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Harmless Liaisons: Chapter Eight

"We should get back to work...unfortunately killers don't hand themselves in often..." Nick smiled leading Sara back to the lab his hand on her lower back.

"You're right...I found trace on the inside of our missing person's shirt that I think might be able to put Zack Berry at our vics house..." Sara explained as they walked towards the layout room where she had left her notes.

"It was..." Sara said slowly picking up the printout Hodges had given her. "Toner...specific to Ink a Vegas based company...I had a look through the file...Zack Berry works for them..."

"I say it's about time we brought this guy in." Nick said his hands curling into fists. They walked together to Catherine's office, to present what they had found.

Catherine looked up from her desk she took her glasses off and placed them down in a exasperated way. She ignored Sara's presence and looked directly at Nick.

"Sara found trace, on our missing person's shirt that ties Zack Berry to the disappearance at least." Nick explained emphasising "Sara". But there was not a flicker of recognition in Catherine's eyes.

"I'll go get Vartann, get ready Nicky." Catherine said as she stalked out of the room to get Vartann.

"Do you think she'll ever forgive me?" Sara asked quietly once Catherine had left. Nick simply shrugged.

"Eventually." he said with a half smile in attempts to reassure Sara.

xxx

Nick and Catherine followed Vartann towards Zack Berry's office building. They took a look around the open plan floor but it soon became apparent that Zack was attempting to flee. He was walking quickly towards a fire exist hoping not to be noticed. Vartann and Nick's eyes met for a second and then they started chasing after him; they attempted to move around the office furniture without knocking it over.

When they both drew their guns Zack came to a quick halt, he turned to face them. He knew there was no point in running. They cuffed him and placed him in the back of the squad car.

xxx

Sara found Langston going through the evidence they had collected from Andrea Martin's house. She gave him a quick smile not knowing whether to apologies for what he had to witness earlier or whether to pretend that everything was fine.

"Anyway I can help?" She asked, deciding the latter was probably the best idea.

"Help would be great, could you have a look through those?" Langston pointed towards a pile of letters they had collected from Andrea Martin's porch.

Sara nodded and began sorting through the letters. She placed them in neat piles of bills, advertisements and personal. The bill pile seemed to be stacking up pretty high she noted. Every so often there was the threatening red letters of "final notices".

"It looks like she was up to her eye balls in debt. And that's from the outside. I haven't even opened the letters yet." Sara said.

She looked to see Greg walk through the door a sullen expression on his face. He stood at the door frame and looked at her.

"I'm going to take this to Hodges." Langston announced, he gave Sara an understanding look and disappeared out of the door leaving them together.

Greg closed the door behind him and stepped inside, attempting to word his apology just right.

"I'm so sorry Sara...the things I said...were awful..." he started moving towards her, his hands clasped together in front of and his head bowed. "...hurtful..."

"You can say that again." Sara responded.

"I was angry...I...I don't want to lose you Sara...I've waited for this...for us...for so long...and...I want it to last...I know it can..." Greg was talking without letting his mind filter the thoughts. It was his honesty that had caught her off guard. She was expecting a rehearsed speech, but Greg had bared all, or so to speak.

She took a step towards him, her eyes watching the ground.

"You weren't going to lose me..." she said softly placing a hand on cheek. "...I think we can last..." she whispered so only he could hear.

Greg leant in and placed his lips on Sara's, kissing her slowly he wrapped his arms around her waist pulling in her close so their bodies were pressed up together. Ending the kiss they looked into each other's eyes sharing that linger moment neither one of them said a word.

They didn't need to.

It was there in black and white in their expression, in their eyes, they weren't going to let go of each other.

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Zack Berry sat in the interrogation room his lawyer talking at him. He had a worried expression. Catherine and Nick watched from through the glass attempting to work out which strategy would be best in breaking him.

"What do you think?" Catherine asked Nick as they stood watching.

"I don't know." he responded lazily, his eyes intently watching their suspect.

"I'm going in." Catherine announced, turning on her heel and disappearing out of the door only to reappear again on the other side of the glass. Zack looked up at her nervously, and then looked back at his lawyer who just simply nodded.

"Where is she Zack?" She asked bluntly not bothering to dress up what she was getting at. It was rare in this job that they managed to bring someone home alive and Catherine wasn't willing to let that chance go.

"I don't know." he simply responded his eyes on his hands.

"Sure you do. We found trace that puts you with her." She raised an eyebrow in a taunting way as if to say "get out of this one".

"I don't know where she is now." Zack said not giving in to her expression and mocking.

"So you did know where she was?" There was silence in the room as Zack refused to look up and refused to acknowledge that he was being asked a question.

"Zack...she was your best friend...and you're going to leave her out there...on her own...scared out of her wits? To die? Or already dead?" Catherine's voice softened, and finally Zack looked her in the eye; there was nothing but fear in his expression something Catherine wasn't expecting.

"They'll kill me..." he finally said.