Chapter 27 abduction
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Graveyard shift was about to start when Gil arrived.
Greg and Sara were in the breakroom watiing for Sophia to hand out
assignments and Warrick and Nick were getting ready to head out.
"How's Cath?" Greg asked Warrick before he could leave the room.
Warrick sighed and sat across from him
"Honestly? No change, I don't know what else they can do for her,
she's.."
Warrick was about to finish when Gil appeared in the door way.
The four people in the room just stared at him like they were
looking a a ghost.
"Grissom?" Sara was first to break the silence and jumped up to
welcome him back. " Gris, it's good to see you. How are you?"
Gil smield and lifted his cane. " I'm good, I got the feeling back,
it won't be fully back probably ever but, it's a start, I can walk
and that's all that matters, I have a lot of exercises to do each
day to keep my legs from locking up. but I'll manage.." he said
looking around the room " But I feel great"
"That's great!" Greg yelled out " So you're back?"
Gil smiled and leaned up against the wall " Well I'm back but I am
not jumping back into work, not for a while."
Again Gil looked around the room and then down the hallway. He then
opend his mouth to ask but Warrick was ready with the answer before
he could get the question out.
"She's not here" Warrick began
Gil sat down at the table and pulled out his cell phone
"She's not there Gris" Warrick spoke again
Gil sighed and put his phone away
"Where is she?"
Warrick sighed and ran a hand across his head
"She's in the hospital."
Gil leaned forward in his chair " Why? What happened to her?"
Warrick looked at the other three people in the room and then back
at Gil.
"She's...she had a breakdown. At first she was dealing with
everything, with you leaving, with Sam just disappearing, Brass not
being able to catch Harrison, the rape, the both of you almost
dying, you not being able to walk, It was on thing after another.
She couldn't take it anymore. We thought she was okay, Lindsey told
us the dreams and the flashbacks were under control."
Warrick sighed and waited for Gil to respond but he said nothing so
Warrick continued.
"She started calling in for work, and then she just stopped calling
and stopped showing up. Ecklie was on a warpath for weeks trying to
find a replacement no one could get a hold of her. She finally
stopped leaving her house and by the end she wouldn't leave her
bedroom and locked everyone out. She stopped sleeping, eating, she
wouldn't talk to anyone not even Lindsey, until one day she just
snapped and she tried slit her wrists, Gil she tried to kill herself
and if Lindsey hadn't bothered to call me moments before then she
would have died and we couldn't find you"
Gil stared at Warrick stumped and unable to come up with anything to
say.
"Where's Lindsey?" he finally managed to get something out.
Warrick rested his hands infront of him " Right now she's at the
police station, she was picked up for hitchiking again, Nancy is on
her way over to get her. The state wants to put her in foster care,
they said Nancy is not equipped to deal with Lindsey longterm. And
at the time of the decison there were no gaurdians on the list to
take her, Eddie is, dead, then Nancy which they won't allow and then
you, but like I said we couldn't find you."
Gil was about to offer up something when he got sidetracked " Where
was she going?" he asked
Warrick made a face " What?"
Gil nodded at him " Lindsey, you said she was hitchiking again where
was she going?"
Warrick scrathched his neck and sat back in his chair " She told the
cop she was going to California, she was going to find you."
