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Chapter 12 – An Eye For An Eye
Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department
Nick headed towards the front door, very well aware of the two armed officers following him close on his heels. He felt their presence like a burden though he knew he should have felt safe. While they were walking silently through the neonlit corridor, the one sentence kept resounding in his head again and again. An eye for an eye...
He told himself this had just been an idle threat, but iht hadn't sounded like that. Nobody knew exactly what the caller had meant, but what Nick knew was that he needed Sara in safety. If required they'd stay in police protection as long as necessary. Brass would take care of that.
Nick looked up from his thoughts when one of the officers overtook him an signaled him to stop. They had reached the front door. People were still busy here – a policeman quided a man in rags, who was obviosly drunk, into a corridor on their right. Other policemen entered an left the building continuously. The officer lifted his walkie-talkie, said something and listened to the answer, then turned to Nick.
"The car ist waiting."
Nick nodded and followed the man who kept watching the surroundings out of the building to the police car. He allowed his two guards to take him between them on the backseat. His thoughts went back to Sara. Not being able to know fur sure she was well tore his heart apart. He had planned a romantiv evening, just her and him – now that the process was over, to start a new chapter. He even would have cooked something for her for a candlelight dinner. Now he agreed it might be a good idea to go into hiding for a while until Brass and his men had found the caller. Whoever he was.
Nobody said a word until they reached the street Nick lived in, and it was an uneasy silence. When the car stopped in front of the house in question, Nick's two guards went out and checked the area, then Nick followed them.
He felt his heartbeat fasten while he fumbled for his keys. He was longing to take Sara into his arms and tell her he's protect her from everything. He just hoped she would not be scared when he arrived with the officers. The two of them followed him on his way up the stairs.
When they reached the second floor, Nick pulled out his keys, turned towards the door to his flat – and froze in the move. The door war open, the door lock smashed. In the first few seconds Nick was unable to think. From the corner of his eye he saw the policemen silently take their guns, approaching the door, leaving Nick behind who felt as if he had just found out he was stuck in his worst nightmare.
Please God. he prayed. Let Sara not have been home...
His knees were weak when he finally followed the officers in, but stopped in the hallway. Everything seemed to be normal in here. Everything was in place, as if nothing had happened. Nevertheless panic tried to take possession of Nick who desperately stuck to his only hope – that Sara hat not been home when the someone had broken in. He forced himself not to take a closer look at the scaring images that came up in his mind and tried to concentrate on the officers who checked every single room – the kitchen, the bedroom. The last door they opened was the one of the bathroom – and they hold in.
By the same moment Nick knew something was terribly wrong. His pulse beating in his head aloud, he stepped between the officers and gasped for breath. Sara's clothes were lying on the floor and the bathtub was still wet as if she had just taken a shower a minute before. There was even still the gentle smell of Sara's shower gel in the air.
But Sara wasn't there. One officer touched Nick's shoulder and quided his attention to the mirror on the wall.
"Look."
Nick wished he had not. What he saw surpassed his worst nightmare. There was something written on the mirror with a red liquid that looked terribly like blood. Something devilishly familiar.
"An eye for an eye..." Nick whispered with shaking voice. His heart almost stopped beating. This could not be true. It could not. It must not.
When the officer on his right took measures to move forward into the room, Nick scared up from his numbness.
"Stop!" he shouted and the man obeyed in surprise. Nick took a deep breath and swallowed hardly.
"Get out of here. Don't touch anything. This..." it was hard to speak it out "...this is a crimescene."
The man nodded and looked at Nick worried.
Trying to get a clear thought, Nick pulled out his mobile and typed a well known number.
"Willows" the friendly female voice said.
"Catherine – it's Nick."
"Hi Nick. I've heard about the process. You-" Nick cut her off.
"Catherine, I need you to come immediately to my flat. Bring Grissom, bring your stuff. Anything you need. It's a matter of life and death.
"Nick, what's happened?" Catherine asked with fear in her voice.
Nick took a breath and blinked as his eyes went wet.
"Sara has been kidnapped." he answered. Then he hung up and put the mobile down.
This could not be true. It was impossible. Sara had to be alright, wherever she was. They would find her and take her home. They had to. Nick didn't dare to think of any other possibility.
Squeezing his mobile so hard that the plastic grit protestingly, he turned to leave the room when he saw something from the corner of his eye on the floor beneath the wash basin that took his attention. He bent down and carefully lifted it up.
He would not have known what he held in his hand if it hadn't been one of the modern equipment that showed the result in words.
It said "P R E G N A N T".
Nick felt as if something had hit him into the stomach with the power of a freight train. The world turned around him.
Sara.
She was pregnant.
They had taken her.
She was carrying his child.
She was in their grip.
A baby.
Sara.
Both in danger...
An icecold hand grabbed for his heart.
Nick screamed in agony and sank down onto the cold floor...
end of chapter 12
to be continued
Author's note: First of all – I can hardly express how much I'm ashamed that it's been 2 ½ years that I've uploaded the last chapter. I hope you're still interested in my story.
I've written this chapter last evening, sitting on the sofa, and it was a wonderful feeling. As I live in Germany, producing a new english chapter ist something special to me.
I'd very much like you to review! As usual - Thanx a lot.