"Cath what do you mean?" asked Grissom his voice not the usual calm tone.
"Revenge he wasn't talking about Walter he was talking about his son, you need to be the other side of Henderson exit eighteen" instructed Catherine as Grissom spun the car around causing others to screech to a halt behind him.
"Cath why's he want revenge for his son" asked Nick shouting from the back of the car.
"Dan Gordon's son was killed in a mining accident eight years ago, it was investigated as criminal at first but there was insufficient evidence found, but I pulled the file and it looks like sabotage"
"I thought he didn't' have a son" said Warrick ignoring the cars that were honking at them as Grissom swerved from lane to lane.
"Kept their mothers name, but guess who the CSI on the case was"
"Who?" shouted Nick down the phone that was strapped to the front dashboard
"Ecklie"
"What!"
"Back when he was a level three, listen me and Brass are coming well probably get there the same time as you," said Cath
"Cath" shouted Grissom before she hung up
"How's she doing?" asked Grissom
Catherine looked over to the screen where Sara was beginning to stir again
"Ok" replied Cath before hanging up.
Grissom increased his speed not really caring the fact his driving was worse than Warrick's.
"There's lots of mines how do we know where to look we don't even have plans for he tunnels only entrances" said Greg frantically flipping through printed sheets in the back of the car.
"It's will we the one where his son died" replied Nick.
"How far away are we?" asked Greg quietly.
"Too far" replied Nick as Grissom speeded through the street of Vegas.
"Where we headed?" asked Brass as Catherine almost threw herself into the passenger side of his Taurus.
"You know the mining site about three miles form Henderson?" asked Cath as Brass pulled out the garage at speed.
"That's a lot of mines "he replied.
"Well I happen to have a good idea where to look" she said flipping her phone out
"Archie what's happening?" asked Catherine down the phone.
"Not much, she's awake but still out of it," replied Archie
"Ok call me if anything changes" said Cath hanging up and dialling another number.
"Hey Greg the printout of the mines you got have you got names?"
"Names?" asked Greg
"Names, numbers near each entrance there should be numbers"
"Yes"-said Greg flicking through pages.
"His son was killed in mine number five"
Greg and Nick flicked through the pages.
"There's nine entrances, so it's a big one" said Nick defeated "without the tunnels we don't' even know where to start looking"
"I'm working on that Hodges is getting the plans faxed over," replied Cath
"That's' still a lot of tunnels" said Warrick
"She's pretty close to the surface we know that and part of the mine is deep so we don't need to go to far, search and rescue coming but they could be another thirty minutes" said Cath relaying information Brass was giving her.
"See you in ten" said Cath hanging the phone up as it rang shrilly again
"Hello,"
"Cath it's Archie, is it raining yet?"
"No, what do you mean yet"
"Where Sara is it's raining. At fist I couldn't work out what was happing but then I realised there was raining coming in. listen Cath the mines not stable any more Sara's managed to move some of the dirt off herself but mores beginning to fall in"
"Were nearly there" replied Cath
"Cath has anyone told Sara's family?" asked Archie
"I asked Grissom earlier he said her emergency number was him her family weren't in contact" replied Cath hanging up and looking over to Brass show was weaving in and out the traffic no in Henderson.
"Give me a ball park figure Cath, how close to knowing where Sara is are we?" asked Brass. Silence filled the car for a minute
"Were watching for the big screen in the pub," replied Cath
"Oh"
"There's Grissom," said Cath pointing in front to where a Tahoe had swerved rather violently onto the quiet rod in front of them. They followed them onto an bumpy road and screeched to a halt at the gates of the abandoned mine where rain was now steadily falling on the windshield. Everyone got out at record speed Greg been in such a hurry he fell onto his hands and knees becoming tangled with the seatbelt.
"Ok entrances" shouted Cath as the rain increased in volume
"Nine" replied Greg holding the sheets that were folding in on themselves in the wind.
"Split up. Brass call patrol and search and rescue tell them we need bodies here now," shouted Grissom the rain now failing so fast his hair was sticking to his head. With that the group armed with shovels broke of in separate directions after looking at Greg's map. Warrick was the first to reach an entrance he couldn't' see any displaced dirt around the metal grate near the entrance.
Grissom was furthest away the others were becoming dots on the horizon but he could still amuck out them calling out for Sara. The cold and wind made his arms numb and his vision blurred through the rain. Suddenly to his left he noticed something. He didn't' know what caught his attention but something stopped him dead in his tracks, in the distance he could see something. He changed his route and started running towards what was becoming clear as a ditch in the ground. As he got closer he realised he was running next to tyre track.
"HEY OVER HERE " he shouted to the people behind him but no one was close enough to hear him so he grabbed his radio and shouted down it. Within seconds he had reached the entrance and without a moments hesitation he bent down beside it going in feet first the dirt began crumbling around him
"Sara, Sara can your hear me" he shouted as the wet dirt gave him little support and he fell about a foot into a tunnel
"Grissom?" came a weak voice. It echoed around and he couldn't make out where it was coming from. The rain was failing faster and casing more and more dirt to fall in on Grissom who was on his hands and knee bent down in a small entrance tunnel.
"Sara" he called out for her again this time he could make out the reply
"Gris"
He crawled forwards been careful where he put his hands knowing how unstable the floor he was crawling on was. Suddenly he saw a beam sticking sideways up and light and rain failing on front of him from where the tunnel had collapsed. In seconds he was leaning over blocking out he light and rain that was failing on Sara.
She was laid on her side the dirt that had fallen in on her was turning to mud.
"Hey" came Sara's croaky greeting to Grissom as there was a load creak given out a beam and suddenly gave way Sara lurched a inch downwards.
"Sara" Grissom threw his hand out instinctively towards her. There was another loud crack as the cavern that Sara was trapped in gave way and a cloud of dust and dirt engulfed their vision.
TBC ……….. sorry another cliff hanger, I promise there wont be anymore!