Chapter 5
Sara never tired of hearing those words coming out of his mouth, no matter how softly they have been spoken. She was just thankful that he was finally able to say them after so many years of praying for him to speak them to her.
"I love you too," she said leaning in for a kiss before she got up and began to retrieve her clothes, putting on the various pieces as she came to them, Grissom doing the same.
"One of these days Cath is going to figure out you aren't having one of your headaches, you know that right."
"I know, I just can't seem to be able to resist you some times. Let's try to behave at work from now on, deal?" He asked while pulling her in for a lingering kiss.
"Deal, but only if you stop doing that at work," she said a little breathlessly.
He looked at her forlornly, "I'll do my best, but no promises."
He unlocked and cracked open the door to his office and looked out. The coast was clear so he opened it all the way and let Sara out with one last squeeze of her backside. She jumped a little and gave him a warning look.
He returned to his desk with the intention of spending the rest of the day trying to concentrate on the paperwork threatening to bury his desk while Sara went back to working on processing the fingerprints for their case.
She was just entering the evidence room when Greg ran up to her with the DNA results from the stockings she found at the scene of the last rape.
"Sara, I have been looking for you, there were two distinct donor's to the DNA on the stocking. One was the victims and I ran the other through AFIS and it came back unknown, sorry. I did find some unknown substance on them though and I sent them to trace, I told Hodges to page Grissom with the results."
Greg hated letting Sara down, especially when he knew a case was bothering her so much. He knew he was never going to be able to have a chance with the tall brunette, he also noticed she was happier these last few months and determined it must be a guy.
He would give his right leg to know who the guy is. In his not so subtle way of getting information he raised his eyebrows at her and asked once again, "So, are you going to tell me who this mystery guy is you have been seeing or are you going to keep him a secret forever." She raised one eyebrow up at him,
"Now Greg, you know I don't want to scare the guy. Someday maybe, though."
She looked at the DNA results in front of her and her face showed the disappointment that she felt, her shoulders sagged and she let out a sigh.
"It's ok, thanks for getting these results so fast for me, I hope this guy doesn't start to escalate further before we can find him, did you give the results to Grissom?"
"I was just about to when I ran into you."
"I'll go and let him know, thanks again." She started walking towards Grissom's office and noticed Hodges heading towards the office as well.
She stepped in front of him, "do you have the results from the stocking in my case?"
Hodges stuck his nose in the air "I was told to give Grissom the results as soon as they were done, not you."
Sara was really starting to lose her patience with the brown nosing, graying lab tech and tried her best to keep her anger in check.
"Hodges, you were told to page him with the results so will you please give me the results of the test, and I will give them to Grissom" her voice stayed remarkably calm when she said this, which surprised her.
She really disliked this man. She knew he was about to say something cross when he suddenly looked behind her and smiled, "Dr. Grissom, I was just bringing you some results…"
This was all he managed to get out before Grissom cut him off, "good, give them to Sara please" he turned to her with a glint in his eye, "Sara, meet me in my office please."
She took the lab results from a very upset Hodges and headed to Grissom's office. A couple of moments later she heard the soft click of his office door and his foot steps coming up behind her.
"I really don't like Hodges", she said before he could get a word out. He stepped behind his desk and looked at her. His next words surprised her, "neither do I, but we have to try to keep things civil around here, we are a team."
"Can't you tell him I can have whatever results I want from a case I am working on, whether your working lead or not" she said with a slight pout on her face.
He gave her an understanding look, "I don't want to look like I'm favoring you."
"I know, but it still bothers me when he does that."
She sighed and handed over the results with a dejected look. He looked over the results and gave her a large grin.
"what?" she asked with a confused look on her face.
"Did you even look at this?" he asked when she continued to look at him with a confused expression. He realized she still didn't understand what he was smiling about.
"No, I was still a little aggravated about Hodges, what does it say?"
He handed her the slip of paper with the trace results on it. Diamond dust, and not just any diamond dust, this stuff had characteristics of blood diamonds. She got it. This was huge.
She looked up at Grissom with hope in her eyes, and saw his head nod. The two of them, in unison, got up and rushed through the door of his office, Sara heading towards the locker room to grab her kit and Grissom heading out to his Denali. They were going back to the crime scene.