AN - okay i know this isn't my best chappy, in fact it's far from it, but I was just trying to get you all an update. I just moved again, to another state so I am still trying to get settled and deal with that so I wanted to get you all an update so you would have something to read, hopefully it's not to horrible.

Ch. 23

Krisalyn walked quickly into the lab with a worried look on her face. The call had gone out that a CSI was missing and that no one was sure what had happened. She had quickly placed Ella in the police daycare center and had hurried down to the lab. When she walked in she noticed all of the CSI's sitting there and she frowned.

"Okay I thought someone was missing." She said confused as she walked over and stood next to Nick.

"JJ is missing. No one can find her anywhere and she isn't responding to phone calls or pages." Grissom stated as he pointed out that she wasn't in the room.

"So why did I have to come in?" Krisalyn asked since she honestly didn't care about what happened with JJ.

"Oh come on Kris, you are a better person than that." Nick said arching an eyebrow as he glanced at his fiancée. "You know that a part of you cares about the fact that a fellow cop is missing."

"Yeah I do care about Brass." Krisalyn said as she sighed. "How do you know this isn't some game she is playing to try and get Nick to worry about her and want to be with her?"

"We don't but at the moment we need to take it seriously." Grissom said with a sigh. "So everyone is going to be working around the clock to try and find her."

"I can't work around the clock. We have no one to take care of Ella." Krisalyn protested.

"Well my mom might be able to watch her for you. She is helping out with Lindsey." Catherine spoke up.

"I wouldn't want to impose. Ella isn't exactly acting like a little princess right now with everything that has happened to her." Krisalyn said biting her lower lip. "I would prefer to stay with her, I mean for so long I thought she was dead and now…" She trailed off.

"Listen I talked to the big bosses and they said once this guy is caught we are all going to get some paid vacation time off, that won't take away from the time we have built up." Grissom said sighing. "Catherine why don't you go ahead and call your mother and see if she can help out with Ella, make sure that you explain what she has been through so she knows to expect a very troubled and frightened toddler."

"Okay." Catherine said getting to her feet and walking out of the room.

"I know that JJ isn't a main part of this team and that no one in this room wants to look for her, but she still has a badge." Grissom reminded the team. "She is still a police officer who is in trouble."

He smirked as the female finally came to. He watched as she glanced around the room and then got up from her seat. She tried to move towards him but was sent reeling backwards from electric shock. He smirked as he pointed to the electric collar around her neck that was on.

"If you try and move past the perimeter that's marked it will only severely shock you. If you try and take it off it will hurt worse than anything you have ever felt in your life." The man said shrugging his shoulders.

"What is it that you want?" She asked him simply.

"To know who you really are." The man said. "JJ doesn't exist, I checked. You were never a real CSI, that's all."

"You weren't?" Brass asked looking over at her.

"Whatever." JJ said as she glanced over at the frightened woman lying in the middle of the floor still. She had been hogtied and was trying desperately to get loose.

"Why don't you tell me who you really are, who knows I might be tempted to spare you? After all you are the thorn in Nick Stokes side right now. That and you are tormenting Krisalyn so you are seriously helping me out." He said with a smirk. "As far as I am concerned you are the only one I can seriously say has been helping me out with everything."

"I haven't helped you." JJ said offended.

"Actually you have. You have made Nick's life miserable and for what reason?" The man said leaning forward. "What is it about him that is making you want to torture him?"

"Screw you." JJ spat angrily.

Grissom was frowning as he went over the transfer paperwork. He was frowning even more when he realized it was incomplete and that it had never actually been filled out by another agency. He remembered Krisalyn saying she had worked with JJ before but for some reason no one had bothered to send transfer paperwork out to officially make JJ a member of the Las Vegas lab team. He glanced up when he heard the door open and saw Krisalyn leaning against the doorjamb.

"You aren't getting the time off." Grissom said simply.

"I wasn't here to ask about that." Krisalyn said evenly. "I got a letter stating I am being requested to attend a meeting with Internal Affairs and the FBI."

"What?" Grissom asked getting to his feet.

"I am being requested…" Krisalyn started but stopped when Grissom held up his hand. She arched an eyebrow when he hurried out of the room and then shrugged and went to follow him.

"So I know that you probably aren't that in to the whole killing thing but this little girl here is destined for death." The suspect said pointing towards the hogtied woman on the floor.

"There is no reason for you to kill her! What's your game?" Brass asked trying to get out of his restraints.

"Relax Captain Brass, there is nothing you can do for her." The man laughed. "But I will introduce you all to my accomplice, yes my accomplice." He said with a secretive grin.

"You have an accomplice?" JJ asked confused. Nowhere in any of the evidence had she seen a sign of an accomplice and she had been studying this guy for a couple of years now.

"That's right. Shocking isn't it that there would be someone in my life helping me kill these women and there is nothing that you know about them." The suspect laughed. "Oh and trust me you are going to enjoy watching this killing."

"Screw you." Brass spat still trying to get loose so he could help the woman.

Grissom had everyone sitting around the conference table again and he glanced at every single one of them. He crossed his arms and then he leaned back in his seat a little before he pushed a piece of paper towards Catherine. He waited and watched as she read it and saw her frown before she passed it around. After everyone had a chance to read what was written on the paper he uncrossed his arms and studied them.

"Someone in this lab faked the transfer papers and covered for JJ. Someone in this lab knew that wasn't really who she was and that she was most likely not even a trained CSI." Grissom said evenly.

"Is that why she acted like she did? Since she wasn't a trained CSI sending her to a scene would compromise the evidence so if she became the most hated person in the lab she had to know you wouldn't let her work any crime scenes or evidence." Sara said speaking up.

"That's what I think. What I don't understand is why she would go to all that trouble?" Grissom asked eyeing his CSI's.

"Because she was obsessed with Nick?" Krisalyn suggested evenly.

"I don't think so. I think she was just trying to make us think she was for whatever reason." Catherine said as she glanced at Nick. "I don't thin JJ coming here was because of you at all."

"So how do we find her so we can ask her? How do you find someone you know nothing about?" Greg asked confused.

"We study her. Go to her apartment, go through her locker, do what you need to do to figure out what she was really up to." Grissom instructed evenly.

The suspect leaned forward and with just slight pressure he dragged a knife along JJ's cheek. JJ felt the sting and the blood start to trickle from the new cut but she refused to give in. This guy thought he was going to get to her but he wasn't. She could feel Brass's eyes on her but she refused to acknowledge him. No one at the Las Vegas lab was supposed to respect her nor were they supposed to like her. She wasn't about to let Brass into her head or into her world, it wasn't allowed. Groaning a little when he walked over and kicked the hogtied woman in the abdomen, JJ finally looked over at Brass.

"I want you to tell me the truth, especially since we are going to have to work together to get through this." Brass said evenly.

"What is it you want to know?" JJ asked with a sigh.

"What's your real name?" He asked keeping his eye on the suspect.

"Joey-Jane Rosetti. I really do go by JJ, my parents were weird." JJ said with a wince as she admitted her name.

"What is your true purpose at the lab?" Brass asked sliding a glance at her before returning his attention to the serial killer standing a few feet away.

"I can't tell you that." JJ said softly.

"Ms. Rosetti, I suggest you tell me." Brass said with a low growl to his voice.

"I can't tell you anything." JJ said shaking her head. "All will reveal itself in it's own time I believe."

"Just tell me this, are you really obsessed with Nick?" Brass asked arching an eyebrow.

"Again all will reveal itself in due time." JJ said refusing to answer his question. She sucked in a deep breath when she saw the knife that had been used on her now being used to torture the woman on the floor.

After listening in on the conversation between his other two captives he started slowly cutting the woman on the floor. He could feel her struggling against her binds and he could see the tears flowing down the side of her face but he felt nothing for her. He felt the smirk appear on his face again as he finally decided the kill her, but he was going to have to make it an obvious kill, to torment his main two captives. He walked over to his little bag of tricks and grabbed an axe. When he turned around he saw his two chained captives struggling to get loose to save the woman but there was nothing they could do as he used the axe to make his point.

Nick was dusting for fingerprints in JJ's apartment with Greg. He looked for anything that would give them a clue as to who she really was but her apartment was bare. There was minimal furniture, absolutely no pictures of her or anyone in her life. There was just something completely off about this whole apartment. It was almost as if she didn't actually live there. Like this was a go between for her and her real place.

"There is nothing personal in here." Greg said speaking it out loud.

"I noticed. There is something big going on here Greg and I don't think we are going to like it." Nick said as he looked at the small amount of fingerprints he had managed to pick up.

"What do you think she is here for?" Greg asked as he glanced up from the cabinets.

"I don't know." Nick said shaking his head.

"Nick, I think I found a picture." Greg said as he frowned and then handed it over.

Nick stared at the picture and then sucked in a deep breath. He glanced at Greg and then winced as he glanced back at the picture. He knew the person in the picture and that meant that he knew who JJ was. He bagged the picture as evidence and then he and Greg finished what they were doing. If he was right about who it was then something really bad had happened and that meant that someone had called for the big guns to take care of this serial killer.