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Missing

Nick Stokes, Greg Sanders, Sara Sidle, and Ray Langston were in the conference room waiting for their supervisor Catherine Willows to come in and give them their assignments for the night. She walked in and looked at her team.

"Alright guys, we are all working the same case tonight."

She laid a photo of a young girl on the table

"Kyla Hamilton, 17, went out with friends and disappeared. She's been missing 6 hours now and her mother is frantic, she's insisting that her daughter would not just take off." She was last seen at Burger 17, you know that restaurant for underage kids that has dancing and doesn't allow alcohol. The two friends she was with told her mother that they ran to the bathroom and Kyla stayed and watched their purses and when they came back, their purses were there but Kyla was gone. Nick, Sara and Greg you go to her house and get more information from her mother. Also make sure to get something with her DNA on it so if we find some DNA we will have something to compare it to. Make sure to also get the names of her two friends so we can question them. See if her mom will let you look around in Kyla's room, maybe you can find something that will give us a clue to what happened to her. I'll go with Ray to Burger 17 to see if they have surveillance camera's, if they do have camera's it may very well be a huge help."

"You got it boss." Nick said.

The three of them left and headed to the Hamilton house. It didn't take the CSI'S very long to arrive, when they got there Nick rang the doorbell. A woman answered the door. Her eyes were red from crying

"Hi Ma'ma, I'm Nick Stokes and these are my colleagues Greg Sanders and Sara Sidle, we are with the Las Vegas crime lab. We are working your daughters' case.

"Did you find her yet?" Kyla's mother Brenda Hamilton asked immediately.

"No Ma'ma unfortunately we haven't, may we come in, we would like to ask you a few questions."

"Of course" She said opening the door.

She led them to the couch and the three CSI'S sat down on the couch while Brenda sat opposite them in the love seat.

"Mrs. Hamilton…" Nick began but Brenda cut him off.

"Please, call me Brenda." She said.

Nick offered her a warm smile which she returned.

"Brenda, is there any reason at all that Kyla would want to leave?"

"No absolutely not, Mr. Stokes, please you have to believe me, she is not missing because she wants to be. She is a straight A student, she is on the track team, and she volunteers at the hospital. She is set to graduate in just a few weeks, and she has a full ride scholarship to WLVU in the fall. She just went out to have some fun with her friends. She was only going to be gone a couple hours, it's a school night and Kyla never stays out late on a school night. She is very responsible, I never even have to ask her if she has her homework completed because she does it on her own, I never have to worry about it. Most importantly she always lets me know where she is, and she calls me even if she is going to be just a few minutes late getting home."

"How is your relationship with Kyla?" Greg asked.

"We have a wonderful relationship, we tell each other everything. My husband passed away when Kyla was only two years old, ever since then it has just been the two of us. We have the kind of relationship that most mothers of teenage daughters can only dream of."

"Brenda, can you think of anyone that would want to hurt Kyla for any reason?" Sara asked.

"No, everyone loves her." She answered.

"Does Kyla have a boyfriend?" Greg asked.

"No" Brenda said.

"Does she have any ex-boyfriends?" Nick asked.

"No" she said then she laughed a little "Kyla is too busy with school, and her extra-curricular activities to have time for boys." She said.

"Brenda, we are going to need something with Kyla's DNA on it, her comb, toothbrush, anything like that." Sara said.

"I'll be right back" Brenda said hurrying out of the room.

She came back moments later with a comb. She handed the comb to Sara then sat down on the love seat and began to sob.

"We are going to do everything we can to find her." Sara said immediately going over to her and placing a comforting hand on her shoulder.

The distraught mother took several deep breaths "I'm sorry" she said.

"It's quite alright." Greg said.

He gave her a few moments to regain her composure before he asked "Brenda, do you know which friends Kyla went out with tonight?"

"Yes, her two best friends, Shelley King and Reese Adams."

"Do you have their contact information?" Greg asked.

"Yes, hold on just a minute." Brenda said as she quickly got up and left the room.

She came back with a piece of paper in her hand. "Here you go." Mr. Sanders she said handing the paper to Greg.

On the paper were 2 phone numbers, the top one had the name Shelley next to it and the bottom one had the name Reese.

"Thank you." Greg said.

"One more thing Brenda, would it be alright if we take a look around Kyla's room, it might offer some clues to what happened to her?" Nick asked.

"Sure do whatever you think will help. Her room is up the stairs, 2nd door on the left." Brenda said.

The three CSI'S nodded and headed up the stairs. Kyla's room looked like a typical teenage girl's room. Posters of a few bands were hung up around the room, a bright pink paint color covered the walls as well as pink bedding on the bed. A bright blue prom dress hung on the closet door.

"Pretty dress." Sara commented.

"Prom is next weekend, Kyla and I just bought that dress this past week." Brenda said appearing in the doorway.

She then quickly had to leave the room as she once again began to cry uncontrollably.

They searched her room for over an hour and found nothing that could help them in their investigation, although they all agreed that it would be a good idea to take her laptop back to the lab and take a look at its contents. When they had completed searching her room Nick carried the laptop downstairs

"Brenda, can we take Kyla's laptop back to the lab with us, it could provide us important information about what happened to her."

"Yes, please take whatever you need." She said.

"Thank you for all of your cooperation." Nick said.

She nodded and as the CSI'S were leaving she made a plea to them. With her eyes once again brimming with tears she said "Please find her, she is the sweetest person you would ever want to meet, she is my entire life, and I don't know what I would do without her." The tears that were in her eyes were now rolling down her cheeks.

"We are going to do everything we possibly can to find her and bring her home, I promise you." Nick said and then added "We will keep you informed with the investigation, if you have any questions do not hesitate to call us, or if you think of anything else that could be useful please let us know."

Brenda promised them she would call them if she thought of anything. As she watched the CSI'S leave Brenda felt as if she were in a nightmare, this could not really be happening. But the hard truth was that it was actually happening, her daughter was missing. She was at least comforted by the fact that she trusted the investigators; Mr. Stokes, Ms. Sidle and Mr. Sanders genuinely seemed to care about finding her daughter.

To Be Continued