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Chapter 10- Discovery
Twice more during sleep Grissom woke her up to check her pupils and see if she was at all disoriented, both times she was fine, if a bit annoyed. When he woke up for the third, and last time he looked down at the sleeping woman in his arms, he couldn't believe she was there, he was almost expecting to wake up alone on the couch, that day having been a sweet dream. Looking at the clock he realized that they needed to get out of bed, shift started in two hours and they hadn't eaten today. He was debating the safety in taking her out to eat when she stirred in his arms, opening her eyes.
"Morning…. well I guess evening now." She says and smiles at him. He would do anything for her when she gave him that grin.
"Evening, how are you feeling?"
Slowly Sara stretches her muscles and evaluates her headache. "My head hurts still, and I am a little sore, but other than that I feel great." Observing the wary look on his face she reiterates, "Really Gris, I am ok, some bumps and bruises, nothing serious, I will make it."
"Allright, if I had my way you wouldn't even come to work, but in reality that's probably the safest place for you. And remember, you go nowhere without one of us."
She smiles at his sudden protective streak "I know Grissom. How bout some food though?"
"No problem, take a shower and I will order something." He tells her, happy to see her appetite is back.
"Thank you Grissom. For everything." She tells him and reaches up for a kiss; he leans into her and wraps her up in his long arms. What seems like an eternity later they break.
"Go shower, we don't have time to get distracted." At her mischievous look he shakes his head "Come on Sara, go." As swiftly as she can, Sara sits up and looks around for her pajamas, which where thrown somewhere during the days activities. Grissom stares at her naked back, which is covered in bruises of varying degrees. Damn, he must have checked her hard he thought and in that instant realizes that he is capable of killing someone. Without even thinking Grissom reaches out and touches one of the nastier looking spots right under her ribcage, the bruise spreads around her side, almost a pitch-black color. He didn't remember it being that dark earlier, it must have gotten worse. As soon as he touches it, she sucks in a breath and flinches away from him.
"Hey, careful, that hurt."
"Sorry, that's a nasty bruise Sara, how in the world did you get one there?" He looks at her concerned, she hadn't really told him the whole story of what happened that morning.
Staining to remember Sara thinks back. "Oh. I know, I think. When he tackled me, I hit the kitchen island first, then the floor. Hurt like nothing else, let me tell you." She tells him and finally slides out of bed. She finds her nightclothes, puts them on, and before leaving leans over Grissom who is still sitting on the bed, and kisses him hard. He can tell she is behaving more like Sara, though honestly he has no idea how Sara should behave in this situation.
Following her lead, Grissom gets out of bed, throwing on clothes until he can also shower and orders in Chinese for them. Vegetable stir-fry for her of course. After a while Grissom realizes that she has been in the shower for a long time and goes in to check on her.
"Sara?" He asks as he opens the door. He can see her silhouetted against the shower curtain; she is just standing still, not making a move. Worried, he walks over to the shower curtain and peeks behind it. What he sees doesn't surprise him that much, he was waiting for the emotional wave to really hit her, and up until now she was either to busy or to tired to think about it. She is standing under the water, sobbing noiselessly, the only reason he can tell what is happening is the shaking of her body from the effort to hold it in.
"Sara." He says softly, stripping his clothes and joining her. "Its ok, shhhh baby, shhhh." He grabs her in a hug as he says this, both of them now under the water spray. After a few minutes her body stops shaking and she looks up at him.
"I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. I was fine and then all of a sudden it hit me you know. God, I am a mess."
"No Sara you aren't, most people would have cracked long before now. You are a very strong person, don't forget that."
She gives him a small smile and releases the hold she has on him. "Go ahead the shower is yours, I was done."
"Ok, I ordered food, should be here soon." She just nods in acknowledgement.
When he gets out of the shower, she is sitting at the breakfast area of the kitchen, dressed and her hair is dried, opening small white boxes. "Hurry up, just got here." She tells him and goes back to finding the one without a meat product in it.
When he joins her again at the table she has already dug into her food. Giving her a quick once over, he makes note that she is looking better, her eyes are alert and aside from some obvious soreness she seems fine. He observes the bruise over her temple and almost winces, while not as bad as the one on her back, its obvious that she had be hit hard. She had been very lucky something scared the guy off, and so was he. He also owed a debt of gratitude to Nick, if he hadn't called…Grissom didn't want to think about that outcome.
"Sorry, I was hungry." She tells him and looks up, noticing the odd expression on his face.
"No problem."
They eat in silence for a while until he notices she has stopped eating and is simply playing with what little food is left on her plate.
"Sara, what's the matter?"
"Huh? Oh nothing….. I was thinking, how are we going to do this? I mean are we going to tell people about us? Cause I really don't know if that is wise…"
He cuts off her rambling by touching her arm. "I think for now we tell no one, and I mean no one, this is between you and I. If the day shift ever got wind of it, Ecklie would come down on us in no time."
"That's fine, but Grissom, I think people will start to figure it out. Not so much the day shift as Catherine, Warrick and Nick. They aren't stupid. We are trying to keep this from trained investigators you know."
"If they ask just don't confirm it, I know they will be discreet, as will we. I am going to check on something, ok?"
"Yep."
"All right then, we need to get going." He tells her as he gets up and picks up their plates. Sara gets up, puts on shoes, grabs her coat and waits for Grissom at the door while he does the same.
"Hey" He says to get her attention before he opens the front door and as she turns to him grabs her by the waist and kisses her passionately. When he breaks it off, he has a huge smile on his face, something Sara almost never sees and knows she will never see it unless they are behind closed doors.
Arriving at work Grissom heads to his office and Sara to the locker room where she meets up with Nick and Warrick.
"Hey girl. How are you feeling?" Warrick asks and gives her a gentle hug, he had been worried when Nicky called and told him what had happened. He noticed the nasty bruise on her temple, but choose to not acknowledge it. He doubted any of them, except Brass, would get the whole story about what happened.
"Better thanks, a little sore and aside from Grissom waking me up every 2 hours, I slept great." She smiles at them.
"How was sleeping at Grissom's? Was it creepy?" Nick has to ask, he has heard about their bosses townhouse, with the bugs and spiders, but had never been in it.
"Lets just say it was an interesting experience." She says with no obvious tone, but her face is sending another signal. Warrick notices immediately her strange answer and expression on her face and suspects something but just nods in response.
"Grissom already filled us in. One of us should be with you all the time, so don't even think about pulling a fast one on us missy." Nick tells her; oblivious to the look that Warrick is giving Sara.
"I would never do such a thing." She says laughing, it felt good to be with her friends.
The three of them walk down the hall and meet Grissom and Catherine in the break room to get assignments. Grissom can hear her light laughter down the hall and a wistful expression crosses his face. Catherine notices, but before she can question him the younger CSIs enter the room, Catherine watches as Sara and Grissom pass a glance, longer than usual, and in that instant she knows. Gotcha she thinks to herself.
Grissom looks around the table and starts "Ok, here's what we have. There is an APB out for Jason Reading and right now he is Brass's top priority and therefore the LVPDs top priority. He is now armed with Sara's service weapon and considered extremely dangerous. There isn't much we can do right now except to keep your eyes peeled. I am going to tell you guys again, I dismissed the tail Brass had initially ordered after the incident this morning at Sara's apartment. So if she leaves the building one of us needs to be with her, every time, I cant put enough emphasis on that. We have no idea how this guy is getting around or how he found her apartment. Now, we do have work for tonight. Warrick and Catherine possible 419 at a party store in Henderson. Nicky, missing male at the MGM. Sara and I will take the body found in the desert. All right everyone lets go."
While getting into the Tahoe Warrick looks at Catherine and asks "Grissom and Sara?"
"Oh yeah."
tbc…………….
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"But why did the tire come apart in the first place?" Sara
"I don't know." Grissom
"I do" Sara
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Chapter 10- Discovery
Twice more during sleep Grissom woke her up to check her pupils and see if she was at all disoriented, both times she was fine, if a bit annoyed. When he woke up for the third, and last time he looked down at the sleeping woman in his arms, he couldn't believe she was there, he was almost expecting to wake up alone on the couch, that day having been a sweet dream. Looking at the clock he realized that they needed to get out of bed, shift started in two hours and they hadn't eaten today. He was debating the safety in taking her out to eat when she stirred in his arms, opening her eyes.
"Morning…. well I guess evening now." She says and smiles at him. He would do anything for her when she gave him that grin.
"Evening, how are you feeling?"
Slowly Sara stretches her muscles and evaluates her headache. "My head hurts still, and I am a little sore, but other than that I feel great." Observing the wary look on his face she reiterates, "Really Gris, I am ok, some bumps and bruises, nothing serious, I will make it."
"Allright, if I had my way you wouldn't even come to work, but in reality that's probably the safest place for you. And remember, you go nowhere without one of us."
She smiles at his sudden protective streak "I know Grissom. How bout some food though?"
"No problem, take a shower and I will order something." He tells her, happy to see her appetite is back.
"Thank you Grissom. For everything." She tells him and reaches up for a kiss; he leans into her and wraps her up in his long arms. What seems like an eternity later they break.
"Go shower, we don't have time to get distracted." At her mischievous look he shakes his head "Come on Sara, go." As swiftly as she can, Sara sits up and looks around for her pajamas, which where thrown somewhere during the days activities. Grissom stares at her naked back, which is covered in bruises of varying degrees. Damn, he must have checked her hard he thought and in that instant realizes that he is capable of killing someone. Without even thinking Grissom reaches out and touches one of the nastier looking spots right under her ribcage, the bruise spreads around her side, almost a pitch-black color. He didn't remember it being that dark earlier, it must have gotten worse. As soon as he touches it, she sucks in a breath and flinches away from him.
"Hey, careful, that hurt."
"Sorry, that's a nasty bruise Sara, how in the world did you get one there?" He looks at her concerned, she hadn't really told him the whole story of what happened that morning.
Staining to remember Sara thinks back. "Oh. I know, I think. When he tackled me, I hit the kitchen island first, then the floor. Hurt like nothing else, let me tell you." She tells him and finally slides out of bed. She finds her nightclothes, puts them on, and before leaving leans over Grissom who is still sitting on the bed, and kisses him hard. He can tell she is behaving more like Sara, though honestly he has no idea how Sara should behave in this situation.
Following her lead, Grissom gets out of bed, throwing on clothes until he can also shower and orders in Chinese for them. Vegetable stir-fry for her of course. After a while Grissom realizes that she has been in the shower for a long time and goes in to check on her.
"Sara?" He asks as he opens the door. He can see her silhouetted against the shower curtain; she is just standing still, not making a move. Worried, he walks over to the shower curtain and peeks behind it. What he sees doesn't surprise him that much, he was waiting for the emotional wave to really hit her, and up until now she was either to busy or to tired to think about it. She is standing under the water, sobbing noiselessly, the only reason he can tell what is happening is the shaking of her body from the effort to hold it in.
"Sara." He says softly, stripping his clothes and joining her. "Its ok, shhhh baby, shhhh." He grabs her in a hug as he says this, both of them now under the water spray. After a few minutes her body stops shaking and she looks up at him.
"I'm sorry. I don't know what happened. I was fine and then all of a sudden it hit me you know. God, I am a mess."
"No Sara you aren't, most people would have cracked long before now. You are a very strong person, don't forget that."
She gives him a small smile and releases the hold she has on him. "Go ahead the shower is yours, I was done."
"Ok, I ordered food, should be here soon." She just nods in acknowledgement.
When he gets out of the shower, she is sitting at the breakfast area of the kitchen, dressed and her hair is dried, opening small white boxes. "Hurry up, just got here." She tells him and goes back to finding the one without a meat product in it.
When he joins her again at the table she has already dug into her food. Giving her a quick once over, he makes note that she is looking better, her eyes are alert and aside from some obvious soreness she seems fine. He observes the bruise over her temple and almost winces, while not as bad as the one on her back, its obvious that she had be hit hard. She had been very lucky something scared the guy off, and so was he. He also owed a debt of gratitude to Nick, if he hadn't called…Grissom didn't want to think about that outcome.
"Sorry, I was hungry." She tells him and looks up, noticing the odd expression on his face.
"No problem."
They eat in silence for a while until he notices she has stopped eating and is simply playing with what little food is left on her plate.
"Sara, what's the matter?"
"Huh? Oh nothing….. I was thinking, how are we going to do this? I mean are we going to tell people about us? Cause I really don't know if that is wise…"
He cuts off her rambling by touching her arm. "I think for now we tell no one, and I mean no one, this is between you and I. If the day shift ever got wind of it, Ecklie would come down on us in no time."
"That's fine, but Grissom, I think people will start to figure it out. Not so much the day shift as Catherine, Warrick and Nick. They aren't stupid. We are trying to keep this from trained investigators you know."
"If they ask just don't confirm it, I know they will be discreet, as will we. I am going to check on something, ok?"
"Yep."
"All right then, we need to get going." He tells her as he gets up and picks up their plates. Sara gets up, puts on shoes, grabs her coat and waits for Grissom at the door while he does the same.
"Hey" He says to get her attention before he opens the front door and as she turns to him grabs her by the waist and kisses her passionately. When he breaks it off, he has a huge smile on his face, something Sara almost never sees and knows she will never see it unless they are behind closed doors.
Arriving at work Grissom heads to his office and Sara to the locker room where she meets up with Nick and Warrick.
"Hey girl. How are you feeling?" Warrick asks and gives her a gentle hug, he had been worried when Nicky called and told him what had happened. He noticed the nasty bruise on her temple, but choose to not acknowledge it. He doubted any of them, except Brass, would get the whole story about what happened.
"Better thanks, a little sore and aside from Grissom waking me up every 2 hours, I slept great." She smiles at them.
"How was sleeping at Grissom's? Was it creepy?" Nick has to ask, he has heard about their bosses townhouse, with the bugs and spiders, but had never been in it.
"Lets just say it was an interesting experience." She says with no obvious tone, but her face is sending another signal. Warrick notices immediately her strange answer and expression on her face and suspects something but just nods in response.
"Grissom already filled us in. One of us should be with you all the time, so don't even think about pulling a fast one on us missy." Nick tells her; oblivious to the look that Warrick is giving Sara.
"I would never do such a thing." She says laughing, it felt good to be with her friends.
The three of them walk down the hall and meet Grissom and Catherine in the break room to get assignments. Grissom can hear her light laughter down the hall and a wistful expression crosses his face. Catherine notices, but before she can question him the younger CSIs enter the room, Catherine watches as Sara and Grissom pass a glance, longer than usual, and in that instant she knows. Gotcha she thinks to herself.
Grissom looks around the table and starts "Ok, here's what we have. There is an APB out for Jason Reading and right now he is Brass's top priority and therefore the LVPDs top priority. He is now armed with Sara's service weapon and considered extremely dangerous. There isn't much we can do right now except to keep your eyes peeled. I am going to tell you guys again, I dismissed the tail Brass had initially ordered after the incident this morning at Sara's apartment. So if she leaves the building one of us needs to be with her, every time, I cant put enough emphasis on that. We have no idea how this guy is getting around or how he found her apartment. Now, we do have work for tonight. Warrick and Catherine possible 419 at a party store in Henderson. Nicky, missing male at the MGM. Sara and I will take the body found in the desert. All right everyone lets go."
While getting into the Tahoe Warrick looks at Catherine and asks "Grissom and Sara?"
"Oh yeah."
tbc…………….
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"But why did the tire come apart in the first place?" Sara
"I don't know." Grissom
"I do" Sara