I'm Back
"What the hell do I have to do to have her love me? She fights me at every turn. Why can't she see that all I want to do is make her happy? It must be that bitch Catherine. I guess I will have to remove her from the picture and then Sara will only see me. I think that I will have to wait until they are out of the hospital and make my move then. Now I have to think of how to approach my Sara to win her over. I think that I will have to go back to the hands off approach like I did in California and win her over with my gifts." He took one more look at his wall before he left the room.
"Ok the guy's finger prints aren't in any database so either he has never been arrested before or he is a covert operator so deep under cover and the FBI has removed him from any database."
"Yes Greg he is a deep undercover covert FBI agent who is madly in love with Sara and he will stop at nothing to have her. I think that the first option is more likely. He is probably someone Sara helped in the past on one of her cases in California and he fell in love with her,"
"That's it Nick! That's how we can find him. We can contact the office in California and find out when he started stalking her and ask for the files on those cases and see if there was a family member or someone who became overly friendly with Sara." Warrick took off before Greg or Nick could say anything.
"Have any idea where he's going Nick?"
"No but if we hurry we may be able to catch up with him." Both he and Greg took off in the same direction and caught up with him as he was standing outside Grissom's office. "Oh no not that! Not talking to Grissom, anything but that. I stop at entering that office."
"Shhh Greg he'll hear you. Maybe he already saw Warrick but you and I are out of his field of vision so we can still get away unscathed."
"All of you get in here right now!"
"Ah shit it's too late and from the sound of his voice his mood has not improved since yesterday." Nick pushed Greg ahead of him into Grissom's office.
"What do you three want and why aren't till in the lab you going through the stuff from the trailer?" When no one immediately spoke up he looked up expectantly. "Is someone going to say something?"
"Uh Gris we thought that maybe this guy was somehow connected to one of Sara's cases in California. We thought we could contact her old office and get copies of her old cases and go through them. We're not finding anything here, we have to do something we can't just sit around waiting for him to hit again."
"Too late for that." They all turned towards the door and saw Brass standing there. "He got to Sara at the hospital." Grissom stood and came around to the front of his desk and Brass stopped him as he started through the door. "She's going to be fine. I just talked to Nancy and Sara just came out of surgery and she'll be fine."
"How the hell did he manage to get close enough to do more damage? Enough damage to need more surgery? What kind of officers did you put on her room? Even a rookie should be able to protect one person?" Grissom was livid and he didn't even see the warning look that Brass gave him. "It was bad enough when you were running this office that you were so incompetent that they relieved you of those duties but now you can't even protect one person."
"Ok Gil I think you've gone too far this time. Let me clear up a few things. First, I am a very competent police officer, I would not have made Captain if I weren't. Second, you seem to keep forgetting that your best friend, or at least she was yesterday, is in just as much danger if not more. You seem to think that she is a threat to your nonexistent relationship with Sara. Stop and think a minute if you think that way and want to kill her as your attitude since yesterday has implied, then think what this guy wants to do to her. He will not hesitate to kill her. She has already taken Sara physically from him and now emotionally too. Now get your head out of your ass and do your job and let me do mine." Gil opened his mouth to speak and Brass held up his hand. "If you are going to spew more crap then save it for someone who cares. I have two women that I love to take care of and I will do it if I have to knock down the wall between their rooms and sit there myself. Good bye Gil." He turned and headed towards the door and gave the other three stunned men a wink.
Gil walked back behind his desk and mentally shook himself before he looked up at the three men. "Don't you have something to do?"
"Uh what about our idea?" Warrick asked somewhat warily.
"What idea?" Gil gave them a look that said he had no idea what they were talking about.
Warrick sighed in frustration, Gil was starting to get on his nerves. Brass was right about him needing to get his head out of his ass. "Were you even listening to anything we said when we walked in here? Don't answer that, it's apparent that you weren't." Warrick let the frustration come through in his voice. "We thought that maybe this guy could be connected to one of Sara's cases in California and we wanted to request copies of her files just prior to when this stalker showed up."
"They already did that there. She told her supervisor once she realized this guy was stalking her. They spent weeks trying to pin it down but they never did. So it would be a waste of time. Time better spent trying to find something on this end. So get back to doing it ok?" He went back to the papers on his desk but when none of them moved he looked up again. "What?"
"His finger prints are not in the data base and so far that is all we've been able to find in the pile of trash that Ecklie left us with. If like you said we need to do something, we think this is what we need to do."
"I can spare one of you to do it, Greg you need to get back to the lab. Warrick you can decide if you want to work this 419 or hand it to Nick and work Sara's case."
"You mean Sara and Catherine's case. Because this is no longer just Sara's case. Whether you like it or not it involves both of them."
"Warrick you have seniority so deal with it." Grissom went back to his work again and the three men left the room. Grissom removed his glasses and rubbed his forehead. He felt the beginning of a headache coming on. "What am I going to do to show Sara that we belong together? She can't love Catherine and Catherine will only hurt her. And Sara will not like having Lindsey around all the time, she has problems with children. I can't give up without a fight." He reached into his desk drawer and took out the bottle of aspirin and took three pills and washed them down then went back to his paperwork.
"Man I had to clamp my mouth shut to keep from cheering when Brass finished with Gris. Maybe now he will get his head out of his ass and join the land of the living again." Greg was bouncing on the balls of his feet walking backwards down the hallway and talking to Nick and Warrick. "And Warrick how crazy were you to actually question his decision to not check California. But can you believe Brass?"
"Someone had to do it and Grissom was way out of line questioning Jim's abilities as a cop. He's proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that he's a good cop. This case means way too much to him to not give it his best. This just proves how beyond crazy Sara's stalker is and Brass is right that Catherine is in more danger than Sara. He wants Sara alive and if he knows how Catherine feels about her he will want her out of the way. He wants Sara all to himself. Hey maybe we should tell him that Grissom likes her too."
"Oooh Nicky boy that's so not nice, but I like the idea at the Moment and if Grissom doesn't get his act together I may throw him to the dogs myself. Well boys, as much as I would like to show you how to solve this case I must return to my lab. Hopefully Wendy hasn't changed things around since I've been gone."
"Greg it's only been a couple of hours."
"Yeah Warrick but like most women she wants to put her own touch on things and claim it as her own."
"Man do not let Catherine or Sara hear you talking like that or they will show you how they can arrange things and it will be your face not your lab."
"Ok boys, see ya after shift. Ya want to head by the hospital then go have breakfast?"
"Sure, see ya then. Now Nicky, want to call it? Heads you take the 419 tales I go. Call it." He tossed the coin in the air and waited for it to drop.