Author: NickandGregNumberOneSlashFan

Beta: Lolly4Holly

A/N: I don't own any CSI: NY Characters.

Description: Adam's past comes back to haunt him! Who is after him and will the team be able to protect him?

The night air of New York was cool, calm and collective with the streets noisy and busy as usual rather its morning or night. A young woman was walking through central park as a shortcut to get to where she was going. She was tall with long blond wavy hair, emerald green eyes; she had on navy blue jeans a baby blue t-shirt with a fairy as a picture. As she walked through she was unaware of the presence behind her until it was too late as her scream pierced through the night. The sun rose up as the birds came out to start their day as did people who came into view. A couple walked hand and hand down central park when they stumbled onto the body. The girl screamed out while the boy pulled his cell out calling 911 not long after the cops and CSI's came and closed that part of the park off. Danny crossed the crime scene tape as he spotted Mac and Stella snapping pictures he approached them.

"Hey guys sorry I'm late! What do we have?" Danny asked setting his kit down as Stella looked over to him.

"White, female I would say she was at least 25 to 30 years of age. Strangulation marks suggests that she was either strangled before or after she was stabbed multiple times." Stella said while she went back to examining the body. "I see blood underneath her fingernails maybe she scratched her attacker." Stella stated then scrapped under her nails gathering up the evidence

After they had gotten everything they could they headed back to the lab. Mac took the blood samples and dropped them off with Lindsey who got right to work then he took everything else to Adam. Upon entering the layout room he saw him dancing and singing to himself without a care in the world. He stared at him then chuckled to himself. That was another thing he loved about Adam is that he could sing and dance and not care. He walked up to him wrapping his arms around Adam surprising him, but he smiled none the less.

"Hey Mac! Wow I'm surprised at you." Adam said teasingly.

Mac just chuckled. "Couldn't help myself! You just looked so sexy dancing and singing like that besides it's not like everyone doesn't know about us anyways, no more hiding everyone accepts us and is happy for us." Mac said placing a kiss on his lips. He then pulled out the bag with the evidence still inside. "Besides I need you to process these please." Mac stated with a laugh seeing the look of pout on his face.

"Geez Mac you sure know how to spoil me." Adam said sarcastically.

"Thanks babe" Mac said then headed out Adam rolled his eyes and got to work.

Stella walked into the trace lab where Lindsey was. She walked up beside her looking down at the blood samples she was trying to piece together she looked as if she needed some help.

"Hey Lind's you look as if you need some help" Stella said Lindsey looked up at her nodded with a smile.

"Yeah I do" Lindsey said.

"Then why don't I help you?" Stella asked Lindsey looked at her again then smiled and nodded.

"Yeah that would be good thanks" with that they got to work.

Mac sat at his desk going through the case file as he looked at the dead girl's face he couldn't help, but notice that she bared a remarkable resemblance to Adam. He quickly shook it off and looked up when he heard a knock on his door as Stella entered his office.

"Hey Mac! Lindsey and I got a hit off the blood we found underneath our vic's fingernails. At first we put it through New York's data base, but got nothing so we did a wide search and came up with a Tommy Bracksten! He was arrested 15 years ago were he did three years for assault, rape and attempted murder." Stella said handing Mac the file. He looked at it then back to Stella.

"Do we know who he assaulted?" Mac asked.

She shook her head. "No it doesn't say! What it does say though is the rape victim only agreed to testify if his name was kept out of the file" Stella said. Mac nodded.

"Alright let's get an APB out on him ASAP." Mac said. Stella nodded then turned to walk out but Mac stopped her. "Hey Stell! Take a look at our vic and tell me what you see."

Stella looked at Mac for a moment then took the picture and closely looked at her. Her mouth flew opened at what she saw she immediately looked up at Mac he nodded.

"You see it don't you?" he asked. She nodded

"Yeah she looks remarkably like Adam! I swear if you put them together you couldn't tell them apart! Like they were twins." Stella said. She put the picture back down and walked out Mac behind her.

"Yeah tell me about it! I must confess it is kind of creepy, but anyways I need to head down to Sid and see if he got anything." Mac said as he turned and left in the other direction.

Stella looked at him then joined him. "I'll go with you." with that they headed for the elevator. They got in and soon they found themselves in autopsy where they were greeted by Hawkes and Danny, Lindsey beside Danny he walked up beside them.

"Hey I thought you guys were analyzing the evidence." Mac said.

"We did, but couldn't come up with anything" Danny stated frustrated

Mac nodded then turned to Sid. "Sid what do we have?" Mac asked.

"Well I was just going to tell them what I found until you came down so now that you are all here I might as well tell you all at the same time so I don't have to repeat myself." Sid stated making them laugh.

"Alright, Alright Sid! Please continue." Danny said. He nodded.

"Well when I examined our Jane Doe here I found an unusual cut across her chest just before the multiple stabbings so I examined it carefully and found that she was cut with a hunters knife a very rare and expensive one for that matter! Also I found defensive wounds on her arms and hands she was strangled after he cut and stabbed her! No signs of rape so you can count that out, but I can tell you one thing she fought guys she fought for her life, but sadly she lost. Oh and I found some skin in her teeth I gave it to Danny so he can take it up to trace when he goes. She must have bit her attacker oh and another thing I couldn't help but notice a similarity between this woman and Adam." Sid said finishing. Mac looked over at Stella and nodded as did she.

Sid took his glasses off as he looked up in time to see Adam coming they're way. "Speaking of which looks like Adam is headed our way." They turned and looked at him then turned back.

"So Tommy Bracksten not only has scratch wounds he has a bite mark too." Mac stated. Danny looked over at him confused. "Oh we got a hit from the blood it came back to a Tommy Bracksten arrested 15 years ago for assault, rape and attempted murder. He did 3 years." Mac explained.

They nodded then turned and looked when they heard Adam squeak in fear. His eyes went wide, he turned pale as the folder he had held in his hand dropped out of shock. His sudden behavior worried them.

"Adam? Are you alright?" Hawkes asked concerned

"D-Did you just say Tommy Bracksten?" Adam asked finally finding his voice. They looked at each other then back to him and nodded.

"Yeah! The blood we found underneath her nails traced back to a..." Danny didn't get to finish because no sooner as he pointed to the girl Adam let out a yell shocking everyone.

"NOOOOO!" Adam screamed as he rushed to the body lying before him, but was stopped by Danny who held him back. "NO! LET GO OF ME DANNY! LET ME GO NOW." Adam yelled through his tears as he fought his way to the body his hand stretched out trying to make contact with hers, but Danny kept a tight hold on him as he was being pulled back.

"Adam stop!" Danny yelled shaking him a little "You know you can't touch the body. Come on man I've never seen you like this. What's wrong?" Danny asked softly and worriedly.

Adam finally gave up his fight as his legs buckled underneath him. He fell to the floor along with Danny sobbing hard as Danny kept a hold on him. He looked up at Mac who along with Stella and the others stood in shock at Adam's sudden outburst then it clicked Stella who figured it out at the same time as Mac looked at him then back to the girl.

"Mac, do you think she was..." Stell begun. Mac nodded then turned and knelt down beside Adam.

"Adam? Babe who was she?" Mac asked. Adam looked over at him his heart broke seeing the tears and pain in his eyes. This girl must have been very important to him for him to act like that.

"She-she was my sister!" Adam croaked out then he flung himself to Mac who held him close hearing the others gasped in shock. Stella immediately rushed to his side pulling him into a hug forcing him to release Mac for a moment.

"Oh Adam I am so sorry! I am so sorry for your loss." Stella whispered as she hugged him.

Sid stood in shock he couldn't believe what he was hearing! This girl was Adam's sister and now she was gone! Out of his life forever. He had his share of heartbroken couples and family members, but this one just took the topper. Not only was Adam like family to him he was like a son he wished he had. Sid walked over to them kneeling down beside Adam he placed a hand on his shoulder as he softly spoke.

"Oh Adam I am so sorry! What do you want me to do? Do you want me to go ahead and autopsy on her? Or would you rather me not?." Sid said and asked.

Adam looked at him then at his sister lying on the table then he looked at Hawkes and Lindsey who were staring at him in sadness. He got up with the help of Danny and Mac he walked a little closer to her looking down. He immediately turned away not wanting to see her like that.

"This is all my fault." Adam said tearing up once again.

"No it's not Adam! It's no one's fault, but Tommy..."

"No Danny you don't understand it IS my fault. He said he would come back for me and kill those I loved and now it seems he had killed the one remaining family I had." Adam stated as he began to sob once again then he turned to Sid. "Do what you have to, but please take good care of her! Her name was Samantha Ross, but I had always called her Sam or Sammie for short" Adam said. Sid nodded. Mac then led him out of autopsy and straight to the breakroom.

Once they had gotten inside the breakroom Mac carefully sat his young lover down on the couch then he walked over to the fridge got a bottle of water out and handed it to Adam who took it gratefully with a small sad smile.

"Thank you!" Adam croaked out making Mac smile.

"You're welcome honey! Now I know you're going through a difficult time right now, but we have to know Adam is there some connection between you and Tommy Bracksten?" Mac asked. Seeing the fear in his eyes after saying that name gave him the answer, but Adam nodded anyways.

"Yes! I testified at his trial 15 years ago..." Adam started, but was interrupted by Stella.

"Then you must have known the rape victim right? Where you close friends with him?" Stella asked. Adam looked at her sadly.

"Oh I knew the rape victim alright because the rape victim was me." Adam said making everyone gasp in shock.

"Y-You? That son of a bitch attacked and raped you?" Lindsey asked shocked. Adam nodded.

"Yeah! It happened 15 years ago. My sister and I were still at collage it was our freshman year and we had just started. I had a dorm room all to myself. I was thrilled and happy, but my sister had to share a dorm room with someone so she wasn't at all too happy." Adam stopped for a moment and chuckled at the memory, but the chuckle turned into a sob. "I'm Sorry." he said whipping his tears.

"No don't be! You have nothing to be sorry about. You have every right to cry." Lindsey said with a small sad smile he looked at her and smiled.

"Please continue." Mac said softly as he sat down next to him he looked over to Mac who smiled and nodded.

"Ok! Anyway it was our first year and we were excited and we couldn't wait for our first class to start. we both had chem 101 and that's were I met him that's were I met Tommy Bracksten. At first we liked him because he was nice to us and welcomed us to the school, but we had no idea his intentions until it was too late so we hung out a lot. Grace had started to develop a crush on him and when she told me about it I told her to go for it! That was until the night it happened. I was heading back to my dorm room I had just gotten in from studying for a quiz we had the next morning when he jumped me. He pushed me to the bed and pinned me down I tried to fight him, but he was too strong. He..."

Adam paused for a moment looking up to the others they nodded encouragement to him so he took a deep breath and continued

"he gagged me then pulled my pants along with my underwear down and the next thing I know I felt a sharp pain rip through me as he entered me hard and fast. Soon he began to rape me as he had my arms pinned underneath him. I begged him to stop through my tears and gag, but he only slapped me and continued. Once he was finished he flipped me over and started choking me he would have killed me if it weren't not for my sister coming in. she started to tell me that she had forgotten something out of my backpack when she stopped dead in her tracks she saw what he had done and what he was doing to me then she screamed for help and Tommy took off before she could stop him. After he took off she begged me to talk to the police, but I didn't want to so she kept begging and begging me too so finally I gathered up the courage and I told the police what happened they did a rape kit and arrested Tommy I testified at his trial, but his fuckin lawyer got him 3 years for temporary insanity as they dragged him away he kept screaming that I will pay for this I will come after and kill the ones you love before I come for you. Needless to say with a lot of therapy I got through it and graduated collage with honors and now here I am working at the greatest crime lab in history surrounded by the one family that cares for me and a great boyfriend who loves me for me" Adam said they all smiled and laughed a little at the last part.

"That's true we do care for you and I do love you for you." Mac said pulling him into his arms.

"Man I cannot believe they gave him 3 years! Dumb asses when he yelled at you like that, that should have been enough to say 'hey this guy just threatened him' but no they just by passed it and now look what happened he killed your sister, but I'll be damned if I let this fucker get any we're near you" Danny said angrily they all looked at him as did Adam with surprise "What? Adam you're like a brother to me! You helped me out when no one else was able to help, you helped me see things that I couldn't hell you even saved my ass more times than I could count so I'll do whatever it takes to keep you safe"

Adam looked at him then teard up once again "Thank you." he whispered.

Danny smiled this was going to be a tough case, but somehow they will manage they always do.

Tbc...