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(Greg POV)

I walked into the building and went to the locker room. I took off my jacket and put it in my locker, changed my shirt and clipped my badge onto one of my belt-loops. I walked out of the locker room and started towards the break room, I hadn't run into anyone else and I wasn't late today, so I was slightly confused. Walking into the break room I saw Nick was the only one in there, reading the newspaper. I walked in and sat across from him.

"Hey, Greg, see anyone else yet?" he asked when he saw me.

I shook my head, "No I haven't, and I'm not even late. Although I haven't been past the lab yet so I'm not sure if Hodges is here yet or not."

"Probably, he's always early."

"You got that right. Wait, isn't Morgan in Florida for a conference this week?"

"I think so. Sara may be a little late, and I'm not sure about D.B."

"I'm here," a voice said from the door. I turned around and saw Sara was walking into the room.

She walked to the coffee pot and poured herself a cup. She sat down on my right and drank her coffee in silence. A few minutes later Russell walked into the room looking stressed and he had a small stack of papers.

"What's up, Russell?" Nick asked, putting his paper down.

"Quite a lot actually, but we'll get to that later. Anyway, Sara, you and Finn have 2 D.B.'s and a missing child. Mother was working at the hospital when this happened and she's distraught. I'll try and swing by if you need help."

"Where is Finn?" Sara asked, putting her coffee down.

"She was running into the locker room as I was walking down here. Here's the information." Russell handed Sara a piece of paper and she looked at it and sighed.

"What happens in Vegas, I have to deal with..." she walked out of the room with that. I laughed a little bit at that because it's true.

"You two are kind of in luck. Vegas is being quiet about major crimes tonight." Russell started.

"Awesome," Nick said quietly, he probably wanted to get caught up on paperwork or something.

"But, Santa Barbara is sending people down again."

"Why?" I asked, confused.

"Detective Lassiter went missing during a case and they believe whoever took him has connections here, so you two will help them out again." I nodded my head, feeling bad for the other three.

"When do you think they will be here?" Nick asked.

"Should be soon. I'll have Sam send them down here when they arrive."

With that Russell left the room, still looking a little stressed. I got up and told Nick I was going to check to see if the lab needed help. He said he would page me when the others got here. I started towards the lab and walked by Russell's office. I was a little worried about him and stopped outside his door. I fought with myself for a few minutes before I knocked on the door. I heard a faint come in and opened it.

"Whatcha need, Greg?" Russell asked from his desk.

"You looked either stressed or upset back in the break room and I wanted to make sure you were doing okay," I replied.

"I am a little stressed, but it's mainly because of all this paperwork. To top it all off, Charlie is getting ready to move back to college and we've been helping him pack all week, so I've gotten like none of my paperwork done."

"Well, if you need any help, don't hesitate to ask anyone around here. We are all willing to help with anything, and I'm pretty sure Brass wouldn't mind doing some paperwork."

"Thanks, Greg. I may just have to take you up on that offer if things don't settle down soon."

I laughed and walked back out of the room, closing the door behind me. I walked into the lab and saw Hodges typing stuff onto the computer.

"Need any help?" I asked.

"Nope, we've been really slow lately, so there's really nothing to do right now. I'm just finishing up some paperwork for the last case and then I'm going to clean," Hodges replied. I nodded and left.

This week has been really slow, which was a good thing for the citizens, but not really for us. Although it did give everyone a chance to catch up on paperwork and relax a little bit. I left the lab and went back to the break room. When I walked in, Nick had started reading the paper again, so I turned on the T.V. and left it on the news. I leaned back in my chair and zoned out for a little bit. I jumped when I heard someone clear his throat at the door. I turned around and saw Shawn, Gus, and Jules standing there. I stood up and smiled.

"Welcome back," I said.

"Thanks! Although the circumstances aren't ideal..." Gus trailed off.

"Yes...but do you guys have any leads or information?" Nick asked, putting his paper back down.

"Well the case that Detective Lassiter and I were on was a serial killer. His name is Jordan Rathajen. So far he has killed six people in Santa Barbara. At first we thought the cases were unrelated because the victims had nothing in common, but how they were killed were similar. We were just about to apprehend Rathajen in his house when a flash bomb went off. Once I recovered I noticed Detective Lassiter was missing and found a note on the floor next to me. It was from Rathajen saying that he had Lassiter. We figured out the day before that Rathajen has connections here and in Miami. Once Lassiter went missing, it was decided that we would check here first to see if anything could be found," Jules explained. I nodded my head along with her story.

"Do you know where he would be staying or do we need to do a little more research?" I asked, my brain going in a million different directions.

"Not positive where he would be. Lassiter went missing about eight hours ago. We left Santa Barbara as soon as we could. I didn't think that he would leave Santa Barbara," Jules said.

"That's alright. I can go find our tech guy and us two can search for him. You guys can make up some good coffee and relax," I said. Nick stood up and went to the cupboards and I left the room, going to find Archie.

Archie was sitting at his computer in his little office. I knocked and walked in without waiting for an answer.

"Why hello there, Greg," Archie said with a smile.

"Hey, Archie, ready to do some research?" I asked, smiling at him.

He nodded and patted the seat next to him. I sat down and turned so I was facing a computer.

"What are we looking for?" he asked.

"A guy named Jordan Rathajen. Anything that will give us a clue of where he may live here or may have lived. There is a missing Detective from Santa Barbara and his partner and two other's."

Archie nodded and started typing. I shook my arms and got to work on my computer, using sites that Archie wasn't. We worked in silence for a little while, sneaking glances at each other every few minutes.

Now everyone around here knew almost everything about me, almost. The one thing they didn't know was that I was gay. Only Archie knew that and that was because he noticed something wasn't right with me. Fortunately, he was accepting, and I was grateful at first, but now I think he was either gay or bi. When he found out I kind of developed a crush on him, but I don't think he knew that yet.

I shook my head and focused back on my work, keeping anything with Rathajen's name. Eventually I found all that I was going to and started sifting through what I found. I was able to take some information out because it had nothing of importance. I did find some old tickets and he even did a stint for armed robbery. Once I was done sifting through everything I started to print out what was left. I leaned back in my chair and stretched. I glanced over at Archie and saw he was going through his information too.

"Almost done?" I asked.

"Yup, just a few more un-needed documents then I can print everything off," he replied.

I nodded and got up, going to the printer. I bent down and grabbed a file from the drawer and stood back up. I opened it and grabbed the papers and put them in there. I closed it and set it back down next to the printer and went to sit back down.

I saw Archie hit print and then lean back, yawning.

"I need some coffee," he said.

"Nick should have made some of my coffee for the others, so you can have some if you want when all this is done," I told him.

"Thanks!" he said, brightening up a little bit.

"Not a problem. You look like you need it and you helped me."

"Yeah, but you don't like sharing your coffee."

"I can make exceptions." I was flirting with him a little bit, but I didn't care.

"So...when's your next day off?"

"Saturday I hope. I don't know how long this whole missing detective thing will go on for." By now the printer was done so I walked over to it and started putting the papers in the folder.

"Well, if you are off then, um..." Archie sounded nervous.

"What?" I asked, hoping I didn't sound rude.

"Would you um...like to go out for dinner or something?"

I turned around and saw Archie was looking at the floor and blushing. I felt my cheeks start to turn pink and I was smiling.

"I mean...it's okay if you don't want to..."

"Archie. That sounds good. I'll let you know for sure when I can. You have my number right?"

He nodded and looked up, smiling.

"Great, now let's go get some coffee. Also, I need to give Detective O'Hara this information." I held the folder up.

Archie stood up, still smiling, but not as big as before, I calmed down a little bit and we walked out of the office. Archie and I were silent the short walk to the break room. I walked in first and went to the table, where it looked like Shawn and Nick were playing cards, Gus was on his phone, and Jules looked ready to fall asleep in her coffee.

"Did you guys find anything?" Gus asked, being the first to see us.

"Pulled everything with Rathajen's name. Of course, had to weed a few things out, but got quite a bit of information," I replied and set the folder down in the middle of the table and sat down in an empty chair.

Shawn was the first one to grab the folder and he was flipping through the information. Archie had poured himself a cup of coffee and came and sat down next to me, sipping his coffee.

When Shawn was finished he gave the folder to Jules and Gus to look through. He was eyeing Archie and me with suspicion, but I brushed it off. We were both acting completely normal right now.

It took Jules and Gus a few minutes to look through the folder, but they finally closed it and put it back down. Jules sighed and rubbed her face with her hands. She looked completely exhausted and so did Gus.

"Why don't you guys go get a hotel and get some sleep. Gus and Jules, you both look ready to pass out. You will need clear heads if we want to find Rathajen before anything happens to Detective Lassiter," Nick suggested.

"I think that sounds like a good idea. Gus, I'm going to drive," Shawn said and took the keys from Gus' hand.

Shawn stood up and the other two followed him wordlessly. Nick started looking through the folder. I stood up and went and grabbed myself a cup of coffee. Just then Russell walked into the room, looking less stressed than earlier.

"How'd it go?" he asked.

"We sent them to get some sleep, but we found quite a bit of information on Rathajen," I said.

"Is that who took Detective Lassiter?" I nodded.

"Well, I'm going to call Sara or Finn and see how they are doing. It's been quite a while since they left."

"No need," Finn said as her and Sara walked in.

"How'd it go?" Russell asked.

"The mother certainly isn't a suspect. She could barely even talk. Don't even get me started about the boys. It was horrible," Sara said, sitting down and putting her head in her hands. I reached over and pat her shoulder.

The rest of the shift went by in a blur. I remember going over the information again with Nick and Russell, trying to find anything more, but my brain wasn't processing anything anymore. When I finally got home I didn't even change, but just passed out on top of my covers.

Where did that come from.

That took me a while to write.

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