Disclaimer: Ya, uh once again I do not own CSI/ anything from CSI or anything famous that I mention. But as I've said before I did make up the story.
Nick had been trying to call Greg's home and cell phone for about ten minutes when Grissom came in. "You get a hold of him yet?" Nick slowly shook his head, then said, "I can't imagine why he wouldn't be answering his phone, it's not like him." Grissom looked at Nick for a moment, then walked out the door and motioned for him to follow. When they got out in the hall Grissom turned to Nick and said," Why don't you go check it out, see if he's home...You do know where he lives right?" "Yeah" He replied. Nick had been over to Greg's to watch a game or two and play some X-Box.
When Nick arrived at Greg's apartment, he knocked on the door and then called Greg's name, but he got no answer. He checked the handle and to his surprise the door was unlocked. So he opened it and went inside to look for Greg. Eventually Nick gave up, he had searched the whole apartment two times. He decided to call Grissom and ask his opinion. "Grissom." "Hey, Gris, its Nick." "Hey, any sign of Greg?" Nick paused for a moment then said, "Nope, afraid not. Checked his apartment two times over and got nothing both times..." "Well I'm sure he'll call or just come tomorrow like nothing happ-..." "Grissom?" "Yeah, uh Nick we just got a package...It has Greg's name on the front." "I'll be right there."
When Nick arrived at the lab Grissom, Sara, Catherine, Warrick and Brass were already there. "So have you opened it yet?" asked Nick. "No, we were waiting for you." Grissom said. Then he turned his attention back to the package. He carefully opened the manila folder and took out its contents. There was a letter that was typed and a video tape. Grissom read the letter aloud, "Dear Mr. Grissom, I assume you have already noticed Mr. Gregory Sanders is not at work today. The reason for that I'm afraid is because he is with me, which for all of you, including him, is very unfortunate. You see, He was the reason my brother went to jail. If it wasn't for him neither of us would be miserable right now, I'm miserable because I don't have my one remaining family member with me, and him for reasons I expect you know. But unless you get him out of jail and assure me that we won't be on any wanted list and will just let us go, I am going to do things that you don't want me to do. I know Greg's worst fears, both of them, and I will make him pay for what he did slowly and painfully if my demands are not met. Oh and by the way, tell 'Nicky' and Warrick I said hi, and that I really enjoyed their conversation at the diner...David" After Grissom finished reading this aloud he looked up to Nick and Warrick who were staring at him with pure disbelief on their faces. Now it was time for the worst of the two things that were in the package, the video.
When Greg awoke, he stalled opening his eyes to try to assure himself that it was all just a very bad dream, but when he finally did open his eyes he very sadly figured out that it wasn't. He was still in that same chair and his cheek hurt slightly. About ten minutes after he woke up he heard someone come into the room. It was the same man from before. When he saw Greg was awake he laughed and motioned to the thing right above Greg's head. Greg was afraid to look up but he willed himself to. He wished he hadn't though. Above him Greg saw a faucet. He realized that it was a Chinese water torture machine that when you turn it on, only releases drops of water about every 5 seconds. He looked from the faucet to David, who was still laughing. Slowly he walked over to the faucet and turned it on. When the first drop fell on Greg's head he felt the greatest fear he had every felt. And it wasn't much better the next few minutes. He couldn't think and couldn't get away from the water, he tried to scream to see if anyone would hear him, but as soon as he did, David put a gag into Greg's mouth. Soon David left Greg to think alone with the absolute greatest fear actually happening to him and having nothing he could do to stop it.
Back at the lab, the whole team was watching the tape in Archie's lab. The first thing they saw on the screen was Greg sitting in a dentist type chair and his legs and wrists were strapped to it. Then they heard a voice that they assumed to be 'David's' say, "Well here's Greg, he fell asleep awhile ago, but I just thought that you should be able to see him." The camera slowly moved around to Greg's other side where there was a red mark in the shape of a hand on his cheek. Then the voice continued, "Ya, about that red mark, Greg was being a smart-ass and getting on my nerves so I smacked him. But I have left you with a number that you can reach me by." Then a paper was held in front of the camera with a number on it, which Grissom quickly took down, and after that the video ended.
Later in the Break room Nick and Warrick were talking about how one of them should have stayed and waited for him. When Sara came in they didn't even notice. So they just kept talking about how they were blaming themselves, when Sara heard this she smacked them on the head," You two could have never known that was going to happen, so stop blaming yourselves and come help us find Greg!" With that she walked out. Nick and Warrick looked at each other and nodded, and left the break room to start the search to find Greg.
TBC
Ya, once again this is where I'm ending it...and thank you to linschickrule101, and Scifi-warper for reviewing! D!
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