Title: Barely Existing
Author: Cindy Ryan
catagory: angst, Xover
pairings: Jack/Sam, Grissom/Sara
Summary: After 'Play with fire' Sara vanishes, Grissom calls in a favor
Notes: See part one. Thanks for the feedback. :)
The delivery guy arrived twenty minutes later with three brown bags of food. "Here you go."
"Thanks."Danny replied as he took the bags from him and set them on the table. He turned back to hand the teen some money.
"So how did the co-worker interviews go?"Sam asked after the delivery guy left.
"Pretty well."Jack replied as he moved to close the door. "But they didn't exactly reveal any new leads."
"I'll pull up their work records see if we get any hits."Sam stated as she pulled a laptop closer.
"The three names Grissom gave us amounted to nothing."Martin replied frustration clearly in his voice. "One's still incarcerated, one's dead and one had a solid alibi."
"How solid?"Vivian asked as she took a carton of Chinese food out of the bag.
"Solid.He was being arrested for leading the state cops on a three county chase."
"Why did he run?"Danny asked through a mouthful of food.
Martin smirked. "Expired license."
Jack looked at Vivian. "Was there anything on her computer?"
Vivian shook her head. "Most of the email was deleted. Techs are running it now to pull up deleted mail and any recent chat logs."
Jack nodded. "Good."he replied as he glanced at the white board.
The white board had three lines on it:
Explosion in DNA/Chem lab three weeks previous
Brown drops Sidle at home--12:15 am
Stokes discovers Sidle missing--7 am
"Maybe this was a random act."Sam commented as she keyed through the employment files. "Sara was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
"But random acts are sloppy."Danny protested. "Which is why this whole thing doesn't make any sense. If it was a random grab there would've been something left behind to work with. Piece of fabric, shoe print, finger print, something."
"We don't have the prints back from her apartment yet so we could get something from there."Jack stated as he reached for a carton of
food."Sometimes random acts get lucky.And it appears that this person was very lucky. But we're going to find a way to track them."
Vivian put down her fork as she looked at her boss. "She's been gone nearly twenty hours, Jack. If this was a random grab....."
"I know."Malone replied grimly. "But I have a feeling this case is going to beat the odds."
********
20 hours missing
8 pm
Catherine tapped lightly on Grissom's open office door. "Hey, you want to grab dinner?"
Grissom shook his head as he sat behind his desk. "Not hungry."
"Neither am I."Catherine replied as she stepped into the room. "But I can't take wandering around here much longer. It'll do both of us good to get out of here. The Feds have our cell numbers. They'll call us if they need something."
Grissom hesitated than nodded as he stood. "Alright. Let's go."
*******
Sara jerked awake so fast that her head connected with the cement ceiling of the small room she was in.
She hadn't meant to fall asleep. She didn't even remember doing so.
Sara blinked her eyes wearily against the pitch blackness of the room. She wished she knew what time it was. She had no idea how long she'd been stuck in here.
She had no idea if anyone was looking for her.
Or if anybody had even noticed she was gone.
Sara felt her eyes grow heavy and for the first time she didn't fight it.
Author: Cindy Ryan
catagory: angst, Xover
pairings: Jack/Sam, Grissom/Sara
Summary: After 'Play with fire' Sara vanishes, Grissom calls in a favor
Notes: See part one. Thanks for the feedback. :)
The delivery guy arrived twenty minutes later with three brown bags of food. "Here you go."
"Thanks."Danny replied as he took the bags from him and set them on the table. He turned back to hand the teen some money.
"So how did the co-worker interviews go?"Sam asked after the delivery guy left.
"Pretty well."Jack replied as he moved to close the door. "But they didn't exactly reveal any new leads."
"I'll pull up their work records see if we get any hits."Sam stated as she pulled a laptop closer.
"The three names Grissom gave us amounted to nothing."Martin replied frustration clearly in his voice. "One's still incarcerated, one's dead and one had a solid alibi."
"How solid?"Vivian asked as she took a carton of Chinese food out of the bag.
"Solid.He was being arrested for leading the state cops on a three county chase."
"Why did he run?"Danny asked through a mouthful of food.
Martin smirked. "Expired license."
Jack looked at Vivian. "Was there anything on her computer?"
Vivian shook her head. "Most of the email was deleted. Techs are running it now to pull up deleted mail and any recent chat logs."
Jack nodded. "Good."he replied as he glanced at the white board.
The white board had three lines on it:
Explosion in DNA/Chem lab three weeks previous
Brown drops Sidle at home--12:15 am
Stokes discovers Sidle missing--7 am
"Maybe this was a random act."Sam commented as she keyed through the employment files. "Sara was just in the wrong place at the wrong time."
"But random acts are sloppy."Danny protested. "Which is why this whole thing doesn't make any sense. If it was a random grab there would've been something left behind to work with. Piece of fabric, shoe print, finger print, something."
"We don't have the prints back from her apartment yet so we could get something from there."Jack stated as he reached for a carton of
food."Sometimes random acts get lucky.And it appears that this person was very lucky. But we're going to find a way to track them."
Vivian put down her fork as she looked at her boss. "She's been gone nearly twenty hours, Jack. If this was a random grab....."
"I know."Malone replied grimly. "But I have a feeling this case is going to beat the odds."
********
20 hours missing
8 pm
Catherine tapped lightly on Grissom's open office door. "Hey, you want to grab dinner?"
Grissom shook his head as he sat behind his desk. "Not hungry."
"Neither am I."Catherine replied as she stepped into the room. "But I can't take wandering around here much longer. It'll do both of us good to get out of here. The Feds have our cell numbers. They'll call us if they need something."
Grissom hesitated than nodded as he stood. "Alright. Let's go."
*******
Sara jerked awake so fast that her head connected with the cement ceiling of the small room she was in.
She hadn't meant to fall asleep. She didn't even remember doing so.
Sara blinked her eyes wearily against the pitch blackness of the room. She wished she knew what time it was. She had no idea how long she'd been stuck in here.
She had no idea if anyone was looking for her.
Or if anybody had even noticed she was gone.
Sara felt her eyes grow heavy and for the first time she didn't fight it.