Catherine sat on the couch in the break room with Warrick. After she hung up the phone, Grissom sat down in front of her, and looked her in the eye.

"I think I'll leave you two alone." Warrick said releasing Catherine's hand, and getting up.

"Thanks." Grissom said plainly.

Catherine turned away so she didn't have to see the hurt in his eyes. Grissom took her hands in his. "Why didn't you tell me sooner?"

"It wasn't my place to tell.... Sara didn't want you to know," Catherine said

"I need to go to her."

Catherine pulled her hand from his, and pulled something out of her pocket. "Here's my house key. Go," she said placing it in his hand.

Grissom leaned forward, kissed her forehead, then got up and left her alone.

~~~

Sara went to bed early that day. She couldn't think straight... Not that she had in the past month anyway, but today was worse. Would Grissom come? She knew she'd have to explain everything to him, but she was afraid she wouldn't be able to find the words.

Soon she fell into a restless sleep. Her nightmares about losing Abigail came back to haunt her again. Her nightmares about the one drunken night of sex she and Hank shared came back to haunt her. Her nightmares of the day she told Hank she was pregnant came back to haunt her... Along with him suing her for custody. She went back to the day when the judge told her that she and Hank had to share custody... He got her every other weekend, and one week a month. She remembered how he wasn't even there throughout her pregnancy. The only one in the hospital with her when she gave birth was Catherine.

Then she went back to the day she got the phone call. She was cleaning up Abigail's room when Lindsey handed her the phone. And at first it didn't register. It was like everything stood still. The next thing she remembers is Lindsey running into the room asking if she was OK.

Suddenly Sara awoke to what she thought was a door slamming. She sat up and looked around her room. She thought she could hear people talking downstairs, so she went to check it out. And as soon as she saw who it was she wished she had stayed in bed.

~~~

Grissom pulled up outside of Catherine's house. His hands started shaking as he opened the door to get out of the car. He walked up to the front door slowly. As he neared the partly open door, he could hear voices inside.

"What are you doing here?" He recognized Catherine's voice.

"I just came to see her that's all..." And Grissom's heart started pounding when he recognized this voice as Hank's.

Sara was standing at the top of the steps. She saw Grissom walking towards the door and gasped. That's when Hank and Catherine noticed her.

"Sara?" Hank asked rushing up the stairs to see her.

"Grissom," she said pushing past him.

He walked in the door and stood at the bottom of the stairs waiting for her to get down.

Catherine stood next to him. "Hank, you need to leave."

"Why? She was my baby, too!" He yelled.

Sara stopped two stairs before she got to Grissom. Her jaw dropped, as well as Grissom's.

"Now Hank!" Catherine yelled pulling his shirt to get him to leave.

After she shut the door behind him, she turned to Grissom and Sara. "I'm going in the living room... If you need anything...." She turned and walked away from them.

Sara sat down on the bottom step and covered her face with her hands. Grissom kneeled down in front of her. He put his hand on her knee. "Hey..." he said quietly. Sara brought her hands down to reveal the tears that had begun falling onto her cheeks. "Oh, Sara..." he said as he wrapped his arms around her shaking body. She buried her face in his chest and let it all go. Sob after sob came, and she couldn't stop. Grissom ran a hand through her hair and down her back to try and calm her down, but it wasn't helping. He put his hands on her shoulders and pushed her away from him to look at her. He cupped her face with his hands and wiped away tears with his thumbs. Sara noticed how soft his fingers were against her skin. She closed her eyes and wished everything would go away except for the two of them.

"Sara... Stop... Please?" He begged.

"I'm sorry.... I wanted to tell you... I really did.... But I couldn't.... I thought... You'd be... Mad at me...." Sara said in between sobs.

Grissom ran his fingers through her hair. "I could never ever be mad at you."

Sara could feel a smile tugging at her lips.

"Come on... let's take you back up to bed" Grissom said standing her up.

~~~

Grissom helped Sara into bed, and then turned to get a chair. Sara watched him so closely... He pulled a chair right up next to her bed, and sat down. He put his hand on top of hers. "Ok. Why don't you start at the beginning," he said soothingly.

"We were drunk.... Well, I was. It was right after Eddie died. That was one of the worst cases. There was nothing I could do for Catherine... Or for Lindsey. Its the one case where no one knows what really happened except for those two liars...." She trailed off, and turned her head away from Grissom. "Catherine was so mad at me.... She was so hurt."

Grissom squeezed her hand. "It wasn't your fault," he said pushing her hair behind her ear.

"I came home and called Hank... I needed to forget about the whole day.... He brought the alcohol... Said he would take care of me....I got drunk, we had sex, and a few weeks later, I found out I was pregnant," Sara said sitting up in her bed.

"Sara..." Grissom started.

"Catherine asked me one day if I was OK, and then I just told her everything..." she continued. "Then I told her I had to quit. There was really no way I could handle being a CSI and a mother. I know Catherine is doing it... And very well, I might add, but I didn't think I could. So I left. She told me to move in with her since I had no job, and would probably not be able to pay the rent for my apartment. Plus she just wanted to make sure I got through the pregnancy well."

Grissom just sat and listened to her. He wanted to know why she hadn't told him, but he was afraid to ask.

"I'm sorry I didn't tell you... But I couldn't bring myself to do it. I didn't want you to know... I didn't want you to know that I had sex with Hank, I guess. I still thought there could have been something.... with us I mean. I was in love with you, but I was pregnant with someone else's baby...." she stopped as soon as she realized that she was talking out loud.

Grissom sat back in his chair and let go of her hand. "Sara..."

Sara quickly got out of bed and walked away from him. He just sat there not knowing what he should do or say. "I don't know what to say," he said.

"I don't want you to say anything," Sara said staring out the window. She couldn't believe what she had just said to him. Why didn't he say anything? Did he ever feel the same way? Sara was so caught up in her own mind that she didn't even realize Grissom had walked over to where she was standing. When she felt his hands on her arms she nearly jumped out of her skin. Before she could say anything, he wrapped his arms around her and pulled her to him. She leaned into his body and closed her eyes. Sara breathed a sigh of relief.

"He freaked out when I told him. And then he didn't call or anything for 4 months. He even knew that I had moved in with Catherine. He didn't care about our baby. He wasn't even there when she was born, yet he had the nerve to sue me for custody. When the judge found out that I had quit my job and wasn't even living in my own home, he said that we would have joint custody," she stopped and turned to face Grissom. "He wanted nothing to do with her. I gave up everything for my baby, and then he took her away from me!" Sara shouted through the tears.

"Hey...." he said wiping the tears off her cheeks. He didn't know what to say. There was nothing he could do to take away this pain she was feeling. Lord knows he would give up his own life to make her happy. Grissom wrapped his arms around the beautiful woman standing in front of him, and held onto her as if letting go would mean the world ended.

~~~

To be continued....

A/N: I did write this before I got a chance to see Crash and Burn, so I had no idea about that whole Hank/Sara junk that happened. So for story purposes, let's just say that Crash and Burn never happened. :)