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CHAPTER 3

"Nina, your father is gone now, do you want to talk to me about it?" Sara asked. It still was a shock for her, that Grissom had a grown-up daughter. She'd known Grissom was a private man. He'd always been like that, in the ten years she'd known him. Even Brass and doctor Robbins, whom both known Grissom for more then ten years, didn't know that much about him. 'Brass, definitely has never met Nina, let alone knew Nina is Grissom's daughter. Otherwise that was the first thing we would have heard.'

Sara looked at the young woman on the couch. So many emotions were seen on her face, but the one that Sara scared the most was the look of complete peace, like she didn't care what was going to happen, like she had accepted what had happened to her. "Nina?" Sara tried again.

It was when she'd heard her name for the second time, Nina turned her head to look at Sara. "You know, dad's told me about you. From the moment he'd met you."

Sara looked back in shocked at Nina. "He's told you about me?" Sara heard her voice quiver and hated herself for being, and sounding, so insecure.

Nina, once again, looked straight forward, but softly nodded her head to Sara's question.

"What did he tell you about me?" This time Sara's voice sounded more self-assured.

Nina shrugged her shoulders. "He told me about how the two of you met. I was thirteen at the time, and hardly saw him. Several years later, he asked me if I thought it was wise to ask you to come to Vegas. I told him, he had to decide that for himself. After that, I don't know what happened. We lost contact, or actually, my mum took care that we lost contact. Guess he decided it was good you'd come to Vegas after all."

"Why would Grissom talk with his then thirteen year old daughter about some college student he met?' Sara couldn't help having a strange feeling in the pit of her stomach, not knowing it was a feeling of being happy or sad or any other feeling. She really wanted to change the subject - namely her - of their conversation to something else, and therefore she asked once again to whom Nina had told about who was beating her up.

Nina felt she could trust this woman her father already told her so much about. But since she found it so hard to talk about what happened, even with her father gone, she kept staring straight ahead.

Sara had taken the liberty to sit down on the couch, besides Nina, and now softly placed her hand on Nina's arm. This nice gesture opened the dams, and Nina started crying uncontrollably. Sara pulled Nina in a hug and simply let her cry, feeling completely at ease with comforting the young woman.

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Both, Greg and Nick, desperately wanted to know how the victim was related to Grissom and if they were related at all. They seriously had considered the option of running the woman's DNA through CODIS, but in the end decided it was better to ask Grissom outright. They'd flipped coins and Nick was the fortunate one to ask Grissom about it.

"Grissom," Nick said, carefully taking in the movements of the older man.

Grissom looked up to see both Nick and Greg looking in anticipation at him. He sighed, knowing he had to tell the rest of his team about what was happening. Since Nick and Greg were already here, that left Catherine and Warrick.

Warrick stormed into the break room with Catherine right behind him. "I said I was sorry! What else do you want me to say!" Catherine said.

Warrick turned to say something to Catherine, but the look he saw on Grissom's face made him say something completely different: "Grissom, what's going on?"

Grissom cocked an eyebrow and said he had no idea what Warrick was talking about. It was then that Catherine noticed that her boss and long time friend definitely wasn't his usual self. His shoulders hung down, the tone in his voice was cold and the look in his eyes… It was the look in his eyes that scared her the most. She'd never seen him look like so much hatred.

"Gil," Catherine said, "something is going on. What is it?"

Just as Grissom was about to answer, Sara came walking in, telling Grissom that Nina had fallen asleep. Grissom simply nodded to let Sara know he'd heart her.

Catherine looked from Grissom to Sara and back again asking who Nina was. It was neither of them who answered her, for it was Greg instead.

"Sorry, but I don't get it. What is one of your victims," Catherine pointed to Greg and Nick, "here on the station, sleeping in Grissom's office?"

"It's Sara's victim as well," Nick said. "The three of us were working on this case. Besides, we were just about to ask Grissom something about our case."

Sara raised an eyebrow, looking from Nick to Greg and back again. Then she looked at Grissom and she knew, he knew, what the younger men wanted to know and in an instant she knew too.

"You want to know what my relation to the girl is." Grissom said. Both Nick and Greg nodded their heads. "She's my daughter." Grissom sighed.

Catherine and Warrick looked incredulously to Grissom. Not believing what they'd just heard. Then Catherine looked at Sara. "You knew!" It didn't sound accusing, but was said as an statement.

Sara nodded her head. "I just found out today. If it weren't…" Sara never got to finish that sentence, because an ice-piercing scream came from Grissom's office.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. My sick head didn't let me write on this story. I'm sort of having absolutely no idea where to go with it. I'm just writing and see where it will end.That's why this is a sort chapter.Hopefully I'll be able to upload the next chapter around December 18th and hopefully it will be a longer one.
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