You Kill Me – Chapter Three
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Sara Sidle sat in her hotel room in San Francisco. She had gone to visit her mother in prison and that had gone moderately well. She had given up her apartment in Las Vegas but wondered if she had done the right thing. She sighed as she looked at the photograph of Gil Grissom and her. It had been taken a few years before at one of their favourite restaurants. She sighed again. Her visit with her mom, although it went well was a little unnerving. Laura had been asking her about her life and boyfriends and stuff like that and Sara didn't want to tell her mother that she had written her long time love a "Dear John Letter" She didn't want to tell her mother about Natalie and how she was almost killed that night in the desert.
She stared at her reflection and began to sob. She usually was a fighter, not a crier, but she missed Grissom and her friends at CSI. She regretted not saying a formal good by to them and wished she could go back and take it all back. But she knew she couldn't . She still had too many ghosts, too much unfinished internal business to take care of. She recalled her final case with Marlon and Hannah West. Marlon had committed suicide because of Hannah. Hannah would be forever in either jail or a mental facility as she had no one left to care for her. Doctors had decided, after a psyche evaluation that Hannah would never be allowed to live by herself again and that she was a danger to many people including herself.
Sara sighed again. She longed to call Gil, but she resisted the opportunity as she had a 'dinner' to go to that night with her mom and then the following day it was off to apartment hunt. Since she had decided to stay in San Francisco for a little while , she knew where she could get an apartment on a month-to-month basis.
Back in Las Vegas, Gil sat staring at his ticket to San Francisco. He had decided he would surprise Sara with a visit. He had no idea where she was staying, but he knew he could use his CSI status and find out from Sara's mother or the people at the prison. Grissom passed by the break room and smiled . Wendy and Hodges were pouring over their board game (ahem Hodges' board game) and how to market it and there were a lot of designs of new figures all over the breakroom table. He stood in the doorway.
"How is it going you guys?"
"Very good. We have a few potential people interested in helping us. A few companies willing to design the game pieces and a different one to design the game board." Wendy said.
"Do you have the final versions of the drawings?" Grissom asked.
Hodges shuffled through the papers and produced some drawings. "We have all the designs except the "Mindy Bimms" piece. Wendy is still working on that and she's keeping it on the QT for now."
Grissom chuckled. "Can I see it Wendy?"
Wendy shook her head apologetically. "It's at home right now, I will show it to you when I bring it in tomorrow."
"Will it be completed by tomorrow?"
"It will be 90% complete. I'm still working out a few things. "
"It is still a drawing though right?"
"Yes and no – I have the drawing and I am in the middle of making a clay version of the prototype. I still have to have it fired in the kiln and painted. That takes time as I only go to my pottery class once a week." Wendy replied
Hodges looked at her in surprise. "You never told me you went to a pottery class"
"I just started a couple of days ago Hodges, once you gave me the task of creating the pieces, I wanted a clay prototype – so I joined a pottery class."
Hodges said nothing and then shrugged.
"I'm going to be going on um sabbatical for a couple for days. " He suddenly blurted. "so Catherine is in charge. I've already told her so I will see you guys in a few days." He said and turned on his heel and headed out the door.
Hodges and Wendy exchanged glances. "I'll bet you he's going to San Fran to see Sara!" they whispered in unison to each other. After saying it at the same time, they burst into giggles and cleaned up the break room and went to their respective labs.
A/N: Hope you like this chapter. I know it has a little GSR in it but we do have to make Grissom happy don't we?
