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Dead bodies and New life – Chapter 3
Sara started to wake slowly, she reached over to Gil's side of the bed, but it was empty and cold, showing he must have been up a while. She turned over to look at the bedside clock and the little red blaring numbers told her that it was 10.30pm, so she sat up in bed to see if he had left her a note, but as she looked around there didn't seem to be any sign of one. She went to the toilet and remembered that she had been doing that a lot lately, why didn't it make her he realize something was off, anyway after her shower she went downstairs to get a soda from the kitchen. On the fridge was a note from Gil.
Sara,
Sorry honey I got a call out from Jim at 3 this afternoon, a body with bugs out at Henderson, I don't know how long I will be but I have to try and determine TOD with the bugs, so it could take some time. Rest up and eat something, you are eating for 2 now, if you need anything call me on my cell, will be home as soon as I finish.
Oh I nearly forgot Al called , we have an appointment with Dr Freyer tomorrow at 2pm.
All my love Gil x
Sara decided on lying on the sofa with Hank and reading a little to pass the time, she whistled and Hank came running to her, slobbering and making a fuss, as if he hadn't seen her in a week, even though it was only 24 hours. Gil had told her that the dog had been quiet and whinney while she was in the hospital, and when she came home he went crazy on seeing her home. The newest edition of forensic monthly must have arrived today in the post, because it was sitting on the coffee table with the rest of the unopened post, she got settled on the sofa with Hank and started to read the magazine.
Meanwhile Gil had made it back to the lab after spending several hours out at the scene collecting bug samples from the body of a small boy, around the age of 7 years old, who was now with Doc Robbins awaiting a post- mortem. Gil hated cases that involved kids, they all did, but especially today with the news that he was to become a father for the first time. He had found it harder than usual to keep his emotions hidden, whilst he went about doing his job, that he had been doing for years. Jim Brass had noticed him spacing out on several occasions, and had asked if he was alright. He managed to only tell him a half truth, by telling him that Sara had been sick the night before, and that he was a bit worried about her, but reassured him that she was okay.
All the bugs were pinned to his time line board in his office, and the data had been recorded for now, he needed to do some more data recording in a couple of hours, then he would have a time of death recorded to add to the case notes, so it was going to be another 2 or 3 hours before he could go home to Sara, which is where he wanted to be right now, even though he knew he had to help solve the case or it would play on his mind a lot. He decided to ring Sara on the home phone to see if she was alright. On the third ring she answered.
"Grissom/Sidle residence"
"hey honey how are you feeling, have you eaten yet, you are eating for 2 you know" he said with a light teasing tone.
Sara smiled her, what he calls her Sidle smile "yeah I feel a lot better now, i have been sat on the sofa reading with Hank, and yes i did eat, oh and i have a visitor, sat in the family room as we speak"
"Visitor, let me guess Jim, right" he said with a little amusement in his voice. He knew it could only be Jim Brass because Jim regarded Sara as his surrogate daughter, and if he knew she had been sick he would want to see her to make sure she was okay, also apart from Al Robbins, Jim was the only other person who knew where they lived and Al was down in the morgue at the moment.
"the one and only, what did you tell him, he said he caught you spacing out a couple of times" she said quietly.
"I just told him you had been sick last night and that i was a little worried about you thats all, why" Gil said on a sigh as if he may have said the wrong thing. He knew that it was stupid to upset or piss off a pregnant woman, he had heard enough men over the years complain about their pregnant wives and girlfriends hormones and mood swings, so he wasn't about to start of on the wrong foot where Sara was concerned.
"you know what Jim is like with the 20 questions, it is his job after all, and i don't like lying to him, Sooooooo is it okay if i tell him then i don't have to dodge his questions and lie to him" Sara said happily.
"Of course honey, all the team are going to find out soon enough, but can you ask Jim to keep it quiet for a short time until we have been to the appointment, then we will have a team breakfast and tell them the news together okay" Gil said a lot happier knowing full well that Jim would tease him when he saw him next, and the thought of being part of the fathers, so called club excited him, even though at the moment he would not admit it.
"thanks Bug-daddy, I love you, and no problem Jim will do that for us"
"I love you to, both of you. Now it's going to be another couple of hours at least before I will be home, do you need anything" said Gil in his loving tone especially when Sara knows he wants to be with her.
"No, i don't need anything for now, and Jim is going to hang around for a while until he gets another call, so everything is okay so stop worrying"
Gil sighed "Honey you know i worry, and it is my job to worry about you, both of you so let me deal with that while you just look after yourself and the little bug okay. I am going, and will be home as soon as I can, love you bye"
"bye Bug-daddy see you soon, love you"
"bye" Gil flipped his phone closed, and decided to go to the break room for more coffee, and to catch up with where the team were with their cases.
Gil entered the room and headed straight for the coffee pot, Catherine and Warwick were sitting on the sofa discussing a magazine article and Nick and Greg were playing some computer game that was rather on the loud side. He bent and sniffed the coffee pot and realized that it contained Greg's good stuff, so he filled his mug then sat down at the table. The rest of the team came and sat at the table when they saw him sit at the table.
"Greg how is your B&E case going" he asked his youngest team member.
"Solved and all the paper work is done Boss, it was the owner and his brother trying to pull an insurance scam, the brother nearly wet himself when Sofia and i questioned him, and showed him the prints that we got of the broken lock on the door and the cash register, and he admitted to the whole thing" Greg replied enthusiastically.
Gil sighed "well done Greg and don't call me boss, no one else does, if you are finished, you can go check out the missing persons database and help try identify the victim from Catherine's case"
"sure thing Grissom, if anyone needs me, i will be in one of the labs okay" Greg rushed off obviously hyped up on coffee for the night.
"you okay Gil" Catherine asked.
"yeah, just a little tired Cath, i haven't slept much, and i got called out this afternoon to the scene" Gil said taking his glasses off and rubbing his eyes.
"Sara keeping you up all hours, is she Gil" Catherine shot back knowing full well it was easy for her to tease him.
Nick and Warwick gave a short chuckle and smiled, but soon put their heads down when Grissom glared at them.
Gil ignored Catherine's come back, even though he could feel the heat on his neck and cheeks, and he knew she could embarrass any one, at any time, if she wanted to, and he didn't want to play her games today, he was to tired.
"Cath where are you on this case, your primary on it , i am only establishing TOD and then i am off for a couple of days, so you will acting supervisor as usual" Gil said impatiently.
"Okay, lighten up Gil, i am only playing with you" Catherine said with a, what the..., look on her face.
" we are here to work, not play, hows the case going" he said looking at her sternly.
"well, we were just taking a break, we all got called in as well you know. Anyway Warwick and i are waiting on a page from Robbins to attend the autopsy, and Nick is waiting on some fingerprint results that he lifted from the warehouse. There is quite a bit of evidence to process yet, so it is probably going to go into a double shift for everyone" Catherine replied.
Warwick, Nick and Catherine could sense the cogs moving in Grissom's mind, and they wondered why he was taking a couple of days off, even though it wasn't on the schedule for him to be off, so just watched him silently until he was ready to speak again.
Gil thought for a few minutes, he knew that the team would probably need his help on this one if there was a lot of evidence to process, and if he went home, Sara would know he was thinking about the case, so he would have to discuss it with her. Right now, he didn't think Sara should be thinking of dead children, let alone discussing them, this was supposed to be a happy time, that they should be celebrating together.
He sighed, then decided he would stay and help out with the case, give Jim Brass a call later to see how Sara was, and then call Sara if it looked like he couldn't get away in the next few hours, no way was he going to miss the appointment, he would have to give up on the idea of any sleep, but he would take a couple of hours off to go to Dr Freyers with Sara.
"right what evidence do we have to process" Grissom said.
"we are still waiting on your time line Griss, for TOD, and there were two different fibers that we collected from the Vic" Warwick said with an amused look, he knew Grissom would be staying to help finish up with the case, the guy was a workaholic, everyone knew that.
"there's just some more data to collect on the bugs, but I should have a TOD for you in the next hour"
"yeah sure thing, that will help us Griss" Warwick said.
"what have you got for us Nick" he said waiting for the Texan to answer.
"i collected some tire treads from the scene, that need checking in the database, we have two sets of footprints that we made molds of, that need checking out, and Y"all know I'm just a waitin on the fingerprints" replied Nick in his Texas drawl.
"Cath" Gil looked to Catherine to continue. "as i said we are still waiting on Doc Robbins"
Two pagers went off and they all looked down at their own to see whose it was, Catherine and Warwick got up from their seats at the same time and Catherine said "thats Doc, gotta go, catch yer later" and made for the door.
Before they left Grissom told them he would finish the time line, then make a start on processing some of the other evidence, and that he would be in one of the labs if they needed him.
Nicks pager went off, so he got up to go get his results on the fingerprints. "Grissom, when i get the results, i will call Brass or Sofia if we need to bring anyone in for questioning, then i will have a look at the footprints in the data base, okay"
"yeah okay Nick" Grissom said to the retreating mans back, and then got up and made his way back to his office to collect the last of the data required. A glance at the break-room clock on the way told him it was now nearly 2 in the morning, 12 hours until the appointment.
Please revieve.
