Title: Come Together
Summary: Catherine officially declares Grissom and Sara as missing. The team then begins to process what little evidence they have.
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Tick tock. Tick tock. The minute hand reached the twelve. Warrick and Nick were sitting on the couch in the break room. They had both finished their cases and were waiting for the end of shift. Catherine walked in. She too glanced up at the clock. "Well, if they haven't called in five minutes," she said, consulting her watch, "I will declare them missing." Warrick stood up and stretched.
"I'll stay after shift and start processing their case," He volunteered. Nick nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, we need to get our geeks back!" he said, sounding mildly serious. "I'm gonna go see if Greg would be willing to help. He needs to get in the field more, anyways." Nick exited the room, heading towards the lab. Warrick saw the anxious look in Catherine's eyes and took her hand.
"Hey, everything will be alright!" He whispered in her ear, trying to soothe her. Catherine gently rested her head on his shoulder. They stayed in that position for three minutes, rocking back and forth. Catherine's beeper went off. She looked down.
"Doctor Robbins?" she exclaimed, "What does he want?"
The doctor paced in the morgue. He was doing an autopsy when the thought hit him! Why would Grissom call him if he wasn't coming to work? It was now common knowledge in the station that both Grissom and Sara were missing. He thought back to the day of the call. When Al answered his phone that day, Grissom hadn't sounded like himself. The line had been full of static. Knowing Grissom, he would have tried to call again if he was disconnected. Unless… The doctor sat down at his desk and grabbed his pager. He sent a quick message to Catherine. Grissom must have been kidnapped!
Nick and Greg pulled the bagged cell phones out of a box. It had been a little over a half hour since Catherine had put out a missing persons report on Grissom and Sara. The only evidence they had so far was the two cell phones. The two men had just began to lift fingerprints off of the phones, when a very pissed Conrad Ecklie burst in.
"Where in the hell are they?" Ecklie shouted.
"Wh-wh-who?" Greg stuttered. (He had just recently encountered a mad Ecklie, and was not going to soon forget the experience.)
"Grissom and Sara!" Ecklie fumed. "Have you seen their roaming charges? $300!" He slammed the paper down on the table. "They have been calling each other from somewhere in the middle of the desert!" Nick snatched up the phone bill.
"Do you know exactly where?" he asked, scanning the paper. Greg pointed to a figure on the page.
"Near cell tower #6517," he told them. "Do you think that whoever had Grissom's phone called from there and left all those messages on Sara's cell?" Nick looked up.
"Greg, I think it is time we took a little road trip."
A/N: Yes, it is a bad chapter. It is way too short and I have gone way to long without updating. I am really, really sorry! Please forgive me!