Thanks to all those who have followed this story, and to those who have left feedback (:. A huge thanks to Louise, without her help this story wouldn't have been completed. I have enjoyed writing this story and I hope you all have enjoyed reading it :) Here's the final chapter of Revealing Gil Grissoms Past. Enjoy.

Revealing Gil Grissoms Past

Epilogue

The funeral was as what you would expect. Hundreds of friends and relatives of the deceased Cassandra James came to pay their respects. Grissom had asked Sara to join him to the service and Sara agreed with no thought. They sat at the back of the church at the service, and when it was time for the burial Grissom stayed at the back of the crowd his eyes not leaving the white casket for even a second. The only time he moved was when he placed his hand in Sara's and gave it a little squeeze.

After the service Sara was glad to get away from the graveside the smell of all the different flowers relatives and friends left for the victim was making her nauseous. Grissom suggested for them to grab something to eat at a diner on the way back seeing as both of them had the day off. Sara had quickly agreed so there they were sat in a quite diner away from the bustling of the tourists and businessmen on the strip.

"Thanks Sara for coming, I don't think I would have coped if you wasn't there with me," Grissom said over his cup of coffee.

Sara who was sat across from him, her own coffee mug placed at her lips. Smiled lovingly at him. "Its okay Griss, It was a lovely service"

"I agree, but could we please not talk about that, I don't like to think of her there in the cold ground" Grissom winced at the raw memory of Cassandra's casket getting lowered into the ground.

"Sure" Sara took another sip of her warm coffee and looked up at Grissom before reaching across the table and placing her warm hand on top of his. "How about we talk about Cassandra, tell me how you two met"

Grissom looked shocked at Sara for wanting to know about Cassandra but seeing understanding and love in her eyes he smiled before he started. "I met Cassie when I was at a lecture in San Francisco, in fact, it was the same place I met you but a few years before, She was the receptionist, and helped me a lot with passing messages and how to work the answering machine" Grissom laughed at the memory.

Sara kept quiet and let Grissom carry on. "A few hours before I was due to come back to las Vegas, she got a phone call to pass on to me about the plane being cancelled and there wasn't another one till 2 days later. I was annoyed, I had no plans for 2 whole days, so on a whim I asked if she wanted to waste some time with me" Grissom was smiling away while he spoke, his mind not in the diner but in the memory of him and Cassandra. "Lucky enough she had the next week off, so she agreed very quickly I might add. We spent the next two days going to the cinema, dinners, looking around museums, believe me I didn't know you could do so much in such little time."

"She sounds very nice" Sara smiled her hand still placed on his.

Realising Sara's hand was on his he took it in his and started playing with her fingers. "She was lovely Sara, I didn't have friends much and girlfriends was a whole different matter, but with her I changed, I can't explain how, but I just did. Before I went home we exchanged contact details and kept in touch for the next couple of months. I missed her that much I flied out to visit her, and it was them two days all over again. By then I was torn, my heart was saying I was in love and my scientific mind was saying be realistic, it went on like this us visiting each other for years, I loved her company, I loved her."

Grissom went silent his eyes shining with unshed tears, Sara with one question in her mind the whole time had to ask. " How did the relationship end Griss?"

Grissom got out of his trance and rubbed his free hand over his face. "She understood the mixed feelings I had, she understood how I loved work more then anything, she didn't end it for her she ended it for me, for that maybe I would learn that in life there's far more things to experience then work"

"Did you finally learn?" Sara asked, fully intrigued in the story Grissom was revealing.

"You know, for the next couple of years I didn't learn. It was only till very recently that something has clicked in my mind" Grissom spoke taking a look at Sara and chuckling softly at the puzzled look across her face.

"Sara, when I learned that Cassandra died, that's when it clicked, I got scared that I was going to lose you, my heart was telling me to go to you, my mind was saying the opposite, that's why I was so rude to you during the case, and I am sorry for that, but I had the same mixed feelings, as what I was talking about with Cassandra, and it all got to much to bare."

"So what made you change your mind?" Sara asked, not daring to hope on anything just yet.

"You, when I saw Cassandra lying there in the morgue, I looked over at the empty table beside her and saw you, that shocked me to the core, and then you walked in to comfort me. I think Cassandra must have been sending me an angel"

Sara's brown eyes was red with the unshed tears, the things Grissom spoke was causing her heart to beat way over the average.

"I couldn't bare losing you Sara, I barley kept it together when I found out that Cassandra had gone, the only thing that kept me going was you, even though I was annoyed with you for not taking care of yourself." Grissom sighed tiredly. "I just can't lose you"

"Grissom, I have told you, your not going to lose me. I'm not going anywhere"

"Thank you" Grissom smiled whilst drawing small circles with his thumb on Sara hand.

After a few minutes of comfortable silence Grissom was the first to speak. "Sara?"

Sara looked up, the afternoon sun shining across her face, like a true angel. "Yeah?"

Grissom grinned at Sara his eyes twinkling. "I love you, and I'm sorry for all the hurt I have caused you"

Sara smiled her famous smile at Grissom. A memory of a film she watched when she was younger came into her mind causing her to smile more.

"Haven't seen you smile like that for quite some time" Grissom remarked. "What you thinking?"

"Love means never having to say that you're sorry" Sara quoted.

"Ah isn't it usually me who quotes things?" Grissom said amused. Sara shrugged lightly at Grissom, smile still across her face next thing she knew, Grissom lips was softly on hers, losing her thoughts for the next couple of seconds.

Slowly pulling away from Sara, Grissom smiled a crooked smile.

"How about we make our own love story?"

The end. - Thanks again for reading. Please leave some feedback (: