Title: Forget The Past
Author: Victoria
Rating: PG-13 to be safe
Summary: "There was a time when she wasn't afraid. When she wasn't tense and watchful and nervous. When she was free. That had changed." Sara's horrifying past comes back to haunt her. A G/S pairing.
Feedback: Is, as ever, much appreciated.
Disclaimer: I don't own these characters – I wish I did! I'd have so much fun… (and so would they!)
Author's Note: My first C.S.I fic, hope you like!
There was a time when she wasn't afraid. When she wasn't tense and watchful and nervous. When she was free. That had changed, and sometimes it felt like she'd spent so many years being afraid that she had forgotten how not to be. But then there would be a moment, He would say something to her (He was always a part of these moments), maybe even just smile over the top of his steel-rimmed glasses, the briefest of moments when she let herself forget the fear and just be.
It wasn't an overpowering terror that pervaded her life, she could walk and talk and function. Even laugh. But the feeling was always there in the pit of her stomach. That she'd never be safe again.
There was nothing she could do about it of course. She couldn't pretend like it never happened – especially in her line of work. No, there were reminders everywhere. So instead she had three locks on her door. She knew how to fire her weapon. Sometimes she drank. And she didn't let people in.
It was better that way.