"I don't want you to go. You're not going. It's to dangerous," I told Gil in his office.
He was ready to leave. He was going to drop off the ransom money by himself.
Nick was kidnapped, and I was on a near breakdown. We saw the tape. I wasn't going to lose anyone today. We were working non-stop.
"Sara, I'm not letting anyone else do this. I have to do this for me for Nick," he told me coming around his desk.
"I can't lose you now. It might be a trap," I said almost to tears.
The door was locked so no one could interrupt us, and the blinds were closed.
He gently caressed my cheek with his hand. I leaned into his touch and closed my eyes. He knew how to calm me.
"I promise you Sara; I won't leave you anytime soon. I won't let that happen."
"You don't know that. I love you," I said nearly a whisper.
"I always have….. It's almost time for me to leave. I need to go. I'll be back with Nick, I promise," he said taking his leave.
I watched him walk down the hall.
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There was an explosion at the drop off. Someone was dead. It couldn't be Gil. He can't break his promise.
I was needed to help search for any clues in warehouse to find Nick. We didn't find Nick. I saw Gil he was all right. Gil was getting checked up by a paramedic. He had small cuts on his face and probably was hurt from the explosion.
I wanted to run to him and make sure he was alive. I knew I couldn't we were at work. We said we would keep this private. It hurt so much not to let it effect me.
I focused on Nick for now. I found an intact thumb, maybe we had something instead of nothing.
I took it back to the lab. Time was closing on us. I tried to get a match off the fingerprint of the thumb. There was no match. I didn't let it go. I let Mia, one of the lab analysis, see the print.
I kept looking at the time and seeing Nick's desperate face. We got a relative that matched closely to the fingerprint. The daughter.
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"Kelly Gordon," I told Gil walking down the hall of the labs., "is currently in the state prison serving year three of a five year sentence for accessory to murder. It all fits in. The messenger picked up the package at the same place Kelly Gordon was, when the murder happened. It turns out the Styrofoam cup that Nick found was the item that got Kelly her sentence. The guy is after CSI for putting his daughter in jail."
"Hey, are you going to be ok," he said asked me pulling me to the side were no one could see us.
"I…..we can talk about this later. We need to find Nick," I told him about to walk away.
He gently grabbed my arm and held me there. I faced him.
"We'll find him, Sara,' he told me letting go of my arm and walking away.
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I went to the interrogation room to get any information we could from Kelly Gordon. She was cold, uncaring and wouldn't tell us anything.
When Brass and me told her about what's happening to Nick right now, Kelly replied, "I hope your friend dies."
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We were all in the break room. Gil needed to tell us something important. I didn't know why he needed all of us.
"Fire ants. Very rare in Nevada. They don't like our soil. The only places you find them in Vegas are in plant and tree nurseries"
We narrowed it down to two in Nevada.
Kelly Gordon used to work at one of them. I started to run to get the information and showed everyone where.
"You guys, Nick is here," I said pointing to the map.
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"Hey, I'm picking up the webcam transmitter" Catharine yelled out. .
We search for a bit longer and found the exact location. Catherine went to her knees and digged furiously and confirmed the location.
"Nick, we're here. Hold ON! Nickyyyy," she yelled out.
We got the lid off. We froze the ants, so Nick could calm down. There were explosives under the box. Set on pressure switches.
Gil was the one to get Nick to cooperate with us. I realized right then that Gil could be a father. I never thought about children. Did he want any? I didn't know. We never talked about it.
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We were ready to pull Nick. We had 200 pounds of dirt. The dirt fell, and we pulled Nick out. He was safe. The paramedics rushed straight to Nick. They took him to Desert Palms with Catherine and Warrick to comfort him.
I never saw the sorrow that day in Gil's face. It scared me because I didn't know what he would do if Nick didn't make it. Nick was like a son to Gil.
"I wants my guys back," Gil said as the ambulance pulled away. I was standing beside him and Brass with Greg on the other side of Jim and Ecklie on the other side of Gil. All I wanted to do was hug Gil. I needed comfort. Brass pulled me into his arms.
"It's ok honey," he told me. I could tell Jim was giving Gil the death glare because he wouldn't do anything. We made our promises, and we knew the consequences if we let the truth show.
Gil went to his car without a goodbye. After I said goodbye to the rest of the team, I went to see if I could catch up with Gil. He probably was gone.
His car was still here. The engine was off, so I went to the driver side. He was there silently crying there in his seat. I opened the door, and hugged him. It was traumatic for him. I didn't know how long we stayed there, but I didn't care.
We both let go of each other. I told him to let me drive to the hospital. We stopped by to check on Nick. I held Nick's hand for a couple of hours until I knew for sure that he would be ok. Gil sat beside me.
We made our leave another hour later. Catherine and Warrick stayed with him.
I held Gil's hand on the way back to his townhouse. We were both tired, but we couldn't sleep. I laid on the bed with him. He had his arm around me. He held onto me tightly. I knew he thought I might slip away, but I would never leave him.
He kissed the top of my head. I turned around to look at him, that was the first time I got to see his face with the minor cuts and bruises he had sustained from the explosion.
He closed his eyes tightly. He was getting a migraine. He was thinking too hard. He was thinking of what could have happened.
I kissed the cuts on his face. He relaxed. I could have lost him. He pulled me closer.
He told me what was bothering him. He said he almost gave me that case. He said I could have been in that box. He could have lost me.
I helped him undress while he did the same for me. I saw bruises on his chest. I gulped back the tears. We sleeped entwined with each other that night.
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