A few weeks later….

Sara and Laura are sitting on the patio of a small café enjoying some coffees and making idle chit chat while enjoying each others company.

"So, tell me more about this Grissom guy of yours." Laura gave Sara a wink as she lifted her cup and took a sip of her drink.

"Well there's not much to tell that you don't already know." Sara said trying to avoid the subject. Laura Sidle may have been her mother but she was still uncomfortable having these mother daughter moments with a woman she was just starting to get to know again.

Furrowing her brow, the older woman looked at her daughter and decided to let the subject go for now but not without letting out an 'mm hm' that implied they would later have to revisit this subject. "You know Vegas is nothing like I thought it'd be." Laura stated mater-of-factly obviously trying to change the subject.

"Well that's because we're no where near the strip right now. It's a whole different world over there."

"Still I think I'd like to see it before I have to head home."

"Sure no problem, we can go there…." Just as Sara was about to tell her mother that they could spend the day on the strip tomorrow she was interrupted by her cell phone ringing. Looking down at the call display picked up the phone. "Sidle. Nick, I'm on vacation. Well what about calling someone from Swing or Days? All of them? Wow busy day. It better not. Ok see you soon." Letting out a large sigh Sara closed her phone and then looked up at her mother almost forgetting she had company. "Um.. I have to go into work for an hour or so."

"Oh. Well that's alright," Laura said with a chippy voice and a big smile "I'll just go with you."

"What?" Sara asked starting to become a little confused.

"I'll come with you. I want to see what you do for a living."

"Oh Laura, it's a crime scene I can't just bring you with me. I have to preserve the evidence"

"Well what if I wait in the car and watch from there?" Hope that her daughter wouldn't say no, was now very present in Laura's voice.

Reluctant to say no, and hesitant to say yes at the same time the only answer Sara could come up with at the time was "Um…"

"Great then it's settled!" Laura bounded up out of her seat. "I'll just go pay the bill then we can head off."

Sara sat there for a moment feeling like she'd just been ambushed into the whole thing. "Ok then." She stated quietly to herself.

The ride to Nick's crime scene wasn't far. Laura asked Sara many questions on the way. While Sara did her best to answer the questions she also went over some ground rules with her mother. Sara wanted to be sure she would stay in the car the entire time so as not to compromise the crime scene or any evidence they might collect while they were there.

As Sara pulled the SUV up to the address Nick had provided her with she could see Brass standing in the front yard of the residential house talking with a officer in uniform. She couldn't see Nick, but she knew from their earlier phone conversation that he was already here and likely inside processing the house.

Walking towards her friend and co-worker Sara called out a friendly greeting to Brass. "Hey Sara, sorry you got called in on you vacation."

"No rest for the wicked." She smiled before putting on a serious face and getting down to work. "So what's going on here?"

"Domestic Dispute by the looks of things. Wife's body is in the kitchen. Husband is over there," Brass pointed towards a man sitting on the front steps of the house. Blood evidence was obviously present on his shirt and hands, but that didn't necessarily mean he was the attacker, he could have tried to save her life. "didn't have much to say when we first arrived but now he's claiming something about an intruder."

"What do you think?"

"I like the husband for this."

"Where's Nick?"

"Right here." Nick announced as he came around from behind some bushes. "I was checking the perimeter for evidence of an intruder."

"And?" Sara questioned.

"Nothing. No foot prints, no fingerprints on the outside of the window glass. None of the windows or doors even look like they have been tampered with." Nick said filling Sara in on his findings.

"Have you been inside yet?" She asked.

"Yea, the entire thing seems to have happened in the kitchen. Looks like the husband might of done it."

"I think we should have a talk with Mr. King." Brass added looking at Sara and Nick.

"I agree." Sara said as she and Brass started to walk towards the suspect who was now standing in the driveway. "You coming Nick?"

"No I'm gonna going inside and start processing the kitchen while I wait for David to get here."

"Ok, I'll come find you when we're done then." And with that Sara and Brass headed off in the direction of the suspect and Nick headed off inside the house and the uniformed officer headed off to his car.

As Sara and Brass headed towards the suspect Brass thought it would be a good idea to fill Sara in on some of the details. "Suspects name is Robert King, he and his wife have been married for 10 years."

"Robert King, I'm Detective Jim Brass and this is Sara Sidle with the crime lab. We have a few questions for you." After finishing the introductions Brass pulled out his note pad and pen before starting up again. "Mr. King can you tell us what happened here today?"

"Um.. I'm not really sure. I came home from work, Mary was in the kitchen making dinner and then I feel asleep on the couch. When I woke up I found her in the kitchen covered in blood. So I called 9-1-1. The rest is kind of fuzzy. Someone must of broke in the house while I was sleeping."

"So your telling us someone broke into your house and killed your wife who was in the next room and you didn't hear a thing?" Brass continued his questioning.

"Yes." Rob answered, not at all liking the direction this conversation was starting to take.

"Mr. King I am going to need to take your clothes into evidence as well as a DNA sample and your finger prints." Sara stated noticing that Rob King wasn't going to add anymore to his last comment.

"You want my clothes?" Rob said slightly annoyed.

"Yes Sir, they are covered in your wife's blood and may possibly hold other evidence."

Rob let out a huff to let Sara and Brass know of his frustrations. "Fine I'll just go inside and change."

"I'm sorry Sir we can't allow you do that you'll have to change out here. We can provide you with some clothes to wear."

"Can't allow me? That's my house!" Sara could tell that Rob was beginning to get angry, but she carried on with the conversation just the same.

"Right now it's OUR crime scene." Sara reminded him.

"Well I'm not going to let some Bitch tell me I can't go in my own house." Rob's anger was defiantly showing now.

"Hey!" Brass intervened in the conversation between Sara and Rob, reminding Rob that he was dealing with two law enforcement officials. "Watch your language in front of the lady."

"Lady? I don't see any lady. I see a BITCH," Rob yelled as he pointed directly at Sara, "a bitch on a power trip."

"What's a matter, can't just smack me around like you do you wife?" Sara spat back. "Is that why you killed her, because she decided to stand up for herself?" Sara continued ignoring Brass.

"She's my wife, and I'll do whatever I please with her!"

"She's not property."

"Ta hell she isn't!" And with that Rob's anger got the better of him and he raised his arm and backhanded Sara across the face so hard that she stumbled to the ground.

Brass immediately stepped in to restrain the suspect and tried to place him in cuffs. As Brass was busy with the Rob King, Sara made her way back to her feet and as she was regaining her composer when she looked up to see her mother attacking the suspect.

"Whoa lady." Brass said as he was now trying to break up the fight between Rob and Laura.

Sara now on her feet again and making her way over to Brass to help with the current altercation. "STOP!"

"I'LL KILL YOU AGAIN IF I HAVE TO YOU BASTARD!" Laura screamed at Rob. Then suddenly she produced a knife seemingly out of now where and lunged towards Rob.

Not believing what she was hearing Sara stood frozen in place as she watched the scene in front of her unfold. She watched as Nick and a uniformed officer pulled Laura off the suspect, she had managed to stab him at least once maybe more it was hard to tell. She watched as Laura escaped Nick's grasp and came in her direction.

"YOU!" Laura yelled in anger and pointed at Sara with the knife, but Sara was still unable to move. "This is all your fault. Just like last time!" Laura glanced towards the ground briefly and than back at Sara before she lunged at her daughter knife in hand. Seeing what was about to happen Nick tried to reach Laura and restrain her once again.

Nick grabbed Laura but it was too late she'd already used the knife to stab her daughter. It wasn't until Sara felt the sharp edge of the knife and the blood coming from her abdomen that she moved. Having been released from her trance, Sara immediately put her hands on top of her wound before falling to the her knees in pain.

"Sara!" Nick yelled as he seen his best friends fall to the ground injured. Nick then quickly finished hand-cuffing Laura and passed her off to Brass who was working with a uniform office to restrain both Laura and Rob.

Quickly rushing to her side, Nick helped Sara to lay down on the ground and he immediately put pressure on her wound to help stop the bleeding.

"Sara, it's gonna be ok." At this point Nick wasn't sure if he was trying to calm down Sara or himself. Looking up to see where Brass had went, Nick began to yell instructions at the detective. "Brass call and ambulance, Sara's bleeding pretty good over here."

"Already on the way Nick." Brass yelled back from his car as he put away his radio and grabbed the first aid kit he kept in the backseat.

Joining Nick at Sara's side Brass wasted no time administering first aid to his fallen friend. "The ambulance should be here in 10 minutes Sara."

"Guys, really it's not that bad." Sara tried to convince them that she was doing better than she probably was. She wasn't the type of person to have others fussing over her – even if she'd just been stabbed at a crime scene, by her own mother no less.

Nick smiled at Sara and held her hand while Brass worked on her stomach. Looking up at Brass, Nick just had to know what happened. "Who was that woman? And where did she come from?" He asked his friend.

"Don't know, she just showed up out of no where and started to attack the suspect and thats when you showed up."

"I brought her here." Sara piped in.

"What?" Both men asked in unison.

"I brought... uh... here here. She came...ow...with me" Sara said between grunts as Brass finished dressing the wounds best he could.

"Who is she?" Brass asked.

"She's my mother." Sara said sat up and started to make her way off the ground.

"Whoa!" Nick said grabbing her arm to steady her. "I don't think you ought to be getting up just yet."

"I'm fine Nick." She growled as she tried to get up again, this time she felt dizzy, but decided to ignore that feeling. Continuing to get up proved to be more of a challenge than Sara was expecting and it was then that she realized she should of listened to her body a moment ago and stayed on the ground. Unfortunately that was the last thought she had before she passed out.