Title: Welcome Home

Author: Viggorrah

Disclaimer: If I owned CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, do you seriously think I would be writing this? I would be writing screenplays, not Fan Fiction and meeting with William Petersen and the rest of the stars of the show. Who the hell do you think I am?

Summary: Progress is good...

CHAPTER XI

Within the next week, the doctors were saying that Grissom's wounds were healing very well. He hadn't come out of the coma, but the fact that his wounds were healing was a good sign. Grissom's face had regained a little of its color, but he still looked pale. Thomas had been discharged from the hospital and was immediately transported to LVPD so he could be questioned. He confessed to murdering Tony Talbot and shooting Grissom when he was being interrogated by Warrick, Catherine, and Jim. Sara spent most of her time at the hospital with Sharon and Mrs. Grissom and around the seventh day, Dr. Gibson walked into the waiting room.

"I have a bit of good news for you." He told them. All their attention was turned on him. "Mr. Grissom no longer needs to be hooked up to a ventilator. He has started to breathe on his own."

"Thanks Doc!" Sharon said. Mrs. Grissom nodded and smiled. "Mrs. Grissom gives her thanks, too."

"Oh, don't thank me. It's all Mr. Grissom. He's a real fighter. The other doctors still don't think so, but I, personally, think that he'll wake up from his coma." He smiled to reinforce his sincerity. For the first time, he watched as all three of them smiled broadly at him. Dr. Gibson then took his leave, as he had other patients to tend to. Sara stood up and took out her cell.

"I'm going to call the guys at the lab. They'll want to know what the doctor said about Gil." She told Sharon. She nodded and watched Sara walk to the floor's outside area. She decided to call Catherine.

"Willows."

"Hey, Cath."

"Oh, Sara! Hey. What's going on?"

"Doctor Gibson came to us and gave us an update on Griss."

"Oh. How is he? Did anything happen to him?" Catherine was becoming slightly uneasy.

"He's started to breathe on his own now. He doesn't need the ventilator anymore."

"That's great!"

"Yeah. He also said that he thinks Griss will come out of the coma. The other doctors don't think so, but he does."

"That's great news, Sara. I'll tell the guys when I see them."

"Where are you now?"

"I'm just about to pull into the lab's parking lot."

"Oh, ok. Tell the guys I said hi."

"I will. Some of them might be on their way up there. I'm not positively sure, though."

"When will you be up here again?"

"I'm not sure. It depends what we have to work on up here. I haven't seen the assignment slips yet."

"Oh, ok. Well, I'll be up there soon, I guess."

"Sara, Sharon and Griss' mother know you better than anyone else here. They'll probably feel more comfortable with you up there with them than me or Warrick or any of the other guys." Sara was dumbfounded. She and Catherine weren't necessarily friends, but it seemed like Catherine was saying that she didn't have to work as much while Grissom was in the hospital. "The guys and I are fully capable of taking care of things down here. I think Gil would want you up there with him anyway."

"Thanks, Cath. You have no idea how much that means to me."

"You're welcome, Sara. I'm about to walk into the lab. I'll pass the news on to the guys and I'll talk to you later."

"Alright. Bye."

"Bye." Sara closed her phone and went back inside to Sharon and Mrs. Grissom. She sat down with them and made small conversion with Sharon. All three of them soon dozed off into a must-needed sleep.

TBC

Sorry...shortness.