Time for chapter 3! Let me know what you think, and thanks for the reviews already :P.


"Hey, we bought you some normal clothes to wear" Nick said as he entered Greg's hospital room with Sara.

Greg looked over to them from the chair he was sat in as they placed their bags that they had bought onto the bed. He gave them a smile as they turned back to him, showing him what they had brought for him to wear.

"What do you fancy?" Nick asked him as he laid out all that they had bought.

Greg looked over and his hand drifted up towards his neck, where his fingers grazed over the still healing wound and scar.

"Do you have, like, a shirt?" he asked quietly.

Sara stared at him for a moment silently. Watching as he consciously rubbed the edge of his fingers along the evident mark across his neck. Snapping back to reality she turned and foraged through one of the bags, "Yeah, I think so. Here, this one?" She asked, finding one and holding it up.

Greg looked at it briefly and nodded slightly.

"Alright let's try it on" Nick said with a smile as he came over and untied the gown around Greg's neck. He dropped it down so that it was resting on Greg's thighs and Sara quickly passed Nick the shirt when she saw Greg avoiding to look at either of them.

Nick held it open and helped Greg to get the shirt on as fast as he could manage. As soon as he had his arms in and it was resting comfortably on his shoulders, Nick did up the buttons, all but the top one, and then stood back, letting Sara take a look, "What do you think?"

Sara smiled, "I think it looks good. It's a little big but we can get a smaller size next time" she said as she sat on the bed facing them.

She carried on gazing at Greg and gave him a soft smile when he looked up to her. She stood up and went over to him, gently pulling his hand down from his neck that he wasn't aware he had moved back up.

"You can hardly see it with the shirt on" she said quietly as she held his hand in hers.

Greg gave her a sad smile, not realising he had been so easy to read. He didn't think he was being that obvious about how conscious he was.

Sara gave his hand a soft squeeze before she stood and went back to the bags on the bed.

"We bought you a little treat" she said, turning around with a chocolate milkshake in her hand.

"Yeah, but if the doctors ask, you haven't had it alright?" Nick said, making both she and Greg smile.

Nick had suggested buying something that Greg would eat, but since he wasn't allowed much solid food still, milkshakes and smoothies seemed the best option. But since he had been having all of the general hospital food, they thought a full fat chocolate shake would be just the right thing.

"Thank you" Greg said as he took it from Sara, who had taken a straw from the pack at the end of his bed and placed it in the bottle for him.

Ever since he had been able to drink, Greg had to have a straw to help him. His movement was limited, although it was getting better, and he often had trouble even holding the glass or bottle, never mind bringing it up to his lips.

"No problem" Sara said as she went back over to unpack some more clothes. "Now we bought some pants but I'm not sure we got the right size" she started to explain to him.

"Well we can try 'em on and go back and swap them if they're not right" Nick said as he turned to her.

Sara held a pair up and looked at them, "Yeah I guess, they look a little big now we're here. I guess we could put a belt on them".

Nick gave her a sideways glance and she immediately regretted what she had said. She turned to Greg and put her hand on his arm, "Greg I'm sorry I didn't think" she said apologetically.

He shook his head slightly and offered a small smile, "It's alright".


"So what did you use?" Brass asked in a gruff voice.

"We found traces of blood on the belt you were wearing when you came in" Nick said after a few moments of silence. "It matches the lash marks we found on Mr Sanders' back".

The guy across the table in the interrogation room just smiled and shrugged, "Looks like you don't need me to answer your questions. You already figured it out".

"What else did you use on him?" Brass said before Nick could get a word in.

"Why don't you ask him?" the man asked, acting cocky.

He leaned forward on the table, "Oh no, is he talking to you? Or has he not forgiven you yet?"

Nick and Brass frowned slightly as they shared a look, "What are you on about?"

"You" the guy said nodding to Nick, "You're the one who left him on his own, before we got into his house and took him for a ride".

Nick suddenly realised what the man was talking about. All that time ago, when Greg was first taken, he had left Greg's house and that's when the attackers stroke. That's when Greg was taken.

"Bet you wish you'd never left" the man said with a laugh.

However that was the last thing he said before Nick leapt over the table and tackled him to the floor.


Sara stepped back from Greg's door and waited. It was the second time she had knocked and she didn't hear Greg coming to let her in.

She went over to his window and held her hand up to the glass to look inside. As soon as she saw, she ran back to the door and to her surprise found it open. She went inside and quickly scanned the room.

"Greg!" she didn't get a response and quickly made her way through his home.

"Greg!" she shouted again and pulled her cell from her pocket.

"Russell, you need to come to Greg's house. Now".


"Hey" Morgan greeted him as she entered his hospital room.

"Hey".

"How are you feeling today?" She asked him as she sat down next to him lying in bed.

Greg let out a small sigh, "A little better I guess."

"That doesn't sound very convincing" Morgan said to him with a smile.

He didn't reply, just gave a mumble in response. Morgan picked up the remote to the television and turned to him, "Do you want to see if there's anything on?"

He nodded gently and she smiled as she turned the power on and changed through the channels, before settling on an easy to watch game show.

She didn't try and speak to him anymore, just spent time with him. They were all finding it difficult to come to terms with the fact that Greg didn't say much. Perhaps didn't want to say much. But they were hoping that with time, he would become more like the old Greg, and get a little chattier as time went on.

None of them could blame him for not wanting to say much though. He had spent so long without them all. So long he had spent doing nothing except being beaten, hurt, and tortured by the bastards that took him. And all because he was the one they saw at the scene.


Sara, Nick and Finn were all sat in Greg's hospital room, talking over cases with each other. Sara had been sat with Greg for an hour or so and she could have sworn that she saw his eyes moving underneath his lids earlier. However she didn't say anything about it when Nick and Finn came to join her, having just finished their case.

After they had been sat for another hour together, Finn noticed the same thing Sara had noticed earlier. Greg's eyes were moving underneath their lids.

"Guys I think he's waking up" Finn said to both Nick and Sara as she moved in closer, grasping Greg's hand.

Sara had a hopeful look in her eyes and she prayed that he was finally waking up. She joined Nick and Finn at his bedside and they all smiled when he finally opened his eyes.

"Greggo?" Nick asked as his friends eyes shifted slightly under their half closed lids.

Greg's eyes turned to look at him, but Nick couldn't be sure that Greg was even seeing him. There was no recognition there, there was nothing, and after only a few seconds his eyes were drifting closed again.

Nick sighed as he sat back in his chair, "Well at least he woke up right?" he said, trying to not let his disappointment show.

Finn nodded, "Yeah. This is a huge step. I'm going to go and tell his doctor" she said before standing up and leaving the room.

Sara looked over to Nick and licked her lips, "You know, he'll probably wake up again sometime soon. And the more he wakes up, the longer he'll be awake for".

Nick looked over to her and nodded, "Yeah I know. I just… I just want him to know that we're here. That he's not still back there".

Sara nodded in understanding, "I know. But I think he knows".


"We can't stop looking. We can't give up on him" Nick said in desperation. "He's out there somewhere waiting for us to come and find him".

Russell took in a deep breath, "It's not my call. I'm going to meet up with the board later to discuss it".

"Have you spoken to my dad?" Morgan asked, and everyone looked at her, wondering the same thing but not wanting to bring it up.

Russell shook his head, "No, and this is out of his control too-"

"I'll go and talk to him" Morgan said, interrupting him.

"Morgan just-" But she had gone. Russell turned back to the rest of his team, "I'm going to fight to keep this case open as much as the rest of you, but if this were any other case, you know that with as little leads to go on as we have right now… the investigation wouldn't continue".

Finn looked down, knowing that what Russell was telling them all was true. She turned to Nick as he sat down at the break room table and put his head in his hands.

Hodges and Henry were there and they shared sad looks with each other, not wanting to accept that they may never find Greg.

He had been missing for almost three months now and as much as nobody wanted to admit it, they were all losing hope. And they all knew that if they were to continue looking, it was more than likely a body that they were going to be looking for.


"What time did you leave?" Finn asked Nick as they stood in Greg's home. The team had arrived not even half an hour after Sara had rang Russell to inform him of what she had found.

"I left not even two hours ago. I made sure he was alright, he'd settled on his couch, I said I'd call back to see him tomorrow and I left" Nick explained, running a hand over his face.

Finn bit her lip as she thought, "Did you notice anything unusual as you left?"

Nick shook his head and shrugged, "No. I mean, I didn't really look for anything. I had no idea this was going to happen".

Finn rubbed his arm, "I know, but don't worry we are going to find him. He'll be ok".

Nick nodded and turned to Russell behind him, "Have you found anything?"

Russell sighed, "There are a few different blood samples we've swabbed, I'm going to take a guess and say that they both belong to Greg though".

"Do you think this is linked to what happened at the scene?" Nick asked him worried.

"It's possible. We're just going to have to see what results we get and see if we can find a link" Russell said to him, "I don't know how they would know Greg's address if it is the same guy from the scene?"

"Maybe they followed us" Nick said with raised eyebrows, "What if they stayed at the scene and followed us to the hospital? Then they followed us here?"

Finn shook her head, "That seems a little farfetched. I mean how long were you at the hospital? He'd have had to wait around there, have tabs on your car, and follow you without you noticing all the way back here… All whilst risking Greg identifying him? I don't buy it" Finn said honestly.

"What if there's more than one?" Nick suggested, looking from Finn to Russell.

"That's possible. But we need some solid evidence before we can even suggest that these two things are related" Russell told him.

Sara came from down the hall carrying bags of evidence, "I'm going to take this back to the lab, see if I can get anything".

"I'll come with you" Finn said, as she picked up some more evidence bagged in the kitchen.

"Alright, keep us updated" Russell told them and then turned back to Nick.

"Let's see what else we can find".


I hope you enjoyed it.