AN: Subtle mention of Season 1 finale. Thanks for the reviews. Here is the next chapter.

Chapter 10: Sara's Spirit

3 days later

Since Sara had left a message on Bailey's phone that morning telling her that she had to work another shift, Bailey took the twins to Crystal's place since she had school.

When she got there though, they weren't sure on staying at first, but when they noticed a few more kids around their age were there, they were happy they had other kids to play with, so after a hug and kiss, Bailey walked back to her vehicle, happy that she could leave them behind knowing they weren't going to be upset about it.

After she left Crystal's, she decided to drive to the lab to see her mom for a few minutes since she still had a little spare time before she had to go to her first class, so once she pulled into the parking lot of the lab and parked, she got out and walked toward the building before walking in, where she was met by a smiling Judy at the reception desk. "Wow, look at you. This is a nice sight."

Bailey smiled in return before asking. "I would like to see my mom, if she isn't out in the field."

Judy nodded in understanding before handing her the sign in sheet. "She actually just got back, so she should be in her office."

After signing the sheet and getting a visitors badge, Bailey spoke again. "Thanks Judy."

"You're Welcome, and it is really nice seeing you again."

She nodded with a smile. "You too." Then she started walking further in the lab, and instead of going the route that would take her past the break room, she took the shorter distance to the office.

After getting to the doorway, she didn't see her mom but decided to wait inside, so she walked further in the room, and when she looked toward her desk, she saw a few pictures that was placed on it, one was of them with the whole family, another was just the kids, her parent's wedding picture, and the last one she hadn't seen before; it was when they were younger, their Boston days. So, wanting to check it out, she walked closer to it, and was going to pick it up when she got there but stopped and gasped a second later when she looked down at the desk and saw a picture of a dead body in the file that was open. "Oh my god!"

Sara rushed in the room, while trying not to spill her coffee, the moment she heard her daughter, before closing the file and looking at her, but before she could speak, Bailey shook her head. "No. It isn't about seeing the dead body, it's about whose body it is."

Sara placed her coffee mug down and opened the file back up before asking. "You know her?"

Bailey studied her face for a few more minutes before looking into her mother's eyes. "I don't personally know her. But I saw her on campus 3 days ago, she was around a bunch of other people."

Sara took a moment before asking the question that's been on her mind since she saw this one. "Was Tom Richardson one of those people?"

"Yeah, why wou..." She trailed off as she looked at her mother wide-eyed. "Wait a minute. You think he had something to do with this?"

Sara sighed. "I..."

Then she stopped and looked down, making Bailey place her hand on her mother's shoulder. "Mom, tell me. Do you?" Sara took another moment before she told her everything she's been felling and thinking since she talked to him three days ago.

After she was done, Bailey looked really shocked and needed to sit down, which Sara noticed, so she took her daughter's shoulders and walked her toward her office chair before helping her sit down.

Once she was comfortable, she cleared her throat before asking. "Wow, how strong are those feelings?"

"Now that you said you saw Penelope." Sara picked up the file from her desk looking at the picture as she continued. "In the same group as Tom, stronger than ever." Then Sara sighed as she shook her head. "But, I have nothing to prove it. I can't put somebody away with a feeling, I need proof."

Bailey paused for a second before speaking. "I trust your gut feeling more than anybody, outside of Dad's." Sara looked at her daughter as Bailey continued with a smile while a plan was already running through her head. "And I have plan to get the evidence you need." Making Sara raise an eyebrow a second later.

"Excuse me! But did you just say what I think you said!?"

After Bailey had talked to her mother about the idea she had, Sara had brought Catherine into it, but before she even signed off on it, there was one person's approval that they felt like they needed, and they all knew he wasn't going to happy about it, which was just confirmed how right they were. So, it was their turn to try and convince him it was their only shot without someone else losing a life.

Bailey, who was sitting down in the office chair looking at her not-so-happy father on the computer screen, sighed before replying softly. "Dad, this is our only way on getting him now in a controlled situation. He's already in to me, so why can't we use that against him. I couldn't stand it if another woman died when there is a chance to get him sooner."

He sighed and ran his hand down his face before replying in vulnerable tone that he only used with his family. "And I can't stand putting my daughter in harms way."

"I understand, but we'll be in a public place the whole time, and he won't even get the chance to get me in his car after leaving the club."

He sighed again before speaking. "Sara?"

Sara, who was standing on Bailey's right side, sighed as she placed her hand on top of her daughter's shoulder. "I'll admit I'm not crazy about this, either. But we have all the cards in this one, we know what he's going to do. Plus, she's right, she won't even leave the parking lot. I'll make sure of that."

Grissom paused before speaking towards Catherine, who was on Bailey's other side. "Catherine?"

"Multiple undercovers will be watching her like a hawk. He makes a move, they'll already have a counter one."

He paused again before doing another sigh. "I'm going on record and saying that I don't like this at all. But, I don't want to hear another young woman dying because of this guy, or hearing about another family's heartbreak when you have a shot on getting him before he strikes again." After one more pause he finished. "So, I'm trusting you guys with one of the most precious things I have in my life. Keep her safe."

Bailey gave him a smile and replied. "Thank you daddy."

He cleared his throat before continuing. "Just be safe, sweetie, and get in contact with me the minute you are done, you hear me?"

Bailey nodded with tears in her eyes. "I love you."

He kissed his hand and moved it close to his computer screen, which she did the same, and as they pulled their hands back so they could see each other's faces again, Grissom replied. "I love you too, always."

After a second of just looking at one another, Sara squeezed her daughter's shoulder before speaking to her. "Why don't you call him to set up the 'date'."

Bailey nodded as she got up from the office chair before walking toward the other part of the room as she got on her phone.

Sara took a seat in the empty chair a second later as Catherine walked out in the hall to make a few calls herself.

Sara sighed and started to say. "Griss..."

But Grissom cuts her off. "I know, just protect her."

"With my life."

He frowned after sighing deeply. "Sara, you know how I feel about that too."

"I know, I'm sorry. Just know I'll do everything I can."

"Alright, but you be safe too. Don't do more than you have to."

Sara couldn't help but smirk a little. "Who me?"

He couldn't help but smirk back. "Yes, you." Then he got a serious look on his face again with a mixture of tenderness. "I mean it, honey."

After another round of reassurance, or as much reassuring as she could, she signed 'I love you', which was reciprocated by him with a smile. Then after a few more tender looks and a promise that she will contact him the moment they were done, they signed off.

Once her husband was no longer on the screen, Sara leaned back in her seat with a sigh, which Bailey heard as she was ending her call, so she walked over to her desk. "Mom, you ok?"

Sara's lips then tugged into a small smile as she looked at her daughter. "Yeah. But I bet your father is shaking his head while thinking what's he going to do with us." Bailey raised an eyebrow as Sara continued. "You may look like more like your father, honey. But you definitely have my spirit."

Bailey smiled, taking that as a huge compliment, as she asked. "So, you've done something like this before?"

Sara nodded as she tucked a piece of hair behind her hair. "I have. It was towards the end of my first year here, the FBI was involved, and your father didn't want me to go undercover."

Bailey then smirked, knowingly. "But you did it anyways."

"Yes." Sara nodded again as she stood up, then she cupped her daughter's cheek. "But the difference between us is that I was, am, properly trained for something like that."

Bailey nodded with a more serious look on her face. "I understand what you are saying, but I'm not afraid mom. In my heart I'm doing something right, I'm saving the next woman from having her life cut short, I'm saving another set of parents and family members from heartache." She took a breath before finishing. "Besides, I trust you to keep me safe."

Before Sara could respond to that, another voice entered the room. "Hope you trust us as well." Bailey and Sara's eyes went to the door and saw Nick, who was the one that spoke, and Greg standing there, making Bailey smile before she asked. "You guys are involved in the plan too?"

Nick and Greg nodded while they walked into the room, then after they were on each side of her, Nick placed his arm over her shoulders while replying. "You didn't think we would let you have all the fun, did you? Besides, nobody messes with our niece."

Bailey smiled bigger, but before she had a chance to hug them, there was another voice that came from the doorway. "You got that right, Nicky."

Her eyes got wide before she ran toward the door the moment she heard his voice. "Uncle Warrick!"

They all chuckled as she practically jumped into his arms, and after a big hug between them, they pulled back before Warrick smiled at her. "Man girl, look at you. This can't be little Bailey?"

With schedules not lining up, and with him being out of town when Grissom was here for their group get together, this was the first time they had seen one another since the family had left for Paris. He's seen Sara a few times in passing since she's been back, but that was a little more expected.

Bailey chuckled with a nod. "I'm afraid it is."

They all chuckled again as they walked further in the room before stopping next to the others, making Sara look at the three men standing there who she'd always considered her brothers.
Of course things didn't transition as smoothly in that regard with Warrick as it did with the other two, but eventually the brother/sister vibe was felt between them, even more so when Bailey came into the picture and she started calling all of them her 'uncles'.

She took a breath and started to speak to them while trying to keep her emotions intact. "Thanks guys."

The guys nodded with smiles as Warrick spoke while he patted Nick's shoulder. "Like what Nicky said, we can't let you two have all the fun."

As another round of chuckling went through the room, Catherine stopped in the doorway. "Brief in the layout room in 10 minutes." As they nodded she looked at Bailey. "And your classes for the day?"

Bailey nodded with a smile. "I have already gotten a hold of my note takers, so schoolwork is taken care of."

Catherine smiled. "I guess I should have known."

As they chuckled, Catherine nodded before walking away.

A few seconds later Bailey excused herself so she could go to the restroom before the briefing, and Sara looked at the guys again when it was just the four of them. "Grissom called you guys, didn't he?"

Not that she didn't think they would do this without him talking to them first, but she was curious if he had; and if she knew her husband like she thought she did, her curiosity would be correct, which was confirmed a second later when Nick nodded. "She's his daughter. Do you really think he wouldn't have as many people as he could to protect her?"

Then Greg added with a smile. "Or you for that matter."

Sara smiled while shaking her head as she grabbed all the files she needed for the brief. "Thousands of miles away, and he's still trying to find a way to protect me, protect us."

The guys smiled as they all started walking out of the office before Nick placed his arm around Sara's shoulders. "Did you really think he wouldn't?"

Sara shook her head again without hesitation. "Not even for a second."

She knew that if he couldn't be there to protect her and their family, he would always find another way to do it, and that's one of the things she loved about him. Even times when she felt annoyed by it, she secretly loved it.

Now it was time to make good on her promise to him that everything will work out. She couldn't expect anything less, she wouldn't accept anything less.

AN: Find out what happens next, and Sara has something she needs to tell Grissom. Please review.