Of course Sara had to have a separate room. It's lab policy. If a crime scene is too far away from CSI headquarters and accommodations are required, male and female staff members must have separate rooms. Up to four CSI's can share a room as long as they are members of the same sex.
And of course a case out in the middle of the desert had to come on the day of Grissom and Sara's three year anniversary. They had it all planned out. They would go to the lab, work their cases, and be strictly professional with each other, but after they would go straight home. Grissom was going to heat up the kitchen by cooking lobster for supper and Sara…well she was also going to heat things up with a little red hot number she'd bought from La Senza. It was going to be a wonderful evening, until half an hour before shift ended and a call came in from Elko, Nevada. A fatal car crash had killed three people and the Vegas Crime Lab was the closest one for miles. Las Vegas has the best lab and the best crime scene investigators, having jurisdiction over all of Nevada. In light of this, of course Ecklie asked Grissom, Sara, and Greg to go since, as he put it, they were the "very best." In reality, Ecklie didn't want the day shift to suffer by losing team members, so he decided to give the torturous trip to his rival Gil Grissom, but it couldn't just be Grissom and Sara (they could actually act like a couple then), no, it had to be Grissom and Sara plus Greg. Greg was all excited for the road trip whereas Grissom and Sara were really disappointed, but they didn't want to draw any attention to themselves, so they both put on a happy face. Grissom and Sara had suspicions that maybe Ecklie had known about their relationship for a while and this was his way of making them suffer. They both knew, Grissom especially, that although Greg was a pretty good CSI, he was still young and still needed someone to watch over him at all times, like a babysitter. This meant that Grissom would have to spend more time watching Greg, instead of watching Sara, and he found the latter so much more enjoyable to watch than geeky little Greg Sanders.
Elko, Nevada was two hundred and ninety miles away from the bright neon lights of Las Vegas. It was small town with only one small fire station, but still big enough to have its own hotel called the 'Peachtree Plaza'. Not being able to spend quality time together did bother Grissom and Sara, but it wasn't the biggest thing. The biggest thing was that they both knew Grissom would have to share a room and spend the night with Greg; the hyper, loud, uncontrollably energized, lab rat turned CSI, Greg Sanders. Greg wasn't a bad guy per say, but he could be obnoxiously annoying.
Grissom did promise Sara one thing though, that after Greg was asleep (hopefully that would happen) he would come up to her room for an anniversary surprise. Grissom was planning on asking Sara a very important question and even though they weren't in the hoped setting, he could still ask her there, all the way out in Elko, Nevada. The only unknown that was really bugging Grissom was what would her answer would be.
