How I Met Your Mother
Sara/Nick
Romance/Drama/Family
Nick and Sara's four kids learn about how they met as well as their mother's past.
A/N: I don't own the characters of CSI. If I did, Sara would be married to Nick and have at least two kids. Grissom would marry Lady Heather Kessler. I only own my original characters, in this case, it would be many.
A/N2: This story contains mentions of physical abuse, sexual assault, rape and murder.
Prologue, Part I
Tamales Bay, California April 14, 1984
Twelve year old Sara Sidle got home from school and started doing her homework assignments. When she was done, she played with her eight younger siblings while six of her older siblings helped their parents with the chores and the running of the bed and breakfast. She was the middle child of 17 (six boys and eleven girls) that included five sets of twins and a set of triplets.
On the outside, the Sidle family seemed to be stable and the pillar of their community. However, on the inside, the family was very dysfunctional. The matriarch, Laura Sidle, was a ticking time bomb that could explode at any given moment. Her husband, Richard "Rick" Sidle, Sr., had to work harder at the family's bed and breakfast to get some relief from his wife (who helped run the B&B). He was a caring man and a loving husband and father. He wouldn't dare lay a hand on their children, but his wife took out her frustrations out on him and them. He'd sometimes bear the brunt of Laura's abuse to save them from becoming the recipients of it.
After a dinner filled with loud conversations about school and the business, Laura threatened extreme violence on the kids if they didn't get to bed on time. Rick had had enough and wanted to take the kids with him. Behind Laura's back, he consulted with a divorce lawyer in San Francisco and told her that he wanted full custody of his children. No way would he allow Laura visitation rights.
"Laura, we need to talk," Rick said once he was sure the kids were all asleep.
"What the fuck you want to talk about, you weak bastard?" Laura asked seething with anger.
"It's about you, me and the kids. I want a divorce."
"You want what, you slimy prick?"
"I said I wanted a divorce. I had consulted with an attorney in San Francisco about it. I want full custody of the children. I'll make sure you don't have any visitation rights."
"Over my dead body you will! You will never have the kids!"
Laura stormed out of the bedroom and came back with a chef's knife she swiped from the bed and breakfast's kitchen. She started to lunge at Rick with it and stabbed him numerous times. With each stab, she shrieked 'you will never get our kids' and he screamed 'stop'. Even after Rick had died from the fatal stab to his heart, Laura continued to stab him until she collapsed from exhaustion.
Little did Laura know that Sara was still awake and listened to the whole commotion from the bedroom that she shared with three of her sisters. The preteen was laying in her bed and started to cry. Her older sister Bluebell, 14, and younger fraternal twin sisters Jana and Tess, 10, woke up to her crying and tried to comfort her. They didn't know that their world would be turned upside down.
The next day, Sara went to her parents' bedroom only to find a horrific scene. There was blood spatter on the walls, ceiling and the sheets. Her mother had passed out on the floor, but her father was lying dead on the bed. Her ear piercing screams woke her mother who confessed that she killed her father. Sara broke down and cried. Jason, 16, heard his sister's screams and entered the bloodbath filled room. He immediately ran out and called the police. He reentered the room and whisked Sara out of there.
The police arrived at the Sidle home and took Laura's statements as well as all the children living at the home. The crime scene unit went to work collecting the evidence. Rick's body was taken to the morgue. The two oldest sons, Ricky, 21, and David, 19, who were at different colleges were immediately contacted by the police about what had happened. The oldest, Ricky, offered some insight that would lead to arrest of Laura for the murder of their father.
After Laura was booked, she was promptly charged by the District Attorney with first degree murder. All the minor Sidle kids went into the foster care system and sent to separate homes. Only Sara and Jana went to the same foster home since they were close and didn't want to be separated from each other.
TBC