A/N: This chapter goes to GSRBUTTERFLY I hope you all like it and well, enjoy!

Oh! And sorry for taking soo long to update, school is keeping me busy.

It was Tuesday, Grissom had something like two hours before he had to be back at the campus so he if he was going to do that he was planning to, he had to make it quick. Looking at the piece of paper in his hand he double checked he was at the correct apartment before knocking. After something like a minute Hank opened the door looking like he had a really bad hang over.

"What are you doing here Grissom?"

"Stay away from Sara, I heard you had a fight" Grissom said plainly

"Go to hell Grissom" Hank said and tried to close the door, Grissom was faster than him though and fully opened the door, revealing some woman, scandalously clothed on the couch

"I'll warn you again, stay away from Sara"

"Or what?" Hank said laughing

"I'll kill you, I swear I'll kill you with my own bare hands, I know you're using her and I swear to you I wont hesitate while killing you"

"Look I…"

Hank was about to say that he didn't care, that he was going to dump Sara anyway because he and Jessy had just gotten back together, but the appearance of Sara in the hallway stopped him.

"Grissom what are you doing here?"

"Look Sara, I was really going to try but with friends like yours… I just can't. I think we should stop seeing each other. Sorry" Hank said before slapping shut the door

Sara looked at Grissom, hurt evident in her eyes, he tried to say something but he had lost his ability to speak, again… something that happened quite often while he was around Sara. She just turned around and got out of his sight, he walked after her and found her looking at his car.

"Sara it's not…" he began

"I hate you" she whispered "I hate you Gil Grissom! I hate you!" Sara said before throwing something that looked like a can at his car

"Sara…"

"Stay away from me!" Sara cried before going down the street to catch a bus, Grissom felt like crap.

Sara got home and went straight to her room; she had puffy eyes and didn't want Mattie to see her crying. James opened the door to check on her after she entered like a hurricane, he was shocked! He wanted to go and ask Sara what was wrong with her but someone knocking at the door stopped him. He opened the door and found Grissom.

"What did you do?" James asked worried

"I… talked to Hank, I'll get going now" Grissom said and saw relief on James' face

"Should I tell Sara something?"

"Don't tell her I was here"

While Sara was in her room cursing Grissom, Grissom was having a hard time concentrating on baseball, well, concentrating on anything, really. Sara's words kept running trough his mind, "I hate you", she hated him, which was something he didn't see coming. What you thought that you were going to tell Hank to back off, he was going to dump her and then Sara would go running to your arms? He thought, actually, part of him had expected that and part of him expected her to be mad but hate… hate was something he couldn't take.

Catherine and Warrick convinced Grissom to go out with them for a coffee, he agreed to just so they would stop bugging him. They were in the parking lot when Cath saw a tiny scratch in Grissom's car.

"What happened?" Cath asked pointing the scratch and smiling

"Sara" Grissom said "She threw a can"

Warrick couldn't decide whether to laugh or to be amazed, Grissom's beloved car had a scratch but he was not fuming. They got in the food court and waved at Nick, Mia, Greg and Amy, the four of them had been waiting for the others to appear, Grissom did his best to smile at them but he wasn't a good liar. The others did most of the talking, Grissom just sat back and tried to follow the conversation but it wasn't easy, especially after Sara joined the group and completely ignored Grissom. It was difficult for the gang to get comfortable, usually they would be all laughing and the couples would be sitting together but as Grissom and Sara were not even talking, again, they tried their best to avoid the big elephant in the corner.

"So Grissom what have you been up to?" Amy asked cheerfully, trying to easy the mood

"Well…"

"Yeah, have you been ruining any lives lately?" Sara said, six pairs of eyes turned to look at her, one pair of eyes just looked somewhere else. Sara was shocked, Oh my God, why did I say that?

"I have to go, bye guys" Grissom said throwing a five dollars bill on the table, forgetting that he had already paid for his coffee

"That was mean Sara" Nick said

"We need to talk" Cath said and stood up, waiting for Sara to follow

Cath and Sara were walking down the street, it was Friday and they needed some air after an agitated week at university. Catherine didn't know how to bring the subject up, she was sure that Sara felt bad enough about her last commentary but she couldn't take it anymore, Grissom had only tried to help and Sara was beating him emotionally every time she could. It was a nice evening, fresh and full of light, they were crossing a small park when Catherine started to speak.

"What's wrong Sara? That was not like you"

Sara looked down, Catherine was right, she had been hurt but it wasn't as if Hank broke her heart, she had been thinking about it and she was just having fun with Hank, she was not willing to have a deep emotional relationship with him. He's no Grissom, and you want Grissom. Sara took a deep breath and kept walking, she was so sure that Catherine was going to give her a sermon.

"Grissom… he never wanted to hurt you"

Sara let a little chuckle escape, of course he didn't want to hurt her, he just wanted Hank to stop going out with Sara, for her own sake. But Sara didn't know that, in Sara's mind the only thing that was logic was that Grissom had been threatening or bothering Hank and that was why he dumped her.

"It's not what you think"

"What do you think I think?" Sara blurted, she had to get over the anger or she was certainly going to get in trouble with some friends

"That Grissom talked to Hank to push him away from you" Cath said, Sara had never mentioned the reason why she and Hank had broke up she simply start hating Grissom one day

"I never…"

Catherine looked at her and gave her a small smile 'I know' said her smile and then she took a deep breath.

"Hank was cheating with you"

Catherine's heart broke as she told that to Sara, the younger girl froze, Cath looked at her and began explaining, she told her what Grissom told her about the day at the beach. Sara couldn't believe Cath, well, that certainly explained the mysterious calls in the middle of their dates, if they really were dates. When Cath finished explaining Sara everything she knew about her break up with Hank she decided that it would be a good time to tell her about why Grissom had freaked out after they had kissed at the ball.

Sara was walking by the baseball diamond, she had finished her practices, which she had arrived on time to, and was hopping that Grissom would be there. She wanted, no, needed, to apologize. It was 6 pm but it was also her day off work, now she worked from 7 until they closed the shop and during the evenings on Saturdays, but she still wanted to get home early to finish her homework. After something like 15 minutes she figured that maybe he had already gone home.

The last time she had actually seen Grissom was something like two days ago and he was going from one class to another, Sara went home and started doing her homework, then it hit her, her project was due in 3 weeks and she still needed some help, she could always call Grissom and ask him for help. Once he was there and had no way to escape she would start apologizing and if needed she was going to make him stay until she had said.

It was Friday night and Grissom had planned to meet a few friends at the cinema, after looking at him and realizing he was so down they had been planning to take him out for weeks, finally he had agreed. Grissom was running late, something not very common in him but after spending weeks without a decent night of sleep it was acceptable, Gil was about to pay for his ticket when he saw a little boy with brown hair sitting alone by the candy store. He got out of the line and walked towards him, making sure that the boy noticed him so he wouldn't be scared.

"Hey Matt" Grissom said sitting next to the little boy "Something wrong?"

"Uh, I had a birthday party but I don't know who's supposed to pick me up" Matt said

"Do you want to call your mom from my cell?"

Mattie took Grissom's cell on his little hands and dialed his phone number, the phone rang once, twice, three times but no one picked up, he supposed that maybe Sara was in the shower or that his parents were not home. Mattie looked up at Grissom and found a sad smile on his lips, it was his way of saying that he could call Sara's cell phone or someone else's. He called his mother instead and asked her who was going to pick him up, she told him that Sara was not going to make it and told him to wait for her, that she was going to get him as fast as he could. Grissom overheard part of the conversation and told Mattie to tell his mother that Grissom would give him a ride, so she didn't have to worry.

It was not the first time that Mattie got in Grissom's car but he felt so good about riding in a BMW, he just wished that his friends could see him riding in such a nice car and with a guy that was part of the university baseball team. They got to the Sidle house in something like half an hour because of the traffic, Grissom was going to wait inside the car until Mattie got in his house but the little boy asked him to come in with him, he wanted to show him how grateful he was.

"Please come in Gil" Mattie said, the kid must have been really grateful to use Grissom's name and not simple call him 'dude'

"Only for a little while Matt" Grissom said as he locked his car and walked to the front door

They waited by the door for a little while and then Sara opened the door, Grissom was amazed and Sara was shocked, Mattie got in and pulled Grissom's hand so he would follow them inside. Mattie said something about Grissom waiting with Sara in the living room while he got everything ready, now "everything" could have a lot of different meanings for a six years old. Grissom simply sat down and looked at the floor, finding the carpet's design very interesting for a moment, he was expecting Sara to sit in the couch across from his but instead she sat next to him, not so close that they were touching but close enough for them to talk and whisper.

Sara looked at Grissom, he felt her gaze on him but just turned away. Sara was about to start talking when she saw her little bother bringing two sodas and a bowl full of different cereals, for a moment she thought that maybe she was not welcome but Mattie made her change her mind. "I better go to my room, got some homework… thanks for the ride dude". Sara turned to face him again, that time Grissom faced her, the question was written all over his face.

"I didn't tell him but I guess it was obvious" Sara said "Grissom I'm sorry, I didn't know! Catherine just told me a few days ago and…"

"Don't worry. Look I… I better get going" Grissom said standing up

"No! Please let me explain" she said as she took his hand "Look I was mad because I got the wrong idea, I acted badly and I'm not proud, I hurt you only because I was hurt. Griss I'm really sorry, I don't hate you... I could never hate you"

Griss, it's been a long time since she called me Griss

Grissom took a deep breath and looked at Sara, her eyes were full of emotion, she was really sorry, that he could tell. His gaze drifted from her face to their still adjoined hands.

"I guess Cath told you about the… kiss issue" Grissom ventured, if she was being so honest with him then the last thing he could do was be honest with her too.

They took their drinks and ate cereal as they talked. Actually they talked about the important unresolved issues for about half an hour and then just began joking and talking about school and stuff, Sara told Grissom that she might need more help with her project and Grissom said that he was free on Monday afternoon, if it was ok with her. Sara agreed, she could easily change her schedule and run a double shift on Saturday.

"When is your project's due?" Grissom asked

"3 weeks" Sara said shyly, she had worked on the research but never gone as far as writing

"How much do you have?"

"Err" So he also reads minds uh? "I've got all my research but when ever I was ready to begin writing, something happened" she said while blushing a little

"So we'll be working on the paper it self on Monday, ok?" Grissom said

"Thanks…" Sara said

TBC...

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