The next day at work was awkward for Gil because it was his first day back and everyone was asking if he was ok, but the only things he could think about was apologizing to Sara and he hoped no one would ask him why his hand was bandaged because he wouldn't know how to explain it. Of coarse people asked about his hand and he would answer 'I hit something.' It was short but it got them off his back.
When Sara walked into work Gil was shocked when he looked at her. Sara, his Sara, was covered with bruises. She tried to cover them but they were visible from a mile away. She walked into the break room were everyone was sitting. They just stared and Sara knew that they were staring at her. Sara got her coffee and sat down in the chair closest to the door like nothing happened. No one said anything and she was relived but then Catherine had to open her big mouth. "Sara, I hate to be the person to say this, but it looks like no one else is so I'll ask. What happened to you? You look like you were hit by a train."
"I don't want to talk about it." Gil walked over to the break room and scared Sara so much that she fell out of her chair. Gil bent over to help her up but she resisted his hand. "I got it." she said very rudely. She walked to the other side of the room and stood in the back.
"Sara I want to see you in my office." She stood there not moving. "Now!" He didn't wait for her to answer this time he just walked to his office knowing that she would fallow.
Sara walked into his office not much longer after he did. She shut the door behind her but didn't dare sit because she didn't want to stay long. He walked up to her and took off her sunglasses that were covering a big black eye. "Sara, what happened?" He said sympathetically. He took off her jacket to reveal more bruising. "Sara, you're a wreck."
"I don't want to talk about it."
"I do Sara. Who did
this?"
"My brother." She looked down at the floor. She
quickly lifted her face to his "You can't tell anyone."
"You have to do something about this."
"No!" She screamed that so loud that the whole lab could hear her. "I mean… I can't. He is my brother."
"I don't care about him, I only care about you. Sara..." He looked worried when he said her name. "…What about the baby?"
"What do you care?"
"It's my fucking kid too. I deserve to know." Gil was really frustrated.
"You're not going to help raise my kid Gil."
"So it's ok?"
"Ya."
"Sara…"
"Goodbye Gil!" She walked out of his office slamming the door and everyone watched her as she left to the parking lot. No one dared to go after her.
Grissom went and sat down at his desk very bumfuzzled on what to do. Nick walked into his office and sat down across from him. "Gil what is with you and Sara?"
"What do you mean?"
"First you get punched out by Hank, then Sara goes on vacation when you're recuperating, then your hand, and Sara's bruising; and now you're fighting in the lab." Grissom lifted his head to face Nick. Nick looked deep into Grissom's eyes. "Were you the one who hit Sara?"
"No. No way Nick."
"Well you did say you hurt your hand hitting something, and you scared the shit out of Sara when you came into the break room earlier." Gil turned away. "Gil someone hit Sara and you know who it is! Who is it god damit!"
"I…uh… can't tell you."
Nick stood up "You bastard! You sick son of a bitch! How could you hit Sara, or any women at that?!" Everyone heard him because Grissom's door was wide open and they looked at Grissom's office, surprised at what they heard.
"I didn't hit her!" He yelled back
"Oh ya, then who did!"
"Her brother hit her!" Nick stopped talking unable to speak. He couldn't believe he just cursed out his boss because he thought that he hit someone. Nick sat down. "I could never hit her, and how dare you accuse me of hitting her." He was quite when he spoke. "I couldn't tell you because she didn't want me to. I had to tell you though because I couldn't bare the fact that someone thought that I would ever hurt her."
"Gris I'm sorry, I didn't know what I was saying."
"No you didn't."
"Put me on one week leave, no pay."
"I'm not going to do that because I know you were just looking after her. I would have done the same thing." He looked at his watch. "Did you see where Sara went? I have to apologize."
"She went to her car." Gil left in search of Sara as Nick sat in Gil's office a little bit confused, and a little bit embarrassed.
Gil walked out side and looked for her car. He was in luck, she hadn't left yet. A tap on her window startled her and she bolted up, looking at the window with wide eyes. "Sara?" he asked and tapped on the window again.
She hesitated for a second before pressing the button to roll down the window, having no idea how to explain her presence in the car. He looked at her, and for the first time in days she had a feeling he was actually seeing inside of her. She looked away, her finger moving to press the button and let the window close.
"Come on," he said softly. She looked back at him and opened her mouth to object, to find some way to explain that she was fine. "Just this once," he continued, smiling gently at her.
She nodded, closed the window and turned off the ignition. Her hand moved towards the handle, hovering over it for a few seconds, seriously contemplating restarting the car, driving away, and adding this to the list of incidents they didn't discuss. He tapped on the window again and she sighed before exiting the vehicle. She raised an eyebrow when they didn't walk straight back into the lab to talk in his office. Instead he walked her over to the little bit of grass in front of the lab and sat her down. He lifted her face with his hand and looked into her eyes. They sat there for a good five minutes before she started to cry again. He pulled her into him and she rested her head under his chin. She cried and cried into his shirt, soaking it in the process.
He stood up, pulling her with him and walked them into the lab. If it wasn't for Gil holding her up she would have collapsed to the ground. Everyone stared at them as he walked her into his office. He sat her down on the couch and crouched down in front of her. He wiped the tears from her eyes and the whole time they sat in his office she would not look at him. "Sara, I'm so sorry." She didn't look up. "Sara, how can I show you how sorry I am? I feel like an asshole for what I did." She finally looked up.
After a long silence she spoke. "You can't expect me to forgive you for everything. You lied to me Gil, you lied about the most important thing in our… my life." She was quick to correct herself. "There is nothing you can do to get back in my life."
"Don't say that Sara. I swear if it is the last thing I do I will make it up to you. Even if you don't take me back, I will make it up to you." Sara got up and left his office, and without a sound closed the door behind her. Everyone was standing out side of Gil's office trying to listen to their conversation. They walked away when Sara glared at them. Grissom stayed in his office trying to think of a way to make everything up to Sara. After an hour Grissom knew what he was going to do.
TBC R&R!
