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CSI › General
Rating:
Adult ++
Chapters:
41
Views:
4,378
Reviews:
7
Recommended:
0
Currently Reading:
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I do not own CSI, nor any of the characters from it. I do not make any money from the writing of this story.
Wreckage
Chapter 35
Wreckage
I called the all to familiar phone number of Grissom's cell phone. He would probably be out working on a case. But I needed him here, I wanted them here with me.
“Grissom,” I started crying as the seriousness of this mess hit me. Catherine was kidnapped. “Grissom… someone took Catherine, I’m afraid that it is… our killer.” Words came out piece by piece. I had to stop several times because I was crying to hard and had to take a breath. He immediately abandoned his other crime scene and was on his way to the restaurant. He told me that he would be there in a matter of minutes.
“Sara!” he called out entering the restaurant. He immediately ran towards me and hugged me. “Everything will be okay? I promise…”
Nick and Warrick barge through the doors and I fall into Nick’s arms. He is the only one, except for Jenn and Lindsey who knows the purpose of this date. “Sara, what happened honey, talk to me.” My tears where making wet stains on his shirt, my head was resting on his shoulder. Fatigue struck my body, I was so tired all I wanted to do was fall asleep and wake up from this nightmare. But the pounding headache and bumpbump on my head told me that this wasn’t a nightmare but pure reality.
I was scared, all I wanted was hold Catherine in my arms and tell her that I love her. “Nicky, please bring Cath back to me? I can’t live without her.”
“Did you ask her?” Nick whispered to me, when he noticed that Warrick and Grissom, pre-occupied talking to some of the witnesses. I had told Nick earlier this week about my plans, he would make sure that Grissom wouldn’t call us.
“Yes…” I buried my face in his shoulder.
“And, what did she say?”
“Nothing .”
“What do you mean, nothing?”
“I got knocked unconscious before she could answer me, okay Nick. She never got the chance to answer my question. This was supposed to be a special night. Well it is special indeed!” I spat to Nick, I knew that he was trying to calm me down, talk to me, comfort me but this wasn’t doing any good.
~*~
“What can you tell me about the man who did this?” Grissom asked the waiter that was closest to Sara and Catherine while it happened.
“It was just a regular guy, not someone that would stand out in a crowd. If he didn’t have the gun, he wouldn’t have gotten away. I mean he was small, I think that those women could have taken him down easily. Maybe you can see him on the security videos. Daniel, come here for a sec.” The waiter turned around and searched the room for a moment. A young man walked up to them. “Daniel, can you show mister Grissom the security cams from the door at the back of the kitchen.
Daniel nodded and asked Grissom to follow him. They entered a small dark room, filled with television screens and VCR’s. Daniel sat down on the chair and pushed some buttons, rewinding one of the VCR’s. The first images showed the restaurant Catherine and Sara wheretingting at the table, Sara talked to Catherine and then sat down on one knee. Even to Grissom that could mean just one thing. Grissom could only imagine what Sara must feel like, not to mention Catherine.Suddenly a dark shadows moves behind Sara and she gets hit in the head. The person watches as Sara hits the floor unconscious. Catherine falls down on her knees next to Sara, but the man grabs her arm and pulls her back up. He moves away towards the kitchen and out of the reach of the camera.
“Is there another camera, in the kitchen?” Grissom asked, Daniel nodded. He moved around to another VCR and rewinded the video tore Cre Catherine opened the door. A second later the man followed her but he made the mistake to look up right into the camera, for only a split second. But long enough for Grissom to recognize him.
“Well I’ll be damned. I need those tapes now.” Grissom said before rushing out to the restaurant.
~*~
Catherine’s POV
“So you killed all these women to get back at me and Sara, how sick can you be.” I asked my words filled with anger, pain and disgust, his emotions where coming into the play, and I knew that I would be able to take him down somehow. He would become less concentrated and would start make mistakes, I had seen it happen before, time and time again.
“Shut up!” he screamed, “I don’t want to hear another word from you. I am the one holding the gun here.”
“Do you even know to handle that thing?” I asked him sarcastically.
“Oh Catherine, please shut up, even a lab tech like me knows how to handle a gun. I’m not stupid you know, if I was you and that bitch would have been able to stop me before I kidnapped you.” Madness was raging through me, I wanted to hit some sense into him. He was acting like he was superior to everyone, and in a way he probably thought that he was. Killing people, innocent people is kind of playing God.
I had to think of something, they probably didn’t know were we where going, and who I was with. And how could they, Sara never saw who attacked her. He was behind her all the time and she was hit unconscious. I wasn’t able to tell her what was wrong.
~*~
“Warrick, can I talk to you for a second.” Warrick and Grissom moved away from the crowd. Brass and some officers where asking witnesses what they had seen and wrote down the details. Grissom stepped closer to Brass. “Jim, please follow me.” Nick could see the commotion at the other end of the room and decided that it was his job to distract Sara.
“Sara, did you get her with your car?” I nodded not really sure where he was going, a waiter brought me a glass of water which I gratefully took.
“Yes, why?”
“Do you still have that set of spare clothes in your car?” I nodded again, they where always in the back of my car. “ Maybe we can get those clothes, so you can dress into something more comfortable.”
We stood up and Nick lead me towards the exit, I opened the door of my car and grabbed the bag with clothes. I asked Nick for an evidebag bag before I got into the ladies room to change clothes. After all I was an investigator and I knew that there could be evidence on my clothes even though the contact had been very brief. Nick checked the ladies room out just to be sure that there was no one in there. “ Sara, I’ll be just outside, just holler when you need anything.”
“Right now, I don’t think that you can give me what I need.” I was close to tears again.
~*~
Catherine’s POV
We’re driving down a road, which was vaguely familiar to me we were somewhere just outside the city. There was an old building complex at the end of the road. I watch him for a second before I take a life changing decision. This might be freedom, but it could also mean dead at least I would fight till the end. He was concentrated on driving the car, holding the gun in his hand resting on his lap.
I took the decision and grabbed the steering wheel, seconds later the car turned around and there was a loud crash the car slammed into the wall of the building. His head slammed against the steering wheel, he hit the window and blood gushed from his head wound.
The moment the car crashed into the wall, the door at the passenger side opened and I was swung out of the car. I hit the ground and slipped into unconsciousness for a second. I regained consciousness, and looked around. The car was a total wreck, I tried to get up and moved closer to the car. I observe the scene and see that he isn’t moving, getting closer to the car I can see that he’s still breathing.
He is unconscious… I have to get away. It was at that moment that I noticed the sticky red fluid on my dress. Seeing the wound that it came from, made me sick. Suddenly I was able to feel the pain I guess that the first rush of adrenaline left me. And I needed to sit down.
~*~
Grissom’s phone rang, he picked it up and looked at the number. It was an unfamiliar number, nevertheless he picked it up.
“Grissom.”
“Grissom, it’s me is Sara with you?” Catherine’s voice sounded.
“Cath, where are you?”
“I am not really… sure,” Catherine answered disoriented, looking around trying to see whether she recognizes something. “I crashed the car into a building. An old complex building outside the city.”
“Grissom, I need an ambulance.”
“Cath, why? What’s wrong?” he asked scared to hear the answer.
“I… am bleeding, pretty bad. I think that I have a piece of metal in my stomach.”
“Okay, Cath stay calm and keep talking to me.” Grissom gestured that they needed an ambulance. “Catherine, is there anything at all that can tell you where you are. Something that looks familiar?” Grissom asked trying to calm Catherine down.
“I can see the Stratosphere Tower a couple of kilometers away from me on my left and this old building complex that I crashed into.”
“Warrick, Cath can see the Stratosphere on her left and she crashed into an old building complex. Try to narrow the area down and send ambulances that way. Catherine, hold on okay, can you see that bastard? Is he still unconscious?” Grissom asked Catherine to keep her talking to him.
“Yes, he is. I found his cell in the car wreck, as well as his gun. Now I’m the one holding the gun, I wonder if he likes that.” Catherine added wryly. “Grissom you know who it is right?”
es Ies I… we know, we saw a security tape but Sara doesn’t know yet.”
“Grissom, I think that I know where Cath is.” Warrick pointed at the roadmap on the table. “This could be the place.”
He looked at the map for a minute, before he nodded. “Send the ambulances there, we’ll be following them. Go and see where Sara and Nick are.”
“Catherine, hold on okay, we are on our way. Just keep talking to me, I get the phone to Sara as fast as I can. We are on our way.”
Sara’s POV
Warrick walked up to Nick who was leaning against the wall next to the bathroom. “Nick is Sara in there?”
“Yeah she is, I got her to change her clothes, she had a spare set of clothes in her car for work. She’s putting them on right now.” Warrick nodded before he knocked on the door.
“Sara,” he called out loudly, he got no answer the first time so he knocked again. He waited a couple of seconds before he opened the door. He saw Sara sitting on the floor against the wall, her body was visibly shacking by her sobs.
“Sara, honey Grissom is talking to Cath on the phone, is his hurt but okay. She crashed the car into a building, the ambulances are on their way. We are going to follow them right now. Common’ we have to go.” Warrick helped me up and picked up the bag with my clothes.
“Warrick is she really okay?”
“She is hurt but talking and responding to Grissom’s questions.”
~*~
Catherine’s POV
Catherine watched in horror as she noticed the movement in the car. “Don’t you dare move as much as a muscle. I am the one holding the gun now and be sure that I will use it.” She said trying to make her voice sound forceful, while she felt the life flowing out of her with the blood that was still drenching her clothes.
Sara’s POV
"Grissom, I need to see her. Let me go!" I screamed at him, frustrated because he wouldn't let me go. I slammed my fists against his shoulders. His arms where wrapped around me, strong arms that kept me from escaping. Arms that held me, comforted me but also kept me away from the person that needed me the most.
I saw the paramedics lift Catherine onto the gurney. She looked pale and didn’t move. I begged Grissom to let me go.
“Sara, you can go with her but let the paramedics take care of her first.”
Finally Grissom let me go and I ran towards the ambulance, they where about to close the doors behind them. I begged them to take me with them at first they wouldn’t but Grissom told them that Catherine and I where life partners.
Cath looked up at me, tried to smile but winced at the pain that struck to her body; "Yes..." was all she said.
"What?" I asked confused, I was so taken by her appearance, the bruises that covered her face, the blood that covered her skin. The torn flesh, and the gaping wound in her shoulder.
"Yes, I will marry you." Catherine took a deep breath, “That was all I could think about, I wanted was to tell you that I love you and that I would love to marry you.”
Wreckage
I called the all to familiar phone number of Grissom's cell phone. He would probably be out working on a case. But I needed him here, I wanted them here with me.
“Grissom,” I started crying as the seriousness of this mess hit me. Catherine was kidnapped. “Grissom… someone took Catherine, I’m afraid that it is… our killer.” Words came out piece by piece. I had to stop several times because I was crying to hard and had to take a breath. He immediately abandoned his other crime scene and was on his way to the restaurant. He told me that he would be there in a matter of minutes.
“Sara!” he called out entering the restaurant. He immediately ran towards me and hugged me. “Everything will be okay? I promise…”
Nick and Warrick barge through the doors and I fall into Nick’s arms. He is the only one, except for Jenn and Lindsey who knows the purpose of this date. “Sara, what happened honey, talk to me.” My tears where making wet stains on his shirt, my head was resting on his shoulder. Fatigue struck my body, I was so tired all I wanted to do was fall asleep and wake up from this nightmare. But the pounding headache and bumpbump on my head told me that this wasn’t a nightmare but pure reality.
I was scared, all I wanted was hold Catherine in my arms and tell her that I love her. “Nicky, please bring Cath back to me? I can’t live without her.”
“Did you ask her?” Nick whispered to me, when he noticed that Warrick and Grissom, pre-occupied talking to some of the witnesses. I had told Nick earlier this week about my plans, he would make sure that Grissom wouldn’t call us.
“Yes…” I buried my face in his shoulder.
“And, what did she say?”
“Nothing .”
“What do you mean, nothing?”
“I got knocked unconscious before she could answer me, okay Nick. She never got the chance to answer my question. This was supposed to be a special night. Well it is special indeed!” I spat to Nick, I knew that he was trying to calm me down, talk to me, comfort me but this wasn’t doing any good.
~*~
“What can you tell me about the man who did this?” Grissom asked the waiter that was closest to Sara and Catherine while it happened.
“It was just a regular guy, not someone that would stand out in a crowd. If he didn’t have the gun, he wouldn’t have gotten away. I mean he was small, I think that those women could have taken him down easily. Maybe you can see him on the security videos. Daniel, come here for a sec.” The waiter turned around and searched the room for a moment. A young man walked up to them. “Daniel, can you show mister Grissom the security cams from the door at the back of the kitchen.
Daniel nodded and asked Grissom to follow him. They entered a small dark room, filled with television screens and VCR’s. Daniel sat down on the chair and pushed some buttons, rewinding one of the VCR’s. The first images showed the restaurant Catherine and Sara wheretingting at the table, Sara talked to Catherine and then sat down on one knee. Even to Grissom that could mean just one thing. Grissom could only imagine what Sara must feel like, not to mention Catherine.Suddenly a dark shadows moves behind Sara and she gets hit in the head. The person watches as Sara hits the floor unconscious. Catherine falls down on her knees next to Sara, but the man grabs her arm and pulls her back up. He moves away towards the kitchen and out of the reach of the camera.
“Is there another camera, in the kitchen?” Grissom asked, Daniel nodded. He moved around to another VCR and rewinded the video tore Cre Catherine opened the door. A second later the man followed her but he made the mistake to look up right into the camera, for only a split second. But long enough for Grissom to recognize him.
“Well I’ll be damned. I need those tapes now.” Grissom said before rushing out to the restaurant.
~*~
Catherine’s POV
“So you killed all these women to get back at me and Sara, how sick can you be.” I asked my words filled with anger, pain and disgust, his emotions where coming into the play, and I knew that I would be able to take him down somehow. He would become less concentrated and would start make mistakes, I had seen it happen before, time and time again.
“Shut up!” he screamed, “I don’t want to hear another word from you. I am the one holding the gun here.”
“Do you even know to handle that thing?” I asked him sarcastically.
“Oh Catherine, please shut up, even a lab tech like me knows how to handle a gun. I’m not stupid you know, if I was you and that bitch would have been able to stop me before I kidnapped you.” Madness was raging through me, I wanted to hit some sense into him. He was acting like he was superior to everyone, and in a way he probably thought that he was. Killing people, innocent people is kind of playing God.
I had to think of something, they probably didn’t know were we where going, and who I was with. And how could they, Sara never saw who attacked her. He was behind her all the time and she was hit unconscious. I wasn’t able to tell her what was wrong.
~*~
“Warrick, can I talk to you for a second.” Warrick and Grissom moved away from the crowd. Brass and some officers where asking witnesses what they had seen and wrote down the details. Grissom stepped closer to Brass. “Jim, please follow me.” Nick could see the commotion at the other end of the room and decided that it was his job to distract Sara.
“Sara, did you get her with your car?” I nodded not really sure where he was going, a waiter brought me a glass of water which I gratefully took.
“Yes, why?”
“Do you still have that set of spare clothes in your car?” I nodded again, they where always in the back of my car. “ Maybe we can get those clothes, so you can dress into something more comfortable.”
We stood up and Nick lead me towards the exit, I opened the door of my car and grabbed the bag with clothes. I asked Nick for an evidebag bag before I got into the ladies room to change clothes. After all I was an investigator and I knew that there could be evidence on my clothes even though the contact had been very brief. Nick checked the ladies room out just to be sure that there was no one in there. “ Sara, I’ll be just outside, just holler when you need anything.”
“Right now, I don’t think that you can give me what I need.” I was close to tears again.
~*~
Catherine’s POV
We’re driving down a road, which was vaguely familiar to me we were somewhere just outside the city. There was an old building complex at the end of the road. I watch him for a second before I take a life changing decision. This might be freedom, but it could also mean dead at least I would fight till the end. He was concentrated on driving the car, holding the gun in his hand resting on his lap.
I took the decision and grabbed the steering wheel, seconds later the car turned around and there was a loud crash the car slammed into the wall of the building. His head slammed against the steering wheel, he hit the window and blood gushed from his head wound.
The moment the car crashed into the wall, the door at the passenger side opened and I was swung out of the car. I hit the ground and slipped into unconsciousness for a second. I regained consciousness, and looked around. The car was a total wreck, I tried to get up and moved closer to the car. I observe the scene and see that he isn’t moving, getting closer to the car I can see that he’s still breathing.
He is unconscious… I have to get away. It was at that moment that I noticed the sticky red fluid on my dress. Seeing the wound that it came from, made me sick. Suddenly I was able to feel the pain I guess that the first rush of adrenaline left me. And I needed to sit down.
~*~
Grissom’s phone rang, he picked it up and looked at the number. It was an unfamiliar number, nevertheless he picked it up.
“Grissom.”
“Grissom, it’s me is Sara with you?” Catherine’s voice sounded.
“Cath, where are you?”
“I am not really… sure,” Catherine answered disoriented, looking around trying to see whether she recognizes something. “I crashed the car into a building. An old complex building outside the city.”
“Grissom, I need an ambulance.”
“Cath, why? What’s wrong?” he asked scared to hear the answer.
“I… am bleeding, pretty bad. I think that I have a piece of metal in my stomach.”
“Okay, Cath stay calm and keep talking to me.” Grissom gestured that they needed an ambulance. “Catherine, is there anything at all that can tell you where you are. Something that looks familiar?” Grissom asked trying to calm Catherine down.
“I can see the Stratosphere Tower a couple of kilometers away from me on my left and this old building complex that I crashed into.”
“Warrick, Cath can see the Stratosphere on her left and she crashed into an old building complex. Try to narrow the area down and send ambulances that way. Catherine, hold on okay, can you see that bastard? Is he still unconscious?” Grissom asked Catherine to keep her talking to him.
“Yes, he is. I found his cell in the car wreck, as well as his gun. Now I’m the one holding the gun, I wonder if he likes that.” Catherine added wryly. “Grissom you know who it is right?”
es Ies I… we know, we saw a security tape but Sara doesn’t know yet.”
“Grissom, I think that I know where Cath is.” Warrick pointed at the roadmap on the table. “This could be the place.”
He looked at the map for a minute, before he nodded. “Send the ambulances there, we’ll be following them. Go and see where Sara and Nick are.”
“Catherine, hold on okay, we are on our way. Just keep talking to me, I get the phone to Sara as fast as I can. We are on our way.”
Sara’s POV
Warrick walked up to Nick who was leaning against the wall next to the bathroom. “Nick is Sara in there?”
“Yeah she is, I got her to change her clothes, she had a spare set of clothes in her car for work. She’s putting them on right now.” Warrick nodded before he knocked on the door.
“Sara,” he called out loudly, he got no answer the first time so he knocked again. He waited a couple of seconds before he opened the door. He saw Sara sitting on the floor against the wall, her body was visibly shacking by her sobs.
“Sara, honey Grissom is talking to Cath on the phone, is his hurt but okay. She crashed the car into a building, the ambulances are on their way. We are going to follow them right now. Common’ we have to go.” Warrick helped me up and picked up the bag with my clothes.
“Warrick is she really okay?”
“She is hurt but talking and responding to Grissom’s questions.”
~*~
Catherine’s POV
Catherine watched in horror as she noticed the movement in the car. “Don’t you dare move as much as a muscle. I am the one holding the gun now and be sure that I will use it.” She said trying to make her voice sound forceful, while she felt the life flowing out of her with the blood that was still drenching her clothes.
Sara’s POV
"Grissom, I need to see her. Let me go!" I screamed at him, frustrated because he wouldn't let me go. I slammed my fists against his shoulders. His arms where wrapped around me, strong arms that kept me from escaping. Arms that held me, comforted me but also kept me away from the person that needed me the most.
I saw the paramedics lift Catherine onto the gurney. She looked pale and didn’t move. I begged Grissom to let me go.
“Sara, you can go with her but let the paramedics take care of her first.”
Finally Grissom let me go and I ran towards the ambulance, they where about to close the doors behind them. I begged them to take me with them at first they wouldn’t but Grissom told them that Catherine and I where life partners.
Cath looked up at me, tried to smile but winced at the pain that struck to her body; "Yes..." was all she said.
"What?" I asked confused, I was so taken by her appearance, the bruises that covered her face, the blood that covered her skin. The torn flesh, and the gaping wound in her shoulder.
"Yes, I will marry you." Catherine took a deep breath, “That was all I could think about, I wanted was to tell you that I love you and that I would love to marry you.”