I got to hurry before LA sees me writing. She is taking this story over, help me. Now I have to write this in secret, and it is almost working. Shit, here comes LA, well, bye.

Chapter 12

"Go ahead, open it," Caryn said to Grissom, "read it out loud for me," her mysterious ways returned.

Before he could begin, Nick, Warrick, and Greg walk into the room.

"Hey, you started the party without us!" Greg said.

"Sit!" Sara ordered Greg.

"Anything you say, sweetheart," he said, Greg sat down next to her. Sara slapped him as Nick and Warrick took their seats.

"Come on Grissom, I dare you to read it," Caryn said in her mysterious, I'm hiding something, look.

"If that's what you want," Grissom said.

"Just read it," Caryn ordered sharply.

"Ok," Grissom said, he opened the note. "Wherever you go, I go. I see whatever step you take, whatever breath you make. My eyes see your every move. And I will have you," Grissom red. The entire room was silent.

"Grissom," Warrick said softly, "I think we have a stalker."

"No kidding," Andi said, coming in.

The faces of the three girls go white.

"What are you doing in my office," Caryn asked, tension building in her voice.

"Relax," Andi sneered, "Al asked me to bring these results to Grissom and I saw him come over here."

"Then where are the results?" Caryn asked suspiciously.

"Right here," Andi said, handing Grissom a folder. "Now, before this tension kills me, I am leaving."

"Good," Caryn said, Andi left.

"Boy are you tense with your ex," Catherine said.

"Aren't you around yours?" Caryn asked.

"That's beside the point," Catherine replied, "Eddie was a jackass."

"Who's to say Andi is different," Caryn said.

"True," Catherine said, shrugging it off.

Grissom interrupted their little talk.

"Were you implying anything with that assuming comment?" Grissom demanded, Caryn looked surprised.

"Maybe, maybe not," she answered sweetly.

"That was random," Nick said.

"Yeah," Warrick said. Brass walked in.

"All right, who beeped me?" he asked.

"I did," Greg said, Caryn gave him an evil look.

"Traitor," Sara whispered to him.

"Look, Brass is a cop, if someone is getting notes like this," he said, pointing to the note in Grissom's hand, "he should be notified."

"Traitor," Sara said again.

"Notes like what?" Brass asked.

"Nothing," Caryn says, grabbing the notes and the flower and hiding them behind her back. "Ouch," she says, dropping them, "damn flower pricked me."

Brass walked over while she was distracted and picked up the notes. He read them. By the time Caryn figured out that he had them; Brass was done with the second letter.

"How many of these have you gotten?" he asked.

"Three, four, maybe five," Caryn said.

"Seven," Catherine coughed, only the three girls understood. They burst out laughing.

"Some threatening, others not," Caryn finished, Sara was covering Catherine's mouth with her hand.

"And why didn't I know about this?" Grissom asked. But before Caryn can answer his beeper beeps. "Something happened in the coroner's, Al's been attacked." There was a scrambling of chairs as everyone rushed out of the room. Caryn stops when her cell phone rings. Grissom turns around. She listens for a moment and then starts heading off. Grissom follows here.

Where is she going? He asks himself. She grabs her purse, jacket, and keys and heads towards the parking garage. Grissom follows but is silent so she can't hear them.

Could Al's attack be involved with this Grissom asked himself. Once in the garage, Caryn headed for her car; a black Saturn. A black shadow loomed in the corner. Grissom saw the gun in the shadow's hand.

"Caryn, look out!" he shouted. Caryn struggles with the car door. It finally opens. A shot was fired as Caryn dove into the car. Grissom saw her head out the other side. Grissom pulls his gun, but the shadow isn't there. Caryn ducks as another shot is fired at her. Grissom sees the shadow behind a car. Grissom fires at it but misses, hitting the car.

The shooter takes out another gun and begins shooting at Caryn some more, ignoring Grissom. He looked at where Caryn was and saw the rose in her hand and the blood.

"Caryn's profile was right," he says to himself. He sees Caryn get up and leave the safety of the car. She runs into the open, the shooter continues to shoot at her and Grissom closes his eyes and fires a random shot, when he opens them he sees the shadow limping away, clutching its arm. The next thing he sees is Caryn lying on the ground and a small pool of blood. Grissom takes out his cell phone and dials.

"Catherine, it's Grissom. Caryn's been shoot in the parking lot. Get an ambulance," he says.