1:16 am

Back at the Crime Lab.



Warrick sat down across from the lab rat Greg and raised an eyebrow, "No rock music, no magazines, no wearing evidence? I take it you heard about Sara."

Greg nodded glumly, "Who badly was Amy injured when you guys saw her?"

Warrick sighed sadly, "It was pretty bad, Couple broken ribs I'd say, she was bleeding heavily from a wound on her leg."

Greg shook his head, Warrick was certain that he had never seen the lab rat this serious before, it was proof about just how worried he was.

"Don't worry Greggo," Warrick said, "Sara will be fine." He looked around, "Got the results on that blood we got at the warehouse yet?"

"Yup." the lab rat pulled a sheet of paper out of the printer, "It matches Amy's, just like you thought it would. I compared the results from the warehouse from the different samples you and Sara took from the Anderson house. Some of the blood matches Amy's, some matches William Anderson and some of it matches Philip Morrisons but a lot of it is unknown."

"So Grissom was right..." Warrick said thoughtfully, "That room was the execution place."

"The fibres found in William Anderson's wounds are your everyday rope fibres, the kind used to hold up a tire swing. Can be found at any old hardware store."

"Great, Thanks Greggo!" Warrick said almost happily, "And don't worry it'll all turn out fine."

Back in Grissom's office Catherine, Nick and Grissom waited slightly impatiently for Warrick to arrive with the results of the blood samples. Tension ran high in the office, no one knew what to say, trying to comfort each other was a pointless waste of time. Everyone knew that Sara wouldn't be harmed, and if she was the chances of it being permanent were slight. But Amy... Warrick and Catherine had both seen it, she was bleeding badly, Steve Anderson had tortured her into talking when she had no idea what he wanted.

"Hey guys." Warrick said as he came in to the office.

"Hey, took your time." Nick said quietly.

"Not my fault the lab is backed up with work. Besides Im here now..." He tossed the file folder down in front of Grissom, "Blood in the room matches Amy's, there's also some of Morrisons and William Anderson's blood plus some unknown."

"So... what do we have?" Catherine asked quietly, "Blood samples that lead us in a circle and a key. How can we work with that?"

Grissom did a facial shrug, "We can't... all we can hope to do is go back to the crime scenes and look for any more evidence we may have missed."

"I still can't believe they took Sara..." Warrick muttered, "Damn, we should have done something...anything."

"There was nothing you could do." Grissom said quietly "Not without risking Amy's life. Besides, Sara didn't have to go with them. She's a strong CSI, she'll be fine."

Nick ignored that comment, "So... what do we do? Go back to the Walker house?"

"Looks like it," Warrick said, "Meet you guys out in the parking lot." Warrick and Nick left Grissom's office but Catherine stayed sitting where she was.

"What?" Grissom asked sharply.

"Do you have any emotions at all?" Catherine demanded in a dangerously quiet voice, "Sara has been kidnapped..."

"And Brass has an APB out on her..."

"A innocent 14 year old girl has been tortured, seen her father murdered and who knows what else, and we can't find her." Catherine said quietly, "Don't you feel anything about it?"

But Grissom couldn't find the right reply to this. Catherine stood up and turned her back to the supervisor, "I think Sara was right, I don't think you can feel anything."

She was gone, leaving Grissom in his office with nothing but his thoughts.