Catherine now felt tears falling down her cheeks as she held Sara tightly in her arms. Here they were, sitting in this truck holding each other like scared children. Sara could feel Catherine's warm tears fall onto her back and soak through the thin material of her shirt. Catherine and Sara both tightened their grip on eachother as the driver's side door of the truck was ripped open and they were once again exposed to the giant group of women.
Catherine shut her eyes tightly, wishing for everything to just disappear as she could hear the women advancing and one of them trying to crawl into the driver's seat. Just as one of the women was about to grab Catherine, screeching tires were heard in the distance. Catherine's head shot up, Sara still holding onto her tightly and she looked around for the source of the noise. Behind her, the group of women was now focused on the screeching tires and the small patrol lights that were now visible.
Two Tahoes and a handful of police patrol cars screeched to a stop about 100 feet away from the truck and the group of women. Brass jumped out of his car, Sofia by his side, their guns drawn. The doors of the Tahoes were thrown open and Greg, Warrick, Nick, and Grissom ran out. Brass and Sofia stepped in front of the rest of the team with their guns pointed at the group of women.
As if synchronized, each woman reached for a hidden weapon they had on them. Brass and Sofia quickly noticed this and advanced on the women, followed by five more officers. "Drop your weapons!" Brass yelled, his gun still held in front of him. "Drop your weapons!" he said again. "Don't make us shoot!" he yelled. The women slowly looked at each other and then each cocked their guns. This was all Brass and the officers needed to hear as they ran at the women and wrestled each of them to the ground.
After the weapons were out of the women's reach, Brass and the officers handcuffed each of the women. As the officers led the women to the patrol cars, all of them thrashing against the officers in protest, Sofia and Brass looked around. They looked in the front of the eighteen-wheeler, only to find the group of frightened and shaking women inside. "Catherine?" Sofia asked, stepping onto the small step of the truck. She slowly put a hand on her shoulder. "Catherine? Sara?" she asked, noticing the other woman in the truck.
Catherine turned and looked at Sofia. "How...did you know where we were?" Catherine asked, looking back at Brass and Sofia.
"You have a GPS unit in your cell phone..." Brass started. "Grissom was getting worried because you two were gone for so long. We tried to get ahold of you, but we couldn't, so we traced your phone's location, hoping that it would lead us to you two."
Catherine slowly nodded and turned back to Sara, who was still holding onto Catherine as tightly as she could. "We're going to need an ambulance," Catherine said quietly.
"Is everyone alright? Are you hurt?" Sofia asked.
"I'm fine. Sara's not. I don't know what they did but she's in pretty bad shape," Catherine said.
Sofia turned to Brass and with a quick nod, Brass whipped out his cell phone and called for an ambulance. Sofia turned back to Catherine and Sara. "You two can come out, the women are being arrested," Sofia said. Catherine nodded slowly and looked down at Sara.
"Sara?" she asked. "They're being arrested. Everyone's here now, we're safe," Catherine told her. Sara nodded slowly. "An ambulance is going to come, okay?" Catherine asked.
"Okay.." Sara said in a voice no more audible than a whisper. Catherine knew that they could get out of the vehicle, but she didn't want to leave Sara alone, as she still seemed pretty shooken up, and she didn't want to do anything that would make Sara's injuries worse, as she did not know exactly how serious her injuries were.
"Catherine!" Grissom called, running over to the truck. He stopped when he reached them and stood in the path of the open driver's side door.
"Yes?" Catherine said, turning to look at Grissom.
"Are you both okay?" he asked, looking at her and Sara.
"I'm okay, but Sara's not," Catherine said. "An ambulance is coming.."
Grissom nodded as the rest of the team ran over. They each gave Catherine a friendly hug, but they couldn't get to Sara because she refused to let go of Catherine. The ambulance finally arrived and the EMTs ran to the truck. "Maam," one of them said to Catherine. "Can you please come with us so we can make sure you don't have any injuries?"
Catherine looked at the EMT. "I'm fine, my friend's the one who needs medical attention," Catherine said, looking down at Sara. The EMT nodded and they ran around to the passenger's side door, opening it and putting a hand on Sara's shoulder.
"Maam, could you come with us?" one of them asked.
Sara quickly shook her head and buried her head in Catherine's chest. Catherine put a hand on Sara's back and rubbed it softly. "Sara, you need to go get checked up, you're in pretty bad shape," Catherine told her.
Sara slowly looked up at Catherine. "...Will you come with me?" she asked.
Catherine shot her a small smile. "Of course, if you want me to." Sara quickly nodded.
"Okay...I'll go," Sara said, turning to look at the EMT. They grabbed a stretcher and ran back to Sara, helping her out of the truck and onto the stretcher. Catherine jumped out and ran around to Sara's side, jumping into the ambulance next to her and sitting down, holding her hand tightly.
"Thanks Cath," Sara said quietly.
Catherine just nodded. "No problem."
Sara looked at the EMTs as they crawled in the back of the ambulance with both of them and shut the doors, driving off.
