A/N do I actually have to say this every single time? I think we can all agree that I don't own or profit from any of these characters, they belong to the fabulous people (the amazingly hot George Eads, namely) that play them and the fabulous people that created them. So basically, I don't know when I'm gonna finish this. Send me feedback on what you'd like to see happen and stuff. Uh, peeps deal with repercussions.

Chapter Tres: Deal With It

Catherine had been peacefully sleeping, stretching in a very catlike manner as she thought of how Grissom had kissed her and made her feel loved and wanted. Her back arched as she remembered the wonderful feeling of him.
And then it hit her.
Catherine sat bolt upright and racked her brain. Oh no, oh no, oh no! Her brain screamed. She slid out of bed and into the bathroom. She opened a little pink box in a cabinet too high for Lindsey to reach. There was her diaphragm, showing no signs of having been used recently. And Grissom definitely didn't carry condoms in his wallet, Catherine knew that. She ran over the night's events in her head. Grissom had come over for Christmas, they'd played Scrabble with Lindsey, they'd made love, and Gil had left.
In that instant, Catherine knew she was pregnant.

The next morning, Nick woke up with Sara's arm around him. She was staring at him carefully. Nick, still groggy and confused, sat up. "Did we...?" He trailed off.
"Yeah." Sara nodded heavily.
"Did we...?"
"Yes Nick, we used protection."
"Was I...?"
Sara tossed him a glare before her mouth softened into a smile. "You were very good."
"Were we?"
"Sober." It was almost sweet the way Sara knew what Nick was going to say before he even finished his sentences.
"Did you...?"
"Yes, I enjoyed it." She confirmed. Nick stopped asking questions. They were silent for what seemed like an eternity and a half.
"Were you thinking about..." Sara let him finish this one. "Were you thinking about Grissom?"
Sara shook her head. "I don't even remember what I was thinking. However, I do remember screaming "oh Nicky" repeatedly.
Nick smiled fondly. "Now that I remember." He looked at her. "So..."
"We definitely need to talk." Sara's look was grim.

Sara and Nick sat at Nick's counter, staring at each other wordlessly.
Finally Sara spoke. "On the plus side, that was probably the best sex I've ever had."
Nick caught sight of his back in a mirror. "Evidently." He smiled, seeing the long red fingernail marks Sara had left.
Sara stared at him for a few more minutes. "Do you regret it?" She asked quietly.
Nick didn't answer right away. But when he did answer, he spoke confidently and without a trace of doubt. "Not at all."

{Two weeks pass. Assume that Nick and Sara have hooked up. They have told no one. Grissom and Catherine are not an item. Grissom does not know that Catherine is pregnant with his kid. Yay for plot twists.}

Grissom sat in his office, looking over case files. "Gris." A voice caused Grissom's head to snap up.
"Catherine." He said softly. He hadn't called her Cath since the night they made love. "Do you need something?" He would have given her all the stars and the universe beyond if she asked.
"We need to talk." She closed his door and sat in a chair opposite him. Grissom almost knew what was coming.
"What is it?"
"Christmas, Christmas night, when we...Anyway, we didn't..." She cleared her throat. "I didn't put my diaphragm in, I'm not on birth control, and you didn't use a condom." She looked down.
Grissom understood. "You're pregnant." He said simply.
"Not just pregnant." Catherine finally looked him in the eye.
"Pregnant with twins."

Nick and Sara had been assigned a case together again. They liked this. They didn't allow their relationship to interfere with work, lest somebody notice. They worked well together.
Sara tossed a case file on Grissom's desk. "Solved." She informed him.
"Good." As Sara turned to leave, Grissom stopped her. "Sara, I need advice."
Sara just about had a heart attack. Grissom needing advice? She thought. Now there's a new one. Just when you think you know somebody... "What is it?" She sat down in the very chair Catherine had.
"I was, uh, working on this case. Guy slept with a woman, got her pregnant with twins, then left her. They worked together and she just couldn't look him in the eye. What should he have done? I thought he should've married her and they should've had the kid, but she already had a kid from a previous marriage."
It wasn't for nothing was Sara known as one of the most brilliant people on the CSI squad.
She smiled humorlessly. "You got Catherine pregnant."
"No!" Grissom objected. But Sara didn't let up.
"You slept with her. Was Lindsey in the house?"
"Yes but –"
"Oh my God. Grissom, I can't believe this."
"Well, what should I do?" For the first time since Sara had met him, Grissom looked helpless.
"Do you know the kind of emotional trauma that could cause Lindsey if she found out?" Sara continued her tirade. "A ten-year-old, finding her mother in bed with a guy she sees as her uncle?"
"Sara." Grissom spoke loudly. "Be reasonable. It happened. Now what do I do?"
"Just what you said Gris. But with a twist." Sara folded her arms.
"What's the twist."
"Do you wanna marry her?"

A/N so, sorry to leave you with a cliffhanger, but I have to. I want to find out what people think about what should happen with Grissom and Catherine and also, Nick and Sara (yay for the two coolest people on that show hooking up) so I WANT FEEDBACK. COMMENT, COMMENT, COMMENT. Until next time, This is LowriderAngel, signing off.