We fell asleep on the floor in each others arms. When I awoke, I was being taped at the wrists and ankles. Sara too, was being taped up. After they finished, they grabbed Sara by the ankles and started to drag her out of the bathroom and into the bedroom.

"No!Sara!No!Take me!No!" Before I knew it the door was being closed. I could hear Sara's screams and the yelling of the two men telling her to shut up. I tried to get up, but only managed to get to my knees. I found my way over to the door and threw myself against it as hard as I possibly could. I didn't care that there would be an enormous, ugly bruise on my shoulder after I was done. I fell to the floor in pain. I cried myself to sleep. 'Don't hurt her.' I silently prayed. 'Don't let them hurt her. Hurt me! Not her!'

When I woke up again I was being lifted up. By whom I do not know. I was tired and my whole brain was all mixed up. I finally got my thoughts in order. Whoever had picked me up set me upright in the chair and began to cut the tape off of my wrists and ankles.

"Gil?" It was Catherine! She came! "Are you okay, Gil?"

"I don't know." I answered.

"Gil, where's Sara?" She asked.

Worry began to spread through me, " What? She's not with you?!"

"No."

"No!" I screamed. I got up from the chair and made my way towards the bedroom. No one was there. "NO!" I shouted again, "I promised her! No!"

"Promised her what?" Cath asked confused.

"Never mind that. Where are the men?" I asked her.

"Men?" She asked curiously, "No one was in the house Gil."

"What?!"

"No one--"

"I heard you!"

"Gil--"

"We have to find them!" I exclaimed, "they have Sara!" Just then I heard a cop car start it's sirens. I looked out the window and watched as a cop car sped off down the street in a chase. I bolted down the stairs.

A paramedic stopped me at the bottom.

"Sir, you can't go anywhere. You need your examination." He was a young man probably in his early twenties.

"I an fine. I need to be somewhere." I told him. I was still trying to press through him.

"What is more important than your health?" He asked. Obviously he didn't know the situation at hand.

"My friend's health. She comes before me." I said as I finally found my way from the man's blockage. I ran outside and got into Sara's Tahoe still parked outside. She always kept a spare key above the tire under the car.

As I pulled out, I saw Catherine running out of the house.

"Wait!" She shouted. I stopped the SUV motioning for her to hurry. She climbed in, "I'm going with you."

"Okay, let's follow that car." I said. I sped out of the driveway and followed the lights of the police car with as much speed as I could get.

"Gil! Slow down!" She squealed as I took a tight turn.

"No. I can't."

"Why not?" She let out another squeal.

"Because if I do, they'll get away.?

"Whatever." She sighed.

I started to slow down as I saw other police cars come and surround the vehicle. The car stopped and all of the police officers got out and pointed their guns at it.

" Please step out of the car!" As the police said that, two men got out of the car with their hands on their heads. They dropped to their knees and obeyed all other commands from the police. Two officers went to the men and handcuffed them. They were taked to the cop cars.

I ran right in between two police cars and to the men's vehicle.

"Sir!" An officer tried to stop me but I didn't listen. "Sir!"

I opened the back door of the car to see Sara still taped up. Her mouth was now taped also. I took out my pocket knife and cut the tape from her wrists and ankles. I then took off the tape from her mouth.

"Grissom!" She came out of th car and put her arms around my neck. I welcomed the sudden embrace. I rested my hands on her lower back and my head on her neck. I smelled a familiar scent. A scent that was only her.

"I'm sorry." I cried tears of joy and sadness.

"For what?" She managed to get the words out between her sobs.

" I broke my promise to you, Sara, I'm so sorry." I started to cry more. She pulled back enough to look into my eyes.

"It doesn't matter anymore. It's over." She was trying to comfort me now.

"It matters to me. You're not supposed to break promises. It's betrayal."

"You didn't betray me, Gris, you saved me." She started to cry on my shoulder. I felt a hand on my other shoullder. It was Catherine.

"Cath!" Sara gave Catherine a quick hug, "you came."

She returned to my embrace.

"Yeah." Catherine smiled, "I wouldn't have just done nothing thinking that your call had meant absolutely nothing. I'm not that stupid." They laughed at this. Sara, Catherine, and I shared a group hug.

"Ma'am? It is time for your medical examination, " It was the same man who had stopped me earlier, "Sir, you too."

"Okay." I replied as I followed him and Sara to the ambulance.