Chapter 11:
Greg was rubbing Haileys back as she cried. She told him all about Jacob, how he use to beat her, and how he killed her two best friends. Greg was outraged, he wished Jacob was right here right now, he would have torn him limb from limb. "I'm not going to let him get you Hailey."
She pushed away from him. "Don't you get it Greg? He kills anyone that gets near me. You're not safe here. You can't stop him, he's more powerful than anyone, he has connections all over the place." She yelled. She wouldn't loose another friend. Not again.
"I'm not leaving Hailey, if you kick me out I'll sleep on your doorstep if that's what it takes. I'm not letting anything happen to you." The phone rang bringing them both out of their conversation. Greg reached for the phone.
"No." She said taking it from his hands. The last thing Jacob needed to hear was another guy in Haileys apartment. "Hello?"
"I know he's there, put him on the phone." Jacob said angrily.
"There's no one here." she said hoping he would believe her.
"Put him on the phone slut or I'll have him killed first." He said getting angrier buy the minute.
"You'll have to kill me first." she said shutting the phone.
"What did he say?" Greg asked. Then the phone rang a second time.
"What?" She yelled into it.
"Don't fucking tempt me bitch because I have a clear shot right now." Jacob yelled into the phone.
She shut her eyes tight wishing it would all go away. Knowing it wouldn't she passed the phone to Greg. "What do you want?" He asked already knowing who it was.
"You're a fool, just like those other two bastards. I told you to leave her alone but you just don't seem to listen." He said in an eerily calm voice.
"You're not getting anywhere near Hailey." Keeping his ground.
"I suggest you back down, I don't take to well to people that get in my way."
"Go to hell."
"You're going to regret that." He said and then hung up.
Greg put the phone down and looked at Hailey. She was frightened, not because of Jacob, because she didn't want Greg to get hurt. "We need to tell Brass. I'll go with you."
"He'll find out and he will kill us all. Just..., maybe if I go to him he can do whatever and leave you alone." She said willing to sacrifice herself for him.
"No! And I don't want to hear you say that again." This was the first time he spoke forcefully, he would be damned if he was going to sit back and let Hailey get killed.
Hailey and Greg had to do something. They were both thinking the same thing, that he probably had the place bugged. "I need to tell Grissom that I need a few days off."
"Ok, I'll take you I don't want you to drive like this." They left her place and into his car. They thought that if Jacob had her apartment bugged that he might have something on her. There's no telling how far this man will go. She decided that she needed Nicks help. Greg would stay away and Nick would take his place. She was closer to him, and she knew that he was better in a jam then Greg was. When they reached the lab she went to Greg's locker and found the extra clothes, he instructed her to change in to. When she finished she looked for Nick and found him in the ballistics lab with Bobby Dawson. She knew about a case that Warrick was working on that involved a semi-automatic. She was glad to see the gun still in the bag unprocessed. "Bobby, Warrick wants you to load the gun full, then empty it into the water tank and see how many bullets it takes to jam." She knew that Warrick wanted it done, but he didn't exactly ask her to pass the message.
"I'm in the middle of a case with Nick here." he said apologetically.
"Now Bobby." She said more forcefully.
Nick knew something was up, since she never spoke like that with out a reason. She and Nick put the ear covers back on when Bobby finished loading the gun he told them he was about to fire. As soon as he fired the first shot she lifted Nicks ear muff slightly and whispered to him. "I know about the note Greg found, a guy is after me and he's going to kill me and Greg, maybe more unless I come up with a plan to stop him first. I need your help, don't say anything out loud." She recovered his ear as Bobby jammed on the last bullet. They removed their ear pieces.
"Last bullet." He said thinking she already knew that.
"Thanks Bobby." She said winking at him. She used Bobby's firing to cover whatever sound Jacob might still be able to hear.
She left the room and went to the lounge waiting for Nick. She opened the two papers in front of her to the crossword puzzles. Nick entered acting casual and getting coffee. "Nicky, do the puzzle with me." Hailey said.
Nick was so confused, first she was talking about someone wanting to kill her and now she wanted to do a puzzle. She filled in the first row with 'ine ed aplan' He ignored the black boxes and read across, realizing that she was coming up with a plan.
They had filled out both puzzles finally coming up that Hailey would lead Jacob to her apartment as Nick watched and then he would show up and take Jacob down. They agreed that Brass should be involved but neither of them knew much about bugs and didn't know how to tell Brass to back them up without Jacob knowing. They decided to go to Grissom.
She walked into Grissom's office closing the door. "Nice shirt." He said looking up from the case file he was still going over.
"Griss, I don't know if you can hear me," She said before she started signing. "But I need a few days off." But her hands read 'This place is bugged don't say a word.'
He was confused at first reading two different things. "What?"
"For a vacation." she said aloud, signing again that his office might be bugged.
"Why, he asked."
"I've just been a little stressed out lately and I need some time to get my head straight." She said, signing 'I need you to talk to Brass in a secure location about back up.'
They verbally talked about her taking time off and about a case she had made up, while with her hands she told him about the plan Nick and she had come up with. He agreed to help with Brass and to be careful. She told him about how Jacob had a lot of friends in high places and Grissom understood why she didn't want anyone else to be told about her situation. They ended the conversation and then she left with Greg so he could drop her off and get ready for tonight.
