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Title: City Lights

Chapter Four: Flashes of Horror

Flashes of images began to appear in Greg's sleep. The once calm dreams now began to turn into dark and deadly nightmares that haunted Greg even in the daylight. Several times he woke up sweating, scared, out of breath and afraid to speak of anything of it. The nightmares were images of Nick and Greg in the store, the masked men, the guns, feeling the pain of where the bullet hit his back, the image of the masked men grabbing Nick and leading him away from Greg. It made the lab tech want to throw up.

It had been two weeks since the attack happened to him and Nick and the whole Crime Lab was growing very desperate for answers. All the clues that had left them in circles, they had no way of contacting Nick and didn't know if he was even alive. Catherine had told the CSI's, when they were in Greg's Hospital Room, that they had to be quiet of this. That Greg shouldn't know anything about it. Little did they know that Greg was only pretending to be sleeping and he heard every word that they had said.

FLASHBACK;

Greg's eyes may have been closed but he could still hear their voices. Sara's came first.

"Should we tell Greg?" she asked.

"Greg shouldn't know anything about Nick. I'm sure he would feel responsible in a way. Plus, we're not even sure about Nick so how can we tell him?"

They were silent for a moment before Grissom spoke, "I have one clue. We received the video of the convenience store attack and I managed to get Archie to enlarge the image of one of the masked man's for me and we found something."

"What's that?" Warrick asked curiously.

"One of our masked man's has a birthmark under his left eye."

"Was anyone able to find out who this guy is?"

"You can't really find much about a birthmark but what we decided to do was have Archie try to make this guy's face on the computer. Took the way his face was and everything. Technology," Grissom said smirking at his fellow co-workers. "We had a picture printed out, Brass went around questioning and we were able to find a location."

Sara's brow rose. "Really? When are we going?"

"We're not. The place was burnt down two years ago. No one knows who this guy really is anymore."

Warrick buried his head in his hands. "Go figure."

"We have got to find Nicky before it's too late."

END OF FLASHBACK

Greg bit the inside of his cheek as he rolled over onto his left side. He knew that even when he switched sides he still wouldn't be able to forget the images. He closed his eyes but quickly re-opened them, afraid to go to sleep and encounter another nightmare.

"What's happening to me?" Greg softly asked himself as his grip on his pillow became tighter.

Grissom had just poured himself his fourth coffee when Warrick Brown walked in the lounge.

"Hey Gris, take a look at this." The CSI tossed a bunch of stapled papers onto the table of the lounge. Grissom looked over at the papers and quietly walked over. "Remember the guy who had the birthmark under his eye? Well, I was driving home and I noticed this guy on the side of the road who was talking into this walkie-talkie. He looked suspicious so I pulled my car off of the side of the road and walked over to him."

"Did you talk to him?" Grissom asked as he sat down in a chair and pulled the papers over towards him.

"The guy was nervous. He kept mixing up his words and everything. He also turned off the walkie-talkie when I stepped over and kept looking over his shoulder. But sneaky me," Warrick said smirking as he also joined Grissom at the table. "I asked him if I could see the baseball cap he was wearing. He was so worried about something else he didn't realize that he handed it to me and I managed to pick up a couple of hairs from with in it."

"His name is Mark Grimman," Grissom read from the papers that Warrick handed to him. "He lives here in Vegas at an apartment complex in the southern part. Seems like another man Jared Almostio also lives with him."

"Should we go pay them a visit?"

"Never would hurt now would it?"

(All right, I know it is really short and you'll find that with some of my chapters but I don't mean to. So I have re-wrote this chapter because I was beginning to dislike my other one so I re-wrote a better one without pressure.)

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