Chapter Ten

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Sara was rushed to Desert Palm hospital in critical but stable condition. She regained consciousness but was unable to speak. Upon arrival at the hospital she was whisked into the OR. Grissom sat in the waiting room adjacent to the OR. He was beside himself with worry about her and his unborn child if she was indeed pregnant.

Fifteen minutes later, Catherine joined him in the waiting room. "Hi Gil, how is she?" she whispered.

He shrugged. "I don't know. No one has come out of the OR yet to tell me. How's the research on that Jarrod guy going?"

"I've got Greg, Nick and Warrick working on it. They told me they'd handle it while I stayed here with you."

"What did Ecklie say to that?"

"He just told me to go and support you" she told him.

They were quiet. "I've got so many unanswered why's Catherine. So many! " he said and his voice caught again and she heard a slight whimper.

She placed a hand on his knee. "Gil, she's a fighter. She is going to be ok. She survived being under that vehicle didn't she? She survived being dehydrated in the desert. Sara is not a woman who gives up"

Gil shook his head. "How much can I handle any more? I am not sure I can take much more of this."

"What are you saying Grissom? Do you want out of the relationship, out of the lab? Out of Vegas?"

"I want to leave CSI eventually Catherine. I want to live a nice quiet life with Sara and our future child.. I am not getting any younger you know"

Catherine nodded.

"Was she pregnant?"

Gil shrugged. "I don't know. I'm presuming that she was going to tell me once she got inside CSI, but that bastard crashed into her or did something… hey no one ever told me how she was injured in the first place."

Catherine heaved her shoulders. "I'm not entirely sure either Gil. We have a few witnesses that have yet to be questioned. Jim is going to be talking to them in great detail as to what they saw."

Grissom sighed. "I hope she's going to be ok"

The doctor came out of the operating room and faced Gil and Catherine. "You two Sara Sidle's friends?"

"I'm her fiancé, Gil Grissom"

"I'm one of her co-workers Catherine Willows, we have worked together for a long time now."

"She is stable and conscious and there has been no brain damage. She is banged up quite a bit and will need to be a way from work for at least six to eight weeks." The doctor said. "we removed the bullet from her arm. She has fractures to her left arm and leg but she is going to be ok."

"Thank God" Catherine said as she breathed a sigh of relief.

Gil just stood there open mouthed. Removed a bullet, leg & arm fractures… ohmigod I'm reliving her under the car all over again… except the bullet wound….

"Gil" Catherine said shaking him out of the reverie.

"Uh sorry, just thinking. Um when can I see her"

"She's in recovery now. Come back in about two hours and she'll be moved to a different room. She'll be put in intensive care just for cautionary purposes so you will have to sign in at the desk in that ward and show ID. I'll make sure you and Ms. Willows are on the list. "

"How long will she have to be in here?"

"Just until tomorrow afternoon." The doctor replied.

Grissom and Catherine left together. "Gil, you are distraught I do not want you to drive. I will take you back to the lab. I'll get Greg and Warrick to come back and retrieve your car." Catherine said and guided him away. He was so distraught that he was about to go into the ladies room.

They got back and walked quietly into their separate offices. Gil stayed in his office for hours and didn't come out.

Meanwhile Catherine, Nick, Warrick and Greg were fully engulfed in the "Jeremy Jarrod" investigation. They had a few boxes of evidence to go through pertaining to the case.

Meanwhile Jeremy Jarrod's son Jamie, the perpetrator that hit Sara and caused all the grief sat in the interrogation room stone faced.

"Jamie, do you realize that what you did was wrong and you could go to jail?" Brass asked.

"I won't get jail. I'll get a suspended sentence and be out on the street in no time" he replied.

Brass looked at him smugly. "You think so huh? You think the DA will agree to a suspended sentence for attempted murder?"

"What attempted murder? I just hit her with my car that's all" he said.

"You've admitted you did it because you wanted to get back at her for what she did to your father"

"You can't prove I said that" he said.

"Oh yes I can" Brass replied.

"Did you tape record my client, because if so its inadmissible in court - taped without his permission."

"Oh counselor I didn't tape record him… but what evidence I do have will send him away for a very long time." With that he walked out of the interrogation room.

Jarrod and his lawyer exchanged glances. "What is he talking about?" the lawyer asked.

"Damn it all – that news team that was covering another issue nearby – must have heard me say something!" he said.

The lawyer looked at Jamie Jarrod. "It will be dealt with"

Meanwhile outside the interrogation room, the intercom was on and brass and the D.A. heard everything the lawyer and Jarrod said.