A/N: I'm back! So I came back from my cruise last sunday, and here's the next chapter, excuse any mistakes that I might make, I'm still getting back into the drift of things...
Hidden Emotions
Chapter seven
Sara was due to start work the next night, she had found an apartment close to the lab, and she had moved all of her things in. She spent a week looking around Las Vegas, getting to know the place, now she had everything ready for the next night, and she couldn't wait. Not for the work, no. She couldn't wait to see the man that had took her heart. Over, and over again. Every night, except sundays. But she could live with that, eventhough they had spoke reguraly, it wasn't enough. She needed to see him, speak to him. Touch him.
The next night didn't come quick enough, but eventually she was there, at his office.
Grissom heard a knock at his door, looking up he saw her, standing at his door. He smiled. "Sara, come in"
"Well, I'm here, when do I start?" Sara asked, grinning.
"Tonight, you, Nick, and me are working on a missing person"
Sara nodded.
"Right now, I got paperwork, so you and Nick are going to her house to collect evidence"
"Okay, where will I find Nick?"
"Try the locker room"
Sara nodded and walked out of his office.
Twenty minutes later Sara and Nick were on their way to the house, when they got there Sara walked into the house and inspected the security pad on the wall. "Get a picture of the security pad. Someone touches it before it's dusted, I break their fingers" She warned. She continued down the hall, the photographer following. "Shoot the mirror, point of disturbance, the lamp, point of disturbance" She placed evidence markers on the objects, then turned to look at the doorframe, Nick walked into the room and also looked at the doorframe.
Sara turned. "You're standing in my crime scene" She joked.
Nick held up a disk, "No, you're standing in mine" He smiled.
"You're doing audio? I wanted that" She said, jealousy in her voice.
"I outrank you" He said.
"Technicality. Who did Grissom handpick to work here?" Sara said, smiling.
"Keep telling yourself that" Nick said, laughing.
About two hours had passed and Nick was sitting in his car ready to take his stuff back to the lab when Grissom leaned through his window.
"Nick, tell the lab to do a reverse algorithm on that tape and then get it to enhancement"
Nick smiled, "I know what to tell the audio guy"
"You've been a Level 3 for what, two weeks?"
"I got it under control" He got no answer, just a stern look from Grissom, "I swear" He added.
Grissom smiled and moved away from the car.
"Later" Nick said.
Grissom walked into the house, the first thing he noticed was Sara taking pictures. She was truly beautiful to him. He looked around the room, trying to avoid looking at Sara.
"Cursory call - Looks like a proffesional job" Sara looked at Grissom, not getting a reply she continued, "Our guy bypasses the security system, surprises the wife in the back hall. Drags her in here. She grabs onto the doorway - sign of struggle. No sign of sexual assault. He's in, they're out" She looked over again, noticing something on the carpet that had caught his attention, "Probably... egress through those doors." She stopped and sighed slightly, "excuse me, is my evaluation interrupting you?"
She finally got his attention, "No, no, no. I barely heard you"
Sara smirked, "Glad I have a healthy ego, you find something interesting there?"
"Dirt"
Sara furrowed her brows slightly, "You're so... Technical... I can hardly keep up... But..."
"Oh, sorry, but, uh, out of context... it's just... dirt"
They continued to process the living room for a while then walked out onto the patio.
Sara sniffed up. "Did you just, slap on bad cologne?" She smirked slightly.
"I never wear it, interferes with the job"
"It's almost sweet"
Grissom noticed a cloth on the ground, he picked it up and smelt it, then offered it to Sara to smell.
"Can't be chloroform" She stated.
"Halothane, maybe"
"We'll confirm it in a GC mass spec" Sara said, going into her bag for an evidence bag.
Grissom smiled, ""Looks like a proffesional job," I think you said?"
Sara smiled and looked up at him. It melted his heart everytime she did that.
"Care to amend your evaluation? I mean, if the guy forgets the rag he used to knock her out, he can't be much of a pro." Grissom said as he put the cloth in the evidence bag she was holding open for him.
"I, uh... Keep trying to be your star pupil" She said, smiling.
His heart stopped. But he didn't let it show. "Sara, that was a seminar, this is real. Pebbles, tile - The front is all concrete"
"No dirt. Context-- There is dirt on the carpeting inside"
"In an otherwise spotless house" Grissom added.
"You're saying the kidnapper tracked the dirt in"
"Possible, as of now, that's all we have... So I guess we follow the dirt" Grissom walked back into the house, leaving Sara smiling and shaking her head.
After a lot of hard work, they found the missing girl, Sara was stood next to him, her head down, shaking it.
Grissom noticed, he put his hand on her face, sending shockwaves through both of them, Sara lifted her head.
"You okay?" He asked.
"Never ceases to amaze me what people do to eachother" She walked off, shouting instructions to people, Grissom sighed and told Brass that they had found the girl. Alive.
A/N: SORRY! SORRY! SORRY! Again, I've been on holiday, been back over a month, I just started my final year in school, a LOT of hard work, so I won't be updating as often, but don't worry, I'll finish this... Eventually, just stick with me, send me hate mail, whatever you want! But this WILL get finished.. IT WILL! Okay, there's more to come about this episode, I would have done it all on one chapter but it would be reaaaaally long, and I really wanted to update for you guys, just so you know I am still alive and my ship didn't sink.. so... yeah.