I've been asked to extend the rescue so I have…sorry for the wait... Couldn't make it back to the states for a while cause of bad weather… Happy Single Awareness Day Everyone… Hope you enjoy…

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It was midday through day three, the team had taken turns sleeping on the couch in the break room, Horatio had locked himself in his office for the past four hours.

No one knew what he was up to but they had no doubt he was following up a lead. They had set up a tip line just incase anyone had seen anything.

"How many left?" Eric asked eyeing the computer.

"Seventy." Ryan looked up for a brief second. His eyes bloodshot from staring at the machine. He knew it didn't matter how hard he stared at it, the results would be the same. He was desperate they all were, if they didn't get something soon they would be at a dead end. They couldn't afford that. There was nothing to go on. The kidnappers had been careful. Of course they'd had plenty of practice.

They'd slipped though. No fingerprints were found on the first two victims

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"DAMN IT!"

Eric's voice could be heard outside the lab doors.

Horatio looked out his office window when he heard the shout. He shook his head. This meant only one thing. The prints they had ran against those of the employees didn't come back with a match. He'd hoped they'd get a lead from the prints. He picked up his desk phone and dialed a familiar number.

"Frank, lets take a trip." Without any further explanation he hung up. He'd spent the better part of the day getting a hold of Calleigh's building manager. Amongst the chaos he hadn't looked around for a camera. Luckily the building had installed them the past month. He didn't want to get the hopes of his team up but since the prints hadn't come back with anything this was all they had. He thought better of walking into the lab. It would lead to too many questions and he without all the answers.

First he needed to follow up on this lead and make sure it wouldn't lead to another dead end. Sending Ryan two text messages he sought out Frank.

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Ryan received two text messages from Horatio the first 'Get Eric with a sketch artist.' The second 'Frank and I are following up on a lead.'

Not wanting to give Eric false hope Ryan didn't disclose Horatio's whereabouts to Natalia and Eric. Convincing Eric to see a sketch artist wasn't hard seeing as they didn't have a solid lead. Eric hadn't had a clear view of the man until he had stepped in front of him as he kicked him, at that point he'd paid little attention to the man's face, his eyes had been on an unconscious Calleigh. Eric shook his head as the image crept to the forefront of his brain.

They would find her. They had to. Sitting in front of the sketch artist he found it hard to focus.

"Alright Officer Delko, if you can describe to me as best as you can what this woman looked like and I will draw her." The artist smiled encouraging him to begin.

Eric sighed, this was harder then he'd imagined. "I don't know where to begin." He ran his hand over his head.

"That's no problem, I'll help you. Let's start with the shape of her face. Was it round, oval, or square?"

"It was oval, sort of long." He closed his eyes recalling the moment Calleigh had stopped talking and he'd stepped into the kitchen to find the woman holding a gun to Calleigh's head.

"She had a long pointy nose." He commented. At the time he hadn't thought to pay attention to the small things. "Her eyes were round and brown, her eyebrows were thinner, more of an arch."

The artist corrected as Eric spoke.

"Higher cheek bones."

"Black hair, down to her chin."

"No bangs."

"How is this?" the artist asked revealing the finished picture.

Eric shuddered. His attention immediately drawn to her eyes. The eyes he remembered from that night, the eyes that had been filled with anger and hatred. Staring at the picture he couldn't help but notice the woman was actually good looking.

"Alright Officer Delko, I will pass this along and have it ran through facial recognition programs." Saying his thanks Eric grabbed a copy of the picture and left for the lab.

*******************Calleigh's Residence******************

Horatio and Frank made the trip to Calleigh's residence and found her building manager already outside waiting for them with a disk in his hand.

"Mr. Cast, thank you so much for your cooperation, Calleigh's been missing for three days, this may be the key to finding her." Horatio smiled thankful he had not had to get a warrant for the video footage, that would have taken several more hours.

"Calleigh is the nicest most caring person to ever have lived in this building, anything I can do to help." With the disk in hand the duo thanked the manager once again leaving for the lab.

"Did you find anything?" Eric asked immediately when they entered. He hadn't a clue where Horatio had been but he knew his leader was spending every minute looking for Calleigh.

"Not yet Eric." Horatio said handing the disk to Natalia. The group waited as it loaded.

"We're running the woman's sketch through all the databases, hopefully we get a hit." Ryan supplied before Horatio could ask. Getting a hit was a long shot but they couldn't afford not to try.

"Here we go." Natalia drew everyone's attention to the video.

Calleigh and Eric could be seen walking into the building. There was no activity after that. Natalia fast forwarded the footage. Still nothing. How had they left without being seen? She rewound the footage to before Calleigh and Eric arrived at the apartment and still nothing.

"Another dead end." Eric was beyond frustrated. With each lead his hopes of finding Calleigh would rise and like a sick joke the leads gave them nothing to go on.

"There's another file." Natalia spoke interrupting Eric from his thoughts.

"Back of the building?" Horatio asked. With a quick nod she double clicked the icon.

"Go to one hour before Eric and Calleigh arrived." Horatio instructed.

There was no sign of the kidnappers. She continued to go back by thirty minute intervals until finally they appeared two and a half hours before Calleigh and Eric had returned.

"Go back further, see if you can get a visual on the car as they used." Fran spoke for the first time since returning to the lab.

All that could be seen of the vehicle was the size, it was a dark SUV. Natalia then fast forwarded until the kidnappers were on the screen again, this time with a third person. The man had Calleigh over his shoulder like she was some rag doll. Unfortunately neither of their faces could be made out.

"Stop it right there." Ryan spoke. "Rewind 20 seconds and play it slow." Natalia did as asked.

"Right there." He pointed to the screen. Natalia paused the video.

"License plate number, great eye Ryan." Horatio complimented.

"Run it through the DMV database, let me know what you get."

AN: Short chapter yes... there was no Calleigh in this one... but if we're lucky the next one will be Calleigh... Not all...