Somewhere I Belong

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EvidenceOfMe

Dead on Arrival
Hello! I'm pretty new here. I wrote this and it is posted on the CBS CSI message board also. So um let me know what you think. It is GSR! : ) Enjoy. Let me know if you want more.


CHAPTER 1 - Loves Not a Competition (But I'm Winning) -Kaiser Chiefs

Sara Sidle pulled up to the Las Vegas Crime Lab. She looked around the parking lot.

'First one again!' She thought.

Although she new one person was going to be late. She headed inside to get some coffee to start of the night. Sara went into the break room and started up Greg's favorite coffee, Blue Hawaiian.

She saw Grissom pass by. He looked in but didn't say anything. Sara looked quizzically at the door. Grissom backed up. A smile growing on his face. He walked over to her.

"Hey!" Sara said.

"Hello" Grissom looked around the room, seeing no one; he leaned over and kissed her.

"So why did you decide not to wake up me until a half hour before shift?" He asked. Sara smiled. The famous Sara Sidle smile.

"You looked like you needed it. Anyway it's not like crime scene's are going anywhere." Sara said.

"Well, thank you. I did need it." He said and kissed her again.

"OOOHHH!" Grissom and Sara turned bright red. They slowly turned around to see Cathrine, Warrick, Nick and Greg in the door way.

"Okay you two break it up now!" Nick said heading over to get some coffee.

"Sara how many times have I told you not to use my coffee!!" Greg exclaimed.

"Oh come on Greg! The Lab's coffee sucks and everyone knows it!" Cathrine said pouring herself a cup and getting one for Sara to.

"Thanks" Sara said taking a sip of the steaming liquid.

"Alright, tonight Nick and Greg, DB on the strip." Grissom said handing the slip of paper to Nick as the two of them headed out.

"Sara, Warrick and Cath I need you all to go to the airport to pick up a 15 year old girl from Lompoc. She witnessed a gang shooting. She has to come here to testify. Some gang members are in Las Vegas so that's why I need all three of you there. No one leaves that girl's side."

"How come she's gotta come all way to Vegas?" Warrick asked.

"Because the suspect came here and is being charged with another murder. So in order to nail him for the murder in Lompoc, they need the witness to come here."

"When is she arriving" Cath asked.

"Around 3am. You have sometime to hang out, it takes about 3 hours to get to the air port from here." Grissom said as he left.

"So what are you going to do for the next hour?" Warrick asked both women.

"Well I plan on doing some paper work." Cathrine said as she got up and headed to her office.

Warrick looked at Sara. "Video games?" He asked.

Sara smiled "Sure...I am sooo gonna kick your butt!"

"We'll see about that!" Warrick said smiling.

The hour went by fast and before Warrick and Sara new it Cathrine came in asking if they where ready to go.

"Yeah, just let me grab my coat." Warrick said as the three headed to the locker room.

"No Warrick. You'll just have to freeze to death!" Sara said smiling.

"Oh ha ha! And who is also getting their jacket?" He asked as Sara opened her locker.

She glared at him. "So who won?" Cath asked.

"Go ahead and tell her Warrick." Sara said.

Warrick sighed. "Sara."

"And how many games did we play?"

"5." Warrick said softly.

"What was that?" Cath asked smiling.

"Oh shut up Cath! She has been practicing and I know it!"

"Warrick I swear, I only play here!"

"Oh yeah right!" "Come you two! Let's get going!"

"I'll drive." Sara said as they headed to the parking lot.
 
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CHAPTER 2 - Time to Waste - Alkaline Trio

After about 2 hours of driving with only small chit-chat, Cathrine could not take it anymore.
"What type of music do you have in here Sara?"

"Oh um there are a bunch of cd's in the glove compartment." Sara said, happy that Cathrine decided to do something about the silence.

"Let's see Kaiser Chiefs, never heard of them, Kasabian, same, Smash Mouth, possibility, The Exies, Linkin Park. Sara who in the heck are the Sick Puppies?"

"Um you probably won't like them." Sara said.

"Why not?"

"Well they are kind of hard core."

"So you think I can't handle hard core?"

"No! I did not say that, they just don't seem like something you would listen to."

“You ever head them Warrick?" Cath asked.

"Yeah and I agree with Sara. Definitely not your type of music."

"Alright what else you got? Muse? Costanza? Where the heck do you get this stuff Sara?"

"I don’t know." Sara said shrugging her shoulders.

"Alright finely! The Killers! Lindsay listen's to them and I have to say they are not too bad."

So the rest of the ride was spent listening to The Killers. Cathrine noticed that Sara had to stop herself from singing along to some of the songs, which made her smile.

They pulled up to the air port with 10 minutes to spare. Sara got out and shivered. It was a lot colder then she was expecting.

"So where are we going?" Warrick asked.

"Um to gate 152. Grissom said she should have 2 officers with her, so she should be easy to find." Cathirne said.

"What’s her name?" Sara asked.

Cathrine looked at the paper in her hand. "Abigail Lee Calmer, 15 years old."

"Wow! She's pretty young." Warrick said.

"Yeah, same age as Lindz. And Grissom said none of her family came out with her." Cath said.

"What?! How could they do that! I mean your daughter is a witness to a murder and is in danger and you don't come out with her?!" Sara said, anger rising within her.

"Yeah I know. But we don't know the whole story, Sara. We'll find out soon enough." Cathrine said in an understanding voice. She felt the same way.

"I think that's her." Warrick said as he pointed to a young girl standing with 2 officers.

"Yep. That’s her. I don't see any other cops around looking like that." Sara said looking at them.

Sara thought the cops looked like they should be in A Nightmare Before Christmas.

Not one of them cracked a smile when they walked up.

"Hello, I'm Cathrine Willows with the Las Vegas Crime Lab. This is Sara Sidle and Warrick Brown."

"I'm Officer Drim, this is Officer Buren." He said without single sign of emotion.

'More like Officer Grim!' Sara thought.

"If you’re ready I will escort you to your car. Buran will get the girl's luggage." Drim said and started walking in the direction of the parking lot.

Warrick and Sara started walking with the girl.

"I'm Warrick and this is Sara. We're-"

"From the Las Vegas Crime Lab I know. I was standing right there." She said.

"Right." Warrick said a little embarrassed.

"So Abigail right?" Sara asked.

"Abby." She said in a tone that said she did not want to talk.

So the 3 walked on in silence. They arrived at the suv.

"You can go ahead and get in if you want." Warrick said opening the side door for her.

"Thanks." Abby mumbled as she got in.

Sara yawned. "You want me to drive?" Warrick asked.

"Sure, thanks."

"No problem."

Officer Buren got there soon after with Abby's luggage.

"Please have your supervisor contact us when the girl will be coming back. Thank you for your time."

With that the 2 officers left without another word.

"Okay. That was interesting. Wonder how Abigail did on the flight with thoughs 2." Cath said.

"Oh uh she goes by Abby." Sara said.

"Thanks" Cath said.

'This is gonna be interesting!' Sara thought as she got in the back with Abby.

The first couple of minutes in the car where awkward. Abby stared out the window, Cathrine would glance back every once in a while, Warrick kept his eye's on the road, and Sara suddenly became very interested in a hole in her jeans.

"So uh how come your parents didn’t come out with you?" Cathrine asked.

Abby didn’t say anything for a moment. "I don't really want to talk about it." She said softly, still looking out the window.

"Oh uh okay." Cath said. 'Not exactly what I was hoping for!'

"Would you like to listen to some music?" Warrick asked looking at her from his rear view mirror.

"What do you have?" Abby asked watching the cars zoom past them.

"Uh here, you can pick one out or if you have anything." Cathrine said handing her the cd's from Sara's glove compartment.

Abby took them without making eye contact with her.

Sara watched as Abby slowly went thru them. "Here." Abby said handing Cathrine Nelly Furtado. Afraid started coming thru the speakers. They sat in silence for a little while.

"So...are these your cd's" Abby asked looking at Sara.

"Yeah."

"That's cool... A lot of this stuff I have to. I've never met anyone else who listen's to Costanza." She said with a soft smile.
 
Not bad, EvidenceOfMe. It pleases me to know that Sara kicks Warrick's but in videgames :D I hope to read more from you!
 
Hey!! Sorry I've been kinda busy lately! So here's 2 chapters for you! Hope you like it!!

CHAPTER 3 - Hello - Maroon 5

The rest of the drive was quiet and uneventful. When they pulled up to the Lab, Sara turned to Abby. She smiled. Abby sat there, her head leaning against the window, her eyes closed.

"Should I wake her up?" Sara asked softly.

"Grissom probably wants’ to see her." Cathrine said, feeling sorry for the girl.

Sara leaned over and gently rocked her shoulder. Abby woke up.

"Hey. We're here." Sara said.

"Oh, okay." Abby said rubbing her eyes.

The 4 of them got out of the suv. Warrick got out her luggage as Cath, Sara and Abby headed inside.

"I'm gonna go find Grissom and tell him we're back." Cath said. "Why don't you meet me in the break room?" She said over her shoulder.

"Are you hungry or anything?" Sara asked as they walked down the hall.

"I'm good, thanks."

"Okay. Just say something if you are."

They walked in to the break room to find Greg and Nick.

"Hey guys!" Sara said walking in.

"Hey Sara!"

"Abby, this is Nick,"

"Hello!" Nick said extending his hand.

"And this is Greg."

"Nice to meet you!"

"And this is Abby." Sara said.

"Hi." Abby said softly.

"So..." Greg said but Sara gave him a look that told him to zip it.

She knew what he was going to ask, if she was the one who witnessed the gang shooting. Sara didn't think that this was the right time to discuses it.

"So how did your DB go?" Sara asked taking a seat and motioning for Abby to sit next to her.

As they discussed the case Abby looked around the room. It was not very exciting. She sighed. She pulled her iPod out of her pocket. If she had to sit here she was at least going to listen to some music. She put it on random and made sure the sound was not too loud.

Linkin Park came on. One of her favorite songs. Numb. She could not help but tun it up more.

Nick and Greg got up to leave so she paused her music it just in case they said anything to her.

"Nice meeting you Abby." Greg said and Nick smiled.

"Same to you." Abby said smiling back.

"See ya later Sara!"

"Bye!" Sara said as they walked out.

Sara turned to Abby. "Who are you listening to now?"

"Linkin Park."

"Have you heard Bleed it Out?"

"Yeah."

'You are not making this easy you know that!’ Sara thought

"It's pretty good huh."

"Yeah, I like it. My mom doesn’t like them. But since my sister does she let be burn the cd."

"That's always nice! How old is your sister?" Sara asked.

"19. She's away at college."

"You and your sister get along?"

"Yeah. For the most part." Abby said looking anywhere but into Sara's eyes.

"You have a boyfriend?" Abby asked.

Sara was a little taken aback at her question. 'Maybe you’re really trying.'

"Yeah actually you will meet him in a little bit."

"Grissom?"

"How did you know?"

"The look in your eye when Ms. Willows said his name."

"Ahh...” Sara said, blushing a little. "Oh by the way you can call her Cath or Cathrine. If you call her Ms. Willows she will think she's old and then get... well. Yeah." Abby smiled.



CHAPTER 4 - Little Favors - KT Tunstall

Cathrine and Grissom came into the break room. Sara and Abby where sitting at the table.

"Hello, I'm Gil Grissom." He said shaking her hand.

"Abigail Calmer. But you can call me Abby."

"Well nice to meet you Abby. I'm sure you know why your here?"

"It's a little hard not to know. I witnessed a gang member shoot another kid that lived a few blocks from my house. I'm in witness protection because the same gang is big here. Hence the two dumb a$$ cops that flew out here with me. I am in Vegas because the suspect came here and is on trial for murder. The only way you can nail him for the murder in Lompoc is if I testify. Am I leaving anything out?" Abby said a spunky look in her eye.

"Uh no. I don't believe so." Grissom said sheepishly.

"So when is the court date?"

"A week from today." Grissom said looking at his papers.

"Are you kidding me?" Abby asked.

"Uh no."

"Great, just great." She said under her breath.

"Sara, I need you to stay with Abby."

"Uh what??" Sara said giving Grissom a death glare.

"I need you to protect Abby. If she could stay at your apartment with you. They will be an officer at your door."

"I don't need protection!!" Abby said looking from Grissom to Sara and then to Cathrine.

"Can I talk to you for a moment?” Sara said getting up and heading for the door.

Saying it more like a statement then a question.

"Sara before you say anything, let me talk okay?" Grissom said, putting his hand on her shoulder.

Before Sara could say anything, Grissom began.

"This girl does not know anyone here. Okay, no one. You seem to be getting along, if you want you can see if Cathrine can come over. But Sara, I trust you. You can beat up most of the lab if you really wanted to." He said getting a smile from her.

"Okay?"

"Alright. And where will you be in all of this? You could come over. She already knows we're dating."

"How did she know that?" Grissom asked a little surprised.

"She said she could see it in my eyes when Cath mentioned your name." Sara said.

"Well you do have beautiful eyes."

"Oh shut up!" Sara said jokingly. "I'm still pissed at you! So you never answered my question. Where will you be?"

Grissom sighed. "Ecklie is making me go to an entomology conference. I will be gone a day or two. I have to go home and pack right now. I'm sorry."

"Why are you sorry Gil? I understand okay?! Ecklie is well an a$$. I was planning a nice dinner tonight, but that can wait until you get back." Sara said.

Grissom smiled at her. 'God, if you only knew how much I love you.'

"I love you, you know that."

"Gee I never really thought of that." Sara said jokingly.

"Why are you in such a good mood?" Grissom said.

"Oh I don't know, maybe because I'm in love with a certain bug man." Sara said.

That's it. He didn't care who saw them. Everyone knew that they where together. He leaned in and kissed her.
 
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CHAPTER 5 - Cancer - Sick Puppies

Grissom and Sara walked back into the break room. Cathrine was getting some coffee while Abby sat listing to her iPod. When she saw Sara and Grissom come in she took in out.

"So...what’s going on?" She asked.

"Well your gonna come home with me. Is that okay with you?" Sara said.

"Do I really have a choice?" Abby sighed. "Look I'm not mad at you, it's just...well I don't really want to be here."

"It's fine. I understand." Sara said smiling at her.

"Sara, do you want me and Lindz to come by, I can bring dinner?" Cathrine asked, sensing that Sara was unsure of what to do with a 15 year old.

"Um sure. I don't think I have any food anyway."

"I can go shopping for you Sara."

"Griss, you have to go to your conference." Sara said.

"That can wait." He said, giving her a look that said she had no chance of winning this one.

"Fine." She said with a sigh. Abby laughed.

"What?" Sara asked.

"Nothing. You just remind me of. Never mind." Abby said, averting her eyes to the floor.

Cath looked at Sara. She shrugged her shoulders. There was a lot about this girl she didn't know.

"Alright, I'm gonna clock out. Sara I will bring the groceries by, I'll drop them off in your kitchen, okay?"

"Sure. Oh don't forget to drop Hank of with his food and bed." Sara added, blushing a little because she forgot Cathrine was in the room.

Grissom, sensing it was going to get interesting, turned and left.

"You named your dog Hank??" Cath asked walking over to where Sara was. "You named your dog after you ex-boyfriend, who, I might add, cheated on you!"

"Cathrine, he came with the name! He was the one Grissom liked, so we got him! We tried to change his name to Bruno, but it just didn't fit." Sara said.

Cathrine was at a loss for words. Sara smiled.

"So would 6:30 work?" Cathrine asked.

"Yeah sure." Once Cath was gone Sara turned to Abby.

"So, um let's go to the locker room so I can grab my stuff and then I can give you a tour of the lab if you want."

"Sure." Abby said getting up.

Once in the locker room, Sara turned to Abby who was sitting on a bench.

"So what where you gonna say in the break room? Who did Grissom and I remind you of?"

"You uh reminded me of my parents. How they used to be... My Dad, he has cancer. The doctors don't know what kind and they most likely never will. He'll be on chemo for the rest of his life. He's had it for about a year and half now. That’s why neither of my parents came out.
My Mom has to work and my Dad gets chemo. My sister wanted to come but she has school. They uh fight...allot. About stupid things. My Dad's not the same anymore. Neither is my Mom.
She always says she hates whining. But if only she could hear herself. How much she complains. About how my Dad acts, about her job. He is really annoying sometimes, but I live there to! I know what he's like. He sometimes treats me like I'm nothing. He gives me this look like I'm stupid or something.
I'm homeschooled so I don't really have friends. I don't have anyone to talk to. My sister, yeah, but like she needs to know about my problems. That's why I listen to so much music... To drown out the yelling. Sometimes I almost whish he would die. And scares the sh*t out of me. I wonder if it would be easier, you know. Not to have the yelling, the fighting, the times I wish I was never born. I want to feel like I belong." Abby looked up at Sara.

Tears in her eyes. But Sara noticed she wasn’t looking at her, she was looking thru her.
 
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CHAPTER 6 - Numb - Linkin Park

Abby got up and walked out. Sara was going to go after her but decided to give her a few minutes. Sara grabbed her coat, wallet and cell phone and closed her locker. She
walked past Wendy and Mia and said goodnight.

She headed toward Grissoms office. She knew he wasen't there, but she wanted to give him a note, to suprise him. She knew he would come to the lab before leaveing. He always forgot somthing. Wheather it was a book or bug colection. She placed the note on his desk and left.

'Now to find Abby.' She walked past the break room and checked the restroom. But there was no sign of her anywhere. She went outside and passed Nick on her way.

"Hey have you seen Abby?" Sara asked, trying to keep the panic that was rising inside her, out of her voice.

"Um yeah. She's sitting on the curb listing to music. I asked if she was okay and she said yeah, she was just waiting for you." Nick said.

"Thanks." Sara said heading out in to the chilly night.

Sure enough Abby was sitting there. Head phones in her ears. Sara walked up and sat down next to her. They sat there for a little while. Neither saying anything.

"So, you hungry?" Sara asked.

"Starving and tired." Abby said.

"You ready to go then?"

"Yeah...Thanks. For not asking questions." Abby said looking at Sara. She smiled.

"I know how it feels when you just don't want to say anything. Any time you want to talk
or don't want to talk just say somthing okay?" Sara said.

'God! I sound like Cath!'

" 'kay." Sara and Abby got up and headed toward Sara's suv.

"Do you have an iPod car adapter?" Sara asked Abby once they where in the car.

"Yeah. Why?"

"So we can listen to your music." Sara said.

"Oh! Okay." 'Mabye isen't as bad as I thought!' Abby thought searching her bag for the adapter.

"So, um what type of music do you want to listen to?" She asked Sara.

"What ever you want is cool with me." Sara said pulling out of the parking lot.

"Um let's see. Have you heard of Muse?"

"No I haven't." Sara said.

"Cool!" Abby plugged un her iPod.

Her favorite song, Super Massive Black Hole came on. Even though neither of them knew, both of them where thinking the exact same thing.

'Mabye this won't be so bad after all.'


CHAPTER 7 - If You Were There, Beware - Arctic Monkeys

Sara pulled in to the parking lot of her apartment building.

"Well this is it. It's not exactly the spectacular, but it's not bad either." Sara said as she turned of the engine.

"It's fine." Abby said as she grabbed her bag and got out.

Sara went around the back to get the rest of her luggage.

"So we have about a half an hour before Cathrine and Lindsay show up. Anything in particular you want to do?" Sara asked.

Abby smiled. "Eat."

Sara laughed. "Okay. I think I have some chips and dip. I should warn you that I'm a
vegetarian."

"That's cool. I don't eat a lot of meat anyway."

Sara and Abby made their way thru the gate leading to Sara's apartment. As they made their way up the stairs, Sara stopped. She suddenly had the feeling that they where being watched.

"You okay?" Abby asked a few steps behind her.

"Uh, yeah. Fine." Sara said, shaking it off as just being tired.

They entered the small hallway leading down to her apartment. She unlocked the door and stepped inside.

"Well, this is it." Sara said closing and locking the door once Abby was inside. "I didn't
know you where coming so, sorry about the mess."

"What mess? Sara, my house is scary sometimes, okay! This is not a mess trust me."
Abby said setting her backpack on the kitchen counter.

"So for the grand tour." Sara said. "Okay here's the bathroom. Towels are in the cupboard. As you know the kitchen. Any food in the fridge you can have. I think there's some crackers in the cupboard above the sink." Sara said. "And the living room. Cd player's over there. You can put on anything you like. And in this is my bedroom. Um you can either sleep in here or on the couch, whichever you prefer. And well, that's it."

Sara said walking back into the living room.

"The couch is fine with me." Abby said sitting down in one of the chairs.

"Are you sure because I can change the sheets for you. It's no big deal." Sara said sitting
on the couch.

"I'm sure." Abby said smiling.

"So um what would you like to do?" Sara asked.

Abby laughed. "You already asked me that."

"Oh! Right! You said you where hungry! Okay, sorry." Sara said getting up and getting the chips and dip out for Abby.

"It's fine." She said.

Abby got up and went over to Sara cd player. "Wow!"

"What?" Sara asked coming over to the couch.

"We almost have the exact same cd collection. Except I don't have the more classic rock stuff, like Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, Iron Butterfly. Woah! You have Outkast?!"

Sara laughed. "I like 'Hey Ya!'. I got it before I got my iPod."

"Oh! I love that song! Dang you have a lot of cd's! Where did you get them?"

"Just random places. A lot of them I got as gift's from Greg. He's really into music too."

"So I can put something on?" Abby asked.

"Yeah. Whatever you want."

A few moments’ later The Arctic Monkeys came on. Their latest cd 'Favorite Worst Nightmare'.

Abby then came over and started eating. "Man this really good!" Abby said her mouth
full.

Sara laughd. "Thanks!"

Just then Sara's phone rang. She went over to the counter and looked at the caller id.

'Cathrine'. She answered.

"Hey Cath."

"Hi Sara. I was wondering where you live?" Cathrine asked.

Sara smiled. She gave Cathrine the directions and then hung up after saying good bye.

"Cath and Lindsay should be here in a little bit." She said sitting down.

"How old is Lindsay?" Abby asked taking another chip.

"15. She pretty cool. I think you'll get along." Sara said hoping she was right.

The truth was she thought the girls where almost the exact opposite of each other.
 
Cute story. Update it quickly!

In chapter 2 Sara has a Muse CD and in chapter 7 she says she's never heard of them.

That is all.
 
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