Chapter Ten ;
A Last Obstacle
The sirens were loud. The lights were flashing. The police car was speeding. Jim Brass and Gil Grissom were driving towards Sara's apartment building. The plan was that, with back up, Jim and Gil would go to the basement of the apartment building and get Adam.
Sara, who was in a police car with Greg, Catherine, and two police officers, was to go into the apartment where their suspect lived. Hopefully, Dani would be there. In her mind, the car wasn't driving nearly fast enough, but she knew it was driving plenty fast.
Sara got out her cell phone, and texted Adam. She hoped that concentrating on what to tell Adam would keep her mind off of how slowly they were getting to the apartment building.
We're on our way, to get both of you. If they come back and want you to get out of the basement, stall for as long as possible.
Sara flipped her phone closed and put it into her pocket. She stared out the window and bit her lip as she watched cars pull over to make way for the speeding police cruiser.
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The younger man picked Dani up and laid her down on the bed. He tied her legs up at the ankles, and then walked into another room of the apartment. Tears flowed from her eyes again. She was scared, dead scared.
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Adam sat alone. He felt guilty at knowing what might be happening to Dani at this very moment, and not doing anything about it. He kept staring at the door, waiting for police officers to come storming in, with their guns drawn and flaunting their courage. Adam had become a disgrace to the simple thought of courage.
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The men had come back into the room where Dani was in. She wondered what they were going to do to her, since it would be hard for them to get her pants off with her legs tied up. Her eyes stared at them, screaming out for their pity, but they were kidnappers, why would they listen?
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Sara tapped her fingers on her knee impatiently. She was holding in tears, she was trying to stay strong, but soon the barrier would break and she would become the emotional mess that no one knew about. Sara felt that soon she would break down, and she wouldn't be able to hold it in.
Greg put a supporting hand on her shoulder. Sara turned to him and gave a light smiled; he showed her a little smile. He seemed to be stressed about the case, more than Catherine, but not as much as Sara. Catherine was showing her emotions like a rock, and Sara couldn't tell that she almost took herself off the case. The thought of Lindsey being kidnapped again kept appearing in her mind. The thing was, Catherine couldn't let herself off the case, and she had to see for herself that kidnapped children could be saved.
Sara turned and stared out the window, her mind was racing, her heart was pounding, and she had a huge headache that she was ignoring. She was light-headed, but she ignored that too. Her mind was set on one thing, saving Dani. The police cruiser just wouldn't get to the apartment building fast enough.
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"Don't scream, or I'll kill your boyfriend in front of you," The older man reminded Dani.
As calmly as she possibly could, Dani spoke, "He's not my boyfriend." Her voice was still shaky.
The two men seemed surprised that Dani actually spoke.
"He's just my friend, do you think my mom would let me have my boyfriend sleep over at my house?" Dani said. The two men actually laughed. This surprised Dani, and she became slightly less scared out of her mind. Her job just got a whole lot easier. She knew that Sara was most likely on her way, so all she had to do was stall, and she'd come out of this alive.
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The police cars drove into the parking lot of the apartment building. The car had barely stopped before Sara had gotten out of the car. Greg ran after her, but he couldn't catch up. Sara's adrenaline was pumping and she was running too fast. As she got to the door to the apartment building, the CSI in her stopped herself and thought it was smart to wait for the rest of them.
The two teams of CSI's and police officers grouped into one and listened to Jim Brass explain what they were going to do.
"Alright, we don't want to mess this up. From what we know, Dani is with the kidnappers, but we don't want to take any chances. So, Sara, Greg, George and Carl and I are going into the apartment, 21B. Gil, Catherine, Ken and Dave will go to the basement of the apartment building. Cuff the criminals, then bring the victim out here. Leave one person with the victim, and go to where the other victim is. Everyone clear?" Jim explained. Everyone nodded, there were no objections, and so the group went into the apartment building and parted.
Grissom, Catherine, Ken and Dave, took off down a set of stairs with their guns drawn. They came to a door that was at the end of an empty hall. It was locked. Grissom smashed the lock, his adrenaline was also pumping. The four of them rushed into the room, guns pointing in different directions as they looked around the room.
"Grissom!" Adam said happily. Gil ran over to him and cut the rope that bound his hands. Adam threw his arms around Grissom and wept like a child. Grissom hugged the boy back, and hoped that Sara had found Dani.
"Where's Dani?" Adam asked as they walked out of the room and he wiped the tears from his eyes.
"I'm about to go help Sara find her, go with this officer, okay?" Grissom said and nodded towards Ken. Adam nodded and followed Ken out of the apartment building.
With their guns drawn, Grissom and the other officer, Dave, ran up to apartment 21B. They entered the room cautiously, with their guns as their noses.
They heard Sara's voice coming from another room, "Sir, drop the gun." Then a gun shot, followed by Dani's screams.