"Grissom!" Catherine was walking through the lab looking for her boss. "Grissom!" she called again. She sighed as she walked into the evidence room to find Nick and Warrick going over their case.
"Have you guys seen Grissom?" Catherine asked them. Warrick looked up, as did Nick.
"Um…no, why?" Nick asked.
Catherine sighed. "Shift's over, I need to go pick Lindsey up."
"Then go pick her up," came Grissom's voice. He was standing in the doorway.
"There you are! Okay, I'm leaving for the night, catch you guys later," Catherine said walking out after the guys said goodbye.
Catherine got into her SUV and started the car, hoping that both Lindsey and Sara had a good time. She backed up and drove out of the parking lot, heading toward Sara's apartment. What Sara didn't realize, Catherine thought, was that she was a lot better than kids that she thought she was. Catherine smiled as she pulled up to the apartment complex and got out of her car.
She knocked on the door. "Sara?"
No answer.
"Sara?" she knocked again.
No answer. There wasn't even background noise from a television.
"Sara! It's Catherine."
No answer.
She picked up her cell phone and dialed Sara's number.
No answer.
"Sara? It's Catherine…listen, you're not at your apartment, so I'm just calling to see where you were…okay, bye," she said leaving a voice message. She closed her phone and rubbed her forehead. She just wanted to go home.
"Lindsey, where'd you go?" Sara asked rounding a corner. Lindsey had disappeared, and she had left her cell phone in her car. She kept walking around the corners, never seeming to get any closer to where she needed to be.
"Lindsey?"
She got no answer. She swallowed hard as panic began to grow inside of her. She reached for her gun that was usually holstered on her side. Damn- she forgot it wasn't there. She walked around each corner cautiously ready to attack if anything jumped out at her.
She heard a muffled voice in the distance.
"Lindsey? Come on, this isn't funny. Come out."
She walked closer to the source of the noise.
"Lindsey?" she said. She saw the sweater that the little girl had been wearing on the ground.
"L-Lindsey, I'm serious, come out now. Stop playing." She just reassured herself that it was a joke. It had to be. Lindsey couldn't be gone; Catherine had trusted her. She turned around as she heard footsteps approaching her. She felt a stinging pain in her head as she fell to the ground motionless.
Catherine drove around for a long while, thinking of all the possible places Sara could have taken Lindsey. She tried the movie theater, searching the parking lot for Sara's car. She didn't find it. She went to the park- no dice. She sighed as she drove. She had been circling the town for hours and still nothing.
"God…" Catherine said rubbing her temple. She was exhausted. All she wanted was to go home and sleep knowing that her daughter was safe. She parked in front of a restaurant before resting her head on the steering wheel.
Where could they be? They weren't at Sara's apartment and they weren't at the movie theater or the park…wait.
She looked up…is that Sara's car?
She got out of her car and locked the door. She went around to the SUV in front of her and saw the LVPD sticker in the front window. She sighed in relief. She walked into the restaurant only to find no Sara or Lindsey. Crap.
She ran out of the restaurant, panicked. What could have happened? She ran around the corner to find Lindsey sitting in the corner hugging her knees.
"Lindsey!" Catherine ran over to her daughter who was in tears. She hugged her tightly. "My god, Lindsey! You scared me!" she said wiping the tears away from her daughter's face. "Where's Sara?"
Lindsey shook her head. "I don't know…we were walking out of the restaurant and were going to go to Sara's apartment…she said she'd help me with my homework," Lindsey said crying and clinging to her mother's shoulder.
"Then what happened, Lindsey?"
"I was walking behind Sara and this guy grabbed me…he put something up to my face…it smelt really bad. I don't know what happened after that," Lindsey cried.
"Shh…it's okay," Catherine said holding the girl. "It's going to be okay."
Lindsey soon stopped crying and she carried the now sleeping girl to her car. She drove to her house and carried Lindsey to her bed, tucking her in. She soon fell asleep on the couch, completely forgetting about Sara.
She soon woke up and headed to the kitchen, making herself a cup of coffee. Her eyes widened. Sara! What happened to Sara?
"Damn," Catherine muttered and looked at her watch. She looked back at the sleeping Lindsey. She had to find Sara…what if something happened to her? She grabbed her keys and locked all the doors and windows to the house and left Lindsey. She'd be back soon.
Hopefully.
She jumped into her car after wiping the sleep from her eyes and started the car. She turned on the air to keep her awake and the radio. She drove back to where she found Lindsey and ran out.
"Sara?"
She got no answer as she continued down the corners of the alley.
"Sara, are you there?"
Still no answer- she continued down the alley- still no Sara.
Now her heart was pounding loudly. She just forgot about Sara. How could she have done that? Sara could be in trouble!
She looked down in front of her to see a bracelet on the ground. Wait…she recognized that. It was Sara's!
"Oh no…" Catherine said picking it up off the ground.
Sara had been kidnapped.