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Chapter 10: Starting Over

Grissom was putting his stuff in a suite case at his hotel room when there was a knock on the door. He turns, walks to the door and when he opened it. When the door was open it revealed who was on the other side and he asked."Shouldn't you be at the hospital with Isabella?"

"Funny I should ask you the same thing."

He puts his hand on the doorframe and asked. "Sara. What are you doing here?" She moves his arms so she could walk in the room.

He stands in the empty doorway for a few seconds then shuts the door, turns to her and she speaks. "I'm doing something I should have done four years ago." He raised an eyebrow and she replied. "I'm fighting for what I shouldn't have allowed to slip from my fingers to begin with."

Grissom started walking past her toward his bed and replied. "Things have changed Sara. Why fight for something that belongs in the past."

She turned around to look at him with confusion and a little hurt then asked. "What do you mean? Did you lie in your letter just to make yourself feel better? You don't love me?"

"Sara I love you till the day I die and beyond that."

"Then..."

He cuts her off. "You." She looks at him with confusion and he continued. "I can see things have changed for you and I don't want you to confuse your feelings because I came back in your life briefly."

Sara read between the lines and knew what his words was really saying so she asked. "You don't think I still love you?" He looks into her eyes for a minute then looked down and Sara mentally gasped at seeing his look. She saw more pain than ever in his eyes and she doesn't think for a second on her next move.

She walks up to him, lifts his chin up so his eyes were looking back at her then she puts her left hand on his bearded cheek and after one more long look she brings him in for a kiss. It took a few seconds before he responded but when he did it started out light as if they unsure then it grew passionate like it was when they started out all those years ago and something they missed desperately. They finally pulled back when they needed air.

She looks into his eyes and said with emotion. "My love for you still flows through me. It runs deep in my soul and touches every part of my heart. There was never a time in my life were it stopped and there won't be a time it ever will. Why do you think that I stopped?"

He releases her and sits down on the bed then said. "You never asked me to stay. Every time we would visit each other when we were married not once did you say anything about it. You are a very independent woman and I thought what we had decided would work for you but then as it got harder you still never asked me. I thought that you had moved past us and felt trapped. That's why I let you go." He stops and looks down.

She shakes off the tears that was threatening after his revelation then walks up to him, sits down on the bed beside him, takes his hand and slips her fingers through his and speaks. "I never asked you because you loved what you were doing and like you said in your letter I knew you couldn't come back.
You wanted that fresh start."

He looks at her and said. "I wanted that fresh start with you."

She nodded replied with emotion. "I know you did and it was wonderful. You were wonderful but when we settled in Paris I..."

He puts a finger to her lips with a nod and said. "I know. We don't have to go through that."

She nodded then she speaks about her reasons for not telling him about his daughter. "And the reason why I never told you about Isabella is because I didn't want you to feel obligated to come back." He was going to speak but she continues before he dose. "I know you. You would have been here in a heart beat if I would have told you and I swear Grissom I would have, I just didn't know how. I was confused and scared. I didn't want you to think I was using her to keep you from doing what you wanted."

Tears were coming in Grissom's eyes as he replied. "What I wanted was for you to be happy whether I was in your life or not. I could hear the distance was getting to you, our visits and conversations were becoming fewer and further in between and you needed something more than what I could give you at the time." He stops to shake his head and continued. "I am so sorry Sara for everything, I always think I am doing the right thing when it comes to you but I keep messing up. Why would you even want me back?" He removes his hand and looks down again.

She saw the pain in his eyes again and heard it in his voice, he was trying to push her away again but she wasn't going to allow that, not only for her but for their daughter too.

She takes his hand again and brings it up to her lips, kissed it then brings his chin back to her direction and said looking into his blue eyes. "Because I love you, faults and all. I don't expect you to be perfect."

She stops then smiled while shaking her head with a small chuckle and he asked. "What?"

"We are some pair you know that." He raises an eyebrow and she continued. "We do things that we think would make us happy when all that would make us happy is being together." He nodded in agreement.

After a few seconds of silence she speaks again. "I feel like I have to apologize to you too." Grissom was going to open his mouth but she puts a finger to his lips to stop him and she continued. "It takes two people to make a relationship work and when I really think about it I can see why you would question my feelings for you. I had done my share of letting you down too because of some of the actions I had done." She started to have tears in her eyes again but stopped them before they came out so she could finish was she was saying. "I never wanted us to end and when I saw you on our last night four years ago I should have just came right out and said that but instead I just let you go and made you think this whole time I didn't love you anym..." She had to stop because she couldn't hold on to her tears anymore.

Grissom released her fingers and brought her closer and kissed her head then started to whispering comforting words in her ear.

When she did calm down he pulled back, puts his hand back up to her cheek to wipe her tears away, looks into her eyes and said. "You know what Catherine told me a few days ago." She waited patiently for him to continue and he did a second later. "She said the best thing about being alive is that It's not too late to fix things and start over." He stops for a second then continued. "So the question is do you wan..." He was cut off when her lips touched his and they kissed passionately. Eventually their kissing slowed down and after one more peck they pull back and she puts her forehead to his to get their air back.

When she got her air back first, she pulls back and said. "You don't even have to ask but since you did. My answer is yes." After she said yes, his eyes immediately lit up. It was like she just gave him his whole world back. They just sat there looking into each other's eyes basking in this wonderful new turn.

After a few minutes the question was asked by her."What happens now?"

He takes her hand in his again and said. "I guess I move back home."

Sara's heart speeds up and asked. "Home? As in our home? In Vegas?"

He nods and replied with a smile. "Yes. What I came to realize is that it doesn't matter where my fresh start is. Just as long as I am with you, It's about time isn't it?"

She chuckles and nods, very happy for these turn of events then said. "Yes." He smiles bigger then after a few minutes of happiness she loses her smile and he was about to ask but she spoke before he could. "What about your traveling?"

He shook his head, sighed and said. "I have been teaching again, I haven't traveled since my heart..."

He trails off and she nods then lefts her hand up and places it over his heart, the heart that has been through so much especially these last four years then she looked into his eyes and said. "You have been in Paris the whole time?" He nodded and she continued before he could say anything. "Why did you stay away?" He looks into her eyes for a second then looks down. She shakes her head, brings his head back up and she said. "Please talk to me. Whatever it is."

He nods, takes her hand off his heart, lefts her hand up and kisses it then looks back into her eyes and tells her. "When I got back to Paris from being away for four months I got the message about my mother dying suddenly, I went to her funeral."

She was shocked at this bit of news and said. "But I didn't see yo.."

He cuts her off. "I was hanging behind everybody and when I saw you and the team it made me happy that you guys still cared. I wanted to come up to you after the service because I had finally made a decision but I saw that you were pregnant and you looked pretty cozy with Thomas so I thought that you were having his baby and had finally moved on and I didn't want to ruin that for you. Let's just say that when I got back to Paris my heart wasn't the same." She looked at him still shocked at his confession and he continued before she could. "The thought of you carrying my child never crossed my mind because after all that time we were together it never happened for us. I mean I know we weren't technically trying but it could have happened and it never did, who would have thought that the last time we were together, it did. I guess fate had other plans." He looked at her and she was still speechless. He cleared his throat and asked. Sara?"

She gets out of her shock a few minutes later, releases his hand, stands up and walks to the hotel window and after a few more minutes she looks back at him and said sadly. "You thought I would have moved on that quickly after being in love with you for over 10 years?" He gets up and she sighs and replied in the same tone as she did a few seconds ago. "All that time wasted because you assumed something that wasn't true."

She looked up at him and he was now facing her and he spoke. "I know I did something that I told you to never do, assume. I know it's not a good excuse but my head was all over the place and my feelings were to raw to think straight. Nothing could stop me from thinking what I did." He watched her bend her head down in sadness. He shakes his head, sighed then speaks again. "Greg was right." She looks back up at him and he speaks looking into her eyes. "I don't deserve you, I never did." She was going to talk but he puts a finger to her lips to stop her and continues with his eyes shinning. "And yet by some miracle you fell for me anyways and I can see now that your still falling. My only hope is that you never land because that would be the day you would become wise and leave for good. The only thing I can say is that I'll try harder to be the man who you deserve, that is if you still want me. It's not to late to change your mind."

He looks at her for a second longer then was going to turn his back to give her a little space but she takes his hand to stop him. He looks back at her and she speaks. "If I am still falling after 18 years then you're not getting rid of me so easily, not this time." He takes a step toward her and she puts her hand on his cheek, looks into his eyes and said. "I don't want you to change but Grissom I want you be more open with me. Talk to me if you think we have a problem. Don't run away and hide. Can you work on that?" He nods and she continues. "And I promise I'll do the same. I want us to work this time not only because I don't want to go through another heartbreak but because we have a daughter to think about too and I don't want her to get hurt."

"I know Sara I don't want that either."

"Good." He smiles and she continued. "Is there anything else that needs to be cleared up before we start on a clean slate?"

He thinks about it for a minute then said. "Yes. I feel I have to tell you one more thing." Sara starts to get worried but calmed down a little when he started to smile a little more. "Greg was right about something else." He stops to clear his throat then continued. "I saw a lot of beautiful landscapes in my travels but nothing could compare to the beauty that is standing in front of me and in our little girl, absolutely nothing."

Sara started to have tears in her eyes again for about the millionth time that night and it wasn't only because of his words but because she believed him especially when his eyes were shinning with tears too. She steps closer to him wraps her arms around his neck and still looking in his eyes she said. "I love you Grissom, always had and always will."

As they were leaning toward each other he whispered. "I love you too." Their lips finally touched again but before it could get passionate her cell phone rings to ruin the moment.

They pull back slowly, put their foreheads together then she said. "I have to get that."

He pulls back, kissed her forehead and whispered against her skin. "Go ahead."

She pulls out of his arms, pecks him on the lips then pulled her phone out of her pocket and answered. "Sidle."

Thomas on the other line said. "Sorry to bother you but your daughter is awake and is ready to see her mommy."

Sara smiles and replied. "Thank you Thomas. We'll be right there and for the record when it involves my daughter it's never a bother."

Thomas smile on his line and replied. "Your welcome and I know that, drive safely."

"I will, bye."

"Bye."

They hung up the phone and after a few seconds later she starts smiling for no reason.

Grissom looks at her and asked. "What?"

Sara shook her head, looked at him and said. "Nothing. It's just things don't look as bleak as they did before. This is a new start for us and for the first time in a long time I feel happy in every aspect of my life. I think that it is worth stopping with what you're doing and just smile." Grissom smiles while nodding his head in agreement then she takes his hand and continued. "Now I think it's time for you and Isabella to formally meet." She was going to walk but he kept his feet planted on the floor.

She looks back and he said. "Now? shouldn't we wait till she gets a little better?"

She stands in front of him and replied. "I think knowing her daddy would be better than any medicine the doctor can give her." She watched his face turn to scared and she asked. "What?"

"I just don't want her to hate me for not being there for her."

Sara shakes her head and replied. "She isn't going to hate you. It's not your fault that you weren't here...well not all your fault but the point is you were here when she needed you the most." Sara started to get emotional again and continued. "You saved her life Grissom and I think she will not only look at you as her father but also her hero. She will love you as much as I do."

He nods and said. "Ok let's go meet my daughter." Then he smiles bigger and repeated. "My daughter. I still can't believe it." She smiles bigger squeezed his hand and they both walked out of the hotel with a spring in their steps. Their world was finally spinning as one again.

AN: Next Chapter: Isabella is about to find out her world is going to be slightly altered. How will she react? You'll soon find out. Please review.