LINGER

Characters are not mine… sorry for not updating for a while there


Chapter 8:

"You ready to go, Elicia?" Sara called to the little girl playing on the swings at the park.

Greg had gotten called in to work earlier that evening and Sara had volunteered to watch her for him as she had been off. In the month that had passed since Elicia's arrival and Shane's arrest, Elicia had grown closer to both her and Greg.

"Yeah, Sara!" she replied, running over to her.

Sra quickly moved to her side as Elicia fell on the pavement. "You okay, sweetie?" she asked, rolling up the leg of Elicia's jeans to the knee.

Elicia was silent, Sara mentally noting her rather high tolerance for pain.

The cut wasn't bad, but it was bleeding a bit so Sara lifted her into her arms and proceeded to her car for the first-aid kit in the back.

"Better?" Sara asked, setting her on the ground once the scrape was bandaged.

Elicia nodded. "Thanks, Sara."

"Freeze." A deep male voice ordered from behind them. Both of them did, feeling the barrel of a gun pressed against her skull. "Get in the car."

"What's going on, Sara?" Elicia asked, attaching herself to Sara's side as she climbed in beside the little girl.

Sara held Elicia close, knowing full well who had just climbed into the driver's seat. "It'll be okay, baby." She whispered, attempting to reassure her.

Elicia just held on tighter to Sara.


Greg was getting worried. Sara was definitely supposed to be back from the park with Elicia by now.

"Where are they?' he asked, pacing the floor of his apartment as he dialed her cell phone.

There was no answer.

A wave of fear swept through him. "Something's wrong…" His gut told him that something had happened and he would find out what.

He grabbed his coat and headed out the door.

"Sara! Elicia!" he called into the empty park, it was only about nine am and only a handful of people were there.

He approached a woman sitting on a bench nearby. "Excuse me," he said. "Have you seen a little girl who looks kind of like me and or a woman with brown hair around here anywhere?"

The woman shook her head.

"Thanks," Greg said, walking away to survey the play ground once before he got desperate and called in Brass.

Elicia's teddy bear, which she had so aptly name 'Ted-Ted' and was her constant companion lay on the bench several feet away.

"Okay. I know she'd never leave that behind." He said, picking it up. He headed towards the parking lot, seeing if there was anything useful there.

Greg spotted something silver near one of the open spaces. "please don't let that be a cell phone…" he said to himself, but found that it was. Sara's cell phone, to be more precise.

"Please, let them be okay." He said to himself as he called to inform Grissom of this new situation.


Okay… good place to stop… Not sure if I'm gonna update A Tale Of Two Friends or not, but I'll try. Assuming this actually gets posted tonight… stupid computer… Review! Nope, I didn't update ATo2F, sorry bout that...