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 10
I was not entirely certain as to how long a flight from Nevada to Denver Colorado would take so I just guessed...
Three hours later Gil and Brass raced into the grocery store to meet the women who claimed she had spotted Catherine.
Brass pulled out his badge and flashed it to a young cashier " Jim Brass Las Vegas Police department, I'm looking for Jane Kurrie."
The young women smiled " She's in her office, I can call her out for you."
Seconds later Jane approached the front of the store.
"You from Vegas?" she called before even reaching them " They said they were going to send someone out."
Brass nodded " holding up his badge once more. " You said you spotted the women in this picture?" he held up a picture of Catherine.
Jane nodded taking the picture from is hand. " Yep..Yeah that's her, except" she paused.
"Except what?" Gil replied
"Except" Jane continued " Her hair was brown, and she had a big bruise around her eye, that's probably why she had the glasses on."
Brass turned to Gil and then back to Jane " What exactly happened? Just take us through it."
Jane smiled " Yeah...Well, I was working the cash because we were short. I saw her come in, at first I didn't really notice her, just another customer right? So anyway, she walked to aisle four,stationary.. grabbed a package of pens and walked to the back of the store. She came back about three minutes later and put her things on the counter."
Gil cut her off " What things?" hoping something might help them find her
Jane raised her eyebrow trying to remember specific items " wasn't much, you know everyday items, milk, bread.." he paused " nothing exciting. Anyway she pulled the money from her pocket and when she bent her head her glasses fell off, that's when I saw the bruise. She looked at me and then her eyes darted toward the parking lot, three was a guy in a brown car with a young girl. She started shaking like she had done something wrong. My guess is that her glasses weren't supposed to come off. She threw a fifty dollar bill on the counter grabbed her things and took off."
"She didn't say anything to you?" Brass added
Jane shook her head " No, nothing and at first I thought nothing off you know another possessive boyfriend or husband, I see it all the time. I took the money and unwrapped it," she pulled the bill out of her pocket and handed it to Brass. " I put it in a bag, like so if there was prints you could use them. I think she wrote that on there."
Gil took the money from Brass and tried to interpret the five number Catherine left behind, while Jane continued.
"I never would have called you but that night I went home and had found some old video tapes, I popped one of the in the vcr and during one of the show I had taped the breaking news came on and her face popped up along with the little girl, then it hit me and I called the hotline..." she stopped and looked over at Gil who was muttering under his breath. " What's he doing?"
Brass went toward Gil " Figure it out?"
Gil nodded " Five digits..a date..house number." he paused " ZIP CODE!" he blurted
Catherine as jolted from her sleep by the sound of Eric rummaging through the closet.
When he noticed she had waken, a smile formed on his face and he walked toward the bed and sat beside her.
"Morning my beautiful bride to be." he leaned in and rested his hand on her shoulder "Did you sleep well? You and I have a big day ahead of us."
Catherine jerked away from his revolting touch but didn't reply.
"What's this about? he began " we talked about this" he stood as, anger began to set in " What is the matter with you? Don't you trust me yet?"
Catherine stayed as still as possible and refused to look in his direction
Eric grabbed her face and forced her to make eye contact " Your beautiful and today were going to be married." he leaned in and placed his lips on hers.
Catherine pulled away once more. " You make me sick." she muttered " get your hands off me."
Eric stood in front of her, his fists clenching, his breathing grew heavy. he was thinking about what had happened with Elizabeth. " Elizabeth refused to co-operate with me, you know what happened to her?"
Catherine ignored him as best as she could
"I killed her. She was so undisciplined, she was ruining what we had, but I thought you were different." he leaned in again. " I have been so patient with you." he pushed her on her back. " SO patient and you wont even try, you never try!" he climbed on top of her as he screamed " I wanted to wait. I wanted to wait , so you could trust me, and so that everything would work out, you should be married before a man and a women commit sexually. I thought that you would work with me and help make it easier."
Eric continued to scream and much to her surprise he climbed off of her and began pacing. " Someone took my wife from me." he yelled " Someone took my daughter from me. I never knew, I don't know to this day what ever happened to them. I just wanted that feeling back,. I wanted a family again. Elizabeth didn't want to make it work. But I thought you would!" he turned to her and slammed her back on the bed once more. " YOU WILL MAKE IT WORK" he screamed"
Catherine tried pushing him off " You can't just.." she began
"SHUT UP!" he snapped " running his hand across her waistline " No more excuses, I'm going to teach you a valuable lesson."
Catherine knew what he meant and began to struggle against him. " Please" she tried to stop him " You don't have to.." she was stopped when his mouth pressed against hers and his tongue made it 's way into her mouth.
Catherine turned her head to the side and Eric took that as an invitation and trailed down her neck.
"ERIC!" she pleaded " Please" she called as she felt his hands reaching for her bottoms. " ERIC NO!"
Catherine was ready to give up when it hit her, maybe playing along would buy her some time. " WAIT!"
Eric didn't listen but she tried again
"I want to wait! I want to wait until our wedding night..."
Eric stopped his attack and sat up, his expression changed instantly and he was smiling again " I knew you would come around. " he stood up " Tonight" he whispered " Tonight..we consummate the relationship."
TBC
