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Again this is a sequel to One Last Kiss, and should read that before reading this.
This chapter takes place after Sara woke up in the hospital. So this is basically where the story begins.
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Recovery- 48 Hours Later
It had been 48 hours since Sara had gotten into that car wreck, and 8 hours since she had woken up. Her hospital room was quiet; the only sound was coming from man sleeping in the chair beside her.
The team had been here earlier but had gone home to get some rest before heading off to work.
Sara smiled over at Grissom, watching him sleep. Sara was supposed to be resting too but she wasn't tired. She had slept for the past day.
Grissom began to snore, Sara chuckled at this, it reminded her of home and not this depressing hospital where she was always being poked and prodded.
Apparently she had been in pretty rough shape and still was, of what she could get out of Grissom. She had been in two surgeries already to stop the hemorrhaging in her lower back. Her right leg was broken, along with her left elbow and collar bone. She had 8 broken ribs, a concussion, a fractured pelvis and bruises and cuts along her body and face. Her baby had survived all this as well. When the doctor told her this she cried.
Sara had never really pictured her self as a mother, but hearing her baby was doing well made relief run through her veins.
Sara's left foot began to itch. "Fuck," swore Sara, which meant she had to move.
Sara released her right hand from Grissom's grasp, making sure not to wake him.
Sara then lifted her head and began to reach over to her foot.
"OW!" screamed Sara has pain shot through her body. She wasn't suppose to be moving.
Her spine had suffered some bruising during the car wreck and now she was paying for it.
Grissom's eyes shot open at the sound of Sara's cry. He looked over at Sara and notice her face stained with tears. "Sara, honey what happen?" he asked coming closer to Sara face. Sara lifted up her left leg, "I had an itch!"
"Why didn't you wake me up or call a nurse? You know you aren't supposed to be moving. You're supposed to be healing and moving about just puts more stress on your body," asked Grissom with a very serious look. Sara had already suffered enough and had a pretty hard recovery to face next. He just wanted her to get better. And doing what the doctor said would help.
Sara looked away from Grissom's face and down at her chest. She felt guilty. She never had asked for help before and didn't want to start now. Even though it was the right thing to do. "I didn't want to awake you, and I thought I could do it on my own!" whispered Sara, tears steamed down her face.
"Oh babe!" spoke Grissom, he took Sara's hand into his own and brought it to his lips. He knew Sara didn't like to ask for help. He kissed her hand softly and brought it back on to the bed. Sara still continued to look away. Grissom then took his other hand and gently reached out and turned her chin towards his. He then began to wipe away the tears.
Sara looked up at Grissom and smiled. Her eyes lids began to drop and Sara fell asleep.
Her pain meds had just kicked in again. Grissom leaned in and kissed her on the forehead.
He let go of her hand and stood up. He then brought the blanket that was covering her legs up to her chin. He sighed and took a seat again.
There was then a soft knock on the door and Brass stepped into the room. Grissom looked up at his old friend and smiled. "Hey, I thought you went home?" asked Grissom.
"I did, but I couldn't sleep, so I decided to come over here and see how everything is. I know, I know visiting hours are over but Trudy let me in." explained Jim to his friend.
"I think Trudy has a thing for you!" spoke Grissom, well appearing over his glasses.
"Maybe, if she does, she has good taste!" teased Jim. He hadn't been on a date in years. Maybe he would ask Trudy for her number when he left.
"So how is she?" asked Jim, coming back to reality.
"She's better I guess, not a whole lot has changed though. She has been in and out of consciousness now since you left. The doctor says it's the meds but also her body is healing. She was up a minute ago but I'm worried about her still," spoke Grissom, becoming quiet.
Jim looked over at his friends; a cast of concern was shadowed over his face. Jim knew Grissom was still having a hard time and blamed himself for all this. "Gil, The worst is over. She made it, the doctor said she will be okay," explained Jim, hoping that would help.
Grissom didn't look convinced, "Yah but what about in the future, she will probably be on bed rest most of the pregnancy, and it will take her a great deal of time before she gets her leg and elbow back to normal. She can barely move Jim. She tired to scratch her foot and she screamed out in pain, just from lifting her head," cried Grissom, tears rolled down his cheeks.
Jim put a comforting hand on his shoulder. Nothing he could say or do would help really.
A few hours later at work…
Shift had just started and Catherine stood in the break room, facing the other night shift members. Since Grissom was with Sara and was still off on personal time, it was Catherine's job to hand out assignments and be Grissom for the day or in this case night.
All three men looked up at the blonde. They all looked very tired, neither getting much sleep since they were still worried about Sara.
"Okay, Everyone I will be replacing Grissom, until he decides to come back. You will report to me and what is it Greg?" asked Catherine towards the young CSI who was waving his hand in the air like a fourth grader.
"Well, I was just wondering. Since Sara is away too and there are only four of us, do we all get to go solo?" asked Greg, crossing his fingers.
"Well there are five of us really Sanders!" spoke a voice coming into the room. Everyone turned to see, Sofia enter. "Hello Sofia, Ecklie has asked Sofia if she could join us for a while. She will be taking over Sara's position," spoke Catherine turning her attention back to the assignments in her hand. "So lets see, Nicky you got a homicide down on Forker Street," spoke Catherine handing Nicky a folder. "Warrick you got what looks like to be a suicide of a young teen and Sofia and Greg you are working together on a B&E!" finished Catherine looking up. Warrick and Nicky were both laughing as; Greg slouched down in his seat and crossed his arms angrily.
"Come on Greg, I will let you drive!" spoke Sofia like she was talking to a child. Sofia smiled at Greg and dangled her car keys.
Greg looked over at Sofia and sighed, "Alright!"
"Hey, what are you going to do?" asked Warrick.
"Oh I have paper work to do, I know fun," said Catherine, leaving the room with everyone else.
After waving goodbye to everyone, Catherine stepped into Grissom's office and closed the door. She placed her coffee mug on the desk and took a seat. She sighed as she eyed the large amount of paper that awaited her. It was going to be a long night.
Catherine looked up from what she was doing and eyed the clock on the wall, an hour had passed and she wasn't even half way from being done. She dropped her pen and leaned back in the chair. Catherine looked around the room, at the cases and cases filled with bugs. Her eyes fell on the desk drawers. A smile creped across Catherine's face. "Surely, Grissom would not mind if I did a little snooping around? Of course not," spoke the woman to herself as she leaned down and began to open a drawer.
Catherine began to look through the drawer, but disappointedly found nothing really exciting, just a couple of pens and paper.
She shut the drawer and opened the one below it. There she found something a little more exciting. It was a strip of pictures, the kind you get down at a mall in those booths. There were about 5 of them, all of Grissom and Sara. The top one was of them smiling together, their faces pressed close together. The next one was of them making goofy faces. Catherine laughed at that one; she had never seen Grissom stick his tongue out.
The one below was of Grissom kissing Sara's cheek and her making a shocked expression. One of her hand was covering her mouth. It was like she was saying OMG, what are you doing Grissom!
The last two pictures were of them kissing. Catherine scanned over the strip one more time before placing back in the drawer. It was the first glimpse she'd gotten really of them as a couple and she had to admit they were cute together.
Catherine shut the drawer and began to open the bottom one. She then moved to the other side and began to look again. It wasn't in till she got to the very last drawer that she found something juicy. Catherine sighed has she opened it and reached her hand in. Her hand brushed against something soft. Catherine leaned down more in her seat to get a better grasp on whatever this object was.
Catherine's hand around it, it was small. A box maybe she thought to herself has she pulled it out of the drawer.
Catherine lifted her hand up to her face and opened her fingers. Catherine's eyes widened at what she saw.
I know I'm evil!
What did Catherine find?
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