That afternoon Grissom drove to Sara's house to get some of her stuff

That afternoon Grissom drove to Sara's house to get some of her stuff. He headed upstairs to her apartment while she stayed in the car, afraid of what Hank would do to her. This was usually the time when Hank left for work so they thought it was safe for Grissom to go then.

Grissom slid the key in the lock and entered the house, it was dark and most of the things were broken or shattered on the floor. He heard something and followed the sound, he didn't see it coming, suddenly Hank's fist connected with Grissom's cheek sending him to the ground.

"You son of a bitch! You took her away from me, you are the reason she's like that! Happy now?" Grissom noticed that Hank was pretty drunk and in a wise movement he kicked Hank and he fell on his back. Grissom got up and started to punch Hank in the ribs and stomach, then out of nowhere something hit his leg followed by the smash of a bottle against his head. A line of blood made its way down Grissom's face but he didn't pay attention to it, instead he tackled Hank and crashed him against the wall.

Meanwhile Sara was inside the car listening to music and checking her watch every now and then 'Gil should be down here by now. I wonder what's going on up there'. That day after their lovemaking session Grissom had requested Sara to call him Gil, according to him it was because he loved how his name slipped from her lips in an intimate way, and Sara had waited so long for a moment like that that she wasn't gonna let it pass. Just as she was opening her door to go and see what Grissom was doing three police cars showed up in the parking lot and the officers made their way to the building. Sara saw that Jim was there and headed to ask him what was going on.

"Hey Jim, what's up?"

"Oh, hey Sara. You don't know? A woman called saying that she heard strange noises coming from the apartment next door. She said it sounded like a fight, so we came to check it out." As he said this Jim saw an officer coming to them.

"What's the apartment's number?" 'Please let it not be mine. Please, please.'

"17, why?" just as she was about to answer the policeman spoke up.

"Detective we are going to need an ambulance. There's an unconscious person and the other one's bleeding pretty bad." He was really nervous.

"Ok, I'll call them right away. Do you know the name of the persons in there?" he asked as he reached for his radio.

"They are Grissom and Hank." Sara replied before the officer could.

"What? What are you talking about Sara? Why were Grissom and Hank fighting?" before she could say anything Brass called for the ambulance and turned his attention to Sara.

"Well, we came here to take some of my belongings to Gi-Grissom's house, I thought that Hank had already left for work but it looks like he didn't." she saw the questioning look in his eyes and answer the unspoken question "Hank has been abusing me for six months and it's always worse after I work a case with Grissom, so he offered if I wanted to stay with him until I could get rid of Hank." Some tears escaped her eyes.

"Why didn't you say anything honey? We would've helped you, defended you." Brass moved and enveloped her in a tight hug.

"I was…afraid of him. And now Grissom was hurt because of me." She broke down in his arms.

In that moment the emergency arrived and two EMT's ran into the building. After a few minutes they exited it with the two men in stretchers, Sara went in search of Grissom. He was the one unconscious while Hank just laid there with bad head injury, she wanted to kill him for ruining her life but Brass got to him first.

"You are under arrests for attacking a CSI and abusing of another." He took out the handcuffs and then pushed Hank inside a police car with a little struggle from his part.

Sara rode to the Hospital with Grissom and holding his hand, on the trip there the noticed he had a slow heart rhythm and was starting to drop. They rushed him into surgery and told Sara to sit in the waiting room and fill to papers while they operated on him. Hours later all the night shift stood in the hallway waiting for some news about Grissom, finally a doctor came out and explained the situation to them.

"I'm sorry for the delay but we had to work a lot on Mr. Grissom. He had some fractured ribs, a lot of bruises and glasses in his head. The cause for the loss of conscious was a hit on the back of his head with some object. During the procedure we had some complications due to a great loss of blood which later he were able to control. He's asleep because of the drugs but he should awake in the next 10 hours or so." He saw the relief and worries in their faces.

"When can we see him?" Sara asked almost in tears.

"Only one of you at the time and only one person can stay with him through the night." They all knew who was going to stay and who was going to enter that room first.

Six hours had passed since everyone in the night shift went to see their supervisor and Grissom was still asleep, so Sara decided to rest a little. Two hours later she awoke to the feeling of something caressing her hair, she looked up and saw that Grissom was watching her sleep. Apparently she was profoundly asleep cause most of the cables had been extracted from him.

"Hey" his hand still on her hair.

"Hey, how are you feeling?" she sat straighter and looked at him. That's when she noticed the bruises and cuts.

"I'm a little better; the drugs keep the pain away. How are you? Did something happen to you?" his eyes showed worry.

"No, I'm ok. Brass arrested Hank for what he did, to both you and me; we have to testify in two weeks." Relieve showed on his face "Gil, what went on up there?" she took hold of his hand.

"Well, I entered and heard a noise, I went to see what it was and was hit by him, we struggled for a while until he grabbed a baseball bat and it collided with my head. That's all I can remember." He squeezed her hand and they looked into one another's eyes.

"I love you Gil. Thank you for what you've done." Her other hand caressed his face.

"I don't know why you're thanking me, I've treated you horribly these past years, pulling and then retreating to my shell. I played with your emotions without even noticing and hurt you in a way I never though possible. I'm sorry for all of that and I want to make it up to you if you let me. I love you more than you could ever imagine Sara." She leaned forward and kissed him as hard and passionate as she could without hurting him. "Honey, I know this is sudden and maybe I'm still in shock for what happened but I don't want to ever lose you or be apart from you. I wanna spend the rest of my life by your side making you happy. And in the future, not so far away, make you my wife and have a family. I will totally understand if you don't…" he was cut off my Sara's mouth landing on his.

"Do you know how happy it makes me what you just said? I've been in love with you since that seminar in San Francisco; of course I want to spend the rest of my life with you. Nothing could or will make me happier, well maybe being your wife or having family…" they smiled at each other.

After Grissom was released Sara moved to his house, she didn't take much with her everything reminded her of Hank. Eventually they bought a bigger house with a back yard and a second floor, months later a dog came into their lives and they were more than grateful. On their one year anniversary Grissom proposed to Sara under the stars while they were having a nice romantic dinner in the back of the house. They think that's when Hope was conceived.

The end

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