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Harmless Liaisons: Chapter Five

"So..." Catherine started, looking around the table in the layout room at her colleagues. "We have a car with, women's clothes, covered in your victim's blood. The clothes were the only things that weren't ash in the car. Hodges confirmed that the bag they were in was made with type of rayon, Lenzing FR, fire resistant material, which would suggest that whoever torched the car, expected them to burn too."

"The print on the murder weapon came back to our missing person, Andrea Martin; turns out she had a RAP sheet the length of my arm, from possession to soliciting. The other prints belonged to our vic, there were some others but too smeared to work with." Sara explained what she had found.

"I had Archie, check the CCTV footage outside the club, he left with our miss per. the date stamp suggests that she was the last person he was with. It only takes about five minutes to get back to his place, so unless there was someone waiting there for him it's looking as if our missing person is our best suspect." Nick suggested.

"I found long hairs on our vics clothes, skin tags intact, sent them to DNA to be processed." Greg chipped in.

"Guys there isn't any signs of there being anyone else there apart from our missing person. Our vic made a move, she wasn't into it, there was a struggle and she killed him. Maybe we should be considering her as a suspect?" Nick stated looking at the evidence in front of them.

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"Why are you doing this?" The woman pleaded with her abductor.

"Because I have to...it's for your own good sweet heart." He said with a sympathetic look on his face.

"Are you going to kill me?" she asked. She had always lived her life on the edge. She had always gotten in trouble but never had she imagined everything ending in this way; being held captive for the pleasure of some sick twisted mental case.

He gave a throaty laugh and took a sip from the cup of tea he had made himself.

"Maybe, but for now I have somewhere to be. Don't miss me too much." He smiled letting himself out of the door leaving her alone.

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Zack Berry sat at his desk fidgeting, placing a pen down and picking it back up in order to get back to work. But he couldn't focus, he mind was elsewhere, when would the police find Andrea? He had done his bit, he had told them and all he could do now was wait.

Vartann and Catherine made their way towards his desk, their expression telling everyone that this wasn't a casual visit.

"Detective Vartann- Hav-Have you found Andrea?" Zack asked seeing the stern look on Vartann's face. "Is she okay?"

"No we haven't found her, but we are trying our best." he assured Zack.

"Mr Berry, why didn't you tell us about Andrea's past record?" Catherine asked, revealing to Zack why they were there.

"She's moved on from that, she had some darker years, but she's really turned over a new leaf, I didn't think it mattered." he said looking innocent.

"Everything you know matters." Catherine said firmly not giving into the look on his face. "Do you know of any reasons why anyone would want to hurt Andrea? Dealers? Pimps? Anyone from her past that's held a grudge?" Catherine asked, deciding not to let Zack know that they suspected his best friend of murder.

"I really can't, she got out of that world for a reason."

"If anything comes up, let us know." With that Catherine turned on her heel and began walking away.

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Sara watched Greg from her desk; she could see him working away, pacing as he read through files and notes.

And in that moment she felt overwhelmed with all the feeling she had for him.

She loved the frown he wore when he was concentrating, the smile of triumph when he'd worked something out, the way his eyes softened when he saw her, the way he held her at night, the way he kissed her first thing in the morning and the way he'd mutter in her ear about how much he loved her when he thought she was asleep.

It was thinking about all of these things that made Sara realise that she never wanted to lose him.

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Nick picked up a few of the letters addressed to Andrea Martin that had been left on front porch.

"Looks like she hasn't been home in a while." he said turning to Langston who was close behind kit in hand. "I guess I get to bust a door down...after all we do have a warrant."

Nick did exactly that and stepped inside the house.

"It's a tip." he said glancing around.

"It is indeed...a tip." Langston said, following Nick inside.

"We better get started, or we're going to be here forever." Nick sighed and began moving towards the mess.

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"Greg can we talk?" Sara asked, walking up behind Greg as he made himself a coffee in the break room. He turned around to face her, cocking his head he frowned.

"About what?" was his only response.

"About us." Sara whispered looking around to make sure that no one was close enough to hear, to her luck the one other person that had been in the break room was walking out. "I really want to make this work, Greg." she said at a normal volume.

"I know, I know..." his voice softened when he looked up to see the desperation and the weakness in Sara's eyes. "We just can't keep going like this...lying to everyone..."

Sara nodded, she turned the gold chain around her neck until the clasp was in front of her, she unhooked it, taking the chain in her hand to show Greg and then placed it into her pocket.

Greg felt slightly overwhelmed by the gesture. Maybe things would be alright?

Greg placed he mug of tea down and stepped forward pulling Sara into his arms, she didn't resist, and instead she wrapped her arms around him as tightly as she could without hurting him.

"I love you." he muttered into her ear.

"I love you too." she responded.

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"Hey, didn't Andrea's best friend tell us that she was on her first date with our vic?" Nick asked.

"Yes, I believe so." Langston paused for a moment before he responded.

"Well he was lying...here are some photos of then...looking pretty chummy." Nick said pulling a handful of photos off the fridge.

"I wonder what else he's lied to us about." Langston ponders out loud.

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Greg's pager buzzed in his pocket, forcing him to finally pull away from their embrace.

"Hodges has my results, better go." he sighs, he gave Sara a lazy smile, he stepped out of the break room.

She watched him walk away, already missing the feeling of his closeness, her phone vibrated her in pocket, waking her from the moment of calm, it made her jump slightly.

"Sara speaking." she said as she tapped her nails against the counter waiting for whoever it was on the other side to speak up.

"Sara, it's me, I'm outside, could we talk?" the familiar voice sent an electric shock through her body. She quickly hung up the phone and made her way to the labs entrance.

She stepped out into the Las Vegas heat and began scanning the car park but before she saw him she could hear the sound of his voice.

"Hello Sara."

Sara turns to see Gil Grissom leant on his parked car. She could feel her heart rate increase triple fold as she rushed over to him.

"Gil." she said breathlessly. Not knowing how to respond.

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Greg watched from her entrance as Grissom pulled Sara into an awkward embrace. The hope he had no longer than five minutes ago was beginning to diminish as he saw the way Grissom looked at her.

Why was he back?