Chapter 12

Catherine and Grissom arrived outside the Crime Lab. They showed their passes outside the front doors to security and walked in the door. They headed to the break room. Greg was standing there talking with Warrick. Warrick and Catherine met eyes. Catherine went over to the coffee pot to pour herself a cup. She thought about it for a second but decided to not to. She could feel the acid churn in her stomach. She opened up the fridge and pulled out a bottle of water. Warrick walked up beside her.

" Cath...are you o.k. ? You don't look too good. "

Cath looked at his face. There was such concern in those beautiful green eyes. She went to touch his face but decided not to.

" I'm just fighting a bug. It kind of hit me all the sudden. "

Grissom looks over at them talking. Cath looks him in the face.

" I'm just worried about you. "

" I know. Thank you. " She touched his hand on the counter and looked at him.

" Cath..."

Catherine looked at Warrick in that moment for the first time as the father of her unborn child. He was such a beautiful caring man. She could not have found a better father for her child. But...there was Tina. She touches her stomach.

" Sorry I just feel a bit green. "

" Here let me help you sit down. "

" Thanks. "

Warrick led her over to a chair. She sat down. He sat beside her.

" Cath can we talk ? " He whispered to her. " We need to deal with what happened. "

" Not here but we do should talk. " How was she going to tell him that he was going to be a father ?

" So Grissom. " Greg was trying to get Grissom's attention. Grissom was watching Cath and Warrick.

" What is this big break that you found Greg ? "

" I was going to go tell you in your office but you weren't there. "

" I had to take care of something. " Grissom looks over at Catherine. Warrick sees the look between them. " So what is it spit it out. " Grissom knew that Greg liked to make a big production of showing him evidence.

" Anyway Sara and I were spending some extra time here after hours mind you. "

" And ? "

" We were looking over the box like you suggested. We found the transmitter for the webcam. We pulled it out of the box and were looking at it. Ecklie came by and remarked that it looked like the ones that he used for his model airplanes. "

" Ecklie has a life outside of this office who knew ? " Warrick remarks.

" And ? " Grissom was getting a bit irritated about how much Greg was dragging this out.

" Ecklie's comment got us thinking. Model Airplanes are a specialty hobby. We pulled off the serial number and ran the number and found that Ecklie was right. There were only a couple sold to hobby stores in the Las Vegas area. "

" O.k. and... "

" Sara and Sofia are checking it out. "

" We may have found something. " Sara comes into the room with Sofia. " We went to a couple of hobby shops with the transmitter and found out that it indeed can be used for model airplanes. They have a very specialized clientele. We asked them that if in the last couple of months they had any clients that seemed out of place and we got a hit. Jason Reynolds. "

" Who is Jason Reynolds ? " Grissom questioned.

" He's been in our interrogation room as a material witness for the last couple of hours. Brass has been grilling him. He told us that a guy paid him to build a special type of transmitter for a web-cam... "

" Who was the guy ? " Grissom was getting excited. They could be close to the puppet-master.

" Adam Novak." Sara said knowing what the teams reaction would be.

" What ! " Catherine tried to cover her shock. Warrick touched her hand.

" We know that he had a grudge against this office. I did some more digging and found out that Adam Novak worked for Jules, Hayward and Walker here in Las Vegas as a public defender. He was fired soon after our case against him. "

" That's motive. I want everyone to find out all the information on Adam Novak. I want to be careful about this. I want to make sure that we have a solid case against him before we go against him. Greg I want you to go over the phone logs and see if there is anything linking Walter Gordon and the law firm. Warrick go over Novak's past and see what you can dig up on him." Grissom looks at Catherine.

" Sure. Cath... "

" I'll be fine. " Catherine gets up and walks out of the room. Warrick follows her.

" Cath..."

" I can't believe that he's a part of this. I did this to Nicky..."

Warrick touches her shoulders.

" Hey it's not your fault. What happened. Happened. Nothing that we can do about it. "

" He came and saw Lindsey and my mother. "

Warrick turns Cath to face him.

" He did what ? Did you call Brass ? "

" No I think that he just wanted to scare me. " Warrick touches her face not caring who sees him. He pulls her into his arms.

" No one is going to touch you o.k. Novak will have to go through me first. "

Catherine feels green to the gills. She looks at Warrick.

" Cath ? "

" I'll be fine. Just tell Grissom I'm going to take those couple of days off that he suggested. I shouldn't touch this case after what happened before. "

" O.k. Cath look about what you wanted to talk about earlier. "

" We need to talk but I need to think first."

Cath leaves.