Title: Have Yourself a Miserable Little Christmas?
Author: Firefly5151
Summary: Pure holiday fluff. Sara's having a miserable Christmas until a visitor arrives. GSR
Disclaimer: Are these still necessary? I don't own CSI or the characters. I just like having fun with them.
A/N: This didn't actually start off as a Christmas story and wasn't supposed to be this long. But my one little idea blew up into this. I guess that's what happens when I don't write a story in order. Takes place after Butterflied. I wasn't sure when in the year the episode took place, or what the work hours for graveyard, swing, and days are since they have never been officially mentioned, so I took some liberties with them. I hope I didn't go OOC too much.
The colorful glow of Christmas lights, bathing everything in hues of red, blue, orange, and green, was the only thing lighting up the living room in Sara Sidle's apartment this Christmas Eve. A Chinese take-out carton, chop sticks, empty sauce packets, fortune cookie crumbs along with its fortune, and a half-empty beer bottle all from lunch hours ago, were scattered across her coffee table. It was only 5:30, but on the sofa, Sara lay curled up in her pajamas under a fleece blanket, just staring at her Christmas tree; watching the lights twinkling.
She didn't know why she had even bought the Christmas tree. She wasn't in the mood for the holiday at all. She hadn't been in years. But two weeks ago, as she passed the freshly cut trees with their pine scent wafting through the air outside the home improvement store, she bought one on impulse. She had always loved the smell of Christmas trees. It reminded her of all the exciting and magical Christmases she had when she was a child, before things started to go bad.
As she lay on her sofa, with a tear slowly making its way down her face to land on her pillow to join the others, she wished she could go back to those times; a time when she was happier. She wasn't happy any more. She hadn't been for many months. When she moved to Las Vegas four years ago, she thought she could never be happier. But like most of the other things in her life, things changed for the worse.
Various things had caused her unhappiness over the years, and she could learn to live with them. But an admission from Grissom about seven months back caused her the most pain. And it was a pain she wasn't sure she wanted to learn to live with.
tbc
I know this chapter is short. I promise they all won't be. I would love to hear your reviews and feedback?