Note: Just want to say to mavis_b2 (reviews).what is wrong with you? You disgust me. I know that the title is not that great but it sounded good a one in the morning. I swear.what kind of best friend are you anyway? You even stole my incredibly creative name that we made up together in church. Sigh, that's all I have to say to you.sigh. Oh and to everyone else (who is not a name stealing "friend") sorry this took so long.but my parents were dragging me all over the state of Ohio and making me be "Snack Girl" at Bible school for two weeks....it's been a long few weeks.

Disclaimer: don't own anyone and not making any money.wait.Jordan's back!!!! I guess I own Jordan Dodds.. I just wish I knew how to expess the joy I'm feeling.

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Grissom didn't want to be at work, he wanted to be near Sara. He wanted to be holding her hand and talking to her, even if she didn't respond. He took a sip of the coffee in front of him. She had been here just twenty- four hours earlier laughing at some dumb joke Nick had told. How quickly everything had changed, how swiftly life had turned upside down. He felt a touch on his arm and jumped.

Catherine gave him a sad smile. "Feeling any better?" It had been a long night for both of them. Grissom had gone straight over to Catherine's house from the hospital and they had talked for almost four hours. He had left around nine, headed to the crime lab and hadn't left. He gave her a tired smile.

Grissom wanted to tell Catherine about the last few hours. How he had worked his ass off and was no closer to finding Jordan Dodds then he had been at four a.m. He wanted to tell her how he had almost cried in his office that afternoon, tell her how frustrated he was because he knew that Brass was thinking about taking him off the case, tell how emotionally involved he was becoming, and tell her how much he wanted to see Sara. He didn't trust himself around her however, not yet, not after all this.

Grissom wouldn't tell Catherine though. He had already told her too much already, more than he'd told anyone in a long time. So he just nodded and took another sip of the watery brew in front of him. Catherine knew he wasn't telling her the truth and was about to call him on it when Warrick and Nick walked in. Grissom could see the annoyance in Catherine's eyes and knew that the two younger men had just saved him from one of her infamous grillings.

Nick and Warrick each took a seat. Nothing was said by anyone for a minute, each person not sure what to say to the other, until Warrick spoke up. "Went to go see Sara today." Grissom's eyes, which had been looking into his coffee, shot up. "She's doing better, has a killer headache though. She also was wondering if you were there last night Grissom.she couldn't remember."

"What did you tell her?" he calmly asked not showing any of the emotions he now felt. If she didn't remember him being there then she diffidently didn't remember what she said to him. If that was the case then he could ignore it.. pretend it never happened and everything would go back to normal.

Could I really do that? he asked himself. Could I come to work day after day knowing that there's a strong possibility that she loves me? I wouldn't be able to do anything about it. Nothing.it's hard enough as it is.this would be unbearable.

"..and then I said; Sara we can't do it here, the nurses might hear." Grissom came out of his trance, quickly looked up and was met by Warrick's teasing eyes. "You didn't hear a damn thing I just said did you?" The smirk in his voice was audible to everyone in the room.

Grissom almost smiled at being caught as he shook his head at his young friend. "I'm sorry Warrick I was thinking about something else and didn't hear what you said."

Warrick shot Catherine a look that made Grissom wonder if he had hidden his feelings for Sara well enough. "Sure Grissom, "something else". He gave Grissom a small smile as he continued "I said that I told Sara you were there last night for evidence, questioning, stuff like that, and she'd have to ask you about any personal visits."

Grissom nodded at Warrick and went back to studying his coffee. he wasn't sure how he felt just then. Was he relieved? Was he disappointed? Right then he wasn't really sure.

"They took her off most of the drugs today," Warrick added trying to fill in the silence that had once again taken over the room. "She wasn't in the best mood when I got there."

"Why would they take her off of the drugs?" Nick asked, looking up from the table to question his friends.

"To watch for sub zero hemetoba." Grissom stated looking harder into his coffee. "It's bleeding under the brain covering. They have to take her off the medicine so it won't mask the symptoms." Nick nodded in understanding and went back to studying the surface in front of him.

Catherine stared at the men in front of her, all looking at different parts of the table and shook her head. They were all worried about Sara, but this was not helping her at all. Her eyes rested on Grissom who looked more distant then she had ever seen him. Catherine knew that someone had to get things started, and judging by his vacant expression it wasn't going to be Grissom. "What did you guys find in her car?" She asked, taking control.

Warrick looked up at Catherine and shrugged. "A few blond hairs, no roots, finger prints on the steering wheel and some of Sara's blood."

"And we have a suspect?"

"Yah, we matched to prints on the wheel to the one's on the board the attacker used. They belong to some run away named Jordan Dodds." Catherine was silent for a second before she turned all of her attention towards Grissom.

"What did you find out at the hospital?" She asked.

That I'm easy to love. Grissom pushed the thought away as quickly as it had come. "I couldn't really talk to Sara last night," he started "and the suspect snuck up from behind, Sara didn't get a chance to fight back, so there wasn't really a chance for any foreign DNA. There wasn't much I could do."





"Well she's awake now so let's go talk to her." Catherine got up from the table and looked over at the remaining members of the team. "You two take another look in her car, maybe there's something you missed. Then find out what you can on Dodd's..and I want everything."





Grissom silently watched Catherine do his job. He needed to pull himself together and take charge. He needed to be on top of his game. He needed to see Sara. Grissom stood up and took the keys of his Tahoe out of his pocket. "Catherine, let's go." Catherine shot a look at her boss and friend and nodded. He was finally coming out of his pity party and taking control again.





"It's about time." She muttered to herself as she left the break room and headed for Grissom's car.

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