A/N: sorry it took sooo long D. Iv had like 3 scripts to learn for college and have been writing chapter 5 so hopefully the gap between this chap and chapter 5 won't be to long! D D. let us know what ya'll think! And hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer: if I close my eyes tight and wish then maybe…. Nope, still not mine!

Chapter 4

Charlie and his mate dragged Laura and Anna into a small hut and through a small doorway that led into a small room. Charlie threw Anna to the floor against the wall

"watch it! Pal" Anna yelled as she hit the floor

"shut up!" he replied angrily and spat a little as he said it.

Charlie walked back out the door as his mate walked Laura in and threw her against the wall next to Anna, he looked as she slid down the wall and landed on the floor. His eyes were drawn to Anna when he saw her smiling at him. He turned his head and saw that she was grinning. His eyes went wide and he yelled

"Charlie!"

"What?" he shouted, Anna stopped smiling as he came into the room.

"She's smiling at me that one!" he shouted pointing at Anna "She's planning something" he said paranoid, his eyes narrowing.

"Shut up Jerry" Charlie shouted as he hit his friend over the arm and walked out.

Jerry took another quick look at Anna and scowled at her before leaving and shutting the door to the small room, making it appear even smaller. Anna sat quiet for a moment before she looked at Laura

"Untie me" she said with a low voice.

Laura shuffled across the dirt floor as Anna turned herself. Laura untied Anna's feet so she could move. Anna took the tape carefully from Laura and buried it in the dirt, making sure there was an odd pile of dirt where she buried it.

After a short while they heard muffled sounds coming from the other side of the closed door. Outside the prison like room, where Anna and Laura where being held captive, Charlie and Jerry where busy occupying themselves.

Curiosity got the better of Anna and she lent forward on her hands and crawled to the door, Laura followed. Once they were at the door they leaned closer so that they could hear. They could hear the muffled sounds of Charlie and Jerry talking, presumably about what they were going to do next, when a phone rang.

"Charlie. Yeah, what ya want?" there was a silence that followed. Then he spoke again

"yeah. We'll meet you there".

"Who was that?"

"Delmar you idiot! Who else would it be?"

"I don't know. Where we meeting her?"

"Sweeney Avenue"

"Uh, when?"

"Well, were gunna finish up here an then we're gunna go".

At hearing that Anna and Laura shuffled back across the dirt to the wall where they had been left. They were both sat looking at the door when it flung open to reveal Jerry stood there. Immediately Anna started to smile at him with the same inane grin she had before, he stood and looked at her before he started to shout

"stop it! Stop smiling at me!"

He drew his gun and aimed it at her, immediately she stopped smiling. Charlie, who was looking, after hearing him shout, quickly ran to the door to see Jerry pointing the gun.

"Jerry don't do it!" he yelled as he pushed Jerry's arm in an attempt to grab the gun.

The gun exploded in Jerry's hand as the jolt caused him to pull the trigger, however the bullet wasn't on target when it was fired. Instead of heading for its intended victim the bullet flew to the side and scraped across the top of Laura's arm and drilled itself into the wall.

There was a short silence after the gun had been fired as the bullet flew through the air in slow motion. Then the desert air was pierced by the high pitched scream of Laura as she yelled in pain and clenched her fists, blood gushing from her gaping wound.

The desert shack was now full of noise and activity as Charlie yelled at Jerry over the screams of Laura

"you stupid idiot! What the hell did you do that for?"

"I didn't mean to" Jerry exclaimed, frightened.

Charlie continued to yell at him as he dragged him outside. Laura continued to screech in agony as Anna tried to pull at the tape on her hands which wouldn't budge. She leaned down and ripped at the tape with her teeth.

After a while of tugging the tape ripped and Anna's hands were free, she wriggled quickly to take her jacket off. She pulled at the sleeve on her jacket until the cotton gave way and the sleeve ripped free. She scrambled across the dirt to Laura and tied the sleeve of her jacket around the gushing wound in Laura's arm.

There was blood every where, Laura's arm was covered in blood and now Anna's hand was. There was a pool that was collecting in the dirt on the floor as it dripped from Anna's hands and Laura's elbow, as the blood flowed down her arm.

Anna continued to aid Laura by pulling the tape from her hands. Anna turned on her knees to face the wall behind them, accidentally putting her knees in Laura's blood, spreading the blood pool further, and wrote Sweeney Avenue on the wall with the blood that covered her hands, in the hope that the police or CSI's or someone would find it, she then pulled the second sleeve from the jacket and tied it again round Laura's wound for more pressure and placed what was left of the jacket in front of the bloody writing, to cover it from the kidnappers.

The kidnappers then returned and marched over to them, Charlie grabbing Anna and Jerry with Laura, who was now crying from the pain, and dragged them outside to a second vehicle that Anna hadn't noticed before, and threw them into the back slamming the doors behind them.

III

Grissom and Sara sat in the video lab going over the tapes they had received earlier, not finding anything to go on yet, but they still had two tapes to go through. They sat sipping at the coffee they had got from the break room, after emptying out the brown sludge that the dayshift had left.

"Well, we've looked at the time slot on this one and there's nothing. There's nothing on the whole tape" Sara said as she sat back and rubbed her eyes, they'd been looking at the tapes since they had brought them back near the end of shift, they were now working on overtime.

Grissom set his cup down and took the tape out and added it to the pile they'd already watched and put the next tape in, they had one to go after this. They heard a noise at the door and looked up to see Archie, the video tech, walking into the room, he was about average height and had brown eyes and brown hair that made curtains that seemed to frame his face. He had worked for the lab for a few years now and it was very rare that he didn't find something on a tape that they could use.

"I just got your message" he said sitting in the empty chair that was at the table

"I was taking some video evidence to Ecklie" he added and sighed, Grissom rolled his eyes slightly, but so slight that Sara wasn't sure she'd actually seen it or if she'd imagined it, considering Grissom's past with Ecklie she was wiling to bet that it was real.

Grissom returned his attention to the tape and moved aside so Archie could work his magic. Archie shuffled over so he was in front of the screen and began to fiddle with the buttons before playing the tape again, the image was clearer.

"Skip it forward, please" Grissom asked.

Archie fast forwarded it and Sara sat forward again and watched the screen.

"There!" she yelled.

Archie took the tape back a little and paused it as one girl appeared on the screen followed by the second with two men. Grissom looked at her and asked

"you sure it's them? It's a bad picture"

"Yeah, I'm sure" she replied straight away.

Grissom nodded and looked back at the screen and Archie played it again. The grainy, black and white image on the screen began to move, the two girls where stood being held by the arm by two men.

The girl who appeared on the screen first began to look around. After looking to the sides, and finding nothing, she looked up towards the top of the doors and noticed the camera.

"There, did you see that?" Sara exclaimed.

"What?" Grissom answered.

Archie took the tape back a bit and started to play it again and Sara pointed at the screen and said

"There!".

Grissom looked at the screen closely and said

"Yeah, she's looking at the camera".

They continued to watch the tape but Grissom was looking closer as he noticed she was speaking. He looked at Archie and said

"Can you enlarge it, please?"

"Yeah, sure" he replied as he complied to Grissom's request.

The image on the screen became bigger and then clearer and then he played it again, Sara looked confused and Grissom continued to look at the screen, squinting, he started to smile.

"What are you smiling for? What have you found?" Sara asked slightly confused.

He turned to her and said

"she's playing them" he grinned and she looked at him blankly.

He turned his attention back to the screen and Archie said

"she's working them to see how smart they are" she nodded slowly as she understood.

Sara noticed that the girl who had appeared first was no longer being held by the arm and said

"why is she stood there? He's let go of her why doesn't she run?"

"I don't know there must be a reason" Archie told her.

They watched as the same girl stepped forward towards the second one. They watched as the first girl turned the second one slightly to the side and revealed a gun.

"That's why" he said nodding at the screen "they've got a gun"

Sara looked from Archie to Grissom and said

"that's loyalty" she sighed.

They carried on with the video and saw that the same girl pulled something out of her friend's pocket. They watched the tape as the thug who was stood with the first girl snatched a something from her and wiped his mouth Sara smiled and said

"DNA".

They watched and saw as the girl walked over to the bin and stuck the tissue to it with some chewing gum that was in her mouth. Sara turned to Grissom and said

"back to the casino".

"You got that right" Grissom said nodding enthusiastically.

III

Sara woke as the car went over a bump, they'd left the lab about half an hour earlier to collect the newly discovered evidence. She pulled her arms up, stretched, yawned and started to rub her neck, it was stiff as it usually was when she fell asleep in awkward and uncomfortable positions. Grissom looked at her as he noticed that she was awake.

"Have a nice sleep?"

Sara dropped her arms back down to the side and said

"um yeah. Very"

"Looks like you needed it as well. I mean with all the sleepless nights you've had, working on this case an' all" the Tahoe started to move again as the lights changed to green.

"Well I don't want any thing to happen to them. I mean I saw them a few days ago in the café. They seemed really nice. It was funny coz the second girl was really shy when she came up to me but the other one seemed more confident and I was kinda surprised when I checked that computer screen. She seems like a mathematical and scientific genius"

"Well. We're nearly there. If you'd been asleep for much longer I'd have had to wake you up and I know you don't like it when I do that"

He said as he stopped at a red light, looked at her and smiled. Sara yawned again, looked at him and smiled back.

Grissom rounded a corner and pulled up outside the casino they were looking for. They took of their belts and climbed out. Grissom walked around to the pavement and stood next to Sara, both holding a silver crime scene case.

"Ready" he said looking at the casino door.

"Ready as I'll ever be" she said also looking at the casino door.

They strode, side by side, to the open door of the casino and made their way to the manager's office which was at the back of the casino. They stopped outside the door, Grissom knocked once and waited for a reply. The door opened to reveal a man the same height as Grissom with dark brown hair that was neatly combed. He wore black slacks, a white shirt and a dark and light blue patterned tie with a black blazer.

Hello, how may I help you?"

"Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle, Crime Lab, we have some evidence from your security tapes, the ones we collected previously, that may help us with a recent kidnapping. It shows evidence and we need to collect it. Do you mind?"

"Paul Strickland" he held his hand out to Grissom who shook it and then to Sara who shook it. "Go ahead, anything to help with your investigation"

"Thanks"

They walked back down to the entrance and to the left where they had seen the two men take the girls on the CCTV tape. They stood in front of the bin where they saw a piece of tissue stuck to it.

Sara bent down and opened her case, she pulled out a pair of gloves and put them on as she stood and walked over to the bin. She looked at it carefully before saying

"Gris, could you pass me my tweezers please" Grissom who was watching her like a teenage boy with his first crush, jumped at her voice

"sorry, what?"

Sara turned her head and looked at him, he was blushing, she raised her eyebrow and gave him a Sara Sidle smile, this made him blush even more.

"Tweezers"

Grissom quickly got the tweezers and handed them to Sara then cleared his throat. Sara turned back towards the bin and started to slowly pull the tissue up from the gum. As she pulled it up she noticed that there was something else stuck to it.

"Gris. Come and look at this"

Grissom moved closer to her and bent down to look at the tissue.

"Looks like a hotel card"

They looked at each other as if they were thinking the same thing which they probably were considering their job. Sara turned back to the tissue and pulled the rest of with the hotel card and the gum.

Grissom took four evidence bags out of Sara's kit and opened them one by one so that Sara could put the newly found evidence in them. After Sara had closed her kit she and Grissom made their way back to the lab to process the DNA that would be on the gum and tissues.