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Nick and Warrick called Officer Ply and arranged to meet at the new family's home.

They still had not received any other information about the victim. However, now they could not be reached they were out of cell phone range again.

Nick and Warrick and Officer Ply all walked up the front steps of the two story house. Officer Ply knocked on the door and a bald headed older man with a full beard answered the door. Even though Owen had changed his appearance, both Nick and Warrick recognized him and immediately withdrew there weapons, and demanded for him to keep his hands in the air.

Officer Ply saw the two CSI's draw there weapons and drew his also. Warrick then stated this was Owen Abbot he was wanted to two counts of kidnapping and two counts of murder.

"Where are the kids? Stephanie, Max!!!" Nick demanded.

Officer Ply had already put Owen in handcuffs.

Warrick grabbed Nick's gun and forced him to put it down.

"Nick, he is not worth it. Let's find the kids, Sara and Stephanie need you."

Nick placed his gun back into his holster.

"The kids, those ungrateful little brats. I get them a mom and I give them a perfect home and they get there new mom killed and they run away. Hopefully they will get what is coming to them." Owen yelled and laughed.

Before anything else was said officer Ply read Owen his rights. The last thing the young officer wanted was for this man to get off on a technical detail.

Nick and Warrick immediately took off looking through the house.

"Stephanie, Max" Nick called out over and over again.

Warrick ran up the stairs and came upon three bedrooms.

One was for a couple it must have been Owen's room then Warrick saw the picture of Sadie, their victim. Warrick then continues onto the other rooms.

The next one must have been Stephanie's it was purple and set up as a girl's room. Warrick noticed the bathroom and saw it was a jack and jill set up. He went through the other door and came upon a boy's room. However there were no children in the rooms.

He had to wonder if the kids did run away when did they leave and how did they leave did they have any supplies? The Nevada desert was not friendly; they needed to find the kids as soon as possible.

Warrick met Nick back downstairs and together they went to the cruiser and demanded to know when the kids left?

Owen laughed "You want to know, well why should I tell you, if they can not be with me then they deserve to die."

Warrick grabbed Nick as he launched at Owen.

"YOU BASTARD, THEY ARE JUST KIDS!!!!" Nick screamed.

"Nick lets see if we can find any footprints telling us which way they went."

"I will call to get Fallon Naval Air Station search and rescue out here to help." Officer Ply stated.

Just then they heard another vehicle coming up the road. Nick and Warrick recognized it was Catherine's Denali followed by a black sedan which they recognized as FBI.

Catherine could see Nick and Warrick and the local PD's car. However she did not see the kids. Catherine and Jordan had found out that the women Nick and Warrick were working on had been married to Owen Abbot while he was in prison the last two years he was incarcerated. Sadie had bought this house she had never changed her name from Nelson. However, according to the prison records she visited Owen daily till about six months before he got out. She had bought the house about that time.

Catherine and Jordan and the FBI left Vegas as soon as they realized that Owen and the kids maybe in there own backyard as they had suspected. Catherine and Jordan both wanted to know why Sadie had not come up when they were looking for Owen before. How could they have missed her?

Catherine, Jordan and Heidi got out of their cars as they arrived to where they guys were.

"Nick, Warrick, I see we have Owen, where are the kids?" Catherine asked.

"He said they ran away, we believe he killed Sadie, I just really hope the kids did run away. We are looking to see if we can find any footprints leading from the house to see which way they went. They also called in the search and rescue people." Warrick offered.

"Does Sara know anything?" Nick asked.

"Nick, you know we can not tell her, and since you are now engaged you need to step away also, you are too close." Catherine tried to tell Nick as gently as she could, however she knew it would not do much good as she would not stop when Lindsey was kidnapped.

"Catherine, I will not touch the evidence however I have to help look for her. She has to be scared. I want to be able to bring her back to Sara." Nick pleaded.

"The more people helping to look the better, I will take the suspect and book him the search and rescue team are on there way and we have called in our local volunteers for search and rescue." Officer Ply stated. "I will be back in an hour."

"I will go with you, I will arrange for Federal Marshalls to meet us and take Owen to a Federal holding area. Since he took a child across state lines it is a federal case for the kidnapping we will be adding the murder charges also." Heidi stated.

Jordan had joined Warrick in searching for foot prints; they noticed there were two sets of footprints. However they disappeared into a few thousand feet from the house. The kids had set off the opposite direction from civilization. They were heading into the desert.

Catherine grabbed her satellite phone which had reception in this area and called Officer Ply to let him know where the search team needed to go look.

Within an hour, three helicopters from the Naval Air Station were circling the area. They were creating a search grid on the ground also. Thirty people joined the team many of them brought there four wheelers with them, helping cover the area faster.

Back in Las Vegas

"Grissom, come on I know something is going on? Catherine and Jordan took out of here like a bat out of hell. Please you need to tell me." Sara was near tears as she asked this.

"Sara, all I can say is you need to wait, you know leads do not always pan out. I would not want you to get your hopes up. Need I remind you we have a case?" Grissom had never seen Sara so emotionally fragile not even when she was she told him about her mother murdering her father. "Sar, is their something you need to tell me, are you pregnant?"

"GRISSOM! I can not believe you would even ask, you of all people. Nick and I are getting married, however just because we are does not mean we are teenagers that made a mistake and now are trying to hide it. Even if I would be pregnant I would tell him before you or anyone else. I will be in trace working on the case if you need me, BOSS!" Then Sara stormed out of his office nearly knocking Greg and Sofia over.

"So Gris I take it you would not tell Sara anything about the search in Rachel?" Sofia asked.

"Yeah, and well, anyways what have you heard from Catherine?"

"They called out search and rescue to look for the kids; it seems they may have run away trying to escape. Owen is now in federal custody. They say either he is crazy or is playing the crazy card. They are bringing in the cadets to go search in Rachel. However they do not know for how long the kids have been gone or if they are not dead like Sadie. Owen has admitted to killing her and Stephanie's parents though." Sofia stated.

"Did he say he killed the kids or what?" Sara asked in a very controlled voice.

"Sara, you…" Gris was interrupted by Sofia

"Sara he said the kids ran away, the house had 2 rooms for the kids with no locks to keep them in the house or rooms. The kids appeared to be well taken care of based on the rooms and food in the house. However I assume the kids wanted to be with their parents so they probably are trying to come home." Sofia told her, the information she gave her did not compromise the case and it gave Sara some much needed information.

"Sofia thanks, I needed to know something. Is Nick there?"

"Yes, he is helping to look for her, along with the Navy search and rescue." Sara smiled then walked off to trace.

"Grissom you had not told her anything? Come on you know it will be on the major news by the next hour. Just hopefully we can get the kids and have them safe at home before the next few days." Greg added as he walked away to go see if Sara was ok in trace.

Time Lapse

The longest twenty-four hours in her life passed she received several calls from Nick saying they were still searching. They had come across a couple water bottles and had sent them for DNA and fingerprint analysis. Hopefully they were Max and Steph's.

The search and rescue were using infra red at night to look however they had not found anything yet. However if the kids were in a rock cave they would not pick them up.

Just thirty six hours into the search suddenly there was lots of radio chatter. One on the Navy rescue teams had spotted something and was returning with the load, and ordered to take the load to Nellis AFB. They would be going directly there after picking up the load.

Nick, Warrick, Catherine and Jordan all headed for there Denali's lucky today they had decided to collect further evidence in the Sadie case, they were going to make sure Owen was never released.

Nick and Warrick left Catherine and Jordan in the dust. Warrick beat Nick to the driver's seat. However Nick was impressed Warrick was driving faster than he would have gone.

Nick prayed the load being picked up was warm and pink and fine. He knew Sara would be called and told to arrive to the base also. Hopefully Greg, Sophia, Brass and Grissom would help keep her calm till they all arrived.

Warrick pushed the Denali to top speeds he was impressed it could go 120 mph and still drove like it was going 60-75mph.

Nick and Warrick arrived at Nellis in record time it took them 1 hour 20 minutes instead of the little over 2 hours it should have taken.

When they arrived at the gate, they showed there CSI badge and told them they were in the missing children's case and the package was being delivered by the Navy search and rescue. The guard at the gate had been informed about the CSI's coming and told them to park in the lot across the road and they would be escorted in along with everyone else.

Nick then saw Sara getting out of Sofia's car. Warrick parked quickly over in the parking lot and Nick jumped out and gave Sara a hug.

"Are you ok?" Nick asked as he gave her a kiss.

"I will be as soon as we see her. Nick is she ok? They would not tell us anything. I am really scared." Sara said as she hid back the tears.

It was now 8 weeks that Steph had been missing. So many things had happen in the eight weeks also, Sara and Nick realized they loved each other and now bought a house and were getting married. Now they were waiting to find out if Sara's daughter was alive.

"My name is Major Lance I will be taking you all into the hospital. I need everyone to fill out this paper and then we will board the bus."

Everyone filled out the paper and boarded the bus, the news media arrived as they boarded.

"Nick did I ever tell you how much I hate the media?" Sara sighed and leaned into his shoulder as they sat on the bus with black out windows.

"I know what you mean darling."

The bus ride was only 10 minutes however it felt like an eternity. They got off the bus and they were escorted into a large private waiting room.

"A doctor will be here soon to talk to you." A young airman stated as she showed them into the waiting area...

Grissom, Nick, Sara, Sofia, Greg and Brass all waited in the room. They had informed the Major Jordan and Catherine would be coming in about an hour and so would Max's family.

Just then the door opened. (Ok yes I am evil promise to finish this in a few days,)