I love seeing all those comments! I love it! Thanks to everyone I deff. have the spirit to keep going with this story. Sorry kittyluv, you kept your end of the bargain but i didnt, til now!lol. Well, hope you enjoy this chappie! Just to forwarn you I'm gonna get a little more crazy, so bare with me.

Chapter 16: Torturous Affairs

"Yeah it's Keith Richards. He claimed to not know McKinsee when we took him into questioning. McKinsee told us he gave Nigel's body after he 'died' to Richards but Richards claimed he never knew him, is McKinsee helping him?" Nick explained to Greg.

"Yeah, him and that secretary or at least she knows about it." Greg added on.

"I understand why Crane is doing this but I don't know why the other three are helping him." Nick wondered allowed

"McKinsee said that he's like Crane's second cousin so that's why he's helping out. I don't know why the other two are helping." Greg replied.

"You'll both find out eventually." Crane sneared through the door. He unlocked it and came in. "It's been a while Nick."

"Yea." Nick retorted.

"But fortunetely we get all the time we need to ourselves."

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that Gregory will be leaving us." He laughed. Greg began to get nervous.

"What?" Nick shouted.

"You see, Richards and Malone have a, bone to pick with him." He answered. As he said that, the door openned and here the two came. richards rushed Greg and hit him in the back of the head, knocking him out.

"Leave him alone!" Nick said, starting towards Greg.

"Stop right there Nick." Nigel warned, pointing a gun at Greg. "Stay there or he'll die now."

Nick reluctantly stopped. "What are you going to do to him?" Nick asked Richards.

"Believe me, he'll tell you all about it." He grinned. He picked Greg up and took him out of the room.

"Finally, we are finally able to spend quality time together. Hungry?" Nigel asked casually.

0000

"Tell me you've got the blood results?" Catherine asked Hodges impatiently. She had been pacing outside the lab for about a half an hour.

"It's coming now." He paused, allowing the paper to print out. "There are two hits. One is Crane's and the other is... Nick's"

"Shit, thanks Hodges." Catherine said, going to find Grissom. When she spotted him she called for him and obviously he turned around.

"Are you okay?" He asked.

"Not anymore, it was Crane he was in Nicky's apartment. Nick and crane must have been fighting and fell on the table. Nigel must have won or caught Nick off guard and took Nick with him." Catherine explained.

"Hey Grissom sorry to interupt but.." Brass said coming up to them. They looked over and saw a boy, maybe around thirteen, or fourteen standing behind him.

"You brought in a kid?" Grissom asked.

"This kid, Bryan Philips, has something to tell you." Brass said.

"Is there something you'd like to tell me Mr. Philips." Grissom asked.

"It's just Bryan sir." Bryan corrected him.

"My mistake, Bryan, is there something you'd like to tell me?"

"Well yesterday I was walking home from football practice and I saw these three guys walking out of the parking lot that my mom lives in. One of them, the one leading had dark short brown hair, he was pretty tall. The second one had blonde and brown hair, spikey crazy hair, it looked cool, and the other, was small dark hair and wore glasses. The middle guy, is arms were behind his back and the two in the front looked scared or nervous or something sir." He began.

"Is that all?" Grissom asked nicely.

"No sir, not all. Well I looked closer and there was a piece of metal in the small guys hand, it looked like a gun sir. So I watched them get into a black mazda and I got the license plate and then they drove off sir." He finished.

"Bryan, you have helped us out moer than you can ever imagine. Can you tell me the license plate number please?" Grissom asked, pulling a pencil and sheet of paper out of his clipboard.

"Yeah, it was, NIC32KY sir." He told him.

"Thank you for your help." Grissom told the kid. "Archie, can you escort this young man to the front door?" He asked Archie nodded his head and took the boy. "Do you see what I see?" Grissom asked Brass and Catherine.

"N.I.C.K.Y, Nicky." Catherine discovered.

"Yep, Brass did anyone ever find that one license plate, 'WHOAMI'?" Grissom asked.

"No, but I went around to different shops and one told me that they made that one and the desrciption of the person that bought it was Nigel's." He answered.

"Do you think he could have more than one lincense plate?" Catherine asked.

"Possibly. Put out a search for this license plate, hopefully we'll get lucky." Grissom said.

0000

"Now where am I?" Greg asked himself, as he groggily woke up. He looked around his surrounding to find out that he was standing up with his arms cuffed and above him. They pulled him up to where he could barely stand on his toes. "Not comfortable."

"Glad to see you like it?" Richards said coming out of the dark corner.

"What do you want?" Greg asked.

"Revenge. that's the only reason I've agreed to help Crane by hiding that dead body they posed as his and making your CSI pals look in the wrong direction."

"Revenge? Revenge against who?"

"You of course. It was just lucky that you happen to be best buddies with the guy Crane wanted."

"What did I ever do to you?"

"You ran into the damn courtroom while my mother was on trial and found that one piece of evidence to lock her up for the rest of her life. You had to find that tiny piece of hair on that man she killed. YOU found it, YOU tested it and YOU put her behind bars. So naturally I want to cause you as much pain as you caused me." Greg looked behind him and saw a whip.

"Damnit Greg, don't ever run into a courtroom again!" Greg thought to himself. "Look I'm sorry but she was dangerous, what if she hurt you?" Greg tried to fend for himself.

"She would never hurt me." He said, he took the whip in one hand and brought out a knife. He came up to Greg and cut off his shirt. He then stood back and whipped Greg. He screamed out in tremendous pain.

"Please...don't." Greg begged. "Please."

Richards began to whip him one after another on the back and on the chest.He kept going until Greg couldn't bare it anymore and passed out. Poor Greggo, he wont want to wake back up to reality.

0000

"Grissom it's Brass." Brass said over his cell phone.

"Yea." Grissom replied

"We found the car, it's in a drive way. We're about to go in, are you guys coming?" He asked.

"We'll be there in five." Grissom said. He got directions to the house and called Catherine, Warrick and Sara and they quickly left.

0000

Well I know it was short but at least I updated lol. Sorry but I've been working and playing tennis a lot because it's important to me to make Varisty. I'll try my hardest to update soon. Of couse by Saturday it will be a while because I'm one of the many Harry Potter nerds and I'll be glued to the book. See you all later!

Love

Jackie