Story Title: Revenge

Chapter Title: In The Shadows

Author: BlondeNeko (fanfiction) / Weisy (livejournal)

Disclaimer: Same as usual.

The evidence Aiden and Danny had collected from Doug's apartment lay scattered about on the layout table, Aiden bent over a microscope, Danny dusting for prints. Both of them were deep in thought as they did their job.

When Aiden had arrived earlier that morning, Danny had asked her what happened on the road to cause the huge traffic jam and Aiden responded with a puzzled look.

She had no idea what the hell he was talking about.

"Hey Danny, take a look at this." Aiden said as she stepped away from the microscope as he pulled himself away from dusting to look. He removed his glasses and placed them on his head as he looked down into the microscope, Aiden watching him from the side.

"Is that?"

"White powder. I'm guessing cocaine how about you?"

Danny lifted his face away from the microscope and sighed, placing his hands on the layout table. "Her brother is a drug addict or he's a dealer."

"Maybe Michelle got into the way. Maybe she found out about her brothers drugs and since she's so young she ran off to tell their mother?"

"Doug finds out, takes the knife, finds Michelle when she's sleeping and stabs her?"

"I don't know Danny. This isn't making any sense. We found Doug's prints all over that knife."

"But there may be more than one involved." Danny said as Aiden raised her brow at him. "We found multiple footprints outside of the home."

"Alright, so he had help?"

"I'm guessing so."

Aiden sighed and rubbed her head. "Let's go back to the crime scene."

"Why?"

"We must be missing something. There has got to be something there that we're not seeing."

"I'm goin' to stay here."

Now it was Aiden's turn to ask, "Why?"

"I'm getting a hunch in Douggie's stuff. I'll continue searching the evidence here and you can go back to the crime scene. We'll cover more ground."

"But, who's taking me to the crime scene?"

"Call Flack." Danny said as he placed his glasses back on his nose before walking away from the microscope and over to where he was working in the beginning.

Aiden's heart started beating faster again and she knew she'd have no chance of concentrating on the crime scene if Flack was with her. There would be no chance in hell. "I can't."

"Yes you can. Just press the keys on your cell and tell him to get his ass over here."

"No, that's not what I meant." She said as Danny glanced up from his work. "I mean, I want you to come."

"No you don't. What is up? Between you and Flack that is. I didn't believe that bull he pulled on me with the cell phone. 'We must have switched at the crime lab'. Bull shit. That's the lamest excuse I've ever heard in my life." He said, a smirk playing across his lips.

Aiden was blushing and she had to look away from him. Danny laughed. "So, what happened?"

"Nothing." She answered too quickly.

"You didn't have a nice romantic dinner under the moonlight?" Danny teased as Aiden shot him a death glare.

"You're such an ass." She said, playfully hitting him on the arm as she began to make her way out of the lab. Aiden didn't have the patience to joke around with the situation right now.

"You owe me Burn." Danny called after her. "You owe me one for not running to Mac."

"Yeah, yeah." Aiden said, waving him off with her hand as she closed the layout room door behind her.

"Don," Aiden warned him as the two of them stepped out of the crime lab vehicle and began to walk to Michelle's house, "don't try to do anything while we're here. Remember, we're working."

Flack smirked at her as they stepped up to the Lincoln's front door and opened it before stepping inside.

The Lincoln family had chosen to stay with a close relative until their home was cleared from the murder leaving the CSI's alone to do their work.

"I'm serious." She said, as they turned down one of the hallways and turned into Michelle's room.

The room had not changed since they last had been here. The bed, wall and floor all covered in blood, the desk and TV badly ruined, chairs laid tossed onto the floor along with papers. It looked like a Tornado had come through.

"What are you exactly looking for?" Flack asked, leaning against the doorframe as he watched her step over the chair on the floor.

"Anything that I didn't see before." She responded, pulling out her camera. "Something is here that Danny and I missed."

"I'll go check in the other rooms." He said, peeling himself off of the doorframe and walked off, leaving Aiden alone in Michelle's room.

Aiden took more pictures as she re looked around the room. She picked up the bed covers and tossed them aside only to come across nothing. She sighed a frustrated sigh as she turned back around and scanned the area. Something had to be there. Something.

And then it moved. The closet door had moved.

Aiden swallowed hard and her heart started to pound faster. "Flack?" She asked, as she looked to the doorway, waiting from a response.

There was none.

"Flack?" She called again as the closet door creaked open. Her eyes widened the door revealed a man, gun drawn on her. "FLACK!"

But in a matter of seconds, the assailant attacked Aiden, sending her to the floor, her head hitting the desk on her way down. He then took her camera and tossed it before grabbing her wrists and wrapping them in rope.

She tried to call Flack's name again but her head was spinning from the fall and the assailant had the gun too close to her face. She could feet hot tears in her eyes as her blood fell down the back of her head and down her neck.

Aiden would have fought back but she it was too late.

Everything went black.

TBC.

Yes, updating as fast as I can! Hate to leave you all on a cliffhanger but that's my job. ;D Keep up with your reviews because I LOVE THEM. :D In this chapter I didn't bother to put my responses to your reviews because I wanted to get chapter six started right away.