Ch 10
"Okay Adam you're gonna stay here with John and process the evidence I found in that room. Maria you can go back and look for any kind of evidence that I might have missed take a guard with you no arguments. Sara you're gonna come with me to question Patrick's Mom and step dad." Warrick had requested help from the dayshift since there were only two nightshift people left able to work.
Lorelai ran up two Warrick right as everyone was just about to go about their different assignments.
"Why aren't I on this case?" she asked out of breath, there was a hint of anger in her voice.
"Because you're to personally involved it would hurt the case." He replied in a soothing voice apparently trying to calm her down.
"Like you aren't personally involved! And Sara for that matter!" she started yelling.
"Look if you promise me no swear to me that you won't do anything with this case that you wouldn't do for any other and I'll let you on it."
"I swear and you won't regret it." she said gratitude replacing the anger in her voice.
"Alright go catch up with Maria and look over that scene."
"Thank you so much." She said walking out the door.
She didn't have to walk very far to catch up with Maria because they had all been listening in their conversation with their ears up to the door.
When Lorelai opened the door she hit every single one of them in the head. She took no notice to this however and nodded for Maria to come with her.
~*~
It was a Saturday and they couldn't find a single soul to watch Lindsey.
Hodges pretended to sulk and be unhappy about having to watch the little girl the whole time but he really liked having some one around who was fascinated by everything he told her as long as he didn't go to deep into detail.
Warrick walked in the room where Hodges and Lindsey where sitting playing chess.
"Checkmate I win" came Lindsey voice as she stood up to stretch.
"I never did like this game." Hodges said standing up also.
"Oh hi Warrick do you wanna play?" she asked giving her innocent you cant say no to me I'm to cute face.
"No sweetie but I need to talk to you about something." He answered and Hodges took his cue to leave for awhile.
"I'm gonna go get some drinks I'll be right back. He passed Sara in the hallway she was waiting on Warrick so they could go interrogate the witnesses. She didn't seem to notice anyone had entered the hall.
"Lindsey why don't you come sit down with me." Warrick was saying.
"Are you going to tell me why Mommy hasn't come for me?" she asked.
Sometimes she's just to smart for her own good he thought. "Yes, you see an inmate who disliked one of the people here very much escaped a few weeks ago." He started.
"That's the important case you've been working on right?"
"Yes and this inmate he kidnapped one of the workers here." He started again.
"It was Greg right I heard you talking about it in the hall."
"Yes and you're Mom found out where Greg was being kept. She tried to save him but the man that escaped from prison kidnapped her too. That's why she hasn't come for you." Warrick finished softly.
"But you're gonna find her right?" she asked looking up at him a slight waver in her voice.
"Come here." He said and she curled up in his arms softly crying. "I will do everything humanly possible to find her. You can count on me."
When she had finished crying he wiped away the tears still running down her face.
"Now I've gotta go work on finding you're Mom." He kissed her on the forehead and left.
No sooner had he come out the door David came running up to him and Sara. He was panting horribly and they could hardly make out what he was saying "I know- I know where- Patrick is- hiding," he wheezed out.
"What!" both Sara and Warrick yelled at the same time.
"He told me when he came to work here that he rented an apartment across the street!" he said clutching a stitch at his side.
"We've gotta find Brass David stay here with Lindsey until Hodges gets back." Warrick said and they both sprinted off to find Brass.
When Warrick had come out of the room no one had noticed that he hadn't shut the door properly. But Lindsey did, she heard every word uttered between them. She wasn't going to sit here when her mother was right across the street. She knew Warrick would find her but she wanted to see her now. So while they where still talking she slipped out into the hall right past them.
David sighed and walked into the room where Lindsey was supposed to be waiting patiently. But she wasn't waiting there patiently. She wasn't there at all.
He started to panic 'oh my god I've lost her' he thought looking everywhere around the room a little girl could hide. He passed the window and did one of those double takes cartoon characters always did. She was outside crossing the street! She must have overheard his conversation with Warrick and Sara!
He ran down the hall faster than any track runner could. He stopped at the elevators but they were taking to damn long so he sprinted down the stairs. Finally he was out side. But he didn't see her any where.
She must already be in the building! The sign said "Don't Walk" but he didn't care he weaved through the traffic almost getting hit a thousand or more times. Horns were honking all down the street.
He ran in the building just in time to see the elevator doors closing with her inside. 'oh great stairs again' and once again he took off running up the stairs almost knocking over someone bringing down their laundry.
He got to the top of the stairs and saw to his amazement Lindsey picking the lock. In a total of two seconds she had it open and was walking in. His mind reeled and he sprinted after her. He made it to the door just before it closed 'oh thank god' he thought having a hard time breathing.
~*~
Lindsey walked into the apartment that the man at the desk said belonged to Patrick Collins.
She could hear muffled voices and thought that it must be her mom and Greg talking, calling for help she couldn't tell which.
This was by far the nastiest apartment she had ever been in, there where roaches and rats and not a stitch of furniture. She walked around the room trying to follow the voices. She opened the closet door to find it empty but the voices were so much louder here.
She kicked the wall in frustration and I creaked opened just like in Nick's house. She heard someone come into the room and ran in through the door in the closet.
There was her Mom sitting against the wall next to Greg both staring blankly at her. Catherine seemed to break out of her trance and she jumped up and ran to her pulling her into the biggest hug ever.
"Mommy I know I shouldn't have come but I wanted to see you so bad."
"Lindsey honey I love you so much how did you get here?" Catherine asked
"I walked it's right across the street from the lab." She answered.
"Lindsey you have to back right now." Just then David walked in.
"Catherine, Greg, Lindsey!" he panted.
"Come on we have to go, Warrick and Sara went to find Brass they'll be here soon."
"So long as I'm here I might as well get you out with me." he smiled.
"But David look at these on our wrist we can't go." Catherine said showing him her iron bracelet.
He grabbed her wrist, muttered something, and pulled a small metal rod out of his pocket. He turned her hand over 'a ha' he thought and stuck the rod into a small hole that Catherine hadn't seen.
The bracelet clicked open and fell to the floor. She just stared at him and he went and did the same with Greg's Bracelet.
"All right now help me left him he's hurt." Catherine ran over and together they got him in a standing position.
"I feel like a rag doll." Greg said as they half carried him through the door.
With some difficulty they managed to help him hobble out the closet door with Lindsey trailing behind like a little puppy.
They were getting closer to the door. Almost there. Then none other then Patrick himself came in holding a gun.
He wasn't surprised to see them out or to see David and Lindsey.
"The cops are outside. I came up here to finish you off before they get here. I don't care anymore if I'm caught now but I had to finish this make Nick as miserable as possible knowing that you all died because of him." He had this mad glint in his eyes and they all knew his sanity had finally tipped over the edge completely.
"So who wants to go first? I could pop off the little girl first if you'd like." he said twirling one of Lindsey's curls with the end of his gun.
She whimpered.
"What's that you say little girl you want to go first? Okay always happy to do a lady's will." He said stepping back and pulling the trigger.
~*~
The apartment building was surrounded by patrol cars. Warrick Sara and Brass waited for the signal to go in.
They didn't have to wait because all of the sudden they heard a shot fired and people inside the building were screaming.
No one waited for orders SWAT swarmed in followed By Sara, Warrick, and Brass.
Within no time they were up the stairs and watched as two of the SWAT men kicked open the door. When they entered Catherine was sitting in a corner holding Lindsey, Greg and David where laying on the floor a pool of blood forming underneath David.
Greg appeared to be unconscious but the paramedic felt for David's pulse and shook his head no. David had taken the bullet for Lindsey jumped in front of her just in time. The effort killed him he had known it would. It felt like slow motion had taken effect from the time Patrick pulled the trigger to the time David fell to the floor.
He told Lindsey just before he died that it wasn't her fault.
When Patrick saw SWAT coming up he threw down the gun and tried to run for it but Catherine wasn't going to let him. She picked up the gun followed him and shot him in the head as he climbed down the fire escape.
He fell to the Ground with a loud thud. Then she had walked back to were Lindsey was and held her nothing she said would make anything better so she just held her.
"Catherine, Lindsey are you okay?" Warrick's voice brought her back from her flashback. She just looked at him as the paramedics carried Greg out on a stretcher. He kissed her on the lips and then let the paramedics do their job. Lindsey appeared unhurt physically but Catherine had suffered a minor concussion and Greg was in pretty bad shape but would be fine. Time heals all wounds right?
A/N: Yes I'm going to right an epilogue. I had planned on a few more chapters but I came up with the Lindsey idea and ran with it and well this is where it ended up. Thank you for all of your reviews and E-mails I couldn't have done this without them. After the Epilogue I'll be posting the names of all the people who reviewed and emailed me about my story. A little something I'm copying from my aunt trace-element I'm sure she doesn't mind by the way thanks Lynndy for helping look up weird disorders and stuff for Patrick and all the other help you gave me.
"Okay Adam you're gonna stay here with John and process the evidence I found in that room. Maria you can go back and look for any kind of evidence that I might have missed take a guard with you no arguments. Sara you're gonna come with me to question Patrick's Mom and step dad." Warrick had requested help from the dayshift since there were only two nightshift people left able to work.
Lorelai ran up two Warrick right as everyone was just about to go about their different assignments.
"Why aren't I on this case?" she asked out of breath, there was a hint of anger in her voice.
"Because you're to personally involved it would hurt the case." He replied in a soothing voice apparently trying to calm her down.
"Like you aren't personally involved! And Sara for that matter!" she started yelling.
"Look if you promise me no swear to me that you won't do anything with this case that you wouldn't do for any other and I'll let you on it."
"I swear and you won't regret it." she said gratitude replacing the anger in her voice.
"Alright go catch up with Maria and look over that scene."
"Thank you so much." She said walking out the door.
She didn't have to walk very far to catch up with Maria because they had all been listening in their conversation with their ears up to the door.
When Lorelai opened the door she hit every single one of them in the head. She took no notice to this however and nodded for Maria to come with her.
~*~
It was a Saturday and they couldn't find a single soul to watch Lindsey.
Hodges pretended to sulk and be unhappy about having to watch the little girl the whole time but he really liked having some one around who was fascinated by everything he told her as long as he didn't go to deep into detail.
Warrick walked in the room where Hodges and Lindsey where sitting playing chess.
"Checkmate I win" came Lindsey voice as she stood up to stretch.
"I never did like this game." Hodges said standing up also.
"Oh hi Warrick do you wanna play?" she asked giving her innocent you cant say no to me I'm to cute face.
"No sweetie but I need to talk to you about something." He answered and Hodges took his cue to leave for awhile.
"I'm gonna go get some drinks I'll be right back. He passed Sara in the hallway she was waiting on Warrick so they could go interrogate the witnesses. She didn't seem to notice anyone had entered the hall.
"Lindsey why don't you come sit down with me." Warrick was saying.
"Are you going to tell me why Mommy hasn't come for me?" she asked.
Sometimes she's just to smart for her own good he thought. "Yes, you see an inmate who disliked one of the people here very much escaped a few weeks ago." He started.
"That's the important case you've been working on right?"
"Yes and this inmate he kidnapped one of the workers here." He started again.
"It was Greg right I heard you talking about it in the hall."
"Yes and you're Mom found out where Greg was being kept. She tried to save him but the man that escaped from prison kidnapped her too. That's why she hasn't come for you." Warrick finished softly.
"But you're gonna find her right?" she asked looking up at him a slight waver in her voice.
"Come here." He said and she curled up in his arms softly crying. "I will do everything humanly possible to find her. You can count on me."
When she had finished crying he wiped away the tears still running down her face.
"Now I've gotta go work on finding you're Mom." He kissed her on the forehead and left.
No sooner had he come out the door David came running up to him and Sara. He was panting horribly and they could hardly make out what he was saying "I know- I know where- Patrick is- hiding," he wheezed out.
"What!" both Sara and Warrick yelled at the same time.
"He told me when he came to work here that he rented an apartment across the street!" he said clutching a stitch at his side.
"We've gotta find Brass David stay here with Lindsey until Hodges gets back." Warrick said and they both sprinted off to find Brass.
When Warrick had come out of the room no one had noticed that he hadn't shut the door properly. But Lindsey did, she heard every word uttered between them. She wasn't going to sit here when her mother was right across the street. She knew Warrick would find her but she wanted to see her now. So while they where still talking she slipped out into the hall right past them.
David sighed and walked into the room where Lindsey was supposed to be waiting patiently. But she wasn't waiting there patiently. She wasn't there at all.
He started to panic 'oh my god I've lost her' he thought looking everywhere around the room a little girl could hide. He passed the window and did one of those double takes cartoon characters always did. She was outside crossing the street! She must have overheard his conversation with Warrick and Sara!
He ran down the hall faster than any track runner could. He stopped at the elevators but they were taking to damn long so he sprinted down the stairs. Finally he was out side. But he didn't see her any where.
She must already be in the building! The sign said "Don't Walk" but he didn't care he weaved through the traffic almost getting hit a thousand or more times. Horns were honking all down the street.
He ran in the building just in time to see the elevator doors closing with her inside. 'oh great stairs again' and once again he took off running up the stairs almost knocking over someone bringing down their laundry.
He got to the top of the stairs and saw to his amazement Lindsey picking the lock. In a total of two seconds she had it open and was walking in. His mind reeled and he sprinted after her. He made it to the door just before it closed 'oh thank god' he thought having a hard time breathing.
~*~
Lindsey walked into the apartment that the man at the desk said belonged to Patrick Collins.
She could hear muffled voices and thought that it must be her mom and Greg talking, calling for help she couldn't tell which.
This was by far the nastiest apartment she had ever been in, there where roaches and rats and not a stitch of furniture. She walked around the room trying to follow the voices. She opened the closet door to find it empty but the voices were so much louder here.
She kicked the wall in frustration and I creaked opened just like in Nick's house. She heard someone come into the room and ran in through the door in the closet.
There was her Mom sitting against the wall next to Greg both staring blankly at her. Catherine seemed to break out of her trance and she jumped up and ran to her pulling her into the biggest hug ever.
"Mommy I know I shouldn't have come but I wanted to see you so bad."
"Lindsey honey I love you so much how did you get here?" Catherine asked
"I walked it's right across the street from the lab." She answered.
"Lindsey you have to back right now." Just then David walked in.
"Catherine, Greg, Lindsey!" he panted.
"Come on we have to go, Warrick and Sara went to find Brass they'll be here soon."
"So long as I'm here I might as well get you out with me." he smiled.
"But David look at these on our wrist we can't go." Catherine said showing him her iron bracelet.
He grabbed her wrist, muttered something, and pulled a small metal rod out of his pocket. He turned her hand over 'a ha' he thought and stuck the rod into a small hole that Catherine hadn't seen.
The bracelet clicked open and fell to the floor. She just stared at him and he went and did the same with Greg's Bracelet.
"All right now help me left him he's hurt." Catherine ran over and together they got him in a standing position.
"I feel like a rag doll." Greg said as they half carried him through the door.
With some difficulty they managed to help him hobble out the closet door with Lindsey trailing behind like a little puppy.
They were getting closer to the door. Almost there. Then none other then Patrick himself came in holding a gun.
He wasn't surprised to see them out or to see David and Lindsey.
"The cops are outside. I came up here to finish you off before they get here. I don't care anymore if I'm caught now but I had to finish this make Nick as miserable as possible knowing that you all died because of him." He had this mad glint in his eyes and they all knew his sanity had finally tipped over the edge completely.
"So who wants to go first? I could pop off the little girl first if you'd like." he said twirling one of Lindsey's curls with the end of his gun.
She whimpered.
"What's that you say little girl you want to go first? Okay always happy to do a lady's will." He said stepping back and pulling the trigger.
~*~
The apartment building was surrounded by patrol cars. Warrick Sara and Brass waited for the signal to go in.
They didn't have to wait because all of the sudden they heard a shot fired and people inside the building were screaming.
No one waited for orders SWAT swarmed in followed By Sara, Warrick, and Brass.
Within no time they were up the stairs and watched as two of the SWAT men kicked open the door. When they entered Catherine was sitting in a corner holding Lindsey, Greg and David where laying on the floor a pool of blood forming underneath David.
Greg appeared to be unconscious but the paramedic felt for David's pulse and shook his head no. David had taken the bullet for Lindsey jumped in front of her just in time. The effort killed him he had known it would. It felt like slow motion had taken effect from the time Patrick pulled the trigger to the time David fell to the floor.
He told Lindsey just before he died that it wasn't her fault.
When Patrick saw SWAT coming up he threw down the gun and tried to run for it but Catherine wasn't going to let him. She picked up the gun followed him and shot him in the head as he climbed down the fire escape.
He fell to the Ground with a loud thud. Then she had walked back to were Lindsey was and held her nothing she said would make anything better so she just held her.
"Catherine, Lindsey are you okay?" Warrick's voice brought her back from her flashback. She just looked at him as the paramedics carried Greg out on a stretcher. He kissed her on the lips and then let the paramedics do their job. Lindsey appeared unhurt physically but Catherine had suffered a minor concussion and Greg was in pretty bad shape but would be fine. Time heals all wounds right?
A/N: Yes I'm going to right an epilogue. I had planned on a few more chapters but I came up with the Lindsey idea and ran with it and well this is where it ended up. Thank you for all of your reviews and E-mails I couldn't have done this without them. After the Epilogue I'll be posting the names of all the people who reviewed and emailed me about my story. A little something I'm copying from my aunt trace-element I'm sure she doesn't mind by the way thanks Lynndy for helping look up weird disorders and stuff for Patrick and all the other help you gave me.