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Chapter 10

Brass was too busy talking to Sanchez and Grissom was too busy worrying about Sara that neither man noticed Moose make his way to the bathroom. Sanchez, Sara and the other SWAT officers noticed him when he opened the bathroom door. The SWAT officers all had there weapons pointed at Moose's head. He quickly walked into the bathroom and shut and locked the door behind him. It shocked all of them what he did next.

Moose gently laid his weapon on the floor and put his hands in the air." My name is Brett Morris. I am a federal agent with the DEA."

Shocked didn't begin to do it justice. Everyone in the bathroom was downright stunned. Sara stood there with her mouth open. Sanchez was the first to move. "Sir, please turn around, put your hands on top of your head and slowly back towards us. If what you say is the truth then it should be easy to verify. What are you doing in here?"

Brett looked down at Mark and smiled as he walked past Sara. "I was actually coming in here to rescue you from him. Looks like I should have been protecting him from you."

Sara had to smile at that. "How did you get involved in this Agent Morris?"

"I've been undercover now for 9 months trying to bust this meth lab. Johnny out there is the brains behind the operation. Earned his trust, got in the inner circle and here we are. I got a call last night to meet them at Johnny's house this morning. He didn't tell me what was going to happen and by the time I realized what was going on it was too late to let my boss know. We thought it was going to be a simple in and out robbery."

Sara nodded understandably. She knew that in undercover operations that in order to maintain ones cover that you sometimes had to go with the flow. Brett kept talking as one of the SWAT officers handcuffed him and had him sit against the wall.

"I was so close to putting Johnny away for a long, long time on the drug charges alone but I think he bought himself a needle in the arm by shooting that teller. Although finding out you were in law enforcement was an even bigger shock."

"Just in case I don't see you once this thing is over, I want to thank you for keeping Mark from hurting me." Sara said sincerely.

"I'm just sorry I didn't stop him from hitting you in the first place. I have a problem with a man that likes to beat on women."

Sara smiled, "Me too. Especially when I'm the woman."

Brett smiled back at her, "I can see that. Remind me to never get on your bad side."

Sanchez interrupted Sara to hand her a bullet proof vest.

"What's this for?" she asked.

"For you," he replied. "If you're going back in there I want you to have some protection."

"Yeah right, if he didn't know you were in here before he would definitely know it once I walked in the room. It's not exactly subtle, what with the words SWAT in big white letters on the back of it. Sorry Sanchez, but I'm gonna have to take my chances out there."

Sanchez nodded," Okay, you go on out there and we'll move on Brass' signal. Good luck Sidle and keep your head down."

Sanchez radioed back to the van, "Sidle's moving out now, we'll move on your command."

Outside in the van Grissom was still trying to comprehend what had just happened. Sara had been safe and it was the biggest relief he'd ever felt and then within seconds that relief had turned back into fear when he found out she was going to put herself back out there. Grissom wasn't a religious man but he figured now was as good a time as any. Grissom started praying.

Brass heard Sanchez and responded, "Roger that, we go on my signal."

Sara took a deep breath and opened the door to the bathroom. She slowly started walking back to the lobby. Johnny heard her and turned around.

"Where the hell are Mark and Moose?"

Sara tried to look frightened," Moose is having a little talk with Mark, something about how to treat a lady."

Johnny laughed, "Poor Mark, I'd hate to be in his shoes right now. I tried to tell him to wait until we were out of here before he started his fun."

Sara walked past Johnny and was getting ready to sit down. She stood in front of the hostages and whispered "Get down." The hostages nodded that they understood.

At that exact same moment Brass gave the order to move.

Johnny noticed something move to his right and he swung around in time to see the flash/bang grenades. Temporarily blinded he spun around to block the light in his eyes. The hostages all hit the deck. Sara who had been standing fell to her knees. The smoke grenades were then thrown into the center of the bank. Sara started to crawl but didn't know in which direction. The grenades were wrecking havoc with her sense of direction. Then she felt it. Johnny tripped over her, he struggled to get upright and grabbed hold of the first thing he could get his hands on. Sara. He grabbed her by her hair and jerked her up with him. Sara screamed out in pain. Johnny pulled her close to him as he began to get his bearings. He thrust his weapon under her chin and started moving towards the door with Sara as his shield.

Grissom and Brass saw the flash/bang grenades go off and saw Sara fall to her knees. Then the smoke grenades went off and they could not see anything else that was going on inside the bank. Brass could barely make out a figure moving towards the door of the bank. He heard Grissom say "God Damn It!" That's when he saw that it was two people moving towards the door. Johnny and Sara.

SWAT officer Ryan Gammon was in position on the roof across from the bank. He heard the command to move and watched the front door of the bank through his scope. He saw movement coming towards the front doors. He assessed the situation. It was one of the suspects and he had a hostage trying to shield himself from the officers inside. The suspect got closer to the door and Gammon knew it was now or never. He lined up the suspect in his sights, took a deep breath and pulled the trigger. The suspect never saw it coming.

Sara heard it before she felt it. She heard the glass break from the front door and then she felt her captor loosen his hold on her and fall to her left. It was over. That quickly it was over. Before she knew it the bank lobby was covered in SWAT officers. She could hear various "Clears" coming all around her. Then, she was being led to a chair so an EMT could check her out, make sure she wasn't hurt or in shock.

Brass saw the glass break and the suspect go down after moving with Sara to the door. "Gil, you stay here until we know it's clear." Grissom was about to argue, "I mean it Gil! She's okay now. But this is going to be done right. You stay here until I say it's okay, you got that!" Grissom nodded he understood. He went back to watch the monitor to see for himself that Sara was okay. He saw a paramedic sit her down to look her over. He realized he wouldn't be able to calm down until he saw with his own eyes she was unhurt. Taking a deep breath he had to keep reminding himself just a few more minutes.

Brass walked into the bank. He was relieved that everything turned out okay. He was getting ready to find Sara when the Sheriff walked in. Now he decides to show up. "Captain Brass, fill me in on what happened."

How bout you bite me Brass thought. He opted for, "Sure thing Sheriff." And proceeded to fill him in on what had transpired.

Grissom got tired of waiting for Brass after 5 minutes and decided to check on Sara himself. He walked into the bank and there she was. She was sitting in a chair that one of the SWAT officers had pulled up for her. She had her head down and was staring at her knees. She looked exhausted and it broke Grissoms heart that she had to go through this but if this had never happened he would never have had the courage to do what he was about to do.

Sara felt him before she saw him. The hair on the back of her neck was standing up. She didn't want to deal with him right now. She felt like if one more thing happened to her that she would breakdown and she didn't want to do that here. She would do that when she got home to her apartment. My lonely apartment. She looked at her watch. Oh hell, shift's started, I'm gonna be late. Better get this over with. "Grissom, I'm sorry to do this to you again, but I'm gonna need to go home and take a shower during shift."

Grissom didn't say anything. He just stood there and watched her. The paramedic looked up at Grissom and saw the look on his face. She smiled and patted Sara's knee. "I think you're going to be just fine." she said as she stood up and walked away.

Sara took a deep breath and looked up at Grissom. What she saw made her speechless. There were absolutely no words for the emotion she saw in his eyes. Fear, Relief, Worry and Love. She knew she wasn't imagining that. Sara sat frozen in the chair, unable to break away from his eyes.

Grissom moved towards her and pulled her out of the chair and up against him. He then leaned down and gently pressed his lips to hers. At first she didn't respond and then let her arms go around his neck and she melted into the kiss. She pulled away to look in his eyes again to make sure this was real and what he wanted. There was no doubt whatsoever.

Warrick, Nick & Catherine walked in at that moment.

Warrick just shook his head and smiled.

Catherine mumbled, "Go Gil".

While Nick said loudly, "Bout damn time."

Sara and Grissom leaned in for another kiss. This one more passionate and less tentative than the first. As everyone around them seemed to disappear, they both had the same thought......

(Okay readers, I want everybody to say it with me now)

Oh this is just freaking great

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