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Chapter 49: Love is all around them

After the bride and groom pulled apart from their kiss, they smiled at everybody as they clapped again, then they walked down the aisle.

As they got to the area everybody was standing earlier, they started to dance once the music came on.

Heidi wraps her arms around her husband's neck while Rick wrapped his arms around his wife's waist, then he said with smile. "Well Mrs. Brown, we made it."

Heidi smiled and replied. "I like that."

"What?"

"You calling me Mrs. Brown."

He chuckled as he puts his forehead to hers. "And I'll keep calling you that for the rest of our lives."

She closes her eyes as she replied. "I like that too, I love you Mr. Brown, and I can't wait for what happens next."

He pulls his forehead back to look into her brown eyes. "I can't either, and I love you too, Mrs. Brown."

She smiled at him again before they kissed softly on the lips.

When they pulled back, they just stared at each other, thinking about their wonderful future they plan to have.

Once the music stopped, so did their feet, and after one more kiss and cheer from their families, Grissom got to dance with the bride while BreAnna danced with the groom.

When their heartfelt dance came to an end, Grissom kissed his daughter on the cheek before going to his oldest while Sara danced with the groom.

After that dance, Grissom did the next one with Ricki while Sara danced with their son, then when that one ended, Sara kissed her son on the cheek before walking over toward her husband and Ricki.

She looked at her daughter, smiled and said. "Can I have the next dance with your father?"

Ricki smiled and said. "Of course mom."

After father and daughter, then daughter and mother kissed on the cheek, Grissom took his wife's hand and they get into their dancing stance.

When everybody who wanted to dance to the next song was in the dancing area, the music stared, and so did their feet.

A few seconds later, Sara and Grissom watched their kids dance with their significant others, then when they looked at each other again, he asked. "So what do you think of our son and Sadie?"

She looked over at them and didn't see anything suspicious, so she looked at her husband and said. "They are just dancing."

Grissom paused to really look at the couple again to make sure he saw what he did the first time he looked over there, then he looked into his wife's eyes and asked. "Like we were just dancing at a certain wedding all those years ago?"

She looked a little shocked. "You sure?"

Grissom smiled. "Look at the place of his right hand on her back, it's slightly lower than what is deemed a friendship. They are leaning toward each other a little more, like they are whispering in a crowded room. Look how they are looking at each other, like they are the only two people here, and watch their eyes as they smile at one another."

Sara looked at the couple again and took a moment to observe everything her husband did, then she looked back at him. "Wow." Then she smirked. "Over 30 years of not being a CSI, and you still got it. I guess I was right, once a CSI always a CSI."

Then he smirks back. "Over 30 years of being a CSI, are you slipping, dear?"

"No way, and hey I saw it, didn't I?"

"Ok, I'll give you a pass."

She 'humphed' as she sarcastically replied. "Well thank you, gracious one."

He chuckled as he brought her a little closer, then asked. "Now back to the original question, what do you think of our son and Sadie?"

She cleared her throat and answered. "Well the age difference doesn't both me, I mean because look at us." He nodded as she continued after a small sigh. "I think the major thing is I don't want to see either of them getting hurt. No matter how you look at it, even though that's our son, we care about how Sadie feels too. But what it ultimately comes down to is, it's their choice."

"That's a very mature way of looking at it dear, when I know your mother instinct wants to go all protective of her little boy."

As she looked at her son again, she has a flashback of a moment she shared with him when he was a little boy.

Flashback

19 Years ago

September 5, 2017

After dropping Beth off at her school, Sara and Grissom met at the twins, and now ,Wyatt's school.

Once the girls got out of the vehicle, they were free to go to their new classroom.

Since they were starting the second grade today they had a new classroom and teacher.

When Grissom got out of his vehicle, he watched Sara and Wyatt get out of her vehicle before they walked to his classroom, which happened to be the same one the twins where in when they started here, he even got the same teacher as them.

Once they got to the opened classroom, Sara and Grissom walked in, but Wyatt had stayed in the hall.

They turned around and saw that Wyatt was looking down, so Sara walked up to her little boy, kneeled down and asked. "What's wrong sweetie? You were so excited this morning."

He looked up at his mother and said in a low voice. "You were sad mommy."

He saw his mother's sad face all morning, so it made him feel bad that he was so excited about going to school for the first time, which was something he had been wanting to do since he knew about the word 'school' and what it meant.

She cups his cheek. "Oh honey, I was just sad because I'm seeing my last baby start their first day of school. It's something all parents go through."

"So will you be ok or do you need me to stay with you?"

Sara had to smile because her son was so considerate, just like his daddy, then she smiled and replied. "No honey you need to do this, I'll be fine. Just enjoy your first day of school."

His face lit up as he smiled that 'Grissom' smile before wrapping his arms around her neck and saying. "I love you, mommy."

Sara sighed in content as she held her little boy. "I love you too, honey." After a few seconds, they release one another.

After he kissed his mother on the cheek, Wyatt walked up to his father to say goodbye before stepping in the classroom as Sara stood up.

They walked in the entrance to the classroom and waved at Ms. Hudson, then watched Wyatt walk up to a few students that were already there and started talking to them.

Grissom looked over at his wife a few seconds later and asked. "Ready?"

She looked away from her son to look at her husband and said after a sigh. "Yeah, it's time."

He smiled before leaning toward her and kissing her temple.

When he pulled back, they looked at Wyatt for one more second before turning away from the door, and walking away hand in hand, both feeling sad that this was their last time to see a child of theirs go through their first day of school.

End of Flashback

When she comes back to the present, she smiled at her husband with a sparkle in her eyes. "Except that he isn't our little boy anymore, and I know I need to let him go."

He kissed her forehead and said. "Right you are."

As he pulls back, Sara asked. "However, I don't think the question is how I feel about it, it really should be how you feel about it."

"What do you mean?"

"Well you and Vince are practically brother's and..."

He cuts her off. "True, we do look at ourselves as brothers, but biologically speaking we are not, so there is no blood relation between us, which makes them not related. We say we are family to the team, which we are, but it's up to the 'kids' to decide how they look at their relationship with the other 'kids' around them." He cleared his throat and continued. "Take Beth and Vincent for instance."

"Go on." She loved it when he explained things, even though she had a vague idea on what he was going to say about this.

"Those two think of each other as brother and sister, so it would never work. The same with Ricki and Joseph or Rick, Heidi and Austin or Joseph, and Wyatt and Mandy. It's how they see it, not us, because they are the ones that's dating each other." Then he smirked as he looked around him. "Or in some cases married to each other."

She smiled with a nod, then asked. "So you don't have a problem with it?"

He shook his head. "No I don't, like I said it's how they feel about it. But I'm like you, I don't want either of them getting hurt."

Knowing there wasn't much more they could say about it, she just nodded again before stepping closer to him as he wrapped his arms around her, it was more like they were hugging now but they didn't care.

Overall they just wanted to see their kids happy, and who's to say they have any right to judge anybody's relationship when they were far from a 'normal' couple themselves, or at least that's the way other people who don't know or care about them, think.


While Chase and Beth were dancing together, he noticed Beth was looking over at her parents, so he looked that way and saw how close they were and how in love they looked, which he's noticed that look ever since he's met his in-laws. He only wished his parents were still together and in love like that.

A few minutes later, Beth and Chase look at each other, then she removes her hands from his shoulders and signed. 'Unlike my siblings, I always liked seeing them affectionate while I was growing up. It always made me wish that one day I would have the same type of love that they have, and when I look at you, I know I've found it. I feel so lucky to have you.'

Chase smiled, then when she puts her hands on his hips so they were still dancing, he signed back. 'It means so much to me that you would compare our love to your parents. But I think you're wrong about something.' She raised an eyebrow as he continued with a smile. 'I think I am the lucky one here.
Other people outside of your family and some of mine, may look at us and think that I saved you from being alone, but they'll get that wrong every time.
If I had never known you, I may have gone and made millions upon millions playing professional basketball, which no way am I saying is a bad thing, but when it came down to the end of my career I would've had questions like, who would've been beside me after I stopped making all that money? Would the woman who I was with had loved me for who I was or just because I could get her expensive things?'

'With you I know the answers to those questions. You love me for me and you never cared if I could buy you expensive things. You gave me a beautiful son and another child is on the way, and that's worth more than money to me any day of the week.' He shook his head before finishing. 'And the sad thing is, I don't think I would have seen any of that if I wouldn't have found you, so thank you for saving me.'

Tears started to come down her cheek as she signed back. 'You're welcome, I love you so much, Chase.'

After wiping her tears away, he brought her close to him and kissed her before replying. 'I love you too, baby.'

After one more kiss, he brings her in his arms and just holds her, both falling in love with each other all over again.


After looking at her sisters and parents, Ricki looked at her dancing partner, Austin.

They smiled at each other and she speaks. "I wanted to thank you again for taking care of Colton yesterday."

He had the day off and she had to work a double, so he offered to take care of her son.

Austin shook his head and replied. "Not a problem, I like hanging out with the little guy."

"That's good because he loves hanging out with you."

He smiled that 'Nick' smile and asked. "What about you? you like hanging out with me?"

She smiled back. "Of course."

He looked into those brown eyes of hers, then asked a question he's been wanting to ask for years. "I was hoping we can hang out more."

"More? As in..."

She trials off and he shook his head. "Yes, as in dating."

Even though she felt something between them now, she had to admit she was a little shocked. "Really?"

"Yeah, I know while we were growing up it didn't really click for us in that way, which I can't tell you why that was, but being around you and Colton feels pretty right to me now."

She smiled again. "It really does, but Austin, Colton is my first priority."

"I know Ricki and I have no problem with that, I just want to be more involved in both of your lives."

"I like that."

He smiled bigger and responded. "Alright, now how about on our first date, you, me and Colton can go see a movie, providing we don't get called in for work."

She nodded. "You're on."

Then their traditional word was said by him. "Cool."

They chuckled as they continued to dance, feeling really great about their upcoming date.


As Wyatt and Sadie continued to dance, oblivious to the other couples around them, Wyatt cleared his throat and asked. "What we talked about this morning, do you still want to?"

"Of course, talking about the future of our relationship is very important to me, are you having second thoughts?"

She was getting a little worried, but her worry was wiped away when he spoke next. "None, but I do want to change when everybody finds out about us."

"What do you mean?"

"I want to tell them sooner rather than later."

Just as she was about to respond to that, he bent down and gave her a kiss.

She was too shocked to respond as they heard a lot of gasps around them.

When he pulled back, he continued. "I talked to my sister and she said that she would be honored to share the spotlight with me. The moment she said it was ok for me to do this, is when I knew I wanted the world to know about us today. I'm not ashamed to say out loud that I love you, Sadie Lewis."

He couldn't think of a better way to out their relationship than to do it during a wedding, but of course he asked his sister before he decided anything, and she was really happy for him, which was why she squealed earlier.

Sadie smiled as she wraps her arms around his neck. "And I'm not ashamed of saying I love you too, Wyatt Grissom."

He smiled that smile she loved right before he kissed her again, and this time she responded.

While everybody was watching, most of them had a sense of déjà vu of when it happened with a certain couple who wanted to share their love to the world all those years ago.


AN: Hope you liked it. Alright everybody, one more chapter to go. How will the family react to Wyatt and Sadie? Find out next chapter. Please review.