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Chapter 12: A Major turn of events

Months later

After shift ended Sara headed to Catherine's office to turn in the reports that she had gotten done, and when she got there, she knocked on the door frame while speaking. "I have done the reports that you asked me to do."

Catherine gave her a little smile. "And on time, something your husband couldn't really get the hang of."

Sara chuckled and nodded in understanding as she walked toward the other woman's desk before placing the files on top of it. "So, I'm out of here, I'll bring Sage over to your house later in the evening."

Sage was going to be spending time at the Willow house tonight so Sara and Grissom could have alone time; Something they haven't had much of. Not that they were complaining though, they were days away from Sage officially being a member of the Grissom family, and they couldn't have been happier.

Catherine gave her another small smiled with a nod. "No problem, I'll see you later."

Sara nodded and was going to turn around so she could walk out of the office, but something in Catherine's face and tone, told her that something was going on with her, so she cleared her throat and asked. "You want talk about it?"

They may have known each other and have been friends for a long time, but both probably could count on one hand how many times they've ever talked about their personal lives, let alone initiate the conversation, so Catherine was a little surprised about Sara asking that, which she even acted like it. "Huh? Talk about what?"

"That look that you are trying to hide." Catherine looked down at her desk, trying to get rid of the sad look on her face, even though she knew it was too late, as Sara continued. "Something happened with your mystery guy, didn't it?"

Catherine took a breath before replying as she looked at Sara again, knowing there was no point in hiding it anymore. "A canceled weekend."

The lab in San Diego was working a priority case so Nick had to cancel his weekend plans to come to Vegas; Something they were both devastated about. No one else knew he was coming for a visit, even though his main attention would have been toward Catherine and the girls anyways, so it wouldn't have been a blow to the team if they saw him here or not.

Sara took a breath as she sat down in one of the chairs that was in front of Catherine's desk, feeling she couldn't leave without talking to her, hoping she could help in anyway.

"Been there before, both sides of it."

Catherine nodded in understanding before asking. "Can I ask you about that time? I know it got pretty rough between you two, and I can see why you wouldn't want to talk about it, but..."

Sara cuts her off, knowing Catherine wouldn't have asked if she didn't think the question or her answer was important. "Sure Catherine, what is it?"

Catherine knew she was taking a big risk asking this, but in her gut she felt she had to. "If you could go back, knowing what you know now, and still come back here, would you?"

Sara had been thinking about that question long before Catherine had asked it, so she was ready to answer the minute it came out of her mouth, but she took a breath first before replying. "I think to some extent I would do the same thing. I mean I did miss everybody here and you guys really needed the help, so I felt that I couldn't leave you guys hanging, which Grissom understood and supported that decision. But the second that I had felt something slipping between him and I, I would have gone back to him in a heartbeat. I probably could have found another job wherever he was at the time, but I know I could never find another Grissom."

Catherine snickered at the last thing Sara had said. "I don't think the world would know what to do if there was another Grissom out there."

Sara couldn't help but chuckle at that before replying. "I would tell him you said that, but he would probably agree with you." As Catherine chuckled this time, Sara spoke again, thinking she had figured something out about Catherine's mystery man. "So, your man is an out of towner, huh?"

Catherine cleared her throat and spoke, trying to avoid the question. "Don't you have a breakfast date with your family?"

Sage and Grissom asked Sara to join them for breakfast after shift, and it was only suppose to be the three of them, so it was a big deal to her not to be late.

Sara chuckled as she stood up from the chair. "I know what you are doing, and if I didn't have this very important date, I would still be grilling you."

She nodded with a smile. "Don't I know it, have fun and I'll see you later."

Sara nodded as she turned and walked toward the door, but had stopped and turned back around once she got to the doorway before she spoke again. "Catherine, if you really love this guy as much as I think you do, and you feel that it's worth it, then fight for it, because a true love is pretty hard to find, so if you find it you should hold on to it as tightly as you can because you never know if you'll get it back." Sara took a breath before finishing. "I was just lucky to get mine back; Something I was really afraid of not happening."

As Catherine looked into Sara's eyes, she could have sworn that the younger woman knew who her guy was, but neither one said it. Instead Catherine replied with a sincere look on her face with a nod.

"Thanks Sara, I really appreciate it."

"No problem, see ya."

"Yeah, See ya."

After one more nod, Sara left the office, leaving Catherine alone, who had taken a breath while thoughts were running through her head. She knew decisions were going to have to be made, but it looked like they were going to have to be made a lot sooner than she would have liked, but like what Sara had said, if it was worth it than she should fight for it, and that's exactly what she was going to do.

Later that evening

After Sara had dropped off Sage at Catherine's house she made it back home, and the minute she had stepped inside, she smelled the wonderful aroma of a home cooked meal that Grissom had made for them.

She sets her keys on the small table by the front door, then after setting her bag on the couch, she walked toward the kitchen, stopping in the doorway before speaking. "It smells good in here." Then she paused while looking at him up and down before continuing. "Not a bad view either."

Grissom closed the oven door before setting the vegetarian lasagna on top of the stove and turning around to look at his wife with a smile. "Not a bad view if I say so myself."

Sara smiled shyly as she walked up to him, then once she was near him, she wrapped her arms around his neck and whispered. "Thank you."

"You're welcome, sweetheart."

After a small peck on the lips, they pulled apart from one another so they could fix their plates before they sat down across from one another at their kitchen table and had a toast about their life together.

During the course of their meal, Grissom asked. "So, you going to tell me what made you so happy earlier."

He noticed when she had met him and Sage at the diner to have their family breakfast she looked a little happy about something, and she told him that she would tell him later, so he thought this would be a good time to bring it up.

Sara took a sip of her wine before speaking with a smile. "Right, well I think I figured out who Catherine's mysterious guy is."

Grissom nodded as he grabbed his wine glass, replying in a nonchalant way. "Oh, you mean Nick."

She looked at him with shock. "You knew?"

After he swallowed the sip he had taken of his wine he nodded again with a smile. "It wasn't like she told me, I just recognized the look when she had gotten the phone calls and/or texts."

Sara raised an eyebrow. "The look?"

"Yeah, the look she use to give Nick when she thought no one was watching, it's been making a comeback, you didn't notice?" Sara shook her head with a small chuckle after a short pause, she couldn't believe she had missed that, as he continued with a smirk. "I guess I should get a little more credit for noticing some things outside of crime scenes."

Nobody would doubt that when it came to crime scenes and figuring out cases in a high degree, Grissom was one of the best out there, but there were a lot of people who believed that he wasn't that great when it came to noticing things about his team, which he did at times, more when he became involved with Sara, but he just wasn't vocal about it. And when it came to Sara, there were reason's why he acted like he didn't know what was happening between them, or tried to deny it, it was because he was trying to protect himself from getting too close so he wouldn't get hurt.

He mentally sighed as he thought of that last thing. 'Look at how that turned out, though.'

And while there were some very tough times they had to go through, where they both got hurt, he wouldn't trade this amazing moment, or any other moments he had shared with her, for anything.

Sara nodded in complete understanding while looking into his eyes with a smile as she tipped her wine glass toward him. "I would have to agree." Before taking another sip, which he mirrored her actions.

The rest of the meal was done in mostly silence, but to them it didn't matter because they were together, then after getting up from their chairs, they grabbed their empty plates and took them to the kitchen counter before Sara started cleaning them while Grissom grabbed the rest of the dirty dishes from the table.

After setting down the last dirty dish on the counter, he walked up behind his wife and wrapped his arms around her before kissing her cheek then her neck, and when he had gotten to her collarbone, she chuckled before speaking. "You know if you continue with that, getting the dishes done now will be impossible."

He stopped what he was doing and moved his mouth to her ear before whispering, making the good shivers run down her spine. "Is that really a bad thing?"

Sara took a breath once she felt him kiss her ear before she turned around while he gave her room to do that, then wrapped her arms around his neck while speaking softly. "Getting distracted by you is never a bad thing."

Although when they had worked together, getting distracted by him when he wouldn't even be doing anything but standing there, wasn't always the best thing. But there was no point in bringing that up now since she didn't want to ruin the moment.

However, their moment would get interrupted a few seconds later, just as their kissing was becoming passionate, when there was a knock on the front door.

They pulled back after a second knock and placed their foreheads together with a sigh while trying to catch their breaths, then he said with a small smirk. "Maybe I should have put a do not disturb sign on our front door."

She chuckled, then after one more peck on the lips, she said with a smile. "How about you finish the dishes and I'll get the door."

With love/passion in his eyes, he replied. "Then the night is all ours."

She cupped his cheek with a nod. "All ours, you got it."

They took one more second to calm down, then they released one another before they went to their respective tasks, both wanting to get them done as fast as they could so they could enjoy the rest of the night without any more interruptions.

Once she gets the door, she takes a breath before opening it and seeing a man who looked like he was in his mid-20's, he stood about 6'0, had short brown hair, brown eyes and was wearing a suit and tie. She also had to admit he looked pretty attractive so he probably had no problem with the female crowd, but more importantly she was wondering why he was standing in her doorway, so she asked a second after the door was opened. "Yes, can I help you?"

"Are you Mrs. Grissom?"

"Yes I am, why?"

He cleared his throat before speaking again, which the words he said next changed the tone of the night, and possibly beyond, just like that. "I'm Bryant Maxwell, and I believe you have my daughter."

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