The plane ride was long. Grissom and Sara's connecting from Austin was delayed for a storm front, and Sara was none to happy about sleeping for four hours in an airport. Finally, at one in the morning, they landed in Boston. Claiming luggage wasn't hard, considering it wasn't crowded due to the early hour, and they were in a rental car and on their way to their hotel by two.
"You're going to love it Sara." Grissom said as his wife dozed in the passenger seat. "Not just the hotel, but the city in the morning. I know you love the sunrise on the west coast, but an east coast sunrise tops it."
Sara shook her head and looked over at Grissom. "Gil, you've only been here what? Twice, in the last two decades? How can you say it's better here than where you're actually from?"
"Hey, it may be my own biased opinion, but it's still my opinion. Good thing you won't miss it, I'm getting us up at six so we can go house hunting."
As they passed Bank-North Garden, where adrenaline filled Celtics fans still were actively chatting away about that nights big win, Sara smiled and tried to hold her tongue. Needless to say she failed miserably. "Gil Grissom we just got got off a flight that took four more hours than necessary, we aren't even at the hotel yet, let alone used to a city neither of us are completely acquainted with, and you want to get up early to look for a house?"
He gave her that look again. "Yeah." he said.
Sara leaned her head against the window and closed her eyes. "All right then."
Grissom simply smirked.
6:08 A.M.
He woke her early as he had said he would. Playfully, he has kissed her neck until she registered it was him and began to giggle from the whiskers of his beard.
"Gil..." she moaned into her pillow. "It's too early. I liked the schedule I established in the jungle, thank you." She whined.
"Different time zone. We have work to do." He said as he got off the bed and headed toward the bathroom.
Sara supported herself on her elbows and she leaned up in bed. "It's always work with you." She said, a playful frown on her face.
Grissom leaned into the doorway and smirked, "Not after today."
Sara slowly got out of bed. She glanced up, only to catch a ray of sun in her eyes. She went over to the window and pulled back the curtain, revealing an orange tinted sun with clouds in purple, pink and orange shades scattered around the lightening sky. Her jaw dropped as a pair of arms wrapped around her waist.
"I told you it was gorgeous." Grissom said as he kissed her cheek.
Sara remained speechless as they watched the sun rise. By the time the sun was over the horizon and the sky had begun to turn a brighter blue, Grissom had taken her hand and pulled her from the window. "There's something else in store for you this morning." he said softly. "Get dressed and I'll show you."
7:15 A.M.
After a fulfilling breakfast of fruit and pancakes, Grissom drove Sara nearly across town.
"Where are we even going?" She asked, frustrated that he had yet to answer her.
"You'll see."
Sara rolled her eyes and looked down at the GPS unit. Beacon Hill was scribed near the road they were currently traveling, and she furrowed her brow as she glanced back in Grissom's direction. "Isn't this one of those really nice, expensive neighborhoods?" She asked timidly.
"Why yes, it is." came Grissom's indirect reply. He flipped on the turn signal and pulled into the drive of a very lovely two story home.
It was white with black shutters, a large lawn was sprawled between it and the road, and at the end of the driveway was a two car garage, which would have resembled the size of their old townhouse in Vegas if it weren't for the two automatic garage doors in front. Grissom stopped the car near the rear of the house. Sara could see the rather spacious back porch from the open gate.
Grissom smiled and when Sara looked over at him, eyes wide, he motioned for her to step out of the car.
"Is this the first house you wanted to show me? Because I'd hate to see the size of the others."
"Actually," he watched as a real-estate agent parked behind their rental, getting out of the car and standing over near the for sale sign. "This was the only one. That is, if you like it."
Sara was looking through windows and stopped dead when he spoke. She turned on her heel and slowly walked back over to her grinning husband. "Only one? We can afford this?"
He nodded. "Like we spend money on anything before the jungle."
Sara smiled wide and quickly closed the gap between the two of them, wrapping her arms around his neck and giving him a quick kiss before responding with "I'll take anything as long as your there."
"So you like it?"
"I love it." She said, before leaning up to kiss him once more.
Grissom gave the Realtor a thumbs up and he immediately began hamming 'Sold' onto t he sign in the yard.
A/N- I apologize for all errors. I need to get school reports finished too and I'm not about to estimate the time it takes to get from Costa Rico or where ever they were, to get to Boston plus all delays and stuff. Next time I'll be more thorough.