The Butterfly Baby
Pairing: GSR (Gil Grissom and Sara Sidle)
Disclaimer: no you dolts I don't own CSI stop asking. I do own little Joey though so HA! And I'm not sharing. That'll teach you; CBS.
Warnings: you know, references to violence and stuff, maybe some angst (yey!!!) and a little bit of bad language. Not much at all.
Spoilers: I screwed with the time line. Sorry. Basically spoilers for season seven. For when Grissom leaves to go on sabbatical which if you didn't know before you do now!
Plot: it's still a secret. Sara left during Grissom's sabbatical which I changed to six months not four weeks. Sara was pregnant. Um… a few years later a case brings the team and Sara back together. Yey.
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Prologue1
They are in a staff meeting when it happens. Grissom has just paired everyone off; Catherine and Greg on a kidnapping, Nick and Sara working on a murder of a prostitute, Sofia with Warrick on an on-going case, and Grissom with the newbie Tess Simons who would be handling a mundane robbery gone bad, one injured, one escaped. No one knows why Tess is here exactly, they have enough team members on staff and can always call on the swing shifters to help out if needs be. But she is here and she is needed; or so they are about to find out.
"I'm taking a six months sabbatical, it starts tomorrow. I'll be teaching at a university while I'm gone. Catherine, you'll be the acting Supervisor for grave shift, and you can all continue as normal. It's only six months. Now, you've all got your assignments so get busy." He looked at them expectantly. They looked right back. Sofia was the first to leave, Warrick had no choice but to follow. Catherine, sat in shock, was brought back to reality by Greg who softly maneuvered them in the hallway. Tess, who looked extremely nervous, asked to go to the Ladies to which Grissom replied with raised eye brows 'always just so long as it doesn't involve contaminating the evidence'. She left pretty quickly after that with a confused and worried expression. Sara would have laughed and scolded Gil for being so mean to her if it had been any other day. Unfortunately for all three of them it was the most important day of her life; and it was ruined.
Sara turned to Nick. "You go talk to the victim's mother I'll meet you at the crime scene. Remember to save me some evidence!" she called as he walked away. "You told us in a staff meeting?"
"Yes." Grissom answered.
"You should have said something sooner, and more personally. If not to each of us then at least to Catherine! She's had such a shock and you couldn't even bring yourself to tell her about her temporary promotion before you blurted it out in front of the whole team?" Sara ranted on, still using her rational but slightly indignant tone.
"I thought it best to kill seven birds with one stone, so to speak."
"Really, you thought that was 'best'?" Sara questioned disbelievingly.
"Sara, why don't you say what your real problem is. You aren't angry because I didn't tell Catherine." Grissom said reasonably.
Sara bit her lip and looked up visibly trying to control her anger. She hated it when he was the cold, calm, collected voice of rationality and she ended up sounding like some sort of hysterical housewife. "No. You're right. I'm furious because you did that to Catherine… and because you did this to me. Did it even occur to you to talk to me about it first?"
"No." he answered truthfully.
"No. Of course not, because it never does! I'm supposed to be your girlfriend, your lover. Equality in relationships, right? But so far you've decided everything! From when we met again, to how often you see me during the week, to when I was emotionally ready to have a relationship, that it had to be kept a secret, you decided when we became lovers and now you've decided to leave me for six months without any prior warning. I once told you I wanted to leave the crime lab here in Las Vegas because you didn't respect me. I was only your employee then, now I'm your romantic partner and you still don't respect me. Without respect you can't have a relationship. Not a healthy one."
"What do you want me to say." Grissom asked.
Sara knew the answer to that one too. "I want you to have talked to me about your life. Instead you go behind my back and do this and then tell me in front of everyone so I can't ask you to stay or anything. But don't worry, Grissom, I'm not going to ask you to stay. But when you come back I'm going to need some respect and I don't mean as your lover. I can't be in this relationship. I'm sorry."
"All this because I didn't tell you I was leaving first?" he asked, incredulous.
Sara stands up and stares at him. Flashbacks of years ago running in her head. She's had enough, he can see it in her eyes. She walks out, spotting timid Tess hovering by the door pale as a sheet having heard everything.
"I wasn't eavesdropping, I just came back and-"
"Stand up to him, won't you?" Sara interrupted, feeling lightheaded but determined. Te girl nodded convincingly and Sara went to go meet Nick.
It was the last time she would see Grissom for five years.
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Note to readers; PLEASE COMMENT. Sorry for any out-of-character-ness you experienced, this is my first and I'm nervous. I'm sort of taking the season four Grissom and Sara and putting them in season seven because I'm an angst queen. Don't worry I'm GSR all the way.