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The streets that were void of life only moments ago were now littered with police cars and officers. When the call went out that one of their own was abducted, they arrived on scene to help. Grissom, a man of many words, for once didn't have anything to say. This whole situation was way too familiar. He sighed and turned when he heard yet another vehicle pull up.

Sara had just pulled in behind Vega's car when she spotted Grissom standing there. She knew what he must have been feeling … they were all feeling it. They were all worried for Nick.

Sara felt like she had already worked a double. Though in reality, it was really only the middle of the shift. She slowly got out of the car, retrieved both field kits and walked over to Grissom.

"Thanks Sara," Grissom said reaching for his kit.

"Not a problem Grissom."

Grissom gave her a small smile then turned and headed back to Nick's truck. He opened the driver's side door and reached in. Sara followed him over, but stopped at the rear of the vehicle.

"So where's this witness that you were talking about?" she asked casually and she bent over to view Nick's dented bumper.

"I had an officer take her back to the station for an official statement."

Sara nodded in understanding she stood back up just as Grissom walked back over.

"These are the surveillance tapes that Nick was bringing into the lab. I need you to take these in and work on them." He could see that Sara was about to argue with him. "Sara … I understand that you want to help with this and you will, but four innocent people lost their lives tonight and we owe it to them to find out who did it. If these tapes can help then we have to do everything in our power to find the killers."

"OK," she said taking the tapes and walking back to her car with field kit in hand. "Grissom," she called.

"Yes Sara." Just then his phone rang, "Hold that thought."

He pulled his cell phone off of his belt. The last time he did this it was a call from the witness telling him about Nick's kidnapping. He figured it was probably Catherine calling with an update. He looked at the call display it read 'Nick's house'. His eyes grew wide in shock he quickly turned around looking for any sign of Vega. He finally found him and screamed.

"Vega … we need to get a car over to Nick's house now! There's someone calling me from there."

Vega nodded and pointed to a few officers who ran to their cars and took off. Vega was right behind them.

Sara ran up to Grissom as he answered his phone and put it to his ear. He didn't have a chance to say hello when he heard a pain-filled voice.

"Grissom … it's Nick."

He looked at Sara then answered, "Nick … are you alright?"

Nick closed his eyes in relief when he heard Grissom's voice come on the line. Though he was in danger, the sound of his voice calmed him. He knew that Grissom would get him out of this. He would make things right. That was who Grissom was.

He did not have a chance to answer before Harris pulled the phone out of his hand. Nick just glared at him while applying more pressure to his still bleeding leg.

Harris had just put the phone to his ear when he heard, "Nick, are you alright?" he smiled evilly…he was really having fun with all of this.

"Whether Mr. Stokes remains alright is completely up to you Mr. Grissom."

"Who is this?" Grissom asked.

"That doesn't matter."

"What do you want?"

"You have a piece of evidence in that little lab of yours that I want."

"We have a lot of evidence in our lab … you are going to have to be a little more specific." Grissom retorted.

"Of course … it's a disk. A very important disk and I want it back."

"Not to state the obvious but we have a lot of disks as well."

"I grow impatient Mr. Grissom …do not test me."

"I'm sorry perhaps if you put Nick on he may be able to clue me in."

Harris was getting frustrated with this Grissom … perhaps a little demonstration was in order. He looked down at Nick who was slumped in his chair pressing down on his bullet wound to stop the bleeding.

Harris looked at the two men that flanked Nick and said, "Grab his arms and hold him there."

The men grabbed Nick's arms and held them back. He glared at the men as the blood dripped from his hands and onto the carpet. He wasn't sure what was going to happen next. He could see the gleam in the man's eyes and knew it wasn't going to be good. He watched as the phone was placed just in front of his face.

The silence on the other side of the line concerned Grissom, "Hello are you still there?"

Nick could hear a voice coming through the phone and looked at Harris. He watched as Harris balled his fist and aimed at his injured leg. Nick bucked in his chair, but the guards held firm, he couldn't move. He screamed when Harris finally punched him in the leg.

"AHH!"

The hair on Grissom's arm stood when he heard Nick scream, "Nick, Nick are you OK?" he said with worry.

Sara put her hands to her mouth in shock whatever got Grissom upset like that it had to be bad. She hoped Nick was OK, but she had a feeling that he was in real trouble.

Harris leaned over Nick and grabbed his hair again, "Now you tell your boss where that CD is … got it?"

Nick grimaced and nodded his head. Harris put the phone to his ear while still holding onto his hair.

"Grissom."

"Oh my god Nick … what did they do to you?"

"D-Doesn't matter … the CD that he's talking about …" He hissed through the pain. "Um … Greg found it when I came home from the hospital. I-It was in my CD player. I had him t-take it to the lab and file it as evidence, but with the s-supposed killer dead we never looked at it."

Nick had just left Grissom a clue as to who had him. He only hoped that he would get the clue. Harris pulled the phone away from Nick's ear and spoke to his men.

"Take him to the car. As soon as I conclude this call we are out of here. I'm sure by now they know we're here." Harris watched as the men dragged Nick out of the chair and towards the front door.

"Grissom! Grissom!" Nick screamed as he struggled. He stopped when he felt a crack to the head and darkness overtook him.

Grissom listened intently to what Nick had said about the disk and where it was, but there was something else. Nick had said 'supposed killer' did that mean that the real killer had Nick?

There was silence on the phone and Grissom waited for Nick's captor to come back on line when he heard Nick screaming his name and then silence. 'Just hold on Nicky…Vega's going to be there any minute.'

It made his blood boil that Nick was put in this position once again.

"Now Mr. Grissom you have the information that you so desire. So I suggest that you get yourself over to the lab and get that disk. I will call you with further instructions. Remember Nick's life is in the balance."

"How do I know that you will keep your promise?" Grissom asked.

"You don't."

Then Grissom heard the dial tone. He hung up his phone with force, angry at the whole situation.

Sara looked expectantly at him, "Well what did he say?"

Grissom rubbed his beard then his eyes and looked at Sara, "They want a piece of evidence that we have at the lab for Nick."

"Is Nick OK?"

"I'm not sure … I don't think so. He sounded like he was hurt."

He wasn't going to tell Sara that they hurt him while he listened. He knew the whole team was on the edge and they didn't need to know that.

"Anything else?" she pried.

"Well Nick did mention something that I found strange. He said that Greg had found this disk in Nick's CD player. Nick had Greg bring it to the lab and file it as evidence he said that with the 'supposed killer' dead that they didn't look at it. He said 'supposed killer'."

"Do you think that the guy at the hospital was a fake and that the real killer has Nick now?"

"I can't be for certain, but I'm leaning that way. I need to call Vega and find out what's going on at Nick's house. That's where the call came from."

Harris had hung up and flipped the phone on the couch. He turned to leave and took a look around the house. The house wasn't in the exact condition it was in when they first arrived. He had ordered his men to search the place and they were very thorough. There were drops of blood on the floor next to where Nick was sitting as well as a big pool of blood on the chair where Nick sat. 'That's going to be hell to get out' he snickered to himself and left the house.

He ran down the sidewalk and hopped into the waiting truck. He could hear sirens closing in on their location. Carl pulled the truck out of the driveway and squealed down the road. The truck just rounded the corner as the police cars stopped in front of Nick's house.

The officers ran up Nick's sidewalk with their weapons drawn. The front door was still open and the lights were still on. The first officer entered the room and called an all clear. Each officer took a room and soon Nick's house was secured.

Vega walked into Nick's living room only to see blood on both the floor and on the chair. He had a gut feeling that the blood belonged to Nick, but he didn't want to jump ahead of himself. He pulled out his cell to call Grissom when it rang. He answered.

"Detective Vega."

"Vega … It's Grissom. Are you over at Nick's yet?"

"Yea we just got here a few minutes ago. The house is clear, but they were definitely here. You better get over here."

"Why what did you find?"

"First of all there's a lot of blood here … I have a gut feeling it belongs to Nick and second of all the place has been trashed. Like someone was searching for something."

Grissom didn't take to kindly to the news. There was blood at Nick's house, but how much blood? Now he knew why Nick was hurting.

"I'll get over there as soon as I can. I'm waiting for Catherine, Warrick and Greg to finish up at the other scene. Sara is heading back to the lab to bring in the surveillance tapes from the convenience store. Do not let anyone else into Nick's house and make sure no one touches anything."

"Gil … I'm going to forget you said that because I know you are worried about Nick. We do know how to do our jobs. Don't worry we didn't contaminate the crime scene. We will lock the house down … no one will enter until you guys arrive."

"Your right Sam … I'm sorry. I didn't mean to insinuate that you didn't know your jobs. In fact I appreciate everything you guys are doing."

"Well Nick's one of our own. We will help in anyway possible."

"Thanks Sam … I'm going to call Catherine to see where she's at. I'll let you know when we are on our way."

"OK. I'll be waiting for your call then." He hung up his phone.

Grissom looked over to Sara who still stood there. It had only been a few minutes since she arrived, but now they had a wealth of information. They knew that the man that kidnapped Nick wanted a disk at the lab. They also knew that the man for some reason went back to Nick's house. He hoped that they would get lucky and this guy would have made a mistake. Somehow he got the impression that the man wasn't the least bit worried about getting caught.

"Vega just arrived at Nick's a few minutes ago. He said that the place was empty, but they had been there."

"Any sign of Nick?" she asked.

Grissom shook his head, "No there was no one there, but Vega said that there is blood present and the place has been trashed like they were searching for something."

"Maybe they were looking for the disk and once they realized it wasn't there they got violent with Nick."

Grissom considered Sara's words, but he had his own theory. The man that had Nick appeared to be a sadist. His theory was that the man hurt Nick before they realized the CD wasn't there. This man seemed to thrive off Nick's pain and loved being the cause of it. This of course was a great concern to him. He wasn't sure how much longer Nick could last in the hands of this man. Not to mention he didn't trust him with a ten-foot pole.

Grissom didn't share his theory with Sara he just went along with hers.

"I'm going to call Catherine to see what's going on. I want you to head back to the lab. Start working on those tapes. Call me as soon as you find something."

"I'm on it, but call me as soon as you hear anything."

"I will. I promise."

Sara forced a smile, headed back to the truck and drove off towards the lab.

Grissom was once again alone with his thoughts.

Harris turned around in the front seat to view the unconscious Nick sitting in the backseat. He looked down at the wound on Nick's leg it had been wrapped up and Nick's hands had been tied in front of him. He knew it would only be a matter of time before he got the CD back. Once that was done Mr. Stokes here was going to die. Until then he was going to have some fun. He wasn't sure when he would have another opportunity. He stared at Nick and a smile came across his face.
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