Chapter 2

At the crime lab, everyone stood in the break room waiting for Grissom to give them their assignments.

"Has anyone seen Sara?" Nick said not seeing her in the room, "It's not like her to be late."

Everyone just shook their heads. The thought was lost when Grissom walked into the room with papers in his hands. "Okay, Nick and Warrick, you have a homicide in the desert. Catherine, one in a night club. Sara, you're with me for a homicide in ..." his voice trailed off when he looked up and didn't see her. "Anyone seen Sara?"

Again, everyone shook their heads.

Grissom got out his cell and called her cell. It immediately went to her voice mail. "Maybe she just slept in. I'll call her house." He said as he was dialling her phone number. The phone kept wringing and wringing until the answering machine picked it up. "Sara, it's Grissom. If you can hear this, please call me back. We're getting worried. It's not like you to be late." Grissom closed his phone and waited for a call.

Everyone watched him in suspense. Catherine spoke up, "I hope she's not in trouble."

After a while of everyone sitting around Grissom's phone waiting for it to ring, he said, "I am going over to her apartment. I think she might be in trouble."

Everyone left the room and went to their locations given to them by Grissom earlier. Grissom however headed over to Sara's apartment.

When he got there, he knocked on the door. No answer. "Sara? It's Grissom. Please open the door."

After a while of silence, Grissom went up to the apartment manager and showed his badge. "I need you to open the door to Sara Sidle's apartment. She may be in trouble."

The man got his keys and opened the door, "There you go. If you need anything, I'll be at the front desk."

Grissom walked into the apartment, "Sara?" He looked around. Nothing looked suspicious. Everything was the way it should be. He scanned the room until he noticed the table beside the couch. "Her badge and gun holster? Where's her gun?" He was starting to get more and more worried by the minute.

He looked around the room again for clues and noticed the note on the table. He picked it up and read it aloud. It took him a few times to read it through before he fully understood what the note was telling him. "Why would she just quit like this? It's impossible."

Not seeing anything else in the apartment that would be of any help, he went back to go talk to the manager of the complex.

The man was in his office looking through security tapes.

Grissom walked up, "Did Sara say anything to you about her wanting to quit her job?" he said holding up the note.

"No. She never would say anything like that. But, I have something that might interest you. Sara was kidnapped."

Grissom looked at him blankly. "How do you know?"

The man pointed towards the security tapes he had been watching. "Watch this. It is the hall outside Sara's door."

He played the tape as Grissom watched carefully. The tape showed a man picking the lock of the door and entering the room without Sara's knowledge.

The man skipped forward a few hours, "A couple hours later, they both come out." the man pushed play when he got to the right spot on the tape.

This time it showed Sara walk out of her apartment door with someone else close behind with their arm outstretched in front of them.

Grissom's jaw dropped, "He's holding a gun to her head. Anything else. Do you have a better image of the attacker?"

The man changed the footage to one of the main lobby. "This is the main lobby now." he hit play.

It showed Sara walking towards the door and stop. She elbowed the man and the attacker stumbled a bit while Sara ran out the door. The man got up facing the camera. The manager stopped the video. "This is the best picture of the man. It looks like she got away. The attacker follows after her though. I don't know if he caught up to her or not."

"Thank you very much. Do you mind if I take these videos with me to look at them more closely?" Grissom asked now very worried about his colleague.

"Sure. No problem." the manager said giving him the tapes.

Grissom called his team to meet him back at his office to help find Sara. They needed to find her before something bad happened.