When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find more hideous crimes have been committed in the name of obedience than have ever been committed in the name of rebellion. C. P. Snow (1905 - 1980)

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed. Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)

Chapter Two: "Amazing."

The plane ride to Vegas was quiet, most of the way. Each member of the team was going thorugh their files of the case. Rossi and Sophia sat in the back of the plane. "Are you ok?" Rossi asked.

"Yeah." Sophia replied. She was foused on one picture of the missing girls. She knew this girl from somewhere but she couldn't place the face anywhere.

Hocth came and sat by them. "Two local CSI's are picking us up at the airport. We are going straight to there lab too see what they got."

"Why not the police deparment?" Morgan asked when Hocth annoced it.

"Appartnely the CSI's know the case better." Hocth anwsered. "The police are not very happy about us being there in Vegas."

"They do ggot the best forensic lab in the country." Sophia said quietly but everyone heard her.

"Expect for ours." Reid corrected her.

"Expect for ours." She reapted.

Hocth looked at his watch, than clearded his thorat which got everyone's attetion. "Get some sleep everyone. We be in Vegas in a couple of hours."

"Home sweeet home." Reid laughed.

"Hocth, this is for you. This was sent to our aparment, adress for you." Sophia handed him a white evpole with his name and their (Reid's and Sophia's) apartment adress.

"Thanks."

3:49pm -- Las Vegas, NV

Bright and beatiful, is what Sophia first thought when she got off the jet. Reid came up from behind her. "You ok?" He asked his little stunned sister.

"Just wonderful."

Reid joined the rest of his team as Sohia kept her eyes wide open looking at thisnew sight. She was too busy to notice the two black SVU's pulling up beside them. "Sophia!" yelled Hocth; she went by the team.

"Hey!" shouted one of the CSI's. "Are you guys from the FBI?"

"Yup! That's us!!" anwsered Morgan.

The two CSI's walked over by them. "Hi." The shoter of the two said. "I'm Greg Sanders and this....."

"Nick?" asked the voice behind the FBI team. "Nick Stokes, is that you?" Each member of the team looked at SOphia. "OMG! Nicky?"

The big muscalr man hugged the teenage girl. "Sophia! What are you doing here? I thought you were Quantico with that FBI Agent brother of yours?" He laughed lightly.

"He's over there. Spencer." She called out. Reid stepped out from behind Hocth, Rossi and Morgan. "Nick, that's my brother Spencer Reid. Spence, this is an old friend of mine from Green Bay." She explained. now, everyone didn't have such a cunfused look on their face.

"Well, should we get a move on." Morgan offered after a couple mintues of awakard moments of quietness.

"Sure." said Greg.

"Hocth, can I ride with Nick, please?" Sophia asked her boss.

"Yes." Hocth anwsered. "Reid, Morgan, Emily, JJ ride with Greg there." Hocth wanted to learn more about Nick and Sophia's realtionship.

Sophia jumped in the passanger seat, and Hocth and Reid went in the back. Nick turned on the car, turned on the radio and waited for Greg to start his car. Nick pulled ahead of Greg and started to drive. "So, you didn't anwser my question before Sophia. Whatcha doing here in Vegas??" She dugged in her back pants pocket, and handed him a black little case. He opened it and smiled. "Oh. Amazing." She took back her badge. "My wallet's in my locker. I'll give you the hurned when we get to the lab."

Sophia giggled. "What was the bet about?" Hocth asked from the back. Sophia almost about her two bosses on the back seat.

"When she told me that she was taking classes to get a badge, I told her it would take more than a year, she told me it wouldn't; so we made a bet."

"You always lose Nick. So, I don't know why you bet with me." Sophia laughed at him.

"Me either. You are way too smart."

She blushed at his words.

4:48pm -- CSI Lab Las Vegas,NV

"Grissiom, this is the FBI team from Quatinco." Nick said to his newly hired boss, again.

Grissiom came back from his leave about four months ago. "Sophia Summers." Gil Grissiom said, smiling to the teenage girl. "You look different, very pretty. How have you been?"

Sophia went up to Grissiom and let him hig her. "I'm good, Grissiom. How have you been?"

"Good. What are you doing with the FBI?" he asked her. He didn't even acknoelgde the other's of the FBI team.

"Long story. I'll tell you when we get this unsub." Sophia anwsered him.

"Looking foward to it, Sophia." He smiled at her. Girssiom and Sophia first meet thourgh phone call's but after September 11th 2001, Nick got Grissiom to come to Green Bay to vist her. They kept in touch snice. Sophia needed friends back than. "So, who are you working with Sophia?"

She glanced at Hocth and he anwsered, "SSA Hocthner, these are Agents Rossi, Pretniss, Jareau, Morgan and Doctor Spencer Reid." Hocth annoced his team.

"Gil Grissiom." He shooke hands with Hocth.

Nick stood behind his boss. "Do you want me to show them what we got?"

"Yeah. Nick you do that." Grissiom told him. "Hocthner is it? They told us, you wanna see the vic's files? We got a room set up for you like Agent Jareau asked."

"Thanks. Sophia, Rossi come with me. The rest of you go with Nick." Hocth replied.

"Where do you want me boss?" Greg asked Grissiom.

"With Nick."

Greg took off to cacth up with Nick.

5:30 pm

Rossi, Hocth and Sophia sat in the rooms by themselves. "Rossi, look each vic afterwards has a tatoo but not before. And five of the seven victum's were at this local casino the dsy they with the gas sation across the casino."

"Maybe we should go to the casino, see the video of them there." Hocth replied. "Sophia, you can check out the gas statiom....we can check out the casino. All right, let's go."

Sophia started to cough, out of nowhere. "Go get a drink." Rossi said, handing her a dollar to get a soda. "Go,now."

"Thanks." Sophia gasped. Sophia went to the break room, where Nick was in there.

"Hey, Angela. (Angel in Italian) How are you feeling?" Nick asked after she took a drink of .

"Cosi cosi." She anwsered. Sophia knew Italian becasue of the first foster family she lived with, taught her the beatiful launage. When Sophia first meet Nick, she taught him some of the lauanage. It stuck to him.

"I gotta get back to your brother. Does he always talk that.....much?"

"Yup." Nick made her laugh. "Have fun, Nick. I'll talk to you later."