4-19's and herself along with Ray on Solo robberies and she had a huge fight with Vartann her on/off boyfriend just to top things off. Lindsey is away at Berkley and Lou has been practically living there since and then he just had to go and ruin things...I was more than happy with the way things were working out.
The robbery she had gone to turned out to be bogus and the owner of the house staged it making it look like a robbery, hoping to cash a big fat insurance cheque. Really hoping no one else was out as Sara had only just got back from being off to visit Grissom in Paris two months ago and didn't want to lose her again for any length of time because she really was the best damn CSI she had. I was actually scared when it came to Sara, she had been acting weird for the past few days and I had a sinking feeling in my stomach that she was going to leave again...for good this time, to be with Grissom.
As she walked along the Labs winding corridors she couldn't help but feel a shiver come over her and immediately thought the worse she hated that feeling, it happened when Nick got taken and buried alive, it happened when Sara got taken and buried in the desert and it happened when Warrick was shot, so it makes sense that she felt a little off kilter. Nick was at a Scene out in Henderson with Sofia and Sara was on her way out to meet Brass and David the Coroner about half an hour outside of the city. She was broken out of her reverie by her cell phone ringing.
"Willows." Her crisp professional tone barked down the phone.
"Hey Cath look I'm on my way to the scene, but have you heard from Sara?" The Supervisor automatically thought the worst she knew she should have listened to her gut.
"No Nick I haven't, but she is on her way to the scene so it could be a while." His silence on the other end of the phone was deafening.
"It's just Brass called me and asked me if I had heard from her, she was supposed to be at the scene 30 minutes ago, and it's not that much of a difficult road that she even got lost...it's straight the whole way." She didn't know whether this was good news or bad news.
"Has anyone tried her cell?" He just huffed a worried yes as a response thats when I really started to worry.
"Ok let me try her again if that doesn't work I will try the tracker in her Tahoe ok? Don't panic Nick...I'm sure she is fine." He breathed a sigh of relief and said a quick goodbye and hung up.
"Damn Sara where are you?" She muttered as she dials her cell number. It rang and rang before going to voicemail trying it once more on her way to Archie at the A/V Lab, again she got no response.
"Hey Archie...pull up the tracker in Sara's car." At the strange look Catherine was getting she waved her hand in the air and gave a strong steel look in his direction meaning don't ask questions and he did what was asked.
"Ok her car is positioned 20 miles of the I-90. Her cell phone is in the same location. Here is the route she took before she came to a stand still" He said without her even asking him to check.
"Thanks Archie!" She yelled as she left the AV Lab and dialled her number again and again going straight onto voicemail.
"Sara...it's Catherine...what the hell is going on? Call me ASAP!" Catherine hung up and immediately began to walk out but was stopped by Vartann coming in the door as he was going out.
"Oh...hey...look I would stay and talk but I'm in a hurry." He pressed onto her wrist to stop her movements.
"Look I want to say I'm sorry...I didn't mean for it to come out the way it did." I honestly can't deal with him right now.
"I have to go..." I went to walk away but his voice stopped me.
"Catherine..." That was it...my name filled with so much emotion and pain I immediately turned around.
"What do you want me to say Lou...you asked me to marry you...I've been married and I don't think I can do it again..." I held onto his hand and looked at him.
"Catherine do you love me?" Before I could answer my cell phone rang again and it was Brass.
"I'm sorry I really have to go...Willows." I turned and got into my car answering the phone.
"Cath, it's Nick...anything from Sara." I glanced once more over at him and saw that he was crushed.
"Yeah she is 20 miles of the I-90..." I am actually glad my cell phone rang as I had no idea my feelings for Lou.
"Cath are you still there." I should be thinking of the Sara...Vartann can wait.
"Yeah I'm here look I am leaving the lab now I will take the route to the crime scene she did and I will call you if I find her." I hung up and proceeded to make my way out of the city in the direction I was hoping to find the hell are you Sara?