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No no no no...that was all Nick could think about when Benjamin hung up the phone. Why had it to be Greg? Why hadn't he taken him? Why...

"Nicky!" He felt Catherine's hand rubbing his back, but he ignored her, just starred around the apartment... Greg's apartment. This was so not fair!

He took a deep breath and looked in the faces of his colleagues. Of course he had to tell them something; they didn't know about Benjamin yet. He even hadn't told Warrick, since he had thought that the guy would not come back.

"Nick, can you please tell us what the phone call was about?" Grissom said as calmly as he could. Which was even for him not easy.

"Yeah... yeah, I'm sorry..." His voice was shaky, and it was hard to find the words. His mind was always with Greg and what he was possibly going through right now.

"This was... the call was about Greg." He sighed as he saw the shocked faces of his friends. "I know who took him."

"What? How?" Sarah said with a confused expression.

Nick looked at her. "It's Benjamin, an old... an old friend of mine. At least he was a friend until he poisoned my sister with a kind of drug. Then, a few days ago, Greggo and I went to that restaurant and I had to go to the bathroom. When I came back, I saw him obviously threatening Greg, but I couldn't understand what he was saying; I just got... furious, pushed him away. He had said he wanted to be friends with me again, but I said this will never be the case. And then he seemed to give up and went out of the restaurant. I... I never thought that he would come back and do.. this."

He went his fingers through his hair; his colleagues hasn't interrupted him. They wanted to say something consoling, knowing that it wasn't Nick's fault.

Eventually Grissom spoke up.

"Do you know where this guy live?"

Nick shook his head. "No... I didn't even knew that he was in town. God... If I just had been with him... if I..."

"Okay, Nick, stop it right now" Catherine said, whipping off a tear running down her face. "First of all, this is not your fault, okay? And I'm sure that Greg won't blame you, you know how he is... I'm sure that he'll be back with us by tomorrow, drinking his wonderful coffee and making his stupid jokes."

Nick nodded, but kept silent. He didn't want to tell Catherine that he wasn't that optimistic right now. She hadn't heard his scream.

"Hey, guys, you've got to look at this!"

Nick looked over to the kitchen table. Warrick had went there, pointing at a brown envelope.

"There's Greg's name on it... I just take a look, maybe it's important..."

Warrick spread out the content and held in his breath as he recognised what was lying on the table.

"Oh my god!" he murmured as he took the letter and saw the picture sticking behind. This was so not good!

…...

Greg moaned quietly. It was hard to breath through his nose and his mouth felt already dry as if he hadn't drunk for a week. He would give anything for a cup of his coffee right now.

Benjamin had left after the phone call, not saying when or... if he would be back. Greg didn't care. Right now, he had other problems. He still didn't know what this guy will do with him; he just hoped that he would leave his friends alone, especially Nick. What was this bastard thinking? That he could nearly kill his sister, kidnap Greg and still think that Nick wanted to be his friend? It was clear for Greg that Benjamin had a huge mental problem, and this was difficult to handle for him. He don't know how to act in front of him; to be honest, he was scared as hell knowing that he was back in the house. Certainly Benjamin had took him for a reason... First of all because he was Nick's friend, and secondly, because his cousin was killed by his team.

He tried to take a deep breath, but had to cough violently as not enough oxygen was pumping back into his lungs. In this moment, he heard the familiar sound of the door being unlocked. He tried to calm down as the door swung open and saw Benjamin's silhouette in the door frame. The guy approached him and Greg decided that it was better to keep silent, avoiding eye contact and look at the floor. He didn't want to make him upset, although he had plenty of things to say to this bastard.

"Oh, suddenly you're quiet? I'm sure that Nicky is going to like that" He heard Benjamin's steps circeling his chair. He still kept silent.

"You know, I'm wondering if Jack would have take you if it was me being killed by one of your team members; I'm sure that he wanted revenge as well... and that Nicky is part of the team is just perfect!" Again, Greg kept silent, but it was very hard not to give a comment about this. How dared he...

Suddenly, he felt Benjamin's hand pulling his head back after grabbing his hair violently. It was so surprising to him that a small scream escaped his mouth and he bit his tongue. Greg could taste the metal tasting liquid in his mouth.

"You think you are better than me, don't you?" Benjamin said, now with a more angry voice. Greg still didn't reply, too scared that he would say something wrong. He felt Benjamin's breath at his ear and it made him shivering.

"I think we should call Nicky again, shouldn't we? Maybe you'll be a bit more talkative then"

aaaaaaaaaand cut :) I know, it's mean to make a cliffy right here... However, I promise to make a update within the next two days, maybe even tomorrow :D

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