A/N: Ok so this is my first Vegas fic. It's a little strange but I thought of it when I was walking to sixth form, because I had nothing better to do lol. So me and my friend decided to write it, so here it is. It contains GSR in later chapters, but unless we get some reviews you'll never know, hehe, other chapters are already written we're holding them hostage un till we get lovely reviews, mwahhaha!!

So without further ado….. Enjoy!!

Chapter 1

Vegas, the land of hope and riches. Casinos lining the strip like shrubs of a well kept garden in the setting sun. The street buzzing traffic and noise as the cars beeped by way of communication to be heard over the sound of the engines.

In a cafe, just off the strip, Sara Sidle, a tall brunette with kind brown eyes that were somehow troubled, sat at the bar sipping a cup of steaming coffee, quietly contemplating what her awaiting shift at the Las Vegas Forensics Lab would bring.

She was listening to the rabble of the conversations that the other people in the cafe were having, not paying attention to any particular group. In the distance she heard the sound of oncoming laughter. A few seconds later a small group of teens walked in, two males and four females, they followed the bar along and took seats behind where Sara was sitting.

After a short while, one of the teens, a male with blonde hair and of average height wearing faded blue jeans and a black T-shirt walked over to the bar, the waitress nodded to signal that she knew he was waiting to be served.

After he had been served he made his way back to the table where the others were waiting patiently for their drinks.

"Thanks Chris" they all said as he gave them their drinks.

After a while Sara noticed that the teens sat behind her were laughing again, even though she never really knew what it was like to have fun there was still a little smile that spread across her face.

"Hey Abs". One of the females across the table, wearing a black baggy T-shirt with a white jacket and baggy blue jeans, said. Abby, a small but tough looking girl, wearing a pink v-neck T-shirt, dark blue jeans, and her light blonde hair down to her shoulders, looked over at her.

"Can I borrow your laptop please". The girl in the black t-shirt asked.

"What do you want that for?" Abby replied.

"I wanna have another go at them figures".

"OK. But you'll neva be able to do em".

Abby gave her the laptop and she went and sat at the bar on the chair one away from Sara. She sat there staring at the computer not taking her eyes of off it even when she could hear the others sniggering behind her.

After a couple of minutes she started typing away, every so often Sara would take a glance over to see what she was writing, but didn't see anything.

After she had typed a couple of sentences she stopped and stared at the computer screen as if she didn't have a clue as to what to write next. After a couple minuets more she started typing again.

When she'd done a full page she stopped and saved it, then she noticed the taller one of the group, the remaining male with short brown hair, wearing a white T-shirt and light blue jeans walking over to the bar where she sat, when he was at her side he looked at the screen and then looked at the girl and then back again. Surprised, he asked

"Anna. There is no way you just did all that".

"Well, you're the one who is looking at the computer, Dan. Believe what you see".

She replied sarcastically. Sara, who was listening, gave a tiny laugh under her breath. Anna, carrying the laptop, and Dan went to sit back at the table with the others.

Anna who had a big grin on her face looked at them and started to laugh. She turned the laptop around to show them what she had done, they all looked gob smacked.

Abby took the computer and said "how do you no that these are right?"

"I don't. I just used my initiative." She replied with a smug grin on her face.

One of the other females, who was sitting quietly, watching the conversation, added

"Well, we'll need to get it checked by a professional". The remaining female replied

"Yeah. Amy's right. We'll need to get it checked by someone who knows what they're doing. No offence Anna".

"None taken". Anna replied. Still grinning.

Anna and Dan sat back at the table. Sara was now curiously listening, but not saying anything. The teens were all sat quietly. Thinking.

Amy started to look around after a few seconds of looking around she quietly said. "Hey look. There's a women with a forensics jacket on just in front of us". They all turned and looked to where Amy was pointing.

"Someone should go ask her to check these equations" Amy said.

At that point all but one of them said "Not me".

"Right that settles it then, Laura you go up" Dan said.

"Me" Laura said pointing at herself. "Why me?"

"Coz you're the one who didn't say not me". Abby replied. With a sigh, Laura, shuffling her feet, nervously walked up to Sara.

"Erm, hi". Laura said nervously.

Sara turned to look at her, her dark red t-shirt showing underneath her jacket, the name tag on the top left hand side read Sidle, and smiled.

"My names Laura and I was sat with my friends and we noticed that you have a forensics jacket on, and my friend has done some equations on a laptop and, we're, not sure if, if, they're right or not" Laura said slowly the nervousness extremely obvious in her shaking voice

"so, I was wondering if you could, err, please check them to see if, they're right if, you're not busy please."

Sara smiled and held her hand out politely for Laura to shake. Laura took her hand and shook it.

"Hello Laura, my names Sara. Yeah, I'd be happy to check them for you".

Laura gave a quick wave to Anna signalling that she could come up with the laptop. Anna walked over to them and set the laptop down on the bar in front of Sara, the grin now replaced with a nervous smile.

Sara turned to face the laptop and looked at the screen. She took 20 minuets to study the screen and after she'd finished she turned to Anna and asked with a sweet, polite smile

"how'd you learn to do these?"

Shrugging her shoulders and taking a deep breath and letting it out Anna said

"I" her brow creased in thought "don't know. I just, thought of em" the nervousness obvious in her voice, but she spoke clearly.

"Well, you've done a good job. They're right. What's your name?"

"Anna"

"So…Anna" she said slowly "Is this what you wanna be then? A forensics scientist?" Sara asked genuinely interested to hear what Anna had to say.

Anna, who was smiling like a kid who had just found a prize at the bottom of a Cracker Jack box replied, her brow creased in thought once more

"I'm not sure yet but I'm heading that way". Shaking Sara's hand, Anna thankfully said

"Thanks for checking them for me. I really appreciate it".

"Yeah thanks" Laura said, the nervousness gone from her voice.

"No problem girls. It was my pleasure" Sara replied, smiling.

When Anna and Laura got back to the table, Chris said

"well? What did she say?"

"There all right". Anna replied with a big grin on her face.

"Wow. Who'd of thought it uh? Anna Walker. Good at math's and science." Abby said sarcastically.

"Nar only jokin' Anna".

All of them started to laugh and Anna replied, laughing

"well, at least I did em. None of you lot could do em. So ha".

Again they were laughing and so was Sara. After Abby had put her laptop back in her bag the teens walked out of the café, still laughing.

After they had left Sara sighed to herself and went back to thinking about what her shift at the Las Vegas Forensics Lab would be like, she knew that it would be something terrible, because working as a CSI was never fun, although when she had caught the person who committed the crime only then was it worth it. It was especially hard for Sara when the cases involved abused women, as her mother was abused by her father when she was younger. Sara looked at her watch, only half an hour to go.

III

After coming out of the café Abby, Laura, Dan, Chris, Amy and Anna walked round to the strip where the sidewalk was overcrowded.

People had to step onto the road to get by people walking in the opposite direction. The friends had to split up in to twos as there wasn't enough room for them to all be together.

Chris and Amy were in front, Dan and Abby were in the middle and Laura and Anna were at the back, a little further apart from the rest. Laura and Anna were talking amongst themselves while Dan was telling jokes to Abby, Chris and Amy.

All of a sudden, two men, both about average height, one with dark brown hair and the other blonde, both wearing black jeans, the blonde haired man wore a black t-shirt with white writing and the dark brown haired man wore a plain navy blue t-shirt, came sprinting towards them, Abby, Dan, Chris and Amy quickly moved to the side to let them past but before Anna and Laura could move aside the men crashed into them as if they hadn't seen them, quickly getting up and straightening themselves out they grabbed an arm each of Laura and Anna, the others carried on walking thinking that Laura and Anna were behind them, when in fact they were being forced to walk into the open door of the casino, on the right, by the strange men.

They moved round the corner of the door so the people who were walking in and out wouldn't see them. When they had stopped, the man holding Laura pulled a hand gun out of his back pocket and put it in her back, Laura stiffened as she felt the gun press against her back.

Anna, who noticed that there was a gun pointing in her mates back, started to look around. She looked to the sides but there was nothing there. Then she looked up and noticed a CCTV camera in the top corner, she knew that the men couldn't have known about the camera or they wouldn't have brought them here. So Anna had an idea. Pointing her head towards Laura, as her hands were held behind her, she said

"I need to get summit out of her inside pocket".

"What? Why?" The man who had held of her said, alarmed.

"I'm gonna sneeze and I need a tissue. If you don't let me and I sneeze people are gonna know that we are here. And I'm sure you don't want people to know that. Do you?"

"OK. OK, but make it quick". He said as he didn't want to get caught.

Anna walked up to Laura and looked up, not moving her head so the men wouldn't know what she was doing, to where the camera was, Laura just looked at her with a blank face. Anna kept looking up and finally Laura looked up and noticed the camera, she now knew what Anna was up to, and smiled.

When she got up to Laura she went into her pocket, she slightly turned her so that the gun was in view of the camera, so when people came looking for them they knew that the men were armed, she pulled a tissue out of Laura's pocket, but she also pulled out the hotel card as they hadn't signed into their hotel yet, and pretended to sneeze, as she was going to put the tissue in the bin the man holding Laura snatched the second tissue she was holding out of her hand and wiped his mouth, not noticing that there was a hotel card with it and that he had just put his DNA on some evidence, then gave it back to her.

She had some chewing gum in her mouth so she stuck the hotel card and the tissue to the bin, which was also in view of the camera, which was to the left of her. When she had stuck them to the bin the man that was holding her grabbed her arm and dragged her back to his side. Pulling her arm back she said

"hey! Watch it".

"Shut up. Now, see that door over there?" Both Laura and Anna turned their heads to the door that was at the back of the casino

"we're going to walk over to it like we know each other. Any funny business and your mate gets it. OK?".

The man who was holding Laura put the gun in the air and gave it a quick wave while smiling like a little child. Laura, who was now panicking, was shaking her head.

"N-n-no fun-n-n-ny bus-in-ness. H-h-honest" she said frightened.

"Good. Now let's go".

They walked side by side over to the door. The gun was back in the kidnapper's pocket. If anybody looked at them they just smiled and carried on walking.

When they got to the door, the man with Anna looked around to make sure no one was looking, when he made sure no one was looking he opened the door, which lead to a dark ally the only light that was to be seen was the light coming from the street ahead.

When they were outside Anna and Laura noticed that there was a van just in front of them.

The man with Anna let go of her and walked over to the back of the van, he opened the door and said

"get in. Both of you".

Anna walked up, while Laura was being dragged by the man that was holding her, when Anna got up to the door she looked at the man and then brought her knee up to her stomach and pushed her foot into his knees, in agony he doubled over in pain.

Anna tried to run but he reached up and grabbed her arm and pulled it, as he pulled her arm Anna twisted and smacked her head on the open door of the van and fell to the floor .

"ANNA" Laura screamed as she saw her mate tumbling to the ground.