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Title: Double Life
Authors: Peggy Schultz and Master Adana
Timeline: Set before the lab explosion.
Rating: PG-13 or R
Summary: When Sara found his lifeless body it nearly destroyed her. When the team discovers he had a secret life he had hidden from them it will shatter everything that they believe.
Double Life
Prologue
Greg sat silently in the break room as he took a sip of his favorite coffee. In two hours his half shift would be done and he would return to his apartment to pack his things for his vacation. He could not help but wonder if his friends at the lab would miss him while he was away for two weeks. As he watched Sara Sidle, the woman whom had occupied his thoughts so much as of late, enter the break room he wondered if he could convince her to join him for dinner before he left for his vacation tomorrow afternoon.
"Hey Sara," Greg said as she passed the table he occupied when she headed toward the coffee pot.
"Hello Greg." Sara gave him a light smile. "Ready for your vacation?"
"Yeah," he said and grinned slightly when she sat across from him after pouring herself a cup of his Blue Hawaiian coffee. "Hey I was thinking would you like to go dinner with me before I leave? I will be gone for two weeks you know," he watched her reaction carefully hoping that she would indulge him this one time.
Sara placed her cup on the table and turned her dark eyes to Greg. She had had a bad day, nothing had gone the way it should have and now he wanted to go to dinner with her. When she replied to him her voice carried a sharpness she had never used with him. "Don't even think about it. I am not in the mood and you know very well, I wouldn't go to dinner with you, so why try?"
Greg just stared at her for a moment stunned. "You know I just thought that the plane could crash or I could get eaten by an alligator in Miami, and you would regret never accepting my offer," Greg commented quietly. He wished the ground would open up and swallow him whole as he turned his gaze to stare at the hot liquid that half filled his cup.
"Greg, get a life." Sara rose quickly and without another word stormed out of the room.
Greg lifted his head and watched her walk out of the break room. He could not help but wonder why she hated him so much. He always tried to help her if he could, he didn't even complain that she was now drinking his coffee. She didn't notice though, she never seemed to notice. Maybe his trip to Miami, that he and his old college friends had planned over a year ago, would help him forget about her.