What do you say? Time we went back to the lab? Have a little Warrick visit? Sure, I don't own the gang, but hey, if you do, can I come over some time for tea? ;)

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Warrick ran through the building to his boss's office. Without even a moment to catch his breath, he gave the good news. "We got a match," he said handing over a piece of paper. "You are now looking at the proud owner of a right thumb print, but not just any thumb print, no! The very thumb print I lifted from our crime scene."

Grissom gave him a look that screamed, just get to the point already. He figured that he really should anyway. I mean, who did he think he was to hold up a case as important as this one. Finally complying, Warrick finished his tale. "Anyway, the print belongs to a man, Joseph, Joey, MacLean. There's just one problem."

"What is that?"

"This Mr. MacLean… he is of no fixed address. The last one on record from him was a place on 49th Street. It was condemned and demolished 10 years ago."

"Well, it gives us a start. Sara ever mention this Joseph to you?" Grissom asked, hoping to find out something that might help them along.

"Not a thing. Who'd have guessed she ever snagged herself a man?" Warrick said, almost proud.

Grissom broke the mood in his typical, matter-of-fact tone. "I suspect he may have found her, Warrick."

"You could be right, but hey, that girl does keep a lot of secrets," Warrick began, as he turned to find the others, and tell them the semi-good news. "I wonder why that is…" he mumbled to himself, in one last thought of her secretive ways.

First he found Greg, and explained what he'd found, and finished by asking the mandatory questions about who this MacLean guy could be. Who was he? Where was he? And what did he want with Sara? Did he even know Sara? It seemed like so many questions, but so little time.

Finally he left Greg, informing him that he'd be wherever he happened to find Nick and Catherine working together. When he found him a couple minutes later, he let them in on the news, and asked them as well if they'd ever heard Sara mention a Joseph, or a Joey. The answer was always the same. 'No.'

He wondered to himself why she had to always be so secretive about things. He wasn't even sure if anyone in the office really knew the real Sara. Sure, they'd seen glimpses of her, when she became overly passionate about a certain case, but usually that passion led to more questions than answers.

Warrick started to berate himself about blaming Sara. It wasn't her fault she was secretive. I mean, had he ever really asked her about anything? No, not in a serious tone anyway. And he was sure that she had her reasons to be that way. Granted, he figured, he wouldn't like those reasons, but they were reasons non-the-less.

And who's to say that she even kept this MacLean guy a secret. They had no indication that she knew the man before-hand. She'd never mentioned him to anyone. He could have just followed her home one day, or randomly picked her out of a crowd. Whatever the case, he didn't like it. None of it, and he just wanted some real evidence that could bring her back.

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Okay, this is a really short one, I do know. But hey, at least I'm actually updating. That is a big bonus on my part. Or your part, depending on how you look at it, right?

The glass is half-full, as opposed to it being half-empty? Either way, you're stuck with only half a glass, and no pitcher to fill it up.

Okay, no, so that wasn't my point… Basically, it's late, I'm tired, and I have to wake up in five hours for work ;)