A/N Thanks everybody for the positive feedback (both those who reviewed and added this to subscriptions). This chapter skips forward to 2011, there will be flashbacks at points in this story and things will become clear.

Chapter Two

"Morning Daddy!" Beth said as she walked in to the kitchen, her father who'd only been home an hour smiled in return.

"Has Zoe left yet?" Her twin brother Ryan said as he shuffled in to the kitchen; although he wouldn't admit it he had a little crush on his baby sitter. His parents thought it was adorable, he'd rather they left him be.

"Yeah about 15 minutes ago, sorry buddy." Grissom told his son, smiling at the look of disappointment on his face. The boy looked a little crushed ("that's why they call it that" Grissom thought), so his father decided to try and cheer him up. "Could you go wake your brother up for me, he'll miss breakfast at this rate."

"SHAUN! TIME TO GET UP!" He yelled at the top of his voice.

"Ryan James Grissom go and do it properly." Sara said as she walked in to the kitchen followed by the family boxer Hank.

"Sorry Mom." He smiled "Come on Hank." The dog trotted after his young owner.

"He'll hate that." Grissom muttered "Nice run honey?" he turned to kiss his wife.

"It was ok, nice and peaceful. Just how I like my..." the rest of the sentence was cut off by a yell from upstairs.

"RYAN GET LOST!" The oldest Grissom child, who'd been on the receiving end of a slobbery good morning from Hank, yelled at the sibling responsible for his rude awakening.

"How did we end up in this situation?" Sara asked, reminiscing about quiet mornings that have passed.

Grissom laughed and wrapped his arms around Sara's middle "Do I need to remind you?" He placed a chaste kiss to Sara's lips ("Ewww cooties!" came the call of the 8 year old at the breakfast table)

Flashback- 1994 San Francisco

Gil Grissom walked in to the arrivals lounge at San Francisco International Airport and saw a brunette standing to the side of a crowd of excited friends and family. He walked over and stood with arms open waiting for her to make the next move, she'd been sounding off on the phone all week and he was worried she was having second thoughts about the relationship.

Sara met him in a hug "I know we were going to grab some dinner on the way back to mine, but if you don't mind I'd like to go straight home." If it wasn't for the fact Grissom could tell something was off he'd have found himself in an awkward situation. "Ok honey, whatever you want."

They were sat silently in Sara's small apartment on the couch when Grissom finally decided to break the tension in the room. "Sara honey, you're freaking me out a little here if this is about us or the job offer then we can talk but please talk to me."

"I'm pregnant." It was barely a whisper, Grissom was stunned.

"A baby?" Grissom responded, mentally slapping himself. Of course a baby! What else would it be?

"Yeah a baby. It's yours, I promise. I don't sleep with a lot of guys. In fact you were the first in a long time. Oh god I bet you hate me. I mean I'm the summer fling right and..."

Grissom stopped the rant mid-sentence "You're not the summer fling Sara."

She looked at him stunned and convinced she'd finished talking he continued. "I like you...No, that's the wrong words, I think I love you. I spent two weeks with you and the last two months talking every day, I asked you to move to Vegas. Not because I think you'll make an excellent criminalist, I do think you'll be excellent by the way, I asked you because I don't just want to talk to you every day, I want to hold you and see you and look after you. This baby, well this makes it better, granted it wasn't planned and I've never thought about kids, but I've known about this baby for two minutes and I already love it." Grissom took her hand and squeezed, he'd never revealed that much emotion to anybody and until he said it he didn't even know he was feeling it.

"How can you love me? You barely know me." Sara told him. "When you know me you won't want me, nobody ever wants me."

"I want to know you and I want you to love me, but if you don't want that, then I'll be crushed but I hope that you'll let me love our child."

"I went to Harvard at 16 you know, I was the valedictorian at my high school graduation." Sara told him

"I bet your parents were proud."

"They don't even know. Mom's all medicated in whatever facility they have her in now and dad, well if my mother hadn't stabbed him to death over a bottle of cheap booze and a broken nose, I doubt he'd have cared anyway. He never had much time for those with 'book smarts' instead of common sense, and going to Harvard well the bourgeois implications of an ivy league wouldn't gel with the hippie he used to be." Sara spat, unsure where this rage was coming from.

"Well I'm proud." Grissom said "The mother of my child is a genius and she overcame horrible circumstances and came out on top."

Suddenly Sara felt her anger dissipating, maybe what Grissom was saying had some truth to it.

"Come to Vegas. Please." Grissom begged, confused by this rush of emotion and the need to express it, he'd never before revealed this much.

Sara suddenly knew her answer, she took Grissom's hand and smiled a watery smile. "Ok, I'll come to Vegas with you."

End Flashback.

The moment was ruined by the arrival Shaun Grissom still mad about the wake up he received from his younger brother.

"Did you have to send the freak to wake me, I wouldn't miss the bus you know I'm totally ready for school." He whinged to his parents.

"Don't call your brother a freak." Sara told him

"You're still in your underwear." Grissom pointed out.

"Chill dad, it'll only take like five minutes to get ready."

"Go get ready for school." Sara told him.

"Aww, but I'm here now can't I grab some breakfast first."

"Don't back chat your mother, go get ready for school." Grissom told him as he sipped his OJ.

After Shaun had gone upstairs, breakfast in the Grissom household went back to being a rather quiet affair with light conversation.

"Dad, when I get back from school can you take me to the comic book store and then help me build an ant farm?" Ryan asked his father, who smiled and told him if he was up then he'd take him to the comic book store before he went to work.

"Bugs are gross right Mom?" Beth asked her mother "I've got band practice after school." She added on the end, hoping her brother and father wouldn't forget that they needed to pick her up.

"They're not too bad sweetie, but it's definitely a boy thing. You just stick to your violin if you want." Beth seemed happy with her mother's answer and returned to her cereal.

"I'll tell you what Ryan, we'll go to the comic book store when we go pick up your sister and if there's time before dinner then we can build the ant farm." Grissom said as he read the morning paper.

"I don't want to go to the comic book store it's for losers." Beth protested much to the annoyance of her brother, just as he and his mother were about to respond a loud honk signalled the school bus was there.

"SHAUN THE BUS IS HERE GET YOUR BUTT DOWNSTAIRS NOW!" Sara yelled upstairs.

Her son ran downstairs and she ushered him to the door.

"But Mom I haven't had any breakfast." Sara thrust some toast in to his hand and continued to push him out the door.

"By the way I've got football after school, and then I'm going to hang out with the guys. See you later bye" He managed to get out just before his mother closed the door.

Grissom smiled at his wife as she came back in to the kitchen all flustered.

"I'm so glad for your help Gil." She said not even trying to mask the sarcasm.

"I'm glad you came to Vegas." He stood and took her hand. "Now let's get some sleep before they come home."

TBC...

Hope you enjoyed that, I wrote it when I should have been working on an assignment I have to resubmit for university (I'm terrible for procrastinating). Waking up my brother with the dog is one of the things I miss when I'm at school, it makes the mornings more interesting.

Anywhoo, any feedback is appreciated. Next chapter when it's up will have a flashback.