"I can't do this..."

Grissom hears all of the oohs and ahhs and mumbles from the crowd as he snaps his head toward Maggie. "Did she just say what I think she said?"

"Gil, we need to go somewhere and talk right now." Giving a slight nod of his head, Grissom leans toward Brass and tells him to say something to the guest until he can figure out what's going on. Grissom then escorts Maggie back down the aisle.

Jim rolls his eyes and looks at Catherine for some direction as she shrugs her shoulders. Great, he thinks to himself, what the hell am I suppose to say I don't even know what's going on. Jim grabs the microphone,"Please bear with us for a few moments apparently the bride and groom have a few words they need to say in private before the cereomony can continue."

In the meantime Grissom and Maggie have made their way to the Bride's room.

"Maggie what's going on? Why did you stop the wedding?"

"Gil, I don't know where your head is right now but I know where it's not and that is our wedding. You were looking at everyone in the chapel except me. You barely heard me stop the wedding, so why don't you tell me what's going on?"

Grissom takes his time to try to think of a response that will not irriitate his bride anymore than she already is and he is pretty sure that by saying he was looking for another woman would be the last thing any woman would want to hear coming from her husband to be on their wedding day.

"I was talking to the team earlier before the ceremony and everybody was there Greg, Warrick, Sara, Nick, Catherine and then when I took my place and was waiting for you to come down the aisle I noticed Sara wasn't in her seat and that Nick and Warrick looked very worried and then Nick got up to leave and my mind was running wondering if something had happened...and.."

Maggie interupted him at this point, "Gil, it's no secret that Sara is not a big fan of us being together maybe she didn't want to see the man she has a crush on marry another woman. Did you ever think about that?"

How was Grissom suppose to tell Maggie that he spoke with Sara in private and she promised to be there. This was a slippery slope he was on and while he was trying to think of something to say he heard Maggie's voice again.

"Gil, why are you marrying me?"

"Maggie, what do you mean why am I marrying you? I thought this is what you wanted. It's the next logical step in our relationship. You wanted to get married and so here we are getting married."

Maggie shakes her head. "Gil, I love you and I know you love me. Our relationship has been great from the beginning. We clicked as soon as we met. We became friends, and then dated and sure the next logical step would be to get married. And we put a wedding together pretty quickly but if this isn't what you want, if this is something you are doing because you are trying to make me happy then it's never going to work."

"It's not that I don't want to get married, Maggie..."

"Gil did you go along with this wedding because it was the easy thing to do? You know looking back on it you never really asked me to marry you. We talked about it and decided it wouldn't be the worst thing in the world. We got along great, we had some of the same interests, we weren't lonely anymore, and we didn't work all the time because we had someone to actually come home to. And believe me marriages have been built on less, but if you are this worried about why Sara didn't come to our wedding then I have to wonder if there isn't something more going on?"

"I don't want to hurt you Maggie. Yes, our relationship has been easy and a part of me liked that there were never any curve balls coming at me. I always knew where we stood. You understood my work and my need to be alone sometimes. I never felt out of my comfort zone with you. I enjoyed spending time with you and even though I never really thought about getting married when you brought it up I wasn't totally opposed to it. I thought life probably wouldn't change much. We practically lived together already, so I went along with the entire marriage thing. But the one thing or person I never let myself think about was Sara. I've always known Sara had a crush on me and at some points in our relationship over the last seven years I fed that crush and we flirted and it was all very innocent. But in the way my relationship with you has always been easy and straight forward my relationship with Sara has been like a roller coaster. She leaves me dizzy sometimes with where we stand and what we have between us. I can't lose her friendship Maggie not for anything. That's why I was so distracted at the ceremony, just minutes before it started I talked with Sara in private and she promised me she would be there. She promised we would still be friends and Sara wouldn't lie to me. I just feel that something has to be wrong."

"Gil, just because our relationship doesn't challenge you and it doesn't get you out of your comfort zone is no reason to get married. It's a reason to kill time until you figure out what you really want and I think you just figured it out. You can't lose Sara's friendship or her love. I think you just got hit with a two by four right between the eyes, you may love me, but you are in love with Sara."

Gil drops his head, "Maggie I didn't want this to happen this way. I am sorry if I hurt you, it's the last thing I ever wanted to do."

"Gil my ego may be hurt and no one likes being left at the alter but I don't think that you entered into this with any malice. You just realized your feelings a little too late. I want you to be happy Gil. I want to be happy and right now both of those things can still happen. Now, I'm going to let you go tell the guests that there will be no wedding today, while I get out of this dress."

Grissom leaves the room trying to think of what he is going to tell a room full of guests that have been waiting patiently for the ceremony to continue.

Back in the Bride's Room Maggie grabs her phone and hits speed dial.

"I've done my part. Please tell me that you have Sidle in your possession?"