Title: Vanished
Summary : Two missing person's cases. Victims never found. One
suspect found, but could not be tied to the actual disappearances.
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 4


Gil stood staring at the man on his front step.

"Mr. Grissom?" the man asked " You may not remember me, My name is.."

Gil cut him off, he knew exactly who he was " Hank Darrin." Gil moved aside and let the man in. " What are you doing here?"

Hank Darrin looked around the house. " Seems so familiar" he whispered to himself and turned to Gil " I did the same.. when my wife and daughter disappeared, I could handle it, my life just stopped."

Gil nodded and flicked on the light " Have a seat." he pointed to the couch.

Hank sat down and sighed " You're probably wondering what the hell I am doing here."

Gil stood across from him, his arms crossed, " I guess I am" he replied

Hank sat back " It's just that, I saw the news, that there was another wife and child taken. Then I saw the photo and I remembered the women from when my family went missing. I thought since you were the one working the case with her, There maybe some chance that my wife case would be reopened" he paused " there must be some connection to the two..I " Hank paused again noticing the expression on Gil's face. He got up form the couch " I'm sorry, here I am taking about my case when you lost our family, to,it was selfish of me to think that.." he got up and headed toward the door " I hope you find your family, I wouldn't want you to have to suffer like I have."

Gil sighed " Wait" he stopped Hank " I'll try and have the case reopened. In the meantime I know it's been a year but If you can think back and try and remember anything about that night, I can't make any guarantees but I'll talk to my friend Brass and see what he can do."

Hank nodded " thank you so much." he headed for the door " I hope your able to find out something. It's hard not knowing." he replied as he turned and walked out into the night.


Gil raced down the hallway through the lab and rapped on Brass's door before waltzing in.

"Gil?" he called when he saw who had stepped in " What are you doing here."

Gil walked up to his desk. " You need to reopen the Darrin case, there is a connection."

Brass made a face " Gil, you should be at home."

"Did you hear what II just said?" Gil snapped " I had a visitor tonight and he asked me if the Darrin case would be opened up and I think it should be, we might find something. I already know they are similar I was looking up some things online."

Brass furrowed his brows " Gil Grissom? online?" he remarked

Before either could say anything else a booming voice came from behind. " What's this?" Ecklie slammed forward into the office " What is he doing here and why are you two talking about a case he has no authorization to be discussing?"

Gil spun around " Authorization?" he snapped back "How dare you! My wife and my daughter are out there, I have every right!"

Ecklie shook his head and large smirk on his face " Temper, temper" he mocked clearly he couldn't have cared less. " You should get some help for that wouldn't want someone to get hurt."

"Knock it of Conrad" Brass started in

"What" Eclkie replied " All I am saying is that he has a temper" he looked over at Gil " maybe that's why she's gone,maybe it was your temper, maybe she's not really missing, she just wanted to get away from you." he paused "cause face it, your strange. And Catherine..well" he licked his lips "she's not,she must have come to her senses."

Gil's fist began to clench and unclench " You son of a bitch" he shot back.

Ecklie smirked " Watch it Gil, I do out rank you!"

"You think this is funny?" Gil got in his face " You think Catherine and her daughter being out there with some psycho is amusing?"

"Well Gil" he began " What exactly did you expect? You married an ex-exotic dancer for christ sake, I guess it's true that your past always comes back to bite you in the ass."

Gil shook his head 'what the hell did he mean, Catherine being missing had nothing to do with her past and he knew it. He was just trying to push his buttons ...and it was working.

Gil stepped forward, his nose almost touch Ecklie

"Gil!" Brass warned " Gil just go home we are handling this"

Gil didn't really hear anything thing Brass had said, the smirk on Ecklie's face had him caught in a trance.

The next thing Brass saw was Gil's fist in the air, headed straight for Ecklie's jaw.And that's exactly where it hit.

"You want to say something else? You son of a bitch!" Gil yelled " Come on you bastard say something else!"

Brass grabbed him off before he pummeled Ecklie who was now on the floor

"Damn it Gil!" Brass snapped at him " What the hell is wrong with you?"

Ecklie stood up " Very nice Grissom, as of now your on suspension, if you want to keep your job you'll get the hell out of my face and my lab."

Gil wiped his mouth and walked out of the room and headed back to their empty home.