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A/N: OMG!! Can it be?!! ANOTHER chapter?!! Finally?!! Why yes it is folks. Sorry for the long delay between chapters but you know how life can be, always getting into the way. This chapter is longer then usual and I hope it was worth the wait, enjoy :) Oh yeah and as usual this story is not beta'd so any and all mistakes are mine.
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Chapter 10
Sawyer returned later with the first aid supplies, Grissom leaning against the wall.
"Luckily for you I know a thing or two about first aid." he said as he placed the supplies on a stool. "Now don't think about trying any funny business here while I bandage your ankle."
Sawyer removed the chain from Grissom's injured ankle, then took a couple of splints and placed them on either side of his ankle.
"I can take him, this is my shot." Grissom thought, despite Sawyer's warnings. He began to move his other foot to kick Sawyer but the man had anticipated as much. Before Grissom had barely lifted his foot, Sawyer took his fist and punched Grissom's broken ankle. Just hard enough to send Grissom screaming in pain.
"AHHHH!!" Grissom yelled, his head back against the wall with his eyes clenched tight.
"Tut tut my dear doctor."
"Quit calling me doctor." Grissom responded through gritted teeth.
"Fine...GRISSOM...I told you not to try anything."
Grissom glared at Sawyer through narrow slits as his ankle throbbed.
"Try that again and I'll break both your ankles. Ever seen the movie Misery?"
Grissom's eyes grew wide.
"I guess that means yes." Sawyer chuckled as he returned to splinting Grissom's ankle. After he finished he handed Grissom a glass of water and a couple pills. "Here, this will help with the pain."
Grissom eyed the pills suspiciously.
"Relax, I've already told you my plan. What would be the point of killing you? I wouldn't be able to tell you how things were going with MY family."
Grissom exhaled forcefully before downing the pills and water. It made his blood boil every time Sawyer referred to Grissom's family as HIS family.
"That's better." Sawyer said as he took the glass from Grissom. "Well I think I'll go for a little drive here shortly and see how MY family is doing." Again Grissom exhaled forcefully. "Then I'll drive by the scene to see how your precious team is coping."
Grissom breathed in and out heavily, clutching his fists tightly to his sides, wishing he had that glass back in his hand again. Sawyer smirked at the reaction he was getting out of Grissom.
"Now you be a good little boy while I'm gone." With that Sawyer turned and laughed as he left the room, locking the door behind him. As soon as the lock turned Grissom exploded,
"THEY'RE MY FAMILY YOU SON OF A BITCH!! MINE!!" he screamed, slamming his fist into the hard cement. He then glared at the chain now attached to his good ankle, wishing he could break it apart with his bare hands.
"They'll find me" he thought as he fought to calm himself down, "I know they will."
Not long after, in the distance he could hear a door slam shut and the engine roar to life.
"Now let's see how my future bride is doing." Sawyer thought as he turned onto Holtshire Rd.. As he approached the house he could see a police car out front, the officer patrolling the property. He slowed the car down slightly but not too much. He didn't want to draw any attention to himself by driving too slow. He just wanted to peek in the window and see if he could see Sara.
He knew with Grissom missing the cops would be around for awhile, but once enough days had passed and they left, he would then start dropping by the house to visit with Sara and offer her comfort.
As he passed by the house he peeked through the living room window. On the couch he could see Sara with her arms clutching a photograph to her chest tightly, clearly crying.
"There there honey." Sawyer thought as he drove off, "soon enough I'll be comforting you. My arms wrapped tightly around you. I will help you forget about HIM and maybe someday we can expand our family." Sawyer smiled to himself as he turned the corner at the end of the street.
"Hey Adam....Adam!!" Alex whispered through the wooden fence, trying not to be too loud. Adam, who had been kicking around a soccer ball, paused and looked around for the source of the voice.
"Adam...over here...by the gate."
"Alex?"
Adam ran over to the gate and let Alex and Bruno in. "What are you doing here?"
"Not here, the treehouse, I'll explain there."
Bruno sit" Alex instructed the boxer on the platform at the end of a rope, "stay". Bruno sat patiently as he watched his young master and his friend climb up the rope ladder. When they reached the top, they both grabbed hold of the crank and turned it, raising the platform and bringing Bruno up to the treehouse.
"OK, what's up?" Adam asked once they got settled in the treehouse.
"Somebody has stolen my daddy."
"Really?"
"Yup, I heard my mommy and Gampa Jim talking about it. Daddy always said I was the man of the house when he wasn't there. Its up to me to find him and I need your help."
"How?"
"I can't go to the crime place cause my aunt and uncles are there, other people too, and they'll see me. I need to look from your teahouse and see if I can spot any clues from here. Will you help me?"
"Sure, but shouldn't you call your mommy and tell her you are here so she don't worry?" Adam asked his best friend.
"I can't, she'll make me come home. You gotta promise not to tell her I'm here."
"I promise."
"Pinkie promise" Alex said as he held out his left pinkie.
"Pinkie promise" Adam repeated as they hooked pinkies and shook on it, "so what do we do?"
"We gotta look for anything suspi...saspi...spishus...stuff that looks funny." Alex replied as he looked through the telescope at the window facing the park.
"You see that house over there with the cops?" Alex asked.
"Yeah"
"That's where the evil man took my daddy from. He's got him back at his evil lair with hundreds, no thousands of ninjas guarding it."
"WOW" replied Adam in amazement.
"Yeah and we gotta find out where it is."
Alex continued to look around with the telescope while Adam looked with his naked eye. They boys had been looking for almost an hour when Adam spoke.
"Hey Alex look" Adam pointed towards the street to the right side of the park.
"Where?"
"Over there, the red truck with the cover on the back. He's been there for awhile and the guy hasn't gotten out at all."
"Good eye Adam. I've seen other cars come by but they were all kids with their mommies and daddies. Did you see when he got here?"
"I can't read time yet, I don't know but its been a long time."
"We better watch him" Alex stated, Adam nodding in agreement.
5 mins. later
"HEY ADAM!! YOU UP THERE?!!" Yelled Andrew, Adam's 12 yr. old brother.
"YEAH!!"
"COME ON DOWN!! DAD JUST GOT HOME AND MOM SAYS ITS TIME TO EAT!!"
"COMING!!" Adam hollered back. "I'll try to bring ya back some food."
"Thanks, but I got some food in my backpack. Could you bring something for Bruno? I just got peanut budda and bread. I didn't have time to grab his food."
"Sure, be back soon."
"Thanks."
Adam climbed down the ladder as Alex went back to surveying the area, paying close attention now to the mysterious man in the red truck.
"Go wash your hands." Adam's mother ordered as he entered the back door.
"Yes mommy....what's for dinner?"
"Chicken nuggets and fries."
"Yum."
Five mins. later the family sat down at the table to eat.
"John honey, do you know what's goin on by the park? There's been cops and CSI's on the other side all day." Irene asked her husband.
"I was just about to say something about that." he replied, "You won't believe what I heard when I got back to the post office this afternoon."
Adam and Andrew's father worked as a carrier for the post office.
"What?" she asked, curiosity evident in her voice.
"Well I was talking to Richard, who delivers over on that side of the park, and he says Gil Grissom was abducted from a crime scene over there this afternoon."
Clang!!
The fork hit the plate as Irene covered her mouth in shock.
"Oh my god!! Poor Sara!! She must be beside herself with worry. Who would do such a thing? I must call her"
As the parents spoke, and the children listened, no one noticed Adam taking some of his nuggets and wrapping them in his napkin before sticking them in his pocket. As soon as dinner was finished he rushed back to the teahouse.
"Anything new?" Adam asked as he pulled himself up into the teahouse before taking out the nuggets and feeding them to Bruno.
"Not much. That truck finally left. We better keep an eye out for him. See if he comes back."
"Hey Adam, you rushed off before mom could ask if you wanted some dess...hey, what's he doing here?" Andrew asked as he climbed in. The boys looked at each other for a moment.
"Andrew you GOTTA promise not to tell mommy and daddy."
"Tell them what?"
Together the boys explained about Alex's mission to find his daddy.
"So PLEASE don't tell them ok? They'll call his mommy and she'll make him go home." Adam begged with pleading eyes to his big brother.
"Alright alright, I won't tell them."
"Thanks Andrew."
"I'll bring him my sleeping bag to use tonight. And I'll help sneak Bruno out for a potty break later."
"Thanks Andrew" Alex said with a grateful smile.
7:30 p.m.
"ADAM!! TIME FOR BED!!" Irene yelled up to her son.
"Can I sleep here tonight? Please?" Adam asked, sticking his head over the edge.
"On a school night?"
"Puh-weeze? Its nice out." The little boy pouted his lower lip for extra effect. His mother shook her head at the ground as she chuckled.
"Oh alright, but I better not hear any complaining when its time to get up."
"Thanks mommy" he replied as he duck back in.
10 p.m.
"Oh my god John, I just got off the phone with Sara Grissom" Irene began as her husband exited the bathroom off of their bedroom.
"What is it?" he asked as he climbed into bed.
"Alex is missing too. He left a note and took off with the dog to find Gil."
"What?"
"Her mother-in-law is there with her now. I can't even begin to imagine what she's going through right now. I'd be enough of a wreck with you missing, but either or both of the boys too?"
"Hopefully they'll find them both soon. We'll just have to keep our hopes up." John said before kissing his wife on the cheek and clicking off the lights. Irene remained sitting up in bed for another moment, thinking of Sara, before finally sliding under the covers and closing her eyes in an attempt to get some sleep.
Andrew stared up at the ceiling as he laid in bed, having heard his parents conversation next door.
Alex and Andrew took turns sleeping and watching for the mysterious red truck during the night.
Next morning
"I'll keep an eye out while you're at school ok?" Alex said.
"OK, I'll be back as soon as I can to help."
"COME ON ADAM, LETS GO!!" Andrew yelled.
"COMING!!"
"I'll pick ya up after school." Andrew said outside the elementary school, the middle school where Andrew attended was on the next block.
"OK, bye Andrew." Adam said before turning towards the school. As he got to the doors he turned to wave at Andrew when he noticed him going down another street.
"Where's he going? The middle school isn't that way? That's the way to Ale..." Adam's eyes grew wide, "He wouldn't!!...he promised he wouldn't!!..." Adam sprinted out the door and back towards home.
Sara and Joy puttered around the kitchen fixing breakfast, dark circles under both of their eyes. Neither woman had gotten much sleep worrying about Gil and Alex.
"Can I help you young man?" they heard Office Laford outside ask.
"I need to speak to Mrs. Grissom, it's important."
Sara and Joy looked at each other before rushing to the door, Sara yanking the door open to see the young boy.
"Andrew?"
Andrew turned from the officer to look at Sara.
"Mrs. Grissom....I know where Alex is."
TBC...
A/N: Uh Oh!! Looks like somebody broke their promise. Do you think he did the right thing in going back on his promise? What do you think will happen next? Do you think Sawyer is getting pretty cocky, so certain that he'll make Grissom's family his own? I'd like to thank gsrgirl4eva for letting me use her spelling idea for one of Alex's attempts at the word "suspicious". Also the street name(a street I travel on often) is pronounce (Holt-shear). I hope this chapter was worth the long wait. I apologize again for the delay. Reviews are greatly appreciated.
~Neelloc12~