Chapter 2

After getting his assignment from Catherine, Nick was driving down Covalt Street, in a really good mood. He pulled a CD out of the glove compartment and slid it into the player. He skipped right to the song they had heard in the car together.

"It was Christmas in Las Vegas, when the locals take the town. Theresa hit a streak and laid her waitress apron down." Nick sang along with the song, heading for his crime scene, drumming on the wheel.

Back at the lab, Sara was just taking off her coat in the locker room. She was looking in her purse for her cell phone, when she came across that little bear again. She pulled it out and looked at it, smiling like a little school girl.

Just then Grissom appeared in the doorway. "Oh Sara there you are. I need to talk to you"

Sara jumped and instinctively threw the bear into her locker. She shut it with her foot and followed Grissom out into the hallway.

He explained his recent experiment but she quickly challenged it.

"No. No, Grissom, that is impossible. I sampled every square inch of that crime scene and there was only one blood type."

"How 'bout that…our mystery vic's are identical twins." He said finally, sitting behind his desk, giving a little smile.

"Twins?" she said, not believing what she was hearing. "Well, that different." She figured it was easier to agree with Grissom. Trying to understand him would drive her crazy.

"Technically, it's the same," he was saying. She smiled at him. Normally she would have rolled her eyes at him and left, but she was in an especially good mood today.

They talked for a while longer, then Sara left to go work on other things the case had given them, humming softly to herself.

Sara skipped into the break room and went straight for the mini fridge in the corner. She pulled out a bottle of water and turned to see Greg coming into the room, on his cell phone. He hung up and sat at the table, looking very frustrated.

"What's wrong?" Sara asked him.

"I can't believe it. I…I just can't" Greg was saying, looking close to tears.

"What?" she asked, sitting down across from him.

"You haven't heard yet?" Greg asked in disbelief. She looked a question at him. "Nick was kidnapped. Like an hour ago. He…"

But that was all she heard. Her mouth fell open and she thought she might pass out. "Wha…When, when did….what happened?" she said, barley able to form words in her mouth.

"They don't know who took him. Grissom is there now."

Sara stood up so fast her chair was knocked to the ground. She stepped over it while dialing her cell phone. She realized it was dead and ran to reception to borrow their phone. She dialed his number wrong three times before getting it right. She waited and waited before Nick's cheery voice rang in her ears. "I'm not here right now. Leave a message at the beep and I'll get back to you."

"Damn it!!" slamming the phone down she tried his number four more times, finally slamming the phone down in frustration. She was close to tears before she tried another number. When he picked up she started yelling things in his ear.

"What's happening?!? Where are you? You didn't tell me! Where is he?"

Grissom carefully told Sara to calm down and when she finally did he tried to explain. "I couldn't reach you on your cell. I'm at the crime scene now. We don't know where he is."

The calm in his voice brought the tears closer to falling. "C-Can…Can I help?" she managed to get out.

"We're almost done here. I'm coming back and I'll give you some things to work on. I'll be there in five minutes."

"O-ok" she said trying to stay clam. When she hung up Greg was standing behind her. She looked at him.. "We'll get him back" he said, trying to calm her by putting a hand on her arm. She looked at him a moment, spun on her heel and walked back into the lab.