When Catherine and Lydia came home that morning, they saw that the door was open, they were both alarmed by it, but they assumed that Lindsey had just left it open and that she was outside. They both took out guns and they entered the house and called her name desperately. Then they saw the living room; all of the furniture was broken and on the television a letter had been taped. Catherine went to take it off, but Lydia stopped her.

"We need to call this in mom, we can't touch anything you know that."

Catherine just nodded and she started to cry. Lydia wrapped her arms around her mother, and they walked back outside. As they went, Lydia used her phone to call 911 to report that Lindsey was missing. Within half an hour the police and night shift CSI team had arrived.

Before Brass could ask any questions Grissom went over to his loves and hugged them tightly. Grissom, Catherine, and Lydia cried into one another as Brass, Sara, and Greg tried to calm them down. Sophia stood there not certain of what to do.

"I'm so sorry Cath," Grissom whispered to her.

She looked into his eyes and she said, "Why her, why now, everything was so good."

"Don't worry, we'll get her back, I promise that to both of you."

"But it's my fault dad, it's all my fault." Lydia said as her head was buried in his shoulder.

He just stroked her long hair and he whispered soothingly, "No it's not you can't blame yourself for this."

She stopped crying and looked up at him. "No, you don't understand, it is my fault, I didn't tell you guys and I should have, and now he probably has her, it's my fault!" Then she wrenched out of his embrace and she went over to the side to cry on her own. Greg went over to her to and he put an arm around and he held her as she wept. Grissom and Catherine looked hurt and confused.

Then Grissom told Sara and Sophia to start processing, and to find out what the note said as quickly as possible. The two women complied.

"Hey, why don't you four come down to the lab where we can talk ok?" Brass asked, it wasn't really a request, but since they were friends and he was concerned, he said it kindly. They complied, and Catherine and Grissom went with Brass while Greg and Lydia went in his car.

At the lab Brass gave them all coffee and they sat around a table. Greg had wrapped one arm around Lydia and he was holding her hand with the other. Grissom was doing the same thing to Catherine.

"Ok guys, why don't you tell me as much as you can about what happened and then I'll ask you a few questions," Brass said.

They nodded, and then they told him about what they had seen when they came home.

"All right, Lydia, what did you mean when you said that it was your fault," he asked. They all looked at her and she looked very heartbroken. Greg whispered to her, "It's ok baby, they need to know what's happening so that they can help Lindsey."

She nodded, took a deep breath and told them everything about her ex-boyfriend. How he had been abusive and possessive, and how he had been arrested for trying to rape her. Her parents started to cry at her confession, and Brass asked her why she thought it was him, and she told them that her ex had been released from prison released from prison recently and that he had already contacted her. Then Brass' phone rang, so he answered it and he took down what he was told.

"Was his name Mark Collins," Brass asked when he got off the phone. She nodded, and then she broke down into sobs. Brass relayed what the note said, "He said to deliver five million dollars to a post office box by noon or Lindsey is dead. I guess not telling us about him was a bad move, where do you plan on getting that kind of money?"

Catherine looked Brass straight in the eye and said, "I know someone." Lydia looked up at her hopefully, and the men looked at her suspiciously. Then she got up and said, "Come on Liddy, it's time to see your grandfather." And then the two women walked out of the room arm in arm as the men looked on.

TBC...

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