Title: Privilege

Author: NightMage

Rating: maybe PG13, to be safe.

Summary: The team gets very, very frustrated with doctor-patient privilege! And Sam deals with a problem of her own. My very first M/S fic. Please R&R!

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Chapter 8
PIECING IT TOGETHER

Martin blinked. Whoa, wait a minute. What? Where did she get that from? He glanced over at her; she wasn't even looking at him.

Zar held up his hands in defense. "Hey, man, who told ya that? Who says I did?"

Samantha ignored him. "Did you tell Carolynn?"

"I didn' do nothin', man! I don't know where the hell she is!"

Samantha's voice was getting louder. "I'm not asking you where the hell she is, I'm asking you - "

"I didn't tell Lynny nothing! And what's it matter anyway!"

Samantha slammed her fist on the table and shouted, "It matters because you were bangin' her best friend, Zar, and now no one knows where the hell she is!"

Zar dropped his head into his hands, elbows on the table. "Oh, man I fucked up."

"You sure did," Sam shot back. "Now what are you gonna do about it?"

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For the second time in two days, Martin stood outside the break room, looking in at Samantha standing alone. She had her back turned to the door and was staring into her coffee. They had brought Zar in, and Jack was questioning him. Martin supposed he ought to be in the interrogation room, too, but he wanted to talk to Sam.

He stepped in slowly. "Hey."

She didn't turn around. "Hey."

There was an awkward silence, then she faced him. "It was a theory."

"It was an incredibly accurate theory."

"Yeah." She glanced back down at her coffee.

More silence. Finally, Martin broke it with what he really wanted to ask. "C'mon, Sam, nothing in what old lady Kambers said screamed 'pregnancy' to me. What do you know that I don't?"

"Martin…" Her voice faded away and she looked up at him again.

He bit his lip, sighed. "Okay."

Sam hesitated, then gave a weak smile. "Thanks." She turned and walked away, leaving Martin staring after her.

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Danny studied the timeline he was standing in front of. "Okay, so Carolynn finds out that her boyfriend was screwing around, and that now her best friend is pregnant."

Sam, who was leaning against her desk, continued. "She's hurt, she's high, she probably hates everyone."

"She decides to talk to a priest, something she would rather do in person than over the phone."

"Meanwhile, Cai goes and talks to a shrink about what to do. She lies about ever having the argument because she doesn't want to admit what happened."

"And Carolynn goes and tells Father Garver something that almost upsets him enough to share with Father James. But he doesn't share, so maybe he does something about it himself. Question is, what did she tell him?"

Sam looked up at Danny. "She was thinking of suicide, and that was four days ago."

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A/N: Well, I'm sorry this chapter was so short, but it's past 12:30 in the morning and I would really like to go to bed. Anyway, this is such a good spot to leave off, don't you think?

Please, please, PLEASE review, I want to hear from you so i know my story doesn't suck!