Battered bruised broken alive… chp 6
Sara's a/n: ok well here's chp 6 & I'll post chp 7 & the rest 2morrow I'm like beat & extremely tired & I have school 2morrow lol…ne ways well hope ya like & well plz leave a review!!
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Sara
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Sara knocked on Grissom's door bringing updates.
"Come in." Sara opened the door at the invitation. "Updates?"
"Yeah, DNA, the DNA left at the original area of the scene, where Gabby was kidnapped? It matched the DNA from the house. I was going to drop by the foster home and get some personal effects belonging to her, to match it for sure." Sara said.
"Good idea. Take Greg with you. Anything else?"
"Not that I know of right now. I'll take Greg." Sara said.
A voice came through the door.
"I've got even more news. Richard? Our guy? He's related to a Walter Gordon. Name ring a bell?" Brass asked only needing their facial reactions.
"Right. Well, they are cousins. And were connected. Our girl, Gabriella? There was this case, passed to day shift, big thanks to the sheriff." Brass said sarcastically. "Murder-suicide. Husband murdered. Drug-dealer husband. He was also an abuser. He was dealing with Richard and Walter back in the day, and he had a mistress." He paused, as he was about to dive more into the information. "They found the girl, Gabriella, hiding in her shower. Scalding hot water. They took her to the Emergency Room, and had a rape kit run. She was raped about an hour before the time of death of her parents." There was a silence for a few seconds. "And, there were signs of repeated amounts of it too. Over a period of years and months."
And again, there was a moment of eerie silence.
"He might try the same stunt with her, what he did with Nick." Sara finally speaking up, and bringing the fact to their attention."
"And this time, he'll make sure we DON'T find her." Brass said angrily.
"Well, Greg and I are going over to the foster home. We need Gabby's personal effects for Dna proof." Sara told Brass.
"I think I'll meet you there. I wanna chat with the foster parents."
"Ok. We'll meet you there." Then she turns to Grissom. "Page me if you have anything new, or need help?"
"Mmm-hmm. Be careful."
--
True to his word, Brass met them there. As, he was, the first one there.
"I waited for you guys. Thought I'd be nice." Brass smiled, despite the situation.
"Nice, eh? At least its you being nice." Greg said smiling.
"Yeah. Well, after you." Brass said, letting Sara lead the way up the walk.
Sara knocked on the door. After a few moments, a woman answered.
"May I help you?" The woman asked.
"Yes, I'm Sara Sidle, this is Greg Sanders from the Las Vegas Crime Lab. Jim Brass from the LVPD. May we come in?" Sara asked after introducing everyone.
"Yes, please. Come in." She opened the door further to let them in.
"Thank you. We have some questions, if you don't mind."
"No, go ahead." The woman insisted.
"Would you happen to have some of Gabby's personal effects? Hairbrush? Tooth brush?" Sara asked.
"Yes, I do. Let me get them for you."
"Ok. Thanks." Sara said while getting an evidence bag out.
The woman came back after a few moments. She had in her hand both a toothbrush, and a hairbrush.
"Ms. Sidle? Have they found anything about where Gabby is?"
"Mrs.?"
"Allison. Allison Palmer." The woman responded.
"Allison, I'm personally not aloud to give out any information on ongoing cases. You may be able to get some information from Detective Brass." Sara said.
"I understand. Thank you."
"No problem. I'm sorry about Gabby. She sounds like a wonderful kid." Sara said.
"She is. Thank you Ms. Sidle."
"You can call me Sara. You can talk to me anytime. Here's my card. Anytime. Day or night." Sara hands Allison her personal card, and turns to Brass. "I need to get back to the lab."
Sara left regards to Allison, and made her way to the door. While she was driving back to the lab, she thought about when she was in foster care herself; And under somewhat, the same circumstances. Her mother killed her father. But her mother didn't kill herself. She ended up in the physic-ward, and then the prison. And Sara ended up in foster care. Moving from one home to the next.
She remembered the fights, the pretend places full of lies.
By the time her thoughts were coming to an end, she pulled into a free parking place at the lab.
As soon as she got inside, she went straight to Dna, to positively match the blood found at both scenes.
"Mia, this is from the case-
"Where there's a girl, Nick and Warrick are missing?" Mia interrupted.
"Yeah. Anyways, this Dna from the toothbrush and the hairbrush should match the Dna to the girl. Can you put a rush on this?"
"Yep. I heard she's in foster care."
"Yeah. It's sad. Though, its better than what she had before." Sara said sadly.
"Yeah. Anyways, I'll get on this, and I'll call you when I have results."
"Thanks." Sara said walking out of the Dna lab.
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"I never thought it'd get this way." Gabby said.
"It can get better." Warrick winced at Nick's choice of words.
"I used to wish I was buried with them."
"Alive?" Warrick asked curiously.
"Yeah. If I did, non of this would've happened." Gabby looked at Nick.
"Aren't you-." Gabby paused. "Never mind."
"Aren't I what?" He noticed her hesitation. "It's ok Gabby. You can tell me." Nick said seeing the look she gave him.
"Aren't you the guy, that was, um, buried?" She hesitated again. "In that glass coffin?" Gabby paused. "I'm sorry."
"It's ok. And yes, it was me. How did you know?"
"The news. And one of the guys."
"Oh. You wanna talk about it?" Nick asked hopeful.
"No." Gabby said, and started to curl up and cry silently.
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"Hey boss, you got a package." Hodges said carrying it into Grissom's office.
"Uh, thanks Hodges." Grissom said as Hodges left. Catherine and Sara came into his office a moment later.
"What's that?" Catherine asked.
"Hodges just brought a package in that I just got." Grissom said, pointing to the box.
"What's in it? Anything related to the case?" Sara said hopeful.
"Don't know yet." Grissom opens the box to reveal a note and a USB flash drive that says:
Wanna play a game? I'm up for it.
Catherine, Grissom and Sara stood shocked.
"Not this again. Oh hell." Catherine said angrily and depressed.
"Catherine, get Brass here immediately. Meet us in the A/V Lab. Sara, come with me." Grissom said giving hurried orders.
Grissom and Sara arrived in the A/V Lab, while Archie is working on something for another case.
"Archie, drop everything you're doing. We got something." Grissom says giving him the USB Flash Drive. "Here, put this in." He tells Archie.
Archie does, and programs it in. After he programs it, a message pops up saying:
You can only watch…
AGAIN….
'Push to watch'
"Uh, boss? Is this "the" case or the one from -?"
"Tonight's case. The one with the girl." Grissom paused. "Push it."
Archie pushes the 'push to watch' button.
What appeared to be a live feed, just like when Nick was taken, came up. While expecting another glass coffin, they see a basement with 3 people. Nick, Warrick, and Gabby.
"Archie, zoom in on Nick and Warrick." Grissom said while Archie zoomed in.
"Do they have any visible injuries?" Sara asked this time.
"Not that I can tell." Archie concluded.
"Archie zoom out and zoom in on the girl." Sara said.
"Ok. She does. From what I can tell, a head injury."
"I'm sure once we get them back, it'll be worse than just that." Sara remarked.
Sara looks closely at the screen, and notices a dark figure shadowing the feed.
"Hey guys, look." Sara says while pointing to an area of the screen. "There's someone there."
"One of the guys?" Archie asked.
"I think its Richard. It looks like him at least." Sara said.
On the screen, the figure came more into the room. Archie noticed this and zoomed in on the face. Once he got a clearer view, he took a picture, and zoomed out.
"Stay away from me! You killed my parents!" Gabby's voice came through the feed.
"You know you want this. You don't want to reject this."
"I don't want it! Stay away from me!"
Warrick and Nick made their way towards her, but Richard stopped them in their tracks.
"Stop right now." He pulled out a gun and pointed to Gabby. "Stop right there, or she dies." He looked at Gabby. "Now Gabby, you WILL listen to me."
"No. No I wont. You killed my parents. You killed them. How could you? You kept my dad drugged. I wont let you kill me. I wont."
"That's why I'm offering an ultimatum. If you come with me, you live, they live." He pointed to Nick and Warrick. "I'll give you to the count of 10 to decide." He paused. "The choice is yours honey." He said in a sick type of voice.
Within the count of 6, Gabby started running. She took a giant leap and leaped onto his back. Before Warrick and Nick could react, he had thrown her to the ground and pulled the trigger on the gun.
Gabby fell to the floor shaking and convulsing. She did this until she lost consciousness. Richard picked her up and stared at the hidden camera.
"Dr. Grissom, Ms. Sidle, nice for you to join us. Your CSI's have been untouched as promised. Although, it's been a different story for this one." Richard chuckles. "You have 24 hours to get 2 million dollars. Then you, Ms. Sidle, will drop the money off." He paused. "Wait for my directions." "Au revior." Richard laughed as he left.
After he left, the feed kept going. Grissom was battling his thoughts about Sara delivering the money. He thought about the last time. He didn't want the same thing to happen to her.
"Griss, if you can hear this for real," Warrick's voice broke through his thoughts. "If you can hear this, I can't exactly pinpoint where we are. Wooded area, about 2 hours out of the city; That's all I know. We tried taking care of her the best we could, without getting her more hurt. Although, it was useless, we didn't get to collect evidence. She freaked, and they made her shower. Sorry boss." Warrick stopped talking, and went to go sit in a corner.
Nick got up 2 minutes later and began to pace the floor. After a few moments of pacing, he seems something metallic. He picks it up.
Tazar barb.
"She was tazared?" Sara asked.
"Looks like it. God only knows what he's gonna do now." Archie said.
Right then, Greg, Catherine and Brass comes in the A/V lab.
"What's happened so far?" Catherine asked.
"The guy Richard came back." Sara said as she passed his picture around. "He tazared her, and then took her."
"And, Sara's got to deliver 2 million to him when he sends directions." Grissom said.
"You've got to be joking." Brass paused. "Please say you're joking." Brass then pleaded.
"I'm not going to be able to deliver anything if we don't get the money." Sara said.
"I'll ask Sheriff Atwa-"
"You know damn well the sheriff don't give a shit! He'll claim his hands are tied! The only way we CAN get the money is if we steal from a damned bank!" Sara interrupted Brass and broke into argument.
"Sara-"
"Don't tell me not to get close. Don't tell me not to get close, when we all are."
"Well, we're not breaking into a damn bank!" Brass said loudly.
"HEY! Calm down!" Grissom yelled. "We wont get anywhere arguing."
Beep. Beep. Beep. (Vibration sounds)
Pause.
Beep. Beep. Beep. (Vibration sounds)
"What's that?" Archie asked.
"My phone." Sara said. She looks at her phone then up to Archie.
"What?" Archie asked.
"Coordinates, he just texted me.
"How'd he get your number?" Greg asked.
"Like I would know? Here Archie. See what you can tell us." Sara said handing her phone to Archie.
Archie started looking into the text through his computer.
"Coordinates lead…Oh." Archie stops.
"What? Where does, the Coordinates lead to?" Sara asked.
Archie sighed. "It wont lead us to the right place."
"Why not?" Catherine asked.
"It's like tracing a call. You need 3 cellular towers to complete it and get exact results. This only gives 2 cellular towers." Archie paused. "This guy is good in his skills."
Everyone was silent for a minute.
"So you're saying that, we're shit out of luck? That's it? Sara asked getting mad.
"Unless, I find out how I can add another connector tower, but then it still wouldn't be 100 accurate either."
"Great. So, we have no chance at all? We have less then 24 hours to get that money. Tell me when you have any ideas." Sara said. Finally having enough, she stormed out of the A/V lab.
Everyone looked around, and at each other in silence.
"Give me a few hours. I'll come up with something." Catherine said pulling out her cell phone and walking out of the A/V lab.
"I'm gonna check on Sara." Brass said also leaving the lab to find Sara.
"Well, there's not much I can do until we get more evidence or anything." Archie sighed.
"Blood from the garage has been positively matched to Gabby. DNA from the toothbrush and hairbrush matched." Greg said quietly.
"Anything else?" Grissom asked?
"Yeah, there's more." Greg said with a sad sigh. "Blood from the uh, bedroom. It's Gabby's also. I matched the se-se-semen to a guy on file. A Richard White." Greg spit out.
"Thank you Greg." Grissom said, and then paused. "Archie, I'll be in my office. Call if anything comes up." and, Grissom left without a response.
TBC...
a/n: well here's the chp 4 the nite..now plz leave a review & i'll post more 2morrow when i get home! lol...hoped ya liked it now plz leave a review...
sara