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Nothing is Predestined

Jamie and Sara met at a crime scene, Sara Sidle was a CSI working for the San Francisco Crime Lab, when she got the call that would change her life forever. Jamie Stone wasn't the victim only a witness, but as the investigation continued, Sara and Jamie grew close and became good friends, until they realized that they had feelings for the other. Both Sara and Jamie were bisexual, but had never acted on their inner desires until they met each other. They lived apart, Sara had her own apartment, and Jamie had her own loft. Jamie was a manager of a local health food store, so she actually did make a good salary. Every saturday, Sara and Jamie would get together at Sara's apartment to be together. They enjoyed every minute they got to spend with each other. After six months together, Sara started to date the ME, Mike, she loved Jamie but didn't want anyone to know about that part of her life, so she did date men occasionally, she just never let things get to serious between the two of them, because her heart belonged to Jamie.

Because of their demanding schedules Sara and Mike were only able to see each other outside of the job on their days off. Sara liked it this better, because it didn't hinder Jamie coming over every saturday. Jamie didn't like the fact that Sara was dating Mike to keep up appearances, to her Sara was cheating on her, but she did understand the situation, and while she disagreed when Sara told her that she should find a guy as well, she stayed true to Sara, saying that her job kept her from achieving that. After six months of Sara dating Mike, Jamie could tell that it was getting serious between the two of them, it wasn't until Jamie's building burned down that she was able to convince Sara to let her live there. By this time Mike was in fact living with Sara, and was a little reluctant to let Jamie move in with them, but he respected how much Sara cared about her friend, and the fact that the only real place Jamie could go was to a hotel, for she had no family in the area and other than Sara her only friend lived in Vegas.

On the nights that Mike had to leave because he was the Chief Medical Examiner, Sara took advantage of this and would spend hours in Jamie's room, being with her lover. When she would hear Mike pull up, she would slip out of Jamie's bed, and pretend she was coming from a different room in the apartment, Mike was none the wiser to what was really going on between the two friends. One night Jamie and Sara were talking about children, Jamie was telling her how much she wanted to have a child, but feared it would never happen, because she could never let herself care about a man enough to go to that length. Sara talked Jamie into invitrofertilization, so she could have a child, Sara wanted children too, but wasn't sure if she loved Mike enough to go that far.

Mid September

Two weeks after their talk Jamie had an appointment with a specialist, who was implanting the fertilized embryos into Jamie's body. The doctor told her to go home and rest for a few days and then take a test after two weeks to make sure that the procedure had taken. On the way home from the doctors appointment, Jamie told Sara that she knew that Sara was a woman, but she wanted her to be the other parent to the baby. Stopped at a redlight, Sara told her that she wouldn't have it any other way, and kissed Jamie. Unknown to them, Mike was coming the other way and saw the intimate exchange between the two friends, and it angered him, and he decided that if Jamie wasn't going to move out on her own he would force her too. Later that night it was Mike's day off and Sara had to work, once he was sure that Sara was gone for the night and he was alone with Jamie. He called Jamie into the kitchen telling her that he made supper for them tonight, she thanked him and sat down to eat, after supper was done Jamie said she was going to go for a walk. Jamie left the apartment, and went for what she decided would be a twenty minute walk. What she didn't know was that Mike in disguise was coming up behind with a baseball bat. Mike, walked up behind her, and told her that she had to get out of his and Sara's apartment, she was no longer wanted there, when Jamie turned around and told him that Sara wouldn't want that, Mike started hitting her head with his baseball bat. After several hits Jamie was knocked unconscious with an open head wound. Mike threw the bat, knowing that with gloves on they wouldn't find his fingerprints, Sara didn't even know he owned this bat, he had bought it today with cash.

Back at the crime lab, Sara was hard a work finishing her examination of the evidence, when she had just finished putting away the evidence, the first in command supervisor came up to her and told her that she had a new crime scene she needed to be at it was a 245 (assualt with a deadly weapon) at 87 Hybrid Square. Sara recognized the address as close to her own apartment, she grabbed her kit, and headed out to her car where she met up with her partner Cindy. Once the duo arrived at the scene, Sara being the superior investigator, told Cindy to go with the victim in the bus, she would stay here with the scene. Jamie's body wasn't fully into the bus when Cindy had reached her. Cindy knew Jamie, because she shopped at the store Jamie worked at and she knew that her and Sara were close friends. Telling herself that right now Sara had to concentrate on the case, she said nothing and got into the ambulance with her friend. Several hours later, Cindy finally arrived back at the Crime Lab, she met up with Sara in the break room, Sara was having a cup of coffee, after talking to Mike who told her that Jamie had left hours ago, Sara tried to call Jamie's cell, only to get nothing but her voicemail. Once Sara saw Cindy, she asked her how the victim was. Cindy trying to keep her emotions in check, told her supervisor that the bastard had bashed in the vics head, but she was still alive, and was unconscious. Cindy still reluctant to tell Sara who the victim was, asked what she knew so far. The only thing Sara knew was that the weapon was a baseball bat and there were no prints, the perp either wiped it down or was wearing gloves, unless the vic could identify who attacked her, she was afraid he would get away with this. Unable to keep it in any longer, Cindy told Sara that there was something she needed to know about the victim, at that moment, the technician from the evidence locker came in and told Sara that a cell phone in her latest case had been ringing off the hook for ten minutes until a few minutes ago. This concerned Sara since she had just been trying to call Jamie until Cindy came in. Sara looked back at Cindy and asked her what she was about to say. Cindy tried to convey as much calmness as she could, when she told Sara that the their victim was, Jamie. The only thing Sara did was run out of the crime lab, and raced to the hosptial.

Once there Sara told the receptionist that she was here for any news on Jamie Stone. The receptionist asked her if she was family, she said no not technically but she was the closet thing she has to family. The receptionist seeing that Sara was going to break down at any moment, told her that Ms. Stone was in the ICU, she was still unconscious. Just as she was about to step away Mike came bursting through the doors, he gathered Sara into his arms, and said that the hospital had just called their home, considering Sara was listed as Jamie's emergency contact, and when he tried to reach her on her cell she wasn't answering, so he came directly to the hospital. Sara started to cry into Mike's chest shaking, saying she didn't know what she would do if she lost Jamie, to her Jamie was family. The couple then proceeded to go up to the ICU, where they were both let into Jamie's room. Mike tried to conceal his anger that Jamie had survived the attack, stood by the door as Sara went to Jamie's bedside, talking to the unconscious woman. After twenty minutes, with no response from Jamie, Mike walked over to Sara and told her that right now there was nothing more they could do. As soon as Mike spoke, Jamie started to go into some sort of seizure, her blood pressure was skyrocketing, which scared Sara even more that she was running out the door screaming for a doctor. Mike realizing that he couldn't do anymore harm to Jamie without getting caught left the hospital room, and clutched onto Sara, as the doctors rushed into Jamie's room, to try and calm Jamie's seizure. After medicating Jamie to lower her blood pressure, the doctor told Sara and Mike that not only were visiting hours with the hospital over, he felt that for Jamie's safety, it would be best if they left, because if the seizure came again and was worse it could either kill Jamie or place her into a coma.

A few days later, without any further seizures, the doctors moved Jamie out of the ICU. By the end of the week Jamie had woken up and other than the constant headache, said she was fine. Cindy came to visit Jamie once she was awake and talking. Jamie asked her why Sara hadn't been here, Cindy told her that because of a death threatening seizure that came on when Sara and Mike were in her room, the couple were banned from visiting. Jamie then understood that because of Mike being in the room after he attacked her, her beloved Sara wasn't allowed to visit. While Cindy and Jamie were talking, the doctor came in about six pm, and told Jamie that she was being released from the hospital since she was doing very well. Since Jamies car was at Sara's apartment, she asked Cindy if she would give her a ride to Sara's place, Cindy agreed and the two women left the hospital. After Jamie had woken up and was on her way to Sara's she was just going to go into the apartment with Cindy since Cindy wanted to see Sara, go into the guest room, pack up her belongings, and just leave no matter, how much Sara pleaded or begged to know why she was moving out so soon after being released from the hospital. Jamie decided that she just wanted to forget what had happened and get as far away as possible from California.

Once the women arrived at Sara's apartment, Jamie realizing she still had her key, she let her and Cindy into the apartment though the door was unlocked, Jamie and Cindy walked into the living room to find Sara and Mike making out on the couch. Mike had his back to Jamie and Cindy, but Sara feeling that they were being watched, broke away and to her shock, saw Jamie standing there. Sara jumped up from the couch and moved to hug Jamie, Jamie seeing Sara do this started to walk away, saying that she needed some stuff. Sara greeted Cindy and told her to sit here with Mike, she wanted to check on Jamie. The only person who knew what Jamie was planning to do was Jamie, even Cindy didn't know. Once Sara reached Jamie's room, she walked into finding Jamie stuffing her clothes into her suitcases. Sara asked her what was going, and as Jamie hastly packed, said she was leaving, Sara asked her where she was going, Jamie told her that she was going to go stay with her brother. Sara started to cry knowing full well, Jamie's brother Tim, lived in Boston. As soon as her last bag was sealed, she grabbed her bags stormed past a sobbing Sara, walked out into the living room, followed by Sara asking her not to move to Boston, said goodbye to Cindy and to be nice to Mike said goodbye to him, walked out the door. Once to her car, she threw her bags into the trunk, ignoring Sara, got into her car and drove off, leaving Sara standing there watching her drive out of her life. Jamie went to a local hotel, she wouldn't be able to close her bank account until morning. Jamie now had two secrets from Sara the first was that Sara's boyfriend was the main reason for her leaving, since he did attack her, and second, the doctors had told Jamie that by some miracle, Jamie was pregnant. Jamie laid down onto the bed and fell into a deep sleep, the pain medication made her exhausted at night. By nine am, Jamie was showered, and checked out of her hotel room. After calling her brother, since it was noon where he lived, made sure it was ok that she came to live with him for a little bit. Stopped at her bank, and closed her account, withdrawing the ten thousand dollars she had saved up the past five years. Jamie then stopped by her job, to tell her boss that she was sorry but she was quitting she was leaving town. Her boss, Dave, knew Jamie well enough to know that the attack was what was driving her to leave. He told Jamie that Sara had called nonstop for an hour at seven am, asking for her, then he gave her a hug and told her to take care of herself. With the final goodbyes to her coworkers, Jamie got into her car, and started for the long road trip to Boston.

A/N, I know weird title for a story, but I actually pulled the title from this quote: nothing is predestined; the obstacles of your past can become the gateways that lead to new beginnings. Which means that this chapter is Jamie's obstacle from her past, she has to deal with this and it will lead her into a new life, a new beginning, but will lead her back, unknown to her back to Sara, which won't happen for awhile, this story is complete but i'm posting a chapter at a time, I need to take Jamie through the next six years of her life before she heads back west.

Tell me what you think, this idea wouldn't leave me alone, so I wrote it down into a story.