So, I've started three chapters, actually finished one, but it's a piece of junk that I need to revise a lot. This one was written on the airplane between KC and Chicago… I like it, we'll see what you guys think…
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Sara walked down the hallway toward Grissom's office. It was her final night of work before she took off on "personal leave." As she passed the print lab she saw Bobby, Henry, Mandy and Wendy crowded around the computer screen. Having formed a sort of bond with the lab rats over the past few months she'd spent lab bound, she turned to investigate. The moment she entered the room a deep silence descended. Bobby moved to cover the screen, but not before Sara caught a glimpse of the grainy black and white footage. A tender smile flitted across her face and a hand moved instinctively to cradle her expanded abdomen. Both Mandy and Wendy gasped.
"What?" Sara asked, just before remembering that the only label on the newest sonogram video read simply, "Baby Grissom." She swiftly dropped the hand, but the conclusions had been drawn and the damage done. All the techs started babbling at once and questions came flying from all directions.
"Grissom and I have been married a year and a half. I'm due April 17th. It's a girl and she doesn't have a name yet. Actually, I guess you all get to name her." Sara said, explaining the agreement before turning and heading to her original destination.
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A month later, the air in the lab practically crackled with excitement. Every time something beeped or a phone rang, all the techs jumped for their phones. Nick, who had treated Mandy to breakfast the morning before, picked up on the mood. He snuck up behind the print tech until his face was right next to her ear.
"What's up?" he asked, causing her to jump. She turned around and smacked him playfully.
"Nothing is up," she insisted, both playful and a bit too forceful. At that moment her cell phone, which was sitting on the lab table rang. She jumped for it, but Nick's CSI reflexes got him there first. He flipped open the neon blue RAZR to reveal that Sara had sent Mandy a photo.
"No fair!" he exclaimed jokingly, " I haven't heard a word from Sara the entire time she's been on vacation and she's sending you photos?" Mandy grabbed for the phone but Nick easily kept it from her. He hit 'open' and stared at the picture which appeared. It showed a very young newborn baby staring placidly at the camera
"Gabriella Sage Grissom" he read, "Seven pounds, ten ounces 21 inches long, born 11:46 pm April 15th. Mom and baby beautiful." Nick nearly dropped the phone. Mandy swept the phone away from him and studied the picture.
"Isn't she beautiful!" she whispered reverently, "And it looks like she has her mama's eyes!"
"Whose eyes?" Nick asked.
"Sara's, of course!" Mandy laughed.
"Sara Sidle, Sara?" the criminalist stuttered.
"What other Sara knows Grissom?"
"But how? When?" Nick asked. Mandy laughed and took a little pity on him.
"Take me to see them this morning and I'll fill you in on the way, Tex. But only if you sing it."
"Oh, Mandy." Nick sighed.
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AN- Sorry it's short and I re posted, I just had to add the last sentence!!!