Chapter 10

Eric had just walked into the building after collecting all of the evidence from his crime scene down on the beach.

Paula, the desk clerk, called out, "Mr. Delko. I have a message here for you."

Eric walked up to the desk, "Thanks Paula." He stood back and started reading it.

Sara was running down the street. She turned around and saw the man chasing after her. Sara started to run faster. Calleigh wasn't moving. She was just lying there. "Come on Calleigh. Please get up and run. Please." she said to herself

Sara got so far away from him that he stopped chasing her. He started heading back towards Calleigh. Sara kept running. She saw a sign at the front of the building ahead that read 'Miami-Dade Police Department'.

She ran up to the building and burst through the doors, "Someone please help me." She started breaking down into tears once she knew she was safe. Eric came running over.

"What's wrong ma'am?" Eric asked helping her out.

"It's Calleigh...I need to talk to her boss. She's hurt. I don't know how bad." Sara was now crying and fell to the ground.

Eric helped her up, "It's okay, just calm down and breathe." Eric brought her over to a bench. "Just sit down and relax." He turned towards Paula. "Get Horatio in here now!"

Horatio, Grissom, and Nick sat in Horatio's office talking about what they were going to do. Horatio's cell rang. He picked it up.

"Horatio." He looked at the other men for a moment. "Okay, I'll be right down." He closed his phone and put it away.

Grissom and Nick looked at him for the news. "There's a woman downstairs screaming about Calleigh getting hurt. She looks like she's gone through a lot."

Horatio headed for the door. Grissom and Nick followed suit.

Once they walked out of the elevator, they immediately heard sobbing and a woman who was just blabbering everything. They walked over to where the voice was coming from.

As soon as the woman came into view. Grissom sighed and yelled, "Sara!."

Her head shot up as she heard a familiar voice. "Grissom! Thank god. The other girl, Calleigh, she's hurt. He shot at me but missed. She got shot. Griss, she got shot twice. I don't know where she was hit. She wasn't moving." She started breaking down into mass hysteria.

Horatio walked up, "I'm Horatio Caine. I'm the person you're looking for. Do you know where you were when she was shot."

She looked up and then out the front window. "I–I don't know. We jumped out of the truck and ran. He shot at us. The other girl fell down and told me to run straight and I would find this place." She pointed to the direction she came from. "I ran for 8 blocks maybe. I kept turning back to see how she was but she wasn't moving much. I heard another shot and looked back and–and she wasn't moving!" Sara put her head in her hands.

Horatio yelled to Eric, "Call for an ambulance." he then turned back to Sara. "Okay, Miss Sidle, I want you to go to the hospital to be checked for anything, okay?"

Sara took her head out of her hands, "I'm fine. I'm fine. We need to find Calleigh."

Grissom spoke up, "Don't worry. We will. You need to be checked out first," pointing out the marks on her wrists from the duct tape.

The ambulance came and Sara was lifted up into the gurney and sent out to the hospital.

Before she left, Sara looked down the street and saw the truck. She pointed down the street, "That truck. I was driven from Vegas in that. She came in later and we were driven around for a bit. I don't know where he was heading. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I should have done something. I should have gone back. I could have saved her." she started crying again and was loaded onto the ambulance and carried away to the hospital.

Horatio started walking down the street towards the truck Sara had pointed out. Grissom and Nick were right at his heels. They wanted to help find Calleigh as much as possible.