Cast of characters:
Gil Grissom - Professor of Entomology at Western LVU
Catherine (Cath) Willows Brown - CSI Grade 3 Supervisor Day Shift LV Crime Lab
Her Team:
Warrick Brown - CSI Grade 3
Nick Stokes - CSI Grade 3
Sara Sidle - CSI Grade 3
Lab Rats:
Greg - DNA.
Archie - AV.
Bobby - Firearms.
Hodges (David) - TraceChapter 1
The team was sitting in the break room waiting for Cath to hand out their assignments.
"So how is married life treating you?" Nick asks his best friend, Warrick. He and Cath were married just last month.
"Must be nice to sleep with the boss," Sara adds jokingly. Warrick, always the gentleman, just smiled.
"Just for that comment you can have the body in the desert," Cath tells Sara, with a half smile on her face. "It has been there a while, so you know what that means."
"Oh bugs, you know how I LOVE them," Sara says wrinkling her nose.
"Conrad has asked a forensic entomologist from Western LVU to meet you there. Here is a brief bio of him and try to be good." Cath concludes.
"I am always good," Sara says walking away.
Reading the bio as she walks - "DR. GILBERT GRISSOM, age 40, a list of certificates and credentials longer than my arm (she snickered), number 1 entomologist in the state, number 2 in the country. Sounds like a stuffed shirt to me." she murmured.
At the scene Gil was talking to his old friend Jim Brass, Captain, LVPD.
"The lab is sending over a CSI to assist you. Her name is Sara Sidle," Jim informed Gil.
"As long as she knows her job," he tells Jim.
"She is a good criminologist, even if she is just a kid," Jim said laughing.
"A kid," Gil says.
"Well, to an old man like me she is. I think I heard someone tell me she is 25," Jim says laughing. "Speak of the devil and here she comes." Sara was walking towards them.
Gil's heart skipped a beat as he saw her, she is beautiful. Her dark hair is pulled back away from her face, and those eyes - the deepest brown he had ever seen.
Sara stopped to talk to Jim, "So this is Dr. Grissom?"
"Good gracious, he is so handsome. Those eyes, they are so blue, like a crystal lake. I would love to take a dip in them," she thought to herself.
"Sara Sidle, meet Gilbert Grissom. Gil, Sara," Jim says, as Gil takes her hand. "I will leave you three to get acquainted," he said.
"Gil," he said, holding her hand longer than he should. "Sara," she said, not wanting him to let go." "And he is?" she asked looking at the corpse. Finally letting her hand go he said, "According to your coroner he is John Doe 32. There is no ID on him."
They collected evidence, insects and other items. Sara told him she was going to the lab to process her evidence. He said he would go to his lab and do the same. She gave him her cell number so he could contact her when he had finished. Secretly she was hoping he would think to call her for other reasons.
Shift had ended and she had still not heard from Gil so she decided to pop in on him.
Gil's phone rang; it was a security guard wanting permission to bring Sara to his lab.
"I'm off work and just thought I would check on things," she said. "Well to check YOU out," she said to herself.
Gil explained what he was doing and the fact that it would take a while.
"Oh! Sorry. I guess I don't know as much about this stuff as I thought I did," she said, smiling up at him.
He could hardly control himself; he had never met anyone like her. Not only was she breathtakingly beautiful but that smile was doing a number to his insides. "How about we get something to eat while we wait?" he suggested. She agreed and they went to a small diner off campus.
Unknown to her, Gil had called Jim and asked him all about her. She was not married and unattached - thank goodness. They made small talk as they ate and got to know each other a little better.
It took them two days to solve the mystery. Gil handed her his final paperwork on the case. "Sara," he said, with more butterflies in his stomach than he could ever remember, "I was wondering if you would like to go out tonight. I know a great place called the Wharf, it has good food and a great view of the lake."
"Sounds nice," she said. "I will call for you - say around 6?" he asked? "6 will be fine," she said.
At the restaurant they sat on the patio eating and talking. After dinner they took a walk, Gil reached for Sara's hand; she smiled at his gesture and let him take it.
At Sara's house Gil walked her to the door. "A Mr. Ecklie contacted me today.
He would like me to make myself available to the lab whenever necessary and I told him I would be glad to."
"So that means we might be working together again," she said, smiling.
"That I will definitely enjoy," he said. "May I?" he asked. "That I will definitely enjoy," she said. Gil took her in his arms and kissed her.