Guys, I just wanted to take some time to tell you: thank you for reading and reviewing! It really means so much to me to know that some people are actually reading this! ;)

I decided to add this chapter today, although I've already added one. Just a little treat for you to show my appreciation!

I hope you like where this storyline is going! And now enjoy the next chapter!

Bystanders were crowding around the car, but nobody tried to help Nick and Greg. Someone called an ambulance, but nobody tried to get them out the car or see if they're okay. They were just staring at the car wreck.

Slowly the door on the passenger side opened. Nick tried to get out the car, but fell out of it, rather than walk out of it. "Help him out the car..." Nick said to the bystanders.

When nobody was reacting, neither did anyone rush to Nick to help him get up, he continued, "We're with the police and we'll arrest everyone of you for denial of assistance if you don't help us!", sounding both desperate and angry.

This threat was enough for three people. Two of them got Greg out of the car, and a third one, a young woman, took care of Nick. Some of the bystanders even walked away, in fear of getting in trouble for not helping.

Nick walked over to Greg with the help of the young woman, but could already hear him talking. "Are you alright?"

"I don't think there's an inch on my body that doesn't hurt, but other than that, yeah... How about you?"

"Same." Nick smiled relieved. "What happened?"

"I'll never drive in your car again," Greg said jokingly.

"You lost a wheel!" One of the helping bystanders said. "The left one in the back." He pointed at where the wheel was supposed to be.

And indeed, it was gone. It was now lying near the pavement, several feet away from the car.

"How the hell did that happen?" Nick asked shocked.

After being checked out by the doctors, Nick and Greg were released from the hospital. Catherine came by to pick them up. She only heard that the two were in a car accident and she had no idea how bad their injuries were. She rushed in, finding Greg sitting in the waiting room all by himself.

"Where's Nick?" she asked terrified, running up to Greg.

He stood up to get hugged. "He's fine, don't worry! He just needed to call the DA, tell her we're not coming."

"Thank god..." Catherine sighed in relief. "What happened?"

They sat down and Greg tried to explain, although he had no idea what really happened. All he knew was that they thought they'd run something over, but nothing was there. And then, a few minutes later, Greg lost control over the car and it crashed. He had no idea how they were able to lose a wheel.

Nick walked up to them. "Alright, let's get out of here."

"And you two are alright?" Catherine asked worried. "Let me talk to the doctor."

"We're fine. Nothing fractured, just very bruised..." Nick laughed a bit, causing him to squirm. His ribs were bruised and laughing hurt him.

"Yeah I can see that you're fine, Nicky," she said sarcastically. "I know you two. You want to get back to work, right? You should really take a few days off."

"You're right," Greg said, surprising Catherine.

"...What?"

"Well we don't have any serious injuries, but it does hurt. We should probably take a few days off to heal."

Catherine looked at Nick. "How about you?"

Nick nodded. "As much as I hate to admit it, he's right. We're taking a few sick days."

"...That's not some kind of trick, right?"

They both laughed, causing Nick to squirm again. "No... We're serious. We'll have to show up in court tomorrow, but we're not going to work."

While Greg and Nick were at home resting, Catherine and Sara were trying to find out how their car lost a wheel. They were in the garage with the car, trying to find the reason, when Ray walked in.

"Catherine, is this Nick's car?" he asked surprised to see it in that condition.

"Didn't Hodges call you?"

Ray patted himself down. "Dammit, I must've left my phone in my locker. Is Nick alright?"

She nodded. "Greg was driving when they had the accident, but both are fine. They took a few days off though. And we need to find out what happened."

He walked around the car and instantly noticed that one wheel was missing. "Was the missing wheel the reason they crashed?"

She nodded again. "We're not sure why, yet, but..."

He interrupted her. "I think I know why. I just had a case with a car crashing because the wheel loosened. Officer Mitchell said they had two other reports where the car almost crashed because of a loosened wheel."

Catherine and Sara looked surprised at him. "Do you know how that happened?"

"Mhm. The wheel nut was loosened in two cases. They were even removed in the third case."

"You know..." Sara said, "I found one wheel nut several miles away from the car crash, and only found another one near it. Where are the other ones?"

"Greg said that they thought they'd hit something because the car was jolting. Maybe they felt one of the wheel nuts getting off and the wheel loosening?" Catherine said, looking at the car. "Do you have a lead yet?" She looked back at Ray.

"Well it's not like these wheel nuts are worth anything, you can't sell them for good money. And they didn't take all, they left two or three and took the other ones. Whoever did this wants to do harm. I think it might be teenagers fooling around, the victims are not connected in any way. But I was able to lift fingerprints off the cars, maybe we're lucky and they didn't wear any gloves..."

"Do these look familiar to you?" Catherine showed Travis White and Dennis Lassiter pictures of the cars that crashed, including Nick's car. They were sitting in the interrogation room. "We found your fingerprints on three of those cars, and as far as we know, you're not mechanics."

"Yeah we've seen some of them... But we just looked at them and touched them because we liked them," Dennis Lassiter answered.

"You touched their wheels because you like them?" She asked, not believing their story.

Lassiter nodded confident.

"So why did you carry a wheel brace in your backpack, then?"

They didn't say anything.

"You killed two people and injured two CSIs. You're going to prison for a long time."

Looking quite unimpressed, they leaned back, still not saying a word.

"Alright. If you don't want to talk..." She stood up and walked out.

"Catherine!" Archie said from inside the break room, as she was passing it by.

She went in. "Hey."

"How did it go with your suspects?"

"They were quite uncommunicative," she said smiling. "I just hope the evidence we have is enough for the jury."

"Don't worry, because I got something that'll help you in court!"

She looked both surprised and interested.

While fixing himself a cup of coffee, he explained that one of the driver that almost had an accident was driving home from a supermarket when he almost crashed his car. His car was parked at the supermarket's parking lot, and that's when someone loosened the wheel nuts on his car. "Brass sent me the video footage from the parking lot, and your suspects are clearly on it."