Part 2

"I missed having you in my arms." Sofia kissed Sara's naked shoulder. This was good, this was exactly what she had missed all the weeks. Now her new home was perfect.

"I missed your lips, falling asleep in your arms, having you close."

"I missed the sex." Sofia smirked.

"So did I. Maybe you're not that bad at all."

"Thanks." Sofia nudged Sara. "You're getting cheeky, you must have had enough sleep and feel better."

"I did and do."

"Means, I'll share my bed with my wife from now on?" Calling Sara her wife again, even that was something Sofia had missed. Her wife. She had promised to love Sara and to make her happy, she hadn't been good at doing that the last weeks, it was time for her to do it now.

"Do you want that?"

"For a smart woman you ask quite stupid questions my dear. I thought I made myself clear."

"Maybe you need a second try."

"I'd love to but unfortunately we both have to get up. No more time for snuggling, sex and sweet pillow talk. Which don't mean we can't have all these things tomorrow after work. I expect you in my bed, Misses Sidle."

"Do you? I've to look in my calendar if I'm free tomorrow morning. I might have a date with the good looking lieutenant."

"That would be me."

"Smuggy."

"Grumpy Smurf." Sofia kissed Sara. "Come on, let's have something to eat."

"You want me to cook?"

"No I cooked enough yesterday. Vegetarian lasagne, thought we could have dinner together but you were gone. I've the feeling you'll be here for dinner today."

"I will." Sara pulled Sofia back in her arms when the blonde was half out of the bed. "I don't want you out of my arms. I was without you long enough, too long."

"You explain to Grissom and Jim why we're working tonight arm in arm. They still think we married just for fun and nothing has changed. They don't know about Europe, about this morning, they don't know anything."

"They're quite stupid, aren't they?" Sara laughed.

"I won't tell them that you said that." Sofia pulled Sara with her out of the bed. No matter how much she wanted to give in and stay with Sara in bed, they both knew they couldn't do that.

"Come on, we can snuggle on the couch while we eat."

"Why do you have to be so sensible?"

"Because my wife, who usually is Misses Sensible, is today not thinking like a CSI, she thinks like a loving wife. I like that but that makes me think like a lieutenant and I've to get us out of bed."

"Mhm." Sara let Sofia pull her out of bed. It was a shame, the blonde was right and there was nothing Sara could say or do to change that. They had to work, they had both a case, they needed to be out of bed.

"You look better today." Greg looked at Sara when he entered the break room where Sara was sitting eating a yogurt.

"I didn't know I looked bad yesterday."

"You never look bad but you didn't look happy for the last couple of days…weeks. You do now."

"Thanks." Sara smiled.

Greg sat next to her, cocked his head. "What did Sofia do to make you smile again?"

"I beg your pardon?" Even if it was hard not to laugh or to flush, Sara wanted to try to stay calm and cool. That her friend had hit the mark was nothing he had to know.

"Come on. You were that strange soon after you came back from Europe, when you started to move in with Sofia. From that time on your mood became worse and worse. I assume it was something Sofia said or did or didn't say and do because other people don't effect you as much as she does and there was nothing special in the job.

Seeing you today, smiling and obviously happy, it means whatever had happened between you and her, you got it out of the world."

"Yes."

"Yes? Nothing more? Where are my details, Sara?"

"It might be private." Sara smirked.

"Oh come on, I'm your friend and I earn some credit for being that observing and not asking other people what's wrong with you."

"Yes Sofia is the reason why I'm happy."

"She was there before. Why weren't you happy before?"

"She wasn't there."

"You share a house."

"I know."

"How can she be not there?"

"She wasn't with me."

"Huh? She didn't spend time at home? That doesn't sound like Sofia."

"Oh Greg…okay I'll start at the beginning. You know we got married for fun, right?" Maybe it was about time to tell her friend what was really going on. He had been patient, hadn't bothered her daily with question about her feelings even when he knew something was wrong. He deserved a little bit of a heads up.

"Right."

"And that we said we wanted to have everything a real wedding has."

"That's why you got married again in the Netherlands, to have it legal now; at least in certain countries."

"Yes. We had a real wedding just like the rest was real too."

"What rest?"

"The honeymoon."

"Two weeks in Europe, that's what I call a real honeymoon too."

"Are you trying not to see the obvious thing, Greg? A real honeymoon, we shared a room, a bed."

"You do that all the time when you go on holidays. That's why I'm so sad you never take me with you. I'd be perfect in the middle."

"No wouldn't."

"Why not? I don't snore."

"Never said that. But I don't want anybody between Sofia and me. I want her in my arms and I don't want to have anybody around or wear anything, if you understand now what I'm talking about."

"Do you want to tell me…?"

"It started as a game but it isn't a game anymore. I really do have the feelings for Sofia you're suppose to have for your wife. And that's why I was so upset. We had an agreement, we would have a real honeymoon, with everything you imagine in a honeymoon but we wanted to stop that as soon as we were back in Vegas. What happened in Europe stays in Europe. It didn't work out for me. Unfortunately I found out I had fallen in love while we were in Europe, or even before that? I don't know and frankly, it scares me and I don't want to think about it.

I thought Sofia was fine with the agreement, that she had drew a line and was happy to have everything like it was before. Trying to get some space between us so that I could get my head straight, I became more unhappy with every day I tried to pretend that everything was like it was a few months ago.

This morning Sofia had enough of me being grumpy and closed up. She made me talk, she made me say all the things I didn't dare to say and when I was ready to hear that she wants me to move out or leave her alone she kissed me. I can tell you, I've never enjoyed anything as much as her lips."

"Does that mean you and Sofia are really…?"

"Yes."

"Wow." He got up, pulled her in his arms and hugged her.

"You are not shocked?"

"Shocked? I'm glad you're happy. It wasn't nice to see you that sad the last weeks. All the time you were happy when you were with her, I've never seen you as happy as today. Besides on your wedding day and I understand why now. There's no reason to be shocked. I hope she'll make you happy, Sara."

"Thanks Greg." She kissed his cheek.

"Is she as happy as you are?"

"I hope so. I can tell you it was difficult to get up and not to stay in bed. Today was the first time that I didn't want to go to work."

"You saying that means a lot. Something is more important than work to you."

"Someone. I've never thought I'd fall for a woman."

"For a smug and arrogant lieutenant."

"Makes it not better."

"Makes it perfect for you, makes her perfect."

"She calls me Grumpy Smurf."

"As I said, so perfect for you. And she looks much better than the guys you had before; besides me of course."

"You never had me, Greg."

"Let me go on dreaming a little bit more." Greg blinked at her and grinned widely when Sara's cell rang Because of a text message.

"I bet that's a hot blonde missing her stunning brunette."

"Have you never heard anything of privacy?"

"Not between friends." He got up. "Call her and tell her you miss her. And that I'll not stop trying to make you mine."

"You want her to shoot you?"

"You'd protect me, you always do."

"Get lost!" Sara laughed. Besides the fact that Sofia would never do anything to Greg, it was true, Sara would protect him.