Chapter 3: Connections closed
Later on that day, Sara woke up by the sound of Grissom's cell.
She noticed the empty spot against her, which still felt warm.
Sara walked softly to the kitchen where she could Grissom talk to somebody.
"Listen Heather, I would really appreciate it if you would stop calling me all the time for nothing. I nearly lost the most precious one in my life all because of that one night."
It went quiet for a while. Sara hold her breath. It felt a little strange to eardrop on Grissom.
"There wasn't any choice to make. I've made you very clear from the beginning that Sara was the most important to me. You are just a friend. Nothing more."
Silence again…
"If you cannot live with that, then I say stop Heather. Then I'd rather you leave me alone." With that he broke the connection. He looked a little angry.
Sara walked up to him and planted a tender kiss on his soft lips.
"I love you", she whispered in his ears.
Grissom answered her with a kiss on her forehead and pulled her into a big tight hug.
Some place else in Las Vegas, Heather was looking very angry at her cell.
"So he just wants to get rid of me, does he? Like I'm some kind of cheap trash which he can throw away whenever he wants. Well, I'm not gonna let that happen. He should know I'm not the submissive type. He hasn't heard the last of me yet!"
This said, she sat down to her computer and started some googling for information that could be very useful with her plan.
Back down at Grissom's house he and Sara were preparing to start another shift. Casey's paternal grandparents had contacted Brass with some more information on the disappearance of their granddaughter. They were waiting for them down at the lab.
"Mr. en Mrs. McDoyle, U told captain Brass that u had some more information about Casey's disappearance?" Grissom started.
Mr. McDoyle swallowed and started: "I know that my ex – daughter in law would probably point the finger at our son, but he really hasn't got to do anything with this. I know he's not a saint but he would never ever hurt of do something terrible to Casey. He loved her too much for that."
"Could you confirm his story that he was at your house, the evening Casey disappeared? It could help him a lot to rule him out as a suspect."
"The evening Casey disappeared, Chris was with us alright. You could ask his new girlfriend, Sophie Petersen, to confirm. Chris introduced her to us that night. Sweet girl though."
"We'll surely check that out. Do you have any other information which you think might be useful to us?"
"Well, Claudia, Casey's mother, also has a new boyfriend. And he would do just about anything to keep our Chris away from his little girl.
"Ok, thank you Mr. and Mrs. McDoyle. You've helped us very much. When we have anything new on your granddaughter, we'll let you know."
With that, everybody left the interrogation room.
Sara went looking for Brass, to check out Chris' alibi with his girlfriend and after that she and Grissom left to check upon the mother's new friend.
Later in the morning, Sara went by her apartment to pick up some fresh clothes so to return to Grissom when she found an envelop with only her name on it. No address, carefully printed by a computer. No sender or post mark.
Strange, she thought.