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Chapter 6: The Chase
The next afternoon, Nick made his way over to the holding cell, to tell Jake about his idea of being Jake's guardian.
He turned into the holding cell, to see the two guards on the floor, unconcious, and jake's cell door open. Nick groaned and muttered,"Not again..."
He ran off to find the rest. Nick found Sara, Warrick and Grissom in Grissom's office. After Nick told them what had happened, Warrick shook his head,"Where did he go? Get more drugs?"
Nick said,"I dunoo. But I don't think so,"
Sara frowned,"Then...?"
Nick answered,"He might have gone after our suspect, after what I said to him..."
"Damn... that is too dangerous! And we don't know who the suspect is ourselves..." said Warrick.
Just then, Nick's cell phone rang,"Hello?"
"Nick..." came a voice, sounding really scared.
"Jake? Is that you?" Grissom sat up a little straighter.
"Nick.... his name's Vince! Vince Mack! He killed Craig! I saw it all,"
"What? Where are you now?"
There was some noise in the background but Jake did not answer Nick. Then, he said,"You have to help me... if he sees me..."
"Jake, where are you?! Who is he?"
More noises were heard, Jake said,"Hurry..." and the connection went dead.
"Jake! Damn..." Nick muttered,"Vince mack, that's out killer, we have to find him. Jake's gone after him,"
Grissom stood up,"Find Brass. We are going to trace that call," and he went out of his office. Warrick, Sara and Nick exchanged looks. Sara said,"Don't you just hate it when he does that?"
Nick and Warrick smiled, and the three of them followed their supervisor.
Soon, they managed to trace the number to a payphone in the Thomas and Mack Center, the five CSI's, Brass and a few police officers were all raciong over to the location.
Brass had also managed to gather some information about this Vince Mack. He is twenty years old and has plenty of records of drug posession.
After passing the various bright Vegas Streets, they arrived at the location the payphone was, at the side of a silent street. There were four houses on the other side, all extreamly dark and silent.
In the phone booth, the receiver was hanging off it's hook, dangling in the cold night air.
Brass said,"Best guess? They might be in one of those houses,"
Grissom frowned,"I don't do guesses..."
Right on cue, a loud gun shot was heard coming from the house on the far right. Brass nodded to the others and led the way quickly to the house.
Grissom instructed Catherine and Sara to stay at the phone booth to process. A couple of officers stayed with them.
Brass arrived at the door, yelling,"Las Vegas Police!" as he rammed open the door. It was very dark inside, there were other rooms leading eleswhere as well.
Brass whispered,"Split up, uh, you guys coming?" he added to the CSI's, knowing very well that this is not the scientists area of expertise. However, Grissom nodded.
Nick went into the kitchen, before entering, he cast on look behind him, none of the officers nor his colleagues were in sight.
Suddenly, he caught some movement on the floor. Gun out, he walked cautiously towards the movement. There on the floor, lay Jake, breathing heavily.
He had a gun shot wound on his shoulder. Nick ran over to him,"Jake! Hey kiddo... hang in there, ok?"
Jake nodded numbly, he was shaking badly, then he whispered,"I tried to stop him..."
Nick shook his head,"Don't talk, we need to get you to the hospital,"
Suddenly, Jake raised his hand weakly, pointing somewhere behind Nick. Nick frowned, then turned around.
He saw another person standing there, with a gun pointed at Nick, Vince Mack.He was smiling widely.
Nick stood up slowly. His hand holding his gun tightly. Mack seemed to be surprised to see the gun, he frozed, stunned.
Nick took this opportunity to make a lunge for Mack, knocking them both to the floor and Mack's gun otu of the way, towards Jake.
Mack scrambled around, fighting forcfully, causing Nick to receive a whole lot of punches. Mack had managed to pin Nick to the ground, choking him.
Nick's eyes began watering. 'Why isn't anyone hearing this?' he thought desperately. He was gonna die, no denying it.
Suddenly, Nick heard a loud gun shot. Mack's grip thankfully loosened, and his body slumped onto the floor, allowing Nick to see jake lying on the floor, Mack's gun raised, he had just shot Mack in the heart.
But not for any longer, Jake let go of the gun, shaking even more, turning steadily paler.
Brass and Warrick finaly rushed in, looking anxious. Warrick said,"You ok?"
Nick got up, nodding,"Yeah, thanks to Jake," he said, waling towards Jake,"Hang in there, Jake,"
Brass immediately called for medical help. Jake held out a shaking hand to Nick, which he took, giving it a squeeze.
Jake muttered,"I'm s-sorry," and fell unconcious.
TBC
Sorry if this is a little bit rushed, school in my country is gonna start this Monday, so I want to finish this story up. But hey, there's a sequeal coming up!
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