A/N: Okay, so here is the next chapter :D Enjoy :D

Chapter 3

Grissom and Warrick headed toward the school to see what Nick had got. He'd spoken to the principal, who had gladly obliged and let them check the security footage. Nick had been going through it for just over 3 hours now, and had nothing.

Luckily the Principal was also the art teacher, and Sara had come to the school to help out with the investigation. The principal had got a good look at the guy and was with the Police Sketch Artist.

20 minutes later, Sara ran to find Grissom, who was still with Nick and Warrick looking at the footage in the school's security suite.

"Guys, I got a sketch from the principal, this is our guy." Sara held up the sketch.

"Damn it!" Nick yelled, "We had him and we let him go!"

"Who is he?" Sara asked softly.

Nick sighed, "His name is Max Huberman; He was the stripper in our Casino Vic case at Caesars. What the hell does he want with Catherine though?"

Just then, Nick's cell phone rang.

"Stokes…What? Okay, thank you very much."

"Sara, you and Catherine investigated a robbery 75 miles from here a few months ago right and it tied to the Casino heist?"

"Yeah, why?"

"Well the guy that has Catherine is ex-state trooper William Spencer, who escaped from Prison last week, they've been looking for him ever since. He's changed his identity and his appearance and now he has Cath!"

"What?" Sara replied in total shock, "That can't be him!"

Nick sighed, "Spencer's prints in our database confirm he is Huberman."

Catherine kept her eyes fixed on Linzi, so that incase she woke up, she would know that her mom was there with her. Catherine was scared because she had no idea where they where or why they had been taken but she knew for Linzi's sake, she had to be brave. She felt where ever she was beginning to slow down, and then she heard voices.

"Welcome to Fort Worth, Texas."

'Oh God! We've already crossed 3 state lines.' Catherine thought, 'Where are we being taken too?'

They drove for another while which felt like forever, before the van came to a sudden dead stop. Catherine was very worried now as Linzi had bolted awake and was staring at her with tears in her eyes. She was absolutely terrified. Catherine could feel her own tears starting to form as she knew how Linzi felt, but she fought them in order to remain calm for her daughter's sake. She heard footsteps outside and they grew closer and closer as the bolt on the back of the van was undone. A large flash of light blinded Catherine, as she blinked rapidly trying to adjust her eyes to the light.

She felt the van spring under some weight as she felt her hands being unbound from behind her back and the cable ties being cut from around her ankles. A voice she recognized told her not to move. She did as she was told, but felt helpless as she heard Linzi's cries as she was treated the same. Catherine was instructed to Lift Linzi and get out of the van. Catherine picked her daughter up in her arms and held her tightly. She felt Linzi's tears on her shoulder, as she kissed her daughter's head and whispered in her ear, "Sssh, baby, it's going to be okay, Mommy's here."

Catherine climbed out of the van and was grabbed by her arm and taken into an old, rundown building. As soon as she got out of the van, she looked around trying to find anything that would help her to figure out exactly where she was. It was no use. She was surrounded by trees and forests. They were in the middle of nowhere and so very far away from the bright lights of Vegas.

Inside the rundown building, Catherine could hear the sound of leaky pipes, and everything else was silent except for their footsteps. It was very dark, so she couldn't tell who it was that had kidnapped her and her daughter. At the end of what Catherine discovered was a long dark corridor, they were pushed into a small room with no windows and a mattress on the floor. The door was quickly locked behind them and they were left alone. It was cold, damp, and they were so far away from home, that Catherine doubted for a second that they would never be found, but she remembered her colleagues, and how when one of their own was in trouble, they would not give up until they were all reunited again. This was the only hope she was going to cling to in order to try and survive and walk away from this horrible ordeal.

She pushed the mattress with her foot toward the wall and sat down on it and leaned against the wall. She had Linzi on her knee and continued to hold her close in order to keep her warm.

Back in Vegas, Grissom and the team had been working flat out in order to try and establish what exactly had happened to Catherine and Linzi. They had discovered that a van had been stolen, and the victim had confirmed that it was Spencer who had stolen the van. A BOLO had been put out on the van, but no responses had been received yet.

The front desk phone rang as Grissom was about to head out to try and find something else to help them in the investigation, when the receptionist Melanie called him over. She handed him the phone. "Grissom, Fort Worth PD had some info on the stolen van."

Grissom's eyes widened as he answered the call.

"Gill Grissom, Las Vegas Crime Lab."

"Hello Mr. Grissom, I'm Captain Eva Oaks, with the Fort Worth PD. I hear you have a BOLO out on a stolen van out of Vegas?"

"Yes, I do, and I believe you have some information on my stolen van."

"Yes, the van entered Fort Worth about an hour ago; I remember as I spoke to the driver and I've made some inquires, and I believe it is still here."

"I'm going to fax you through a photo and I would like to know if this is the driver you spoke too."

Grissom faxed the photograph through to the Fort Worth PD. A few minutes later, Captain Oaks replied, "Yes Mr. Grissom, this is the driver I spoke to."

"Captain Oaks, this man has kidnapped one of my CSI's and her daughter, and I would like to request that your PD doesn't make a move until I get there. I'm going to have a chopper fly me in. This man is very smart; he is an ex-state trooper, who has escaped from a prison here in Vegas, and he is very dangerous, but I can't risk losing track of him again, as he may hurt my CSI."

"I completely understand Mr. Grissom, I will ask around and see if any of my Detectives know the whereabouts of the van, but we will lay low until you get here."

Will that, Grissom hung up and hurried to the layout room where the team was working hard on the case. They all looked up as they saw Grissom running down the hallway.

"Gris, what's going on?" Nick asked anxiously.

"Fort Worth PD down in Texas has just informed me that the stolen van arrived there about an hour ago, and Spencer was driving the van. Captain Oaks from the PD informed me that it still is in the area, so I'm having a chopper send me and Nick there to work with the PD to try and find out where Catherine and Linzi are. Sara you are in charge until I get back."

The team nodded, and Grissom and Nick set off to the Chopper. They were slightly excited as they were one step closer to finding Catherine and Linzi and bringing them home safely, but then again, they knew that something could still go horribly wrong.

Catherine rocked Linzi on her knee and tried to get her to go to sleep. She was silently praying that any minute now Grissom would walk into the room and take them to safety. She was staring around the dark room when she noticed a glow stick faintly lit in the corner. She looked closer and noticed a scrap of paper and a pen. She carefully laid Linzi on the Mattress and got up to lift the scrap of paper and the pen. She began to write on the paper and then slipped the scrap in her pocket. She put the pen back on the ground where she found it and snuggled back into Linzi. She tried to think of positive things and that was when she must have drifted off to sleep.