AN: Thank you for the reviews. Warning: Language, one word, but I felt it was worth noting just for a heads up.

Chapter 4: Her Decision

2 Months later

When Grissom had assigned the case at the beginning of shift, he never would have thought he had to call another lab to help finish it because it turned out the suspect had killed some one else in that city.

After putting the phone up to his ear once he dialed, he waited a few seconds before a sleepily toned voice came over the phone. "Dyson."

"Hey Pat, sorry to wake you, but I believe I have a case that ties to one of yours."

Pat sighed and asked which case it was as he sat up in bed, then after looking over at his wife of 10 years to make sure she was still asleep, he got out of bed and walked out into the living room. "Yes, it sounds like him, I would like some of my people there to help finish it out."

"I was counting on that, that's another reason I called, preferable the ones who worked on the original case would be great."

"Alright, Pearce and Sidle will be there as soon as they can."

Not able to control it, his heart skipped a beat when he mentioned Sara will be here, before replying. "Sounds Good, I'll let my team know that we are getting company, thanks Pat."

"No problem Gil, get that son of bitch for me."

"Won't rest until I do."

After they hung up, he takes a calming breath before getting up from his office chair, then once he grabbed the files he needed, he walked out of the room and headed toward the break room.

Once he was there, he looked at his team, which along with Catherine Willows, there was Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes, and Courtney Moore, who was slightly taller than Catherine with short red hair and green eyes, her build was slim, but could surprise people with her strength. She was a new CSI that was just hired a month ago when the last one they had up and left them, saying she was ready to leave Vegas because she couldn't handle it here.

When they saw their boss walk in, Warrick asked. "What do you have boss, is it really true?"

Grissom nodded as he placed the files on the conference table. "It is, he struck in San Francisco first, then came here." He saw the disappointed looks on their faces, and he was right there with them.

It was one thing to not catch a killer and them continue to kill in the same city, but killing in two different cities made it more unpredictable and not to mention more frustrating, so he took a breath before continuing. "We have reinforcements coming in, so let's just take a breath and relax, they'll be here as soon as they can. But in the meantime, is there anything more to go over?"

Nick shook his head with sigh. "Not yet, everything is still being processed."

"Alright, then let's review and get everybody on the same page, I don't want anybody missing anything, got it?"

Hearing the sharp tone, they all nodded and said 'got it', then as he was pouring a cup of coffee, they started to talk about the details of the case so they'll be as ready as they can when their reinforcements came and they could hit the ground running so they wouldn't waste any more time.

A few hours later

After a heavy rain delay in San Francisco, Sara and Logan finally made it to Vegas, and once they stepped into the lab and was signed in, they put on their visitor badges and followed the hall like they were directed so it would take them to the break room, and Logan couldn't help but look around in amazement. "This place is bigger than ours."

She smirked back. "And that's one of the reasons their solve rate is #2 in the country."

He looked at her with a raised eyebrow. "How do you know all of this?"

She smirked again while rolling her eyes. "It's called picking up and reading a magazine." He was about to open his mouth, but she continued before he could. "And not sports illustrated or the swimsuit issue."

He held up his hand and said with a smile. "What? I like the articles."

She rolled her eyes again while speaking in a tone, like she didn't believe him one bit. "Yeah, I bet."

Their walk started to slow down when Sara recognized the man in the break room that was sitting at the end of the table looking down at his notes.

It's been two months since they've seen one another, but their communication over emails had started about a week after he had left San Francisco, which started out light, only one or two a week before they started sending some back and forth more regularly.

And while they weren't sharing anything personal related since they kept it strictly professional, they still meant a great deal to her. She got a happy look and her heart sped up every time she saw she had received something from him, whether it was a tidbit of one his bugs she needed to identify for a case, or an entomology lesson, and even talking about past cases.

Her thoughts get interrupted when Logan spoke beside her with a smirk. "Hey Sara, are we going in or keep standing here looking like a bunch of idiots who don't know how to open a door."

Sara cleared her throat and nodded. "Of course." Before she opened the door and stepped in the room. "Mr. Grissom."

Grissom's team looked at the woman that just stepped in the room before looking at their boss's face as he looked up from the file he was so engrossed in a few seconds earlier, and they could have sworn, or at least Catherine could more clearly, that his eyes just lit up after seeing the woman that just walked in.

Grissom gets up from his seat and smiled at Sara. "Sara. I mean uh, Ms. Sidle, it's nice to see you again." Then he cringed a little. "I mean, the circumstances could be better, but uh, well, you know what I mean."

While he mentally cringed again, the team, practically Warrick, Nick and Catherine looked at one another in confusion because of all the years they have known this guy, they have never heard him so tongue tied before.

As the team looked at the interaction between the two again, Sara gave him a warm smile with a nod. "I do and I agree, it's nice to see you again."

After a look between the two that went a little longer than necessary, he cleared his throat and turned to his team. "Guys, this is Sara Sidle and Logan Pearce."

The team stood up, and stopped next to Grissom as he continued. "Sara and Logan, this is the night shift team, Catherine Willows, Warrick Brown, Nick Stokes and Courtney Moore."

They each gave one another hand shakes, and after the last person shook Logan's hand, Sara pulled all the files that she had grabbed from the San Francisco lab out of her bag before they started getting down to business, pushing all personal feelings aside to concentrate on the task at hand.

Later that evening

Once the case was closed with a very good result, the whole team took Logan and Sara to the bar, and after awhile, it ended up with just them at the table. Then once Grissom took a sip of his beer, he looked toward Logan, who was talking with Courtney at the bar, the only two left of the team here besides him and Sara, then looked at Sara and asked, which he wasn't very sure why he did in the first place. "So you and Pearce, what's the story?"

She just about chocked on her drink and coughed before she pulled the bottle away and raised an eyebrow. "Where did that come from?" Then she smirked. "And why do you want to know, jealous?"

Grissom quickly denied it and shook his head with a chuckle. "No, of course not." She wasn't really sure she believed him, but decided to not bait him as he continued after clearing his throat and looking down at his beer bottle. "Just wondering, I've had a weird vibe between you two since I met you guys, and I apologize if I overste..."

And although she found his over talking a little adorable, Sara cuts him off. "A couple of dates when I first started, but nothing serious." When he looked at her with a questioning look, she smiled and replied as she pointed toward the bar. "Watch."

He turned his head to watch Logan and Courtney again, they now were laughing and seemed to move closer to one another each second while his hand ran down her arm and her hand ran down his chest, then a few moments later they both turned from the bar and he placed his hand on the small of her back as they walked out together, leaving no room for doubts on what they'll be doing soon.

When they were gone, he turned his head to look at Sara again with a head nod. "I see, a lady's man?"

Sara nodded as she took a sip of her beer before she continued. "Very. I mean he's a great guy, and as far as I know he never cheated on anybody, but I wasn't into that casual thing, especially with a co-worker, and he wasn't ready to stop his wandering eye, so we decided that it was best just to keep us as friends." As Grissom nodded in understanding, Sara continued while looking into his eyes. "And it was the best move we could have made because he's been the best friend I ever had, until..."

She trailed off as she looked down at her hands, then Grissom leaned forward in his chair as he placed his hand on her arm, both ignoring the spark shooting through them, as he asked softly. "Until when."

She looked into his blue eyes again and replied with unexpected tears in hers. "Until I met you. I want you to know how much our friendship means to me. I mean I know we haven't really discussed anything personal, but what I have gotten from you, makes me happy."

Grissom smiled with a nod. "Me too, and your friendship means a lot to me too, I'm glad I have it."

If he couldn't be with her in any romantic way, he'll cherish the friendship he was building with her, and vice versa on Sara's part.

Sara nodded as she placed her hand on his. "Always, Griss, always."

He raised his eyebrow at the nickname. "Griss?"

She shyly smiled. "Is that ok?"

With the smile still on his face, he nodded again. "Yeah, it's fine."

After a long moment of looking at one another, he pulled his hand away from her arm and sits back in his chair as he cleared his throat before asking. "So, what do you think of the team?"

Sara smiled, and took the last sip of her drink before answering. "They seem great and very pleasant to work with, I could see myself working well with them." Grissom raised an eyebrow with a hopeful look while she chuckled and finished. "Well you know, if I ever decided to change cities, that is."

He chuckled with a nod, and after he finished his last sip, he stands up and asks. "You ready?"

She nodded while she stood up too, then as they were walking toward the exit of the building, he spoke again. "Well, you know who would love for you to join the team?"

She raised an eyebrow a she looked over at him. "Who?"

He smirked. "Our lab tech, Greg Sanders, I think he has a little crush on you."

Sara chuckled with a nod, she noticed that too, then she took a breath before replying. "That's sweet, but not really my type." Then not meaning to, the last part slipped out. "I prefer older men."

Grissom's heart skipped a beat as their eyes connected again after that comment, which was kind of the truth because her past boyfriend/dates ages consisted of her age or slightly older, but there's only one much older man she's ever been interested in, even if she wasn't suppose to.

She then cleared her throat and walked to the driver's side of her rented vehicle. "I uh, I better go, Logan and I have an early flight tomorrow."

Grissom nodded as he cleared his throat, while his mind was still on what she had said. "You sure you're ok to drive?"

His concern went to right to her heart as she smiled reassuringly. "I promise I'm ok."

"Alright, have a good night's sleep and I'll see you when I see you again."

"Until next time, and sleep tight too, Griss."

After one more smile and nod at one another, they get into their vehicles before going different directions.

Once Sara made it to the correct floor at the hotel she was staying at, she walked out of the elevator and started walking to her room, and just as she got there, she heard the door behind her open, so she turned around and smiled at Logan, who was wearing sweatpants, sandals and an unbuttoned shirt, showing off his smooth chest and a six pack abs.

"I take it you had a good night."

He walked out of his room carrying an ice bucket with a smile. "We are both on the same page, so don't worry."

Sara shook her head and held up her hands in surrender. "Hey, you two are consenting adults, it's none of my business."

Logan nodded at her before her attention went to opening her door, but stopped when Logan walked up to her. "Sara."

She turned back around to look at him. "Yeah?"

He paused for a second before asking, even though part of him already knew the answer to it. "You're leaving San Francisco and coming here, aren't you?"

She cleared her throat and asked with a slight tremor in her voice. "What makes you say that?"

"Because I can see the way you look at him, and I know how much you love him." Sara looked down at the floor, not denying what he had said, before he continued after a sigh. "And whether he's fully aware of it or not, he's in love you too."

She looked at him quickly again with a little hope sparked in her. "You think?"

"I'm not an expert on human behavior for nothing." Sara nodded as she looked down again, while he whispered when he was near her. "But you're playing with fire if you choose to move here, he's engaged to another woman."

Sara started to sniffle as she looked at him again with tears in her eyes. "You don't think I know that? Don't you think I wish I can just shut off what I feel? Well, I can't, and it hurts not being near him, or hearing his voice every shift, or seeing him."

"But you think it will be easier living here, where you can do all those things you wish night after night, knowing that you can't be with him?"

"I have no other choice, it can't hurt worse than what I already feel, so unless you have a magic word that can change everything that I'm feeling, I have to do this."

Knowing there was no point in trying to convince her on anything once she had her mind set on something, he nodded, then he sighed as he walked to the wall that was next to her door and placed his back against it as he smiled slightly. "Man, I wish someone loved me that much."

Sara sniffled as she wiped her tears away before smirking. "I don't think you could handle that."

He then chuckled with a nod. "You're probably right, I would more than likely screw it up."

She shook her head before replying with a more serious tone. "You just haven't found the right one yet, and once you do, you'll be able to hold on to it."

"You think?"

She didn't even hesitate because she believed it with all of her heart. "I do."

He smiled, then he took a breath before replying. "I thought I did, once or twice." As they have eye contact for a few seconds, Sara had a feeling one of those women he thought was the 'one' could have been her, and after he nodded, showing her she was right, he continued. "But it just wasn't meant to be." Then he smirked. "So, I guess I'll have to keep searching for her."

She chuckled while shaking her head before smirking again. "Yeah, and I'm sure that will be a tough task for you."

He chuckled too before moving his back from the wall. "Well, you know how much I love challenges."

"That I do."

After one more nod, Sara's attention went back to her door as Logan started walking toward the ice machine at the end of the hall, but he stopped after a few more steps before turning back around. "Sara?" When she looked at him again, he continued with a sincere tone. "I really hope he's worth it."

"I believe he is, and I also believe that everything will work out in the end."

"For your sake, I hope it does."

She gave him a sincere smile with a nod before speaking again. "Remember we have an early flight, so don't stay up too late, ok?"

He smirked as he turned back around before he continued his task while speaking. "Yes, mom, goodnight."

She chuckled as she rolled her eyes. "Goodnight."

When she finally walked into her room, letting the door shut behind her, she got ready for bed.

Once she showered and was changed into her sleeping clothes, she grabbed her laptop and started it before typing out her resignation letter, and after she saved the document, she opened her email account and sent Grissom an email telling him she'll accept the job offer if it's still on the table. Then once she was done, she shut off her computer and placed it on her night stand before laying down and closing her eyes so she could fall asleep.

She knew she was taking a risk changing her life on something that might never happen. But from the first day she had met him, no matter how much she tried to convince herself otherwise, she felt like he was the something that she had missed out on, that they were suppose to meet at that forensic conference and things should have been different a long time ago.

AN: Next Chapter: Sara's arrival in Vegas, and one more step closer where everything changes. Please continue to be patient. Please Review.