A/N: Here's chapter two. Sorry about the short-ness last time. And I still don't own CSI.


At the lab, Catherine was laying out some of the evidence they collected on the table. Her mind was back on Lindsey. She wanted to call her, but that might embarrass her. Who wants their mom checking up on them all day?

"Catherine, how's it going?" Nick walked into the room.

"Good. Do you want to help me with this?" She motioned towards the pile of trash that needed to be gone through.

"Sure. This is the double homicide?" He asked, walking over and picking up a wad of paper.

"Yeah, Greg's over at DNA running some samples we got." They sorted through the trash piece by piece, making small talk as they worked.

"How's Lindsey?" Nick asked.

"She's fine. I'm the one who's not fine. She's on a field trip. It's an over night thing, and they're out walking around down town. I just don't want her to get hurt."

"Oh. That's tough. She's growing up into a young lady, and that's gotta be tough on a mom." He said, attempting to sooth Catherine's nerves about it.

"Yeah, it really is." She picked up another wad of paper and un-crumpled it. "Thanks."

"No problem, I gotta be going. Warrick's going over some surveillance tapes from a kidnapping." Nick knew immediately that he shouldn't have said anything about 'kidnapping'. "I'm sure she's fine. Lindsey, I mean." He hurried out of there.

Catherine tried not to think about kidnapping, and hurried to finish the task at hand. When she was done, she went over the DNA lab.

"Hey Greg. Anything substantial?" She asked when Greg grabbed a printout of the results out of the printer.

"Yeah, I think we have enough to pull the co-worker in for questioning." His DNA's on a wad of gum we pulled from the trash." He answered, handing her the results.

"Nice work. I'll call Brass." They headed to the break room for some more coffee. The break room was empty, so Catherine took the couch. Greg made some coffee, and brought her a cup full.

"Thanks. I'm surprised you're sharing your special coffee." She said, taking a sip.

"This is a one time thing. Don't tell anyone." He said, sitting down on the chair.

Just then, Catherine's cell phone rang. "Willows," She answered the phone. "What?"… "How long?"… "I'll be right there."

"What was that about?" Greg asked.

"They can't find Lindsey. I have to go find her. She might be scared!" She was almost in hysterics by now.

Greg went over, attempting to calm her down. "You stay, I'll go look for her." It'll be ok. I promise."

Sara walked in right then. "Catherine! What's wrong?"

"Lindsey's missing. She went on a field trip, and they can't find her. I have to go look for her. She might be hurt!" Greg let Sara try to calm her down.

"I'm going to go look for her. I'll have Nick and Warrick get out there too. Where was she staying?"

"The Hilton Garden Inn."

"I know where that is. You stay here with Sara." He left the room. Nick and Warrick were briefing Grissom on the case.

"Guys! Lindsey's missing. She went on a field trip and they can't find her. Please come help me look for her."

"Okay. How do you want to do this? In pairs, or separate?" Warrick asked, putting down the papers he had in his hand. "What do we do with the cases we're on?"

"We can hand them off to the day shift. We'll cover more ground if we all go separately.

"Ok." They all headed out to their cars. Mean while, Sara was walking Catherine out to her car. They were going back to her place in case Lindsey found her way home, and to man the phone.

Catherine kept mumbling something to the effect of 'I knew it'.


TBC