Hi...well this a story that i thought of a while ago. I'm a little stuck with one of my other stories 'beginning to end' so this is a break for now. This is only a one-shot but i might take it further. This is my first time at a one-shot so i hope it's good. :)
AUTHOR'S NOTE: I do not own anything...apart from the name of the little boy...everything else belongs to CBS :)
Sara Sidle made her way through the halls of the Las Vegas Crime Lab. She stopped at the front desk and greeted the woman behind it "hey Judy" Sara smiled. Judy was a little shocked but composed herself quickly and smiled back "hey Sara, welcome back. Dr Grissom is in his office if you're looking for him".
"I am, thanks Judy" Sara replied and made her way to Gil Grissom's office. As she rounded the corner she saw Warrick, looking intently at the open folder in his hands, "Warrick" she called and he looked up at hearing his name. Warrick grinned and closed the folder as he stopped in front of her and gave her a hug "hey girl, long time no see, how ya been? And who's this little man?" Warrick asked as he saw a small fair haired boy, around the age of 2, holding Sara's hand. "I've been good" Sara smiled and looked down at the little boy "he's my son...his name is James". Sara smiled as Warrick bent down so he was eye level with James "hey James, my name's Warrick but you can call me Uncle Rick"
"Uncle Ick" James said proudly and gave Warrick a hug. Warrick hugged him back then allowed him to step back to his mom's side. "No daddy, where daddy?" James asked and Warrick raised his eyebrow at Sara as he stood up and ruffled James' hair. Sara half smiled, no explanation was needed as Warrick had already guessed, and was probably right at whom James' father was. "Is this why you left?" Warrick asked as he motioned for Sara to follow him. "Yes and no...I didn't know I was pregnant until after I left... a few months after I left actually" Sara smiled sadly. Warrick looked at her, his eyes full of sadness and nodded once in understanding.
Warrick lead Sara to the break room "hey guys, look who I found in the corridor" Warrick said to the occupants as him and Sara walked into the break room. Three heads turned and gasped at the sight of Sara. Greg immediately jumped up and practically ran towards Sara to give her a hug, a big hug in which Sara had to stop him "can't breathe Greg" she said and he let go immediately "sorry I've just missed you that's all" he admitted with a slight blush and Sara smiled "I've missed you too Greg" they both smiled before Nick pushed in front and gave Sara his big old Texas hug "good to have you back Sar...don't ever go again" he said.
"Erm, well I don't actually know how long I'm going to be here..." a tug on her trouser leg caused her to look down "daddy?" James asked again and Sara picked him up. Catherine, Nick and Greg let out another gasp as they saw James for the first time.
"We'll see daddy soon" Sara said to her son and he seemed to let the daddy question drop as he looked at Nick, Greg then Catherine. He held his arms out to Nick who hesitated to take him at first, James looked into his eyes for a few seconds "no daddy" he said then looked round and held his arms out to Catherine who took him, he looked into her eyes then said the same thing "no daddy" and finally held his arms out to Greg who also hesitated to take him at first. For some reason James took longer looking into Greg's eyes but soon said "no daddy" then looked at Sara sadly "daddy?" he asked and his bottom lip began to tremble and his eyes filled with tears.
Sara took him from Greg and kissed his forehead "I promise you'll get to see daddy soon but mommy has to talk to him before you can see him okay?" James nodded, not really understanding the talk bit but whatever it was he wanted it to be done quickly so he could meet his daddy.
The room was filled with an awkward silence as the team immediately figured out whom James' father was, Greg was the first to speak "is he why you left?... Grissom I mean. Did he fire you once he found out about James?" Greg asked, getting angrier with each question. Sara saw the anger in his eyes and shook her head "no Greg..." she sighed, she maze well tell them, they deserved to know why she left so suddenly. She walked over to the sofa and sat down, placing James next to her, the guys all sat down in a seat and Sara took a deep breath before speaking. "As you all know I got pulled over for a DUI before I left... well the night of the DUI Grissom took me home, he made me a coffee to sober me up, even though I wasn't really that drunk...".
"...Anyway I don't know who made the first move but we ended up in my bed... in the morning he'd gone. I couldn't bear to see him after what we did and knowing that it meant nothing to him so I left, a few months later I got ill. I thought it was just a normal stomach bug at first until I realised I'd missed my period. I did a test but it came back negative but I made an appointment with the doctor who did an ultrasound and confirmed that I was in fact pregnant..." Sara swallowed the lump in her throat before continuing. "I wanted to come back and tell him, but my mind kept going into overdrive and all I could think about was if he didn't want me then he wouldn't want my baby" Sara stopped and began to let the tears fall.
Warrick, who was sat on the arm of the chair next to her, placed his hand on her back and pulled her into a hug. James looked up at Sara and crawled onto her lap "mommy no cry" he said and Sara smiled at him as she stroked his hair "its okay James, mommy's okay" she wiped her tears and James snuggled into her. She looked round at the guys but saw a figure in the doorway, when she saw who it was her heart nearly stopped and her body tensed. The look in his eyes told her that he'd heard everything she said, he slowly made his way towards her and sat on the table opposite her.
"I didn't regret what happened between us Sara. I woke up and you were still asleep, I wanted to surprise you so I thought about making you breakfast in bed but you had nothing in your cupboards so I went down to the local cafe. When I came back you where gone, I figured that you'd regretted what happened". Grissom said softly, looking into her eyes. Sara hiccupped and bit her lip as new tears began to fall "I'm sorry, I didn't know, I just thought..." she stopped when she felt Grissom's hand on her cheek "no Sara, I should have wrote a note. I know that now and I'm sorry" he brushed her tears away with his thumb "I love you Sara" he said quietly and that's all it took for Sara to literally break down.
James looked up quickly and placed his hands on Sara's cheek "no cry mommy no cry!" he shouted as his bottom lip trembled and tears filled his eyes. Sara wiped her tears quickly and hugged James "hey, don't you start crying mister. You don't want daddy to see you crying do you?" James pulled away from the hug "daddy?" he asked again in excitement.
"I'm sure his daddy would make him happy again" Grissom said and James turned at hearing a new voice, he wasn't really paying attention a few minutes ago as he was playing with Sara's jacket buttons. He turned fully so that he could get a better look and just like he did with Catherine, Greg, Warrick and Nick he searched Grissom's eyes. What he found was exactly what he had been looking for "daddy!" he shouted loudly and quickly scrambled from Sara's lap into Grissom's lap where he gave Grissom a big hug and began to bounce excitedly "daddy, daddy, daddy, daddy" he repeated over and over again and everyone laughed.
Grissom grinned with pride as he hugged his son for the first time, Sara grinned as she watched them and wiped away the first happy tear she'd had since James' birth.
So what do you guys think? was it good? bad? what?
If you think this story should be taken further let me know...i already have a few ideas on what i want to do for the next few chapters :D
Thank you for reading... please review :) xxxxx