Disclaimer: I don't own CSI or any of the characters, I'm just an enthusiast with an overactive imagination.

A/N: This is my first CSI fan fic and my first fic in a while. I think I've watched last night's episode about twenty times now. Well actually I've just been watching the last couple of minutes over and over and over again. Thank god for Tivo.

I know this is short, but enjoy none-the-less. This will probably turn into a multi-chapter thing, so please tell me what you think! Thanks!

Dear Sara,

Though it's been only hours since you left, it seems like a lifetime. I do not know where you are or when you will come back to me, but I know that I cannot live without you. That is why I have decided to write you this letter. If I cannot have you physically, I can still hold onto you in some spiritual form. Someday I hope we will be able to look back upon this time and it will not hurt quite so much.

I understand why it is you had to leave and why you must do it on your own, but I do wish you had been able to let me in. I would go to the ends of the earth for you. I think you know that. Perhaps that is why you left me behind. I cannot be angry. Anger would be selfish and this has nothing to do with me, I know that. I can only hope and wish that you find what it is you are looking for and that it brings you peace and closure.

If it will take your pain away, stay away for as long as you need. Know that my heart is yours. Distance cannot change that. Absence cannot change that. Even time cannot change that.

My life began when I met you. My life will not be complete until you are back in it.

This letter awaits your return. As do I.

Gil