Again thanks to Emmithar for the beta!
Part 2
The graveyard shift was going its normal course; nobody had noticed Greg's absence so far, as he was not important to the solving of cases anyway. It was halfway through shift, when Grissom suddenly called all his investigators into his office. He had needed someone for an experiment and that was when he noticed that Greg was gone.
Few minutes later all his CSIs were assembled in his office.
"What has happened, Gil?" Catherine wanted to know.
"Greg has been kidnapped!" Grissom announced.
"How do we know that?" Sara questioned.
"We got a ransom note," her boss stated. "Where is it by the way?" There was shrugging all around him. "Who has it?"
Suddenly Warrick reached into the pocket of his jeans, taking out a folded piece of paper. He folded it up and read aloud.
"Two million dollar or we'll never see Greg again."
"We have to get him back!" Sara decided, followed by agreeing nods all around.
"Somehow I feel queasy…" Nick started. "And it's unfair… they only asked for one million for…"
"It's over, Nick," Grissom reminded him, and Nick vanished into the background. Catherine came forward instead, clearly willing to take over the commando.
"I want that you find him… dead or alive!" she demanded. Silence followed this announcement, before Warrick cleared his throat.
"Ehm, Cath… I'd rather take alive…" he pointed out.
"Sorry, got carried away there for a moment," the blonde apologized.
"So, what are we going to do now?" Sara wanted to know.
"Pay the ransom?" Warrick suggested.
"I'm off for a minute, have to make a call," Catherine announced, walking off, dialing already a number on her cell phone. "Hi, Sam… long time no talk," she could be heard in the distance while the rest of the team looked at Grissom helplessly.
Catherine had not been seen again since she had left Grissom's office, so all the team could do was sit and wait.
"Don't we have something to do? Any traces to process?" Warrick asked Grissom.
"No, right now we are waiting. It adds to the tension."
Warrick nodded understanding. At the other side of the lab Nick found Sara staring into the air, tears rolling down her cheeks.
"Hey, Sara, we're all very worried for Greg, but I'm sure we'll get him back," he tried to calm her.
"For me it's much worse," Sara said. "Now that Greg is gone…" she cried.
"What is then?" Nick asked emphasizing, soothingly.
"Now that Greg is gone…" Sara sobbed. "I will have to marry Grissom!" She walked off crying, while Nick could only watch her leave, still having an off feeling with the whole situation, an uneasy sensation in the back of his mind that he could not quite make out. He looked around nervously, if Grissom was nearby, but sighed with relief when he did not see his boss anywhere.
Grissom was sitting in his office in the meantime, browsing several big books about insects, from time to time giving his favorite bug that was sitting on his desk a loving stroke. When he reached the chapter about larvae, an idea was dawning on Grissom, and he knew that it could be Greg's rescue.
TBC…
Up next:
What is Grissom's great plan? What is Catherine doing the whole time? Is Sara's fate really sealed?
