Disclaimer: I do not own CSI. If I did, I wouldn't have spent over an hour queuing to get on Oblivion last week. I do own Megan and her family, though.
Chapter 1
Megan, Daniel and Lucy Alexander skipped down their garden path together and onto the sidewalk to school together, laughing at everything that was even the tiniest bit funny. Lucy and Daniel looked up to their big sister, and trusted her to look after them as best she could.
A white van, badly in need of a wash, suddenly pulled up beside them, and a window was rolled down. A middle-aged man stuck his stubbly-haired head out.
"'Scuse me miss, but you wouldn't be able to tell me how to get onto the highway from here? My friend and I can't make heads or tails of this map."
Megan went over to the van and looked at the map. "Well, it's actually pretty easy. You take that turn-off over there, and then -" A man suddenly jumped out of the back of the van a grabbed Megan. He held his hand over her mouth and dragged her into the back of the van. The van drove off, and Daniel and Lucy ran back into the house.
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Grissom and Catherine stepped under the yellow tape, to where a young woman was standing with her two children, and a man who looked like her husband. The woman had obviously been crying, as her eyes were red and puffy. Both children stood closer to their mother as Grissom and Catherine came closer, and neither CSI felt offended. After all, their big sister had just been abducted from right outside their house.
"Ms Alexander?" asked Grissom. "Gil Grissom, Las Vegas Crime Lab. I was wandering if you could tell me what happened?"
"I can!" said the blond-haired girl beside Ms Alexander.
Catherine knelt down and smiled at the little girl. "Hi, I'm Catherine. What's your name?"
"Lucy Caitlyn Melissa Alexander," Lucy recited proudly.. "I'm five years old in a month."
"Wow, that does make you a big girl, doesn't it? So, Lucy, what happened when you were walking to school?"
Lucy looked up at the sky and screwed her face up. "Well…we were walking to school like we always do with Megan. I had just drawn her a picture, and she put it up on the refrigerator. We had just got onto the sidewalk, and I was keeping to the inside like Mommy tells me to, because then I won't get hit by a car. A white van came up to us and a man opened the window and asked Megan how to get onto the highway. She began telling him, and then a man got out of the back and put her in the van. It drove away, and then Daniel and me went back to the house and told Mommy what had happened."
"Thank you Lucy," smiled Catherine. "You've been a big help."
She stood up and went to the sidewalk with Grissom, where Nick and Warrick were already taking pictures and searching for any evidence. Brass stood by.
Grissom began to give out orders to his team. "Brass, I need you to take care of the Amber Alert. Talk to the mother and make sure that the right information gets out. Nick, Warrick, you'll handle the scene. Don't overlook anything, don't assume that any evidence isn't useful. Catherine, you and I will be dealing with the family. Somebody obviously has a motive for taking this kid, and we will not stop until he is locked up in jail."