Disclaimer I do not own Csi or any of its characters I am merely borrowing them.
Chapter one Finding my way
Sara had left a week after Warrick's funeral; she tried to get Grissom to go on a trip with her but ended in defeat. He claimed that he could not go that he had to stay because they were so short on staff. Sara understood she really did but that did not mean that she was not angry and unhappy.
She had been so excited to see him when she got back that they had one night of Passionate lovemaking. During that night, they forgot everything that they had always been careful about. Sara was not too worried though because she had been on the birth control pill and figured everything would be fine.
Grissom asked her to stay, she knew in her heart that she couldn't nothing felt the same here anymore. While she loved Grissom deeply and all of her friends and colleagues. She could not be around the sadness, Pain, and death of the job or Las Vegas anymore.
She had never been particularly fond of Vegas either. She had stayed there for one reason and one reason only her love of Grissom was stronger than any fear she had ever faced. But now, months and even years had passed. Time had changed them both, she still loved him deeply. However she yearned for more happiness than Vegas could give her. There were just too many harsh realities and memories here for her to be happy. So after Grissom had told her that he could not join her on a vacation, she stayed even for a few days longer.
When a frightening case came back yet to haunt her again she knew with or without Grissom it was time to move on with her life she could not stay here any longer. When she started talking to him about the case he motioned that maybe it was Tom Adler who needed his wife Pamela to leave him before he could feel comfortable enough to leave her. Then, he mentioned that time withered relationships.
Sara asked him who he was talking about and he made no comment. However one look was all she needed to know that he was indeed talking about them. That was it Sara was done she had fought the fight. She had come home to try and help him through his pain and sorrow along with her own. She felt like she was getting pulled down yet again and she was not ready to drown again. She felt happy, healthy and confident in herself for the first time in her whole life.
So she packed up her belongings, patted the dogs head, picked up her keys and was on her way back to San Francisco. This time she took her own car that way she could travel the world without having to fly everywhere or rent a car. Sara's mother had been ill when she had gone to see her the first time. Her mom was dying from Lung cancer from so many years of puffing away on her cigarettes. After Sara had witnessed the pain that her mother was going through she decided that she was never going to smoke again either.
Sara's mother passed away two weeks after Sara returned. In her will she had left her Grandmother's house to her along with all of the expensive antiques inside. Sara was in shock after reading her mother's last will and testament to find that her own Grandmother had been very wealthy in her day. She had collected valuable antiques and lived in old Victorian cape cod style home along the coast in North Carolina. Sara decided that there was nothing left for her here in San Francisco or back in Vegas. She decided that she was going to take a giant leap of faith and go to North Carolina and live in the home that her mother had grown up in when she was a little girl. Sara had never met her Grandmother but had always yearned to feel close to her.
Laura Sara's mother had been an only child and had grown up on the beach. She had told Sara many stories of running along the seashore finding shells and of her seaside adventures. Sara had always loved the ocean and was ready to start on a new and wonderful Journey.