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Chapter 7: Mother knows
The days went by and it was finally Friday evening, Sara was standing in the doorway between the living room and the hall leading to the stairs and the front door, she was watching her daughter tidying up the living room, something she had already done earlier that day, she crossed her arms and said. "What are you doing?"
Stephanie stopped stacking the magazines on the coffee table looked up at her mother and said. "What does it look like mom? I cleaning." Stephanie turned from her mother and started arranging the pillows again.
After a second Sara speaks again. "I can see that but you have already done this earlier, is he grading on how well our house looks?" She gives her daughter that 'Sara' smirk.
Stephanie looked up and said. "Of course not but I don't want him to think we are cave people."
After she stopped talking she started to fold the living room blanket and put it on the recliner and right when Sara was going to speak, Grissom stands next to her and said. "What's going on?"
Sara and Grissom look at each other and for now Stephanie was ignoring her parents and in her own little world. Sara speaks after a minute. "Your daughter is in a cleaning frenzy."
Grissom raised an eyebrow and said. "hmmm...I wonder who she takes after."
He smirks with a small smile, she shakes her head and playfully slaps him on the shoulder and replied back. "Hey she gets that from both of us."
They smile at each other and he turns her to him and puts his arms around her waist, she puts her arms around his neck and he speaks. "That my dear I can't deny."
They lean toward each other but before their lips touched both heads turned to their daughter, she was standing there with her arms crossed looking a lot like her mother when she disapproves on something.
Sara raises an eyebrow and speaks. "Can we help you?"
Normally Stephanie loved to see her parents like this but not now, she uncrossed her arms and signed. 'yeah can you guys not do that when he is here.'
Sara and Grissom get out of each other's arms and Grissom signs back. 'Who is he? the cleaning and affection police?' Sara puts her hand up to her mouth to stifle a laugh and before Stephanie can sign back Grissom continues. 'Calm down Steph, it's not like you are dating the guy.' Grissom tuned to his wife, kissed her cheek and walked out of the room to get his things.
Sara watched her daughter's face after that comment was made, it changed for just a second, and if Sara wasn't an experience mother or worked a lot of years as a CSI she might not have seen it but she did and her curiosity turned to suspicion and she thinks. 'Does my daughter have a crush on her teacher?' then she thinks. 'she might be more like me then we ever thought.'
She mentally shook her head and mother and daughter were staring at each other and Stephanie prayed that her mother didn't see that look that passed on her face and hopefully she couldn't hear her heart pounding, but she had a feeling that her mother did see, she may have not been a CSI in a long time but her instincts didn't go away.
Their trance was interrupted when the door bell rung, they move their heads to the door and Sara cleared her throat and said. "Do you want to get the door?"
Stephanie shook her head and replied. "No you can."
She looks at her daughter, nodded her head and walks the small distance to the door, took a breath and opens it, when it was all the way open. And saw the man standing before her she just about gasped, it was almost like she went back in time, besides this man being a tad taller and a bit muscular he almost resembled a younger version of her husband especially those blue eyes.
Jason smiles, holds out his hand and said. "Hi you must be Mrs. Grissom, I see where your daughter gets her beauty."
She eyed him carefully after hearing the tone of his voice, he sounded caring and respectful, she nodded with a small smile took his hand and said after clearing her throat. "Hi I'm Sara Grissom, and it's nice to met you Mr. Lewis."
They release hands and Jason said. "you can call me Jason, Mrs. Grissom."
"Then please call me Sara."
He nodded and she stepped out of the way so he can come inside, once he was in, Sara shut the door and saw Jason and Stephanie look at each other and heard Jason speak. "Hi, Ms. Grissom."
Stephanie smiles and looks over his shoulder and saw her mother watching her, so she politely said. "Hi, Mr. Lewis."
He smiles back and they all heard. "Mr. Lewis?" They all turn to the sound of Grissom's voice and if he was surprised by Jason's appearance he didn't show it.
Jason's face lit up like he just met a celebrity, and in his eyes he was. He walked over to him holds out his hand and said. "Hi Dr. Grissom it is so nice to met you." Then remembered that Grissom was deaf and started to apologize, he looked at Sara for help.
She just smiled and said. "It's ok he is an excellent lip reader."
Jason smiles and looks back at Grissom, they release hands and Grissom speaks. "And also you can call me Grissom, Gilbert or Gil, non of that Dr. Stuff."
Jason nodded and said. "ok, then you can call me Jason, please."
Grissom nodded and they all stood around in silence than Grissom cleared his throat and said. "So shall we get started?"
Jason nodded and Sara tells him to go sit down and Jason turned around and started walking to the living room and sat down on the couch, while Stephanie sat in the recliner.
When Jason left the hall, Grissom looked at Sara and said. "shall we?" he holds out his hand, she smiles takes it and they started walking to the living room hand in hand, when they walked past their daughter they saw the look on her face and Sara raised an eyebrow telling her she had no right to give her that look, Stephanie looked away from her mother's gaze and cursed at herself for letting her mother find out her crush.
They get to the love seat and Sara sits down there and Grissom continues to the couch, once he sat down and before he began he pulled out his glass to put them on, a second later Jason did the same thing.
Sara shot a look at her daughter and Stephanie was staring at Mr. Lewis and her suspicion turned to certainty.
Grissom looked at Jason and he sheepishly smiled, Grissom gives him a short nod, cleared his throat and started his discussion and Jason was hanging on every word and even took a few notes.
Before they knew it 3 hours came and went and if Sara wouldn't have yawned it could have been later, she apologized but they decided to call it a night anyways since it was 10 clock and a school night, he thanked Grissom very much and they talked about maybe doing this again some time, then he said goodbye and Stephanie walked him to the door.
They get to the door and opened it, he turns to her and said "See you tomorrow Ms. Grissom."
Stephanie smiles and said. "You too Mr. Lewis."
They look at each other for a split second longer then necessary then he walks out of the house, Stephanie shuts the door, turns, walks to her father, kisses his cheek and before he could speak she talks. "Thanks daddy."
Grissom smiles and Stephanie tells her parents goodnight and goes upstairs before her mother could say something.
Grissom looks at Sara and she was looking where her daughter had last stood and he said. "Honey are you ok?"
Sara shook her head out of her thoughts, looked at her husband and came right out and said what she was thinking. "I think our daughter has a thing for her teacher."
He raises an eyebrow and said. "I know we talk about her being like you but isn't that pushing it a little too far?"
"Are you saying you didn't see it?"
"See what?"
She couldn't believe this, she stands in front of him and said. "See that those two looked like the younger version of us and when you guys had that little break they kept glancing at each other."
Grissom shook his head and said. "I didn't see that…" he stops and let what she sunk in and started to speak with a little edge. "Wait he was looking at her, how?"
She heard his tone and she better be careful how she words this or there could be trouble, so she puts her hand on his shoulders to calm him down and said. "Not like a predator, like he cared and respected her."
She didn't want to say love but she had a strong feeling that look was there too, Grissom slowly nodded calming a little then said. "Then I don't think there is nothing to worry about, their feelings will go away in time."
She raises an eyebrow and said. "Our feelings didn't go away in time, they only got stronger."
"That's true but I don't think Stephanie will get involved with her teacher, she just won't."
Sara looks at him and she doesn't know if he was being naive about this or didn't want to head in this discussion about their 18 year old daughter with an older man plus her teacher.
He looks at her and changes the subject, he really didn't want to think about his 18 year old daughter getting involved with an older man let alone her teacher. "I'm going to bed are you coming?"
She shook her head and said. "I want to clean up a little bit, I'll be up in a bit."
Grissom brings up his smirk, she just rolls her eyes, shakes her head and pecks him on the lips, when they pull back he says. "Love you."
She puts her hand on his cheek and said. "Love you too babe."
They kiss one more time, he steps away and heads to the stairs but before he walked out of the room, he turned around and said. "Sara?" Sara turns around to look at him and he speaks. "he really does look like me when I was his age, didn't he?"
She smiles and said. "You look so much hotter honey, even now."
He gives her that lop sided grin that she loves and said. "Thank you honey, Goodnight."
She smiles back and replied. "Goodnight babe." he nods and walks out of the room and upstairs.
Sara stands there for a minute longer and made a decision, telling her husband she wanted to clean was a cover, she needed to find something out, so she grabs her cell phone off the end table hits speed dial five and listens to the ring and after the fourth ring the person she called picked up and said. "Hart." She felt kind of bad for waking him up but the mother in her told her she had to do this.
A second later she speaks. "Sorry Peter for waking you up but can you do me a favor?"
He tells her to hold on and he gets out of bed, so he doesn't wake his wife and walks to his home office and said. "Sure what is it?"
"Can you see what you can dig up on a Jason Lewis?"
He writes down the name and said. "Did you rejoin the CSI team that I didn't know about?"
Sara laughed a little and said. "No, it's personal."
"Aww I see trying to dig up dirt to keep a guy away from your daughter huh?"
She shakes her head after all this time he knows her so well, after a minute she replies. "Yeah something like."
"I'll check into this but I don't know when I will get around to it we have been pretty busy."
"I understand Peter, just when you get a chance and thanks."
"no problem, anything else?"
"nope."
"Goodnight Sara."
"Goodnight Peter."
They hang up the phone and she sets her phone back on the end table and sighed a part of her knew that she shouldn't have done that but she couldn't help it. Even though it could be a bit overprotective, the mother and CSI in her told her to do this, she would do anything to protect her kids and if that meant going behind their backs to do it then so be it and if nothing came out of it then no one would know but her and Peter.
She looked around the room and saw that everything was still in order so she turned out the lights, locked the doors and went upstairs, she stopped at her daughters room and looked at the closed door, she didn't want to open it because Stephanie was a light sleeper and she thinks. 'I am doing this for you.' she shook her head and continued down the hall to her and Grissom's bedroom.
She grabbed her sleeping clothes and walked in the bathroom, then came out a few minutes later and crawls in bed, turns out the lamp on her side and crawled to Grissom and eased her way on laying on his chest, she puts her arm over his stomach. A few seconds later she feels his arm wrap around her shoulder, even in his sleep he always knew when she was near. She smiles in the dark, closed her eyes and falls asleep safety in his arms, actually hoping nothing came out of the search, knowing it could hurt her daughter.
AN: Will she find something? that is the question. Please Review.
