Author: mysunshine08

Title: Four Years Later

Rating: K - K+

Summary: What happens when Sara comes back after four years have passed?

Disclaimer: I don't own any of the characters of CSI...if I did...well we just won't go there, I do own the little girl though

A\N: the first 3 chapters are going to be P.O.V, chapter 4 will continue with the story in which the last three left off...

Chapter 2 - Her

As she pulled up to the 24hr diner, she wondered if she was making a mistake. There was no way that he was going to take her in his arms and forgive her for what she had done. She had left him, she was the one that said she would come back one day, and that day turned into four years. She turned the car off and grabbed her jacket went to the back seat and woke up the little blue-eyed girl that was sleeping in the back seat. The little girl murmured and then went back to sleep in her mommy's arms. The older women then walked gently into the diner and took a seat in the back booth. And waited. The waitress came and took her order; all she wanted was tea and some milk for the little girl if she should decide to wake up when she was talking him.

Him, she was facing him. She didn't know if she could do it. If she could she would turn back time and go back and never leave him. No that was a lie; she had to leave, to face her ghosts that had been hanging over her head since that almost fateful day out in the desert. But she would go back and tell him that, she would have made time, and told him to his face, rather than a letter. Though thinking back that is how they communicated, through writing. If they had something emotional to say, he wouldn't come to her and talk, he would avoid her, make everyone else in the lab feel uncomfortable, only to leave a letter in her mail-box saying how he felt. She then would go to him, he would know, they would make up and she would do the same thing the next day.

She came out of her memory and glanced up at the clock it was five 'till 2, she still had time to leave, she could go back to San Francisco, live a new life, one just of her and her daughter. No that would be wrong, for then she would never be able to face him ever again.

She glanced up when she heard the bells that indicated the door had opened. She took a sip of her tea, and acting like she didn't notice him, just staring out the window, every now and then looking down at her daughter making sure she was still there and that this wasn't just a dream she was going to wake up from.

She decided to look at him; there he was handsome as ever. He had grown out another beard, it was neatly trimmed. He was still in his work clothes; black pants, a short sleeve button shirt, he had a new jacket on, and his cap. She loved that cap it always made him look younger than what he really was. He had taken off the cap when she noticed that he had noticed her. And then he smiled at her, she just wanted to go and ask forgiveness at that exact moment.

She had contacted him two weeks ago saying that she wanted to meet him, and that she had a surprise for him, now here he was sitting in front of her, staring at her. She knew she looked awful, after driving 400 miles with a four-year old in the back seat, she knew she didn't look that pretty, but he was staring at as if she hadn't changed at all since the last time he saw her. She then followed his gaze at it from her to his daughter sleeping next to her. This was it, she was going for it. She took a breath and went to say something but he beat her to it.

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