Chapter 31

Lindsey?

Sara’s POV

A shot was fired and Catherine screamed, after that everything was silent. I didn’t even know that it could be so silent outside. I was holding Catherine with all my might; I wanted confirmation about that shot before I let her go.

Ecklie came running over to the small group of devastated people anxiously waiting to hear what happened.

“One of the snipers shot the man, they are going in now to secure the scene. We can go in when they get out.”

“Lindsey?”

“I haven’t had a confirmation on her yet, I’m sorry they are searching for her.”

Catherine freed herself from my embrace and ran down to the information centre, quickly followed by Grissom, Nick and Warrick. Ecklie handed me my crutches that where on the ground and I slowly moved towards the center, fearing the worst but hoping for the best.

Catherine’s POV

The first thing that I saw when I opened the door to the information centre was that ***** lying on the floor in a pool of blood. Then I saw my sister, her face was pale and in shock. Two officers were opening her chains, she looked up and saw me. She nodded telling me that she was alright. I asked if they had found Lindsey, but all I got in return were sad looks. A man walked up to me and told me that they were searching for her. I asked for his flashlight, I wanted to search for her. I wanted to be the first person that she saw. He handed it to me, but he hesitated.

“You better give her the flashlight, she will be searching anyway, with or without it.” Warrick’s warm voice said.

“He walked through that door with Lindsey,” Jenn said while she pointed at one of the doors in the office. “Catherine, she probably doesn’t know what happened, she was unconscious the whole time. I couldn’t find any wounds, maybe he used some kind of fluid. I don’t know, I didn’t see it happen. Catherine, I’m sorry!”

I stepped towards the door and opened it and I turned the flashlight on. Warrick followed me. I started calling out Lindsey’s name and I hoped to hear a response from her. However, there was no other sound then the sound that Warrick and I produced.