Author's note: Sorry, I had to add angst. It's not too bad. I'm sorry about being so slow. I'll get chapter 19 up tonight. Maybe even 20. School starts tommorow so it'll be harder to update. Thanks for reading and leaving reviews. : )

SiddleChick- Sara will be okay. She always is on ragged edge of getting hurt or killed but, I won't kill her off I promise. You'll see what happened to her, in this chapter.

Hopeless-Savage- Thanks! The story definitely has picked up the pace and will continue to do so. There may be a slow chapter in there but, for the most part it's going to be filled with something major happening.

"Let me go" Sara screamed.

"No, I need you." Pete proclaimed.

"What do you need me for?"

"My own lust"

"You are disgusting pig"

"Sara, you know you don't mean that. I know you don't"

Sara figured it'd be best to just shut up. He'd managed to get her through the back door. How? She had no clue. As she looked down she realized that her cell phone was still on her. That meant they could track her whereabouts.

Back at the lab things weren't too hectic, yet. Grissom was questioning Brass about the suspect and how he managed to get her and get out.

"Grissom, what's going on around here?" Catherine asked.

"Well Sara is missing"

"Again? You've got to be kidding me, that girl is a modern Houdini."

"I wish I was kidding you Catherine. He's got her and no telling what he will do to her."

"Gris." Catherine said reaching out to hug him

"I'm sorry. I will have everyone come in, who isn't already, and have them work on this."

"Thanks, Catherine."

Grissom ran off to grab his kit. Now, this was ironic, processing a crime lab. He went straight to Sara's office and went through her computer while Greg processed the surrounding area. He stumbled across another letter to her old best friend.

It read: "Dear Ellie, Sounds like you're having a lot of fun. I am too; things between me and this Grissom guy are getting a little more serious now. I think he's the one. No, wait, I know he is. I just have this gut feeling about it. How are things with you and John? You know, I thought that date was going to be something magic but, I've discovered that the real magic is when we do little things, like watch old movies and even TV together. I just get this warm feeling. Greg just paged me so I'll let you go now. Bye."

Grissom was now even more focused on getting this guy.

"Grissom, I found something."

"What is it Greg?" Greg held up a paper with an address on it.

"I have never even heard of this place." Greg said, confused.

It hadn't been more than two minutes and Grissom was on the road with Greg in the passenger seat next to him. It took them about ten minutes but, they'd arrived at what appeared to be a lavish country house; semi-torn down but, livable and definitely would be worth a lot if it would just be cleaned up a lot. Grissom stepped out of his SUV and quick walked toward the house, he knew this place had to be of some significance.

He opened up the door and observed his surroundings for about a minute before continuing to look around the house. It didn't appear that anyone was there but, it could have just been a dump. He made it back to a small room near the back exit of the house.

"Sara?" he said upon seeing something that slightly resembled the girl he loved.

"Grissom" she said weakly.

He ran over to her scooping her up in his arms and running out to his SUV and got Greg.

"Is she okay?" Greg asked when Grissom told him that he found her.

"She's not doing really good but, not too terrible."

Greg sat in the back watching over Sara until an ambulance got there. Grissom climbed in the back with Sara as they took her away and clenched onto her hand, she was going to need all the emotional support she could get.

"Hello? Catherine?" Grissom said into his cell phone.

"What do you need Grissom?"

"Well I found Sara but, they're going to need to do an exam on her in the hospital and I was wondering if you would come and do this for her so, she'd feel more comfortable."

"Sure thing." As Catherine was hanging up she was already in her SUV.

While in the hospital room Sara didn't say much but, she didn't need to; he knew exactly how scared she felt and how insecure she was. A single tear floated down from Sara's eye as Grissom held her hand and bent down to kiss her. Catherine stood at the door watching him care for her; it was truly sweet. It nearly brought tears to her eyes.

She then came in and quickly got to work on the exam and finished quick, too. Grissom, later, learned the reason why she'd quickly left; Sara miserably failed the clock test, there was so much bruising it was a miracle she wasn't demanding pain killers. That was the Sara, Catherine knew, the one who kept strong and kept fighting. The first thing Catherine did when she got back to the lab was run down to Greg's lab.

"Greg, this is a priority. Test it against that Pete Summers guy and, anyone else of relevance."

"I'll page you when I get results"

Meanwhile at the hospital Sara was about to be released and given some pain medication, which she said she didn't need. Grissom brought Sara back to the lab; though she didn't have to be there it gave her something to do besides dwell on what happened so, she spent the rest of the shift helping out Greg and Hodges.

"Look we got a new lab tech" Catherine said handing Sara a bag of chocolate chip cookies.

"Thanks Catherine. They're homemade" Sara said quickly walking towards the break room.

"I bet you can guess who made them for you." Catherine said.

"Lindsey"

"In her little home economics class they are learning same basic cooking and they learned how to make chocolate chip cookies and, actually, made them there and she wanted you to have some."

"Wow, these are good." "

I know that's why I was quite hesitant on giving any away."

Sara gave Catherine a hug and headed to her locker to put them there since, she knew they wouldn't be safe in the break room. On her way there she was stopped by Grissom who was coming to check on her.

"What do you have there?" he asked.

"Oh, it's nothing" Sara said winking.

"Let's go to the break room" Grissom said knowing she had cookies.

Grissom went to the refrigerator and reached to grab out a ham sandwich but, stopped, realizing Sara probably wouldn't like him eating that in front of her.

"So what kind of cookies are those?" he asked scooting in a little closer to see it himself.

"They're homemade chocolate chip."

"Who made them?"

"Lindsey, in her home economics class they were learning how to make cookies and she wanted me to have some."

"These are good."

"I know that's why I was going to put them in my locker because; they wouldn't be safe in here."

Sara then got up and went to her locker and stashed away her cookies.

"Well, I'm going to go help out Greg some more." She said to Grissom.

"Greg, you know you aren't as good looking as me" Hodges said to Greg.

Sara loved over hearing little conversations between those two like these. It was so cute.

"I could have any girl I wanted." Greg boasted.

"Yea, and is that why Sara is with Grissom and not you?" Hodges snapped back.

"Well, she wasn't going for looks and that's obvious." Greg replied.

"But, still, you didn't get her and, even, I know how much you liked her."

"Look Hodges that's going beyond what we need to talk about, that's between me and myself." Greg said quite upset.

"Greg, you know, it's not good to keep things like that in." Hodges said wanting to know more.

"Fine, a while back I used to really, really like Sara and she repeatedly turned me down. It hurt. I didn't really care whether or not any one else liked me; just her. I did everything to impress her, to make her laugh."

"Is that why you have that ugly turban?"

"It made her smile when I put it on for that case so I keep so if the chance ever comes I'll know how to make her smile; though it was quite embarrassing when Grissom saw."

Just then Sara walked in.

"Am I interrupting things?" she asked.

"Nope my little buddy Greg was just admitting how much he loves you."

Sara and Greg both blushed. She could tell he was mad at Hodges for saying something so she just acted like she never heard Hodges.

"So, Greg, do you need me to do anything for you?"

"Nope"

"Well, I do." Hodges said nearly interrupting the one word Greg said.

"I didn't ask you, Hodges." Sara said, annoyed at him.

"Fine, I'll go make some coffee myself." Hodges said while leaving the room.

This left Sara and Greg alone, all alone. Kind of awkward but, he was used to it whenever he'd do something "funny" and Grissom saw it. He was glad that he didn't get a picture of him in that headdress; if Hodges got a hold of something like that he'd never see the end of it. Sara walked off after ten minutes of silence and Greg left too.

Sara found herself in Grissom's office; alone nothing but, her and his things. She found the glow of well preserved bugs comforting. She started checking each one out noting, to herself, which she really liked. Just then Grissom came in, holding a DNA results sheet.

"What's that?" Sara said, startled.

"It's the results from your "exam" compared to Pete Summer's."

"So is it a match" Sara said shaking.

"Yea" Grissom said, happily.

"Why are you so happy?"

"Turns out it's a match to you both times and he killed those three girls."

"Why is that a good thing I could have died?"

"He's…"

She didn't even let him finish before she stormed out crying.

"Sara, are you okay?" Catherine asked.

She'd seen her run towards the bathroom from Grissom's office and he just stood there in shock. She was curled over the toilet and puking her guts out. She was a wreck; she needed some one right now. Some one who wasn't male; it was obvious her attacker traumatized her badly.

"Catherine." She barely said before going into another puking rage.

"We need an ambulance" Catherine said into her phone to Brass.

She was losing consciousness and blood was mixing into her puke. She then fainted in Catherine's lap when she lifted her head up. The ambulance needed to get there fast.

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