LINGER
Characters are not mine… sorry for not updating for a while there… Thanks for all the reviews!
Chapter 9:
Greg was in complete hysterics by the time the rest of the team arrived. And no one could blame him. Both Sara and Elicia were missing and there didn't seem to be any clues to where they'd been taken.
"Greg!" Grissom yelled, trying to get the younger mans attention as he paced frantically in front of the park entrance, attempting to hold back tears in front of his colleagues.
He looked up at Grissom. "We have to find them," he said, choking back a sob.
Grissom nodded, offering no words of false hope. He knew just as well as did Greg who had them. Reserving judgment wasn't going to work this time. There wasn't enough time. Not when he knew Shane had made bail the previous night.
He pulled out his cell, calling detective Brass who had not yet arrived on the scene. "Jim. Put an APB out on Shane Radcliffe."
That got Greg's attention. "He's out?"
Grissom hung up after Brass agreed to the APB. "Yes, Greg. He made bail last night."
"Who the hell authorized that!" he yelled. It had taken the guy a month to make bail, he'd been pretty sure it wasn't happening.
"You need to calm down!" Grissom replied. "You aren't helping."
Greg glared at him. "May daughter and my best friend are missing." He choose to leave out the fact that he and Sara had been dating pretty regularly, although Elicia had joined them on these 'dates' he knew Grissom still wouldn't take it well. "What would you have me do?"
Grissom sighed. "Anything but what you are doing."
"Sara…" Elicia sounded upset as she tugged on her hand as the car finally came to stop after what seemed like hours.
Sara looked around, seeing that they were definitely off the strip, probably bordering on the desert. "Where are we?" she asked, daring to speak to the man in the front, whom she suspected to be Shane.
"Shut up," he growled, pulling Sara from the car, Elicia still attached to her arm.
Someone else approached the car, lifting a squirming Elicia into their arms.
"Sara!" the little girl cried, frantically trying to get to her friend.
However, Sara couldn't do very much to help as the man had her at gunpoint again. "Let Elicia go!" Sara begged, watching as Greg's little girl managed to elbow her captor in the ribs and squirm a few feet away.
Sara struggled against the man's grasp, holding Elicia close, knowing there was nowhere for her to run for help. "Do what they say, Elicia…" she whispered into the little girls ear. "Do what they say and your Daddy'll be able to save us."
She felt Elicia nod as she stood up straight, pulling Elicia into her arms, gun still pressed into her back.
"We'll do what you want." She agreed, feeling the gun back off a bit. She regretted having to give up so easily but she wasn't about to do something that would put Elicia at risk.
The man led them to an abandoned house; she had noticed it on the way to where the car stopped and had taken care to drag her heels, quite literally to give the team, assuming they got this far, a hint.
"Why are you doing this?" Sara asked, still holding Elicia tightly in her arms as they walked into the house.
"You should know. You're the one who sent me to jail. Along with the brat's father." That had confirmed it. The man was, without a doubt, Shane.
Okay… seems like a good place to stop for now… I'll be editing the second Chapter of 'I Will Never Be With You' so again, I won't be sleeping tonight. I'm so glad I'm nocturnal…. Hey I'd be great working night shift at CSI… hehehe…. Review!
