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Authors Note: Thank you again to those of you who have sent reviews. You guys are awesome. A special thanks to SilverDragon for recommending this on TDAW. This is my first fanfic so they meant a lot. Please let me know what you think of this chapter. Thank you! Happy reading.

Grissom was getting dressed and Sara was in the shower when his phone rang. "Grissom."

"Hey Griss. We may have a lead. It seams Mr. Cobalt was involved in an altercation at a mall close to his home just hours before his murder."

"Why are we just hearing about this now?"

"Well, it seems the security guard didn't hear anything about the murders. When Warrick and I were tracing back Cobalt's steps, we came across a security guard who had broken up the altercation between Cobalt and this unknown guy. He's with a sketch artist now to see if we can get a picture together of him."

"Okay, good work Nicky. Once they have that sketch I want you to get it to every news station. I'll be there shortly."

Nick heard the click of the phone and looked at his cell before closing it. "Bye to you too. Damn it." He shook his head and went on with his work.

Grissom put on his shoes and was buttoning up his shirt as he walked out to the kitchen. He was very hopeful that this would be their break they so desperately needed. He started to make the coffee when Sara made her way out to the kitchen. She walked up behind him and kissed his cheek. He smiled and turned around and put his hands on her hips.

"Nicky may have found our guy."

She perked up. "What? When? Where? How?"

He chuckled. "I think you left out the why." She, however, was not amused. He filled her in on the details of the conversation he had with Nick.

"Well, let's keep our fingers crossed on this one. I have to meet up with Catherine so I'll see you later."

"Okay. You…don't want to ride in…together?" He didn't mean for it to sound so pathetic but she understood.

She smiled. "I would, but I have some errands to run after work." She paused as she made eye contact with him. "I love you." They kissed each other goodbye.

"I love you too. Be careful." With that he watched her leave.

Later that night, Nick spotted Grissom in the hallway walking towards his office. "Hey Griss. Hold up." Grissom stopped and looked up. "I just sent copies of the sketch to the news stations."

"Good, hopefully someone will recognize the guy and come forward. Nick, I uh….I've been pretty hard on you lately. You're doing a great job. I just uh…I just wanted you to know."

Nick was rendered speechless until Grissom started to walk away. "Thanks man. I um…thanks." Nick didn't snap out of it until he saw Grissom turn into his office. He shook his head and walked in the other direction. "I will never figure that guy out."

Kevin burst through Sam's front door while Sam was sleeping on his couch. Sam quickly sat up with eyes wide open.

"Dude, we gotta do this shit today!"

Sam jumped up off the couch with a puzzled look on his face. He was still groggy but trying to figure out what was wrong with his brother. He put his hands up. "Kev, calm down! What the hell happened?"

Kevin was breathing hard and pacing the living room. "They got my picture all over the news man. I guess that damn rent-a-cop talked to the cops. What am I gonna do, huh?" He started to look for the remote for the TV.

Sam rubbed his hands over his face. "Alright…alright. Just let me think for a sec."

They sat down on the couch and Kevin was nervously moving his knee up and down and biting his fingernails waiting for his brother to think of something.

"Okay…okay. We'll go and wait at the cop's house till he gets home. We'll see if he has any money. Then we kill him; take everything we can, then go to Mexico."

"That's your plan? I liked our original plan better."

"Yeah, well thanks to you we don't have time for the other plan. Besides, you're the one that's in trouble here." He sighed. "Look, I'm willing to go with you but I want this asshole taken out first."

"Alright Sammy. Thanks man." Sam went to his room to get together a bag of his things when he heard his brother. "So, Mexico huh? We could find ourselves some pretty senoritas huh? Yeah…yeah I'm liking this."

"Well, you will never guess who our guy in the sketch is." Sara walked into Grissom's office and sat down in the chair in front of his desk. She looked like the cat that ate the canary. He put his pen down and took off his glasses then squinted at her.

"Who?"

"He has been identified as Kevin Baker."

"Baker? What, a brother?"

"Yep." He leaned back and took a deep breath.

"And…there's our connection." She nodded.

"Brass has an APB out on him right now. It seems he is one crazy man."

"Huh, must run in the family." He sighed. "Well, good. At least now we're getting somewhere. Finally. I'm going to finish these then head home. I feel a migraine coming on and I don't have my meds on me." She frowned.

"Okay. You mind if I come by in a couple hours?"

Grissom looked at her like she had two heads. "You don't need to ask Sara. You have a key. In fact, I don't know why you don't just move in with me."

"Wow, you must not be feeling good." She tried to laugh it off to avoid the subject. But he wasn't laughing.

He just stared at her. "I'm serious Sara."

"Okay, we'll talk about it later, alright?"

"Okay." He put his glasses back on and picked up his pen. He winked at her as he spoke softly. "See you later." She smiled shyly and left his office.

Grissom walked into his townhouse. He threw his keys onto the kitchen counter. The last thing he remembered before he hit the floor was the piercing blow to the back of his head.

"Damn it Kev. You weren't supposed to knock him out. I need him awake. I want him to see me kicking the crap out of him."

"Oh, sorry man."

"Don't worry about it. Here, tie his hands behind his back." He handed Kevin some rope, then went over to the fridge and helped himself to some beer.

They waited an hour then Kevin looked over to Sam. "You sure I didn't kill him?"

He looked at Grissom and just then he heard him start to moan. They both grinned as they waited for Grissom to fully come around.

Brass walked into the room where Warrick, Nick, and Catherine were sitting. "Still no whereabouts for Mr. Kevin Baker. So, since his mail goes to his brother's place, we get to look there again. Who wants to ride with me?" They all smiled and they were on their way to the Baker residence.

They knocked on the door. "Mr. Baker. This is the police. We have a warrant to search the premises." No answer. "Mr. Baker!" Brass looked to one of the officers and gave him the "okay" to bust in the door. They all walked in and were looking around. Catherine was looking in the living room when she saw it.

"Uh, hey guys! Didn't Grissom go home earlier?"

Brass answered. "Yeah. Said he had a migraine. Why?" He walked over to her.

She lifted a piece of paper from the coffee table. "Because, this is his address."

"Oh shit. I'll radio for some units to go over there." Catherine dialed Grissom's cell and got his voice mail. They all rushed over to his place.

"Well, well, well. If it isn't Mr. Grissom. Did you have a nice nap?" Sam hit Grissom across the face.

Grissom coughed and winced. His head felt like it was split wide open. "Mr. Baker. I wish I could say it's nice to see you again." Then he looked over to Kevin. "And I assume you are Kevin Baker. Judging from your picture of course."

Kevin smiled. Sam was about to hit Grissom again when they heard Sara at the front door. Grissom closed his eyes. He must have been out longer than he thought. He had to do something. He couldn't let them get a hold of her. She was talking to the officer outside. He was about to scream for her when Sam hit him. He pulled Grissom into the hallway.

Sara came in and put her bag down by the door. "Hey babe. I'm home." She smiled at the thought of being able to say that every day. When she didn't hear anything she thought he might be sleeping. She kept walking until she was grabbed by Kevin. She was about to scream when she saw the horrifying scene in front of her. Sam had Grissom on his knees, blood was dripping down his face from the right side of his head, and he had the barrel of a gun pressed at his temple.

"You make any sudden moves or sounds and your precious babe is dead. Got it? Kev, get that rope over there and tie her hands behind her back."

Grissom and Sara were looking deep into each other's eyes. Silent tears started to pour down her face. His heart ached. It was one thing for him to be in this situation but now his Sara was involved and he didn't feel very confident right now that he could protect her. Sam threw Grissom onto the couch and Kevin did the same with Sara.

They were going over what their next move should be when Grissom took the opportunity to try to talk to Sara.

They were looking at each other. "I'm so sorry honey. But we'll get out of this, together. You have to know that."

She rubbed her head against his. She sniffled. "I know. Are you okay?"

"I'll be fine honey. We just need to figure out a way out of this." He looked up at her and kissed her forehead. Sam saw this and headed for Grissom.

He instead grabbed Sara by her arm and yanked her up.

Grissom yelled at him. "Baker! You hurt her, then you sure as hell better kill me because I will come after you and kill you with my bare hands." Sam laughed at this. He was going to reply when heard some commotion from outside, tires screeching and people talking loudly but he couldn't make it out. Then someone was banging on Grissom's door. Grissom closed his eyes and took a deep breath. It was his team. He didn't know how they knew but he was glad to hear them.

"Well, Sam. What now? You haven't really done much. You can still get off with just a couple of years. Just let them in and this will all be over with." He threw Sara back down on the couch and pistol whipped Grissom.

"Shut up! Don't tell me what to do."

"GIL!" Sara yelled and tried to scoot over closer to him. She was crying and felt so helpless.

"Sammy, what do we do now?"

"Shut up! Just…everybody shut up!" He looked towards the door and yelled. "Anybody comes in here and they're dead. You hear that? Now back off!"

They all looked at each other. Catherine was the first to speak up. "They? Who else does he have in there?"

Jim's heart sank. "Sara." They all looked confused. "They've been seeing each other for awhile now and they were going to tell you guys when the time was right." He sighed as they all still had their mouths wide open in shock.

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