A.N. - I dont mind if you want to add my story to a C2, is a Snickers... but it has other pairing. The snicker is slow now but it will come, even in bite size...?
I'm a NickSara C2 fan personally... hint...hint...

Story Title: Where Are You Under, I Wonder?

Author: BeTrAyEd DaUgHtErS

Chapter III: CSI for… Friendship

Life wasn't fair sometimes. If life gives us what we want every time, thing could get monotone, boring, unchallenging with no purpose in it. But why do things needed to go wrong in times like this, when each one of them was happy. Each one of them. Maybe that was it, they weren't supposed to know of happiness. All of their life had been like ridding a roller coaster, with its up and downs, raising to the top and then falling down fast and hard, almost missing hitting the ground, then to came back up again. They all have been in one hell of a ride, but from time to time a new ride could come up for them to try it.

In Catherine case, she wasn't that happy when she got the news that she wasn't going to be the supervisor of the swing shift anymore because the team was getting back together. But when she heard she was going to share the nightshift with Grissom she couldn't be happier she had missed them all. You heard right all of them even Sofia and her fights with Sara, they were her girls after all. She must admit that she feels jealous of the relationship Sara and Sofia have. Maybe if the team hadn't been separated the three of them could share that bond, but things happened for a reason. And maybe that's why it had happened to make them more inseparable.

Gil Grissom, that guy looked liked he had spend a night with Lady Heather, when he got the news. He couldn't believe that Conrad Ecklie had put them together again. That man was strange, even more than he was. Sure he had missed his chance with Sara, she was happy now and he was happy to see her smiled everyday. He wasn't sure if she could smile every time she heard his name, make her be on cloud nine when she thought of him, but he was glad someone was making her, she deserve it. Bedsides he had other things to worry about, like popping the question to certain woman before his time to be a father goes down… He should have had kids at this time… he should have had grandkids at this age… He hopes she said yes, he really hoped because they weren't even dating, and less she knew he was planning on having little eight legged… two legged crawlies… well two legged kids crawling everywhere. He couldn't have it any other way, it was 'every man's perfect dream'… his dream.

Nick had surprised everyone in how fast he recovered from the incident he had been through. He even visited that girl at the prison to clean his conscience and hers but she didn't buy it. After all that had happened to him, he seemed too relieve, so at peace for her liking. She thought he was there to blame it on her and to informed her that they were going to make charges against her, but that wasn't like Nick not at all. One thing that was for sure they needed to find the woman he had met that had change him so dramatically. The woman that had healed all his wounds physically and mentally. The woman that was obvious to everybody Nick Stokes was in love with. A woman that name starts with an 'R'. Rae. His Rae, how Nick loved to call her. He didn't know if it was coincidence, maybe destiny, or simply God knew how much he love birds, and send him one to keep him company. Either way he was grateful.

Greg he had just being happy that one of his best friends had made it alive. Sure he was taken the cases hard lately but his friends were always there to cheer him up and take him to nightclubs, science clubs and his favorite… strip clubs. Plus he had become Warrick's partner at clubbing, 'cause Nick's always decline saying that he had put a double and was tired as hell… Yeah right! His girl had him wrap around her finger, if she said no, he said no. But he was glad that he was happy, after all he had been thru, the least Nick deserves is happiness. At least Nick had luck on the love life. He on the other hand was grieving over woman he couldn't have, a woman that had stolen his heart, and a woman he worked with, a woman that wasn't Sara Sidle. He couldn't denied things suck at times but his friend were always there to help him suck the best of it.

Sara seemed mature, the hard ships of life had help her get there. Plus there is the mysterious 'Rob' she had started dating a month after Nick's incident, and its has been eleven months since that and they still were together. Sara had kept her relationship with 'Rob' out of everybody's reach, no one had met him personally, and they were dying too. The guys because they want to make clear, if he mess with Sara they knew how to make a murder look like a suicide or an accident. The girls on the other hand wanted to meet him, because Sara was on Cloud nine and grinning like a fool all the time. They knew he must be someone really special, because dealing with Sara Sidle wasn't an easy task. That guy either was dense as a mule or a really wimp that Sara had in the palm of her hand. But one thing was for sure wedding bells could be heard soon or at least that was the rumors that the lab technician had started.

Warrick. He was just glad that Nick had made it alive. He still blames himself, because of the coin toss, but Nick had made it clear to him that if it hadn't been that way he probably could not be here. Nick was right, Warrick could have not lasted more than 6 hours in the plexi glass box. He was happy all of his friends at last have seemed to find happiness and him… well he and the ladies were doing fine… just fine.

Sofia, she hadn't been there when Nick got kidnapped she had been sick and the doctor recommended she took a whole week for her recovery. But Sara had told her the news two days later, when she had come to look on her and see how was she doing. Sara new Sofia hated being at home as much as she did, so she keep her company. They had grown into really good friends, Sofia could not exaggerate things if she said they were best friends they knew each secret the other had, each one of them. After a rough start they had put their differences aside for a better co-worker relationship, which later took them by surprise, they weren't as different they thought they were. It was true that Catherine felt left behind but they always tried to have her in all her plans and 'lunch breakfast' meeting and other stuff. Like hell they argued, but they always finished laughing at the silliness of their arguments. Her love life that was a whole different story, it was going through some upside downs, but I was nothing she couldn't keep under control, at least she thought that way.

That was when they thought things could not get better. How wrong were they. Things could not get better, because they had just gotten worse. But one thing was for sure one of them had been taken away, kidnap or maybe gone.

Gone.

It sounded surreal but it could be possible and the only way to find out was to get to the lab and prey.

Prey that this was a bad joke.

Prey that they were all safe.

Prey for the best.

Just prey for their friends…

Las Vegas Crime Lab

As soon as they had gotten to the Lab, Sofia had tried to call the others from the phones in the offices, but that didn't work. She tried to used the police radios to contact the officer that were with the CSI on the crime scene but there was static in all of the channels. Whoever did this had jammed their personal phone, and really new what he or she was doing. So it didn't matter from where you were calling, their cell phones weren't simply going to work. She just took a seat by the meeting table and waited. There was nothing else to do but wait and see who wasn't going to show up.

Greg just stayed behind and watched how Sofia and Grissom tried to do everything to contact the others. He was still shaking and he knew that in his state he wasn't going to help at all, so he preferred to stay behind and watch them. He new Grissom understood that he wasn't capable of help at that moment and didn't push him to. He needed a couple of minutes to absorb what was going on.

Las Vegas Crime Lab – Grissom's Office

Grissom found himself surrounded by an unbearable silence that was only interrupted by these constant noises. A constant tap on the floor coming from Greg's shoes and click-click sound of the clock hanging in one of the walls of his office. He could even hear the soft chewing noises coming from Sofia's mouth as she bite her nails, she always did that when she was nervous and to tell the truth right now it was driving him insane.

"Could both of you get out of my office, Now!" he couldn't take it, he was sorry he had taken it on them but he needed to be alone right now. He was worried sick about Sara, Catherine and the others. He hoped they all came back safely.

Grissom's Office – 5 minutes after kicking Sofia and Greg out

Catherine came thru Grissom's office like a tornado, she knew things were bad. Some people call it mothers instinct, six sense, woman instinct, premonition, gut feeling, déjà vu. It doesn't matter how you call it right now, it never came to announce something good.

"Cath, thank God you're alright…" Grissom said relive to see her safe and sound. It was good to share the weight on his shoulders with someone else and who better than your right hand, someone you thrust and love with your life. "You got the note too?" he asked and she waved it for him to see it.

"Yeah I did. Griss who else is here with you?" she needed to be sure who hadn't come back yet.

"Sofia and Greg" he told her. "Is Warrick with you?" he asked. Warrick's crime scene was the closest to the Lab and he hadn't arrived yet. Things weren't looking good.

"No, he isn't here yet…? He should have been by now," she said as she looked at her watch. "Where are the others…?" she asked.

"Well does it look like I know… Catherine" said Grissom in an annoyed at her question.

"Hey chill out… I meant Sofia and Greg… Geez" it was obvious that Grissom was worried sick about the other and so was she.

"Probably in the Meeting room… I kind of kicked them out of my office…" he looked sorry. " They were driving me insane" he admitted.

"Griss it doesn't take much to do it, you already are" she tried to joke with him to make him calm down a bit, which worked when he faintly smiled. It wasn't much but he didn't smile on daily basis. "Hey, come on lets meet with them" she grabbed his hand and pulled his arm and he followed.

Lab Meeting Room – 10 minutes later after being kicked out of Grissom office

"I can't stand this… and can't believe he threw us out of his office… who does he think he is…" Sofia started to say as she stood up of her chair and begun to phase from side to side of the room.

"Our boss" said Greg not that Sofia had notice at all, she just kept on talking.

"I mean sure his our supervisor… but I didn't like his tone at all… I don't care he had asked me out to dinner… he has no right to talk to me like that…" She kept on going but Greg didn't miss the dinner invitation part she had mention.

"He did?" asked Greg which only confused Sofia more. He was just trying to forget what was going on, but on the other hand he had asked because of the jealousy at the pit of his stomach. He still could not forget what had happened between the two of them the night the team went for drinks to celebrate being back together. That woman was hard to forget sure he had tried to talk to her about what had happened, but she just shut him down every time he mention something. He had even made the comment of finding Brass daughter, Ellie hot to make her jealous. 'Heck, he even hit on every woman working on the lab and still he didn't pick up any signs of jealousy anywhere', and he had being doing it for the past ten months. But he wasn't going to give up so easily, he had let Sara go but Sofia going to get away, she was different, his heart to him so. At this point he was so lost in thoughts that he hadn't notice she was asking him 'He did what?'…'He did what?'… 'He did what?' what's she talking about… oh. "I meant, if it was true he had asked you to dinner?"

"Yeah. I know it was on friendly basics but I didn't want rumors spreading thru the lab, you know that's how they start going. So I politely decline, you don't need to worry Greg" she sounded like she was telling him not to worry about, she was still his. Especially since she had called him by his first name, which she doesn't. She always called him Sanders to get things clear and no hopes up. But she caught easily the mistake she had done and tried to change it. "I don't even know why I'm explaining to you…I don't need you permission or anything… that's my personal stuff" but things got worse.

"Oh your wrong, you do" by this point Greg had her pinned against the meeting table and himself. Looking for any signal through her eyes that said 'this is not right' but he found none. "You keep shooting me down and frankly I'm tired of it" He eyed her lips and looked at her eyes again before he made his assault. "I know you don't want to talk about this right now but… neither do I" He knew he shouldn't be taking advantage of the vulnerability of the moment but it was now or never and before her security walls came up and blocked him, he did. He was kissing her incessantly with the love and passion he had kept inside for months, and he was enjoining every moment of it. They were both enjoining every moment, every movement, every moan, every… but someone had to come through the door and ruin everything. They parted away instantly, panting, smoothing cloth and hair. Leaving Sofia wondering in which moment Greg had unclasped her bra, she just crossed her arms in front of her.

"Greg, Sofia. Catherine is here" said Grissom as he got in.

Luckily for the Grissom had entered them room looking down at the notes from the crime scene but Catherine on the other hand had seen everything. She just raised an eyebrow at them in surprise, but had this look that they knew she was going to talk to them and it wasn't going to be pretty. Even more because they haven't talked about it them selves, they didn't know where they were standing with this 'situation'.

Meeting Room - 15 minutes later

They had been waiting for almost fifteen minutes and still no sign of any one else. Grissom and Catherine were sitting in both ends of the meeting table while Sofia and Greg had tried to keep their distance after they were caught by Catherine but for some reason they found themselves sitting next to each other. And thou she could not see their hands, Catherine was positive they were holding them.

Sofia caught Catherine looking at them again with a rise eyebrow. She must have notice they were holding hands and she tried to loss her hold on Greg's but he couldn't let go. He was nervous and tapping his foot on the floor. She knew he needed her now, so she wasn't going to let go of his hand anytime soon. But Catherine kept looking at her in a defiant way. She was pushing her buttons and it was starting to piss her off and Catherine knew it. Catherine never had like her that much and she always found a way of showing it to her. Sofia didn't know what was her problem, they needed to get things straight.

"Got a problem?" asked Sofia, she was really tired of Catherine attitude. Greg felt the hard grip she made on his hand as she said this. Catherine must have kept looking at them, she knew Sofia didn't like to be push, to be bother, to be invade of her privacy.

"I don't know… you tell me" Catherine knew she had ask for it. She was always pushing her now. She pushed everyone when she was in a bad mood. "Anything you need to say, Sofia?" she said daring Sofia and she was going to keep pushing. At this point Grissom looked up from the notes.

"Ladies what's going on?" asked Grissom totally confused by their behavior, sure they didn't like each other that much, but this was not the time to express it.

"I don't know… ask her" Sofia dare Catherine back.

"Cath?" asked Grissom once again.

"You really want me to…" warned Catherine. Grissom looked lost, he didn't needed this now.

"Soph, drop it… we'll talk later…" Greg whispered to Sofia at her ear loud enough for Grissom and Catherine to hear and she seemed to calm down. He really had no idea what that did to her, until now. "Just drop it…kay" she nodded. He was pleased with her response.

Grissom saw this interaction and looked at Catherine, who was looking at him with wide eyes that were saying 'there you have it'. There he knew this was what they were fighting about. "We will, and I mean all of us, talk about this later" informed Grissom.

"Including me?" joked Warrick, no one had notice he had been since it all had started.

"Depends on how long you been there" answered Grissom to his now erase CSI member of the List of the missing ones. Only Nick and Sara to go.

"Warrick, your… fine" Catherine swallow hard as she saw him trying to push back the tears, thank God he was ok.

"Glad to see you here my man" said Greg to him, he was indeed glad to see him.

Sofia just nodded and he nodded back. He new she must be biting her tongue back to not keep fighting with Cath. "Gald to be here, man… Glad to be here" he notice who where missing. "Nick and Sara aren't back yet?" he asked no one in particular.

"No they aren't here, yet. We have to wait and see…" Grissom answered at everyone lost of words. "Nick's case is in the city limits and Sara's was one of the closest, but she is in a heavy traffic area, so it's going to take time for them to be here" he added.

"Crap man, I just hope is not Nick again" Said Warrick hoping for the best.

Meeting Room – 40 minutes later

They were all so deep in thoughts and tired that they didn't notice that forty minutes had gone by and much less noticed the person that peeked at the door and made its way back. Only to hear a couple of minutes later a crash noise that sounded like it was coming from two rooms down the hall, at the end of it to be exact, were the break room was. They saw people running down the hall including Archie who knew what was going on, and made their way there.

Break Room

When they arrived there, they saw the break room table upside down and some of the chairs in the same position. It looked like a mess, like someone either really strong or really piss off had taken his furry with the room. They were right, Archie was kneeled by this person side, who was seated on the floor with knees pulled to the chest and sobbing uncontrollably, muttering something that they could not hear, until they got closer. They wish they hadn't gotten that close.

"Why this is happening Arch… Why again… Fuck! Why him?" as those words left that mouth, they knew who had turned that table and the chairs, and more important they knew who was missing.

To Be Continue.


A.N. – No one told me that I was writing Sofia name wrong (I write it Sophia, on chapter 1 & 2). Second, as you can see I paired Greg and Sofia together. I have never seen or read a fiction that does, and I said what the heck… why not. Plus I think they will look cute together… I personally call the couple Grease, I don't know why but I do, my sister says that is because Greg has the 'rocker bad boy look', and I compare him to Danny in the movie. Then she said that I compared Sofia to Sandy, because neither of them felt like they belonged there, nor felt trusted. And the thing is that my sister may be right… Blah…

Anyways I hope you all like it and thanx to Mma63 for reviewing again I apriceate it, and to my new reviewer isabell89 (that's one of my nanna's name) keep reviewing…

And to all of those people that I know have read the chapters review if you want me to continue… I lose my inspiration if I don't see reviews… Plus I have riddles in this story that will come in future chapters for you to solve…

Adios,
Paufi