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.
VANISHED chapter 9
Gil sat at his desk staring at the picture of Lindsey and Catherine, that was in front of him.
It had been six months, fourteen days, since they had vanished and the case was still cold, or so he had thought.
It had been three weeks since he had returned to work and was forced to go on with his life.
He did his best to avoid Ecklie but it had been hard. Five months ago Ecklie had closed the missing persons case and told him to stay away from the file and the evidence.
Gil set the picture back on the desk and picked up a file read.
"Eric Baker." he whispered.
Gil threw the file to the floor. Why hadn't anybody told him. Why would they keep that from him?
Gil felt betrayed, a year ago, he had supervised the Darrin case with Catherine along with Brass and Eric Baker had been the prime suspect. He had gotten off due to lack of evidence and now he had struck again. This time it was personal.. Eric Baker's whereabouts were unknown but Gil wasn't given up., he was going to find him.
Catherine walked through the doors of the grocery store and looked around her.
This had been the third time she had entered this store in the past six months.
From outside in the parking lot she could see Eric and Lindsey sitting in his car. A reminder to her that if she did anything stupid her daughter would suffer the consequences.
Catherine walked in, her sunglass in place, her brown hair a disguise.
She headed toward the back of the store, on her way she grabbed a package of pens and ripped them open. She picked up the items Eric had written on the list, and heading toward the front of the store.
Looking at her watch she realized that her time was almost up.
Dropping the items on the counter she pulled out a fifty dollar bill from her pocket.
As she bent down the sunglasses fell off of her face.
As they hit the floor she frantically looked from the cashier to the car in the parking lot. Her hands began to shake. The glasses falling off her face wasn't part of her plan. Eric would think she did it on purpose..and Lindsey was alone with him.
Catherine threw the money on the counter grabbed the items and ran out.
Gil was pacing back and forth in his office when Brass stormed in.
"What the hell were you thinking?" he snapped " You stole a case file and it's evidence, the same case file you were told to stay away from!"
Gil stopped and stared at him. "What was I to do! You wouldn't tell me anything about my own family's case. You kept me in the dark, you never even told me you had a suspect, a man who was suspected more then once in connection to a kidnapping."
Brass ignored him and continued his ranting " You can't just do things like that, no matter what you were thinking or feeling, Gil I had a job to do and I have rules, just like Warrick, Sara, Nick and Greg. We followed our rules. But you seem to think that you don't have to" he paused " Well if Ecklie was here he have you suspended or fired and you know it." Brass grabbed the file " I'm taking this back Gil, you better pray Ecklie doesn't find out, you have to let this go, there gone Gil, and as much as you want to believe that they are out there somewhere..." he was cut off when his cell phone rang.
"Brass" he answered. There was a brief silence and Brass looked up at Gil. he then nodded " Thank you" and hung up the phone.
Gil looked at Brass waiting to be told what the call was about.
Brass sighed " Were taking the next flight out to Denver,Colorado" he blurted
Gil made a face " What's in Colorado?"
Brass flipped his phone open preparing to make a phone call " We got a hit" he began " Someone reported seeing Catherine."
tbc
