AN: I don't own any of the CSI:NY Characters or any of the show's storylines that I may refer to from time to time, but the rest of the plot is mine.

10. The Crime Scene

Stella looked at Don, she knew he was partly blaming himself for letting things get out of hand, but underneath he was scared. She stopped him pacing and placed her hand on his arm.

"We'll find her, they won't get far. Danny take the trash can see if he's left anything besides Laura's purse. Don think did she get anything we can use?"

Don ran his hand through his hair and cursed. He couldn't remember what was said, everything was a blur. "It all happened so fast, it's all my fault, I should have insisted I went with her, we knew she was a target!" He ranted.

Stella squeezed his arm bringing his focus back. "We didn't expect anything from one of her team. Who was she meeting?" Don tried to think, "I don't know" all he could think about was finding her like they had Charlotte the day before. Then it hit him the name association. "She called him Charlie, his boss wanted to meet with her". Stella could tell he was trying to focus, "I need you to think, did they use any other names?" Don looked around as if he expected to find the answer at the scene. It was eluding him. "Qwin, Kwong, something like that it'll be on the tape."

Stella nodded she took his radio. "This is Bonasera, I want the wire tape sent straight to Sheldon Hawkes at the crime lab for analysis. Time is critical Detective Stevens is missing, looks like she was abducted."

Don turned and leant on the wall, trying not to throw up, his stomach churning his heart still pounding, he had never felt so useless. Danny had now retrieved Laura's purse with her gun and ID and the wire recorder from the trashcan along with a few other items. Don turned his head as Danny spoke.

"I think she put up a fight, the straps broken on her purse and I don't think she walked out of here. Smells like chloroform" He held up a handkerchief, Stella sniffed it. "Bag it, see what else you can find I'll take a look outside." Just then the radio crackled "All units the Atlantic city bus is clear, no sign of Detective Stevens, we've let it go."

Don suddenly pushed himself off the wall and thrust open the door to the garage making it hit the wall as he went through, Stella followed.

"Someone better start talking here, we have a missing detective that didn't leave this gate voluntarily so don't tell me you haven't seen anything! I want to know every detail of what happened here in the last 30 minutes!" He yelled causing everyone to look at him. The uniforms had met him before at scenes, and were surprised at his reaction to this one. Stella put a restraining hand on his arm again. "Don, we'll find her." He blew out a breath and deflated, half collapsing onto the kerb, Stella sat down with him.

"I'm scared Stell, what if its not in time? ... I told her she'd be ok, that nothing would happen." Stella looked at him. "She won't blame you for this, she'll blame herself for being talked into it by Charlie ... should you inform Gerrard?"

The mention of his boss was like an ice shower. He realised he would have to hold it together to have any hope of staying on the case. He stood up and stared at her "I am not getting pulled off this Stella, its my fault, I have to get her back, I'm going to check the CCTV, see if we get anything else." As he turned to leave Stella's phone rang. After a few moments she hung up.

"Adam cracked the last folder, he's found the code for 4 GPS trackers, he's running them now, but one is moving." Don looked at her. "Where is it?" Stella tried to break it gently. "A few blocks, he'll let us know when it stops."

Don felt like he couldn't breathe. "Is it Laura?" Stella shrugged "It's possible, equally it could be any of the undercover team."

"We should follow it." Stella stopped him, "Let's go over the CCTV first, it may give us something else to go on." Don wasn't convinced "But if its her they're getting away!" Stella stuck to her guns. "And by going now we could miss something important from the cameras! Adam will let us know where the signal goes." He nodded reluctantly.

In the Control room they reviewed the chain of events until everyone had disappeared into the zone with no camera coverage. Stella quizzed the operator about other exits and cameras from the corridor. He pointed out the service exit and brought up the camera at the exit door for the time period in question. They watched for a few minutes then Charlie and Laura appeared in the camera, she was obviously disoriented and unsteady on her feet, he propped her against the wall while he opened the door, she clearly put her hand on the wall and nudged him against the frame causing him to put his hand up as he helped her out. Don swore. Stella let out a gleeful yelp.

"Smart girl, she left us prints, we'll be able to ID Charlie!" She asked about external cameras at that exit, but wasn't impressed with the answer. She asked for copies of the recordings and the operator made them and handed over a couple of disks. Stella took her phone and called Danny and told them what they had found and that he should head for the exit and they would meet him there.

Danny packed up his kit and taking the evidence bags he had filled he followed Stella's instructions. He was lifting the final print when they arrived. Don watched Danny seal the print in the plastic.

"Danny please tell me you got something." Danny looked up at his friend, he tried to give him some encouragement "Sure have, she's a smart girl Donny, nice clear print from her and a pretty good partial palm and fingers from him." Stella gave Danny instructions to go back to the lab with the evidence and confirm an ID on Charlie. Danny asked if they were coming back.

"Not yet, Laura may still be in the area, we think she's carrying another tracker, where I don't know with her street clothes on."

"I do" Don paused. "I think, she's got this belly button piercing, Mark gave her a new thing for it last week, she's wearing it today, said she'd been keeping it for something special." Stella confirmed it was possible. Danny also added that the rhinestones on her jacket may be possible too. Stella agreed.

"OK, so we may have something, let's hope they don't find it. Danny get us results on that evidence ASAP".

Technology nowadays is great, but not sure if a tracker will fit in navel jewellery, but thought it sounded good!

I'm kind of on a roll with this at the moment, please keep reading.