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To Hell and Back
"Please Cath, take the pain away." Greg pleaded, pain in his voice. "Please, take it away."
She looked at him with the look of a mother who is seeing her son suffering, she held his hand which was shaking until the doctor came. She saw his brown eyes that always seemed so full of joy and happiness. Now she could only see pain, fear, like every bit of what made Greg so unique had just disappeared. She hated the bastard that had forever changed Greg.
She had really thought that Hodges was a nice guy, only a little more selfish. But from selfish to psycho …. that was a long journey.
The doctor came to look at Greg.
"How are you feeling, Mr. Sanders?" the blonde doctor asked him .
"I-it … it really hurts …. " he managed to answer.
"I know."
"W-what's happening to me?" Greg asked, looking in his eyes.
"You have been poisoned with something very dangerous."
"Just … answer my question."
"Your whole body is starting to shut down. You have this pain because of the malfunctions of some organs …. like the heart or lungs."
"God … so, he was right." He told himself "I have like a day or so to live, right?" He closed his eyes when asking.
"Yes, you have 26 hours at best. I'm so sorry."
He closed his eyes when a seizure overtook him. This pain was so horrible, unbearable, and this thing couldn't be stopped.
"P-please … just … stop this … pain …I can't …any more …I just can't …. can't stand it…." His voice was trembling.
Catherine, who stood beside him, was speechless. Just hearing his voice, holding his shaking hand, she felt his pain. But she couldn't even begin to imagine what hell he was going through.
"Mr. Sanders, we can't give you any painkiller, because we don't know how it is going to react with the chemicals that are now in your blood. I think you understand, right? "
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Meanwhile, Warrick , Nick and Grissom were processing the evidence from the place Greg had been found. There wasn't much to work with; the red stains from the carpet were blood-Greg's blood. They only found some of Hodges's DNA, which was normal, because David lived there. But nothing that could help them, not even the smallest trace. Nothing. But there has to be something …
"So, Nick, found anything useful?" Warrick asked.
"No, man, nothing." He answered. "God, in this moment I don't want to catch Hodges, just to find that damn poison!" He kicked the wall.
"How much time until ….?" Warrick asked, again.
"Until Greg is going to die? Twenty-six hours. A day."
"Hey, guys, I found something!" Grissom yelled from the other room. Warrick and Nick entered the room which seemed to be a bedroom.
…..
"You can't give him anything?" Catherine asked, speaking for the first time since Greg woke up. "Nothing?"
"Well, I can try some morphine, small doses, I think it won't react with that stuff, but you never know. " The doctor pulled a needle and went to inject the serum into Greg's hand. When he saw the needle, Greg became violent.
"Take that away from me!" He yelled to the doctor, who was very surprised by his reaction.
"Greg, what's wrong with you? Why you don't want the doctor to give you something that will take away the pain?" she asked. Then she remembered.
"The guy who gave him …. who poisoned him used a needle and injected the serum in the same place you want to make the injection now." She answered to the look on doctor's face.
"Ah, I understand. Please try and calm him down, to finish with it."
Catherine hugged Greg, who was in shock. She leaned to his ear and whispered something that calmed him and let the doctor do what had to be done.
Ten minutes after that he was asleep, so Catherine could smile. But is wasn't over. No, because of that poison, that stupid poison and that stupid Hodges…. The bastard. The criminal. She took her phone out and dialed a number.
….
"Hello ?" Grissom answered .
"Hey , Gil , Catherine here ." "Hey Catherine. Something wrong with Greg?" he asked.
Hearing those words, Warrick and Nick rose to their feet and approached Grissom to find out the answer.
"Some good news …." Catherine said.
"What is it? Is he okay?" Nick asked.
"Good news, huh?" Grissom said to Catherine, with this answering Nick's question.
"Yeah they could give him some morphine to stop the pain …. But you have to find Hodges or the poison very soon, understand? If you could see him before they injected the painkiller …. If you could see the pain, the suffering, the fear in his eyes …." Her eyes were wet with tears, hot tears.
"We are going to do our best, you know that."
"I want to come and help you guys!"
"We are doing fine .We found a paper with an address and we're heading there to see if there is anything about Hodges. But you have to stay with Greg."
"But Sara is here!"
"Catherine, Sara's injured, she needs to rest. Now will you listen to me? Greg needs you, alright?" Grissom insisted.
"Okay, fine. I'll stay here on one condition -you tell me first when you find Hodges, okay? I want to be the first that is going to 'play' with him."
"Deal. But you stay there."
"And you work harder. Bye Gil, call me later."
"Bye Cath."
They hung up. Grissom looked at Nick and Warrick, who stared at him and waited for an answer.
"So, what good news?"
"The doctors can give him some morphine to calm the pain, but they can't gave him too big of a dose."
"Well, its good that he doesn't have to bare all that pain, and at least he'll be asleep. Now Grissom, let's go to this address. Maybe we'll get lucky, who knows?"
"Yeah, come on."
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Catherine was watching Greg sleep when she heard a knock at the door and Sara entered the room.
"Oh my…." The brunette whispered, seeing the young CSI lying on that bed. "Hey Cath."
"Hey Sara. How are you feeling?"
"Better …. But …."she closed her eyes and leaned her body over the wall "how … how is he ?" she asked , staring at the poor guy .
"He's sleeping, but the pain is increasing. And they can't enlarge the doses of morphine. Half of the time already passed."
"He has only twenty-four hours?"
"Yes."
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