Authors note: this is my first fan fiction ever. If you have any tips please tell me, because I want to improve my writing. I transferred the team to days because that fits better to the story, I mean most good party's are at night.
Disclaimer: I do not own CSI or the characters.
Chapter 1It had been an exhausting shift, but it was finally over. At least that is what the graveyard shift thought. Just when they were all ready to go home, Ecklie had called in a meeting in the break room.
Nick and Warrick were the last to arrive, they were already on their way home when they got paged about the meeting. Catherine, Sara and Greg were already there and didn't look so happy about it.
"What the hell is going on? We just had to pull a triple and now we have to come in again?" Nick asked to the rest of the team.
"We don't know what's going on" Sara responded "Ecklie has something that he needs to share with us, what of course couldn't wait until next shift!"
"Yeah, I hope he comes here soon because otherwise I'm out of here. I'm really looking forward to a long hot bath and a goodnight rest." said Catherine.
There was some more complaining between the team until finally Ecklie arrived with Grissom two steps behind him. Ecklie looked around if everyone was there and then began to talk.
"Alright everyone I'm going to cut straight to the case, I'm switching you all to the dayshift." He ignored all the indignant faces of everyone, and continued to explain. "For the past couple of months there have been a lot more cases on days then on graveyard, the current dayshift can't handle them anymore, and we have gotten really backlogged. So I have decided to switch teams because I'm confident that you can handle the pressure. So as if today you all start at 8:00 in the morning, and your shift ends at 4:00 in the afternoon. So everybody go home and get some sleep, and I'll see you at 8:00 in the morning!" With that Ecklie turned around and walked out of the room, and let the team discuss the sudden changes.
Grissom looked around and saw everybody staring at him waiting to explain.
"I'm sorry guys but there was nothing I could do, at least he's not breaking us up. And think about it this way, now you can all have that private life that you always wanted."
"Well that's true," Catherine started "I mean now I can finally spend some time with Lindsay and sleep during the night like most people."
"Ow, and I can go that festival next Tuesday! I was pretty bummed that I couldn't go there because it was at midnight, but now it wouldn't be a problem!" Greg chimed in.
"You do know that you have to start early in the morning so you're gettting much sleep right?" Nick asked.
"Well I'm used to having little to no sleep."
"That's true."
Everyone has come to accept the transfer. Everyone but Sara. 'Why do we have to switch to dayshift? I liked things the way they are.' These were the only thoughts going through her head.
"Hey Sar cheer up, it's gonna be great!" Greg said trying to cheer her up.
Sara didn't look convinced, "I just don't get why he has to change things again."
"Come on Sara, now even you can try to get a life! You've been pretty down lately, this will probably be good for you!" Warrick said.
"What is the last time you've been out actually, Sara?" Catherine asked.
"Uh.. I don't know, it's been awhile. But it's just not my thing, I'm just more of a person to stay home or working."
"Yeah especially that last one, come on Sara do you even know how to go out, or how to make new friends?"
"Hey! I know how to make friends and go out!"
"Yeah right!"
Sara opened her mouth to respond but closed it again, what's the point anyway. She stood up and left the room without saying another word. Maybe they were right, maybe she did have to go out more.
She knew how to go out and make new friends, when she was a teenager she snuck out all the time to go to party's and such. She knew her dad would never let her so she just snuck out. In college she also went to a fair share of party's, and dated quite a bit. But when she got a good job in San Francisco, she didn't really have time to go out anymore. She got so engrossed with what she was doing that she didn't want to go out anymore. She was finally doing something that she was actually good at, so why doing something else?
But now she was determined to proof them wrong, she was gonna go out tonight. And make new friends and her work is not going to be her life anymore. Tonight was going to be her night off, but she didn't know if she would have the morning off. Normally it wouldn't matter because she would come in anyway, but she was going to change and she might as well start now. She grabbed her cell phone and called Grissom.
"Grissom"
"Hey Griss, it's Sara. I was wondering if I would still have the day off since this would be my night off?"
"Uh.. You can still have the day off. Hey Sara I want to apologize for Catherine's behavior, she went to far and I told her to apologize the next time she sees you."
"It's okay, she was probably right on some level anyway. I'll see you in two days then!"
"All right, see you in two days. And have fun on your day off!"
"Thanks, bye."
"Bye"
Sara unlocked the door to her apartment, and threw her bag on the counter. She looked around. The apartment wasn't empty, but it still felt like it. There weren't pictures of friends or colleagues or family. Well the last one wasn't her fault, she didn't have any family anymore, and she never really saw her parents as real parents. But the first two could be arranged. There weren't any plants, or some thing to make her apartment more interesting, or homy. Just everything she needed to have to survive. She really needs to redecorate her apartment.
As she was starting to get ready to go out, she was getting more excited by the minute. She couldn't believe she was actually looking forward to this. She decides that she really needs a night out, the past few months were tough, she had a lot of cases that reminded her of her home situation when she was a kid, and she was starting to have a lot of nightmares again. Maybe this was the way to let it all behind.
She finally decided to wear her leather pants that she always wore in college when she went out. She got a tight black t-shirt out of her closet and her black boots.
She looked at herself in mirror and decided she looked good enough, only her hair and make-up and she would be out the door. She brushed her hair and decided to wear it loose and put on some mascara and eye pencil. She got her jacket and purse and out she was.
Authors note: let me know what you think so far in a review. I want to know if people are actually interested in this story before I continue. Ow and it might be awhile before I update because I'm in my exams at the moment, my parents would kill me if they knew I was writing this story while I should be learning my math!!