I unfortunatly do not own any of the characters, they belong to CBS. Oh but I can dream about owning them can't I?
"Do you know where I can find Catherine Willows" the brunette stuck her head in the door.
"She's out in the field." I felt as if my heart was stuck in my throat. She was gorgeous, even with that gap in her teeth, it kind of added to the mystique that is and always has been Sara Sidle.
That was 6 years ago and my feelings are even deeper today than they were that day. And guess what? I have yet to say anything to her. Instead I push her away and pick fights with her. I criticize her work instead of praising the always outstanding work that she does. I kick myself every time because I see that it hurts her. Maybe I will try a different approach and see where it leads me.
You know, Catherine Willows sure is easy on the eyes but seriously hard on the ego. She has busted my chops for the past 6 years and every time she has been up in my face yelling for one reason or another all I've wanted to do is throw her up against the wall and kiss that arrogant smirk off her face. Instead I make her angry and push her away. We may not have a very good relationship away from work but we sure work well together when processing a crime scene. We have the highest solve rate as a team and Grissom keeps pairing us up for that very reason. The reason we work so well is because we ignore each other and concentrate on the scene, whereas the boys are constantly competing with each other and their egos get in the way. Maybe I will try something else with her.
This particular crimes scene was worse than most. A whole family murdered. Blood was everywhere. Catherine is the blood spatter expert so I leave her do her analysis. I, on the other hand, am going to collect the necessary evidence to put this animal away for the rest of his natural life. I lifted plenty of fingerprints; I will have to print the family to eliminate their prints from those I collect. I have hair samples, some that to the naked eye do not match any of the family. We will have to compare once again for elimination. It's going to be a long night if we are going to solve this one. Catherine and I came in separate vehicles so I told her I was going to take my samples and head back to the lab.
"Let me walk out with you."
"Come on, you have too much work here, I'll be fine. I'm a big girl and I can handle myself."
"Ok, but be careful. Oh and Sara? Good job." She looked up and smiled at Sara.
"Ah, thanks." What the heck was that all about? Sara thought. Catherine being nice to me and smiling.
Catherine finished about an hour later and headed out to her vehicle. When she got outside she saw that Sara's vehicle was still there. As she walked closer to the vehicles she realized that something was definitely wrong. The door to Sara's truck stood wide open and all of her samples were scattered on the ground, but Sara was no where in sight. Catherine immediately called Grissom and he told her to tape off the truck and treat is as a crime scene.
As soon as she hung up the phone, Catherine sat in her car and cried. She cried for Sara, she cried for herself, she cried for what should have been but may now never be, she cried for them. She was still crying when Warrick pulled up. He ran to her and enveloped her in his arms. "Rick, I never told her. I never told her I loved her, now she may never know."
"Hey, she's a fighter and we will get her back. Don't you go giving up on our girl yet. You are still going to have the chance to tell her you love her and maybe this time you will actually do it. You've been putting it off for 6 years, maybe this is your wake up call. It's not too late. Let's process her truck and see what she left us ok?"
"Ok."
The rest of the team showed up and Grissom said that this is the only crime they would work until they found Sara.
They found blood on the ground by the driver's door, they will check to see if it matches Sara's application sample. There was a patch of dark brown hair on the seat of the truck and from the look of the ends it had been forcibly removed, whether it was Sara's or not they would determine back at the lab. There had definitely been a struggle. The scuff marks on the ground told a story of Sara being dragged to another car, but not until after she put up a pretty good fight. Her boot prints on her car looked as if she tried to use it as leverage to push against her attacker. They brought her truck back to lab after pictures had been taken and all that could be done at the scene was done. They would go over it with a fine tooth comb back at the lab.
Nick and Warrick showed how they thought the boot marks got on the car. Nick grabbed Warrick from behind, his arms around his chest, Warrick kicked his feet up and pushed against the wall to demonstrate how he could push Nick back. The dents in the trucks body, put there by Sara's boots, showed the force with which Sara kicked. Catherine mentally prayed that she kept that fighting spirit throughout this ordeal.
Back at the lab they determined that the blood and hair were Sara's. But there was no way to determine where the blood had come from or how serious the wound was. Head wounds tend to bleed more than other wounds so it could be she hit her head in the struggle or they knocked her out to get her into the other vehicle.