Disclaimer: I don't own CSI, but I asked for it for Christmas..
"I think we got a confession!"
Sara watched as Nick and Brass interrogated Bill Lyndon. It seemed her case was all wrapped up and with nothing else to do, she soon found herself floating outside Grissom's office.
Their conversation earlier had been nothing less than weird. Was Grissom admitting feelings for her? Did he just want to make sure the date between her and Greg never happened? Sara was certainly very confused and a little annoyed with Grissom for stringing her along and then hurting her all over again every time he changed his mind, or put his own feelings first.
Because she agreed to go along with Catherine's plan, there wasn't just herself to be messed around, but Greg too and she realised she needed to talk to him. But first she had to know how Grissom really felt about her and what was going on in his head.
She reached out to knock on the door but a voice from behind stopped her. She frowned, realising who the voice belonged to. Greg Sanders: always there when you need him the least.
"Greg…hi", Sara said in an overly-cheerful voice.
"No decomp-duty then?" he asked
Sara looked puzzled before remembering what she had said earlier and suppressing a smile. Take the easy way her mind told her lie to him, pretend you can't go out tomorrow night because of a bad case. He'll understand. But she knew she couldn't do that to him. Especially if anything did happen between her and Grissom. She didn't want Greg to think of her as a liar.
"No…but I have been thinking about tomorrow, and I'm not sure it's such a good idea".
Greg nodded as if he had predicted her words "You're blowing me off?"
"I'm sorry…it's just…"
"Nah, you don't have to be", he grinned "I just hope he's worth it".
Sara watched him disappear down the hallway, wondering how he knew there was another guy, and worse, if he knew it was Grissom.
Trying to regain her confidence, Sara turned to Grissom's office door again. But it was swung open before she could knock, sending her backwards a little with the shock.
Grissom stared suspiciously at her "Sara? What are you doing out here?"
"I was…just about to knock", she said, trying hard not to sound like a stalker.
He laughed and told her he was heading out to the scene of a robbery, pausing before asking her to join him.
"Everyone else is busy…." he explained.
"What a way to make a girl feel special", she joked.
He smiled at her awkwardly as she followed him out to his car.
"Actually I came by your office to ask you something", Sara said when they were both seated in the car.
"Hmm?" Grissom said.
"I wanted to know if…" Sara began, choking on her own words.
"Yes Sara?"
"Do you…have feelings…for me?"
Grissom's face remained totally calm, almost expressionless except for a slight glint in his eyes that Sara noticed as a pause for thought.
"I shouldn't have said anything…" she excused herself, truly wishing that she hadn't.
"Yes", Grissom said quietly, maintaining focus on the steering-wheel.
Sara stared at him but he didn't look back. "What?"
He turned in her direction, locking eyes with her for only a second "I think you heard me Sara. Now, we really must get over to this crime scene", he insisted, starting the car up.
"This is just like you, Grissom", Sara yelled "The minute you start to show a tiny bit of emotion, you change the subject!"
"I wasn't changing the subject. If we don't go now, we won't get there on time".
"So…what, we can talk about this later? Well whenever the time's right for you", she muttered sarcastically.
"There never will be a right time", he said, raising his voice just enough to imply seriousness. "Yes, I have feelings for you, and yes I have for a long time but I don't know what to do about that".
"So you're just going to ignore them?"
"For the time being, yes".
Sara slumped back in her seat "You know, I don't get you Grissom".
"Good", he told her "I don't expect you to".
The rest of the drive there was silent as Sara thought about what he had just told her. She hadn't anticipated it to be this hard, not now he'd confessed how he felt about her. It just seemed that whatever she did he would not open up to her and maybe she was growing tired of trying with him.
Grissom understood that Sara was hurt by the way he was treating her. He just wasn't sure that acting on the feelings she now knew he felt for her was such a wise idea. The problem with Sara is her stubbornness Grissom thought to himself but maybe that's one of the reasons I like her so much…
Aww poor Greggo, oh well it's leaning towards a little more GSR-ness. Ha...it's quite hard to get them together whilst keeping them in character. I guess eventually some thing's got to give. Even I don't know what's going to happen next, but I'll update probably tomorrow, thanks for reading x
