A/N: All right here's another chapter. Thanx for the reviews. Sorry for the shortness of the chapters. It's a habit. But if you give me lots of reviews, I guarantee you that the next chapter will be longer. More reviews, longer chapters. Got it? = )

Sara and Nick had been searching in the pouring rain for nearly an hour when they decided to stop and take a brake. Take a brake so that they could think things through and decide what to do.

"So..." Nick began, "What do you think we should do? Turn back? Maybe he came back to the scene after we left."

"I don't know. We should've just stayed there in the first place. You can barley see out here in this weather."

'Damn rainy season.' Nick thought to him self. How are we supposed to get back now. We're both sopping wet, our umbrella is broke, and we can't find Greg. The rain had worsened since they had left. Luckily the lightning had calmed down.

"Come on, lets go back." Said Nick.

"But what about..."

"I'm sure he's back there waiting for us. Come on."

Sara looked all around her and then at the ground. What if he wasn't back there waiting for them. What if he's hurt and all alone out there some where. What if he can't get back. She looked back up at Nick.

"You go ahead. I'm going to keep looking for him."

"But what if he's back at the scene. You could be out here for nothing and get your self lost. I'm not going to leave you alone out here."

"Then come with me. I doubt we could get back anyways, we don't even know what direction we're going in now."

Nick looked around. It was true, he hadn't realized till now that he had no idea where they were. Great, now they were lost in a desert. Nick sighed and looked back at Sara.

"Ok.. fine then. Lets go."

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Greg's journey through the rain had been going fairly good until he started experiencing some difficulties breathing. His wound had stopped bleeding but was now swelling and becoming very painful. he had no idea what way he was going and where it was leading him to. But he did know that he had to keep moving. Obviously he was going the wrong way because he would have been back at the scene by now, but once he found the road he would have more luck. The young CSI figured he could just hitch hike or what ever he could do to get out of this damn desert and to the hospital. Greg stopped for a minute and looked around to see if there was anything he recognized, but there wasn't much there to recognize. Let see. 'Hmm... an oddly shaped cactus, nope haven't seen it. Ok I'm lost.' He started to walk again and continued on his journey through the desert.

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"Hey Sara."

"What?"

"I think we're going in circles. I've seen that same cactus three times already."

"How can you tell? Don't they all just about look the same?"

"I know it's the same cactus because I left the umbrella by it."

Sara looked back over at the cactus and saw the torn up umbrella laying on the ground beside the cactus.

"Oh.... ok then I guess we'll just have to walk a little more straighter then won't we."

Nick sighed and sat down on a big rock. It was useless. They were so lost. There was no way they were going to find Greg and get back to the scene before it got dark. And when it got dark things would get even worse. With this bad weather they were all ready traveling blindly through the desert. Well almost. At least they could see a few feet in front of them.

Sara sat down beside him.

"What do we do."

Nick thought for a moment. Maybe if they left a some type of trail while they were walking. So that if they ran into the trail, they would know that it would just lead them back to the same spot. It wouldn't help them much, but at least they would know that they were getting some where.

"How bout....we make a trail."

"A trail? For what?"

"So that if we meet the trail again, we'd know that it would just lead us back to the same spot. Then we can just turn the other way and go some where else. We may not know what direction we're going in but... But we would at least know that we were getting somewhere."

"What would it be made out of? We're kind of lacking the materials to make a trail at the moment."

"Well.... we could.... mark the rocks and cactuses somehow."

"How are we going to do that?"

"Uh......" Nick tried to think of what they could use.

"Forget it. It's useless. we have absolutely nothing that we could use."

"Well you recognized this as the same spot because you left the umbrella by it. So if we just..."

"We don't have anything. Unless you wanna strip down and leave you're clothes at the spot so that you could recognize it, we have nothing we could use."

Nick looked at her with a grin on his face.

"Uh uh, no way."

Nick laughed a little, but then the conversation was quickly forgotten when they heard some one approach them.

A/N: Thanx for reading now time for the reviewing. Oh ya, Krazy you wanted to know if you could archive it. Sure go ahead. = )