Chapter 4: Hickory Dickory Dock

By Sliver Hair Fox

Grissom was with Archie, Brass and Nick. Archie was working frantically to get a good still of the cardboard logo, but they were soon interrupted by Grissom's cell phone, "Keep working," Grissom told Archie while he walked out, "Grissom," he said answering the cell phone, "Right… on it when the rest of the team gets here… yes… Henderson? Okay," Grissom said then hung up his cell phone. As he walked back into the Voice/Sound lab, Catherine came in.

"What's going on?" she asked, looking at Archie who finally zoomed in on the logo.

"You have a 419 out on Henderson, I want you to take Warrick and Sarah with you." Grissom said.

"Gil, just what the hell is going on?" Catherine asked knowing something was up, something wasn't right.

Grissom sighed, "Tasha, Maddy and Pam have been kidnapped." Grissom informed her taking her out to the hall.

"What the hell? And you want me to work on some 419!" Catherine said outraged.

"Cath, I need you to take over the Henderson case," Grissom said, in a calm normal tone.

"GIL! I'm not going to leave my friends like that! For fuck sakes, just let me work on their case!" Catherine yelled.

"Catherine! Go work on the Henderson case. I got Nick, Brass, Archie, and myself on the kidnapping." Grissom said leaving no room for argument. Catherine went to say something, but knew by the tone in Grissom's voice that there was no more point in arguing. She sighed and stormed off, forgetting to get the address. Grissom stood there, and not 30 seconds later she was back standing in front of him, she snatched the address out of Grissom's hand and went back off.

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Natasha was in agony, the shoulder she was shot in now had more pain, and she could feel the constant trickle of blood all down her arm. Tears were freely flowing as the pain continued with each passing heartbeat. The only refuge she had was the daydream that Brass would save her and her friends. The continuous thumping of pain filled Maddy broken forefinger. Her green/blue hair was matted, tears slowly stopped forming in her eyes, she just wished for one thing the world right now would be for her Greggo to hold her, and make everything all better. She knew that now escaping this hell on earth would be futile. Both Maddy and Natasha watched as the three men walked out of the room, leaving them there in their own pain, knowing that there was no escape now.

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Greg looked at the picture of Maddy one last time before he got up, as he looked at it he kissed the picture and ran his finger down the side of it, "I'll find you and make sure everything will be alright. I wont let this happen again," He whispered and he got up and put it in this pocket. As he entered the Voice/Sound lab, he looked at his friends who were hastily working, trying to make the picture of the logo clearer.

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The hour was up the screen popped up on Archie's monitor, it was going to happen.

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"Doug, you got it just fixed on Natasha?" Regan asked, in a evil thick filled voice.

"Sure do Boss, she looks so cute when she's scared." Doug said watching her on the laptop.

"Can I help boss?" George asked in a child like voice, with a hint of whine apparent in it.

"Go stand by Doug you dumb-ass." Regan said as he ran his hand down Natasha's chest, she twitched and tried to pull away the best she could, but it was futile due to the ropes. Ragan grabbed a hand full of her hair and pulled her head back, "Don't pull away from me, you wont like what happens," he whispered in her ear then bit it. Natasha screamed out in pain.

"Tasha!" Maddy yelled, trying to get back out of the ropes, to help her friend.

"Shut her up!" Regan yelled as he pulled back harder on Natasha's hair, as one of the accomplices went to shut Maddy up Regan put his other hand firmly on Natasha's wounded shoulder and squeezed on it. Natasha cried out in pain, "Every time you cry out, you will get punished," Regan whispered, then punched Natasha in the mouth. She coughed and blood came out. Over the next ten minutes, Regan attacked her, until she was knocked out, "Hand me that cardboard." Regan ordered.

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Brass watched with the rest, he was horrified and for the first time actually scared for Natasha, was the white cardboard showed up again on the monitor it read:

Hickordy Dickory Dock,

An hour tell the next.

Brass read this and stormed out of the lab, he needed somewhere were he could think. He knew that Grissom would follow most likely so he went to his car. He sat there, tears started to fall freely again, the second person next to his daughter he cared about in the world, was getting hurt. It was ripping his heart out. He needed to do something. Anything. He needed to save her. Someway.

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"Tasha!" Maddy whispered, pain apparent in her voice, her lip was busted open due to the punch she received to shut her up. The three captors left the warehouse to get some coffee and spend an hour tell the next torture. The only response Maddy received was a mumble of Natasha. Natasha had a bloody nose, two black eyes, a tooth knocked out, a busted lip, and two broken ribs, along with many bruises. Maddy sighed, "Hang in there Tash, we'll get out of this." She said in a comforting tone, wishing she could believe her own words.

"Guys?" Pam muttered, the tranquilizer was wearing off and now she was half awake.

"Pam, we're here." Maddy said trying to get out of the ropes. She knew she needed to get herself and her friends out of this.

"What happened?" Pam asked.

Maddy paused for a second, "Tasha just got a beating, she will be okay," she informed Pam. Maddy looked over at Natasha, who now was unconscious.

Pamela moved to get the best view she could of Natasha, "Oh my god…" Pamela said in voice barley above a whisper.

Natasha's head was laying to the left; she looked like she just came through hell backwards. Maddy watched her for a second, "We have to make a plan to get out of here." She stated.

"No shit!" Pam replied.

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The three captors at in a coffee shop, Starbucks to be precise, "So who should be next?" George asked; as Dough took imbibe of his coffee.

"Well, you know we didn't do much to Maddy," Doug replied.

"Okay, we got an hour to decide." Regan answered, then pondered for a few minutes, and kept his hands on his coffee cup then looked up when George spoke.

"Why not Pam?" he asked.

"Yeah, I mean I did like her tell that bastard Nick took her from me." Regan said.

"Boss, why are we doing this again?" Doug asked.

"Because you moron, Brass, Nick and Greg took the only three girls I liked!" Regan said trying to keep his voice down so that he didn't draw attention to himself.

Doug hung his head low, "Right boss."

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"Can you get a fix on it?" Grissom asked Archie, patients was not one of Grissom's virtues right now.

"I'm trying!" Archie said, "The angle is making it hard."

Grissom hung his head low, Nick was the next one to speak, "Where did Brass go?"

"Out for fresh air I think," Greg answered.

Grissom sighed, "We need to get what we can from the clips."

"Don't you think we know that?" Nick asked.

"Keep you head on you shoulders." Greg answered.

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"We should head back, it takes up 15 minutes to get back to the ware house." George said.

"So its Pam next?" Dough asked.

"Yes!" Regan said, wishing he should have just done this all on his own.

"I can attack her?" George asked, in a perky mood.

Regan started to grind his teeth, "Why not," he muttered, slurring the words together.

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"Pam, how far are you?" Maddy asked, still trying to get the ropes off, they were starting to wear on her skin.

"Damn it!" Pam yelled, "I'm getting no where!"

Natasha moaned, "'Bout time you woke up." Maddy said with a smile turning to look at Natasha.

"Bite me," Natasha muttered.

"Fuck!" Pam yelled.

"What?" Maddy asked, turning to her.

"These damn ropes burn." Pam replied.

"No duh!" Natasha said her head was pounded.

"Having fun?" George asked in a sly voice as he entered the warehouse.

"Great just what we need," Natasha muttered.

Regan walked over to Natasha, "Doug get the web cam set up on Pam," Regan ordered.

"Wait just a damn minute." Pam yelled, was George walked over to her, "Get away from me you pervert!"

George smacked her across the face, "Damn it George wait tell I get the cam running!" Doug said.

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Brass finally collected his thoughts, know it was for the best; he headed back to the Voice/Sound lab. As he entered he saw that everyone was still there, before anyone could greet him the window popped up again, this time it was zoomed in on Pam.

"Oh shit!" Nick yelled, "Not her."

"Who would you rather it be?" Greg asked.

"None of them!" Nick scowled.

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George walked away for a moment, and then waked back with a small handheld knife, Pamela's eyes went wide. Natasha spoke up, more like yelled, "Get away from her you jackass!"

Regan grabbed Natasha's sore jaw and held it tight, "Shut up or I'll break your pretty jaw." He warned.

"You wouldn't dare!" Natasha said then some how got out of it and bite down hard on his hand, enough to break the skin.

Regan cried out in pain, Maddy saw what happened and yelled, "Go Tasha!"

"You bitch!" Regan yelled after Natasha let go, and spat out a mix of her own blood and his. Regan haled off punched Natasha in the jaw.

Dough by this time was watching George on the web cam. George too the knife and cut Pam's shirt off, leaving her in a black bra. He traced her stomach downwards with the knife, not pressing hard enough to draw blood, and then with out a warning he punched her as hard as he could in the stomach. Pam screamed and started to cough, trying to catch her breath. George grabbed her by the throat and pushed her head back to the table. George then with the knife in his other hand made a small cut across her stomach, the blood trickled down on to the table.

"Get off of her!" Maddy yelled, trying her best to get out of the ropes, even with the broken forefinger.

"Doug, never mind that stupid web cam, leave it on! Get that little bitch down and shut her up!" Regan yelled, as he held Natasha down. Doug went to move but Regan stopped him, "Wait, I got an idea." He said, Doug and George stopped, Pam now as crying, "Doug set it up to all three cams, we torture all three and leave them here for an hour, with the cams on. That why their 'lovers' can see them."

"Great idea boss." Doug said setting up the cams.

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"What are they doing?" Brass asked, horror apparent in his voice.

"Oh my god!" Greg and Nick said in unison.

"They are showing us the three of them." Grissom said, hiding all emotion.

"Damn it! We need to get to them," Brass, said anger in his voice.

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All three girls screamed out in pain when the captor started to attack them. After an hour, all three girls were laying there, left by the guys. Natasha along with Pam were crying, Maddy was knocked out about 10 minutes before they were left in a bloody heap.

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"There, I think we did a good job." Regan said as he drove.

"That was fun!" Doug commented in the back seat of the small red car.

"Man they are hot!" George said daydreaming.

"Get your mind out of the gutter," Regan said taking a hand off the wheel and smacking him on the back of the head.

"Regan!" Doug screamed, the car went into the on coming lane and the passenger's side was destroyed. The car was in a mangled wreck. Doug and George were killed on impact, but Regan walked away from the wreckage having narrowly escaped by jumping out of the car. A passer by called 9-1-1 and an ambulance, and O'Reily were the ones that showed up. Figuring there as more to this then met the eye, O'Reily called Grissom.

"Hey Grissom I think you might want to send one of your guys down here." O'Reily said into the cell phone.

"Not right now O'Reily." Grissom said, watching the web cam along with the rest.

"No there was a car crash on the west end." O'Reily countered.

"Fine give me the address I'll send out Warrick." Grissom said.