Chapter 2
Grissom sat quietly in a hire car nervously watching the small house he had parked down the road from. It was early morning and the gray clouds drifting in from the sea meant that it was still almost dark. Grissom could not work out how long it was since he had slept but it was catching up with him, he knew that it had been at least 12 hours from being woken from his dream by Heather before he got on the first plane out of Las Vegas, he had lost track after that as he changed planes four times and gone through a time change he really could not tell weather he should be awake or asleep. He did know though that the people if there were any in the house he was watching must be asleep all the curtains were closed and the lights looked to be off. Resting his head back on to the rest of the seat Grissoms eyes slowly closed he could not fight it any longer.
When he woke it was obviously at least a couple of hours later as it was light and the clouds were beginning to clear. Grissom cleared his head and looked up at the house that still seemed quite, as he studied the house more closely he realised that someone must be in as some of the curtains had been opened upstairs. He looked at his phone wondering weather he should just try ringing again, but coming all this way just to phone from outside the door really was a waste of time. He had felt after the dream that he needed to make contact with Sara and when there had been no answer on the phone he was compelled to arrange flights to get to her to make sure she was ok, but now he had been sitting there for, what must be around 3 hours.
Suddenly he was pulled from his thoughts by movement at the front of the house. He froze in his seat unsure what he wanted or needed to do, watching Ellie come first through the front door, then across the screened porch and out of the screen door. He thought for a moment that she would see him as she walked past and the thought of hiding, but she skipped across the road and disappeared down a path at the side of the house opposite. He sighed out loud with relief.
Grissom had been so busy watching Ellie that he had not seen Sara follow her out of the house in to the screened porch. He turned in time to watched her carefully prop the front door open with a low stood and then walk along the porch to a sofa at the end furthest from his car, she was carefully carrying something and slowly sat with it on her lap. Grissom was not sure if he should go to her or be satisfied that he could now see that Sara and Ellie where both fine.