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Chapter 25: Done Playing his game

Sara walks into PD with Russell, there was no way she was staying behind and everybody knew that. They met Brass in the hall and he looks at the two of them and said. "He confessed to setting up the bomb in the house because he wanted to do his own demolition so he could rebuild but denied any killings or kidnappings and claimed he didn't know anybody was in there and found out from the news at a convince store on who was in the house."

They had manipulated the media to make it seem like everybody had died in the house explosion to make him feel like he had won because they knew someway he would have found out and they didn't want him doing any sneak attacks just incase they didn't get him, they didn't want to take any chances.

Sara scoffed and said. "Yeah right and I am Santa Claus." Then she sighed and said. "We may have his confessing on endangering people." Brass nodded then Sara continued. "But I want him for attempted murder, murder and kidnapping, we know he did all of it." They guys nodded and Brass puts his hand on her shoulder to calm her down and Sara nodded in understanding then she sighed again and said. "I want to talk to him."

Brass nodded again and Sara looked at him a little surprised that she didn't have to beg to see him then he speaks looking at her shocked face. "When we got him and brought him in and after he told me about the bomb he asked for you then clammed up."

"Well he's got me."

She started walking toward the interrogation room but stopped when DB said her name, she turned around and he said. "Just try to keep your cool ok."

Sara nodded then turned and continued to walk to the interrogation room while she was trying to calm down. Brass and DB walked to the other room to watch the interrogation.

Sara gets to the door, pauses for a minute then opens the door and walks in.

The man sitting down in the chair in handcuffs looked up and saw Sara and right then she could tell Thomas was right about everything. The death of his brother had affected Aiden a lot through the two years he had been gone. His hair was longer, he had grown a beard, he looked older, really much older than he should have been, he had more lines on his face, his eyes were colder and dark looking, he lost weight and she knew that the only way he could have gotten Grissom or even Thomas for that matter was sedating them or he would have been over powered in an instant.

Sara shuts the door and walked fully into the room then walks over to the table so she is across from him but doesn't sit down.

Aiden who was still looking at her asked. "Aren't you going to sit down?"

Sara shakes her head and replied. "I don't plan on staying very long." Then she stopped and said sadly, trying to play the part of a grieving person. "I have some arrangements to make."

Aiden nodded in understanding and responded. "I guess I should give you my condolences. I saw on the news who died. I mean it's got to be pretty tough to live without the father of your child and your..." He pauses then finished with. "Special partner."

He looked into her eyes with that cold stare and a unwelcome and uncomfortable shiver ran down her back then she cleared her throat and continued acting like she was still sad and said. "Yeah it will be. Now I should know how you feel, that is how you wanted it right?"

He narrowed his eyes, slammed his fisted hand on the table then stood up. The cop took a step up to him but Sara puts her hand up to stop him and the cop stepped back. Aiden looked at her with anger in his eyes. "You'll never understand until you live years without them, wishing you could talk to them and say things that you never got to say."

She nodded and replied coldly. "Yeah and I'll never get to do that because of you."

He scoffed at that and went back to his calm state. "Like I told Mr. Brass I don't know anything about that. They all were just in the wrong place at the wrong time."

Sara narrowed her eyes, leaned forward and whispered. "Oh I'll have everything I need to tie you to the crimes you have committed, just wait."

He sits down with a confident smile and said. "Good luck with that."

Sara shakes her head and walks toward the door hoping he was so confident that his plan had worked that he would say something, anything could help her find Grissom and right as she thought that Aiden speaks. "It's difficult sometimes, isn't it?" She looks back at him and he continued with his cryptic message. "Wishing you can go back to the beginning and correct the mistakes you made so you can change the outcome?" Then he shakes his head, looked back at her and spoke again. "It doesn't feel to great being late when it matters the most, does it?" Aiden pauses then continued smirk. "I hope you have a good life with your daughter."

Sara narrowed her eyes at him again and said with a threatening voice. "And if you ever come near my daughter, you'll be more sorry than you are now."

He smiled and said. "Do I detect a threat?"

She opens the door, looks back at him and said. "No. It's a promise." As she walked out of the door he started laughing and she slammed the door behind her.

She puts the back of her head on the door trying to calm herself down again, it took a lot of restraint not to go after him but she knew playing cool like she did got what she wanted then she starts to smile thinking about the clue she got. It wasn't a straightforward location and she knew she would have to look behind the meaning of the words he used but solving puzzles is what she did and she was confident the answer was in there, somewhere.

DB and Brass walk out of the other room and walked up to her then Brass asked. "What the hell did that message mean?"

Sara opened her eyes looked at the men and said confidently. "It's about Grissom." They looked at her a little unsure and wondering how she came up with that but she shakes her head then continued. "I don't know the answer right now but I feel it in my gut that figuring out the meaning behind just one of those words will help me with the location of where he is at, I have to go." She walks away before the men could say anything else. They look at each other both knowing to never doubt Sara and her 'Grissom' feeling.

Thomas walks out of the bathroom after changing into his normal clothing that Sara had left for him. And although he wasn't a hundred percent better he was doing better than when he first got there so they discharged him but he wasn't going to leave the hospital until Aubrey get's to go too. He looks at her bed just as he thought about her and she was just waking up for the first time since she has been in here.

He walks up to the bed with a smile and said. "Hi sleepy head." She looked at him when she heard his voice but he was a little blurry because she wasn't wearing her glasses, he chuckles a little and said. "Hold on." He reached for her glasses on the table next to the bed, opened them up and puts them in place then he smiles bigger and said. "There you go, much better."

She smiles, cleared her throat and said. "Thank you." Her voice was a little scratchy and he winced at that so he grabbed a cup of water with a straw in it, helped her sit up and moves it over to her lips so she could take a few sips then she cleared her throat again and repeated her thanks.

He sets the cup down, nodded his head, took her hand and replied. "You are very welcome."

She smiles again and after another smile from him he looks down and she squeezes his hand and asked. "What's wrong?"

He looks back at her and asked. "Can I ask you something?" She nodded and he cleared his throat and continued. "When you were down there did he...did he touch you?" She shook her head 'no' with tears in her eyes, knowing what he was asking. He sighed in relief then brings his arms around her and holds her. After a few minutes he pulls back, kisses her on the forehead then her temple were a small bandage was hiding the small gash from hitting it on the door frame at her apartment then he whispered. "Thank god." A few more minutes he pulls back to look into her eyes and spoke again. "There is something else I have to say."

"Ok."

He cleared his throat and replied. "Your mother and sister are here." She gasped in shock then looked around the room but wasn't surprise she didn't see them or else they would have already said something then she looked back at him and he continued with a smile. "Carey went into early labor so your mother is with her right now, she said she will come back to visit later."

She nodded in understanding then she looked at him with sympathy and said. "They must have been horrible to you." She knew how they acted when they were worried so she knew he must have had a tough time with them.

He squeezed her hand, puts his free hand on her cheek and responded. "They didn't say things that I hadn't thought of myself, I don't deser..."

She puts a finger to his lips to stop him and said. "Don't talk like that. I think you very much deserve me. It's me that..." This time she gets cut off when he kissed her on the lips. They kissed softly then pulled back slowly.

He puts his forehead to hers and said. "Let's just say we deserve each other."

She chuckles and replied. "Ok." He pulls his forehead away from hers and gave her another little kiss when they pulled back they looked into each other's eyes for a few minutes in silence, thankful they made it out ok. Before any more words were said something caught the corner of Aubrey's eye so she looks toward the door, smiled and said. "Hi Sara."

Sara gives her a small smile back and said. "Sorry to interrupt." Aubrey waves it off and Sara walks in the room and said. "How are you feeling?"

She squeezed Thomas's hand, looks at him in the eyes while speaking. "I'm fine. Great actually."

Sara smiled with a nod then after a few moments of silence Sara speaks while looking at Thomas. "I was wondering if you could help me?"

Thomas nodded and replied. "Of course what do you need?" He pulls up the chair that was behind him, sits down but still had his hand in Aubrey's.

Sara cleared her throat and first caught him up by telling him everything that had happened after she left the hospital them when she was done with that she told him about the cryptic message Aiden had said and told him that she thinks Grissom's location is somewhere behind the meaning of one of those words.

After she finished, Thomas nodded and sighed knowing this wasn't going to be easy then they started to go over the cryptic message word for word after the third time going over it and them getting frustrated Aubrey speaks up. "What do you think about his meaning of going back to the Beginning?" They look at her and she looks down biting her lip, shyly. Thomas smiles and squeezes her hand to say it was ok to help then he looks back at Sara and she was mulling things over in her head, using that brain that he had always admired.

After five minutes Sara smiles and said. "I think I got it." She stops to clear her throat and continued. "When he mentioned if I wish I could go back to the beginning to change the outcome of something. I think it meant going back to the beginning of the Charles Whitefield case because if I could have changed the outcome of that case then none of what has been going now would have ever happened." She nods at her own answer then said with confidence as her smile was getting a bit bigger. "Grissom's location is in one of the three spots were we found Chad, Quinn and Blake." Her smile turned into a grin when she said her last sentence. "So it has to be the warehouse were I found his brother."

Thomas raised an eyebrow and asked. "You sure it would be that easy?"

She didn't hesitate when she nodded and replied. "Yes, because the locations were we found Chad and Quinn are in a more open area."

Thomas nodded and finished for her. "Which means a higher chance of somebody seeing Grissom and since all of this has been revolving around his brother that's the only answer."

Sara nodded glad he is now board then she shakes her head and said. "He wanted to kill Grissom the same place I found his dying brother." She looks at Aubrey, smiled at her and said. "Thank you." Aubrey smiled and nodded, glad she could help.

Then not wanting to waste anymore time Sara turns and starts walking only to stop when Thomas speaks. "Were are you going?"

She looks back at him and said. "Were do you think?"

"Not without me your not."

"Thomas you just got discharged. Are you sure you're up to it?"

"Yes, besides even though it's just a rescue mission you still need somebody to watch your back, just in case."

Sara thinks about it for a second and knew that she should always have somebody with her and she didn't have time to get anybody else so she said. "Ok, let's go."

Thomas nodded then looked at Aubrey and frowned now realizing he was being torn on either going or staying but Aubrey decided for him when she squeezed his hand and said. "Go get him so we can get done with this nightmare and plus its your duty to be there for a best friend/Team member." When he still didn't move she continued. "I'm sure my mom will be in here soon, I'll be fine."

He nodded with a little ease knowing she will have somebody with her then leaned toward her, pecks on the lips and said. "Love you."

He pulls back and she replied. "I love you too, be safe." He nodded kissed her on the forehead and as he released her hand Sara turned and started walking out of the room. He walks to the door, looks back one more time, winks at her and when he got that smile he wanted he turned and ran after Sara.

They get into the vehicle, slam their doors shut and Sara starts the vehicle then before he said anything she said. "Glove compartment."

She backs up while he open the glove compartment and smiles while taking out his gun for protection, just incase. He makes sure it's loaded and ready for use then looked at her and asked. "How did you know my locker combination?"

Sara smiles bigger while pulling out on the road and replied. "Come on, it doesn't take a genius with you to figure out that the numbers represent birthdays, 16, 25 and 14 which is mine, Isabella's and your mother's respectively, although you should change mine number to Aubrey's now." She smirks at him and he smiles then before he was going to ask something she talked again. "And before you ask how I knew you were coming no matter how much I dissuade you. I knew you would have come whether you were discharged or not and plus I had a feeling Aubrey would make sure you had my back."

He nods with a smile and chuckle then said. "And I always will and I just have to mention it's sometimes scary when you know my moves ahead of time."

She smiles again and just before it goes silent her phone rings. While she concentrates on the road she pull out her phone, hits speaker and said. "Sidle."

Brass on the other line. "We have some bad news, Aiden escaped."

"What!? How?"

Brass sighed and replied. "He had help with one of the newbies in the department and before we realized it, they were both gone. He is one slick bastard, he planned all of this and is still one step ahead of us."

Sara shakes her head and replied. "Not anymore I know were he is going." She hangs up before he could talk back, she didn't want to involve anybody else since she felt it was her responsibility to end this herself and plus she knew Thomas was the only backup she needed.

Thomas looked Sara and said. "Why would he let himself get caught so easily just to break out?"

Sara shook her head and replied. "Getting caught was the easiest and fastest way to look straight in my eyes to see if I really believe that you guys were gone and not to mention he wanted to taunt me face to face, he needed that satisfaction to continue and you have to admit it lowered our guard a little because we had him so he took a advantage of that."

Thomas nodded then speaks before she could continue. "And he will never understand that the light in your eyes will always be dim unless you know Grissom is safe and back with you, well played on that part even if it's an unconscious thing you do."

Sara does a small smile then continued with the point she was trying to make. "I believe he thought that once we found out that the third body in the house wasn't Grissom's I would be clinging on the hope that he is still alive. So breaking out wasn't about escaping and hiding it's about making sure the last part of his plan got completed. He wanted to get my hopes up just to crush me even more when we find Grissom's..." She stops before she finished that sentence and tried to stop the shiver from going down her spine when she about Grissom being dead then she shook her head from that thought, cleared her throat and continued. "He has nothing else to lose and that's what makes him so dangerous. I don't think he cares if he survives at the end of the day just as long as he did what he set out to accomplish, which is to hurt and mess with me emotionally and to make me suffer." She shakes her head and finished her sentence in a more bitter tone. "But all of that ends now. I am done playing his games." She pushes her foot down on the gas pedal to pick up a little more speed, knowing Grissom was still alive but time was running out.

Thomas looked at her but didn't speak, he knew you don't mess with Sara without expecting any wrath from her especially when it involved people she cared about the most, he just hopes they make it in time.

AN: Now that they know where they are going, Will they make it in time? Find out next chapter. Please review.