Neither Catherine or Sara noticed Grissom standing in the doorway of the break room.An angry and upset look on his face having witnessed part of the interaction between Catherine and Sara. He had walked in right as Catherine closed her eyes and turned into Sara's hand that was on Catherine's cheek. Then heard the questions exchanged between the two. This wasn't how things were suppose to be going he thought. He loved Sara and thought she loved him in return. Now she was going to be living with Catherine.
"Can I speak with you for a moment Sara," Grissom asked as he startled the two women and not giving Sara a chance to answer Catherine's question. Frowning Sara pulled back a little to look over at Grissom.
"Yeah sure, just give me a minute," Sara said as she began to turn her attention back to Catherine. But Grissom was not about to let them finish their conversation and have Sara say she would stay with Catherine.
"Now Sara!," Grissom said with anger. Something that was evident to both the women. They just looked at him in shock before Sara grew angry herself.
Ignoring Grissom, Sara turned her attention back to Catherine and smiled gently before standing up. But then remembering that she hadn't answered Catherine's plea yet, she leaned forward to whisper in Catherine's ear.
"I'd be more then happy to stay with you and Linds. I just have to get some stuff at my place after work. You can come with me when I do if you'd like." Standing back up, Sara smiled gently at Catherine once more. "Ok?" she asked.
Catherine nodded her head and returned Sara's gentle smile.
"Ok, thank you." Sara just nods and turns towards Grissom. He says nothing. Just turns and walks down the hall towards his office. He wanted to have this talk in private because he knew things might get ugly.
Sighing, Sara follows silently behind Grissom soon realizing that they were going to his office. When they finally reached Grissom's office, he walks inside without a word to Sara. Going over to his desk, he sits down heavily in his chair.
"Close the door behind you." As Sara walked into Grissom's office, she paused a moment at his words before closing the door behind her. But instead of moving to sit down in one of the chairs after. She chooses to stand behind the chairs. Her hands resting on one of the backs as she leans slightly over it. A hard look on her face as she faces Grissom.
"What the hell is your problem Grissom?" she said angrily. Not caring if he was her boss at all. This was completely personal and she knew that.
"I'm your boss Sara and I would appreciate it if you spoke to me with the respect I deserve."
"Like hell you do Grissom. This has nothing to do with work and we both know that. So why don't you just tell me what you want so I can get on with what needs to be done." Grissom didn't answer right away. Instead he took off his glasses setting them down on his desk and pinching the bridge of his nose. Trying to stop the headache he can quickly feel coming on.
"What's going on with you and Catherine?" The anger no longer in his voice. Just the exhaustion that had finally caught up to him after so many sleepless nights. Thinking of what had gone wrong between him and Sara.
"There's nothing going on between Catherine and I. She was upset about the case we're working on and I was just comforting her. Am I not allowed to comfort a friend?" She knew that question was a low blow but at the moment she really didn't care. And she also knew it was more than she was making it out to be. But she didn't want to admit that yet. Not to herself and especially not to Grissom.
"Of course you are Sara. Don't make me out to be some cold hearted bastard here. I just want to know what's going on."
"You're right, I'm sorry Grissom. Really though there is nothing going on between me and Catherine. The case is taking a pretty rough toile on her and I'm just trying to be there for her as much as I can. She really needs it right now," Sara said with a sigh as she sat down heavily in the chair finally.
"Why is this case so rough on her? What's going on Sara?" His concern for Catherine taking over everything else for the moment. She was still a dear friend to him even if they were angry with each other at the moment. He wanted to make sure she was ok.
Sara just sighed again. Not sure how to answer his question. She knew if she told him what was really going on then Catherine would be taken off the case and probably put on watch. And she didn't think Catherine wanted that. But if she didn't tell him, she would probably put Catherine in more danger.
"The case we got. It was more then a B&E. It was also a homicide. A body was discovered in the master bedroom with the name Catherine carved all over the body. At first we didn't think it had anything to do with Catherine. Or maybe we were more hoping it didn't. But then when we got back to the lab, Catherine had a vase of flowers and a card. It was from the killer bragging about his crime to her. Pretty much confirming that this case is indeed related to Catherine," Sara said heavily as she watched the emotions play across Grissom's face.
"My God. We have to take her off the case you know and have Brass send a couple officers to watch her house when she's there," he said as the seriousness of the whole thing ran through his head. Why was this happening to one of his people again?
"I know I know, and I agree with you on the protective detail. But I don't think it would be smart to take Catherine off this case. I have a feeling if you do it will just anger the killer because it was as if he wanted Catherine there at the crime scene. I think if you take her off and she's no longer there at the scenes his crimes might become worse. We have nothing to go off as it is. I have no idea how we'll deal if his crimes escalate." Grissom just nodded his head at her words trying to think what he should do. Sara had a point and he didn't want to make things worse if the killer was just playing games with them.
"Ok, maybe you're right. But I'm going to make it Catherine's decision if she stays on the case or not. I'll talk to her about it tomorrow. For now just take her home and try to calm her down some more. Let her know we're all here for her and we're going to do our best to not let anything happen to her. I'll call Brass and let him know what's going on."
"Thank you Grissom," Sara said with a soft smile as she got up from her chair. But paused at the door as she heard Grissom's voice call to her again.
"Take care of her Sara."
