Title: Vanished
Summary : Two missing person's cases. Victims never found. One
suspect found, but could not be tied to the actual disappearences.
Exactly A year after the first and second missing persons case. Two
more go missing. Gil is faced with having to find his wife and
daughter knowing that it may never happen. Catherine and Lindsey
have vanished.
Disclaimer " I don't own anything...
CHAPTER 1
Hank Darrin, his wife Elizabeth and their daughter Kady waited in
the restaurant to be seated.
" Kady" Hank looked down at his daughter " Why are you squirming
like that"
Kady gritted her teeth. " I have to go to the bathroom" she
replied " I told you I had to go before we left but you insisted I
wait."
Hank chuckled to himself " I didn't know it was that bad I'm sorry
sweetheart" he paused " I didn't want to miss our reservations. It's
a big day for you, your twelve today. Your last year to be as
childish as you want cause next year you'll be a teen."
Kady rolled her eyes as the waiter approached them.
"Three please, non smoking" Hank ordered " Oh and where is the
restroom?"
The waiter smiled and pointed toward the back of the restaurant.
"Thanks" Hank commented. Looking down to his daughter. "There you
go, look for us when you come out well be up here." He pointed to
his daughter and she raced toward the restroom.
Fifteen minutes later Hank and his wife were still waiting.
"What is she doing in there " Hank complained getting a little
annoyed
Elizabeth shrugged " Calm down "I'll go get her."
Elizabeth kissed her husband and headed toward the back of the
restaurant and down the hallway. Just before the end of the
hallway was the restroom. Further down, a fire exit.
Elizabeth stepped in the restroom.
Hank looked at his watch, another ten minutes had passed and he
wanted to order. He jumped from his seat more upset then before and
streamed toward the back of the building, he reached the restroom
marked women and knocked on the door.
A minute passed and a young women walked out.
"Excuse me " he stopped her " My wife and daughter are in there can
you tell them to hurry for me?" he smiled
The young women shook her head " Sorry sir I was the only one on
there."
Hank made a face and burst into the room. The women was right she
was the only one in there.
Catherine was the first on scene but she was certain Ecklie would
send Gil to help her supervise. She hated that, as much as she loved
Gil, she didn't need supervision from her fiance not on how to do
her job anyway.
Catherine walked toward the bathroom. Brass already inside.
"What do we have?"
Brass turned to her " Elizabeth and Kady Darrin, came to have
dinner with husband/Dad, " he paused looking over at Hank who was in
the hallway. "Said his daughter went to the bathroom and after a
while she hadn't returned so his wife went to fetch her and they
both vanished."
Catherine nodded " Well, they couldn't have gotten out the small
window" she pointed as she headed toward the hall. " Fire Exit" she
pointed heading towrad the door. "Don't let anyone touch this "
Brass nodded " I'll guard it with my life"
Catherine headed back toward the bathroom when she saw Gil coming
toward her " Great" she whispered " What are you doing?'
Gil smiled " We'll hello to you to" he paused knowing she had every
right to be upset, for some reason Eclkie kept sending Gil to be
lead on all her cases.
"Ecklie " he offered up " Not my choice."
Catherine rooled her eyes "whatever" she shook her head " You want
to take the distraught husband or do you want ot process?"
Gil raised his eyebrow " Wanna tell me what is going on first?"
Catherine nodded " Walk with me" she smiled " Elizabeth and Kady
Darrin, went to the bathroom and vanished"
"Short version" Gil replied
Catherine nodded " Talk to Brass" she looked behind him " Where is
your team?"
Gil shrugged " Greg is coming and Sara well..Ecklie thought she
should take some time off." he pasued " Wher is yours?"
"I see" Catherine replied turning to open her kit." Warrick is
outside interviewing guests"
"I'll process" she decided "Hank Darrin is all yours."
Catherine began dusting for prints on the fire exit. And since Greg
had arrived he began processing the restroom.
Gil lead Hank outside of the area and began asking him qeustions
along with Brass.
"Mr Darrin, I know this must be hard for you and I can assure you
we are doing everything possible to find your wife and daughter. Did
your wife have an enemies, any one that might want to hurt her or
your daughter or even you?"
Hank shook his head " NO, Elizabeth was friends with everyone,
Kady to,I have had a few interactions at work but nothing serious
just guy stuff." he replied trying to hold back his emotions. "
Everyone loved them."
Gil nodded " have you noticed anything strange, maybe a prank call
you thought nothing of, or maybe someone hanging around?"
Hank shook his head no " NO, nothing like that."
Gil nodded seeing it was to much for him " We'll be doing the best
we can, I can guarantee there are a lot of people looking for your
family."
Gil nodded to Brass and headed back toward the scene.
"You should go home. Mr ,Darrin, we'll be in touch soon."
Back at the lab. Greg and Mia went right to work processing the
saliva found on the stall handle. Other then several prints which
was common in a public washroom. that was all the clues they had.
Catherine had found a seven sets of prints on the fire escape door,
only three were useable. She rushed the back to the lab to have
them run through afis.
Waiting for the results Catherine joined Gil in the break room.
"Brass is still with Warrick interviewing all the employees and the
guest ,we can't do much more until we get our results."
That was when Greg rushed in, " The prints came back we got a hit."
he paused " Eric Baker. Also an employee at the restaurant. Mia sent
down the results also and surprise , surprise the substance I found
which was saliva also belongs to Eric Baker, Arrested in 1998 for
suspision of involvement in his wife and daughter's disappereance.,
they also disappeared almost in the same fashion as our latest
victims."
Gil was quick to jump on his cell and told Brass what they had. He
agreed to bring in Eric Baker for questioning.
38 hours missing
While Catherine was with Eric, Gil had contacted Mr Darrin to see
if he knew Eric baker.As soon as he saw the picture he knew who he
was.
"I know him, I worked with him a while back,I kind of got him fired
from the office" he said handing back the picture . "So you think he
had something to do with this?"
Gil didn't reply " Were looking into him, he is an employee at the
restaurant so we have to speak with everyone."
Hank nodded " Can I listen in?"
Gil shook his head " I don't think that is a good idea. If we find
anything out we will let you know."
Catherine sat across form the suspect in the interrogation room .
"This is ridiculous, out of all the people I work with you pick me
out of the crowd you bring me down here and make me look look a
criminal." Eric complained as Brass lead him in to the room. Why am
I the only one here?"
Catherine dropped the file on the table " Mr Baker we found your
prints at the crime scene. Specifically on the fire escape " she
paused " the only way our two missing people could have left the
building."
"Yeah, that's because I work there I'm in maintenance, I clean the
bathroom and I test the fire escapes."
"When was the last time it was tested?"
"Tonight" he replied quickly
Catherine shook her head " So then you wrote in your log book that
it failed."
Eric smirked " It didn't fail, I tested it myself."
Catherine stood up " that's funny because when I opened the alarm
would have been activated, but nothing happened."
Eric shrugged " I don't know . why" he replied " I didn't see
anyone, I must have been on break."
That's right " she replied " We spoke with your supervisor she says
you took a break and were almost fifteen minutes late returning,
enough time to hide the two people you snatched."
Eric shoo his head " I didn't do it. I was late because I was
picking up my things from my girlfriend apartment just around the
corner."
"SO if we ask her she'll say you were with her?"
Eric shrugged " Probably not the bitch hates me ,I dumped her."
Catherine smirked " How convenient" she replied sliding down the a
picture of the Darrin family. " DO you recognize anyone here?"
"I told you" he snapped " I don't know these people." he said
sliding the pictures back toward her.
"Are you sure" she replied, not even Hank Darrin"
Eric shrugged " Doesn't ring a bell."
"You used to work with him back in 98, you don't remember? He got
you fired ".Catherine snapped "Mr Baker, what happened to your wife
and daughter?"
Eric Baker shook his head " Don't you dare talk about my wife and
daughter. I didn't kill them. I was cleared"
Catherine nodded "that's right you were cleared but it only because
you knew what you were doing."
Eric smirked at her " Whatever you say" he paused turning to
Brass " I guess you can't keep me.I haven't done anything wrong so
either arrest me or I'm leaving"
Brass cleared his throat "You're right but we'll be visiting you
real soon you can count on it."
Eric nodded " I'll be looking forward to the visit" he replied and
walked out of the room.
No more leads were found or given on the Darrin case and soon it was
put to rest and listed as unsolved. To this day no one has seen or
heard anything of Mrs. Elizabeth Darrin or her daughter Kady Rebecca
Darrin...Eric Baker the only suspect couldn't be arrested due to
lack of evidence, he went on with is life. Hank Darrin however was
never able to.
ONE YEAR LATER...
Gil, Catherine and Lindsey walked out of the restaurant and climbed
in the Denali.
"I have to stop at the grocery store before we got to the video
store" Gil smiled at Lindsey
Lindsey rolled her eyes. "Whatever dad" she replied " be quick
cause we want to get home."
Gil nodded and pulled into the parking lot.
"I'll run in " Catherine turned to him " I want to get some
munchies anyway. Lindsey" she turned " Come with me."
Lindsey nodded and jumped out of the car.
"Be back in a few" Catherine smiled kissing Gil on the cheek.
Gil watched as his wife and daughter climbed out of the vehicle. He
and Catherine had been married almost a year and the three of them
could'nt have been happier.
Gil turned the radio on and sat back in his seat.
fifteen minutes passed,
"Catherine must be buying the whole junk food aisle" he thought to
him self, I 'll give her another ten minutes and then I'll go in for
her. Gil looked at his watch. 8:48 the store will be closing in 12
minutes anyway." he whispered to himself.
Gil flipped the stations on the radio and before he knew it, it was
just past 9 and employees were coming out of the store,
Gil climbed out of his Tahoe.
"Excuse me, sir we closed at nine" the man dressed as a cashier
called to him.
Gil shook his head, no my wife and my daughter are still in there,"
"the boy shook his head, "we cleared the store sir, no one is in
there."
Gil shook his head in confusion " You have to let me in there, they
are probably in the washrooms or something...I saw them go in the
store and they haven't come out yet."
The boy smiled " you can ask my supervisor," he pointed " she is
always the last one out."
Gil ran to her " my wife and daughter are locked in your store!" he
yelled " you have to let me in there."
The women made face at him. " Sir calm down, I think you need to go
home and rest " she thought he was crazy.
Gil pushed the women out of his way, he was frantic and his head
was spinning, he knew this could'nt be happening to him, not to his
family. But it was. Catherine and Lindsey had vanished.
