Chapter 3
There had been this fella who had caught Sara's eye.
She wanted to give it one more try she thought maybe this time would be better.
This time she took it slow, no jumping right into the bed.
She got to know him, they went on several dates.
He pushed but she would not give in, sex would be when she wanted it, not just because they were horny.
When the time finally did come she did not feel as discussed as she had the time before, she even felt good for a while. But the feeling did not last.
He talked her into going away with him for the weekend to the mountains.
She thought if they were away from the city this time the sex would be better because she did not have to worry about going to work the next day.
At end of shift Friday she stopped by Gil's office and told him she was going away.
"Oh ok," he said. Did she notice a hurt look on his face?
No it had to have been something else, it would be crazy to think that he cared.
"You have my number if you need me," she said walking away.
At her apartment she had her bags packed waiting for him to pick her up.
The look on Gil's face came back to her again, it was hurt she had seen. Maybe she should not go.
A car horn blew she was committed, Bob was here.
She grabbed her bag and headed out the door, "Leave Gil Grissom here," she said, "If he cared he would have said something."
"This is my weekend I can't keep thinking about Gil," she tried to convince herself.
The cabin was beautiful, the sunset breathtaking.
All she could think of was how much Gil would enjoy this, about how Gil had told her and the others that he loved the peaceful feeling the mountains gave him.
"Damn him," she said to herself, "Even here I can't get him out of my mind."
Bob reached for her face, his lips were almost to hers when she heard the phone ring.
She turned away from him and picked it up.
"Sidle…….No I was not doing anything……..Sure…….On my way."
She looked at him.
"You don't need to go," he said. "Yes," she said.
"But our weekend," he said kissing her, "I have waited for this, I need you so bad."
"I am sorry," she said.
He cursed as they loaded the car and headed back.
"Your job always gets in the way," he said as she got out of the car.
"I'm sorry," she said as she turned to go into her place, "I'll call you."
She went to her room and fell on the bed.
The phone call was a wrong number, she thought she wanted to be with him.
How could she have sex with him if all she could think about was Gil?
It was the mountains she decided, Gil had said how much he loved them and that was why Gil came to her mind.
That is why she could not have sex with Bob.
She would call Bob and make a date for tomorrow. They would go some place Gil did not like.
Gil would not come into her mind then, would he?
The next morning she called and apologized for the night before, they made a date for that night.
Sara decided to surprise him and fix dinner for him at his place before going out.
About an hour before he expected her, she was at his door and was about to knock.
She found the door cracked opened and she heard a female voice.
"Bye lover," the voice said. "I see you tomorrow."
The woman opened the door, "Oh you must be Bob's sister. He said I could not spend the night this time because he was expecting you."
With that she left.
He opened the door, "SISTER!" Sara said.
"Hey, I am a man I have needs. You don't want to be there to fill them."
That was as far as it got, Sara tossed the bag down and left.
She did the one thing she knew she should not do, she stopped at a bar.
She picked up her drink and looked at it, "My only friend."
A hand touched hers, "Not your only one." She looked and seen Nick standing next to her.
Chapter 4
She looked at him, "What are you doing here? Checking up on me?" He smiled.
"Jack is a friend of mine," he said sitting next to her."We play poker every other night."
Sara just smiled."How about we go get something to eat," he said. "I am starved."
"Sure, it makes more since then what I was about to do," she said smiling at him.
Sara had intendedto get drunk and sleep with the first man who asked. She figured that was the only kind of man she deserved.
They went to THE BURGER SHACK, the best place in town to get a burger. The only place in town to get a good veggie burger.
Nick ate his burger, she played with hers as they talked.
"So what brought you to Jack's place?" she filled in him - well leaving out a few details.
"I seem to be running into a lot of those kind of men lately," she said.
"Maybe you just have not been out the right one," Nick said.
"Speaking of the 'right one' he is at the lab all by himself."
Sara looked at him, "What? Who?"
"Oh please Sara," Nick said. "Anyone can tell he is crazy about you." Sara looked at him, "Gil?"
"Who else," Nick said, "Are you the only one who can't see the way he looks at you? The way he melts each time you touch him? If that ain't love then I don't know what is."
Sara jumped up, kissed his cheek and ran out the door.
Nick smiled, she had never touched her burger. Oh well, he had never had a veggie burger before.
Sara walked into the lab, trying to think of what to say to him.
She stood in the doorway of his office making sure she made a noise so he would look up and see her.
"Thought you were off?" he said. "I am," she said, "I just left something in my locker I need. Thought you were too."
"I am," he said.
"Have you eaten?" she asked him. "No," he said.
"Then lets go get something to eat," she said smiling at him.
"I am not sure it would be proper," he said, "Me being your supervisor and….." he hesitated a little, "Older then you."
Sara smiled and took his hand, "Even supervisors have to eat and your age only bothers you, not me."
He smiled. She looked into his eyes, she seen it for the first time, the love that everyone else seen.
She found her self back at THE BURGER SHACK again, this time she ate.
After their burgers they went for a walk, he took her hand.
All of a sudden nothing else mattered to him but her.
He had to taste her lips.
He stopped, took both her hands in his so she was facing him and tenderly took her face in his hands, then he kissed her.
Never had she felt a kiss so full of love.
She looked at him, surprise on her face. "Perhaps I should not have done that," he said.
"You should have. You defiantly should have," she said returning his kiss.