Grissom couldn't sit round watching Libby and Boby pretending to be a happy couple. Catherine and Sara were having a private chat, so Grissom was stuck with the smack bang in this hell. Grissom needed to get out that house before he did something stupid. He needed some fresh air to clear his head so he decided to go for a walk.

Ten minutes into his walk he came to a small lake and decided to stop. It seemed the perfect place to clear his head. He sat down and thoughts things over. He worried about Sara, he worried about Libby and he also worried about his attraction to Libby. He had been gone nearly an hour when he heard a voice behind him,

"Penny?" the voice asked.

Grissom turned to find Libby behind him.

"Pardon?" Grissom laughed, almost flirting.

"Penny for your thoughts?" Libby reiterated.

Grissom became sad. He paused and sighed.

"You don't want to know, Libby" Grissom replied sadly.

Libby came over and sat by Grissom on the grass. She paused and then said,

"Sara told me you know, Gil" Libby told him.

Grissom was surprised. He turned and showed Libby this.

"She did?. I thought - I just thought she wouldn't" Grissom commented surprised.

"Sara tells me everything. Eventually at least. And if she doesn't tell me then I can tell anyhow nowadays" Libby commented.

"She's very worried about you, you know" Grissom informed her.

"It doesn't sound like she's the only one" Libby commented.

Grissom looked down ashamed. It felt ashamed about his attraction to her.

"Don't worry. It's nothing. You can worry about Sara if you want but don't worry about me. I'm fine" Libby assured him.

"It's not nothing, Libby!. What if you turned up dead one day?" Grissom exclaimed.

"I won't" Libby blew it off flippantly.

Libby paused.

"And if I do - So what?" she commented.

"So what?!?!" Grissom exclaimed.

"We all die eventually - there's no point running from it" Libby commented.

"There's no point running into it!" Grissom exclaimed.

"Maybe there is" Libby proposed.

Grissom was gob smacked.

"What?!?!" he exclaimed.

"Well some people want to be dead sooner rather than later, don't they?" Libby said.

"Are you one of them?" Grissom asked worried.

"Maybe. I don't know" Libby replied.

Grissom paused and thought.

"Sara needs you" Grissom insisted.

Libby sighed.

"Maybe she needs exact the opposite. I'm just an inconvenience in her life" Libby suggested.

"If you died voluntarily, or at his hands, her pre-occupation in your life would become ten times worse" Grissom replied.

"I'd never want to hurt her" Libby responded.

There was a pause of silence.

"What are you unhappy about?" Grissom asked.

Libby gave him a look like "What do you think!".

"Ummm, let's see - my marriage?" Libby replied sarcastic.

"I thought you said that was nothing to worry about - that your fine. Suicidal doesn't sound fine" Grissom commented, almost sarcastically.

"I never said I was suicidal. Just maybe don't mind dying. Only maybe though" Libby responded.

Grissom went solemn.

"Do you love him?" Grissom asked.

Libby shrugged.

"I don't know. I think so" Libby replied.

"You think so!" Grissom exclaimed.

"You don't really want to know if I love him, Gil. The real question you want to ask is do I love you?. And well the answer is - I don't know"

"Oh great, so I'm just as high in the stakes as Boby!. Great that means a lot!. So you could be in love with two people. You could be in love with one or you could be in love with none!. And I rank as high as a heartless pig like Boby - in the don't know section" Grissom responded angrily.

"If you let me finish!. I don't you enough to love you. But I like you a lot and I think if I got to know you properly then it would more than likely turn into love. And as for Boby well he's the father of my child pig or not" Libby commented.

"Well, I don't know you well enough to love you either" Grissom defended himself.

"Oh Grissom, you poor thing. If you really knew me you probably wouldn't love me. You probably wouldn't even like me. Some people think I'm a terrible person" Libby commented.

"I find that hard to believe" Grissom replied.

"I love, Sara. I promise you" Libby insisted.

"I know" Grissom asked.

"Everything I do I do for it, Sara, I don't do it for myself!. Remember that" Libby insisted.

"Is this about staying with Boby?" Grissom asked.

"Kind of" Libby replied.

Grissom put his hand on hers.

"It's alright to be scared, Libby" Grissom reassured her.

"Not when my daughter's in danger it's not" Libby responded.

"But she's not really. He hardly hits her, right?. She's not in too much danger" Grissom reiterated.

"No she's not. I promise you, Grissom. Remember that when you hate me" Libby insisted.

Grissom was confused but decided to drop it.

There was silence as they both thought to themselves.

"You're a kind man, Gil. That's one of the reasons I like you" Libby told him.

"That's so sad, Libby - You only think that because I don't go around beating up women. That doesn't make me kind - that just make me normal" Grissom responded.

"No!. I think you personally are sweet and kind" Libby responded.

"I can be rude" Grissom suggested.

"It's not your fault. You lack social skills, that's all. I don't blame you for that. Your lack of human relationships can be a good thing. It means you haven't been too corrupted by human nature" Libby commented.

"What?" Grissom asked intrigued.

"Don't get me wrong, human relationships are great and you need them. But they can cause pain and that can lead to resentment" Libby explained.

"I've had pain and resentment" Grissom added.

"But not enough to corrupt you. Just enough for you to not trust people" Libby commented.

"You're clever" Grissom commented.

"So are you. So what?" Libby replied with a smirk.

Libby paused and then suddenly kissed Grissom on the lips. Grissom was shocked. Libby was nervous about his reaction.

"How do you feel?" Libby asked nervously.

"Ummm. Awkward" Grissom replied.

Libby laughed meekly.

"You can't do that again, Libby. We can't do anything. It doesn't matter if you feel anything too. We can't. What if your husband sees us or finds out?" Grissom instructed her.

"So what?" Libby laughed.

"You might not mind if you turn up dead at the bottom of a lake. But Sara and I will mind" Grissom replied.

"He won't kill me!. He doesn't care that much. He doesn't care at all really because he knows I can't leave him. At most, he'll use this as an excuse for an argument and pretend he cares" Libby replied.

"You can leave him, Libby!. I'll help you" Grissom insisted.

Libby laughed. Grissom was shocked at how unseriously Libby was taking her situation.

"Oh yeah?. What we gonna run off into the sunset and live happily ever after, Grissom?. Gil, If I left out the blue then I couldn't live with either you or Sara unless we moved - and I can't ask you to leave your job" Libby reminded him.

"I'm not presuming you'd want to run off into the sunset with me, Libby!. I just want to help as a friend" Grissom responded.

"And I couldn't have contact with either of you. Even after all those precautions he'll still probably find me. The police will probably help him if says his wife's missing" Libby explained.

"I have police connections!. They'll keep you safe and they'll make sure he doesn't find you!" Grissom insisted.

Libby put a finger on his mouth to shut him up and shook her head,

"Ssshh. No Grissom. It can't be" Libby told him.

Grissom went solemnly silent again.

"I'm sure there's got to be a way, Libby" Grissom said.

"Look, your getting all worried again!. I told you don't worry about me. I'm fine" Libby reassured him.

"No, your not" Grissom muttered.

There was silence. Then Libby broke it by saying,

"It's not just his threats that are stopping me leaving, Grissom. That's not even the main reason. It's complicated. But it's best the way it is" Libby gestured.

"What reasons?" Grissom asked.

Libby paused.

"Sara for one. She won't let me leave him. She doesn't want to lose him" Libby commented

"No!. She hates him!" Grissom exclaimed.

"But she also loves him" Libby commented casually.

"What?!?. But they don't even have a father and daughter relationship!. Are you serious?. She really doesn't want to lose him?" Grissom exclaimed.

"Really!. Don't ask me why. I don't understand it after all that's happened between the two of them. But he's her only father and she doesn't want to lose him. Well, at least it used to be that. I don't know - maybe that's less of a reason since time's gone on. But it's still part of it" Libby explained.

"What rest of the reason?" Grissom asked.

Libby paused and sighed.

"There's only one way I could safely leave Boby. But, Sara isn't ready for that and may never be. I'm staying for Sara's sake - not mine. I could never do that to her" Libby explained.

Grissom was gob smacked. This was all because of Sara!. Sara who hates her father!. Grissom couldn't believe after Sara's attitude that Sara loved her father.

'Wait a moment', Grissom thought to himself, 'I'm just taking Libby's word for it. Maybe Libby's lying. But then again - it's unlikely'.

They sat in silence for a while contemplating.

"Do you wish you were with me?" Grissom asked out the blue.

Libby looked shocked.

"You're very open for someone who's meant to be socially inept and secretive of his feelings!" Libby commented.

"You're very open about your feelings for someone who's married and in danger of being beaten to a pulp if their husband finds out. Answer me, do you wish you were with me instead of him?" Grissom asked not as roughly as it sounds.

"I don't know" Libby answered as if she had given it some thought.

"How can you consider preferring him?. You love him don't you?. How can you possibly love him?" Grissom asked.

"He's Sara's father - you'll never be that even if you tried. She looks like him and we share a past together. We share Sara!. Plus he can have a really great personality sometimes. He can be really funny. Oh I don't know! - I just love him, o.k.?. But that doesn't mean I can't love you too. You can love two people at once. But obviously there are things about Boby I don't like. I don't want to be in pain do I?. But I don't think it's his fault" Libby replied.

"What?!?" Grissom asked.

"I think there might be something wrong in the head department"

"You don't say!" Grissom replied sarcastically.

"Grissom, I'm being serious. I think he maybe drugs have screwed up his head or something" Libby responded.

Grissom was gob smacked!. He couldn't believe Libby's gullibility. She could tell he was gob smacked. But she just thought to herself that she knew better.

They sat in silence again. Not sure what to say further to each other in this difficult situation.

"So we can't do anything. You're staying with him" Grissom commented disappointed.

"What do you wanna do?" Libby smirked.

They looked at each other. Libby put her hand on Grissom's face and then went in to kiss him. He co-operated and they had a long sensual kiss. After a while, Libby began to pull his clothes. He stopped her.

"You alright?" Libby asked.

"I won't be used, Libby. I don't do one night stands" Grissom insisted.

"Is it is night?" Libby smirked.

"I don't do meaningless sex then" Grissom replied.

"This isn't meaningless Grissom. I haven't cheated on my husband in over 20 years. Now I'll ask you one last time - are you alright with this?" Libby asked.

Grissom thought to himself for a second and then nodded and they carried on.

Back at the Sidle's house, Boby sat in the kitchen all alone. He was bored stiff. After a while, Sara came in to make some coffee. He thought it would be fun to rattle her cage to amuse himself.

"You gonna make me one, sweetie?" Boby smirked to annoyed her.

Sara paused as rage swelled up within her.

"Only if it has arsenic in it" Sara snapped sarcastically.

"Was that an attempt at a joke?. That was rubbish!" Boby said spitefully.

"I'm glad I still disappoint you father" Sara replied sarcastically.

"You don't disappoint me, darling. I never expected you to be much" Boby commented flippantly.

Sara stormed off.

"Oh come! You walked right into that one! I was joking!" Boby called out laughing spitefully.

Boby sat alone again for a few seconds and got bored again.

"Oigh!" he called out.

Sara came in.

"My name is not oigh - it is Sara" Sara snapped.

"Where's your mom?" Boby asked.

Sara went quiet and looked guilty.

"I don't know" she lied.

"Sara, you can't lie to me. I see straight through you" Boby commented angrily.

Sara still said nothing. So Boby got up, and before Sara could realise, he grabbed her arm and held it behind her back forcefully so she was in pain.

"Where is she?" he asked demanded.

Before Boby could realise Sara had use her weapon less self defence training to get him off her. He ended up in more pain than her. Sara was about to leave after that but then he gently touched her arm and said,

"Wait, Sara!. Where is she?. Is she with lover boy?. I don't care if she is. I just want to know. I miss her. I just want to see her. I wondered if she was available to be seen" Boby told her.

"I don't know where she is" Sara lied again angrily.

Sara got her coat from the coat rack nearby and stormed out the door for a walk.

Boby sighed. What was he going to do now to entertain himself? He wondered. After a little while of boredom, Catherine suddenly came in from her second trip to camp cuckoo of the day. Boby was delighted with the company.

"Hi!. Hey, you look tired. Want some herbal tea? - it will revitalize you" Boby asked.

"Actually I promised Grissom I'd look over his lecture before tomorrow. I've got to do that" Catherine lied.

Boby gave a small laugh. He got the impression Sara had told Catherine bad things about him.

"Why don't you go do your work and I'll bring it to you" Boby said pleasantly.

Catherine didn't like Sara's dad. But she didn't want to annoy him by offending him. What harm could it do?. So she accepted and went to her room.

Boby started concocting the drink. First, he boiled the water. Then he put the camomile tea bag in. Then he put a capful and a quarter of liquid GHB. And then he took it to Ms Willows. Ms Willows drank it. Ms Willows began to feel woozy. Ms Willows realised what had happened, and before Ms Willows could do anything about it Boby was on top of her and she was physically unable to stop him.

Ten minutes into her walk Sara had become bored. She knew Grissom probably wouldn't be back but she thought Catherine might be. So Sara decided to go keep Catherine company. So she made her way back to the B & B.

As Sara approached Catherine's room she noticed the door ajar. She pushed it open ad to her horror she found her dad on top of Catherine and he was about to rape her.