A/N: Well, here's the next chapter. Hopefully, you will all enjoy it. As always, read and review please.

Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or any of its characters. I am not making any money off of this and simply doing it for fun.

Chapter Twelve

Sam stood silently by as Catherine released her anger against Ben. He hated that everything had come out like this but he was just glad that at the moment all the attention was focused on Ben and not him. He knew what he had done was wrong and he had so desperately wanted to tell Catherine the truth but had decided against it each time. He looked through the glass and saw Court standing there, he was silent as well, but he seemed to be reveling in what was going on. This made Sam hate him even more, deciding that he had enough of what this little game he slammed his hand against the class and began to shout.

"Stop it! Stop this now! Court you've done enough damage to everyone here and I wanna know right now why! What is it that you are hoping to achieve by revealing all of this? Tell me now dammit, right now!"

Sam's words had forced everyone into immeadite silence, they looked at him stunned.

"What's the matter, Sam? Afraid that more of your indescritions will be revealed before you're ready for it?" Court obviously angered by Sam's out burst.

"No but I'm tired of being jerked around. So stop all this nonsense and just tell us what you're really here for."

"Fine, Sam," he breathed trying to relax himself and nodded at his companion to his right.

Suddenly, the man whipped out his gun and before anyone could react fired his gun hitting Greg in the shoulder.

"Aww!" Greg shouted before falling to the ground.

"You wanna know what I want Sam, I want you to pay! All of you! Every last one of you has kept secrets and there were no reprucissions for you at all but me, I keep one little secret and my whole life falls apart! I lose my job! I lose my wife! I lose my child! Everything that ever meant anything to me, gone because of one secret!"

Court had finally lost control, he was shouting and had ripped the gun that one of his henchman had been holding and was waving it around like a madman. Suddenly, the doors to the lab burst open and everyone turned to see a SWAT team racing through, guns drawn. In desperation, Court grabbed Greg and was holding him in front of himself as a shield. His two henchman did the same with Catherine and Ben. Even if the calvary had arrived, Court wasn't about to let things end this way.

"Back off!" he shouted placing his gun against Greg's temple as Brass took his place at the front of police officers attempting to end this madness, "Back off or he dies!"

"We can't do that, Court," Brass said calmly, "Just let Mr. Sanders go and we'll settle things calmly and rationally. If you don't release your hostages, I'm afraid I'll be forced to order my men to shoot you. None of us want that."

Court was scanning the room frantically, calculating his chance of surival. He could see doubt beginning to surface in the eyes of his men. How had he lost control of this situation so quickly, he thought. Everything had been going his way until Sam had opened his big mouth. Once again, his loss of control was Sam's fault.

"So was that some kind of signal to the SWAT team, Sam?" Court asked pressing the gun harder into Greg's temple with every word.

"Actually, Court, the gun fire brought us in and it appears that it was you that fired it and shot Mr. Sanders," Brass spoke before Sam could answer, "Now, I'm going to tell you again release your hostages or we'll be forced to shoot you."

Court stood there wide eyed, he was scared but he wasn't about to show it. He looked to the men on either side of him and they were lowering their weapons and releasing Catherine and Ben.

"You cowards!" Court shouted full of anger, "He's bluffing, you idiots! He wouldn't do anything to risk their lives! We're still in contol!"

"Let him go, Court!" Catherine begged from her new postion next to Sam, "It's over, you've lost!"

"I don't think so, Catherine, in fact, I have a better idea," Court said with a vicious smile.