URBAN LEGEND...

Disclaimer: I don't own anything that has to do with CSI or anything
to do with Urban legends used within the fic

Gil and Nick arrived back at the lab and much to their surprise it was deserted.

"Where is everyone?" Nick called from behind Gil.

Gil shook his head and continued down the hallway toward the break room.

"They should have been here by know." he whispered to himself, as he dialed Catherine's cell phone again " Come on Cath answer."

Gil dropped Nick's bag by the break room door. " I'm going down to Ecklie's office to see if he is there. Wait for me here. If Cath comes page me."

Not exactly sure what was happening Nick sat down at the table and grabbed a magazine.

Gil knocked on Ecklie's door and walked in. The room was dark and no one was there.

He flipped on the light and walked around behind his desk to use the phone.

Picking up the phone he found no dial tone. He checked to make sure if was plugged in properly and then he tried again. Nothing happened.

Gil picked up the phone, and noticed one of the connecting wires had been stripped. Not thinking much of it he opened the drawers to Ecklie's desk and began rummaging around. At the bottom of the second drawer Gil stopped when he found a black bag. Not wanting to be nosey he bypassed the bag and kept looking searching.

After a few minutes he stopped, not even sure what he was looking for he slid the drawer closed and sat back in the chair. But curiosity got the best of him and he reached in for the bag.

Gil opened the bag and froze.

Catherine was sitting in the front seat of Ecklie's tahoe and Sara as in the back.At first Neither of them spoke to him as he continued down the road.

Catherine was the first to break the silence. " SO Ecklie" she paused " How was the conference?"

Ecklie was caught off guard with the question. " Ahh..." he stammered " It was okay, I bet Gil would have enjoyed it more so then I did."

Catherine made a face. That was it? she thought, nothing else to say?
"Well, what did you do? I mean what was it about.?"

Ecklie ignored the question as he pulled into a hardware store parking lot.

"I'll be right back" he replied " Gil wanted me to stop for something?"

As soon as Ecklie was in the store and out of sight Sara spoke up.

"What's with all the questions? Why do we care about anything Ecklie does?"

It's just wierd that he doesn't know what conference was about. It's like he wasn't even there." Catherine replied as she popped open the glove compartment.

"What are you doing?" Sara called to her

Catherine ignored her as she pulled out his plane ticket " he never went" she whispered

"What?" Sara called confused

"The bastard never went" she said holding up the ticket. "Which means he has been in Vegas the whole time and he.." she trailed off when she pulled out his list of names. Every name had been crossed off.

"He's coming back" Sara called

Catherine threw the ticket back into the glove compartment and slammed it shut.

"Shit" she blurted out when she noticed she had dropped the small slip of paper.

Catherine reached down under the seat trying to feel for it.

"Got it! she pulled it out and crumpled it into her hands and then bent back down.

"What are you doing?" Sara called to her

Catherine didn't know, she had felt something else and she had to know what it was. She gripped the hard cover and slid it out.

"Urban Legends" she whispered slamming the book back under just in time.

Ecklie climbed in and smiled "Let's go." he said pulling back onto the road and heading toward the lab.

Gil ran out of Ecklie's office and toward the break room. " Nick!" he called " Nick!"

Nick came staggering out into the hallway.

"It's Ecklie!" he yelled " It's Ecklie and that bastard has Catherine and Sara."

Nick made a face still confused as to what was happening.

Gil jumped on his cell and tried getting a hold of Brass...

While Nick made his way down to Ecklie's office to see what had made Gil freak out.

There on Ecklie's desk was a black mask, along with the same knife he used to stab Warrick and Catherine, the keys to Catherine's suv that were lost during her pursuit and to the left in a refrigerated cooler bag was Greg's stolen kidney .

TBC

Ya I know ...gross...