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Chapter 4: A Lie Revealed

Grissom sighed before replying. "Really Sara? That's how you want to play this?"

Sara shook her head. "Honestly, I don't know what you are talking about, what email?"

He sighed again as he looked away. "The one I sent to you two years ago."

Sara searched her memories from two years ago, and what she remembered about any email she had received from him while they were apart before things took a drastic turn, were love emails, poems, updates on where he was working, and talking about certain memories that popped in his head while he was doing this or that, but she doesn't ever remember reading the words that told her he wouldn't interfere in her life anymore, she just couldn't remember.

Sara took a breath and spoke as her heart started racing. "I'm sorry, but I didn't get that email, I didn't read it. What did it say?"

It got her very curious now, especially when he had said that it was an important email, she had to know how important it was.

Grissom searched her eyes, seeing she was telling him the truth that she hadn't seen the last email he had sent to her before they cut ties with one another, and that made his heart race because this information could change everything.

But as the elevator jerked and started going up, they braced their hands on the side and he saw the engagement ring on her finger again, so shook his head before clearing his throat and looking forward. "It doesn't matter what I wrote to you, it is in the past and you've moved on, you're engaged to be married to another man." The elevator stopped and opened, then he finished before stepping out. "And I have let you go, so do the same with the email."

Despite his best efforts these past two years, letting her go wasn't something he had done very well, so that line about letting her go was a lie, but he didn't want her clinging on. Maybe her not reading that email or not receiving it, was a sign that it was time to let each other go.

All the years that they were able to put aside their personal feelings or thoughts while they were working a crime scene paid off now, because the minute they walked into that hotel room, their thoughts turned to what they needed to do and not about everything that happened while they were in the elevator.

Once their scene was processed they took their evidence back to the lab, and after that was processed and sent to the various labs to get analyzed, Grissom looked at Sara once they sat down at the break room table for a much needed break. "Why don't you get out of here, I can take over the rest of the case."

She cleared her throat while she looked at him. "You sure?"

He gives her a little smile with a nod. "Yeah, besides its a waiting period, and you've been here all night. Go home and get some rest."

Sara nodded. "Ok, thank you."

Grissom gave her another nod. "You're welcome, drive safe." She gave him a little smile before getting up and turning toward the door.

She had taken a few steps, but then turned around and looked at him again. "Grissom?" He looked up from the table while she continued. "When did you send the email?"

Grissom sighed. "Sara..."

But she cuts him off. "Please?"

Knowing she wouldn't let it go, he spoke while he looked back down at the table. "I sent it the day after our last phone call conversation."

Sara does another nod, even though he wasn't looking at her before she turned and finally walked out of the room.

Grissom looked up just as she was walking past the window and sighed.

Sara had barely gotten home and had just dropped her jacket and purse on the couch, while the thought of that email she had never seen or heard of was still in her mind, when there was a knock on the door, so she turned around toward the door and walked up to it before opening it.

Bruce gives her a little smile. "I saw you pull up."

Any other time she probably would have thought that was sweet, but why all of a sudden did she feel sickened by that?

She mentally shook her head, bashing those thought away as he continued. "Sara, you ok? Rough double?"

Sara cleared her throat and moved the side to let him in. "Come in, sorry."

He nodded, than after he stepped up to her to give her a hug, he pulls back and released her before finally stepping into the house.

After she shuts the door, she said. "I'm getting a drink, you want something?"

He shook his head with a no thanks before she turned and started walking toward the kitchen, hearing him talk about wedding plans.

Then a strange feeling washed over her when he said. "Oh, I have an idea for the wedding that I saw on the internet, you should look at, so can I use your computer for a second?"

She stopped dead in her tracks before she reached the kitchen as her mind went somewhere she wasn't expecting it to go.

Flashback

Two years ago

She had been sitting on the couch drinking a beer while thinking about how low her life had gotten with that phone call she received last night, when there was a knock on the door. She placed her beer on the end table before getting up from the couch and walking toward the door, not caring that whoever was on the other side of it saw her in her sweatpants and sweatshirt.

After opening the front door, she sees that it was her neighbor, Bruce, then she gives him a small smile. "Hi Bruce."

"Hi Sara."

Before he could continue, Sara sighed and said. "Listen, I'm not much for company right now."

He also does a sigh and shook his head. "It's your husband, isn't it?"

He had never met him, but he knew about their situation, and he could tell since he's been her neighbor that it was really taking a toll on her.

Sara looked into his caring brown eyes before looking down, showing him that he was right, so he stepped closer to her and puts a hand on her shoulder. "I think this is all the more reason to have company from a friend, especially at your lowest."

Sara lifted her head to look into his caring brown eyes again, and knew that he wasn't going to go away so easily, and she wasn't really in the mood to argue, so she nodded as she moved to the side to let him in. He smiled as removed his hand before stepping into the house.

While she closed the front door, she asked. "You want a beer?"

Bruce nodded as he walked to the couch. "Sure."

She nodded in return before walking toward the kitchen to get him one, and after she returned to the living room, she hands him the drink before she sits down on the other end of the couch.

After they clinked their bottles together and took a sip, Bruce asked. "So what was it this time? Broken date?"

Sara cleared her throat and replied. "Broken everything, he said that it was in my best interest if we split up."

He cringed a little. "I'm sorry Sara."

"Thank you, but I don't really want to talk about it."

"Fair enough, so what do you want to talk about?"

Sara shrugged as she looked down at her beer. "I told you I'm not much company right now."

"That's ok, I don't mind sitting in silence."

She just nodded while they both took another sip of their beer.

About 15 minutes later, he started talking about his childhood with his two older brothers, figuring it would get her to smile and laugh at some of the antics they were up to back then, and his plan actually worked because by the end of the second story she started to smile a little.

After the latest story, and she had stopped laughing, Bruce smiled as he took the last sip of his beer, then after he swallowed it, he asked. "Why don't we get out here?"

"And go where?"

"How about a movie? It would get you out of here for a little bit and get your mind on something else."

She smiled before replying. "I thought you were doing a good job at that a few minutes ago."

He chuckled. "Well I guess I could tell more stories if you want."

She smiled again, but when her eyes caught a picture on the shelf of her and Grissom over his shoulder, she lost it before looking at Bruce. "Ok, but nothing romantic." She couldn't stand watching those movies right now.

He nodded while she got up from the couch so she could head to the bedroom and change as he asked. "Can I use your computer to check what's showing at the theater?"

End of Flashback

'Can I use your computer?' went over and over in her head as she came back to the present, then
she mentally shook her head and thought. 'No way, he wouldn't do that, would he?'

She was so lost in her own thoughts that she didn't hear him say her name, so she jumped at the contact of his hand on her shoulder while she turned to him.

"Sara, you ok? You aren't looking very well."

She cleared her throat and asked. "Tell me you didn't do it."

He looks at her with confusion. "Do what?"

"While you got on my computer two years ago, you didn't get into my email account and delete an email from Grissom." Before he could say anything, she continued a little louder. "Tell me you didn't violate my privacy and lie to me this whole time! Tell me you are not that type of man?"

One slip of his body language told her everything she ever needed, so when he took a breath and started to say. "Sara..."

She cuts him off as she stepped back from him, covering her mouth with her right hand. "Oh my god, I can't believe this." He steps up to her again with his hand out, but she shook her head while she stepped back once again. "Don't touch me, don't you ever touch me again."

He stopped while continuing. "You had gotten an email from him while I was on your computer." He sighed before finishing. "And I just thought...Well I thought I was protecting you."

"Protecting me!?"

"The minute you saw what he sent you I knew you would've jumped at the chance to get back together with him. After all the times he's hurt you, do you really think it could have been different this time?"

"It wasn't your choice to make with my life! You took that choice away, and if you really cared for me then you wouldn't have done what you did." Sara wiped a tear off her cheek. "And yeah, I've been hurt by him, I'm not denying that, nor would I ever. But I know I've hurt him a few times too, it went both ways, and the last time must have killed him and I didn't know anything about it, you used me to hurt him, I'll never forgive you for that."

Tears started to come down her cheek as she looked down on the floor, she could only imagine what he was feeling when she never responded or went to him. It must have hurt him deeply, which she had caused it without even knowing, so his attitude toward her since coming back here was immediately explained.

Her thoughts get interrupted again when Bruce speaking. "Sara I do love you, and I know you love me. We can start over and still make this..."

Sara cuts him off as she looked up at him with glare. "How I feel about you or what we had was built on a lie, so if you think that I could ever see you like I did, love you after this, or even think I could marry you, you don't know me very well, the wedding is off." He was about to talk, but stopped when he saw her take off her engagement ring and chucked it at him. "Take it and get the hell out of here, I don't ever want to see you in here again." When he hadn't moved, she shouted. "Get out!"

He bent down to pick up the ring, then he looked down at it before looking at her again. "For whatever it's worth, I'm sorry you got hurt, but I still don't think he deserves you."

She watched him turn and walk toward the door while she spoke. "Well I know for a fact you don't deserve me, least I know he didn't have to lie to be with me, our love was true and pure, and that's something I never had with anybody else." As he opened the front door, she finished. "And your words mean nothing to me." Bruce looked back at her sadly before turning and walking out of he door, shutting it behind him.

While the door clicked shut, Sara walked to the couch, sat down and placed her head in her hands and started to cry about being lied to, missed opportunities, and really about everything, until she couldn't anymore and fell asleep on the couch, completely exhausted.

AN: Grissom's email will be revealed soon. What happens next? Find out next chapter. Please review.