Begining

Sara sat waiting for Grissom in his office, he'd told her to meet him there but when she knocked on the door there was no answer so, thinking it was locked, she tried the door and to her surprise it wasn't so she went inside. She couldn't see Grissom but she figured he'd be there soon so she went and sat down on the chair opposite his desk. That was 15 minutes ago. Now, Sara was getting agitated, she had her arms folded across her chest and her leg was folded over the other one while her foot was tapping on the floor in annoyance. She wanted to go home, it was, after all, the end of shift and she'd just pulled a double so she was tired and waiting around for Grissom wasn't making her feel any better. After another 5 minutes of waiting she decided to go, she'd had enough of waiting for him, in more ways than one.

A couple of years ago she'd asked him to dinner. His reply was 'I don't know what to do about this'. After that she decided to try and forget about her feelings for him, but nothing worked. Not only did she see him at work but whenever she was at home she kept thinking about him, songs would remind her of him. And worse, every time she closed her eyes he was there in her dreams. It was driving her crazy, she couldn't hide the fact that she was in love with Gil Grissom and she was sure that Catherine, Nick and everyone else in the lab knew, apart from the one person she loved herself. Her reply to the objected dinner invitation was 'by the time you figure it out it could be too late'. Now that, she knew, was defiantly NOT true. If it meant that she could be with him she would wait as long as it took for him to figure 'this' out. She only said it to scare him in to doing something about 'this' but so far he hasn't and it was making her angry, she spent at least 2 years chasing him but she'd long decided that she wasn't going to do that anymore, she would wait for him to make the first move.

Just as she was about to walk out the door someone bumped into her. She started to fall back but somebody, a man, grabbed her arms to steady her. She looked up to see Grissom. Butterflies entered her stomach as she realised he was touching her.

'Are you OK'

'Yeah' it came out in a whisper and she cleared her throat before speaking 'yeah, I'm fine. Why wouldn't I be?'

'No reason' He looked up and noticed were they where 'why are you in my office?'

Sara looked at him, anger building up in her but she didn't let it show 'you told me to meet you in your office remember' the last word sounded cold, which made Grissom wince.

Grissom swallowed 'erm, yeah I remember. So where are you going?'

Sara was getting angrier, but again she didn't let it show 'I'm going home. You were supposed to meet me here 20 minutes ago Gris. I got fed up of waiting for you'.

Grissom was sure that that last comment meant more but didn't say anything on the matter. 'Yeah. I'm sorry about that I was… thinking about something'.

'Are you coming in?' he said as electricity shot through him, and he was sure that she felt it too, as he brushed past her and walked over to his desk. Sara didn't say anything just turned around and followed him back to his desk and sat down on the chair that she had not long left. When they were both seated Grissom started to speak 'so, how are you?' he sounded tense, as if he had something on his mind and wanted to say it but couldn't.

Sara looked at him, confused 'erm, yeah I'm fine. You?'

Grissom smiled 'I'm good…' the smile faded as he leaned back in his chair. He sat there for a few seconds before bringing himself up to lean on his desk again '… actually I'm not, I want to ask you something?'

'OK'

Grissom cleared his throat before speaking 'well I wanted to ask you… I was wondering if… if… if you'd…' God why is so hard to speak to her. Pull yourself together Gil you can talk to Catherine without acting like a fool. He sighed and opened his mouth to speak again but Sara cut him off.

'Stop'. Grissom closed his mouth. 'I know what you're going to say' Grissom just stared at her. Sara moved in her seat 'and I don't know what to say'

'Say yes' it came out as a whisper but Sara heard it. This time she couldn't contain her anger 'why? Why should I Gris? You didn't say yes to me so why should I say yes to you?'

Grissom looked hurt at the anger in her voice and the words that she had said. 'I'm sorry, Sara, I wanted to say yes but…'

'But what? What Gris? Am I not worth the risk? Is that it?' she was on the verge of tears.

'What?'

'I heard you Grissom. I was there. I heard every word. You can tell a complete stranger how you feel about me but you can't tell me how you feel about me?' she got up and walked over to the door, wiping her eye as a tear fell. Before she made it out of the door Grissom shut the door and stood in front of it.

Sara looked at him 'get out of my way' she said as she tried to open the door to move him out of the way, but he didn't budge.

Grissom grabbed her arms, she tried to struggle but he wouldn't let her go. 'Let me go'.

'No, Sara, I let you walk away once I am not going to do it again'. Sara stopped struggling and looked at him. They stood there for what felt like years but were in fact only a few seconds. Then Grissom did something that Sara had only dreamed about. He kissed her. She was shocked. When she realized that she had to do something she started to kiss him back. They pulled apart from lack of oxygen and immediately felt the loss of each others lips.

He smiled at her and said 'Sara? Would you like to have dinner with me?'

Sara smiled her gap-toothed smile and replied by throwing herself at him and kissing him hard. When they broke apart, they both smiled 'I'll take that as a yes' Grissom said and laughed. Sara laughed and he kissed her again, this time the kiss was passionate and full of love and much more.