CHAPTER 12 – TELLING THE TEAM

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There was 15 minutes before shift started and team were going through their normal routines at this point. Nick and Greg were already in the break room playing another silly video game. Catherine was in the locker room applying her last bit of make-up, Lemmur was in Ecklie's office kissing ass, Grissom was in his office, sorting out the next assignments and Sara was trying to settle her nerves as she made her way to the break room. She made some tea and sat down at the large table. Grissom walked in and they made eye contact, he looked as nervous as she felt. He decided it was time to get the ball rolling, so to speak. "alright, enough of the video games please, can we sit down for assignments. NOW" he got a bit louder as he finished off the latter part of the order. Nick and Greg moved a bit quicker at his tone. Lemmur walked in with Catherine, Lemmur sat down beside Nick as Catherine took her place standing next to Grissom at the head of the table.

"ok, before I hand tonight's assignments, there are few things that need to be discussed with all of you." Grissom started and once he felt he had everyones attention, he continued. "there are going to be a few changes to the team from now on, Ecklie, myself and Catherine have had a meeting and decided to split graveyard shift into two teams. Don't worry, it doesn't mean we wont all see each other or work together, we're just shaking things up. Teams are as follows, Nicky and Greg will be directly under my supervision as team 1 while Sara and Lemmur are under Catherine's supervision in team 2."

At this there were looks of horror on faces and exchanged looks, mainly between the boys as Catherine and Lemmur were already aware of this. While nobody interrupted him he thought it best to continue. "Robbie, as you are still relatively new here I would still like to you to come to me if needs be while following Catherine's management. You and Sara are of equal ranking and neither is above the other is that clear?" to which the both of them nodded but said nothing.

"good. Now that brings to me to my next bit of news. As I have already said, we all will still be working together, here at the lab and out in the field. I know that it goes without saying that we all have each other's backs and do our best to look out for one another but I would like to ask you if you could take extra precautions when working with Sara over the next few months" at this, everyone at the table turned their heads and stared at her with a questioning glance. Still no one said anything so he continued. "Sara will be on lighter duties until she goes on maternity leave in a couple of months."

"I'm sorry what?" said nick in disbelief

"is this a joke?" Greg joined in, rather amused by this obvious prank.

They all looked at Sara and she nervously looked at her friends, "no joke, Greg. I'm having a baby"

Catherine was the first to break the awkwardness and walked over to Sara, "congratulations Hun, you'll be great" "thanks Cath"

Grisssom just stood watching the exchange between the team knowing the second part was going to be even harder for them all to swallow.

"I don't even know what to sar, I mean I'm happy if your happy, I just, I didn't even know you were seeing someone?" said nick in his honest thick Texan accent. At this Greg, joined in on that line of questioning but Greg being Greg just came out with it.

"neither did I. who's the father?" he asked Sara challengingly

"I am" said grisssom nonchalantly as if he were ordering a steak in a restaurant.

He ignored the wide-eyed stares and thought it best to continue with the assignment hand out as soon as possible, before anyone had a chance to retort.

"Nick you have a possible arson in Kilbury, Greg you and I have a DB by Lake meade. Catherine IL leave you with your team."

Catherine nodded to him in thanks and then he made eye-contact with Sara as if to say safe. She looked directly back at him and knew what he was trying to say without having to say it. She nodded and half smiled at him and then he was gone out the door but before yelling "NOW BOYS".

"right ok, I'm due in court in an hour, so Sara and Rob ye have a possible murder-suicide in Henderson. Details are sketchy at this point, son rang it in an hour ago. Sara, take breaks when you need them and no heavy lifting, IL see ye later"

And then there was two. "I guess IL meet you out front, you wanna drive?" said Lemmur

Sara was stunned she was given the choice, "no its ok, you can drive. Ya IL see you in 5?"

The Henderson drive was about 20 minutes but from the moment she sat in the car, she knew it would feel like a longer trip than that. The tension was awful but he again was first to speak, "so I guess congratulations are in order" he said looking over at her trying to get some response out of her.

"thank you" was all she said. She didn't wanna get into this with him, it was none of his business.

"seems a lot of your friends and co-workers were surprised?" he asked

"was that a question or statement?" she said not knowing where he was going with this.

He said nothing more but just snickered to himself. She felt so irritated by him, being alone with him made the hairs on the back of her neck stand up. As they arrived on scene, Sara had to mentally give herself a pep talk just to get out of the car. Lemmur had jumped out, decided not to wait for her and went straight to on scene detectives. "lets just get this over with" and out she went to follow suit.

In different part of Vegas, Grissom and Greg stood at their own scene observing what was in front of them. A body of a young man was pulled out of the lake and left lying by a tree, Greg and Grissom hadn't uttered a word to one another the whole drive there. Grissom knew Greg was trying to mentally process what was revealed to them moments ago but he also felt that maybe Greg harboured resentment for Grissom also. Grissom tried to forget what was said before the start of shift, they needed to know now they do, the cat was out of the bag so they had just better learn to get use to it.

"morning Grisssom, Sanders" said detective Vartann as they arrived at the body. "we got word from our divers they may have found something about 2miles north bound of the lake. Who wants to go with?"

Greg didn't even answer or consult with Grissom he just brushed passed both men and headed in the general direction where the divers in the boat were waiting. "what's with him?" the detective asked Grissom. Grissom just shook his head and shrugged. "so what do we know?"

The night passed away quickly, and before long Sara and Lemmur's scene was processed and all their evidence was gathered, Sara was happy to be back in the car and sitting down, her back was killing her from crouching down the last 2hours. Lemmur took the outside, vehicle and perimeter which meant Sara had everything else, two bodies to process and all the interior. At the time she didn't mind, she thought great at least we wont get in each others way but a couple hours in, and all that was processed was the downstairs and the stairs she began to feel tired but persevered. She knew he had taken a break with the patrol cops, she could see him from the upstairs bedroom. "jerk" she called to herself.

On the way back to the lab, she could feel his eyes on her. So she turned to him, "WHAT?" she yelled. "whoa, whoa, relax and was just going to ask if you were feeling ok, wouldn't want you to feel over-worked"

Sara scuffed at this comment, "puh, what do you care?" look just concentrate on the road so we can get back to the lab and start processing this"

He laughed to himself knowing that he had gotten to her without having to do much at all. As they pulled in to the parking lot at the crime lab, he turned to her, "look Sara, I know we haven't gotten off to a good start, I want to apologise for the mis-communication but if we are going to be on the same team and working together then we should maybe learn to get along a bit better. I know that your territorial over your lab, and your colleagues and Grissom but I'm not here to take any of those away from you"

She looked at him like he'd just had a stroke, "Lemmur I'm not the one who started on any bad note, you've had something against me from the start and treated me like crap. Territorial? No. yes we have to work together but that's it." She opened the door and jumped out and slammed the door after her, leaving Lemmur sitting alone in the car.

Sara logged in her evidence then went to the bathroom. She looked at herself in the mirror, not sure if she was gonna puke or pass out. She decided to take a break. She sat down with her sandwich, there were others in break room aswell having there own lunch. Just then Lemmur appeared out of nowhere, "Sara I'm gonna take some of this trace to hodges to see if hel do a rush job for me do you wanna come?"

Sara obviously annoyed with him, she had just sat down, decided to let him know how much, "NO Lemmur I don't, I'm having a break. Unlike you, I didn't get to take a break with the cops while I was suppose to be processing so seeing as though I'm over 6 and half hours into shift, I'm going to take my break and take as long as I want, GOT IT?"

Red faced and seething, Rob turned on his heels and went in the direction of Hodges lab on his own. 30 minutes later, Sara got back to work and she felt much better, she didn't know if that was because the food gave her energy or because she got great satisfaction standing up to Lemmur, either way, she was on her way to the evidence vault to start processing what she collected a few hours before. As she was going around the corner, Lemmur appeared out of nowhere yet again, he startled her and it didn't go unnoticed by Lemmur. "Sara I didn't appreciate the way you…"

Sara interrupted him half way through, "save it Lemmur, lets just sort out this evidence" and she started to walk away from him. Just then she felt a hand roughly grab her elbow and arm and yank her backwards, he pulled her towards himself and brought himself close to her face. He was a much taller man so he towered over her, "don't ever embarrass me like that again in front of colleagues, do u understand?" he said ever so calmly.

Her whole body froze and pain shot up her arm by the way he twisted it. She stood her ground though, "take your hands off me Lemmur, NOW". He released her but kept his face close her, to intimidate her further, snickered and the walked away up the corridor.

Sara ran to the nearest bathroom and this time she did throw up. She sat on the floor of the stall and then the tears fell.