Chapter Six

Catherine left without saying another word. Sara stared at the ground, her mind was racing. Grissom leaned against the fridge, and drifted into his own thoughts. Sara looked at Keana. The girl was looking around, anxious and worried. Keana must be so confused.

"If her father is dead, then who threatened her?" Sara asked, curious to what Grissom was thinking.

"Maybe it's in her mind." Grissom said.

"Her mind can't make up a person, Gil." Sara said, half whispering. They waited a few minutes before going and seeing Keana again. The two of them stood in silence, lost in their thoughts. Sara's curiosity got the better of her, she walked into the living room.

"Keana?" Sara asked. Keana was staring into nothing, only surrounded by her thoughts. The little girl had stopped crying, her cheeks were no longer wet. Keana was in a daze, a deadly scared daze.

"Keana?" Sara asked again.

"Yes?" Keana asked. The girl didn't stop looking at the spot she had been staring at for the past five minutes.

"Catherine told us that your father died when you were six years old." Sara said, kneeling down beside the child. Keana's eyes shifted to Sara.

"No." Keana said. "He's alive." Keana got up from the couch and walked over to the window, her lifeless expression hadn't changed. Sara looked at Grissom, he didn't seem that surprised at Keana's remark.

"Keana..." Sara said soothingly. "Who hurt you?" Keana still stared out the window.

"My Dad." Keana said, she was still convinced her father was after her. Sara walked back over to Grissom. She stood for a moment in silence.

"Now what do we do?" Sara whispered. Grissom thought quickly, he wasn't sure what to do.

"We take care of Keana, until everything gets figured out." Grissom said, he saw that Sara didn't want to just 'watch' Catherine, Warrick and Nick finish the case.

"I tried explaining to her that her father died four years ago, she... she... she almost didn't want to believe that he was dead." Sara said.

"Her mind is telling her that her father is coming to kill her, she trusts her mind and has no reason to doubt it." Grissom explained.

"You don't think..." Sara paused. "Do you think she has a mental illness?"

"It would explain a few things." Grissom said. Sara remembered the case that she and Grissom had to work on in a mental institution. It wasn't a good experience, she was almost killed by a patient who ended up killing himself. While working on the case, she was reminded of when her Mom had to go to a place like that for evaluation.

"Do you remember Adam Trent?" Sara asked.

"Yes." Grissom said quietly, hating the image that he thought of in his head.

"I don't want Keana to end up living in a place like that." Sara argued.

"Well..." Grissom started. "Depending on her problem, we might not have a choice." Grissom said. Sara paced back and forth in the kitchen, staring at the ground. Grissom put his hand on her shoulder to comfort her. Tears came to Sara's eyes.

"I just don't want her to end up like that." Sara said, tears streamed down her face.

"It's not your fault." Grissom said, trying to comfort her. Sara wiped the tears from her eyes.

"I know, it's just..." Sara started. Grissom nodded.

"It's ok." Grissom said. Sara looked at the little girl. She just remembered something.

"Grissom..." Sara said and turned back to Gil. "Someone had to have hurt her, her mind can't inflict damage on herself." Sara said.

"Or can it?" Grissom asked, Sara looked at Grissom, wide-eyed.

"She tried to kill herself?" Sara asked, still unable to believe it.