“I watched Shrek.” Lindsey told her, full of excitement, Lindsey started telling Cath all about the movie. Cath looked at the clock again.

“Lindsey honey, I really have to get up and shower, because Sara is picking me up later.”

“Sara is coming?” Lindsey asked.

“Yep she is but only to pick me up, we ate breakfast this morning and I left my car at the labs.” Cath explained to Lindsey.

“But you promised auntie Liz you’d drop me off at her place.” Lindsey stated.

“I did, damn I must have forgotten all about that, I did?” Cath sighed. “Oh well Sara probably won’t mind dropping you off.”

Cath walked over to the closet and opened it; she pulled out a blouse and put it back into the closet. She picked out another blouse, a slightly see through blouse and combined it with a black leather jacket and a black skirt. Someone would really like that. She hit the showers. Half an hour later she was ready.

She fixed dinner for herself and Lindsey and they ate it together. An hour later she was waiting for Sara to arrive but she didn’t come. Cath called her cell phone, her pager and her home phone, but Sara didn’t respond. She couldn’t get to her sister’s house without her car, so she called Warrick, who lives closest to her.

“Hey Warrick, it’s Cath.”

“Oh hey Cath,” he said.

“Warrick could you please pick me up for work? Sara was supposed to pick me up but she’s not answering her phone.”

“Yep sure no problem, I’ll be there in a couple of minutes, I’m close to your place.” Warrick told Cath. She sighed in relief.

“Warrick, one more thing, can we drop Lindsey off at my sister’s house?”

“Cath, I love to see that little girl of yours, you know that, it’s no problem at all.” he stated, and he laughed warmly. She wondered why he didn’t have a girlfriend, or even kids, she knew for sure that he would be a great dad.

“Thanks Warrick.”

Just minutes later Warrick arrived at Cath’s place. Lindsey ran down to the car and sat down on the backseat. Cath closed the door and stepped in the car. They dropped Lindsey off at her sisters’ house.

“What the next stop, Sara’s house or the labs, it’s your call?” Warrick asked. He’d noticed that Cath was worried about Sara. He could imagine why, it wasn’t like Sara not to show up without calling or anything.

“The case that we had yesterday had a big impact on Sara. I never saw her like that. She was so different, as if she showed me a piece of the true Sara. I have a really bad feeling.” Cath stated.

“Oh c’mon, Cath it’s probably nothing.” Warrick said to take away some of Cath doubts and worries, without success. “So, Sara’s house first?”

Cath just nodded silently. Ten minutes later they stopped at Sara’s house. Her car was parked in front of her house. They wandered up to the front door and nodded. Nothing changed, and Warrick walked around the house, to the back. Something reflected on the ground and Warrick bent down. It was shattered glass, he looked up and one of the small windows in the door was broken.

“Cath, you better take a look at this.” he called out” Catherine came running around the corner of the house. She looked shocked, she grabbed her gun and Warrick did the same. Cath pulled the sleeve of her blouse over her hand and opened the door. They entered Sara’s kitchen, and walked through the living room straight to her bedroom and after that to the bathroom. She was nowhere to be found. Cath broke down on the bed.

“I knew it, something happened.” Cath cried and Warrick took her in his arms to comfort her. He pulled out his phone and called Nick and asked him to come over to process the scene. He also called Brass to tell him that they wouldn’t take on any cases this shift. Brass told that he would come over too.

Cath called Sara’s cell phone, and she heard it ringing in the bedroom.

“Cath we have to call Grissom, do you want to call him or shall I do it?” Warrick asked.

“No, let me do it, I’m the one he left in charge.”