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Chapter 10: Reunion & Answers

Sara looked up with tears in her eyes, and gave him a little smile as he repeated with confusion. "What are you doing here?"

She sniffled before replying. "I came to tell you before you left that I love you." He looked at her wide-eyed and was about to speak, but she continued while stepping closer to him. "I've always loved you, I could never stop, no matter what." Then she slowly moved her hand up to his clean-shaven cheek as she finished with tears going down her cheek now. "I want to try again. Please tell me I'm not too late."

Grissom swallowed while he felt the sparks going through his body from not only her words, but the hand on his cheek, something he's missed feeling.

After a short pause though, he took her hand off his cheek with both hands and looked her in the eyes before speaking softly. "Sara, you don't know how much I wanted/needed to hear everything you just said." Sara's heart started to pound while a smile started to grace her lips, until he took a breath and shook his head as he slowly released her hand and stepped back. "But I don't know if I can do it again. You broke my heart, you left me behind without getting the facts. I'm sorry, I can't."

It nearly killed him for saying that, but his heart was still broken and it was hard to trust her with it again.

Sara shook her head with a sharp sob. "I'm sorry too, I didn't mean to hurt you, that was the last thing I ever wanted to do."

"I know Sara, I honestly do, but..."

She cuts him off, this time with determination in her voice. "I know I need to regain your trust, and I'll do it, I'll do whatever it takes because I'm not giving you up without a fight." She steps up to him, wiping her tears away, then cupping his cheek again while looking him right in his eyes. "Not this time, I swear it."

They looked deeply into one another's eyes in silence, seeing and feeling the strong connection and emotions through them, which was interrupted when the last call for boarding came over the intercom.

He then cleared his throat again before whispering. "I have to go."

She nodded, but before she removed her hand from his cheek, she finished. "I'll let you go, but remember I'm not giving up on you, I'll wait for as long as you want me too."

After she took her hand off his cheek slowly, he looked at her before turning around and started walking away, making her feel sadness all over.

It wasn't the end result she was looking for, but least she got to tell him how she felt, and like she said, she wasn't giving up on him, no matter how long it takes, even though right now it was breaking her heart.

The moment those words left Catherine's mouth, the world felt like it just stopped as Nick looked at her with wide-eyes. "What did you just say?"

With tears now streaming down her cheeks, she continued. "I said Lindsey's your daughter, she's yours."

Nick took a breath as he shook his head before asking while trying to control his emotions. "How come you never told me? Did anybody else know?" He started to feel a little overwhelmed with so many questions, so he stopped for a second to say. "I uh...I need to sit down."

Catherine nodded and helped him to the couch, and after he had sat down, he looked at her while she sat down on the coffee table so she was in front of him, then he looked down as he whispered. "I wish you would have told me, things would have gone a lot differently."

Catherine took a breath before she replied just as softly. "And that's why I didn't." He looked at her with confusion as she continued. "To answer your second question first, the only person I'm fully aware of knowing the truth is Eddie, I met him when I was two months along. If anybody else knew, I never told them because I didn't want to put them in that position."

Even though she said that, she had a very strong feeling Grissom knew, she just never told him either way.

Believing her, he just nodded as she continued after clearing her throat. "When you had gotten your acceptance letter to Texas A&M you were so happy. It was always your dream school, and if I would have told you that I was pregnant, you would have dropped everything you worked so hard for to stay here, and I couldn't let you give up your dream."

Now Nick was in almost tears. "But I had other dreams, ones that included you. I loved you so much." Catherine nodded as she looked down while he continued. "You broke my heart, and it only got worse when I found out you were getting married and having a child with him." He took another breath as he stood up, then spoke again as he walked over to the mental Catherine had been standing when he came into the room. "Which it turns out it wasn't his child after all." He then picked up the picture of Lindsey at age 3 and smiled a little. "I have felt a connection with her the moment I saw her, now I know why."

Catherine, who had gotten up from the coffee table and stopped a few feet from him, spoke softly again. "I'm so sorry I hurt you Nick. I just thought at the time I was doing the right thing. If it makes you feel any better I've been kicking myself and hurting ever since, feeling guilty even."

Nick closed his eyes for a second, then opened them up and placed the picture frame back on the mantel before turning around. "Of course it doesn't make me feel any better that you were hurting and feeling pain, I would never wish that on you, no matter how upset I am about this."

Catherine nodded, she knew that because that's who he was, which was one of the reason's she loved him so much.

He then cleared his throat before speaking again. "Why him, though?"

She took a breath before replying softly. "He wasn't always like what you witnessed." Nick scoffed as she continued with a small smile. "It's true, he was so different back then, but still so different from..."

She trails off as he whispered. "Me?"

"Yeah." Catherine cleared her throat before she continued, knowing it wasn't going to make him feel that great but wanted to be honest. "Anyways I unexpectedly fell for him, and he fell for me."

Hearing that was breaking his heart a little, but he had to ask. "What, uh...What happened, how'd you two end up like you are now?"

Then Catherine started to have tears in her eyes as she continued. "Because no matter how much I fell for him, there was only one man I was still completely crazy for, and when we both realized that my feelings for you weren't going to change, everything went south and we started fighting more until eventually he cheated on me, and while I wasn't madly in love with him, it still hurt."

He nodded in understanding before speaking, his voice cracking a little. "Did he ever hurt..."

Catherine immediately cuts him off as she shook her head. "No, he never hurt her, he loves her very much."

"And you?"

Despite how he felt about this situation, his blood started to boil at the thought of her ex hurting her, but it started to cool down she replied. "No, not like that."
After Nick nodded again, and when it became silent for a few seconds, she cleared her throat as she asked. "I'm sure you have more questions, wanting to get to know her."

"Yeah, I just don't know where to start."

"Start from anywhere you like."

He paused for another second, but just as he was about to open his mouth, her cell phone started to ring from the coffee table, so she walked the short distance to it before picking it up, and after looking at the caller ID, she said. "It's Eddie, I have to take it."

Nick nodded, and while she answered her phone, he had turned around and looked at the photo's of his little girl, and just thinking of her as his now, sent his heart racing. He still couldn't believe he was a father, and that one moment once again shifted how he saw his future heading.

Sara did a sigh before turning around since she couldn't continue to watch him walk away, then as she started to take a few steps away from the gate, she felt a hand on her shoulder before hearing the most wonderful words from the most beautiful voice she's heard in the last ten years. "I love you too."

Sara released another sharp sob a she turned around, and when she saw him with tears in his eyes, she cups his cheek immediately as he spoke with emotion. "I can't do it Sara. I can't just turn you away after hearing everything you said, everything I've been wanting to hear you say, but I'm..."

Sara cuts him while nodding with tears in her eyes as she cupped his other cheek. "I know, you're scared of putting your heart on the line again, but I promise you I won't break it again." She brings him closer to her and places his forehead to hers as she finished. "I can't break it again without breaking mine more in the process."

He closed his eyes as he wrapped his arms around her and held her to him.
He knew he was taking a risk on letting them be them again, but what other option did he have?

Yeah, he could have strung it out on them being apart, but that wouldn't have accomplished anything but more heartache and pain for both of them, and deep down he knew he couldn't do that. He still loved her so much that the thought of giving her unnecessary pain, didn't feel right. So why wait and waste unnecessary time when it was inevitable for them to be back together.

He sighed in content as she whispered. "You better not miss your flight, we can talk more when you get back, I'll be waiting for you."

He pulled his head back so he could look into her eyes, and after a seconds pause, he asked. "Come with me?"

She looked at him with shock as she replied. "What!?"

Grissom gets the boyish grin that Sara had always loved while he replied with a nod and held out his hand. "Yeah, let's go away together, to a different city and talk everything out."

She smiled as she shook her head. "But I don't have a ticket and I..."

Grissom cuts her off while his hand was still holding out for hers. "There is another flight in a couple of hours, we can take that one."

After a small hesitation, Sara slowly moved her hand to his as the smile stayed on her face. "Well, the guys did say they would cover for me, so why not."

Their faces were beaming by the time her hand slipped into his with a mixture of so many emotions ruining through them, ready for the unknown as long as they were facing it together.

AN: Hope I didn't freak you out too much. More GSR to come on this unexpected two person trip :) Find out what happens when Eddie shows up next chapter. Please review.