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Chapter 10: Asking questions

Hours later

Horatio was standing in the waiting area, and he may have seemed calm and collected on the outside, but in the inside he was a wreck. He had been getting updates from his team, which they were still at Calleigh's house, but they found no other evidence at the moment to help them. What they needed was Sara to wake up and hope that she could fill in the gap on what happened.

Horatio mentally shook his head as he saw a man who was an inch shorter, a little broader and older than him walk in the hospital. He took a gamble and walked up to the man, then asked. "Gilbert Grissom?"

The man's blue eyes looked into Horatio's blue eyes, nodded, shook his hand and said. "Yes, and you must be Horatio Caine." Horatio nodded as they release hands.

As he was bringing his hand back to his side he couldn't help but really look into the older man's eyes.

The flight here from Las Vegas was by no means the shortest of ones life, but the way that Grissom was looking, it looked like he was on the longest one of is life, and Horatio's heart really went out to him because he knew with that look this man had feelings for the young woman in the hospital bed and knew he would be feeling the same way if the roles would have been reversed. Hell, he was feeling that way right now because least Grissom could see and be next to the woman he loved.

Horatio mentally shook his head and said. "I'll show you to her room now."

Grissom nodded and followed Horatio.

An hour later

Horatio was just walking to Sara's room after going to the restroom when a doctor and a few nurses ran past him and turned into Sara's room. He walked a little faster and stood in the doorway as he saw her waking up, then she became a little scared. The doctor was just about to sedate her, when Grissom speaks up. "Wait, let me talk to her." The sound of Grissom's voice made Sara look to the left, and she was confused as her heart rate was still spiking.
He gave her a little smile, cups her cheek, and as he ran his thumb up and down, said. "Hey, you're ok now and you're safe." She nodded as the machines started to calm down.

The doctor walked up to the bed and checked to make sure she was ok, along with her memory. When he deemed her fit and ok to talk, he asked the men to watch her close and said he will be in the room to check on her later, then left with the nurses.

Once he was gone she looked at Grissom and asked. "What are you doing here?"

Grissom cleared his throat before speaking. "Horatio called and told me you were here."

As the events from last night came to her, she gets wide-eyed, looked at Horatio and asked. "Calleigh and C.J, where are they?"

Horatio shook his head. "I don't know."

The machines started to go off again and she was getting ready to climb out of bed, but Grissom tried to stop her. "Sara you need to..."

She shakes her head as she was pushing his hands away. "No I need to find.."

"No, what you need to do is stay in bed."

She glares at him and said. "Why are you so worried?"

"Because I don't want to lose you."

"You just don't want to lose one of your precious CSI's."

Grissom shook his head, and finally said something out loud he had kept a secret for almost two years. "No, I don't want to lose the woman I love!"

She stopped struggling against Grissom's hands as it became completely silent except for the machine beeping, only this time it was beeping for another reason, her heart was soaring in a good way.

She blinked a few times and asked quietly, still a little shocked. "You love me?"

He nodded with a small smile, then replied. "Yes, very much, so now can you please get back into bed and lie still."

She nodded and gets comfortable again as her mind was spinning from everything.

Grissom made sure she was covered, then leans down and kissed her forehead before sitting back down in the chair and taking her hand in his. They looked at each other, both with love in their eyes.

Horatio watched the scene really happy for them, but now it was time to find the woman he loved, so he cleared his throat and said. "I'm sorry to interrupt, but Ms. Sidle can I ask you questions now?"

Sara looks away from Grissom to look at Horatio. "Sorry Horatio." She knew that witnessing that scene must have stung a little, but he just nodded, then she continued. "Please it's Sara, and of course, anything that will help get Calleigh and C.J. back."

"Ok Sara, can you tell me what happened before the attack?"

"Yeah, we had dinner out last night, then after Calleigh put C.J. down for bedtime there was a knock on the door, it was a delivery man."

Horatio tilts his head and asked. "What kind of delivery did she get that late?"

Sara licked her lips before she continued. "It was a fruit basket, only it had more than just fruit, there was wine and cheese too." She saw their looks and she nodded. "We thought it was weird too, but she also thought it could have been somebody from the lab that was pulling a joke or doing a nice gesture. Either way there was no card, but she still signed for it."

"Then what happened?"

"She opened the basket, put the fruit and cheese up, pulled out the wine and asked if I wanted any, but I had declined because I had my share of drinks earlier that night during dinner and I knew my limit. But since she didn't have anything earlier she thought she would have one glass, so after she poured herself one she sat down on the couch and we started talking, just basically about old times. We called it a night an hour later, so after she went to bed,
I tided up, finished making my bed on the couch, read a few chapters of my book, then I fell asleep."

She took a moment to wet her lips again and heard Grissom say. "Here Sara, take a sip." She took the cup from his hands and took a sip of water from the straw. After she handed it back to him she thanked him with a smile. When he put the cup back on the table next to the bed, he took her hand again as she cleared her throat and spoke again. "I think I was asleep for a few hours before I heard a noise coming from the back door."

Horatio's mind thinks. 'Must have been when he snuck in after cutting the glass.'

His thoughts get interrupted when he heard Sara's voice again. "When I opened my eyes it was completely dark, I couldn't see anything, so I tried to turn on the lamp that was next to the couch but it wouldn't turn on, so I figured the light bulb went out. I got up anyways to check out the noise. I had barley gotten to the back door when somebody from behind came up to me. We struggled for a few minutes until I was knocked in the head with, what I think was the butt of a gun, and it must have been pretty good knock because that was the last thing I remember before waking up in here."

"Did you remember anything about the person who attacked you?"

Sara tried to think really hard, but then shook her head and replied. "No, but I do know it had to be a guy because the grip was too tight to be a woman's, and the height could have been around 6 feet, but that's just a guess."

After Horatio wrote it down, he asked another question. "Do you remember hearing anything before you lost consciousness?"

Again Sara thought, then answered. "I don't remember hearing anything, which is weird now that I think about it. Because if Calleigh would have heard the struggle she would have been in there in a heart beat." Sara had tears in her eyes as she continued. "There isn't anything she wouldn't have done to protect the people she cares about, and with C.J. in the house she wouldn't have thought twice if she had to do something drastic."

Horatio nodded in agreement as Grissom squeezed Sara's hand in comfort, she looks at him and Horatio speaks again after a few minutes of silence. "Was she acting any differently after drinking that glass of wine?"

Sara thinks about last night, then said. "Well she did seem a little dizzy when she got up from the couch, and like I said she only had one gla..." She trials off then gasped before saying. "Do you think something was in the wine?"

"I think so." Horatio look at Grissom and said. "She's fast."

Grissom shows a little smile as he looked at the woman in the bed. "She's one of the best." Sara looks back at Grissom with a smile of her own as Horatio picked up the phone and called Jesse get a sample of the wine, to see if there was any prints on the fruit basket, and to see if there was foul play with the power at the house.

After he hung up he asked. "Did she tell you who called her on C.J.'s birthday?" He remembered how she was after she stepped away from taking that call, so he thought that phone call could play a role in this.

As she looked back at Horatio she replied. "Yes she told me it was Kevin Matthews, her ex-boyfr..." She stops, looks at him wide-eyed and said. "It was him wasn't it?"

"Does he fit your description?"

Once again Sara thought really heard, then sighed as she shook his head. "I've only met him a few times, I can't remember."

"If you don't mind me asking, do you remember why they broke up?"

Sara cleared her throat and replied. "All that Calleigh told me was that before she decided to take care in C.J., Kevin told her that if she did that then they were done."

Horatio couldn't imagine not wanting C.J. apart of his life if he got to be involved with Calleigh, and anybody that didn't respect Calleigh's decision didn't even deserve either of them. He mentally shakes his head and asked. "How long where they together? And was there any abuse that she mentioned?" Horatio's blood boiled at that last question, if Kevin was the guy that had them and if he had hurt her in any way...

His inner thoughts were interrupted when he heard Sara's voice. "They started dating a few months after they graduated college, so about 3 years, and I don't think he was abusive or at least there were no signs that he was and she didn't mention any to me. But from what I gathered she wasn't very happy towards the end anyways, so even if C.J. didn't end up with her, they would've more than likely have broken up sooner rather than later."

Horatio nodded as he pulled out his phone again, and said. "I'll just check him out and see what he's been up to." Sara nodded and looked back at Grissom as Horatio gets his phone again, hits speed dial number 3, puts it up to his ear and waited for Eric to pick up.

A few seconds later Horatio hears. "Delko.

"Eric, I want you to go to the lab and check out a Kevin Mathews for me."

"You got it H, I'll get back to you."

"Alright, thank you."

"No problem."

They hang up just as Horatio saw Grissom bring the hand that had Sara's in it and kissed the top of it.

Horatio cleared his throat and asked one more question. "Sara, do you know who C.J.'s father is?"

Even if it this question was coming from left field, he wanted to cover all the bases.

Sara looked away from Grissom to look at Horatio again. "No, I barely even knew Christy before she died."

Sara looked down at her hands, Horatio tilts his head and asked. "But you do know something don't you?"

She looks back up at him and nodded, Grissom squeezed her hand and finally talked. "Honey, he needs to know anything that could help, no matter how insignificant you think it is, and I believe Calleigh and Christy would understand."

Sara nodded, cleared her throat and replied. "Calleigh told me what happened, then Christy had confirmed it when I saw her about a year before she died."
She took a moment before continuing. "They were in their Junior year of college and most of the students were done with finals and getting ready to leave school for the summer, so they were having a party at one of the student's house. Calleigh had to decline because she still had one more final the next morning, so Christy went by herself and went a little overboard on the drinking. She woke up in somebody's bed she didn't know and walked out before seeing the guy she had been with because she was so scared and ashamed of her behavior.

"When she found out she was pregnant she didn't even think about her choice, she said that she made a mistake but it wasn't the child's fault. She also said that despite on how it happened it was the easiest decision she ever made, even though she knew it was going to be tough. She also felt that Calleigh would help out if she asked. She just didn't know how true her statement was." Then as she looked down at her hands again. "Sorry, I wish I could be more help."

Grissom squeezed her hand again, but Horatio speaks. "You did fine Sara."

Just as Sara nodded Horatio's phone went off, he said excuse himself and answered it. "Caine."

"I called one of the tech's to check it out, and he told me Kevin is completely clean, except for two speeding tickets, and they were issued here."

That perked Horatio's interest big time and asked. "He lives here?"

Eric smiled on his end and replied. "Yes, and already one step ahead of you, I am going to his address now." Horatio always encouraged his team to run with the lead if they had it, so they didn't have to wait from him to say the order.

"Send me the address, and I'll meet you there."

"You got it H."

As he hung up Sara speaks. "He lives here?" He nodded.

And just as she was thinking about trying to get out of the bed again, Grissom stopped her when he said. "Honey, don't even think about it." She looks over at him, ready to open her mouth but he continued. "I know you care about them and you want to help out, but you are just getting over a concussion that knocked you out pretty good and you need to stay here for observation, I'm sure that Horatio will keep us informed."

They both look at him and Horatio nodded as he replied. "I will Sara, I promise."

Sara sighed, then nodded. "Ok." She knew as much as she wanted to help out, Grissom was right, and if she ended back in the hospital then she was no help to anybody, especially if she hindered their progress by them watching her every move.

Horatio nodded back and watched the couple for a few seconds, then turned and walked out of the room to see what he can find out, so they'll be one step closer from bringing Calleigh and C.J. back to where they belong.

AN: Hope it was ok. And you all have a safe and wonderful weekend. Please review.