Catherine did as she promised, and tried her best to help Sara. She had her doubts, a strange hallucination while high on meth hardly seemed like the greatest of evidence to follow. There was no proof of Sara's pregnancy, no proof of any child, nothing.

The reports from California surrounding Sara's father's death proved that. For the first time, Sara read them. Hoping the graphic details would jog her memory, would reveal to her what she had repressed 20 years previously. There was no mention of a baby. She was thirteen when her father was killed in front of her by her long abused mother. There was no trial, her mother pleaded guilty to the murder and was sentenced to thirty years in prison. Young Sara went to the psychiatric unit and then onto foster families, and never saw her mother again.

The hospital burned down 7 years ago, destroying all records of patients in the past, forever losing what little evidence of Sara existing in that place. Gone went the files and the history notes what could have provided such vital clues to help Catherine convince Sara what she dreamed wasn't real, what was just created from the abnormal high of a powerful drug.

That night changed Sara. Just three hours after remembering the previous night's hallucinations, she phoned Grissom and requested an undisclosed amount of time off. Of course they were worried, she seemed obsessed with the idea that somewhere out there a child existed with her blood pumping through her veins. Yet the scientist in the rest of the CSI team told them the likeliness of this event was terribly slim. Police records are accurate, and a baby at a crime scene would have been hard to hide from the authorities, even back in the day of inferior technologies and less thought for preserving evidence. Yet Sara had said the baby was there at the time of her father's death, the police were there a short time later and babies don't just disappear into thin air.

But Sara was adamant. 'I know what I saw last night. It was as if the cloud surrounding my past just lifted, it was all so clear and vivid. I couldn't have made it up.'

So Grissom agreed the time off and Sara began sifting through the records of her father's death, her hospital admission and the statement of that night from her brother and mother.

Sara was examined that night medically, no SART was done, just the general documenting of any bruising and contusions covering her body. Catherine read the report too, she had no idea that Sara was beat as much as her mother was. She felt guilty for not understanding why, on so many previous occasions; Sara was visibly upset from domestic violence cases. No less that 32 bruises covered thirteen year old Sara Sidle on that night in February, as well as a large 4 inch gash in her left arm, from where it was documented she had tried to grab the knife from her mother. Craig Sidle, the older brother was not at home on that night, he was at some drunken party a few miles away. But his statement painted the picture of the typical Sidle home on any given day, an alcoholic father, physical fighting, and a mother trying to keep her family afloat financially and mentally. There was no mention of a pregnancy or a baby born, further reinforcing the generic opinion that Sara had somehow gone completely crazy.

In her mind, Sara believed a conspiracy existed. Her brother was a smart boy, he must have known, he just didn't tell the police. Maybe they were protecting her daughter. Their mother must have told him what had happened, maybe in a police cell or interview room or on a visit to prison. She just couldn't have not told him that the reason his father was killed was because he raped Sara.

Before telling anyone what she planned to do, out of the realisation they would all convince her against it, Sara had gone onto the internet and booked herself into the next flight to California. To pay a visit to her brother she hadn't seen in nearly two decades…


Sorry for the very, very long wait. I'm not so much into CSI anymore, but I felt on giving this story another shot. It was started 2 years ago, so i will continue as though it is still 2 years ago in csi world. As always, review and let me know what you think. I will try and update this again soon. No more 2 year waits, i promise.