Wake Me up When September Ends

BY: KC Clark

Authors Note:

This is a Grissom and Sara fanfic. You have been warned. I will up date daily if possible or it may take so time…so bear with me and most of all ENJOY…


Oh and just for the record this is what many nights of insomnia will do to you. And I don't own CSI, I wish I did but I don't, it is owned by the creators and CBS…

Summary:

Sara has had enough of Gilbert Grissom, the crime lab, and her growing fillings that she can't seem to control, so she puts in for so time away. It's granted so she takes off to Lake Tahoe, a small lake in the middle of nowhere in Montana, that her grandfather had owned.

Grissom corners Greg into telling him what's going on. He tells him that Sara is headed for a breakdown and Grissom comes to thinking that it's entirely his fault. He decides to go to this lake and try to fix things that he has no doubtable screwed up. When a rain storm traps them in the cabin for a few days they come to an understanding that neither can refuse. But not everyone can accept their happy ever after. Greg is attacked at a crime scene and Sara makes a vow to find his attacker. But when something at the lab frightens her into a cardiac arrest she may have more problems than finding Greg's murder. Something that could leave her just a dead as he is…Rated M for language and sexual content.

Chapter 1: Wrong Handed Note

"Sara, what's wrong with you?" Greg asked looking concern at her domineer.

"Nothing I'm just thinking." She said shortly before turning back to the evidence in front of her.

"SARA!" They both looked up as Grissom came storming into the room obviously not happy about something.

"What did I do now?" She asked looking up at him, his eyes were dark and he was breathing heavily.

"You in my office NOW!" He pointed her out the room and then walked out after her. Leaving Greg worried and confused.

"What did I do?" Sara pleaded as they walked in and he slammed the door.

"What did you do…I'll tell you what you did, you left this in the locker room and just luckily I was around to get it away from Sophia before she opened it and it was all over the lab." He spat out waving a piece of paper in font of her face, he opened it and began to read it out loud. "Dear Grissom, I've loved you from the first time I laid eyes on you. I don't want us to stop being friends I just thought I'd tell you how I feel about you. You are my sun, my earth, and my moon. Grissom I live and breath for you but you said you didn't know what to do about, quote, 'this' I told you I did and that by the time you figured it out it maybe to late. But Grissom you could never be to late not ever. Well, I'll probably never give you this letter so I feel safe telling you I love you. Love always true Sara." He ended and looked at her; she was sitting in front of him looking like he had just turned into a monster before her eyes. "Damnit Sara, you can't leave stuff like this laying around, people are noisy."

Sara just sat there; she couldn't believe he was acting like this. She hadn't meant for him or Sophia to get a hold of the note she had thrown it in the garbage can in the locker room and walked out. 'Mental note get portable paper shredder for work.' Her mind joked as she sat there. She looked at the floor. Grissom could have asked her how many scuff marks where there and she would have been able to tell him.

"Sara…look at me when I'm talking to you." He demanded and she turned her head up to him looking at him through teared eyes.

"What do you want me to say?" She asked her voice a whisper and this only seemed to outrage him more.

"What I want is you to not leave this stuff laying around everywhere someone could pick it up read it and then what…I don't need rumors started that I'm doing anything with anyone…especially you." He looked at her, it was her turn to be outraged and scream and if it made her feel better he was going to let her. Hopefully she wouldn't scream loud enough to gather them an audience.

"You think this is all my fault…I throw that away it must have fell out and hit the floor things like that happen." She paused before continuing in a much louder voice. "And how dare you come in to the layout room and interrupt me when I am in the middle of the biggest case of the year I have things I have to do and a killer to find…this could have waited could it not?" She looked at him, he was mad she was pissed everything was working out well. "You can be such an asshole at times; you make a habit of making people dislike you."

"Like it's my fault you fell in love with me." He screamed back at her.

"Oh, like you can say you weren't in love with me at one time." She screamed, they where both standing in the middle of the office floor now yelling. Sara's hands were balled into fists at her sides, Grissom was pushing one hand through his hair so hard that he was going to make himself bald and his other hand was in his pocket.

"Sara…I'm not going there, not with you, not today, not ever." He said walking to the door and throwing it open before grabbing her arm and pushing her out the door.

The door slammed in her face before she had a chance to scream at him again. People were looking at her; she just looked around before the door opened again and a pissed off Grissom poked his head out the door and screamed.

"Back to work!"

He once again slammed the door and no one had to be told twice.

"Greg come on we have to go back to the crime scene I think we missed something." Sara said as she walked into the break room and jerked him up by the back of his shirt.

"Hey, take it easy this is a new shirt." Sara ignored him and kept pulling him. They were in the Tahoe and on their way to the crime scene before Sara looked at Greg and spoke.

"Sorry I didn't mean to sound so…mean." She said as she pulled into the parking lot of the apartment building and put the car in park.

"What's going on?" Greg asked as they got their kits and got out.

"Grissom pissed me off to the extreme." She said as they walked up the stairs and entered the crime scene.

"What did he say to you?" Greg asked in a defensive tone.

"I had written a stupid note to him saying a bunch of shit and I had no intentions of giving it to him, well I found it in my purse this evening and throw it away. It fell out and Sophia picked it up but Grissom got it away from her luckily and read it, he got mad because he's an asshole."

Two hours later Sara gave up searching for the bullet casing only to hear that Greg had collected it on their first trip to the apartment.

"I can't believe that we just spent two hours in that apartment looking for something we already had." Sara scolded as she got back in the Tahoe.

"You should have asked. Sara, where is your head today?" Greg asked as he watched her drive through the streets in frustrated at herself.

"I have no damn clue I seriously think I need a vacation." She exhaled a breath she didn't know she had been holding.

"What are you talking about you'll be fine by tomorrow." Greg encouraged her with a soft pat on the back.

"Yeah whatever you say." Sara said as they pulled into the parking lot of CSI.

They where just about to enter the building when Grissom came walking out throwing the doors open and hitting Sara square in the nose.

"Oh god Sara I'm sorry." He said reaching down to help her up.

"Don't you fucking touch me you…" She screamed as she got to her feet and walked past him her eyes tearing from the pain that was going through her nose.

"Sara, are you alright?" Grissom had appeared in the door of the locker room where Sara was leaning her head back against the row of lockers trying to stop the bleeding.

"Go away." She said shortly, Grissom stepped forward and grabbed her hand pulling her up. He walked her to his office and sat her down.

"Hold still." He said walking over to the refrigerator and got an ice pack and towel.

"I don't need your help." She screamed as he tried to put the towel and ice pack on his nose.

"Would you just sit still and let me help you I'm sorry if I pissed you off but please Sara don't hold a grudge and let me help you when you need it." He looked at her, she met his gaze and sighed letting him put them on her nose. "There better?" He asked as he stepped back to look at her.

"Yes." She said shortly before she closed her eyes.

"Sara here let me put a bandage on that." Grissom said as she went to get up and go to the layout room.

"It's ok I don't need it." She said throwing him the ice pack back.

"Please." He asked politely and she finally agreed.

"Thank you." She said as she got up to walk out.

"Sara," Grissom said before she opened the door. "I didn't mean to upset you I just don't know what to do about all these things that we have to deal with you know supervisor\subordinate." He told her, she smiled and walked out.

"Hey Greg," Sara said as she walked into the layout room. He looked at her awkwardly when he saw the bandage on her nose.

"Maybe a vacation would be nice." He said as he watched her sit down.

"Shut up Greg." She said as she looked at the bullet casing Greg had laid out for her.

TBC…