Title: Look Like We Made It

Rating: T, for this chapter anyway...

Disclaimer: Don't own the characters.

A/N: Each chapter will switch beetween Grissom and Sara's thoughts. Kind of AU, and not my best, it was just something that came to me. Song used in this chapter is Barry Manilow - Looks Like We Made It.

"Oh my God…"

Three words. That's all it took, I knew it was her, I shouldn't have turned around but I couldn't help it, I needed to see for myself. She looked beautiful, her hair was longer than when she was in Vegas and she looked, well, she looked healthy, she'd lost that haunted look and I couldn't help but wonder if it was my fault she was haunted in the first place. That's when I noticed the man on her arm, looking as though he belonged there, but he didn't, that was my place.

"Honey, aren't you going to introduce me to your friend?" Crap! That would be Gloria, my wife of five years. Wow , that makes it six years since I left Sara…

"Sure, this is Sara, a former colleague of mine from Vegas, Sara, this is my wife Gloria."

"And this is my boyfriend Karl," everyone shook hands and exchanged greetings, I prayed that would be it and we could all get on with our lives, apparently today was not my lucky day.

"Nice to meet you Gloria, so, Grissom what are you doing in town?"

"My mother owns this gallery, I promised her we'd come visit the exhibition, so here we are. How about you?"

"Oh, y'know, just needed a vacation, Karl's a bit of an art fanatic, so I brought him here."

"Good choice, of course, I may be biased." see, I could do this, it was fine, we'd chat, and go our separate ways. No, that's too easy, of course that wouldn't…

"Hey, since we're all here, why don't we go grab some food? I know a great restaurant just down the street. What d'ya think?"

No Karl, shut up Karl, don't go there Karl, my mind screamed, but what could I say, so I politely accepted and we began our walk to the restaurant, of course, in hindsight, it doesn't seem that bad, but still, at the time my heart was punding and my pakms were sweating. She was back in my life, whether I liked it or not, and I so wanted us to go back to being friends, lovers. I wanted her to feel the same, deep down I knew she did, but I also knew she'd hidden her feelings for me in her heart, under lock and key, never be be disrupted or discovered, until now.

There you are
Lookin' just the same as you did,
Last time I touched you
And, here I am
Close to gettin' tangled up
Inside the thought of you

Do you love him
as much as I love her
And will that love be strong
When old feelings start to stir

Looks like we made it
Left each other on the way,
To another love
Looks like we made it
Or I thought so, till today
Until you were there everywhere
And all I could taste was love
the way we made it

"Oh my God…"

It couldn't be him, no, not now, not just as I was starting to make my life mine again. It was though, I didn't even mean to say it out loud. My heart ached, I wouldn't believe it, he was here, in front of me, again.

Six years? Yeah, six, wow, he looks good, not so tired and worn out. I guess he's settled down, by the look of that rock on that woman's finger, that could've been me. No, I can't go there again, not now, I mean, he was married, but are they happy?

God, so many memories, of loving, holding, kissing, just being, yet for all the happiness in the end it wasn't enough. Yet him being here now, I could feel it all again, I couldn't fight it away this time. I never let him go, and he hasn't said his final goodbye to me yet, there's just too much between us, even if it's buried deep within him, it's still there, right?

Okay, so we said "hi", that'd be it right, it was a coincidence, so his mother owned the gallery, how was I meant to know? Maybe I wanted to see him, that look in his eyes when he saw me, longing? No, not longing, he's too strong for that, but want, yeah. I have to say, it felt good, to see he still wanted me, but no I have Karl, Karl, who just had to open his big mouth.

So there we were, walking with our respective other halves, down some brightly lit San Fran street, towards my… well, my what? Destiny? No, I don't believe in that, I like to thinking I have more control then that. Towards my future, that's where I was going, I just didn't know it yet.

Love's so strange
Playin' hide and seek, with hearts
And always hurtin'
And we're the fools
Standin' close enough to touch
Those burnin' memories

And if I hold you
For the sake of all those times
love made us lose our minds
Could I ever let you go

Oh, no...we made it
Left each other, on the way
To another love
Looks like we made it
Or I thought so, till today
Until you were there
everywhere
And all I could taste was love
the way we made it