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Jason came home just as Sara emerged from her bedroom dressed for her dinner date with Grissom.

"You look exhausted." Sara told him in a worried tone.

"I am exhausted. You look nice. I put your keys by your purse." He told her tiredly.

"Thanks, yours are on your desk. Are you going to bed?" She asked.

"Not yet. I'm going to grab something to eat and then work on my English paper that's due Friday." He ambled off to the kitchen.

"I'll have my cell if you need me." She went to the bathroom to finalize her look. Jason was in the middle of his cooking when the doorbell rang. He answered it and just stood there.

"Hi."

"Hello Jason."

"She's not ready yet." Jason stated a fact.

"May I come in?" Jason looked as though he'd forgotten his manners. He stepped aside.

"Oh, sorry. Come in."

"You look tired." He commented.

"Long day. I just got home from work fifteen minutes ago." Grissom figured the boy was more tired than he was letting on due to his lack of sarcasm in his answers. Either that or he was just being polite.

"Don't make yourself sick, ok?"

"I'll do my best." Jason came back and Grissom concluded that Jason was just being polite. He left Grissom to stand in the living room and went back to the kitchen. Grissom watched the boy take out a book to read and take notes while he ate. Sara appeared just as Grissom perched himself on the couch. He stood right back up.

"You look beautiful." He commented on her body hugging maroon cocktail dress that ended at her knees and displayed a slightly lower than normal neck than she usually wears.

"Thank you. I love the suit." She leaned closer.

"The blue tie highlights one of my favorite features." She whispered.

"Really?" He asked in such a tone that Sara couldn't tell if he was flirting or genuinely surprised. She went with the fact that he was flirting.

"Oh yeah. I love it when you wear blue. I always have." His eyes twinkled.

"It just so happens that you have also highlighted my favorite feature of yours."

"What would that be?" She asked.

"I'll tell you later. Shall we go?" He offered his arm.

"Yes, but let me say good bye to Jason." She handed him her clutch purse and shawl and walked to the kitchen. She had to leave the suggestive conversation or they would never make it to dinner. She kissed her son's head and stroked his cheek.

"Get some rest." He smiled tiredly.

"I will. You do look beautiful."

"Thanks. Don't wait up." He nodded and was the recipient of one more kiss. She grabbed her keys and took Grissom's arm on her way out the door. They were in the car when he called her out on her silence.

"What's wrong?

"I'm worried about Jason. I know I'll find him asleep at the kitchen table or at his desk. He worked all day on a few hours of sleep." She confessed.

"Sounds like something you would do actually." He tried to make light of her concerns. She looked at him.

"Do you think I was too hard on him?"

"No. I think my mother would have done the same thing if I had gotten someone pregnant while I was still in high school. I think it shows how much you care." He reached out to hold her hand.

"Is your mother still alive?"

"Yes, why?"

"Have you told her any of this?" Sara asked.

"Not yet. I don't know how." It was his turn to offer a confession.

"Don't be like me. Tell her soon." She told him.

"I should. She finally stopped pestering me for grandchildren five or six years ago."

"If you don't mind me asking; how old is she?"

"Seventy." He answered and knew that she was doing mental calculations in her head.

"She was younger than me?"

"Yes." She sat back to watch the scenery for a few seconds.

"Maybe it isn't the condom's fault. Maybe the Grissom sperm just refuses to be contained." Grissom actually burst out laughing at her somewhat absurd theory, but she continued.

"Think about it. Three generations of Grissom men all born to women under twenty-one?" She did have a valid point.

"Maybe it's you women and your fertility." He tried to defend his name, but it was a weak counter argument. She shook her head in amusement.

"No, I think it's your freaky sperm. That's my theory and I'm sticking to it unless the evidence changes."

"Maybe I'll have to convince you otherwise." He offered.

"How? Sleep with me again and see if I get pregnant?" She asked.

"I'd rather not take that risk since we're about to be grandparents."

"Ugh, don't remind me." She said.

"Would you like to meet my mother? We could ask her." He offered.

"I would love to meet her."

"I'll invite her out then." He told her and then parked the car in the restaurant parking lot. He opened her door for her and she held his arm during the walk to the table. He ordered a bottle of wine and a plate of calamari as an appetizer.

"Jason asked me if I loved you all those years ago." Grissom started as soon as they were left alone.

"Did you?" She asked and placed her napkin in her lap.

"I don't know. Lust was there and I enjoyed your company. I was attracted to your mind and your body."

"Same here." She admitted partly to make him feel better about his own confessions and partly because he deserved to know the truth.

"Really?"

"Yes. Why do you find it so hard to believe that I am attracted to you?" She asked a leaned forward a little to show she was interested in his answer.

"I don't think that I'm good enough for you. I never have. You're out of my league." He honestly believed this about himself.

"You couldn't be more wrong." She told him honestly. Before Grissom could reply, a guy approached the table.

"Excuse me, miss. I noticed your beauty when you stepped through the door. Would you grace me with a dance?" Sara fought the urge to roll her eyes.

"No thank you." She turned her head back to Grissom.

"I'm sure your gentleman friend won't mind." The stranger tried again.

"I'm sure he would." Grissom referred to himself in the third person.

"No thank you. Excuse us" Sara said and once again refocused on Grissom.

"He's too old for you." The stranger insulted her.

"Listen, we're trying to prepare to be grandparents. I don't need to dance right now. If you don't leave, I can call a detective friend of mine." Sara threatened and spoke icily to the man.

"I get it. Grandparents?" He asked doubtfully.

"Yes, grandparents. Please leave." Grissom stood up from the table. The man still didn't look as though he believed them. Grissom sat back down and looked at Sara as though proving a point.

"See what I mean?" He asked her. She shrugged.

"There are only two men I care about with all my heart and I'm sharing calamari with one of them. The other is at home."

"Really?" His eyebrow rose with his question.

"Gil, I love you. There could never be anyone else. Hank was using me to cheat on his girlfriend. He never met Jason."

"Did you sleep with him?" He asked.

"Once or twice and the condom worked just fine every time." She said with a smirk that she concealed with a sip from her wine glass.

"I see." She shrugged again.

"It's in the past. How do you feel about me now?" She deliberately pushed him outside of his comfort zone.

"I want you in my life. I'd be lost without you." She smiled but there was a hint of sadness to it.

"Is that love?" He asked her.

"Do you feel this way about anyone else?" She asked back.

"No, just you."

"That's love."

"Then I guess I love you." He said and smiled at the revelation. Sara returned the smile.

"I love you too." The server had come to take their orders and Sara swayed gently to the music. Grissom took the cue.

"Sara, would you like to dance?" She nodded. He led her to the dance floor and kept her close. The whole experience almost felt like a seduction. She inhaled his scent and loved the feeling of being in his arms again. Someone tapped him on the shoulder.

"May I cut in?" When they saw who it was, they both froze…

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A/N: Any predictions on who it is? If you get it right, I'll give you credit in the next chapter. Thank you to everyone who has already posted reviews so far. I love them!!! Can I have some more? Please? Have a great day everyone!!! Kelly