The rest of the group, meanwhile, was gathered in the breakroom. They were brainstorming ways to convinc Griss to go to the lodge with them for Christmas. No one could come up with anything short of kidnapping him. Then Brass told them what Gil's excuse to him had been. This did not please Sara at all. She abruptly got up and left the room.

"Sara, where are you going?" Nick asked.

"Can't a girl go to the powder room?" Sara raplied in a sickly-sweet voice.

As she walked out, the others all looked at one another. Nobody believed her. They all knew that she was going to talk to Grissom, and that it wasn't going to be pretty.

"YOU SELFISH BASTARD! How dare you ruin everyone's plans!"

Sara had stormed into his office in a rage. He was struggling to keep his cool, he'd been thinking about her, and then she had appeared in his offiuce door, ready to bite his head off.

"How exactly did I riun everyone's plans?"

"We're supposed to go all together. And in order to be all together, we need to be all together! Otherwise, there's no point!"

"Well, you'll just have to live with it!"

"You…You…You GRINCH! Not only have you skrewed up all of our plans, you're going to really hurt Lindsey!"

"What about Lindsey?"

"It was her idea for you to go in the first place. She really wanted her 'Uncle Grissom' to go too. So much for that! But, you're going to have to be the one to tell her."

After that, Grissom was even more torn. He loved Lindsey, and wanted to make her happy; but he still had major doubts about the whole thing.

"Fine, I'll go, but I'm only going to make Lindsey happy."

As Sara sterted to walk out, Grissom said, "By the way, if you're going to name-call, you might want to come up with something better than grinch."

Sara just turned and glared at him before leaving.

As she walked back into the break room, she looked at the others and said, "Done."

Of course everyone wanted to know how she'd done it.

"I brought up how upset Lindsey would be if her 'Uncle Grissom' didn't go."

"Oooh, low blow, Sara.", commented Warrick.

"Sara, you're a genius!", said Greg.

"Wow, I didn't even think of that, and Lindsey's my daughter!" complemented Catherine.

"All that's left to do now is ruin Ecklie's day and get ready to go!" Sofia finally piped up.

No one missed the look Nicky gave her, but they all wondered what it meant.

"Well, are we going or not?"

Everyone jumped at the sound of Grissom's voice coming from the doorway.

"Let's go!" they all said, and headed out the door.

A/N: Sorry that my chapters are so short. There is a method to my madness. They should get longer eventually. It'll be a songfic later on. Thanks to all of you who sent reviews, it really helps.