Catherine opened her eyes and sat up. Tears started falling from her eyes immediately.
She looked around her house, there were police men everywhere, and she could see Sara and Warrick coming out of Lindsey's bedroom.
She stood up, her knees were weak. She struggled to walk down the hallway and collapsed. Grissom came up to her and led her back to the couch.
She looked at him.
"My, baby's gone" she looked away starring into space, rocking back and forth she felt empty, and cold, like she was in a trance or a terrible dream and could not wake up. She wanted to wake up but she couldn't.
"She's gone,…………. she's gone……………she's gone"
Grissom pulled her to him and hugged her.
"We are going to find her, we will I promise"
The phone rang.
Catherine jumped up to grab the phone. One cue she answered.
"Hello"
"Hello Catherine" the voice on the other line was deep, to deep to be real. "I have something you want"
"You have my little girl, please don't hurt her, Ill do anything"
"Relax she is not the one I want, she is just collateral, it's you that I want Catherine. But I know that there are cops there and you are probably tracing the call. But it is a waste of time. Honestly do you think I would be calling you if I knew that they could trace. I am not an idiot."
Catherine wipe her tears away.
"I want to talk to her"
"I think she is asleep right now"
"Please let me talk to her, please" Catherine pleaded.
The phone went quiet, like there was a hand over the mouth piece and then Lindsey spoke.
"Mommy,……….. Mommy is that you"
"Yes it's me baby, did they hurt?, you did they touch you?"
"No they didn't hurt me, but Mommy I'm scared, I want to go home, Mommy you have to come get me."
The man pulled the phone away.
"See I told you it's not her we want, I would never hurt in innocent child. Never. But you have to understand that Eddie, your husband, he was a terrible business man and he borrowed money from me fifty thousand dollars from me and never attempted to pay it back. He obviously thought that he could get away with taking something for nothing."
Catherine was confused
"What does that have to do with me?, we were divorced, I don't know anything about it and besides if you have not heard Eddie died, he's gone so, I don't have your money if that is what you think."
"Catherine you obviously don't get it. You are the closest person to Eddie that is still alive, so that my dear makes you 100% responsible for taking care of his debts and I want my money and I know you will come up with it you have one million reasons to."
"I don't have any money, I don't have that kind of money. I cant…. You don't understand…-"
The man cut her off
"No you don't understand, you get me my money or your innocent little girl is going to need some serious counselling if she makes it out alive."
He hung up he phone.
Catherine dropped the phone. Everything was spinning again, and she felt sick.
"What do I do Grissom, I don't have…I can't…. I just…"
Grissom cut her off
"I will give you the money"
"Grissom no you can't you have been saving up,………no I am not taking your money, I could just get a loan from the bank and ……. Oh I don't know why does Eddie have to do this, he's dead and he is still ruining my life, I hate him for this I hate him."
"Grissom, I have the money I just, I was saving it for,… it does not matter, I I'll just give it to them and get this over with, I just want my baby back".
Grissom hugged Catherine
"everything is going to be fine, Lindsey is going to come home safe and she is going to be fine. Now we go to the bank and we get their money and then we wait for the call"
Catherine looked at Grissom and sighed
"oh Gil, there are no guarantees"
End of chp 2 please R&R
Be nice