Chapter Nine ;

Separated

Sara was standing in the DNA lab, pacing back and forth. Greg was sitting behind a computer, watching fingerprints that they had collected from the doorknob of the closet in Sara's room compare to prints in AFIS. Grissom was leaning against one of the desks, with his arms folded across his chest.

Every so often, Sara would look down at her cell phone, which was in her hand. She had thought that in the seconds she had spent not looking at it, maybe Dani had texted her without her hearing it ring. No, she was just anxious to get Dani back as fast as she could. She at least hoped that Dani was with Adam, the two of them could probably find some way out of wherever they were, assuming they were trapped somewhere.

Greg had hid elbow on the desk and his chin in his hand. He stared at the screen as different prints flashed onto the screen, comparing themselves to the print that had been recovered. The three of them hadn't said more than five words to each other since they had started standing around, waiting for a suspect.

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Dani let the tears fall, if the kidnappers knew anything about kidnapping, crying probably wouldn't seem so outrageous to them. Adam, on the other hand, tried staying as silent and as emotionless as he possibly could. Dani hoped that the kidnappers would leave the room again, so she could text Sara and tell her where they were.

Dani's eyes followed the two men that had entered the room. They scanned the room, making sure nothing was out of place, making sure the two kids in the centre of the room hadn't tried to escape. Their evil glares turned towards Dani once they had looked around the whole room. She stared back cold and hard.

"Hello sweetie," one of them said in a dark and raspy voice. Dani just stared back, she didn't want to say anything to them, she didn't know what to say to them.

Once the kidnappers knew she wasn't going to speak, they walked around so they were in front of Adam. He stared back with blazing fear in his eyes.

"So, boy, you wouldn't mind if we went somewhere else with your girlfriend, would you?" The raspy voice asked. Dani's eyes widened, she definitely did not like the sound of that.

"I'd mind," Adam said, it surprised him that he had said it in a calm voice, hypocritical to the look in his eyes.

"Well, you don't always get what you want," The other voice said, it was higher, and the man was younger. "Either of you scream, and we kill the other in front of you, then kill you."

Both of them were silent.

"Glad we understand each other," said the darker voice. He nodded towards the younger man, and they both walked away for a moment. They left the room, and Dani took the chance.

She slipped her cell phone out of her pocket and turned to Adam. Adam was staring back at her.

"Text Sara, tell her we're in the basement of the apartment building," she whispered and reached her hand out as far as she could so she could give him the phone.

"What about you? By the time she gets here, you'll be somewhere else," he argued.

"We're in an apartment building, he won't be able to go far because they're taking me by force, I suspect I'll still be in the building," Dani explained. Adam nodded, then slipped the cell phone into his own pocket.

"I'm jealous of how brave you are," Adam said quietly.

"That means I'm dead scared," Dani replied.

"That's a contradiction though," Adam pointed out.

"Exactly," Dani said.

The kidnappers came back into the room with more rope and a pair of scissors. The younger one cut the rope binding one of Dani's hands, and the older one held her arm. Then the younger one cut the other rope binding Dani's other hand, and the older one grabbed her other arm and tied them together. The younger man walked out into the hallway, and then poked his head back into the room and nodded towards the other man. The older man put his arm around Dani and onto her shoulder, and guided her out of the room. The younger man closed and locked the door as they walked out of the room.

And Adam was left alone.

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The computer beeped and Greg, Sara and Grissom all looked at each other before watching the computer do a final comparison, in more detail, and then match the fingerprint. Sara and Grissom were now leaning over Greg's shoulder.

"The print is a match to a James Kilgan," Greg announced, "His current address is…"

"No way," Sara said. Her cell phone started ringing and she looked down at it. One New Message.

Sara flipped the phone open and read the message.

We're in the basement of the apartment building. They took Dani somewhere else. Hurry, you might catch them.

Sara closed her phone, "Basement of the apartment building, but only Adam's there."

"Then where's Dani?" Greg asked. Sara looked back at the computer screen and wrote down the address.

'Hesterland Apartments, Apartment 21B'