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Chapter 37: Two years later

Flashback

Earlier that morning

Waking up before the alarm would wake them up for the start of their day, they were lying in each other's arms, with his hand on her sheet covered three month pregnant stomach as her hand was on top of his while they were kissing and smiling, then after the latest kiss on her neck, he pulled back and they smiled softly before he whispered. "You know we are going to have to tell them soon. You can't hide this little one forever."

When they found out she was pregnant with their second child, they were so happy.

He continued to run his thumb her covered stomach while Sara nodded. "I know, but I want to wait just a little bit longer."

"Ok."

They kiss one more time, and as they pulled back again, Sara spoke again. "So, I've been thinking."

This time Grissom got a smirk, using the same words she uses on him from time to time. "Oh no, should I be worried?"

Sara narrowed her eyes playfully as she replied with a smile. "And I know you would want my response to be ha, ha. But I'm not going to do that. In fact, I think you'll very much like my idea."

While she stuck out her tongue, he chuckled then raised an eyebrow. "Ok, I'm listening. What's this great idea you have."

She lifted her hand up and placed it on his bare chest and ran her thumb over his heart as she spoke again. "Well, I happen to know somebody's birthday is coming up." Grissom groaned, but not in a good way, knowing it was his birthday that she was referring to, and it was only making him older, which Sara ignored his groan while she finished. "And I think we should use up some of our vacation time and take a trip."

Now very interested in what she had to say, he asked with curiosity. "And where would we go on this trip?"

She beamed when she answered him. "I know a certain daughter who would love to celebrate...the day I'm not going to mention...but won't be able to make it this year, so why not go to her?"

Grissom nodded with a smile. "I like it, yeah."

"Yeah?"

"Let's do it."

She nodded with another smile before they leaned forward and kissed again, which started to get passionate, but everything got halted when they heard 2 year old Tyler speak through the baby monitor.

"Momma, dada, hungy, pease."

They smiled against each other's lips before they pulled back, then he asked. "You ready for multiple interruptions to come around?"

She nodded with nothing but love in her eyes. "Bring it on."

He chuckled, and after a soft kiss in the lips, he leaned down and kissed her stomach before whispering. "Daddy loves you." Then he looked at Sara and said. "And I love your mommy."

She whispered. "I love you too." Just as Tyler asked for some breakfast again.

He smiled with a nod before taking the covers off him and getting out of bed, revealing him in nothing but boxers, and after taking his robe off the hook on the door, he put it on as he walked out, and once he got into his son's room, he picked his son up, who was looking more like him everyday. "And I love you too little man." Which Sara heard through the baby monitor, both feeling really blessed.

End of Flashback

Grissom smiles at the memory from the morning as he headed for Will's office, wanting to request some time away with his family so they could go visit another important member in Paris, even though it is happening on his birthday in a couple of weeks. But seeing Ashley and having them all together again, will make him happy, so he'll just think of the company and not the day.

He stops in front of Will's office and knocked, and after hearing a come in, he did just that and closed the door behind him, then just as he said. "Will" Will's phone starts to ring, so the younger man by six years holds up a finger for a second, picks up his phone and answers it.

"Baker."

Seconds later it looked like Will's face just about drained of color as he stood up, speaking with worry. "What!?...Oh, no...ok, thanks for calling me... yeah, bye."

Once he hung up, Grissom looked worried himself. "Will, what's wrong? What's going on?"

When Will looked into Grissom's eyes, there was something in them that made Grissom even more worried, even before he got the words. "There was an incident at Sara and Reggie's crime scene."

Reggie Hunter, who was now 33, had transferred to days a few years ago, and he has been a very good asset to the team.

Now Grissom was in full blown panic mode as he asked softly. "Sara's ok, right?"

"I don't know. Let's go." Will grabbed his jacket from his chair and started walking towards the door, but stopped when he noticed Grissom was still standing there in shock. "Grissom!"

Grissom shook his head, snapping out of his zoned-out state and turned to Will before speaking quietly, almost brokenly, not able to stop himself. "Will, she's pregnant."

He looked at him in shock, then said with a little more urgency. "Then come on, let's go." Grissom nodded and cleared his throat before following Will out of the office and building, hoping and praying that his wife and unborn child was ok.


It took them a little less time to get where they needed to go than usual, and when they got there, which was in a neighborhood, they saw people standing close to the yellow tape as they could get, a few police cars and two ambulances parked on the other side of the tape, while the house that was the original crime scene had law enforcement personal coming and going out the front door.

Will and Grissom looked at one anther before they started walking, and after they were let under the yellow tape, Grissom just shouted Sara's name as they were walking closer to the ambulances, needing to hear her as soon as possible. "Sara! Sara!"

For about a few seconds it seemed like all he could hear was the activity going on around him, then he heard it, that beautiful voice, the one he gets to hear every morning, all through the day, and more importantly the last one he hears at night, only this time instead of the usual 'Grissom' or 'Griss', she used his first full name, which was rare, and most of them is when she is teasing him, but this was no teasing matter, so he knew she must have been scared.

"Gilbert?"

He stopped dead in his tracks after hearing it and he was looking around, then across the street, he sees her step in view from the back of the ambulance with a blanket around her, and in that moment all he saw was her and heard only her when she said his name again, this time snapping him out of it before he rushed to her, running faster than he had in a very long time.

When he was to her, he wrapped his arms around her as she shook, mostly from fear and shock, and after calming her down just a little, he pulled back and saw a bruise on her temple, and now he shook, but this one wasn't out of fear or shock, it was anger that someone would do that to her, especially while she was...he stopped that train of thought before he places a hand on her stomach and looks at her with a worried expression, and she just started sobbing while shaking her head.

"I don't know, I..."

Before she could continue, the paramedic said. "Her heartbeat and blood pressure is a little high, she should go to the hospital to get checked out."

Grissom narrowed his eyes at the mid-twenty year old. "You think? Where did you get your medic degree?"

The young man now looked embarrassed and shy, while Sara finally. "Gil, he's just doing his job."

Grissom took a calming breath and nodded before apologizing to him, making him nod in acceptance, then his concentration was back on Sara as he was helping her in the ambulance, but he saw her wince while he was holding her wrist, so he asked. "Honey, what's wrong?"

They set her down on the stretcher as she said. "I tried to brace myself as I fell, I think I sprained it." Grissom lightly kissed it before turning his head towards the opening in the back of the ambulance and shouted. "Will?" Will came in view a second later before Grissom tried to speak. "Can you..."

But Will cuts him off with a small smile. "Sheila will meet you at the hospital with Tyler."

"Thank you."

Then Sara spoke with worry. "And can you check on Reggie for me?"

"No problem." He paused before finishing just as the doors was finally closing. "I hope everything is ok with you and..."

He trailed off, but the look on his face told her that he knew about the baby, so she just gave him a small smile with a nod, hoping for the same thing.

Once the doors finally closed and the ambulance started moving, Sara and Grissom placed their hands on her stomach as he carefully held her other hand while she recounted what she remembered since everything felt that it had happened so fast.

One minute her and Reggie were outside in the back looking for evidence, and the next, the suspect was in front of her and she got smacked so hard she lost her balance and fell, bracing herself the best she could, and as she looked up at him and saw the glint in his eye, she knew what was next, but he didn't get a chance to do anything because he was shot in the leg twice before he fell down cursing in pain, and when she had looked over across the yard, not even realizing two more shots had went off before, she saw Reggie holding his leg while the other suspect was laying down with no pulse.

When she was done, while still crying, Sara said. "Reggie saved my life, Griss, our lives."

Grissom, understanding her story, nodded then sniffled. "Yes he did." He lightly kissed her wrist again, wishing it would heal it before whispering. "What does he like?"

He figured Sara would know more then he would since she was the one who worked with him a lot more.

She tried to think, they weren't known to have that much personal conversations, but there was something he always talked about and she remembered a few seconds later. "He likes football, and I don't want to assume that because we live here, its the Minnesota Vikings." When Grissom looked at her a little amazed that she knew the pro football team here, considering she wasn't that much into sports, particularly football, she couldn't help but smirk at him. "Hey, don't look at me like that, I've lived here long enough to know what the name of the football team is. Besides, how can I not know, Will talks about them all the time."

Grissom couldn't help but chuckle a little with a nod, then after he softly kissed her wrist again, he cleared his throat and said. "I'll find out, and maybe get him a few tickets."

He just wanted to thank the young man for saving his heart and soul.

Sara just nodded in understanding as it became silent while their hands was still on her stomach, still hoping everything was ok while whispering their love to one another.


AN: Find out what happens next. Things are taking another turn. Thanks for reading and please review.