AN: ok so this took waaayyyy longer than I expected.  Very sorry!

Three weeks later

Grissom pulled into the parking spot that he had long since claimed as his own, before he exited he sat in quiet contemplation of the many times he had sat there, and how different his more recent trips were to those that went before.  Today however would, he hoped, be the first time since the day his life changed that his car would sit here while he slept.  Every day of the past 3 weeks their relationship took a new step, and everyday it became harder to pull away.  Today he would not pull away.

As he turned the key in the lock he could already smell the aroma of dinner.

"Hey" She said without turning around.

"Hi, something smells nice!"  He wrapped his arms around her from behind and buried his face in her neck "someone smells nice too!"

She pulled away and assumed her confrontational stance.  "Yeah well I seemed to have a lot of time on my hands today considering I had 2 days to work on a B&E while everyone else saw at least one body in that time."

"So did you have a bath?  What oils did you use?"

"Am I talking to a wall or did you misunderstand what I said?"

Grissom was now on the defensive  "I understood you completely Sara, I…I just didn't think that you would want to get into this now… it's a work thing."

"are you doing it for personal reasons…I…I thought we understood the where, when and how much we could relax.  Why did I get the bum case to work on, God there was nothing for me to do."

"Sara you got that case for two days because overtime is being monitored again and if you had one extra hour you would be put on lab duty for a week, I couldn't risk you getting a hot case because you are too good at your job to lose you for a week.  Not because I didn't want to work with you, but because I do…I could never not want to work with you."

A statement that started with frustration ended with a shy smile and blushing cheeks as Grissom followed his statement with a thorough inspection of his shoes.  Sara's own expression changed as he spoke as she now observed him.  She approached him softly bending her knees so that she could look in his eyes

"Good answer!"  She launched a beaming smile in his direction.  Grissom relaxed considerably.  She lent into him  "besides, it did give me extra time to cook and have an amazing bubble bath."

"Well its nice to know that my efforts weren't in vain then"  She leaned in for a slow sensual kiss.  "Your efforts are never in vain, believe me"

"and what is that supposed to mean Miss Sidle"

"You really know how to tease a girl you know"

"Just trying to heighten anticipation"

"exactly my point, trust me anticipation is heightened."

"Oh well that is a relief then."  He wrapped his arms firmly around he waist  "Cause I brought all of these and thought we could see what worked best"

From his numerous jacket pockets grissom pulled the largest array of contraceptive product that she had ever seen outside of a drugs store.  His grin was infectious.

"These should last to the morning at least…right"

THE END

AN:  Sorry guy's I am still a little nervous of writing the ship while remaining in character.