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It had been a while sense anything happened. The waiting was the thing that was killing Nick the most. He cared so much for the two people in there, and knowing that one was in bad shape was making things worse.
He had been standing there quietly, thinking but also listening to Grissom and Brass talk. How Grissom seemed so calm, Nick would never know. Brass sounded official, but Nick could make out the concern and urgency in it as well. Warrick and Catherine were around here somewhere, but he wasn't sure where.
Nick noticed that the conversation between Grissom and Brass ended abruptly, so he looked up and followed their eyes to the story. Just then, he saw two forms hurriedly walking through the store and watched them come up to the doors. Just before they came out, they put their hands up as if surrendering, and then slowly walked out.
It didn't take long before a group of rescue workers were surrounding the two women. One seemed young, somewhere around Greg's age, the other closer to Cath's age. Nick followed Grissom and Brass to where the women were being taken.
As they got closer to the ambulances, they realized the women looked frantic and seemed to be trying to tell everyone something.
Nick, along with Grissom and Brass walked over to them after the paramedics had declared that nothing was wrong, despite the blood on Mallory's blouse.
"Ma'am, can you tell me how you got the blood on you shirt?" Brass asked gently.
Mallory nodded. "Greg, the guy who was shot. He started to pass out and so I.. I did what I could with him.."
They all exchanged glances.
"Can you tell us what happened? Any news on the other two hostages?" Brass continued with Grissom and Nick listening closely.
Diana spoke up this time. "Well, after Greg came back into the store.. He wasn't doing good, so Mallory did what she could. But then Sara was upset and started to yell at Regie and he took her to the back of the store. Greg fell unconscious and.." she began to trail off.
Mallory picked up where Diana left off. "We were able to wake him up a few minutes later and then Regie came back and said that Greg had a choice to leave himself, or let both of us go and…"
Mallory's eyes began to water. All three men looked at the two women.
The silence was broken though, as Warrick and Catherine came barreling through the crowd.
"What's going on? Do we know anything else yet?" Catherine was looking a bit crazy.
"Yeah, we know that Greg is an idiot." He made his way through the people.
Warrick and Cath just looked back and forth between Brass and Grissom.
Grissom shook his head. "In a minute," he said quietly. He turned back to Diana.
"Ma'am, your daughter was taken to the hospital. There didn't seem to be anything wrong with her, but we figured it was better than letting her stay here." Diana nodded in agreement.
'Thank you,' she mouthed.
Grissom, Brass, Warrick and Catherine turned around and Grissom began telling them about what happened in the store.
After the explanation, Warrick realized why Nick had called Greg an idiot. He didn't agree with Nick, but he knew Nick well enough to understand why he said that.
After a few minutes of looking, Warrick found Nick sitting on the curb a couple of yards from where all the reporters and people were gathered. Warrick sat down beside him.
"Can you believe that? Has a chance to live and gives it up." Nick said semi-angrily.
"Nick, you know it was what you would have done." Warrick countered, but in a calm voice.
"Yeah, but Greg is still a kid. I mean, he has a lot to go and I can just tell he is going to be an amazing person and CSI, I mean, I see a lot of Grissom in him. But in a good way. And now, he may never make it there."
Warrick just sat for a moment. Come to think of it, there was a lot of similarities between Griss and Greg.
"Nick, I think he is going to be fine, but even if he doesn't make it out ok, then looked at what he managed to do. He saved quite a few people tonight." Warrick paused. "Either way, whatever is supposed to happen, will happen. But don't get mad at Greg, ok?"
Nick looked at Warrick, then nodded his head. He was right.
It hadn't been too long sense Mallory and Diana had left before Greg and Sara started noticing some changes in Regie. He seemed to be panicking a lot more, pacing a lot more and slapping his hands to his face a lot more. He had also began talking to himself.
"There's no way I'm getting out of this.. No way.. I.. oh." He mumbled for a while.
Sara just listened. Her hand rubbing Greg's hot forehead. He was still conscious, but was getting pretty delirious. Sara kept wondering if she was going to have to watch his last breaths. Shooing the thought from her brain, she focused on the lights flashing in from outside. They were almost memorizing. It was then that it hit her just how tired she was. She started to remember her last case and the ones that came pouring in before it. Started thinking about how she was a part of a case now. With all these thoughts, Sara found her self dosing off. She noticed that her hand was almost stationary on Greg's head. He looked up at her and smiled; and she returned one. She watched his eyes close and felt her heart stop for a minute.
He must have heard her heart stop because he quickly opened his eyes back up, telling her he was still alive. She felt bad because she knew he was exhausted, but she needed to know he was ok for as long as she could.
"Dammit!"
Sara was jolted back into the real world by Regie's sudden outburst. She saw him move quickly towards the back of the store, and emerge holding a small red stick. She watched as he took matches from his pocket and lit one.
He looked directly at Sara.
"You better run girl, this fuse isn't very long." This time Sara's heart really did stop. She looked at Greg who was alert and staring at her concerned. She didn't hesitate any longer. She jumped up and grabbed for Greg.
"No, Sara.. Run. Please.. I can't walk." She pleaded with her.
"I'm leaving without you so you better try," she screamed back.
Greg mustered up ay energy he had left and with the help of Sara, got up and started running, or falling towards the door.
Sara could hear the fuse burning and knew they wouldn't be far enough in time to not get anything from the blast, but she continued to help Greg and run.
Right when they made it out of the door, Greg pushed Sara with all his might, sending her only about 15 feet in front of him before he felt the flamed licking his back.
Sara had not expected Greg to push her, but it ended up helping a little, though she was still lifted off the ground. Memories came flooding back to her as she felt the shards of glass and heat from the flame. Slowly, she looked up to see Greg lying on his stomach, almost in the exact position as he was when the lab exploded. Only this time, she did not watch him slowly lower his head to the ground, because it was already on the ground.
Sara refocused her eyes to the many feet running towards her and Greg. She could have sworn she saw Grissom, Warrick and Nick in the crowd, but with her dizziness and fumes, she wasn't sure. But, she figured now all she could do was wait, so she closed her eyes, and drifted away into darkness.
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