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Chapter 10: Suspicious

(A few minutes ago)

Once Catherine caught up with Sara outside, she speaks. "Sara, it's going to be alright."

Sara sniffled a little before replying in a sharp tone. "Cath, you don't know that."

"I know without a doubt, he won't give up." Sara looked down as Catherine continued. "Because he's fighting for the woman he loves more than anything." Sara looks at her as she speaks again with a small smile. "People will look at how Grissom acts and think he doesn't care, but they would be dead wrong every time they think that. That man cares more than anybody gives him credit for, he just doesn't like his emotions to control or overwhelm him. Which I believe that's one of the reasons why it took him so long to finally admit there was something between you two."

Sara nodded. "That's true."

Catherine puts her hand on her shoulder and said. "So why don't we go back in there and bring our bugman back to us."

Sara raised an eyebrow and replied. "Our bugman?"

She chuckled as she responded while holding up her hands in surrender. "Ok yours, I didn't know you could be so possessive."

Sara smiled with a smirk. "Only when it comes to him." Catherine nodded with a smile, then Sara took a breath, wiped the tears off her cheeks and said. "Ok, I'm ready."

Catherine nodded again, then as they were turning back around to head toward to the hospital entrance, they heard Trent getting a little mad to the person he was talking on the phone with.

As they were walking up to him, he sighed while hanging up, then Sara asked in a concern voice. "Are you ok?"

He cleared his throat, looked at her and replied. "Yeah, just hoping I'm not regretting my investment."

Not exactly sure about what he as talking about, they just nodded, then Catherine said. "Just be careful, putting your money in the wrong investment could be trouble."

Trent nodded in agreement, then as they walked back into the hospital, he replied. "I'm beginning to find that out."

As they walked into the waiting area they've been in previously, the guys walked up to her and asked if she was ok.

Sara took a breath before replying. "Just thinking about him never waking up is a bit scary, so I needed a little air. And now that I've got it, I'm ready to bring him back to us." They all smiled, even though Trent's look, looked more like a grimace. Then she took another breath before continuing. "Are we allowed to see him yet?"

The guys nodded, then Greg replied. "Yeah, but only for a few minutes, so we thought you should take all that time to be with him, we'll see him at another time."

She was very touched by them, so she said. "Thank you, guys."

They nodded with smiles as they started walking to the elevator so they could go to the floor they needed. Then once they were there, they stepped out of the elevator and the team watched her walk to Grissom's room, which was about 5 rooms down from the waiting area.

Once she got to the closed-door, she took a breath before opening it.

After she stepped in the room she stops just enough so the door could close behind her, then she just stood there looking at her man lying in bed. It looked like he was just sleeping with a few machine wires attached to him, but she knew that it wouldn't take a simple shake on the shoulders to wake him up, no matter how much she wished and hoped for it.

She mentally shook her head from those thoughts, then walked to the corner of the room to grab a chair, and once she placed it on the right side of the bed, she kissed him on the forehead before taking his hand and sitting down.

After a moment's pause and her free hand swiped the tears off her cheek, she started to speak. "Hey Griss, first off, I want to tell you that I love you and I am so sorry this happened to you. I wish I could take your place, not that I would want you to be in pain to see me the way that you are, but I just don't want to be in this kind of pain anymore. From the moment Brass stood in front of me and told me what happened till the doctor came and talked to us, it's been the longest time of my life and I don't want to feel this way anymore. I want you to wake up, tell me that you love me and tell me that we could go home, cuddle in each other's arms while falling asleep in our bed, you know I can't sleep without you near me." She stopped to wipe a few more tears away, then finished. "And know I'll never give up on you, no matter how long this takes. I'll keep coming here and tell you every day how much I love you, so you fight this and come back to me, to us, ok?"

She was waiting for the 'Yes Dear' reply but never got it, so with the beeping machine still going on, she just talks to him, she told him about her birthday party and the dates the guys brought, she even whispered she had a little secret about Catherine and Warrick, but she wasn't going to give him the details till he woke up.

Before she knew it the nurse told her it was time to leave, so she stands up, and while his hand was still in hers, she leans forward and kisses him on the forehead again, tells him that she loves him one more time, then straightens up and gives his hand a squeeze before releasing it and walking to the door. When she got there, she turned around one more time to look at him before she walked out of the room.

As she was walking down the hall to get to the waiting area, the group looked at her as if asking if a miracle happened, but with her showing the same sad look she was showing earlier they knew that wasn't the case, so their looks turned to sympathy.

After a few minutes of silence, Nick sighed and replied. "As much I know we don't want to, shift is about to start and since I'm seniority I guess I'm boss until our leader comes back to us."

When Catherine left to supervise the day shift, the night shift didn't have a regular assistant, it was whoever Grissom assigned that night to be in charge when he wasn't at their scene, but since Nick did get promoted to Level 3 before anybody else on the team, he was technically the next one in line.

They all nodded with a sigh, then Nick looked at Sara and said. "Except you, I don't think you should come in tonight."

Normally she would plead to come in, but for once since she could remember, she really didn't have the energy to argue or to go in tonight, so she just nodded. Seeing her not argue about Nick's request, gave the team all kinds of emotion because they knew she was like this because of Grissom's condition, and none of it was right.

Trent looked at Sara and asked in a concern tone. "You want me to take you home?"

Sara shook her head and replied. "I think I'm going to stay here."

Hospitals were never her favorite place to be in, but the man she loves was here, so she was willing to suck it up just so she could be near him, even though she would have to be out here until she could see him again.

Before Trent could speak, Catherine shakes her head and replied. "It won't do you any good." Sara was about respond, but Catherine continued. "You need to keep your energy up to get Grissom to come back to us, and staying up all night in this place won't help, you need a bed and real food, think what Grissom would want you to do."

Everybody agreed with her, and once again she didn't have the energy to argue, so she nodded, and after it was settled that Catherine would take her home and she gave her car keys to Greg so he could bring her vehicle to the townhouse, Sara and Catherine walked out of the hospital.

When Catherine pulled her vehicle in the parking lot to the townhouse, she looked over at Sara and asked. "You want me to stay?"

Sara gave her a soft smile before saying. "It's ok, I'll be alright. Thank you though."

Catherine nodded. "You're welcome, just call me if you need anything."

They don't know if they will ever be best friends, but they knew that they would always have each other's back went they really needed it.

"I will."

As Catherine nodded for the second time, Sara gets out of the vehicle, and only when she walked into the townhouse and closed the door, did Catherine drive away.

Sara puts the back of her head on the closed-door and looked around the quiet townhouse for a few minutes, then she sighed as she thought of the long night that was ahead of her. After she locked the door, she walked into the bedroom and puts on her sleeping clothes, which tonight it was her sweatpants and t-shirt, then she lies on the bed and flips through the channels on the TV, finally settling on one of Grissom's favorite bug documentaries.

After a couple of hours when there was no use on the TV holding her interest, she decided to try to fall asleep, but after the fifth toss and turn, she gets up from her side of the bed, goes to his side of the closet and pulls out one of his old UCLA sweatshirts and puts it on over her t-shirt, then she crawls on his side of the bed, made sure her nose could smell his scent from his pillow, then closed her eyes until she finally fell asleep.

It wasn't a deep sleep, but least it was something under the circumstances.

It was a little past 1 a.m. and a man in his early 30's walked into the hospital, he was wearing a black hoodie and jeans, he was 5'6, slim and had short, curly, brown hair. If only he would have had finished the job he was supposed to do earlier, then he wouldn't have to be here and would already be out of this city with the money that was promised, but he couldn't risk a second shot because he heard people talking and hoped what he had done was good enough, which it turned out it wasn't.

He mentally shook his head as the elevator stopped at the correct floor, then he walked past the empty nurses desk and to the room he was told the old man would be in, thankful that it was the night shift so there was fewer doctors and nurses around, which this was the time Trent said to come. However, he wasn't so lucky when he got to the room because right as he puts his hand on the door knob, he was stopped by Dr. Price.

"Hey, who are you?"

The young man with brown eyes looked at the doctor, cleared his throat and tried convincing him. "I'm Dr. Gilbert Grissom's cousin."

Dr. Price looked at the young man in front of him as he replied. "We take our visiting hours seriously here, and only in certain circumstances would we let family stay after the required time."

The young man nodded. "I understand, but I just got into town and I wanted to talk to him, you know to see if I can get him out of his coma just like it happens on TV."

Dr. Price nodded, then replied. "I've witnessed that type of miracle once in my young career, and I understand the urgency in getting family members to wake up, but only during visiting hours."

He probably would have let it slide if it was one of the people he saw earlier that said were Gilbert Grissom's family, but something about this guy felt wrong to him, not to mention he didn't see any family resemblance toward Grissom.

Not wanting to draw any more attention to himself, the young man sighed with a nod before responding. "Again I understand, sorry. I didn't mean any harm, I'll come back later." Dr. Price nodded as the young man turned around and walked away.

When the young man stepped into the elevator and the door closed, Dr. Price puts his hand in his white coat pocket and pulled out a CSI business card that Nick Stokes gave to a nurse so she would give it to him, then after a short pause, he walked to the nurses station on the floor he was on, picked up the phone and dialed a number.

After a few rings he hears. "Stokes."

Dr. Price cleared his throat before replying. "Mr. Stokes, this is Dr. Price. I need to talk to you about something."

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