A/N: Well the wait is over guys sorry it took me longer than expected to update i know how frustrating it is when stories leave you hanging like that... Again, thanks for taking the time to review its lovely to know that people are reading your hard work. So chapter 15 and its all about to get rather interesting...

For a moment, Grissom was too numb to move, watched the flames licking up from the remains of the cabin, which had been blown apart. Catherine had been sent flying by the force of the blast and was lying in the dirt, head down not moving. Sara and Warrick who had been examining tread marks were also injured. Sara lay in disbelief at the fiery scene in front of her, the cabin was gone, and so was… "NICK!" she screamed his name over and over, tears streaming down her bloody and mud caked face. "NICK!" dazed, she tried to get to her feet, only to be pulled back by an equally stunned Warrick.

"Sara no! You can't go in there, there could be more blasts! If Nick was in there then…" His voice got caught in his throat as he choked back the tears that were threatening to spill. "We've gotta help Cat" he said indicating the redheaded still form lying yards away. Warrick ran forward to her side and checked for breathing "She's unconscious but alive!" He shouted, relieved. The paramedics who had arrived in case Greg was there immediately ran over to tend the injured Catherine.

Sara got up off the ground, blood streaming down her face, her hands grazed and hurt, shakily she got to her feet and surveyed the scene in front of her, where the building once stood was now a smouldering mess of charred remains. Suddenly her eyes spotted something behind the building a small black bundle almost buried by dirt. "Nick?" She whispered to herself, as she stumbled forward she could see him more clearly "Nick!" Ignoring the pleas of the fire marshal that had arrived on the scene, she ran to his side, tenderly she rolled him over and gasped, his face was bloody and blackened, terrified she checked for a pulse, she almost cried with relief when she felt the faint pounding in his neck. "He's alive!" She cried joyfully to Warrick who was rushing to her side,she carefullycradledNick's head in her lap"Nick's alive! I need a medic here!" she shouted to urgently to the waiting medical teams.

Grissom finally snapped out of his mini trance when he heard Sara's cries.Mulling over in his mind, what had just happenedPaul had deliberately lured them here, he had tricked them againhe had planted a bomb in the hut,with the intention of killing whoever entered the sickening trap but Catherine and Nick had survived the deadly blast.. Grissom watched unnerved as his two injured CSI's were loaded into the ambulances. Warrick and Sara who had minor cuts and burns were tended to by the paramedics as Grissom was reluctantly treated for shock. "They going to be OK?" He asked to no one in particular/

"It seems Nick bore the brunt of the blast butcouldn't have been in the cabin at thetime, if he was he wouldn't have had a chance of surviving" Warrick said surveying the smouldering remains. "Catherine was knocked unconscious from behind by the force of the explosion but she's going to be OK, they both are, they were lucky"

Grissom breathed a sigh of relief, when the building blew up seemingly with Nick in it… He shuddered at the awful memory of the explosion, with Paul's manic laughter ringing in his ears as he watched the building disappear before his very eyes

. The priority was still locating Greg, only now he was two crucial team members down, Catherine and Nick would both require an overnight stay at the hospital no matter how much they would protest when they both regained consciousness. It was dark now, almost coming around to 24 hours since Greg was kidnapped. Their only lead it seemed now was to find the accomplice.

"Did you manage to get samples of the blood before the explosion?" He asked Sara, his mind returning to the work at hand

"Yes" she confirmed "and the blood stained rock, I'm running them for tests as soon as I get back to the lab"

"Did you find out anything else?"

"The soil was very disturbed and kicked up in places, like a scuffle had taken place on the ground" Sara reported her findings

"Greg fought him" Grissom mused, feeling a small swelling of pride that Greg hadnt given up, he was a fighter, just like he thought he was.

"The way these footprints sink heavily into the ground, indicates he was probably carrying Greg" added Warrick. "The car was parked here, so he had to carry him a fair bit, possibly he was unconscious or ..." Warricks voice tailed off, not wanting to exhaust that fear they all carried in their mind.

"But that doesn't tell us an awful lot" Grissom moaned frustrated. "Sara what did you get from the friend?"

"Not a lot" she admitted. "He called David, that's our vic, at around 8.30pm to arrange to go out later. David said he would meet him at 12: 00am, when he didn't show he went round to find out why"

"Brass said there was no sign of forced entry; they knew the killer, what was this kid's alibi for the time of the murders?"

"Pretty solid one, he was at one of the big casinos until about 12:00am, gambling problem, CCTV confirms it" Grissom sighed, right back to suqare one and time was running out.His phone immediately started vibrating. It was probably Paul gloating about the bomb. He bit his tongue and was surprised to find it was Ecklie.

"Ecklie, what's up?"

"I found your accomplice Grissom" He said somewhat breathlessly.

Grissom was definitely listening now "What? How? Has somebody come in and confessed." He could feel his hopes rising once again.

"No not exactly. Remember those clothes in the lab, you wanted routinely tested?"

"Yes, Jack Robin's?"

"Well we just got the test results back. His top was already bloodstained before he was shot"

"I'm listening"

"There were two sources of blood, one was obviously from the bullet, but we also found a speck of blood that didn't belong to Jack Robins. The blood is your vic's David Walmsley"

"Thanks" he said quickly,stunned he hung up, he was immediately confronted by Sara.

"What is it Grissom" She said terrified it was bad news about Greg

"We've found our accomplice"

"Great" she said "Who?"

"It's Jack Robins"

A/N: Of course i couldnt kill Nick! but i didnt just do this for the shock factor as you'll see later, hopefully new chapter will be up towards this end of this week.