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Summary: On an outing at the mall with Lindsey, Catherine is abducted leaving only one witness. Her daughter. Gil is called to investigate, the case, . Why was Catherine abducted and what does it have to do with Sam Braun?
Gil sat at his desk and stared at the picture infront of him. Hours ago Lindsey had given the description of the man who had taken her mother, Lindsey had soon cried herself to sleep on the couch beside him and now all Gil could do was wait.
Greg was in the lab processing the blood found at the scene although Lindsey had told him she was certain it was her mothers, Warrick was off with Nick interviewing anyone at the mall who may have seen something besides Lindsey, and Sara was with Brass making sure everyone knew the face they were looking for.
Gil stared at the picture harder, he had sworn he had saw this face before, but where and with who?
Gil's train of thought was derailed when Lindsey began to call out in her sleep.
"Mommy!" she began to scream " Please don't hurt her!"
Gil jumped out of his seat and was beside her within seconds trying to wake her.
"Lindsey'" he whispered softly " Wake up, your dreaming."
Lindsey's eyes soon fluttered open nd she quiclky sat up "MOM!" she screamed looking around the office frantically " MOM!"
Gil pulled her into a hug " No Lindsey, it was a dream, your mom is not here, you have to calm down , it was just a dream"
"Oh Uncle Gil, it was horrible" Lindsey began as she started to cry " Mommy was calling for me to help her and I couldn't get out of the tahoe and she was crying , and the man was hitting her and then she just stopped moving and then the man just drove away and then you came and you told me that she died and she was just gone,"
Gil hugged her tighter " Lindsey, I am going to do my best to bring your mom home, I promise, but until them you and I have to be really strong for her."
Lindsey wiped a stray tear " Okay" she whispered lying back down " Thank you Uncle Gil, I love you"
Gil smiled and felt like crying himself " you know I love you too"
Lindsey laid quietly for awhile and soon had drifted back to sleep.
Gil sat and watched her until Brass came racing down the hallway with a package in hand.
"Gil!" he called sticking his head in the door " this came for you as I was coming in, it may be from our kidnapper."
Gil took the package from his hands and began to open the envelope " it's a video tape" he made a face " let's take it to the break room Lindsey is sleeping"
Gil and Brass made their way to the break room where Sara, Nick and Warrick were waiting.
"Hey boss" Warrick walked up to him " how you holding up?
Gil shook his head " I'm fine, let's just see what's on this tape"
Gil slid the tape into the vcr and with the remote he pressed play.
For a minute or two all there was, was fuzzy, blurring images until the picture came clear and voices were heard and faces were seen.
"That's our guy" Brass was the first to speak as Harrison, the man in the video sat in front of the camera on a stool and began to speak.
"First of all" Harrison spoke " This is directed at Gil Grissom and him only, if anyone else watches this tape there will be no mercy for dear Catherine, So all unwanted parties vacate the room now."
Sara made a face " how would he even know we were in here and if we did watch the video?"
Gil looked over at her and made a face to keep it down or leave the room.
"I am not going to waste any time Mr. Grissom, I would not want to keep Catherine waiting so here is the deal I have for you, Sam Braun, I want him dead and I need you to kill him for me, I will be contacting you in a little while and telling you how and when and where I want this done, and if you are successfull in getitng rid iof him, then you can have her back, let what is about to happen be a little reminder to you that the longer you wait the more Catherine will suffer, and you can sit there and pretend that you don't care, but you and I both know just how much you feel for her and we would not want Lindsey growing up knowing that Uncle Gil is the reason her mommy is dead."
Gil watched in horror and shock as the video continued and Harrison began to slap Catherine around, but what Gil saw next was worse. Everything happened so fast and the next thing Gil saw was Harrison on top of Catherine. As the team watched Catherine's cries for her attacker stop echoed throughout the room.
Gil's breathing grew heavy and he began to clench his fist, felt sick, so sick to his stomach that he did not think he could hanlde much more, he wanted nothing more then to find this man and kill him with his bare hands and that was he planned to do for what Catherine was going through.
For quite some time the video played on and Gil had just about enough, not being able to take anymore he slammed the controller against the wall and stormed out of the breakroom and continued until he reached the bathrooms.
Brass paused the video and went after him.
"Gil" he called walking into the bathrooms to the sound of Gil's heaving "Gil, you have to calm your self, you can't get worked up, and I know that sounds stupid but is the truth."
Seconds later Gil came out of the stall and walked over to the sink to wash his face and mouth, he then looked at Brass on his way out.
"Don't you tell me how to feel, you watched the same thing I did, you can go to hell"
Gil went back to the breakroom to dee the tape on pause and on the screen was Harrison, smiling at him, that evil and twisted smile.
