Author: mysunshine08
Story: Defeating The Past
Disclaimer: I don't own CSI. If I did, well then I wouldn't be here.
Summary: Set back when Sara left. But what if Grissom went with her. We follow there journey to visit Sara's family.
A/N: This story used to be called After The Letter. I have deleted that story, and with a lot of corrections, and knowing that if I don't do this story now, then I never will. I give Defeating The Past.
Chapter 1: The Letter
He took his glasses off, had she really just said "Goodbye." No she wouldn't, she couldn't just leave him there reading her final words.
He read her letter again:
Gil,
You know I love you. I feel I've loved you forever.
He knew that, she may have rarely told him, but there love didn't need words to tell how they for each other.
Lately I haven't been feeling very well. Truth be told, I'm tired.
He could see it in her eyes, she no longer had that Sara look about her, and it was a haunting look that always stared back at him. One that longed for the desperation of freedom from what ever was consuming her soul.
Out in the desert, under that car that night, I realized something and I haven't been able to shake it. Since my father died, I spent almost my entire life with ghosts. We've been like close friends and out there in the desert; it occurred to me, that it was time for me to bury them. I can't do that here.
He didn't want to think about that dreadful day, the day where he almost lost her, the day when he unknowingly told everyone how he felt about her; even though he knew that they knew in some form or another. He was the only one that really knew about her past, she slipped up every now and then, so the team knew some about her past, but they didn't know about the ghosts that haunted her.
I'm so sorry. No matter how hard I try to fight it off, I'm left with a feeling that, I have to go. I have no idea where I'm going, but I know I have to do this. If I don't, I'm afraid I'll self-destruct, and worse, you'll be there to see it happen.
His tears were forming again, he didn't care that she would self-destruct in front of him, he wanted to help through it all, and he needed her. And he knew that she needed him, even if she would never admit it.
Be safe. Know that I tried very hard to stay. Know that you are my one and only. I will miss you with every beat of my heart. Our life together was the only home I've ever really had. I wouldn't trade it for anything.
The tears were now running down his face, she was really leaving him, their life together. It would explain the sudden kiss that they shared outside the trace lab. He thought nothing of it when it happened, just maybe a "Goodnight" kiss not a "Goodbye" kiss.
I love you...I always will.
Goodbye.
No she wasn't saying goodbye with out her knowing exactly how he felt about her. So he began to run, he ran for his life, his life that was going to slip though his fingers if he didn't get to her.
A/N2 To those who have read this before. I didn't change much here. To those who haven't: how do you like it? Please review!
A/N3: 99 days to Sara returns, 99 very long days...