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Chapter 4: Planning for the future
When they finished their food and the plates were taken away they started talking about the some of the events from work, and that's when Greg brought up something. "We are all in agreement that Grissom has been acting happy lately, right?" He looked at everybody and they all nodded, including Sara to keep up appearances, than Greg speaks again. "Well today he seemed more strange than usual."
Catherine asked. "What do you mean?"
He looked right at her and replied. "Well, he let me drive to the crime scene and let me play my music."
As their looks turned to shock, Nick responds. "Really? Usually he drives."
Greg nods back. "Or he lets Sara drive."
They all look at Sara now, and she said. "What?"
They smiled, and Warrick commented. "We obviously know who his favorite is?"
"I have no idea what you guys are talking about, I am not his favorite."
They all shook their heads 'yes' as Greg replied. "Yeah you are, when was the last time you had a decomp?" Sara tried to think about that but couldn't remember, so she couldn't answer the question, which made Greg comment. "See and when was last time you had to go dumpster diving?" Again Sara was silent and Greg continues. "Again, see. What are you doing to make him your favorite?"
In Sara's mind she was thinking. 'Oh dating him, living with him, accepting to marry him. Pick one.' but out-loud she replied. "I still don't think I am his favorite. I will tell you what, when he gets back I will ask for the decomps and the dumpster diving for a few months, will that make you feel better?"
They all looked at one another and when they looked at Sara again, Warrick said. "Yeah ok."
Sara nods, and as they all started getting up Nick said. "You know, maybe Grissom is dating some one."
Sara started to cough after taking one last drink of her water and hearing that comment.
After she stopped and reassured them that she was all right, Warrick made a comment. "You know you could be right, but he is so private it's hard to tell."
They all nodded and went up to the cash register to pay the bill.
As they were all walking out of the diner Greg continued the conversation. "Did anybody ever thought to just ask him?" They all looked at him like he was crazy, he lifted his shoulders up and asked. "What?"
Catherine shakes her head with a small smile. "Asking Grissom about his personal life, is like asking a rock to come to you, he will not budge."
Sara speaks up this time. "Catherine's right, besides guys if he was dating someone it's nobody's business but his and the person he is with."
They all stop and look at her, and when she realized she was walking by her shelf she turns to them and they were staring at her with raise eyebrows, which made her think. 'uhh ooo I think I said to much.'
They walk up to her and Catherine asked. "You know something don't you?"
Sara immediately shakes her head and replied defensively. "No, I just don't think it's right for you guys to be prying into his personal life, we all know he is a private person and he will tell us what he thinks we need to know and when he is good and ready."
They eventually nodded their heads in agreement, and since there was no point in talking about it anymore, they all said goodbye and went to their own vehicles to go home. Sara left last so she could get to the townhouse without suspicion from the guys seeing her go the opposite direction from her old apartment.
The whole time she was driving to the townhouse she kept thinking how close they were to finding out about her and Grissom, she is just happy that when he gets back from New York everything will be out in the open and they won't have to lie anymore. She hated keeping their relationship a secret, like it was wrong to be with him, but she understood why he wanted to wait. Among other practical reasons, he wanted to get use to being just a them, before they brought in their friends/co-workers.
After Sara pulls up to the townhouse and shuts off the vehicle, she looked at the building with a sigh. She couldn't wait to get married, then they could maybe get a house. Don't get her wrong she loves this place, but to her it would always be considered his and she wanted something that they both picked out.
When she walked into the townhouse she saw that Grissom was on the couch with the TV on and he was looking at today's paper.
He looks up when he heard the door open, then he smiles and said. "Hi fiancée."
She smiles back, but doesn't move from the door just yet, and replied. "Hello fiancé."
As she was still standing there he asked. "What's the matter?"
Sara sighed, turned and shut the door, then said as she was walking to the couch. "The team wanted to know if you were seeing someone since you have been so happy lately, and I told them that if you wanted to tell us then you would. Then they started asking me if I knew anything, which I told them no and told them to stop prying because I knew you wouldn't appreciate the intrusion and you would tell them when you were good and ready." She gets to the couch and sits down next to him.
Grissom sets his paper down, looks into her eyes and they looked frustrated. "I'm sorry this is putting a strain on you, but it will be all in the open soon, just wait for three more days, four tops, ok?"
Sara nods, looks into his eyes and replied. "Ok, I just want all this out." Grissom nods in understanding, leans toward her, while she leans toward him and they kiss, which was short and sweet, when they pulled apart Sara asked. "Am I your favorite?"
He looks at her with a raised eyebrow. "Your favorite?"
"Yeah your favorite CSI, the team thinks that."
Grissom leans back in a comfortable position on the couch as he replied. "You know I can't think of you as a favorite and I can't put one person over the other." Sara crosses her arms over her chest and raises her eyebrow. He knew that look, so he sighed and continued. "Yes ok, you're my favorite but that has nothing to do with the fact that we're dating and that stays between us, ok?"
"I think they are figuring that one out, so I suggest that you give me more decomps and dumpster duties alright?"
"I guess I could give you more of those." He smirks as she rolls her eyes.
He picks up the paper again and looks at it, Sara moves closer to him and puts her head on his shoulder, then thinking he had the crossword section she looked at the paper, but gasped when she saw that he was looking at the house ads.
He kissed her head before asking. "So do you want to help me pick out a house?"
She lifts her head up and looks at him, he looks over at her as she asked. "You want to buy a house?"
"Yeah, I figured after we're married we can live in a house, something we both picked out."
Sara gave him one of her biggest smiles after he said that, she couldn't believe they were on the same wave length about buying a house, then she leaned forward and gave him a very passionate kiss.
When they pulled back a little breathless, and after he finally got his voice, he said. "Not that I am complaining, but what was that for?"
"Nothing, you are just the best." He gives her a smile and she smiles back, then goes back to laying on his shoulder to look at the house ads with him.
After a few minutes of silence a question was asked by Sara. "How many bedrooms are we planning?"
It was quiet for a few seconds before Grissom replied. "How about three?"
She lifts her head up again and looked into his eyes, and she didn't even have to ask who the other two rooms were for, but she asked something else in a whisper. "You want kids?"
They never really talked about kids in their relationship and this was definitely a good time to start.
He sets the paper on the coffee table, turns his body so he is looking at her, puts a hand on her cheek and replied. "I know we never talked about this before, but before we started dating I always thought that kids were never in my future and I never really wanted any, but that all changed the day that I met you, and more so when we started dating. With you I could have my shot at being a father and just the thought of having them with you brings me so much joy." He stops to take a breath and to wipe a tear away from Sara's cheek, then starts again. "But, if you don't want any then that's ok. I will be happy with just the two of us, I just wanted to tell you how I feel about it."
He was going to take his hand off her cheek, but Sara puts her hand on his to keep it in place, then speaks. "As I was growing up I never thought I wanted to be a mother because of the childhood I had." Sara stops for a minute and Grissom nodded in understanding, they had talked about her family when they started dating, so he knew everything.
Sara takes a breath and continues. "Then something amazing happened, I walked into that seminar one day and saw a man with the most beautiful blue eyes and I uuu started too…" She had to stop for a second and looked away embarrassed, Grissom's thumb moved up and down her cheek to tell her it's ok to continue, so after a minute she looked back at him, did just that. "I started to image what my kids would look like with your blue eyes, then when I started dating you and getting to know you more, I knew that I would want my kids to not only have your eyes, but to have a part of you in them too. Nothing would make me feel more honored than to have your kids."
Grissom's face just lit up. "Did you just say what I think you said?"
Sara half chuckles and half sobs. "Yes, I want kids with you too." This time they both lit up as Grissom brings her into another kiss.
When they needed air from their passionate kiss they pulled apart slowly and they put their foreheads together, then he speaks after catching his breath. "I love you so much, I will love you forever."
"Could you love me right now?"
He pulled back, looked into her eyes and knew what she was asking, so he smiles and nods, then they do a little peck on the lips and both get up off the couch and walk to the bedroom door hand in hand.
When they got there they turn to each other and she continued. "I love you too, and I still hope our kids will have your blue eyes."
Grissom cups her cheek. "Well I want at least one to have your brown eyes, so lets hope that one will have your color and one with mine, is that a good compromise?"
Sara thinks about that for a minute before replying. "Ok, I'm good with that, so our boy will have your color of eyes and our girl with have mine." She smirks.
"So you think we will have one of each?" Sara nodded and Grissom continues. "I hope we do too. It would be a dream to see a beautiful daughter looking just li…" He was cut off when Sara started kissing him again, then she backs him into the bedroom without breaking apart and shuts the door behind them, both feeling more in love than ever.
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