CHAPTER 21

A/N: Thank you very much for all the reviews, they're greatly appreciated and I can't believe how many I've gotten! On with the next chapter…

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"What happened to her?" Grissom asked the doctor as soon as he stepped out of Sara's room minutes later. Grissom had a sleeping Lindsay in his arms and was pacing slowly back and forth in front of Sara's closed hospital room door. The doctor had come as soon as Grissom called and asked Grissom and Lindsay to leave the room while he tended to Sara.

"She went into shock, I gave her something to help her sleep, and she should wake up in a few hours." The doctor answered. "Do you know what could have caused her to go into shock?" Grissom knew exactly what it was, but why, he did not know.

"I asked her a question related to a suspect we have forensically placed at the scene, and she couldn't believe the name I said…" Grissom suggested the most likely possibility.

"That could have been it, if the name meant enough to her after coming out of an accident like that. She'll wake up in a while." The doctor repeated before walking off down the hallway. Grissom didn't know what to do. He felt awful for sending Sara into a state of shock, but he was just asking mandatory questions. He considered going back into Sara's room and waiting for her to wake up, but he figured he'd be of more use at the lab. He didn't want to intrude on Catherine and Warrick's… whatever they were doing, confessions maybe, for lack of a better word, but Catherine was going to wake up and start worrying about Lindsay soon, so he should return her before Catherine made any assumptions. He shifted Lindsay so her head was resting on his other shoulder, and walked the very short distance between Sara's doorway and Catherine's. He knocked quietly before he entering.

"Hey Gil." Catherine greeted him.

"Catherine, Warrick." Grissom smiled. He walked over to the bed and Warrick accepted the sleeping Lindsay into his arms. "I thought you might be getting worried about her."

"Oh, I went out to see where she'd gotten to and saw her in with you and Sara." Warrick explained.

"Well, I'm heading to the lab to help out Nick and Greg; I'll be back in a few hours, okay?" Grissom told them.

"What about Sara? Won't she be lonely?" Catherine asked. What had happened to make Grissom leave Sara, or more like, what had he done to upset her this time?

"Sara uh, went into a state of shock… she's asleep now." Grissom explained.

"A state of shock?" Warrick asked, "How?"

"Well, we got a name of a possible suspect… I asked her about him, and she pretty well fainted." Grissom told them, a hint of blush creeping into his cheeks thinking about how unthoughtful he'd been. Ryan Whittle had raped Sara, for god sakes, why should he have estimated what this man meant to her?

"Oh," Was all Catherine could think to say. "What do you mean suspect? Ryan Whittle did this, we know that."

"But there could have been an accomplice." Grissom said, "You said that there were two men at the house, right?"

"Oh yeah," Catherine remembered, embarrassed at her mistake. "And I also heard that other voice while I was tied up again wherever we were." She pointed out.

"Yes, we got his print off the cassette." Grissom nodded, "But I better get going to the lab, I'll check in with you later. Feel better, alright?"

"Bye," They called after him before he shut the door quietly behind him.

"Mom?" Lindsay asked, her eyes fluttering open to find she was no longer with Sara, but in Warrick's arms.

"Hey baby," Catherine smiled at Lindsay.

"Hi Mom, Hi Warrick." Lindsay giggled, sitting up and wiggling out of Warrick's arms so she was sitting beside him on the bed. "How did I get here?"

"Uncle Gil brought you, the doctor had to look at Sara, and you and Uncle Gil had to leave the room, so he brought you in here, thought I might miss you." Catherine explained.

"Oh, is Sara okay?" Lindsay hoped she hadn't hurt Sara when she'd fallen asleep or anything.

"She's fine." Warrick reassured her.

"Okay." Lindsay sighed, leaning back so she was lying down in between Catherine and Warrick. "Did you guys have a good sleep?"
"We did have a good sleep; did you have a good time with Sara?" Catherine smiled at her daughter's curious nature.

"Yup." Lindsay giggled, remembering the things she told Sara about her Mom's diary.

"What's so funny Linds?" Warrick smiled, curious to know what events went on in Sara's hospital room that Lindsay found funny.

"Nothing," Lindsay tried to stop giggling, "I'm just remembering what we talked about."

"Which was?" Catherine was eager to know what had transpired.

"Do you really want to know?" Lindsay stopped giggling and got a mischievous glint in her eye.

"Oh, I think we can handle it." Warrick smiled at Catherine. They both figured it was just something silly that a young girl would find funny, little did they know it would change their relationship forever.

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A/N: Okay, it's really, really short, and I took forever, and not much happened, but I'm going to post it anyways just so I can post something. Hopefully I'll get a better chapter up later tonight!