Title: One Hundred Per Cent
AN: It's over a year since I published a story on here, the muse is rusty and the style is rough but I woke up this morning with a need to write. Enjoy, and note I have no claim on CSI or the characters portrayed.
Sara walked down the corridor feeling the stares and glares as she passed the windowed wall of the labs and layout rooms. These people thought they knew her, knew her story, but they didn't.
She'd spent the last 3 months deconstructing her life and putting it back together in a way she could live with. She looked like Sara. She walked like her – in gangly elegance. She talked like her – distinctive and smoky. She probably was eighty per cent the old Sara, there was still all that was good and strong and pure, but now there was more. A little more confidence in her eyes, a little more strength in her step, a little more determination in her voice. No, these people didn't know her at all, but there was one person who did.
She stopped at the open door to his office and took a moment to absorb him, she felt that if she breathed deep enough he would vaporise and she could fill her whole being with him, never to be lonely again.
Some noise must have escaped her as she saw a sudden alertness take hold of him. Slowly his head lifted from the papers he was reading.
Sara leaned against the doorframe a soft smile on her lips, the sparkle of tears lighting her eyes. Grissom stood slowly and moved around his desk.
"Hey." She sighed
"H-Hey" he stammered back, walking closer and lifting a hand to slowly stroke and then cup her cheek.
"So, you want to go for dinner, see what happens." She said as she leaned her head into his touch.
A slow lifting of his lips into a tender smile, one hand grasping hers as the other reached to switch off the office light. They would talk into the night, there would be a happy reunion with Bruno, there would be forgiveness, healing and joy, but for now the touch of his hand in the small of her back was all that Sara needed to know she was back home, one hundred per cent Sara.