Disclaimer: As usual I do not own CSI or any of it's characters

Note: I am sure you all will guess what is going on and I am sorry if you are tired of these types of stories but I just couldn't help myself because one night I thought it would be a diabolical (yeah, I know I am a dork and possibly a little crazy don't ask me why I decided to call it that) plan. Or it would be on part of TPTB if they did it but they wouldn't. Though I have faith that they could do it without making it soap opera like and in character but hey I could be wrong. Sorry for the long note I am done now. Enjoy!

Morning After Grissom's departure

I walk into his townhouse and it is not the same since he left and I consider staying at my place instead. But I rule that idea out because I start to feel a comfort in being there. I can't quite it explain it but I somehow need to be here in Grissom's townhouse. So, I set my keys done on the table and make a salad with tomatoes, and a glass a milk to drink. I can't help but think about things that I tried to hard not to think about earlier and only succeeded because of work. Now I am at home, nothing to occupy my thoughts except the ones I have been avoiding.

I know I shouldn't avoid them, I mean I am going to have to tell him sometime after he gets back and it is important to tell him. It was so hard saying goodbye to him. I came so close to crying. It was a good thing I didn't seeing how I was at work. The others would have wondered what was up and I can't tell them, our relationship being a secret.

CSI Lab

Finally, back to work. Now, I can concentrate on something else again. Admittedly, I did make my decision, and then I figured out how I should tell him and what I am going to say at least somewhat. The goal is to not think about because it makes me nervous. I am not sure what he is going to say when he finds out. Oh, there's Catherine.

"Hey Cath, how's being supervisor going?"

"Fine, but this is the first shift he's been gone for."

"True, so do you have our assignments?"

"Yeah, I will hand them out in the break room."

"Okay."

Catherine and I walk the rest of the way to the break room in silence. A few minutes after entering the others come in waiting to find out what case they will be on. I end up with a DB out in Henderson. Greg, Catherine, and Nick are all working on a DB case at the Mirage and Warrick has a B&E, so I am by myself. Not quite sure if that is a good thing or bad thing yet.

Upon arriving at the crime scene I approach Sofia who is talking to a neighbor of the victim. She finishes up quickly and leads me to where the body is. I bend my knees, to lower myself so I can get a better look at the body. As I pull out my pen and pad to take notes on what I see David arrives and takes the liver temperature. Apparently, this lady's TOD was 3 hours ago around 9:00pm. David finished up and released the body. At that I started collecting evidence. A couple hours later I had finished up at the crime scene and now am on my way back to the lab to process the evidence and such. It now occurs to me that not once had I thought about my current situation and what I have to tell Gil when he comes back from sabbatical.

4:00am Break room

Catherine is sitting in the break room already when I walk in. She looks up, "Hey, Sara, how's your case going?"

"Fine, most of the stuff is in Trace, DNA, or with Ballistics currently and I decided I needed a break before I look at the evidence that isn't in any of those locations."

"Oh, well join the club."

I just smile at that, and grab my food from the fridge and sit down but before I can even open the bag I have to get up and go to the bathroom. I am about to throw up so I need to move quickly. Unfortunately, I only make it as far as the hall. Catherine who had been watching gets up and comes over to me.

"You okay Sara?"

"Yeah, I'm fine."

"You aren't sick are you? You don't look like it."

"I am not sick really, can we just drop this besides I need to go find a mop or something to clean this up."

As I walk away I know Catherine probably watching suspiciously, and probably knows something is up. But fortunately, when I come back with a mop she doesn't say anything. She just looks at me knowingly. I finish cleaning up the mess and walk back into the break room. Catherine looks at me as I sit down and finally brings it up, "So, Sara what's going on?"

I think for a few minutes trying to decide what to tell her and for some reason I decide to tell her the truth but before I can Greg and Nick walk in giving her the updates of what is going on with the case. At this point Catherine now has to leave but before she does she turns to me, "We'll pick this up later." Now that she's left I turn back to my food somewhat relieved. What am I going to tell her? Should I really tell her the truth?

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