"OK, so we'll have myself, Sara and Greg at the warehouse, the rest of you, stay here. Keep looking for that gun. Nick, are you sure you left it in the locker room?"

"I know I did"

"Well, Felix may well have it, but incase he doesn't there's no need to be getting worked up over it. We don't even know if he's going to harm her."

"Griss, all due respect, but why would he take her with no intention of harming her? We already know he killed Mr. Sanders."

"Warrick, please, please don't talk like that, she's my little sister"

"Sorry man."

Grissom had gotten everyone together to help find Alyssa, they all trusted Greg's idea that they would be at the warehouse and were trying their hardest to keep him from falling apart.

"So, we ready?"

From around the room came a unison "Yes," and they all left to their posts.

Brass caught Catherine by the arm as she exited the room

"We know why she tried to hide it." Nick and Warrick were waiting for her to help them with the gun search, but with this sentence she turned to them and said "You guys go, I have to do something" they left and Catherine went back to Brass.

"OK, give me what you got."

"If we found out about the benefits we could contact the insurance company's to tell them to cancel. Now we know, we can do that anyway, but we finally got out of her some information."

"Tell"

"She's paying Felix out of the benefit money. Now she can't. Felix doesn't know yet. Do you reckon Alyssa could work out what the money was for?"

"She's a smart kid. I think we may just find her alive, I think she can get out of it."

"I hope she can."

"Lyss, I'm so sorry."

"You can't do it Fel. If I die, you won't get paid; mum won't get the money unless I'm alive. You'll go to jail"

The comment about his payment didn't seem to make it to him "I'm going there if I don't kill you. I know you, you'll tell 'Greggo'. I knew there was a reason I hated him. You two were always so close; it stopped me from going out with you."

"He was right" she spat "I should have listened to him, I shouldn't have…" she stopped as she saw Felix's inky finger close around the trigger. "Felix, please, don't do it, you promised you'd never hurt me."

"It won't hurt. If you let me close enough, it won't even register in your pretty mind, what's going on." Tears streamed down both their faces.

"Fel, don't do it. I won't tell. You're scaring me Felix…please stop" as she spoke, he inched towards her. Alyssa backed up against a wall. A wall she remembered... "Fel, look, it's our wall, remember, we used those big crayons to draw all these pictures when we were kids…look…" she pointed at a couple of words written when they were 8

Felix and Lyssa

Best Friends FOREVER.

She pleaded one last time "Felix, please, put the gun down. Please." And he finally did. He took his finger off the trigger and lowered Nick's gun to the ground. Alyssa drew in a long shuddering breath and slid down the wall. Felix sat on the warehouse floor, staring blankly at the words drawn in pink and blue crayon there to stay for eternity.

From outside they both heard sirens whirring and heard the sound of voices.

"Lyss, Squirt, where are you?"

"Sara, you take perimeter."

"Right, you'll find her Greg."

"I know. LYSSA."

She wanted to call out to him but couldn't find the energy. Instead she sat and waited, trusting her brother to find her. She no longer felt threatened by Felix and wasn't worried that he would hurt her anymore.

The trust of her brother was soon justified.

"Lyss! Oh my God, are you OK?" he hugged her tightly, thinking of perhaps never letting her go, "Oh my God, oh my God. Did he hurt you? Did he touch you? If he did…" he turned his head to the sobbing Felix, "If you hurt her, you'll never come out of that prison cell, I'll make sure of that."

Half a dozen police officers followed Greg in and cuffed Felix. He looked back to Alyssa as he walked out and dropped a piece of paper to the ground and looked at it to say, "It's yours Lyss". She broke her hug with Greg to pick up the paper. She unfolded it slowly and saw a long letter written to her apologizing for killing her father, apologizing for everything.

She read it and cried uncontrollably for several hours. Greg comforted her through every second of it. Through the drive back to the lab, through the interview and then through watching Felix being lead away.

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